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Grab, Pay, and Eat: Semantic Food Detection for Smart Restaurants
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The increase in awareness of people toward their nutritional habits has drawn considerable attention to the field of automatic food analysis. Focusing on self-service restaurants environment, automatic food analysis is not only useful for extracting nutritional information from foods selected by customers, it is also of high interest to speed up the service solving the bottleneck produced at the cashiers in times of high demand. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic food tray analysis in canteens and restaurants environment, which consists in predicting multiple foods placed on a tray image. We propose a new approach for food analysis based on convolutional neural networks, we name Semantic Food Detection, which integrates in the same framework food localization, recognition and segmentation. We demonstrate that our method improves the state-of-art food detection by a considerable margin on the public dataset UNIMIB2016, achieving about 90% in terms of F-measure, and thus provides a significant technological advance toward the automatic billing in restaurant environments.
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AGUILAR TORRES, Eduardo, et al. Grab, Pay, and Eat: Semantic Food Detection for Smart Restaurants. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 2018. Vol. 20, num. 12, pags. 3266-3275. ISSN 1520-9210. [consulted: 11 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/144810