Intelligent Food Identification System Using Improved YOLOv8

The field of computer vision has witnessed significant advances in object detection with real-world applications ranging from autonomous driving to surveillance systems. Due to its importance in a number of areas, such as dietary evaluation, food industry automation, and health monitoring, food identification has attracted a lot of interest in this context. The suggested approach makes use of the capabilities of two cutting-edge object recognition models, YOLOv8. Because of its speed and accuracy, YOLOv8 is a great option for real-time food detection in a variety of settings. Our most recent YOLOv8 model is called BiTrains-YOLOv8. Supervision techniques are applied to improve the combined model's performance even more. This increases overall detection accuracy and helps the algorithm to more effectively generalize to novel food items. Based on the detection results, 96.7% of an average of detection accuracy, 96.4% for precision, 95.7^% for recall, and 96.04 % for F1-Score were obtained. The results show that the combination of YOLOv8 and BiTrains-YOLOv8 improved model techniques, significantly improved the performance of food detection, outperforming the previous methods in terms of accuracy, speed and robustness. Furthermore, the paper analyzes potential real-world applications of the system, such as calorie counting, dietary assessment and smart kitchen automation. Implications of advanced intelligent food detection in healthcare, the culinary industry and personalized nutrition are also discussed. In conclusion, the results provide valuable insights for pushing the boundaries of food recognition technology, with promising applications in various fields that promote healthy lifestyles and improve efficiency in food-related processes.