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Food Ingredients Recognition through Multi-label Learning
Rameez Ismail, Zhaorui Yuan
The ability to recognize various food-items in a generic food plate is a key determinant for an automated diet assessment system. This study motivates the need for automated diet assessment and proposes a framework to achieve this. Within this framework, we focus on one of the core functionalities to visually recognize various ingredients. To this end, we employed a deep multi-label learning approach and evaluated several state-of-the-art neural networks for their ability to detect an arbitrary number of ingredients in a dish image. The models evaluated in this work follow a definite meta-structure, consisting of an encoder and a decoder component. Two distinct decoding schemes, one based on global average pooling and the other on attention mechanism, are evaluated and benchmarked. Whereas for encoding, several well-known architectures, including DenseNet, EfficientNet, MobileNet, Inception and Xception, were employed. We present promising preliminary results for deep learning-based ingredients detection, using a challenging dataset, Nutrition5K, and establish a strong baseline for future explorations.
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