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

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Isn't it strange that in [1] the beginning of the "Normal" BMI has more risk of death than the beginning of the "Obese"? I'd even venture to say that the "Overweight" range has, in average, lower Mortality Risk than the "Normal". PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height. [1] https://www.infino.me/join/

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

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Where did you get your training data set? I'm trying to build a network to recognize faces from ID cards and match them to faces/selfies. Onenof the hard things has been to get a training data set.

Check out wordnet! I think they have face categories.

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

#43

That's very interesting indeed. Are you using any API?

Fatsecret API for nutritional information and Foursquare for checkins, but installed and trained the neural network on my AWS instance for the prediction stuff.

Is it possible to implement the myfitnesspal API in the way user can scan the food and it gets entered in their food log on MFP ?

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

#44

Where did you get your training data set? I'm trying to build a network to recognize faces from ID cards and match them to faces/selfies. Onenof the hard things has been to get a training data set.

This sounds like it could be used for the wrong purpose for sure.. Are you working for some nosy employer?

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

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fatsecret API for nutritional information and Foursquare for checkins, but installed and trained the neural network on my AWS instance for the prediction stuff.

Is it possible to implement the myfitnesspal API in the way user can scan the food and it gets entered in their food log on MFP ?

I've been emailing myfitnesspal for years for access to their API .... emails go ignored.

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

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post #44

Where did you get your training data set? I'm trying to build a network to recognize faces from ID cards and match them to faces/selfies. Onenof the hard things has been to get a training data set.

This sounds like it could be used for the wrong purpose for sure.. Are you working for some nosy employer?

Employer? No - we are automating paper applications for financial institutions. This includes a photo ID and a photo.

That is checked manually today.

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

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I remember the latest Android camera app being able to extrapolate distances in the app (thus simulating photos with large apertures/shallow depth of field). I wonder if you could use this visual distance algorithm to somehow judge portion sizes/plate sizes?

Haven't thought of that! What I have considered is letting users put something like a quarter or ID card in the field of view for that purpose. Aside from that though, I figured Id do portion estimation down the road should this preliminary version take off.

Good thinking. Assuming you don't have the portion size data, you may be able to run your data set through Mechanical Turk or hire an oDesk worker, and you could build a training set..

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

#50

First thing I tried: logging /two/ Granny Smith apples manually. I had do the entire process twice because there is no (obvious) way to change the serving size to 2.

If you click the 'no barcode' button to pull down a fatsecret nutrition record, there is a servings pulldown that is displayed. Its kinda hard to see. Working on the CSS
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