Measuring Calorie and Nutrition From Food Image 论文

详细信息

发表期刊/会议

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

发表日期

2014-02-25

发表年份

2014

摘要

As people across the globe are becoming more interested in watching their weight, eating more healthy, and avoiding obesity, a system that can measure calories and nutrition in every day meals can be very useful. In this paper, we propose a food calorie and nutrition measurement system that can help patients and dietitians to measure and manage daily food intake. Our system is built on food image processing and uses nutritional fact tables. Recently, there has been an increase in the usage of personal mobile technology such as smartphones or tablets, which users carry with them practically all the time. Via a special calibration technique, our system uses the built-in camera of such mobile devices and records a photo of the food before and after eating it to measure the consumption of calorie and nutrient components. Our results show that the accuracy of our system is acceptable and it will greatly improve and facilitate current manual calorie measurement techniques.