Salwa  Khalid Abdulateef, Massudi  Mahmuddin, Nor  Hazlyna Harun, 
    Aggregated Features Association Classifier for
Multiple Food Items Identification,
    Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
    Volume 12,Issue 8,
    2017,
    Pages 2200-2206,
    ISSN 1816-949x,
    jeasci.2017.2200.2206,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.2200.2206)
    Abstract: Image based food identification is an emerging research topic for much industrial application. It refers
to the capability of identifying various food items based on the visual information. Unfortunately, food items
classification is highly sensitive to the accuracy of the image segmentation which is not always satisfying due
to many factors. In this study, an aggregated features association classifier is proposed to handle the resultant
problem of non-accurate image segmentation. It uses ELM for food items classification. Also, it exploits the fact
that food items are associated with others when they are placed in the plate; the accuracy of the classifier has
been improved using features association. An accuracy of 100% is obtained for input images with over or under
segmentation errors which proves the usefulness of this algorithm.
    Keywords: Image food identification;extreme learning machine;feature extraction;object recognition; image analysis