Mobile Vision and Cultural Heritage: the AGAMEMNON Project. Massimo Ancona 1 , Marco Cappello 2 , Marco Casamassima 1 , Walter Cazzola 3 , Davide Conte 1 , Massimiliano Pittore 2 , Gianluca Quercini 1 , Naomi Scagliola 1 , and Matteo Villa 4 1 Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell’Informazione (DISI), University of Genova, 16126 Genova, Italy ancona@disi.unige.it , marco301078@fastwebnet.it, davide.conte@gmail.com, {quercini, scagliola}@disi.unige.it http://www.disi.unige.it 2 E-Magine IT Srl 16152, Genova, Italy {cappello, pittore}@e-magine-it.it http://www.e-magine-it.it 3 Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione (DICo), University of Milano, 20135 Milano, Italy cazzola@dico.unimi.it http://www.dico.unimi.it 4 Txt e-solutions, 20126 Milano, Italy matteo.villa@txt.it http://www.txt.it Abstract. The great success that mobile devices like PDAs and cellular phones have been experiencing since the last few years pushes for the development of new tools in the field of Cultural Heritage that exploits such technologies. AGAMEMNON, a project co-funded under the IST 6th Framework Program of the European Commission, is an example of such application. It exploits mobile phones equipped with embedded cameras for enhancing visits of both archeo- logical sites and museums. Thanks to AGAMEMNON, tourists are equipped with a customized and detailed multimedia tourist guide directly on their own phone. Many features make AGAMEMNON something more than a simple guide and its use is advantageous for both tourists and site personnel. 1 Introduction The tourism market is in a so rapid growth that, according to UNESCO, is becoming the largest industry in the world, far ahead of automobiles and chemicals [9]. At the same time, the market of cellular phones, and more in general of mobile devices, is showing continuous expansion, and cultural heritage is likely to become one of the most promising fields of application for this kind of devices. This is particularly inter- esting in Italy, where there is one of the largest concentrations of monuments and finds