Food recognition is an emerging topic in computer vision. The problem is being addressed especially in health-oriented systems where it is used as a support for food diary applications. The goal is to improve current food diaries, where the users have to manually insert their daily food intake, with an automatic recognition of the food type, quantity and consequent calories intake estimation. In addition to the classical recognition challenges, the food recognition problem is characterized by the absence of a rigid structure of the food and by large intra-class variations. To tackle such challenges, a food recognition system based on a committee classification is proposed. The aim is to provide a system capable of automatically choosing the optimal features for food recognition out of the existing plethora of available ones (e.g., color, texture, etc.). Following this idea, each committee member, i.e., an Extreme Learning Machine, is trained to specialize on a single feature type. Then, a Structural Support Vector Machine is exploited to produce the final ranking of possible matches by filtering out the irrelevant features and thus merging only the relevant ones. Experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms state-of-the-art works on four publicly available benchmark datasets. © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A supervised extreme learning committee for food recognition

MARTINEL, Niki;PICIARELLI, Claudio;MICHELONI, Christian
2016-01-01

Abstract

Food recognition is an emerging topic in computer vision. The problem is being addressed especially in health-oriented systems where it is used as a support for food diary applications. The goal is to improve current food diaries, where the users have to manually insert their daily food intake, with an automatic recognition of the food type, quantity and consequent calories intake estimation. In addition to the classical recognition challenges, the food recognition problem is characterized by the absence of a rigid structure of the food and by large intra-class variations. To tackle such challenges, a food recognition system based on a committee classification is proposed. The aim is to provide a system capable of automatically choosing the optimal features for food recognition out of the existing plethora of available ones (e.g., color, texture, etc.). Following this idea, each committee member, i.e., an Extreme Learning Machine, is trained to specialize on a single feature type. Then, a Structural Support Vector Machine is exploited to produce the final ranking of possible matches by filtering out the irrelevant features and thus merging only the relevant ones. Experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms state-of-the-art works on four publicly available benchmark datasets. © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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