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Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

#11

Built using those newfangled convolutional neural network things. Trained caffe on a set of about a million food related images. Can't believe how accurate the classifier is... UI needs work. Would love feedback on how to make food logging more intuitive.

You could probably outsource enough of the UI work to Fiverr to make a really decent looking app.

Things like Main screen, App Icon and colour palette.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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post #11

Built using those newfangled convolutional neural network things. Trained caffe on a set of about a million food related images. Can't believe how accurate the classifier is... UI needs work. Would love feedback on how to make food logging more intuitive.

You could probably outsource enough of the UI work to Fiverr to make a really decent looking app. Things like Main screen, App Icon and colour palette.

My color palette was carefully engineered to induce vomiting and weight loss! :p

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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post #10

Something like this would be a fantastic addition to MyFitnessPal. I find myself sometimes not logging food on that app because I couldn't be bothered to search for it. On the other hand if the product has a barcode I always scan it in because that is convenient.

Same - its one of the reasons I wanted to make my own. That and data export functionality, which is requisite for research.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could probably outsource enough of the UI work to Fiverr to make a really decent looking app. Things like Main screen, App Icon and colour palette.

My color palette was carefully engineered to induce vomiting and weight loss! :p

Laughed for a disconcertingly long time at this.

Wish you luck with the app, really cool idea!

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

#16

This is not compatible with my device which is an LeTV X500, running Android 5.0.2. Is there any reason that it might not work? I'm in the UK, if that might be the reason.

Im new to cordova (the toolkit I used to build the app), and I did notice that the number of supported devices is kind of low for my build. I may have included a plugin that narrows down the pool. I need to dig into this.

Sorry about this!

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

#20

This is not compatible with my device which is an LeTV X500, running Android 5.0.2. Is there any reason that it might not work? I'm in the UK, if that might be the reason.

This happening for me as well with a Moto X Play running Android 6.0.2

Looking forward to trying the app once I can install it though, looks neat

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