alt Hacker Newsestimating from a photograph is always going to have huge error because you just cannot know e.g. the size of the plate without some external reference
estimating from a photograph is always going to have huge error because you just cannot know e.g. the size of the plate without some external reference
Modern phones have LiDAR that give you the near exact volume and dimensions of everything on a plate. That's what we do:
https://www.snapcalorie.com/
We co-authored a paper on this with Google AI and showed it got about 2x the accuracy of a nutritionist because of it.