A virtualization mechanism for real-time multimedia-assisted mobile food recognition application in cloud computing

Parisa Pouladzadeh, Sri Vijay Bharat Peddi, Pallavi Kuhad, Abdulsalam Yassine, Shervin Shirmohammadi
2015 Cluster Computing  
The integration of multimedia-assisted healthcare systems with could-computing services and mobile technologies has led to increased accessibility for healthcare providers and patients. Utilizing cloud computing infrastructures and virtualization technologies allows for the transformation of traditional healthcare systems that demand manual care and monitoring to more salient, automatic and cost effective systems. The goal of this paper is to develop a multimedia-assisted mobile healthcare
more » ... cation using cloud-computing virtualization technologies. We consider calorie measurement as an example healthcare application that can benefit from cloud-computing virtualization technology. The key functionalities of our application entail image segmentation, image processing and deep learning algorithms for food classification and recognition. Client side devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets etc.) have limitations in B Parisa Pouladzadeh
doi:10.1007/s10586-015-0468-2 fatcat:czc2utsuujd2hint24cglegg2m