Google's Im2Calories can calculate calories in a meal through pictures
Google is working on a new app which can calculate calories in a meal through pictures of the food/meal. Google named it as Im2Calories. Im2Calories will rely on image-processing or image recognition technology to identify the food in pictures, and by analyzing the pixels it will estimate the number of calories in the food. As the app can't identify some things in the food like the oil you are using, etc. So, it means you can’t get an exact calorie count, you can get a relatively accurate range according to Kevin Murphy, Google’s research scientist. But the app can learn from it's experience. For example, when you takes a picture of the food, the app analyzes what it sees, it spits out a report listing what it believes it has found: fried rice, tomato, onion, etc. At this point the user has the option to edit and make corrections to the report, say user can change fried rice to boiled rice which will tell the app that the rice were boiled and were not fried. After that t...