MIRAR: Mobile Image Recognition Based Augmented Reality Framework

Cultural heritage visits supported on visitors’ preferences and mobile devices

“…The above information is integrated with the precise localization of the user every time he/she uses the AR, i.e., when the user points the mobile device to a museum piece, and the piece is recognized to trigger the AR, beyond the extra contents that the App gives to the user, his/her exact position related to the detected piece is send to the navigation module. Although the computer vision module, used to detect the pieces and the AR deployment, is out of the paper's scope, detailed information about that module can be found in [41].…”

“…Many times the number of points of interest (POIs) is also large, making impossible to experience all of them in a limited time window, and therefore necessary to proceed to a careful selection of what is going to be explored. Furthermore, it is possible to imagine a course in a museum space where visitors can see, hear, feel, smell and maybe even taste what existed at the time when the musicological piece was developed, or even the pieces' contents [41,46,48]. Enhancing accessibility and fight info-exclusion is another vector which should be explored, using, for instance, some classification systems to include features which reflect the degree of impairment of the visitor along with its preferences.…”

“…This paper focuses on the implementation of a router planner (and AR) App that uses collected information to build AUI, as a part of the work being developed in the Mobile Five Senses Augmented Reality System for Museums (M5SAR) project [41,46,48]. The proposed solution uses a multi-criteria formulation for the route recommender system [16].…”