"You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone, photograph the nearest building and press send. For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination. That, at least, is what two researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK hope their software will one day be used for. Roberto Cipolla and Duncan Robertson have developed a program that can match a photograph of a building to a database of images. ... The software can match two images even when they are taken at a different times of day, from different angles and with clutter such as pedestrians and vehicles in the way. 'That's an easy problem for a human, but it's very difficult for a computer,' says Robertson."
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