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Main Authors: Thuc, Khue Nong, Anh, Khoa Tran Nguyen, Huy, Tai Nguyen, Hong, Du Nguyen Hao, Ba, Khanh Dinh
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07400
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author Thuc, Khue Nong
Anh, Khoa Tran Nguyen
Huy, Tai Nguyen
Hong, Du Nguyen Hao
Ba, Khanh Dinh
author_facet Thuc, Khue Nong
Anh, Khoa Tran Nguyen
Huy, Tai Nguyen
Hong, Du Nguyen Hao
Ba, Khanh Dinh
contents The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in enabling seamless connectivity and intelligent home automation, particularly in food management. By integrating IoT with computer vision, the smart fridge employs an ESP32-CAM to establish a monitoring subsystem that enhances food management efficiency through real-time food detection, inventory tracking, and temperature monitoring. This benefits waste reduction, grocery planning improvement, and household consumption optimization. In high-density inventory conditions, capturing partial or layered images complicates object detection, as overlapping items and occluded views hinder accurate identification and counting. Besides, varied angles and obscured details in multi-layered setups reduce algorithm reliability, often resulting in miscounts or misclassifications. Our proposed system is structured into three core modules: data pre-processing, object detection and management, and a web-based visualization. To address the challenge of poor model calibration caused by overconfident predictions, we implement a variant of focal loss that mitigates over-confidence and under-confidence in multi-category classification. This approach incorporates adaptive, class-wise error calibration via temperature scaling and evaluates the distribution of predicted probabilities across methods. Our results demonstrate that robust functional calibration significantly improves detection reliability under varying lighting conditions and scalability challenges. Further analysis demonstrates a practical, user-focused approach to modern food management, advancing sustainable living goals through reduced waste and more informed consumption.
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spellingShingle A smart fridge with AI-enabled food computing
Thuc, Khue Nong
Anh, Khoa Tran Nguyen
Huy, Tai Nguyen
Hong, Du Nguyen Hao
Ba, Khanh Dinh
Systems and Control
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software Engineering
C.3; J.7
The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in enabling seamless connectivity and intelligent home automation, particularly in food management. By integrating IoT with computer vision, the smart fridge employs an ESP32-CAM to establish a monitoring subsystem that enhances food management efficiency through real-time food detection, inventory tracking, and temperature monitoring. This benefits waste reduction, grocery planning improvement, and household consumption optimization. In high-density inventory conditions, capturing partial or layered images complicates object detection, as overlapping items and occluded views hinder accurate identification and counting. Besides, varied angles and obscured details in multi-layered setups reduce algorithm reliability, often resulting in miscounts or misclassifications. Our proposed system is structured into three core modules: data pre-processing, object detection and management, and a web-based visualization. To address the challenge of poor model calibration caused by overconfident predictions, we implement a variant of focal loss that mitigates over-confidence and under-confidence in multi-category classification. This approach incorporates adaptive, class-wise error calibration via temperature scaling and evaluates the distribution of predicted probabilities across methods. Our results demonstrate that robust functional calibration significantly improves detection reliability under varying lighting conditions and scalability challenges. Further analysis demonstrates a practical, user-focused approach to modern food management, advancing sustainable living goals through reduced waste and more informed consumption.
title A smart fridge with AI-enabled food computing
topic Systems and Control
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software Engineering
C.3; J.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07400