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Mobile Phone and Visual Tags: Linking the Physical World to the Digital Domain

Mobile Phone and Visual Tags: Linking the Physical World to the Digital Domain
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Author(s): Marco Avvenuti (Università di Pisa, Italy)and Alessio Vecchio (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 22
Source title: Advances in Ubiquitous Computing: Future Paradigms and Directions
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui (Oxford Brookes University, UK), Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE)and George M. Giaglis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-840-6.ch001

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Abstract

The growing ubiquity and usability of smart mobile phones can be exploited to develop popular and realistic pervasive computing applications. Adding image processing capabilities to a mobile phone equipped with a built-in camera makes it an easy-to-use device for linking physical objects to a networked computing environment. This chapter describes an extensible and portable programming platform that, using bi-dimensional visual tags, turns mass-market camera-phones into a system able to capture digital information from real objects, use such information to download specific application code, and act as a GUI for interacting with object-dependent computational services. The system includes a module for on-phone extraction of visual coded information and supports the dynamic download of mobile applications.

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