Random startup idea, just for fun: have mechanical turk (or a game) to tag the items in the photo.
Upload your photos: shed-shelf1.png shed-shelf2.png shed-main.png
After a few hours (or days) they are tagged with hammer, wheelbarrow, drill, gas can, etc.
Now you can grep for things in the real world :).
(This is likely overkill, but I like the idea of photos taking advantage of our massively-parallel object-finding & recognition abilities. With a few textual tags, even at the entire-photo level, you could search dozens of rooms efficiently.)
Why not automated fully, by using some AI/image classification system, which I am sure by the current state of advances, can do some wonders in recognizing objects in a photograph. Maybe not all, but having maybe 80% classified, is still an advance. Maybe as an Android app?
Upload your photos: shed-shelf1.png shed-shelf2.png shed-main.png
After a few hours (or days) they are tagged with hammer, wheelbarrow, drill, gas can, etc.
Now you can grep for things in the real world :).
(This is likely overkill, but I like the idea of photos taking advantage of our massively-parallel object-finding & recognition abilities. With a few textual tags, even at the entire-photo level, you could search dozens of rooms efficiently.)