Inspiration

We have been inspired by an EPFL course which provided a dataset of recipes that we had to clean.

What it does

Our IPhone app allow the user to take a picture of some ingredients, and then suggest some recipes to the user of the app given the aliments our server has detected.

How we built it

We decided to split our project in two main tasks:

one part of the project was to set up the server and make a minimal app that can send some simple HTTP request to our server.
another part was to detect objects in the image we took with the phone, and then send them to IBM cloud to identify each ingredient separately.

Challenges we ran into

Our biggest challenge was to get IBM cloud to recognize the image on our server. To solve this issue, we had to send our image to another server first, and from this server to send our images to IBM cloud. We also had some annoying issues such as figure out the proper encryption and decryption scheme for communication between IOS client and the server.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

For our first Hackathon, conceiving an app in restricted time corresponding to the original idea we had was the biggest accomplishment. We wanted to create something beyond our skills level and having a fully functional product is really an achievement that we are proud of.