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Do you know someone living with dietary restrictions?
Do you know someone living with dietary restrictions?
Are you frustrated with the lack of transparency when it comes to the labelling of food products?
Are you frustrated with the lack of transparency when it comes to the labelling of food products?
Our team is working to change that.
Our team is working to change that.
Chances are, you or someone you know has dietary restrictions. As healthy eating is a prominent theme in our society today, each one of us has also probably wondered about the contents or the nutritional value in our food. However, most of the time this information is not readily accessible. Though it may seem like a trivial matter for just a sliver of chicken pot pie, in the case of those who live with dietary restrictions, it becomes a difficult task when purchasing food. A rapidly increasing number of the population now monitors or restricts the consumption of at least one nutritional component in their diet and try to maintain a healthy diet.
Our goal is to create an automated system that will assist in providing this information by developing algorithms to perform classifications on food images. Towards this goal, we will learn different Machine Learning techniques and overcome several challenges in building a complex system.
Although it is incredibly interesting to design a computer program that will be able to recognize a food image relay the nutrition facts of that food item, it is also important to address underlying issues within our world and contribute to enriching the lives of the people in it.
Not only does our project employs the use of numerous machine learning techniques it intends to be a viable source of information for people who live with allergies, dietary restrictions, eating disorders, those who want to lose or gain weight and people who just want to live a healthy lifestyle.
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