Augmented Reality Based Mobile Tour Guide System
Abstract Tourism is travel for pleasure; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism is one of the most significant industries in many countries and its importance is rapidly growing in recent years. In order to guide tourists, there exist various types of tour guide methods. Among them, paperbased and Mobile based systems are the most commonly used ones to provide tour routes and heritage information for tourists. By considering limitations of above methods, this system presents a mobile tour guide system with augmented reality, called Tour Guide System. The system enables tourists to have more informative, interactive and user specific experiences with augmented information by recognizing/tracking the contents of an off line tour booklet. For a standalone mobile system, demanding low computational cost, an image matching technique. The proposed system can be applicable to many areas such as education and entertainment industries. The ongoing work consists of improving user interactivity of system via social network service(SNS) and creating more informative and well turned 3D contents.