# Food Image Recognition by Using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) Source: [Food Image Recognition by Using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T21:25:53.160Z Authors: Yuzhen Lu Published: 2016-12-03T16:22:59.000Z ## Abstract Food image recognition is one of the promising applications of visual object recognition in computer vision. In this study, a small-scale dataset consisting of 5822 images of ten categories and a five-layer CNN was constructed to recognize these images. The bag-of-features (BoF) model coupled with support vector machine (SVM) was first evaluated for image classification, resulting in an overall accuracy of 56%; while the CNN model performed much better with an overall accuracy of 74%. Data augmentation techniques based on geometric transformation were applied to increase the size of training images, which achieved a significantly improved accuracy of more than 90% while preventing the overfitting issue that occurred to the CNN based on raw training data. Further improvements can be expected by collecting more images and optimizing the network architecture and hyper-parameters. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()