Affiliation:
1. Department of Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
2. Department of Biomedical Signals and Systems, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Abstract
In overcoming the worldwide problem of overweight and obesity, automatic dietary monitoring (ADM) is introduced as support in dieting practises. ADM aims to automatically, continuously, and objectively measure dimensions of food intake in a free-living environment. This could simplify the food registration process, thereby overcoming frequent memory, underestimation, and overestimation problems. In this study, an eating event detection sensor system was developed comprising a smartwatch worn on the wrist containing an accelerometer and gyroscope for eating gesture detection, a piezoelectric sensor worn on the jaw for chewing detection, and a respiratory inductance plethysmographic sensor consisting of two belts worn around the chest and abdomen for food swallowing detection. These sensors were combined to determine to what extent a combination of sensors focusing on different steps of the dietary cycle can improve eating event classification results. Six subjects participated in an experiment in a controlled setting consisting of both eating and non-eating events. Features were computed for each sensing measure to train a support vector machine model. This resulted in F1-scores of 0.82 for eating gestures, 0.94 for chewing food, and 0.58 for swallowing food.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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