Proposal 5: Augmented Reality Visualization for Heritage Sites in Palestine

The aim of this project is to investigate and apply existing augmented reality tools for different heritage sites in Palestine. Palestine is characterized with its long spanning history, covering diverse cultures and architectural remains. Many of the remaining heritage sites are partially or completely destroyed for many reasons. However, archaeologists were able to plot anticipated sketches of the original shapes of many of these sites. A great example is the Hisham Palace (قصر هشام). The project has important applications at different domains, the foremost important applications is for touristic guides and movies, whether through portable mobile applications or large screens at the heritage sites.

This project aims at building a geo-tagged dataset of multimedia objects (audio, video, webpages, etc.) about cultural sites in Palestine including their GIS coordinates; and then develop a smart turist guide (using the dataset) on a mobile application and using QR code technology. such that, when a turest scans a QR code, the app quickly offers relevant information about the site. For example, when scanning the QR code, the app will play a short audio file about that site, shows "around me", among other functionalities

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For more detailed information about this project, please contact Dr. Mustafa Jarrar for a face-to-face discussion.
Technical Knowledge in mobile programming and databases is expected.
By working on this project, you will be part of the research team at Sina Institute. Thus, your commitment as a team member is anticipated. You are expected to work efficiently, respect deadlines and copyrights, and collaborate with other team members effectively, who will in turn provide you with help and support while working on your project.
You will be collaborating with high-profile researchers and professors from OKKAM company and the University of Trento in Italy, thus you are expected to have an acceptable of level of English and good written and verbal communication skills; and maybe you will be asked to travel to Italy.
Students who will achieve good results will be given a financial grant to participate and publish their work in International conferences.

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