Monitoring Chewing and Eating in Free-Living Using Smart Eyeglasses

Zhang R, Amft O (2018)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Book Volume: 22

Pages Range: 23-32

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2017.2698523

Abstract

We propose to 3-D-print personal fitted regular-look smart eyeglasses frames equipped with bilateral electromyography recording to monitor temporalis muscles' activity for automatic dietary monitoring. Personal fitting supported electrode-skin contacts are at temple ear bend and temple end positions. We evaluated the smart monitoring eyeglasses during in-lab and free-living studies of food chewing and eating event detection with ten participants. The in-lab study was designed to explore three natural food hardness levels and determine parameters of an energy-based chewing cycle detection. Our free-living study investigated whether chewing monitoring and eating event detection using smart eyeglasses is feasible in free-living. An eating event detection algorithm was developed to determine intake activities based on the estimated chewing rate. Results showed an average food hardness classification accuracy of 94% and chewing cycle detection precision and recall above 90% for the in-lab study and above 77% for the free-living study covering 122 hours of recordings. Eating detection revealed the 44 eating events with an average accuracy above 95%. We conclude that smart eyeglasses are suitable for monitoring chewing and eating events in free-living and even could provide further insights into the wearer's natural chewing patterns.

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APA:

Zhang, R., & Amft, O. (2018). Monitoring Chewing and Eating in Free-Living Using Smart Eyeglasses. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22(1), 23-32. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2017.2698523

MLA:

Zhang, Rui, and Oliver Amft. "Monitoring Chewing and Eating in Free-Living Using Smart Eyeglasses." IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 22.1 (2018): 23-32.

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