PeakLens will transform your mountain exercise into an amazing expertise, permitting you to get a deeper information of the mountains and to create beautiful photographs enriched with the most correct information about the peaks in view.

Discover the names and areas of mountain and hills around you whereas mountaineering, climbing, snowboarding, trekking or enjoying your favorite outside exercise. Test your mountain data and share your footage of gorgeous skyline views with your friends on social networks.

FEATURES

- Precisely identifies mountain peaks and hills in real-time.

- Works worldwide: from Alps, Himalayas, Rocky Mountains and Andes as much as the smallest hills, wherever on Earth.

- Corrects GPS, compass, magnetometer and gyroscope errors with synthetic intelligence.

- Works online and offline with pre-downloaded maps.

- High quality pictures with peak names in overlay.

- Knows place, height and distance from you of more than 200.000 peaks.

- Works each with Imperial and Metric unit methods.

PeakLens is a novel Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality app for mountain lovers, hikers and trekkers. It is the outcomes of years of research in synthetic intelligence and computer imaginative and prescient, based mostly on a novel algorithm that identifies mountain peaks in real time with high precision. Its core is a software element that compares what you really see within the digicam of your cell phone or tablet with a digital panorama, created from a digital 3D panorama mannequin of the Earth. By matching what you see and the digital panorama, PeakLens routinely corrects most errors that come from the imprecision of the compass and GPS sensor, giving you always probably the most correct peak positioning.

RESOURCES

- Digital Elevation Model: the digital elevation mannequin of the SRTM challenge (https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm) is used for calculating panoramic views.

- Peaks: the Peaks dataset is extracted from Openstreetmap.com.

OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed beneath the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

PeakLens is a analysis results of Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Bioingegneria.

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