Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rajiv S Binwade

Houdong Hu

Xuetao Yin

Julia Gong

Jyotkumar Jagdishbhai Patel

Yale Song

Xiujia Guo

The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for determining a food item from a photograph and a corresponding restaurant serving the food item. An image is received from a user, the image being associated with a consumable item. One or more ingredients of the consumable item in the image is identified along with a location of the user and using a neural network, determining one or more similar images from a database. A restaurant associated with each of the one or more similar images is determined along with a similarity score indicating a similarity between the restaurant and the identified content of the image. The one or more restaurants and/or associated similar food items are ranked based on the similarity score and a list of ranked restaurants is provided to the user.

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Rajiv S Binwade