Jurnal Ilmiah Sains
Volume 26 Issue 1, April 2026

Object Recognition for Ingredient Detection and Recipe Retrieval Using Single Shot Multibox Detector

William Olii (Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, De La Salle Catholic University Manado, Indonesia)
Debby Paseru (Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, De La Salle Catholic University Manado, Indonesia)
Junaidy Sanger (Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, De La Salle Catholic University Manado, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Apr 2026

Abstract

Object recognition has become an essential area of computer vision, enabling systems to identify and classify visual information for practical, everyday applications. This study aims to develop an object-recognition system capable of detecting common food ingredients and retrieving suitable recipes to assist users in cooking decisions. The research employs a dataset of 1,800 images representing six vegetable categories and implements the Single Shot Multibox Detector within an application that integrates automated recipe retrieval through a conversational artificial intelligence model. The system is evaluated through functional testing, scenario-based testing, and quantitative performance measurement using established object-recognition metrics. The results show that the model performs most effectively with an eighty–twenty training–testing split, achieving high precision and robust detection across varied lighting conditions, backgrounds, and object distances. The study also demonstrates that the system successfully identifies multiple ingredients within a single image and provides relevant recipe suggestions. These findings indicate that the approach can support domestic decision-making by connecting real-time ingredient recognition with intelligent retrieval of cooking information. The outcomes highlight the practical potential of object recognition for daily-use applications and suggest directions for expanding ingredient categories and improving detection accuracy in future work. Keywords: Ingredient detection; object recognition; recipe retrieval

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Journal Info

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JIS

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Subject

Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology Chemistry Computer Science & IT Mathematics Physics

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Jurnal Ilmiah Sains (Journal of Scientific Sciences) is the Journals Published by Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Sam Ratulangi University. Jurnal Ilmiah Sains Published Twice a Year, i.e April and October. Jurnal Ilmiah Sains  welcomes full research articles in the area of ...