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This paper presents a user-biased food recognition system. The presented approach has been developed in the context of the FoodRec project, which aims to define an automatic framework for the monitoring of people’s health and habits, during their smoke quitting program. The goal of food recognition is to extract and infer semantic information from the food images to classify diverse foods present in the image. We propose a novel Deep Convolutional Neural Network able to recognize food items of specific users and monitor their habits. It consists of a food branch to learn visual representation for the input food items and a user branch to take into account the specific user’s eating habits. Furthermore, we introduce a new FoodRec-50 dataset with 2000 images and 50 food categories collected by the iOS and Android smartphone applications, taken by 164 users during their smoking cessation therapy. The information inferred from the users’ eating habits is then exploited to track and monitor the dietary habits of people involved in a smoke quitting protocol. Experimental results show that the proposed food recognition method outperforms the baseline model results on the FoodRec-50 dataset. We also performed an ablation study which demonstrated that the proposed architecture is able to tune the prediction based on the users’ eating habits.
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This investigator initiated study was sponsored by ECLAT srl, a spin-off of the University of Catania, with the help of a grant from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World Inc., a US nonprofit 501(c)(3) private foundation with a mission to end smoking in this generation. The contents, selection, and presentation of facts, as well as any opinions expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the authors and under no circumstances shall be regarded as reflecting the positions of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, Inc. ECLAT srl. is a research based company from the University of Catania that delivers solutions to global health problems with special emphasis on harm minimization and technological innovation.
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Hussain, M., Ortis, A., Polosa, R., Battiato, S. (2022). User-Biased Food Recognition for Health Monitoring. In: Sclaroff, S., Distante, C., Leo, M., Farinella, G.M., Tombari, F. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022. ICIAP 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13233. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06433-3_9
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