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I've been thinking of this exact thing for a few years now, good to see others are interested too. I think there is HUGE potential for an app that can accurate
by solaxun 10y ago
I've been thinking of this exact thing for a few years now, good to see others are interested too. I think there is HUGE potential for an app that can accurately (within a reasonable error range) count macro-nutrients through pictures of food, but I think that is WAY more difficult than you would imagine. How can you train a classifier to tell how much butter is in a dish? How can you account for food that is literally underneath other food?
Maybe a combination of spectrometer, weight, and photos would be a future solution. I certainly don't have an idea of how it would be implemented, but I think using data from all 3 of those sources could be a good step.
- subcosmos 10y agoAnother angle is post-consumption. Ive always wondered if precisely monitoring body temperature might tell you something about consumption, since there is this 'thermic effect of food'. Would be hard to get right though ... In the lab, we can use doubly-labelled water to precisely measure calorie intake and burn, but its so damned expensive. If only it were commercially viable.