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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

High calorie intake in the human body on the one hand, has proved harmful in numerous occasions leading to several diseases and on the other hand, a standard amount of calorie intake has been deemed essential by dieticians to maintain the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Pallavi Kuhad , Abdulsalam Yassine , Shervin Shirmohammadi

Mobile health applications that track activities, such as exercise, sleep, and diet, are becoming widely used. While these activity tracking applications have the potential to improve our health, user engagement and retention are critical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Zhiyuan Lin , Tim Althoff , Jure Leskovec

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

The wide implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems facilitates the collection of large-scale health data from real clinical settings. Despite the significant increase in adoption of EHR systems, this data remains largely…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-26 Jinghe Zhang , Kamran Kowsari , James H. Harrison , Jennifer M. Lobo , Laura E. Barnes

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 models are crucial for dietary management applications because they reduce the burden of manual meal logging. However, most publicly available datasets for training such models rely on web-crawled images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mitsuki Watanabe , Sosuke Amano , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Yoko Yamakata

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

Monitoring dietary habits is crucial for preventing health risks associated with overeating and undereating, including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Traditional methods for tracking food intake rely on self-reported data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Wallace Lee , YuHao Chen

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

Nowadays, we can find several diseases related to the unhealthy diet habits of the population, such as diabetes, obesity, anemia, bulimia and anorexia. In many cases, these diseases are related to the food consumption of people.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Pedro Herruzo , Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

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

Meal recommendation, as a typical health-related recommendation task, contains complex relationships between users, courses, and meals. Among them, meal-course affiliation associates user-meal and user-course interactions. However, an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ming Li , Lin Li , Xiaohui Tao , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

While the task of automatically detecting eating events has been examined in prior work using various wearable devices, the use of smartphones as standalone devices to infer eating events remains an open issue. This paper proposes a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wageesha Bangamuarachchi , Anju Chamantha , Lakmal Meegahapola , Salvador Ruiz-Correa , Indika Perera , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Modern deep recommender models are trained under a continual learning paradigm, relying on massive and continuously growing streaming behavioral logs. In large-scale platforms, retraining models on full historical data for architecture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiaqing Zhang , Hao Wang , Mingjia Yin , Bo Chen , Qinglin Jia , Rui Zhou , Ruiming Tang , ChaoYi Ma , Enhong Chen

Regular nutrient intake monitoring in hospitalised patients plays a critical role in reducing the risk of disease-related malnutrition (DRM). Although several methods to estimate nutrient intake have been developed, there is still a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Maria F. Vasiloglou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Beat Blum , Thomas Walser , Vinzenz Meier , Zeno Stanga , Stavroula G. Mougiakakou

Deriving nutritional information from online food posts is challenging, particularly when users do not explicitly log the macro-nutrients of a shared meal. In this work, we present an efficient and straightforward approach to approximating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thorsten Ruprechter , Marion Garaus , Ivo Ponocny , Denis Helic

What we eat is one of the most frequent and important health decisions we make in daily life, yet it remains notoriously difficult to capture and understand. Effective food journaling is thus a grand challenge in personal health…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Shubham Goyal , Qi Liu , Khairina Tajul-Arifin , Waqas Awan , Bimlesh Wadhwa , Zhenguang Liu

Food recognition plays an important role in food choice and intake, which is essential to the health and well-being of humans. It is thus of importance to the computer vision community, and can further support many food-oriented vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weiqing Min , Zhiling Wang , Yuxin Liu , Mengjiang Luo , Liping Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

Many aging individuals encounter challenges in effectively tracking their dietary intake, exacerbating their susceptibility to nutrition-related health complications. Self-reporting methods are often inaccurate and suffer from substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Matthew Keller , Chi-en Amy Tai , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong