Monitoring and Maintaining Your Diet with Deep Learning Powered Foodvisor App
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Meet Foodvisor, the game-changer in your dieting game! This AI-powered app launched in France back in 2018, revolutionizing food tracking and diet planning. According to TechCrunch, the app is out there to help you track your meals, lose weight, follow a specific diet, or just achieve overall better health.
Fancy sinking your teeth into a scrumptious meal but want to know its nutritional facts in a jiffy? With Foodvisor, just snap a pic of your grub, and it'll identify the dish and estimate its weight using deep learning. And don't worry, it also takes autofocus data into account so it can calculate the distance between your plate and the phone, ensuring a more accurate read.
What's more, you have the freedom to manually tweak any dish details before it gets logged. By simplifying the data input process, Foodvisor helps take the hassle out of dieting.
Once logged, the app dishes up a nutritional breakdown of your meal, showing you the calorie count, proteins, carbs, fats, fibers, and more. You can then set personal goals, log your daily nutritional activities, and monitor your progress.
While the app is free to use, there's also a premium subscription on offer, ranging between $5 and $10. These subscriptions come packed with more analysis and diet plans, with the biggest advantage being the chance to chat with a registered dietitian/nutritionist directly within the app.
With an impressive 1.8 million downloads to its name, Foodvisor is available on both iOS and Android systems and is supported in French, English, German, and Spanish [1]. The company plans to target the American market, having already enriched its database for a smoother approach [1].
The use of AI in food apps wasn't a novel concept when Foodvisor came to play. In fact, it was back in 2015 when Google started developing Im2Calories, an AI system that counted calories based on Instagram photos [3]. Later on, researchers from MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute rolled out the Pic2Recipe app, which used AI to recognize food items and suggest similar recipes based on a picture [3].
The team behind Pic2Recipe is still at it, refining their system to better understand images of food, with an ambition to recognize cooking and preparation methods, and even recommend recipes based on dietary preferences and available ingredients [3].
But as AI capabilities continue to advance, Foodvisor seems to have taken the concept a step further [3].
How AI helps food tracking and diet planning apps, in a nutshell
- Personalized recommendations tailored to your dietary preferences and lifestyle.
- Automated tracking via image recognition or barcode scanning.
- Nutritional insights covering calorie count, essential nutrients, and potential deficiencies.
- Predictive analytics that help forecast your dietary response to different meals and food choices.
- Integration with wearables and health sensors to monitor your overall health and optimize your diet.
However, there have been some mixed user reviews concerning Foodvisor's performance [2].
References:[1] Foodvisor raises $1.5 million, sets sights on U.S. market from TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/foodvisor-raises-1-5-million-sets-sights-on-u-s-market/)[2] Foodvisor App Review from Reviewed (https://www.reviewed.com/food/gadgets/foodvisor-app-review-food-tracker-credibility)[3] From Instagram to Im2Calories: Google's AI Calorie Counter from The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/technology/personaltech/from-instagram-to-im2calories-googles-ai-calorie-counter.html)[4] Researchers search for a silicon sous chef from The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/researchers-search-for-a-silicon-sous-chef-75373)
- It's clear that Foodvisor, the AI-powered app, is leading the charge in health-and-wellness and fitness-and-exercise by revolutionizing how we approach food tracking and diet planning.
- Interestingly, the tech world has been dabbling in AI for nutrition since as early as 2015, with Google's Im2Calories system that counted calories from Instagram photos.
- Artificial Intelligence is not just improving the accuracy of food tracking in apps like Foodvisor, but also extending to aspects of nutrition, such as personalized recipe recommendations based on dietary preferences and available ingredients.
