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Good idea, except roughly 40% of peoples' food budgets are spent on food outside of the home.
Supermarkets are cheaper than eating out.
This is a bit impractical. Recognizing the food with few errors would be horribly hard. I think it is sometinhg like speech recognition or automatic translation: yes, it is easy to create some simple not very good speech recognizer or translator software, but it is incredibly hard to create a high quality one. The only remaining option is to create a user interface where the user can type-in his daily food intake ver…
> Recognizing the food with few errors would be horribly hard. I wonder if it would be possible to have some sort of a hybrid system, where automatic recognition is attempted, with a fall-back to manual input where this fails. (The manual input could be to select from several automatic "guesses") If the app stored all the data from all users, this could eventually lead to a really big database, and the automatic reco…
I saw this in France. It sucked. I wish I'd documented it better, but as far as I could tell, the algorithm was "display the top five fruit/veg with a similar hue," i.e. you put on a courgette(zuchini) and it offered you--cucumber, lettuce, green pepper, cabbage, grapes. Pinnacle of machine vision algorithms, it ain't.