LikkiLab application uses the optical camera of mobile phone to take the photos of the food. The application uses Artificial Intelligence to recognize the food components from the image and to estimate the volume and weight of each of them.
LikkiLab application performs automatic recognition of the food from the dish photo using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Computer Vision techniques. It is capable to recognize thousands of dishes, to convert the image into recipe and then to transform the recipe into amounts of macronutrients, minerals, and vitamins.
The app stores the nutrients information in the individual Food Diary and informs user about consumed calories, fat, protein, and carbohydrates. The application provides daily and weekly analytics of consumed food, accompanied with voice explanations of the virtual advisor. The user can conduct the dialog with application giving it the voice commands and receiving dietary recommendations, pronounced by the app.
To add the food to the Food Diary it is enough to take a photo of the dish. The application will automatically measure the weight of the dish. If dish consists of several components, the application will detect each of them and calculate their volumes and weight.
User can make correction of the results of automatic recognition, telling the application the name of component or its weight.
The application is self-learning: the more dishes it recognizes, the "cleverer" it becomes.
User can keep track of his weight, set the goals to lose or gain the weight. The application gives his advices how to reach the goals.
The Distant Molecular Analyzer (DMA) is a special sensor that performs quick and precise molecular analysis of the food, adding Molecular Intelligence to the LikkiLab application. When DMA sensor is connected to the mobile phone, the Artificial Intelligence analysis of LikkiLab application will have higher quality and accuracy. In this way the DMA is an important hardware addition to the autonomous LikkiLab software.
The Analyzer is a "small chemical laboratory" in the mobile phone. It is mounted inside the protective case, its size is practically as small as the size of mobile phone's camera.
The user can point the sensor to his meal from the distance of approximately 10 centimeters, and within several seconds the chemical analysis will be transmitted to the mobile phone application. The latter in its turn provides further processing of chemical data, transforms it into traditional forms of dietary analysis, and finally presents it to the user.