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Looking at iTunes, the reviews are, ahem, mixed. The question was as much about how HNers would approach this problem, as how they think this app actually work
by dansingerman 15y ago
Looking at iTunes, the reviews are, ahem, mixed.
The question was as much about how HNers would approach this problem, as how they think this app actually works (or does not work)
I mean, naively, you may try to crowdsource a set of photos of food, and then identify by algorithms based on photo similarity - but then how do you address the volume of food being pictured...
- derrida 15y agoHere is MHO: Machine learning may work tracking faces, balls or household objects, but food looks so different that I imagine an accurate program that could do this is many decades into the future. Think about how many ways that you can cook lentils! How could you possibly tell the calorie content of curry? Perhaps someone could develope an application for fruit, but it's accuracy is probably going to be no better than looking up the average energy content of an apple on a table.