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BMI was way off but the metric itself is such a crude generalization so this is probably excusable.
by blago 6y ago
BMI was way off but the metric itself is such a crude generalization so this is probably excusable.
- globular-toast 6y agoMine was predicted much lower than it really is, but I'm lean with big muscles, so that is to be expected, I suppose.
- blago 6y agoExactly! My real BMI is 25, and just like you, I am on the muscular side. The estimate was 19.
- socialcooling 6y agoYou may enjoy this blogpost I made that goes into how the BMI prediction algorithm was developed. It's the only one in the project that I trained myself. https://www.sherpapieces.eu/overview/predicting-your-bmi-from-a-just-photo-a-github-safari https://www.sherpapieces.eu/overview/predicting-your-bmi-fro... Like you said, muscles matter quite a bit. It's attractive to use photos af athletes to train the algorithm, because there are a lot of websites that show their photos along with their weight and height (which you need to calculate a BMI). But since muscles weigh so much more than fat, athletes have high BMI with slim bodies, which warps the algorithm. I didn't use athletes for this reason (it's trained on a diet of 50% Chinese celebrities and 50% American arrest records). But I found projects that do use these photos.
- kwhitefoot 6y agoMy BMI is 25.2 and the webpage calculated 25.1. It would have been interesting to see some summary statistics for each of the predictions.