MySnapFoodLog: Culturally Sensitive Food Photo-Logging App for Dietary Biculturalism Studies
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-7-2020
Publication Title
Advances in Visual Computing
Publisher
15th International Symposium, ISVC 2020
First page number:
470
Last page number:
482
Abstract
It is believed that immigrants to the U.S. have increased rates of chronic diseases due to their adoption of the Western diet. There is a need to better understand the dietary intake of these immigrants. Tracking food consumption can be easily done by using a food app, but there is currently no culturally-appropriate food tracking app that is relatively easy for participants and the research community to use. The MySnapFoodLog app was developed using the cross-platform Flutter framework to track users’ food consumption with the goal of using AI to recognize Filipino foods and determine if a meal is healthy or unhealthy. A pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of the app alpha release and the need for further data collection and training to improve the Filipino food recognition system.
Keywords
Food recognition; Food detection; Photo-logging
Disciplines
Communication | Life Sciences | Nutrition | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Media
Language
English
Repository Citation
Stanik, P.,
Morris, B. T.,
Serafica, R.,
Webber, K. H.
(2020).
MySnapFoodLog: Culturally Sensitive Food Photo-Logging App for Dietary Biculturalism Studies.
Advances in Visual Computing
470-482.
15th International Symposium, ISVC 2020.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64559-5_37