Many people looking to lose weight these days use wearable fitness trackers to automatically monitor calories burned*during exercise. Caloric intake, on the other hand, requires manual input by the user that leads people to either skip it altogether or provide estimates that are often **t very accurate. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Edward Sazo**v of University of Alabama have been working on a system to more automatically quantify what you eat.
The Automatic Ingestion Monitor resembles a wearable Bluetooth headset that wraps around the ear. It has a camera on the front to photograph the Food that is brought up to the mouth, and within the device there’s a sensor that can detect the motion of the jaw. Special software can distinguish between different jaw motions so that conversations are **t mistaken for meals. The system will hopefully be able to identify the Food a person is eating and accurately estimate how much of it is consumed. The tech**logy is already at a stage to have just received a $1.8 million grant from the NIH to begin testing the system in a study to evaluate its practical applications.
11-07-2014, 01:00 AM
Automatic Ingestion Monitor, a Food Tracker for Your Diet
The Automatic Ingestion Monitor resembles a wearable Bluetooth headset that wraps around the ear. It has a camera on the front to photograph the Food that is brought up to the mouth, and within the device there’s a sensor that can detect the motion of the jaw. Special software can distinguish between different jaw motions so that conversations are **t mistaken for meals. The system will hopefully be able to identify the Food a person is eating and accurately estimate how much of it is consumed. The tech**logy is already at a stage to have just received a $1.8 million grant from the NIH to begin testing the system in a study to evaluate its practical applications.
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