A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System

Poor diet is one of the key determinants of an individual's risk of developing chronic diseases. Assessing what people eat is fundamental to establishing the link between diet and disease. Food records are considered the best approach for assessing energy intake however paper-based food recordi...

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Main Authors: Hafizur, Rahman, Pickering, Mark, Kerr, Deborah, Boushey, Carol, Delp, Edward
Other Authors: Chang Wen Chen
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE Pubisher 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37789
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author Hafizur, Rahman
Pickering, Mark
Kerr, Deborah
Boushey, Carol
Delp, Edward
author2 Chang Wen Chen
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Pickering, Mark
Kerr, Deborah
Boushey, Carol
Delp, Edward
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description Poor diet is one of the key determinants of an individual's risk of developing chronic diseases. Assessing what people eat is fundamental to establishing the link between diet and disease. Food records are considered the best approach for assessing energy intake however paper-based food recording is cumbersome and often inaccurate. Researchers have begun to explore how mobile devices can be used to reduce the burden of recording nutritional intake. The integrated camera in a mobile phone can be used for capturing images of food consumed. These images are then processed to automatically identify the food items for record keeping purposes. In such systems, the accurate classification of food items in these images is vital to the success of such a system. In this paper we will present a new method for generating texture features from food images and demonstrate that this new feature provides greater food classification accuracy for a mobile phone based dietary assessment system.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-377892017-09-13T15:57:54Z A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System Hafizur, Rahman Pickering, Mark Kerr, Deborah Boushey, Carol Delp, Edward Chang Wen Chen Poor diet is one of the key determinants of an individual's risk of developing chronic diseases. Assessing what people eat is fundamental to establishing the link between diet and disease. Food records are considered the best approach for assessing energy intake however paper-based food recording is cumbersome and often inaccurate. Researchers have begun to explore how mobile devices can be used to reduce the burden of recording nutritional intake. The integrated camera in a mobile phone can be used for capturing images of food consumed. These images are then processed to automatically identify the food items for record keeping purposes. In such systems, the accurate classification of food items in these images is vital to the success of such a system. In this paper we will present a new method for generating texture features from food images and demonstrate that this new feature provides greater food classification accuracy for a mobile phone based dietary assessment system. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37789 10.1109/ICMEW.2012.79 IEEE Pubisher restricted
spellingShingle Hafizur, Rahman
Pickering, Mark
Kerr, Deborah
Boushey, Carol
Delp, Edward
A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System
title A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System
title_full A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System
title_fullStr A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System
title_full_unstemmed A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System
title_short A New Texture Feature for Improved Food Recognition Accuracy in a Mobile Phone Based Dietary Assessment System
title_sort new texture feature for improved food recognition accuracy in a mobile phone based dietary assessment system
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37789