Journal
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages 3909-3916Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2402652
Keywords
Nutrition monitoring; wearable necklace; spectrogram analysis; piezoelectric sensor; machine learning; classification
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Food intake levels, hydration, ingestion rate, and dietary choices are all factors known to impact the risk of obesity. This paper presents a novel wearable system in the form of a necklace, which aggregates data from an embedded piezoelectric sensor capable of detecting skin motion in the lower trachea during ingestion. The skin motion produces an output voltage with varying frequencies over time. As a result, we propose an algorithm based on time-frequency decomposition, spectrogram analysis of piezoelectric sensor signals, to accurately distinguish between food types, such as liquid and solid, hot and cold drinks, and hard and soft foods. The necklace transmits data to a smartphone, which performs the processing of the signals, classifies the food type, and provides visual feedback to the user to assist the user in monitoring their eating habits over time. We compare our spectrogram analysis with other time-frequency features, such as matching pursuit and wavelets. Experimental results demonstrate promise in using time-frequency features, with high accuracy of distinguishing between food categories using spectrogram analysis and extracting key features representative of the unique swallow patterns of various foods.
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