GuideMe: A Mobile Application based on Global Positioning System and Object Recognition Towards a Smart Tourist Guide

TL;DR

GuideMe is a mobile app that combines GPS, object recognition, and manual search to help tourists and pilgrims find appropriate doaas at holy places, overcoming language and location barriers.

Contribution

This paper introduces a novel mobile application integrating GPS, object recognition, and deep learning to assist users in identifying doaas at holy sites.

Findings

High accuracy in identifying holy places using deep learning

Effective user experience with manual and GPS-based search options

Good performance in real-world experiments

Abstract

Finding information about tourist places to visit is a challenging problem that people face while visiting different countries. This problem is accentuated when people are coming from different countries, speak different languages, and are from all segments of society. In this context, visitors and pilgrims face important problems to find the appropriate doaas when visiting holy places. In this paper, we propose a mobile application that helps the user find the appropriate doaas for a given holy place in an easy and intuitive manner. Three different options are developed to achieve this goal: 1) manual search, 2) GPS location to identify the holy places and therefore their corresponding doaas, and 3) deep learning (DL) based method to determine the holy place by analyzing an image taken by the visitor. Experiments show good performance of the proposed mobile application in providing the appropriate doaas for visited holy places.