FoNet - Local Food Recognition Using Deep Residual Neural Networks

Abstract

Food is an inseparable part of any culture of any country all over the world. Recognition ability for local foods reflects the cultural strength. Moreover, it would be so beneficial if some can come to know the information about a food by capturing the image of the food with any smart cellphone. In this paper, we have mainly focused on recognizing different local foods of Bangladesh. The Computer Vision community has given little attention to visual food analysis such as food detection, food recognition, food localization, and portion estimation. This is why, we have proposed a novel approach for local food recognition, where we have created and utilized a Deep Residual Neural Network for grouping six classes of food images. We have also used two convolutional neural networks separately for grouping six classes of food images. Then we compare our proposed model with these two deep learning models. Our proposed model has achieved a notable highest accuracy of 98.16%, which is promising enough.