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Picture Context Capturing for Mobile Databases
April 2010 (vol. 17 no. 2)
pp. 34-41
Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete
Michalis Foukarakis, Technical University of Crete
Lemonia Ragia, Advanced Systems Group
Takuya Imai, Ricoh

A sensor-based camera system associates picture contents with the captured environment to enable semantic content retrieval, interaction, and visualization.

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Index Terms:
picture, compass, GPS, spatial context, semantic, camera, sensor, semantic map, personalization, picture database, multimedia and graphics.
Citation:
Stavros Christodoulakis, Michalis Foukarakis, Lemonia Ragia, Hiroaki Uchiyama, Takuya Imai, "Picture Context Capturing for Mobile Databases," IEEE Multimedia, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 34-41, April 2010, doi:10.1109/MMUL.2010.2
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