May 15, 2005
Visual Code Recognition for Camera Phones
In the Visual Code Recognition for Camera-Equipped Mobile Phones project, Michael Rohs and Beat Gfeller at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich explores the possibility to use the cameras built into mobile phones to act as sensors for 2-D visual codes.
The codes can be attached to physical objects and act as a key to access object-related information and functionality.
Possible applications include:
-- With visual codes, areas in printed documents can be linked to online content. For example, a cinema magazine, in which physical hyperlinks connect words and images via camera-phones to movie trailers, information about the actors, and the local cinema's booking system.
-- In newspapers, the codes could store or rate newspaper articles, provide background information related to advertisements, or updates on information like stock quotes and weather forecasts.
[ reBlogged from near near future ]
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