A food recognition and tracking system for diabetics in the middle east

Muhammad Usman, Kashif Ahmad, Marwa Qaraqe

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Abstract

The concerns for a healthier diet are increasing day by day, especially in diabetics wherein the aim of healthier diet can only be achieved by keeping a track of daily food intake and glucose-level. As a consequence, there is an ever-increasing need of automatic tools able to help diabetics to manage their diet and also help physicians to better analyze the effects of various types of food on the glucose-level of diabetics. In this paper, we propose an intelligent food recognition and tracking system for diabetics, which is potentially an essential part of a mobile application that we propose to couple food intake with the blood glucose-level using glucose measuring sensors. Being an essential component of the application, for food recognition we rely on several feature extraction and classification techniques individually and jointly utilized using an early and two different late fusion techniques, namely (i) Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based fusion and (iii) simple averaging. Moreover, we also evaluate the performance of several deep features. In addition, we collect a large-scale dataset containing images from several types of local Middle-Eastern food, which is intended to become a powerful support tool for future research in the domain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages218-222
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728108469
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2019
Event5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2019 - Casablanca, Morocco
Duration: 14 Oct 201917 Oct 2019

Publication series

Name5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2019

Conference

Conference5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2019
Country/TerritoryMorocco
CityCasablanca
Period14/10/1917/10/19

Keywords

  • CNNs
  • Continuous Glucose Monitoring
  • Deep Features
  • Diabetes
  • Food Recognition
  • Particle Swarm Optimization

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