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Interactive Museum Guide: Fast and Robust Recognition of Museum Objects Herbert Bay, Beat Fasel and Luc Van Gool Computer Vision Laboratory (BIWI), ETH Zurich Sternwartstr. 7, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland {bay,bfasel,vangool}@vision.ee.ethz.ch Abstract. In this paper, we describe the application of the novel SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) algorithm [1] for the recognition of objects of art. For this purpose, we developed a prototype of a mobile interactive museum guide consisting of a tablet PC that features a touchscreen and a webcam. This guide recognises objects in museums based on images taken by the visitor. Using different image sets of real museum objects, we demonstrate that both the object recognition performance as well as the speed of the SURF algorithm surpasses the results obtained with SIFT, its main contender. 1 Introduction Many museums still present their exhibits in a rather passive and non-engaging way. The visitor has to search through a booklet in order to find descriptions about the objects on display. However, looking for information in this way is a quite tedious procedure. Moreover, the information found does not always meet the visitor’s specific interests. One possibility of making exhibitions more at- tractive to the visitor is to improve the interaction between the visitor and the objects of interest by means of a guide. In this paper, we present an interactive museum guide that is able to automatically find and instantaneously retrieve information about the objects of interest using a standard tablet PC. Undoubt- edly, technological developments will lead to less heavy and downsized solutions in the near future. The focus of this paper is on the vision component used to recognise