Architecture

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Paraworld Progress Report

Issues encountered

1. Map Visualization on cellphone
2. Data upload: XML vs. php data serialization
3. Limitation of Google Static Maps. # of vertex that can be drawn is limited
4. Area mapping: need for target area
5. "Hand-marked" UCLA buildings - 80 buildings and 20 areas.
6. Image comparison: time consuming. image upload-> key point & descriptor generation -> comparison->send status back to cellphone
7. Image comparison: Sift comparison of values - establishing thresholds
8. Estimating location based on last GPS signal
9. Picture taking: over-exposed

Status

1. database tables populated
   
2. phone interface created
   
3. game world maps ready
4. sift tested

Remaining

1. Connecting modules
2. Game quests

Reference

1. Architecture