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Effective dietary monitoring is critical for managing Type 2 diabetes, yet accurately estimating caloric intake remains a major challenge. While continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) offer valuable physiological data, they often fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Adarsh Kumar

Dietary intake estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the nutritional habits of individuals and populations, aiding in the prevention and management of diet-related health issues. Accurate estimation requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chi-en Amy Tai , Saeejith Nair , Olivia Markham , Matthew Keller , Yifan Wu , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

Researches have shown that diet recording can help people increase awareness of food intake and improve nutrition management, and thereby maintain a healthier life. Recently, researchers have been working on smartphone-based diet recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Junyi Gao , Weihao Tan , Liantao Ma , Yasha Wang , Wen Tang

Food computing is both important and challenging in computer vision (CV). It significantly contributes to the development of CV algorithms due to its frequent presence in datasets across various applications, ranging from classification and…

Traditional dietary assessment methods heavily rely on self-reporting, which is time-consuming and prone to bias. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revealed new possibilities for dietary assessment, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guangzong Chen , Zhi-Hong Mao , Mingui Sun , Kangni Liu , Wenyan Jia

We present a mobile application made to recognize food items of multi-object meal from a single image in real-time, and then return the nutrition facts with components and approximate amounts. Our work is organized in two parts. First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jianing Sun , Katarzyna Radecka , Zeljko Zilic

Accurate dietary assessment is critical for precision nutrition, yet most image-based methods rely on a single pre-consumption image and provide only coarse, meal-level estimates. These approaches cannot determine what was actually consumed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

The automatic recognition of food on images has numerous interesting applications, including nutritional tracking in medical cohorts. The problem has received significant research attention, but an ongoing public benchmark to develop open…

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

Advances in image-based dietary assessment methods have allowed nutrition professionals and researchers to improve the accuracy of dietary assessment, where images of food consumed are captured using smartphones or wearable devices. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Daniel Mas Montserrat , David Guerra , Carol J. Boushey , Deborah A. Kerr , Fengqing Zhu

Obesity is an important concern in public health, and Body Mass Index is one of the useful (and proliferant) measures. We use Convolutional Neural Networks to determine Body Mass Index from photographs in a study with 161 participants. Low…

In this paper, we study the novel problem of not only predicting ingredients from a food image, but also predicting the relative amounts of the detected ingredients. We propose two prediction-based models using deep learning that output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jiatong Li , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

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

The ability to recognize various food-items in a generic food plate is a key determinant for an automated diet assessment system. This study motivates the need for automated diet assessment and proposes a framework to achieve this. Within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Rameez Ismail , Zhaorui Yuan

Deep learning-based food recognition has made significant progress in predicting food types from eating occasion images. However, two key challenges hinder real-world deployment: (1) continuously learning new food classes without forgetting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiangpeng He , Xiaoyan Zhang , Luotao Lin , Jack Ma , Heather A. Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Nutrition estimation is an important component of promoting healthy eating and mitigating diet-related health risks. Despite advances in tasks such as food classification and ingredient recognition, progress in nutrition estimation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Huiyan Qi , Bin Zhu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Jingjing Chen , Ee-Peng Lim

Malnutrition poses a significant threat to global health, resulting from an inadequate intake of essential nutrients that adversely impacts vital organs and overall bodily functioning. Periodic examinations and mass screenings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Ashish Marisetty , Prathistith Raj M , Praneeth Nemani , Venkanna Udutalapally , Debanjan Das

Food recognition and nutritional apps are trending technologies that may revolutionise the way people with diabetes manage their diet. Such apps can monitor food intake as a digital diary and even employ artificial intelligence to assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Lorenzo Brigato , Elias K. Spanakis , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Recognizing food images presents unique challenges due to the variable spatial layout and shape changes of ingredients with different cooking and cutting methods. This study introduces an advanced approach for recognizing ingredients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kun Fu , Ying Dai

Nutritional assessment is key in order to make decisions about the nature and cause of nutrition related health issues that affect an individual. The systematic process of collecting and interpreting relevant nutrition information, however,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Lars Brenna , Håvard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen