Put AI on the Menu with This DIY Calorie Tracker

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Keeping track of how many calories you consume each day can be a good way to manage your weight and monitor your nutritional intake. Unfortunately, doing so can also be a hassle. Even with modern smartphone apps that can recognize food from photographs, you still have to pull out your phone, open an app, and remember to log every meal. That's enough of an inconvenience that many people eventually stop bothering.

To make the process easier, Coders Cafe built a dedicated AI-powered calorie tracker that can identify food and estimate its caloric content by looking at what's on a plate. The device runs its computer vision models locally, so it doesn't need to send images to a cloud server for processing.

The complete system (📷: Coders Cafe)

The project is built around the D-Robotics RDK X5 single-board computer, which comes equipped with an octa-core Arm Cortex-A55 processor running at 1.5...

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