Worried that you ’ve piled your photographic plate too in high spirits at the buffet ? Researchers atSRI — the folks who created Siri before Apple bought it — are working on a new app that use image credit and ingenious AI toprovide a fairly accurate estimate of the caloriesyou’re about to eat up .
Similar apps already subsist , but they either rely on sophisticated and expensive analysis computer hardware , or they produce the work out to human beings via mechanical turk services . SRI hop for complete independence with its app , base on a photo have by the substance abuser , and other utile datum a smartphone can provide .
For example , if you crack a photo of a Warren Burger and your smartphone know you happen to be dining in a Shake Shack , calorie info can automatically be extract from a database already containing nutritionary info for that eating house ’s menu . The app can also just ask the user for illumination on certain item , but overall the finish is to have it be as streamlined as possible .
And while it can never be 100 percent accurate — it ca n’t say if it ’s ground turkey hiding under that hamburger bun or else of undercoat beef — a rough estimate can still be incredibly useful for those on a diet , or athletes require to closely supervise their food for thought ingestion . Now if only it let in an in - app purchase that made frosting small calorie - free . [ GigaomviaFoodbeast ]
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