Food Image Recognition and Calorie Prediction

Abstract

With the increasing number of health issues reported due to obesity and overeating, people have become cautious about their diet intake to prevent themselves from the diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and other heart related problem which are caused due to obesity. As per the data shared by WHO, at least 2.8 million people are dying each year because of being overweight or obese. The important part of any healthy diet plan is its calories intake. Hence, we propose a deep learning-based technique to calculate the calories of the food items present in the image captured by the user. We used a layer-based approach to predict calorie in the food item which include Image Acquisition, Food item classification, Surface area detection and calorie prediction.