A Novel Approach to Dining Bowl Reconstruction for Image-Based Food Volume Estimation

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dc.contributor.authorJia, W.
dc.contributor.authorRen, Y.
dc.contributor.authorLi, B.
dc.contributor.authorBeatrice, B.
dc.contributor.authorQue, J.
dc.contributor.authorCao, S.
dc.contributor.authorWu, Z.
dc.contributor.authorMao, Z.
dc.contributor.authorLo, B.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, A.K.
dc.contributor.authorFrost, G.
dc.contributor.authorMcCrory, M.A.
dc.contributor.authorSazonov, E.
dc.contributor.authorSteiner-Asiedu, M.
dc.contributor.authorBaranowski, T.
dc.contributor.authorBurke, L.E.
dc.contributor.authorSun, M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-26T09:54:52Z
dc.date.available2022-04-26T09:54:52Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractKnowing the amounts of energy and nutrients in an individual’s diet is important for maintaining health and preventing chronic diseases. As electronic and AI technologies advance rapidly, dietary assessment can now be performed using food images obtained from a smartphone or a wearable device. One of the challenges in this approach is to computationally measure the volume of food in a bowl from an image. This problem has not been studied systematically despite the bowl being the most utilized food container in many parts of the world, especially in Asia and Africa. In this paper, we present a new method to measure the size and shape of a bowl by adhering a paper ruler centrally across the bottom and sides of the bowl and then taking an image. When observed from the image, the distortions in the width of the paper ruler and the spacings between ruler markers completely encode the size and shape of the bowl. A computational algorithm is developed to reconstruct the three-dimensional bowl interior using the observed distortions. Our experiments using nine bowls, colored liquids, and amorphous foods demonstrate high accuracy of our method for food volume estimation involving round bowls as containers. A total of 228 images of amorphous foods were also used in a comparative experiment between our algorithm and an independent human estimator. The results showed that our algorithm overperformed the human estimator who utilized different types of reference information and two estimation methods, including direct volume estimation and indirect estimation through the fullness of the bowl.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.3390/s22041493
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/37941
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.subject3D reconstructionen_US
dc.subjectfood volume estimationen_US
dc.subjectimage-based dietary assessmenten_US
dc.subjectround bowlen_US
dc.titleA Novel Approach to Dining Bowl Reconstruction for Image-Based Food Volume Estimationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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