MOBVIS is a Visual Awareness and Intelligent Mapping Application
By Azam on January 5, 2009 
MOBVIS is a project to link the real would to the digital using the mobile device and ability to capture surrounding environment into context as linking to hyper textualized world. The projected is funded by several EU governmental organizations and private industry partners involved. The project is similar to Google Earth and various projects adding user photos, 3D models, and annotated maps. MOBVIS is a European sponsored initiative to capture a visual digital perspective on the urban setting that corresponds to annotated UI related to physical features of the surrounding that can be linked into digital hyperlink. The best thing is to imagine a camera captures an object in viewfinder and user is able to identify through device the image and the context related to object.
The technology would be ideal for traveler visiting an unfamiliar territory. For example, the user could use smart device linked to internet to focus on object and descriptive content would appear with outline of object and description. In another scenario, the smart device could be focused on a building and the devices would relay information related such as directory or menu of items. MOBVIS is bridging the physical more with the digital realm. As a result, a hyper awareness will develop that will catalogue the physical and related digital content that will change they way we perceive and interact with the real physical world.
Description form MOBVIS
The main objective of the MOBVIS project is to explore and exploit the concept of attentive interfaces for the design and implementation of mobile vision technology in urban scenarios. The claim is to make mobile image understanding possible by intelligent interaction between three major functional components, i.e., advanced computer vision for object awareness, exploitation of multi-modal context, and intelligent access to map knowledge, where each can boost performance of the individual components and the system as a whole. That involves making attentive interfaces a first-class concept for mobile situated intelligence, involving fundamental research on AI enabled computer vision methodology, which will be a decisive step forwards in mobile perceptual presence.
By interfacing these components under the decision making of the attention control interface, we will provide a new way for mobile multi-modal context awareness to connect with advanced computer vision. We will show the potential of this new technology by going beyond location based services with simple signal and co-ordinate based relations, towards visually interpreting the world to emerge object awareness for the benefit of future enrichment of mobile services on multi-modal interfaces.
The hyper contextualized world is starting to appear and users will be uploading, sharing, and linking the outside world. The hyper awareness will be an interesting and exciting development that will change how we interact and related to our environment. There are a number of players in the field and the relatively new technologies and convergence of application will only further enhance the experience. Nicholas Negroponte definitely saw way ahead the future will be digitized and we are only starting to get a glimpse of the future.
See further demos from MOBVIS
Companies working on the digital earth include Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth and PhotoSynth, and Japan’s Tonchidot with Seakai Camera
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Categories : EU, Media & Ads, Tech, WirelessTags : Google Earth, Hyperlinking, Hypertext, Intelligent Mapping, iPhone, Microsoft Virtual earth, MOBVIS, Photosynth, Sekai Camera, Tochidot, Visual Awareness, Visual Tag