Towards a world of totally identified objects

A concept of a novel infrastructure, where all or at least a large majority of the involved objects have their own identifiers (IDs), is introduced. The object IDs are to secure reliable access to the various object features and corresponding data, and to support the intelligent communication between human and computer worlds. Several technologies for object location and identification are analyzed and semantic surfaces are recognized as one of the most promising approaches. For the implementation of semantic surfaces, a comparison of image codes, based on their size, surface coverage and image density, and data capacity is conducted. Finally, a software system, named VIDI, which supports the visualization of various digital contents related to physical objects, is proposed and its design and organization is discussed.