Mobile tour guide application with on-site attraction recognition for Kampar Temples

• Main Author: Teh, Kai Wen
• Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Q Science (General); T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5522/1/fyp_CS_2023_TKW.pdf; http://eprints.utar.edu.my/5522/

Kampar has many interesting tourism resources. However, tourism in Kampar is not ideal. Many tourists do not actually know Kampar can be a good place for travel. This is a big waste and regret for Kampar. Thus, how to improve tourism in Kampar is always a challenge for the related industries. Besides, most of the tourists that travel to Kampar do not know the history and relevant information of the attractions in Kampar. If they are interested to know, they need to dig around the internet to find out. The process is quite boring and long. It will cause a lot of inconveniences to the tourists. In order to solve these issues, this project aims to develop a mobile tour guide application with attractions recognition for Kampar. This application enables the users to take/upload an image of the attractions or their cultural relics and buildings. Afterward, the application will identify the image and display the history and relevant information based on the image. The attractions recognition can be achieved by machine learning. Furthermore, the application would also provide a real-time attractions detection feature to the users. Apart from using images for attractions recognition, the users shall open the camera and scan through an attraction. Then, the application might display the relevant information to the users based on the attraction scanned by them. It will enhance the on-site experience of the tourists. In addition, the application provides a list that contains the interesting attractions in Kampar. The users can scroll the list to search for the information and history of an attraction based on their demands. In short, this application can improve tourism and deliver the history and relevant information of the attractions in Kampar. As the main purpose of this project is to prove the concept of on-site and off-site attraction recognition can work and contribute to the tourism of Kampar, the main focus of the project will be narrowed down to recognise 2 temples in Kampar. They are Kampar Lu Ban Temple and Kampar Chinese Temple.