Abstract:
Over the past few years, obesity has become a global health concern and the situation is only getting worse with every passing day. As of 2022, there are 204,555 fast food businesses in USA, witnessing a 1.3% increase as compared to the statistics of 2021. This increase in the number of restaurants is directly proportional to the increase in fast-food consumption and the number of diet-related illnesses as well. Spreading awareness regarding the matter by running campaigns and educating the public has made a huge impact but still, the situation is not under control. As we are living in the age of technological advancements, we should shift our focus towards modern approaches; diet planner and calorie counter applications are the best choice we have right now. To implement this concept, we have come up with web and android applications of “Nutritional Value Calculator” which estimate the number of calories and nutrients in a meal using its image only. This task is easier to implement for western cuisine as compared to Pakistani cuisine mainly due to the abundance of datasets available online for western food [1]. As we intended to build this software for Pakistani users, we did some improvisation and created a custom dataset from scratch which contains images of some popular Pakistani meals.
