Mobile Visual Search: Architectures, Technologies, and the Emerging MPEG Standard

Modern-era mobile phones and tablets I have evolved into powerful image and video-processing devices, equipped with high-resolution cameras, color displays, and hardware-accelerated graphics. They are also equipped with location sensors (GPS receiver, compass, and gyroscope), and connected to broadband wireless networks, allowing fast in formation transmission and enabling a class of applications that use the phone´s built-in cam era to initiate search queries about objects in the user´s visual proximity. Such applications can be used, for example, for identifying and comparing products and for finding information about movies, CDs, real estate, printed media, or art. First deploy ments of mobile visual-search systems include Google Goggles.