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Measuring food calorie and nutrition intake on a daily basis is one of the main tools that allows dieticians, doctors, and their patients to control and treat obesity, overweightness, or other food-related health problems. Yet doing this measurement correctly and on a daily basis is challenging and one of the main reasons why diet programs fail. In this article, we look at calorie-intake measurement...
Overweight and obesity is quite common in the modern society, which can result in many severe health problems. Thus weight loss has become a major event for many people to have a healthy living. A question is then raised for Biometrics or identity management: Is there any influence on face recognition when the facial shapes are varied, caused by body weight changes? No previous research has addressed...
Obesity in the world has spread to epidemic proportions. In 2008 the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 1.5 billion adults were suffering from some sort of overweightness. Obesity treatment requires constant monitoring and a rigorous control and diet to measure daily calorie intake. These controls are expensive for the health care system, and the patient regularly rejects the treatment...
In order to understand the etiology of obesity related to people's diet, we have developed a method to calculate food volume (portion size) from a single digital image in which a dining plate was used as a reference. In order to evaluate the error of this method, we observe the relationship between the relative error under different food imaging scenarios, such as angles of camera rotation and distances...
Overweight and obese students in school as a relatively special group, overweight and obesity have become the obstacles in his (her) healthy growth, how to improve this population's physical and mental health is the important prerequisite to enhance the health level of students in our country. This study aims to intervene in overweight and obese female college students by exercise plus balanced diet...
This paper is on the basis of 2005 year's Shandong Province National Physique Monitoring Data, describes blood pressure distribution of 20 to 59-year-old residents, and on this basis, explores inner relationship between blood pressure and physique. The results show that: body shape indicators, in particular, BMI and waist two indicators, is significantly correlated with blood pressure. The results...
An automatic detector that finds circular dining plates in chronically recorded images or videos is reported for the study of food intake and obesity. We first detect edges from input images. After a number of processing steps that convert edges into curves, arc filtering and grouping algorithms are applied. Then, convex hulls are identified and the ones that fit the description of ellipses corresponding...
Obesity has now become a national health problem for many countries throughout the world. It is thought to be the root of many other medical conditions such as high blood pressure, heart diseases and diabetes. Thailand is one of the countries affected by this so-called `obesity epidemic', having seen a dramatic increase in obesity in the past decade. According to the results published earlier this...
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