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App that can count calories in your food pics
New York, June 7
Google recently unveiled an
app at a tech conference in Boston that can guess the number of calories
in your Instagram food photos.
Im2Calories is an artificial
intelligence software that uses algorithms to estimate the number of
calories in your Instagram food photos, Popular Science reported.
"The
idea behind the project is to simplify the process of keeping a food
diary, eliminating the need to manually plug your foods and serving
sizes into an app," Google research scientist Kevin Murphy said.
The
system gauges the size of pieces of food in relation to the plate to
generate a calories estimate, and the user will have the option to
approve or disapprove and make corrections if the software misreads your
pics.
"We're going to average over a week or a month or a year.
And now we can start to potentially join information from multiple
people and start to do population level statistics," Murphy was quoted
as saying.
According to Murphy, the technology has other possible uses too, if it comes out successful in its current usage.
It' not clear as yet when Im2Calories will be available.