Making invisible art appear with your mobile

Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile snaps reveal invisible art

Caught this the other day on the BBC News website, and thought it’d make good weekend reading.

Scottish researchers are turning to camera phones to help bridge the virtual and real worlds. Using image-matching algorithms the researchers have found a way to adorn the real world with digital content.

The technology has already been used to create a guide of Edinburgh that allows people to find virtual artworks placed around the city using their mobile. Another related project uses the technology to automatically update a person’s blog with their location.