Virtual Travel guide

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An open-source project to create a product i.e Virtual Travel Guide.

Introduction

As people travel, they visit landmarks and capture photographs to mark the key moments along their journeys. Recently, people have begun capturing these memories more frequently on their smartphones and digital cameras, which offer convenient methods for storing entire scenes but cannot easily analyze the details within these scenes. Furthermore, these individuals need to develop an impossibly complex mental model while investigating different aspects of a location they plan to visit, preventing them from forming effective traveling communities. The application that we developed for this project presents informational, visual, historical, and experiential contexts of New England lighthouses. It offers image-processing algorithms for detecting global classifications as well as local features within images, and it scaffolds the narrativization of place as a shared experience of place, allowing the application to facilitate the formation of travel- and preservation-conscious communities.