Imaging recource: Im2Calorie: a Google-backed AI that can count calories in food photos

Taking photographs of your food has become cliche in the most infuriating way. After all, it’s easy to laugh and throw shade at want-to-be foodies, who take five photos of every meal they eat, in hopes to perfectly align their circular plate with the 1:1 crop ratio of Instagram’s photos. But, for better or worse, all of this instant food photography might not all be in vain. At least not if Google has a say in the matter. Google research scientist Kevin Murphy has shown off Im2Calories, a new project that uses deep learning algorithms to calculate how many...
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