Food Recognition Using Fusion of Classifiers Based on CNNs

Abstract

With the arrival of Convolutional Neural Networks, the complex problem of food recognition has experienced an important improvement recently. The best results have been obtained using methods based on very deep Convolutional Neural Networks, which show that the deeper the model, the better the classification accuracy is. However, very deep neural networks may suffer from the overfitting problem. In this paper, we propose a combination of multiple classifiers based on Convolutional models that complement each other and thus, achieve an improvement in performance. The evaluation of our approach is done on 2 public datasets: Food-101 as a dataset with a wide variety of fine-grained dishes, and Food-11 as a dataset of high-level food categories, where our approach outperforms the independent Convolutional Neural Networks models.