Matching historical images for augmented reality

In this report, an innovative virtual tourism application that designed to work on mobile devices and that uses location based technology is being presented. Users of the application will be able to display older pictures of historical places and monuments in place of the pictures they have been taking which will be placed together by algorithms that work on pixel level. Combining the old pictures with new, it will be possible to observe the changes on landmarks, buildings, places and social life through history. Innovative part of the project is designing two phase convertion and calculation technique to be able to solve challenge of finding geometrical relation between the old and new photographs which can be taken from different views and different angles. Further details on this technique can be found on the report itself as well as experiment results.