Google is working on an app that counts the calories in your Instagrams

Your future #instafood pics could tell you just how many calories are on your perfectly-filtered plate of french fries. At least, if Google has anything to say about it.

Google confirmed that its artificial intelligence researchers are working on an experimental project that can detect your meal's calorie information by analyzing a photo of the food. The project, called Im2Calories, was introduced last week at Boston's Rework Deep Learning Summit, according to a report in Popular Science.

The experiment "marries visual analysis — in this case, determining the depth of each pixel in an image — with pattern recognition," the Popular Science report states. But even though Im2Calories is analyzing pixels, the tech can apparently work with lower quality photos, like Instagram posts, Google research scientist Kevin Murphy said during the event. Read more...