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A Novel Combinational Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Food-Ingredient Classification
Lili Pan1, Cong Li1, *, Samira Pouyanfar2, Rongyu Chen1, Yan Zhou1
1 College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha, 410114, China.
2 School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
* Corresponding Author: Cong Li. Email: .
Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 62(2), 731-746. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.06508
Abstract
With the development of deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks
(CNNs), the accuracy of automatic food recognition based on visual data have
significantly improved. Some research studies have shown that the deeper the model is,
the higher the accuracy is. However, very deep neural networks would be affected by the
overfitting problem and also consume huge computing resources. In this paper, a new
classification scheme is proposed for automatic food-ingredient recognition based on
deep learning. We construct an up-to-date combinational convolutional neural network
(CBNet) with a subnet merging technique. Firstly, two different neural networks are
utilized for learning interested features. Then, a well-designed feature fusion component
aggregates the features from subnetworks, further extracting richer and more precise
features for image classification. In order to learn more complementary features, the
corresponding fusion strategies are also proposed, including auxiliary classifiers and
hyperparameters setting. Finally, CBNet based on the well-known VGGNet, ResNet and
DenseNet is evaluated on a dataset including 41 major categories of food ingredients and
100 images for each category. Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate
that CBNet achieves promising accuracy for multi-class classification and improves the
performance of convolutional neural networks.
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Cite This Article
L. Pan, C. Li, S. Pouyanfar, R. Chen and Y. Zhou, "A novel combinational convolutional neural network for automatic food-ingredient classification,"
Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 62, no.2, pp. 731–746, 2020. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.06508
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