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77% of adults over 50 want to age in place today, presenting a major challenge to ensuring adequate nutritional intake. It has been reported that one in four older adults that are 65 years or older are malnourished and given the direct link…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Mattie Kerrigan , Yuhao Chen , Saeejith Nair , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

Food logging, both self-directed and prescribed, plays a critical role in uncovering correlations between diet, medical, fitness, and health outcomes. Through conversations with nutritional experts and individuals who practice dietary…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Liam Bakar , Zachary Englhardt , Vidya Srinivas , Girish Narayanswamy , Dilini Nissanka , Shwetak Patel , Vikram Iyer

The profound impact of food on health necessitates advanced nutrition-oriented food recommendation services. Conventional methods often lack the crucial elements of personalization, explainability, and interactivity. While Large Language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Zhongqi Yang , Elahe Khatibi , Nitish Nagesh , Mahyar Abbasian , Iman Azimi , Ramesh Jain , Amir M. Rahmani

Food classification is critical to the analysis of nutrients comprising foods reported in dietary assessment. Advances in mobile and wearable sensors, combined with new image based methods, particularly deep learning based approaches, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zeman Shao , Jiangpeng He , Ya-Yuan Yu , Luotao Lin , Alexandra Cowan , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Accurate dietary intake estimation is critical for informing policies and programs to support healthy eating, as malnutrition has been directly linked to decreased quality of life. However self-reporting methods such as food diaries suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Saeejith Nair , Yuhao Chen , Yifan Wu , Olivia Markham , Krish Parmar , Pengcheng Xi , Heather Keller , Sharon Kirkpatrick , Alexander Wong

Understanding the nutritional content of food from visual data is a challenging computer vision problem, with the potential to have a positive and widespread impact on public health. Studies in this area are limited to existing datasets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Quin Thames , Arjun Karpur , Wade Norris , Fangting Xia , Liviu Panait , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim

Nutrition estimation is crucial for effective dietary management and overall health and well-being. Existing methods often struggle with sub-optimal accuracy and can be time-consuming. In this paper, we propose NuNet, a transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhengyi Kwan , Wei Zhang , Zhengkui Wang , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See

Food-choices and eating-habits directly contribute to our long-term health. This makes the food recommender system a potential tool to address the global crisis of obesity and malnutrition. Over the past decade, artificial-intelligence and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Mansura A Khan , Khalil Muhammad , Barry Smyth , David Coyle

Diversity of food and its attributes represents the culinary habits of peoples from different countries. Thus, this paper addresses the problem of identifying food culture of people around the world and its flavor by classifying two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Mohammed Jabreel , Hatem A. Rashwan , Syeda Furruka Banu , Antonio Moreno , Petia Radeva , Domenec Puig

Nowadays millions of images are shared on social media and web platforms. In particular, many of them are food images taken from a smartphone over time, providing information related to the individual's diet. On the other hand, eating…

Obesity, the leading cause of many non-communicable diseases, occurs mainly for eating more than our body requirements and lack of proper activity. So, being healthy requires heathy diet plans, especially for patients with comorbidities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Mrinmoy Roy , Srabonti Das , Anica Tasnim Protity

Diet is an important aspect of our health. Good dietary habits can contribute to the prevention of many diseases and improve the overall quality of life. To better understand the relationship between diet and health, image-based dietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yue Han , Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Tonmoy Ghosh , Fengqing Zhu , Edward Sazonov , Edward J. Delp

Food recommendation system has proven as an effective technology to provide guidance on dietary choices, and this is especially important for patients suffering from chronic diseases. Unlike other multimedia recommendations, such as books…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Jianing Qiu , Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Benny Lo

Maintaining health and fitness through a balanced diet is essential for preventing non communicable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. NutriVision combines smart healthcare with computer vision and machine learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Madhumita Veeramreddy , Ashok Kumar Pradhan , Swetha Ghanta , Laavanya Rachakonda , Saraju P Mohanty

Worldwide, in 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these, over 600 million were obese. Accurately documenting dietary caloric intake is crucial to manage weight loss, but also presents challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Chang Liu , Yu Cao , Yan Luo , Guanling Chen , Vinod Vokkarane , Yunsheng Ma

A common decision made by people, whether healthy or with health conditions, is choosing meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, comprising combinations of foods for appetizer, main course, side dishes, desserts, and beverages. Often, this…

Image-based dietary assessment refers to the process of determining what someone eats and how much energy and nutrients are consumed from visual data. Food classification is the first and most crucial step. Existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Zeman Shao , Heather A. Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Food recommender systems play an important role in assisting users to identify the desired food to eat. Deciding what food to eat is a complex and multi-faceted process, which is influenced by many factors such as the ingredients,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Xiaoyan Gao , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Heyan Huang , Xinyu Guan , Chong Feng , Zhaoyan Ming , Tat-Seng Chua

A common, yet regular, decision made by people, whether healthy or with any health condition, is to decide what to have in meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, consisting of a combination of foods for appetizer, main course, side…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Vansh Nagpal , Siva Likitha Valluru , Kausik Lakkaraju , Biplav Srivastava

The traditional dietary recommendation systems are basically nutrition or health-aware where the human feelings on food are ignored. Human affects vary when it comes to food cravings, and not all foods are appealing in all moods. A…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Tanvir Islam , Anika Rahman Joyita , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam , Mohammad Mehedi Hassan , Md. Rafiul Hassan , Raffaele Gravina