A modified time adaptive self-organizing map with stochastic gradient descent optimizer for automated food recognition system

Numerous decades of study have been devoted to associating artificial intelligence and culinary type recognition. Automated food identification systems are significant in many disciplines, comprising dietary valuation, menu analysis, and nutritional tracking. In the past, traditional image analysis algorithms caused in poor classification accuracy, but deep learning methods have enabled the identification of food types and its constituents. This study proposed a novel method to develop food recognition competence and accuracy by connecting a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) optimizer to a Modified Time Adaptive Self-Organizing Map (MTA-SOM). Food arrival differences subsequent from lighting, changing perspectives, and occlusions sometimes provide challenges to traditional food recognition algorithms. In this research, propose an MTA-SOM that learns and adapts to changing food item appearances by dynamically changing its topology over time. This research leverages the self-organizing possessions of SOMs and the fine-tuning properties of SGD by relating the MTA-SOM and the SGD optimizer, thereby maximizing the advantages of both techniques. The research method includes collecting a large number of food images from a difference of cuisines and presentation styles in order to assess the effectiveness of the proposed method. This proposed method performs an extensive test and connect MTA-SOM and SGD to present approaches of food recognition. Important advances in precision and robustness are produced as the system learns to recognize food items more precisely and adapts to changes in food appearance. By automating food detection with high precision and adaptability, our method could revolutionize our capability to interact with food-related data and offer important insights into dietary practices and nutritious decisions.