Evaluation of Different Radar Placements for Food Intake Monitoring Using Deep Learning

Chunzhuo Wang*, Sunil Kumar, Walter De Raedt, Guido Camps, Hans Hallez, Bart Vanrumste

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Abstract

Automated food intake monitoring has drawn significant attention due to its potential applications in the healthcare domain. Plenty of research, including wrist-worn imu-based and camera-based approaches, have emerged to detect food intake activity passively and objectively. Recently, researchers explored radar for food intake monitoring because of its contactless and privacy-preserving characteristics. In this study, we deploy the Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar in three different positions to investigate the performance of each position in automated eating gesture detection. The three positions are front, side, and overhead. Fifteen participants are recruited to have three meals (45 meals, 641 min in total), while the radar is deployed in different positions in each meal. A 3D Temporal Convolutional Network (3D-TCN) is used to process the range-doppler cube (RD Cube) of each dataset. The Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) validation method shows that putting radar in the front position obtains the best performance with a segmental F1-score of 0.786 and 0.825 for eating and drinking gestures, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRadarConf23 - 2023 IEEE Radar Conference, Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665436694
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2023
Event2023 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf23 - San Antonia, United States
Duration: 1 May 20235 May 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference
Volume2023-May
ISSN (Print)1097-5764
ISSN (Electronic)2375-5318

Conference/symposium

Conference/symposium2023 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf23
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonia
Period1/05/235/05/23

Keywords

  • deep learning
  • Eating gesture detection
  • FMCW radar
  • Food intake monitoring
  • Human activity recognition

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