Artificial intelligence turns food images into recipes
See a picture of a delicious meal shared on your Facebook friend's wall and want to cook it? Facebook's new AI can do it.
Researchers at FAIR (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research) have developed an AI that can “read” the food in a photo and tell you how to prepare it.
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Indeed, artificial intelligence will give you a recipe just by analyzing a photo. For example, the software can recognize that the photo is of an apple pie and will quickly identify the ingredients used and give you the recipe right away.
The system was built by scientist Adrianna Romero and a team at FAIR's Montreal lab. The AI was trained on a large database of photos and recipes. Through machine learning, the AI will find the content in the photo related to which dish as well as the corresponding ingredients and recipes.
“People are always taking pictures of their meals and sharing them online,” said Joelle Pineau, head of FAIR’s Montreal lab. “Sometimes you can see a lot of the ingredients, but sometimes you don’t always see them, like salt, sugar, and things like that. So FAIR trained AI on pairs of images and recipes to come up with the best recipe for the dish in the photo.”
In 2017, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a similar AI. They created a system using a database of one million photos and one million recipes. The project was tested and worked well on desserts, but there were still many problems.
Currently, Facebook has no plans to release this AI tool to its largest social networking platform.
