Artificial Intelligence-Based Food Calories Estimation Methods in Diet Assessment Research

Abstract

The standard of healthy intake of food is the necessity for keeping a balanced diet to prevent the obesity problem and many other health problems in humans. Obesity is increasing at an alarming speed and keeping people's health at risk. Mankind needs to have careful control on their daily intake of calories by choosing healthier foods, which will be the most fundamental method in preventing obesity and ill health. Even though the packaging of food comes with calorie and nutrition labels, it might not be very favorable for the reference of people. Thus, the scientists to help people started using AI-based techniques and methodologies to know the ways of determining their daily calorie intake of their food. This chapter proposes a review of various AI-based food calorie estimation methodologies in diet assessment which are suggested to help the normal people and patients so that normal people and doctors could succeed to fight against diet-based health conditions.