Inspiration
Having come from families with members who are visually impaired, we felt inspired to pursue engineering and utilize our skills to help those in need. We are determined to innovate with AI to create Lez4Good! We all wear glasses and have found that there is a great degree of potential. Our vision–pun intended–is to innovate assistive technology that attaches to anybody’s glasses!
What it does
Our project is a small extension of what we hope to accomplish with the tools that you could grant us. We programmed a website that briefly asks its user for their dietary restrictions and uses their device's camera to recognize various meals and briefly explain to the user whether the food that’s classified is safe to be consumed.
How we built it
We are determined. More importantly, we are aware of the resources we’ve been given during this hackathon. We utilized the various workshops that were organized and worked with the sponsors for guidance. Additionally, we were transparent about our skill sets and were able to partition our project’s tasks. Ron and Franz have a strong background in leading AI teams and in autonomous vehicles, and Tasos is an experienced programmer who specializes in computer vision and chose to challenge himself by creating the front end of this project.
Challenges we ran into
Our biggest challenge was training our image classifier with a comprehensive dataset of foods. Unfortunately, we ran out of Google’s free GPU usage, which came at the expense of our prediction quality.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are most proud of our ability to collaboratively innovate. We paired our ability to address problems and quickly engineer a solution for them.
What we learned
We learned how to quickly analyze situations and adapt accordingly.
What's next?!
We perceive this project to be the start of Lenz4Good. By granting developers a platform to create tools for our smart glasses, we hope to change the way humans interact with technology. The project we innovated today that helps those who are visually impaired is a sliver of what could be achieved with the potential of our partnership.
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