Finders Keepers Project

Most people are usually searching for something: a good restaurant, a rare antique, the ideal mate, the perfect martini. Often, the perfect restaurant/mate/antique/martini is right under the nose of someone else! What if we could enable the searchers to connect to the finders, using cameraphone technology? A searcher sets up a list of criteria for what they are looking for, and the system would examine its current database of images and metadata for a match, and return the results. In addition, whenever a new image is added, its metadata is checked and a notification is sent out to anyone who is searching for something matching that description. Depending on the specific metadata, the same system would be used for finding restaurants, dates, antiques or virtually anything else. But for the purposes of our project, we focus on its application as an antique finder service. We call our system FindersKeepers.