Mobile phones have the potential of becoming a future platform for personal museum guidance. They enable full multimedia presentations and - assuming that the visitors are using their own devices - will significantly reduce acquisition and maintenance cost for museum operators. However, several technological challenges have to be mastered before this concept can be successful. One of them is the question of how individual museum objects can be intuitively identified before presenting corresponding information.

The goal of this project is to develop practical solutions that enable camera-equipped mobile phones together with advanced computer vision and pervasive tracking techniques to recognize museum objects by taking pictures - directly on the mobile device, and not on decentralizes servers. Furthermore advanced communication as well as potential multi-user interaction and collaboration techniques will be investigated.