JomImage SnapFudo: Control Your Food in a Snap

Abstract

Tracking calorie of food consumed is becoming harder when eating outside. With many choices of fast food available, the consumption of fast food is high among Malaysian. In 2014, WHO also has reported that, “Malaysia is the fattest country in South East Asia”. Nowadays, there are many calorie tracking applications available in store to help on weight loss. However, these applications may not be sustainable, as it requires many inputs for food logging. This study has proposed to improve the healthy eating habit and promote weight loss through mobile applications for android. This study will involve image recognition of food to minimize the food logging. From the survey resulted, most respondents are aware about their number of BMI but find a difficulty to track their calorie intake when dining out. The opinion concluded from interview, it is hard to know each ingredient and how much the chef put in their meals served. Thus, mobile application come out with the solution of image recognition and minimal design to ease the burden of inputs requirements that most calorie tracking application are struggling now. As the result, the implemented application can give knowledge to user on how to lose weight healthily and motivate them to achieve their weight goals.