Tech giant Google is developing a new app that can identify and recognise food items from photos to estimate the number of calories in your meal.
The app, called Im2Calories, will rely on image-processing technology to identify the food, analyse the pixels and estimate the number of calories in the food.
“If we can do this for food, that’s just the killer app,” Google research scientist Kevin Murphy said.
“Suppose we did street scene analysis. We don’t want to just say there are cars in this intersection. That’s boring. We want to do things like localise cars, count the cars, get attributes of the cars, which way are they facing.”
“Then we can do things like traffic scene analysis; predict where the most likely parking spot is. And since this is all learned from data, the technology is the same, you just change the data,” he said.
