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To support people trying to lose weight and stay healthy, more and more fitness apps have sprung up including the ability to track both calories intake and expenditure. Users of such apps are part of a wider ``quantified self'' movement and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Ingmar Weber , Palakorn Achananuparp

To complement traditional dietary surveys, which are costly and of limited scale, researchers have resorted to digital data to infer the impact of eating habits on people's health. However, online studies are limited in resolution: they are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Luca Maria Aiello , Rossano Schifanella , Daniele Quercia , Lucia Del Prete

Crop diseases are a major threat to food security, but their rapid identification remains difficult in many parts of the world due to the lack of the necessary infrastructure. The combination of increasing global smartphone penetration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Sharada Prasanna Mohanty , David Hughes , Marcel Salathe

We utilize dynamical modes as features derived from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) data to detect meal events. By leveraging the inherent properties of underlying dynamics, these modes capture key aspects of glucose variability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Ali Tavasoli , Heman Shakeri

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

Diabetes remains a significant health challenge globally, contributing to severe complications like kidney disease, vision loss, and heart issues. The application of machine learning (ML) in healthcare enables efficient and accurate disease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mahade Hasan , Farhana Yasmin

Food image segmentation is a critical task for dietary analysis, enabling accurate estimation of food volume and nutrients. However, current methods suffer from limited multi-view data and poor generalization to new viewpoints. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Guillermo Rivo , Carlos Jiménez-Farfán , Umair Haroon , Farid Al-Areqi , Hyunjun Jung , Benjamin Busam , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

Food image classification serves as a fundamental and critical step in image-based dietary assessment, facilitating nutrient intake analysis from captured food images. However, existing works in food classification predominantly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successful in representing the fully-connected inferencing ability perceived to be seen in the human brain: they take full advantage of the hierarchy-style patterns commonly seen in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Joshua Ball

Vietnam is such an attractive tourist destination with its stunning and pristine landscapes and its top-rated unique food and drink. Among thousands of Vietnamese dishes, foreigners and native people are interested in easy-to-eat tastes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Thuan Trong Nguyen , Thuan Q. Nguyen , Dung Vo , Vi Nguyen , Ngoc Ho , Nguyen D. Vo , Kiet Van Nguyen , Khang Nguyen

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

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), a vibrant medical imaging research field, is expanding quickly. Because errors in medical diagnostic systems might lead to seriously misleading medical treatments, major efforts have been made in recent years…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Farzaneh Tajidini , Mohammad-Javad Kheiri

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have revolutionized general visual understanding. However, their application in the food domain remains constrained by benchmarks that rely on coarse-grained categories, single-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Song Jin , Juntian Zhang , Xun Zhang , Zeying Tian , Fei Jiang , Guojun Yin , Wei Lin , Yong Liu , Rui Yan

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

Manually tracking nutritional intake via food diaries is error-prone and burdensome. Automated computer vision techniques show promise for dietary monitoring but require large and diverse food image datasets. To address this need, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Saeejith Nair , Chi-en Amy Tai , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

Background: Maintaining a healthy diet is vital to avoid health-related issues, e.g., undernutrition, obesity and many non-communicable diseases. An indispensable part of the health diet is dietary assessment. Traditional manual recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Wei Wang , Weiqing Min , Tianhao Li , Xiaoxiao Dong , Haisheng Li , Shuqiang Jiang

Automatic food recognition is the very first step towards passive dietary monitoring. In this paper, we address the problem of food recognition by mining discriminative food regions. Taking inspiration from Adversarial Erasing, a strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Jianing Qiu , Frank P. -W. Lo , Yingnan Sun , Siyao Wang , Benny Lo

Assessment of dietary intake has primarily relied on self-report instruments, which are prone to measurement errors. Dietary assessment methods have increasingly incorporated technological advances particularly mobile, image based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Gautham Vinod , Zeman Shao , Fengqing Zhu

Deep learning based approaches to Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) typically pose the problem as an image classification (Normal or Abnormal) problem. These systems achieve high to very high accuracy in specific disease detection for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Aniket Joshi , Gaurav Mishra , Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Rice is a staple food in the world's diet, and yet huge percentages of crop yields are lost each year to disease. To combat this problem, people have been searching for ways to automate disease diagnosis. Here, we extend on previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Charles O'Neill