Apps could soon give you a recipe for your favourite dishes just from seeing a picture
The Pic2Recipe system makes a small nod towards the possible development of future recipe-identifying services.
Ever seen a tasty-looking meal and wondered how to recreate it at home?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now engineered a computer system that can predict food recipes using nothing but photos as their guide.
The resulting system, dubbed Pic2Recipe, sifts through the 1.1 million food photos catalogued in the Food-101 Data set and attempts to match it to the correct recipe in the Recipe1M collection.
They said: “We hope that our contributions will support the creation of automated tools for food and recipe understanding and open doors for many less explored aspects of learning such as compositional creativity and predicting visual outcomes of action sequences.”
It could be the start of a digital recipe revolution.
