Meal snap food recognition? Not related to computer vision

From: http://www.cvchina.info/2011/04/27/mea/

 

Transferred from Lao Yang's blog
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I heard that the new name is meal snap.
Yes
IPhone that calculates the calories of food in photosProgramTo count the total daily calorie intake of users and monitor the health of the diet. This idea is good, but the premise of the entire program operation is to accurately identify food in photos
What is things. Currently, object recognition is still a complex problem. Even if a limited variety is defined, it is not to mention a variety of foods with different shapes. So I thought this meal
Snap is also a concept. Accidentally today
I linked to the software homepage and found that the comments below were very accurate. It aroused my curiosity. Is there such a god? Computer Vision is surging in an instant? Install the tool immediately. The trial result is as follows:

 

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Chocoloate bunny! Can this be identified? It was indeed a chocolate rabbit, which was given by our landlord yesterday at Easter. I have wiped my ears and head off xddd. There is also the Lindor truffle, and there is no notable feature to identify this is a truffle. How is this done? I guess the method can only be "human intelligence ".
": There is a flesh-and-blood person behind every successful search to help you fight... The so-calledArtificial Intelligence
. I know I
Q Engines
The image human flesh recognition API is provided. I tried to search for the image with a keyword and there was no result. Instead, use mechanical turk
And meal snap. Hey, that's the case:

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The first link is from Quora, a popular Q & A website.
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Meal snap uses the company name dailyburn.
This
Subaccounts submit user queries to Amazon
Mechanical Turk, also paid between $0.02 and $0.05. Users who want to make money receive the task and mark the food name. The rest of the process is simple. The returned object is recognized.
Result The Conversion Relationship Between keyword tags and food calories can be achieved through real computer programs. Unknown meal
What is the profit model of plan? According to the price of $2.99, after 60 queries, dailyburn will start to lose money. (Users like me will lose money for the first time, you know
...) I estimate that when the program was launched, it would be easy for a group of Loyal users and reputation, and a lot of people would be willing to invest in health services. However, these users do not know that what they do every day is
Take a picture of your food and send it to others to show them the heat. Think about it, but no one knows that chocolate is too hot.