"Cheezam", the application that recognizes cheeses

Anicet Mbida 7:01 am, December 10, 2021

We know Shazam, the application that identifies a song.

Now here is Cheezam, an app that recognizes cheeses.

An application that could be extremely useful.

Because many cheeses are similar: Comté and Emmental, Roquefort and Bleu d'Auvergne.

There are also bries, fourmes, tommes… and so on.

We can therefore be very annoyed, in front of our tray, if we are asked "what is this cheese?"

and that no notes were taken at the cheese maker.

From now on, we will be able to draw our cell phone, photograph the mystery cheese.

Image recognition and artificial intelligence will then do their job to suggest a name, with a 0-100% certainty index.

And it works ?

Is it really effective?

I only tried it on the few cheeses I had on hand.

It worked with reblochon and Morbier.

On the other hand, he did not recognize the Kiri (for him, it is not cheese).

Finally, he totally messed up by taking two pieces of Camembert for Pont-L'Évêque and Pélardon (goat cheese!).

A rather mixed record.

The application is still in the preliminary phase.

This is why she also suggests naming the cheese photographed yourself.

This will enrich the database and improve future recognitions.

But despite all the photos that he will be made to swallow, he will always be missing one crucial factor: the smell.

Proof, once again, that the quality of artificial intelligence depends, above all, on the quality of the data used to train it.

Where can we find this application, if we want to try?

Just go to Cheezam.fr, it's free.

You will see, the texts are in English.

But it is indeed a French application.

It is offered by Prevision.io, a specialist in computer learning.

The famous "machine learning".