A non-invasive and non-wearable food intake monitoring system based on depth sensor

Muhammad Fuad Kassim (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Mohd Norzali Haji Mohd (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Mohd Razali Md Tomari (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Nor Surayahani Suriani (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Wan Nurshazwani Wan Zakaria (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Suhaila Sari (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 9, No 6: December 2020

The food intake counting method showed a good significance that can lead to a successful weight loss by simply monitoring the food intake taken during eating. The device used in this project was Kinect Xbox One which used a depth camera to detect the motion of a person’s gesture and posture during food intake. Previous studies have shown that most of the methods used to count food intake device is worn device type. The recent trend is now going towards non-wearable devices due to the difficulty when wearing devices and it has high false alarm ratio. The proposed system gets data from the Kinect camera and monitors the gesture of the user while eating. Then, the gesture data is collected to be recognized and it will start counting the food intake taken by the user. The system recognizes the patterns of the food intake from the user by following the algorithm to analyze the gesture of the basic eating type and the system get an average accuracy of 96.2%. This system can help people who are trying to follow a proper way to avoid being overweight or having eating disorders by monitoring their meal intake and controlling their eating rate.