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Aug 2026
Food Recognition and Calorie Estimation Using YOLO
This paper presents a real-time food recognition and calorie estimation system that leverages the YOLOv8 nano object-detection architecture coupled with a curated nutritional knowledge base and outperforms prior approaches based on Faster R-CNN and SSD MobileNet on both speed and accuracy metrics.
Chandramouli C G, Sangeetha Raj S
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