Word recognition incorporating augmented reality for linguistic E-conversion

Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the Ubiquitous Computing Technologies that can be used for realizing Internet of Things (IoT) application. The fact is to create an artificial world that provides sense of a real world where a real life is enhanced by virtual elements in real times. This project deals with the development and implementation of Augmented Reality software for linguistic conversion on smart phones. This exploits smart phone's processing capabilities for sensing external objects using camera, to augment the real world objects with virtual data for character recognition and conversion from English Text to Tamil Language. The Tamil Text is overlaid on the captured English Text by providing the meaning to the word captured in modern language. Image processing and image analysis tend to focus on 2D images, how to transform one image to another, e.g., by pixel-wise operations such as contrast enhancement, local operations such as edge extraction or noise removal, or geometrical transformations such as rotating the image. This characterization implies that image processing/analysis neither require assumptions nor produce interpretations about the image content. The scope for this paper is to make an application for a phone using mobile OS, with the subject of augmented reality. The application should be a prototype using a library. This will be done by implementing several modules that serves as a basis to augment the reality, by using the phone's camera.