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Estimating the nutritional content of food from images is a critical task with significant implications for health and dietary monitoring. This is challenging, especially when relying solely on 2D images, due to the variability in food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Michele Andrade , Guilherme A. L. Silva , Valéria Santos , Gladston Moreira , Eduardo Luz

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

Food classification serves as the basic step of image-based dietary assessment to predict the types of foods in each input image. However, food image predictions in a real world scenario are usually long-tail distributed among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

We introduce a novel technique called ShapedNet to enhance body composition assessment. This method employs a deep neural network capable of estimating Body Fat Percentage (BFP), performing individual identification, and enabling…

Traditional machine learning algorithms using hand-crafted feature extraction techniques (such as local binary pattern) have limited accuracy because of high variation in images of the same class (or intra-class variation) for food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Bappaditya Mandal , N. B. Puhan , Avijit Verma

Current research in food analysis primarily concentrates on tasks such as food recognition, recipe retrieval and nutrition estimation from a single image. Nevertheless, there is a significant gap in exploring the impact of food intake on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yinxuan Gui , Bin Zhu , Jingjing Chen , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu-Gang Jiang

Humans routinely infer taste, smell, texture, and even sound from food images a phenomenon well studied in cognitive science. However, prior vision language research on food has focused primarily on recognition tasks such as meal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sabab Ishraq , Aarushi Aarushi , Juncai Jiang , Chen Chen

Food image segmentation is an important task that has ubiquitous applications, such as estimating the nutritional value of a plate of food. Although machine learning models have been used for segmentation in this domain, food images pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Grant Sinha , Krish Parmar , Hilda Azimi , Amy Tai , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong , Pengcheng Xi

From the past few years, due to advancements in technologies, the sedentary living style in urban areas is at its peak. This results in individuals getting a victim of obesity at an early age. There are various health impacts of obesity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Satvik Garg , Pradyumn Pundir

Food diary applications represent a tantalizing market. Such applications, based on image food recognition, opened to new challenges for computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms. Recent works in the field are focusing either on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Niki Martinel , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

Direct computer vision based-nutrient content estimation is a demanding task, due to deformation and occlusions of ingredients, as well as high intra-class and low inter-class variability between meal classes. In order to tackle these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Matthias Fontanellaz , Stergios Christodoulidis , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Diet is central to the epidemic of lifestyle disorders. Accurate and effortless diet logging is one of the significant bottlenecks for effective diet management and calorie restriction. Dish detection from food platters is a challenging…

Smart phone apps that enable users to easily track their diets have become widespread in the last decade. This has created an opportunity to discover new insights into obesity and weight loss by analyzing the eating habits of the users of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-02 Wesley Tansey , Edward W. Lowe , James G. Scott

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in food and nutrition research is hindered by a critical bottleneck: the lack of annotated food data. Despite the rise of highly efficient AI models designed for tasks such as food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Lorenzo Brigato , Stavroula Mougiakakou

A person's Body Mass Index, or BMI, is the most widely used parameter for assessing their health. BMI is a crucial predictor of potential diseases that may arise at higher body fat levels because it is correlated with body fat. Conversely,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 N. T. Diba , N. Akter , S. A. H. Chowdhury , J. E. Giti

Dietary intake data are routinely drawn upon to explore diet-health relationships. However, these data are often subject to measurement error, distorting the true relationships. Beyond measurement error, there are likely complex synergistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Dylan Spicker , Amir Nazemi , Joy Hutchinson , Paul Fieguth , Sharon I. Kirkpatrick , Michael Wallace , Kevin W. Dodd

Food classification is a challenging problem due to the large number of categories, high visual similarity between different foods, as well as the lack of datasets for training state-of-the-art deep models. Solving this problem will require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Parneet Kaur , Karan Sikka , Weijun Wang , Serge Belongie , Ajay Divakaran

Increased awareness of the impact of food consumption on health and lifestyle today has given rise to novel data-driven food analysis systems. Although these systems may recognize the ingredients, a detailed analysis of their amounts in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiatong Li , Fangda Han , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

The rise of chronic diseases related to diet, such as obesity and diabetes, emphasizes the need for accurate monitoring of food intake. While AI-driven dietary assessment has made strides in recent years, the ill-posed nature of recovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Currently, most food recognition relies on deep learning for category classification. However, these approaches struggle to effectively distinguish between visually similar food samples, highlighting the pressing need to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Guohang Zhuang , Yue Hu , Tianxing Yan , JiaZhan Gao