Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF)

Food has become one of the most photographed objects since the inceptions of smart phones and social media services. Recently, the analysis of food images using object recognition techniques have been investigated to recognize food categories. It is a part of a framework to accomplish the tasks of e...

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Main Authors: Razali, Mohd Norhisham, Manshor, Noridayu, Abdul Halin, Alfian, Yaakob, Razali, Mustapha, Norwati
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Published: Science Publishing Corporation 2018
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author Razali, Mohd Norhisham
Manshor, Noridayu
Abdul Halin, Alfian
Yaakob, Razali
Mustapha, Norwati
author_facet Razali, Mohd Norhisham
Manshor, Noridayu
Abdul Halin, Alfian
Yaakob, Razali
Mustapha, Norwati
author_sort Razali, Mohd Norhisham
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description Food has become one of the most photographed objects since the inceptions of smart phones and social media services. Recently, the analysis of food images using object recognition techniques have been investigated to recognize food categories. It is a part of a framework to accomplish the tasks of estimating food nutrition and calories for health-care purposes. The initial stage of food recognition pipeline is to extract the features in order to capture the food characteristics. A local feature by using SURF is among the efficient image detector and descriptor. It is using fast hessian detector to locate interest points and haar wavelet for descriptions. Despite the fast computation of SURF extraction, the detector seems ineffective as it obviously detects quite a small volume of interest points on the food objects with monotonous appearance. It occurs due to 1) food has texture-less surface 2) image has small pixel dimensions, and 3) image has low contrast and brightness. As a result, the characteristics of these images that were captured are clueless and lead to low classification performance. This problem has been manifested through low production of interest points. In this paper, we propose a technique to detect denser interest points on monotonous food by increasing the density of blobs in fast hessian detector in SURF. We measured the effect of this technique by performing a comparison on SURF interest points detection by using different density of blobs detection. SURF is encoded by using Bag of Features (BoF) model and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with linear kernel adopted for classification. The findings has shown the density of interest point detection has prominent effect on the interest points detection and classification performance on the respective food categories with 86% classification accuracy on UEC100-Food dataset.
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spelling upm-737212020-05-07T19:05:13Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73721/ Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF) Razali, Mohd Norhisham Manshor, Noridayu Abdul Halin, Alfian Yaakob, Razali Mustapha, Norwati Food has become one of the most photographed objects since the inceptions of smart phones and social media services. Recently, the analysis of food images using object recognition techniques have been investigated to recognize food categories. It is a part of a framework to accomplish the tasks of estimating food nutrition and calories for health-care purposes. The initial stage of food recognition pipeline is to extract the features in order to capture the food characteristics. A local feature by using SURF is among the efficient image detector and descriptor. It is using fast hessian detector to locate interest points and haar wavelet for descriptions. Despite the fast computation of SURF extraction, the detector seems ineffective as it obviously detects quite a small volume of interest points on the food objects with monotonous appearance. It occurs due to 1) food has texture-less surface 2) image has small pixel dimensions, and 3) image has low contrast and brightness. As a result, the characteristics of these images that were captured are clueless and lead to low classification performance. This problem has been manifested through low production of interest points. In this paper, we propose a technique to detect denser interest points on monotonous food by increasing the density of blobs in fast hessian detector in SURF. We measured the effect of this technique by performing a comparison on SURF interest points detection by using different density of blobs detection. SURF is encoded by using Bag of Features (BoF) model and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with linear kernel adopted for classification. The findings has shown the density of interest point detection has prominent effect on the interest points detection and classification performance on the respective food categories with 86% classification accuracy on UEC100-Food dataset. Science Publishing Corporation 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73721/1/Recognition%20of%20food%20with%20monotonous%20appearance%20using%20speeded-up%20robust%20feature%20%28SURF%29.pdf Razali, Mohd Norhisham and Manshor, Noridayu and Abdul Halin, Alfian and Yaakob, Razali and Mustapha, Norwati (2018) Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF). International Journal of Engineering and Technology (UAE), 7 (4.31). 204 - 208. ISSN 2227-524X https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/23368
spellingShingle Razali, Mohd Norhisham
Manshor, Noridayu
Abdul Halin, Alfian
Yaakob, Razali
Mustapha, Norwati
Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF)
title Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF)
title_full Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF)
title_fullStr Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF)
title_full_unstemmed Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF)
title_short Recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (SURF)
title_sort recognition of food with monotonous appearance using speeded-up robust feature (surf)
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73721/
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