Mobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition

Overweight is one of the big ills that affects the world population, especially the Peruvian population, and this is caused mainly by peoples ignorance of the amounts and nutritional values to consume according to their current condition. For this, there are various solutions focused on controlling...

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Autores principales: Leonardo Cornejo, Rosa Urbano, Willy Ugarte
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:16714337ba7b454f9342390edb8119802021-11-20T15:59:33ZMobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition2305-72542343-073710.23919/FRUCT53335.2021.9599959https://doaj.org/article/16714337ba7b454f9342390edb8119802021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.fruct.org/publications/fruct30/files/Cor.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2305-7254https://doaj.org/toc/2343-0737Overweight is one of the big ills that affects the world population, especially the Peruvian population, and this is caused mainly by peoples ignorance of the amounts and nutritional values to consume according to their current condition. For this, there are various solutions focused on controlling a healthy diet for people, among the best known are the mobile food control applications such as MyFitnessPal, Fat Secret and MyNetDiary. These apps are quite useful for monitoring peoples food intake, as their databases have lots of food nutrition information. However, most of the information they have is focused on a foreign public, which may have different eating habits than Peruvians. That is why we present the application NutriCAM, which monitors the consumption of meals by users and provides the functionality of image recognition for meals, for the user to have a more friendly way to record and monitor its consumption, mainly focused on Peruvian gastronomy. The results are a Peruvian food recognition model based on the training of the pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network ResNet-50 and a dataset of 3600 food images, and a mobile application focused on the control of nutrition that caused 70% of improvement or maintenance in the current condition of 10 users.Leonardo CornejoRosa UrbanoWilly UgarteFRUCTarticlemobile appimage recognitionfood classificationtransfer learningperuvian foodTelecommunicationTK5101-6720ENProceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, Vol 30, Iss 1, Pp 32-41 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic mobile app
image recognition
food classification
transfer learning
peruvian food
Telecommunication
TK5101-6720
spellingShingle mobile app
image recognition
food classification
transfer learning
peruvian food
Telecommunication
TK5101-6720
Leonardo Cornejo
Rosa Urbano
Willy Ugarte
Mobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition
description Overweight is one of the big ills that affects the world population, especially the Peruvian population, and this is caused mainly by peoples ignorance of the amounts and nutritional values to consume according to their current condition. For this, there are various solutions focused on controlling a healthy diet for people, among the best known are the mobile food control applications such as MyFitnessPal, Fat Secret and MyNetDiary. These apps are quite useful for monitoring peoples food intake, as their databases have lots of food nutrition information. However, most of the information they have is focused on a foreign public, which may have different eating habits than Peruvians. That is why we present the application NutriCAM, which monitors the consumption of meals by users and provides the functionality of image recognition for meals, for the user to have a more friendly way to record and monitor its consumption, mainly focused on Peruvian gastronomy. The results are a Peruvian food recognition model based on the training of the pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network ResNet-50 and a dataset of 3600 food images, and a mobile application focused on the control of nutrition that caused 70% of improvement or maintenance in the current condition of 10 users.
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author Leonardo Cornejo
Rosa Urbano
Willy Ugarte
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Rosa Urbano
Willy Ugarte
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title Mobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition
title_short Mobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition
title_full Mobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition
title_fullStr Mobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition
title_full_unstemmed Mobile Application for Controlling a Healthy Diet in Peru Using Image Recognition
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