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Malnutrition is a major public health concern in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding food and nutrient intake across communities, households and individuals is critical to the development of health policies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Frank Po Wen Lo , Modou L Jobarteh , Yingnan Sun , Jianing Qiu , Shuo Jiang , Gary Frost , Benny Lo

Activity tracking apps often make use of goals as one of their core motivational tools. There are two critical components to this tool: setting a goal, and subsequently achieving that goal. Despite its crucial role in how a number of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Mitchell L. Gordon , Tim Althoff , Jure Leskovec

Studies with the primary aim of addressing eating disorders focus on assessing the nutrient content of food items with an exclusive focus on caloric intake. There are two primary impediments that can be noted in these studies. The first of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Lexington Whalen , Brie Turner-McGrievy , Matthew McGrievy , Andrew Hester , Homayoun Valafar

In contemporary society, the application of artificial intelligence for automatic food recognition offers substantial potential for nutrition tracking, reducing food waste, and enhancing productivity in food production and consumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shayan Rokhva , Babak Teimourpour , Amir Hossein Soltani

Deep learning based methods have achieved impressive results in many applications for image-based diet assessment such as food classification and food portion size estimation. However, existing methods only focus on one task at a time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

An important aspect of health monitoring is effective logging of food consumption. This can help management of diet-related diseases like obesity, diabetes, and even cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, food logging can help fitness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Doyen Sahoo , Wang Hao , Shu Ke , Wu Xiongwei , Hung Le , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-Peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi

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

The global rise in type 2 diabetes underscores the need for scalable and cost-effective screening methods. Current diagnosis requires biochemical assays, which are invasive and costly. Advances in consumer wearables have enabled early…

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are increasingly applied to meal images for nutrition analysis. However, existing work primarily evaluates proprietary models, such as GPT-4. This leaves the broad range of LLMs underexplored. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bruce Coburn , Jiangpeng He , Megan E. Rollo , Satvinder S. Dhaliwal , Deborah A. Kerr , Fengqing Zhu

People with diabetes need insulin delivery to effectively manage their blood glucose levels, especially after meals, because their bodies either do not produce enough insulin or cannot fully utilize it. Accurate insulin delivery starts with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Hanyu Zeng , Hui Ji , Pengfei Zhou

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

Over the past decade, recommender systems have experienced a surge in popularity. Despite notable progress, they grapple with challenging issues, such as high data dimensionality and sparseness. Representing users and items as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Pedro R. Pires , Tiago A. Almeida

This research aims to improve dietetic-nutritional treatment using state-of-the-art RGB-D sensors and virtual reality (VR) technology. Recent studies show that adherence to treatment can be improved using multimedia technologies. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Andrés Fuster-Guilló , Jorge Azorín-López , Marcelo Saval-Calvo , Juan Miguel Castillo-Zaragoza , Nahuel Garcia-DUrso , Robert B Fisher

Understanding the links between diet, metabolic changes, and health outcomes is a key focus in nutritional science and broader biological research. Analyzing relationships, such as those between ultra-processed food (UPF) intake and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Sang Kyu Lee , Erikka Loftfield , Hyokyoung G. Hong , Haolei Weng

Monitoring dietary intake is a crucial aspect of promoting healthy living. In recent years, advances in computer vision technology have facilitated dietary intake monitoring through the use of images and depth cameras. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Aaryam Sharma , Chris Czarnecki , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Linlin Xu , Alexander Wong

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

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become increasingly challenging in today's sedentary society marked by poor eating habits. To address this issue, both national and international organisations have made numerous efforts to promote…

Process Mining offers a powerful framework for uncovering, analyzing, and optimizing real-world business processes. Petri nets provide a versatile means of modeling process behavior. However, traditional methods often struggle to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Juan G. Colonna , Ahmed A. Fares , Márcio Duarte , Ricardo Sousa

Obesity treatment requires obese patients to record all food intakes per day. Computer vision has been introduced to estimate calories from food images. In order to increase accuracy of detection and reduce the error of volume estimation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yanchao Liang , Jianhua Li

Imbalanced nutrition is a global health issue with significant downstream effects. Current methods of assessing nutrient levels face several limitations, with accessibility being a major concern. In this paper, we take a step towards…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Andrew Balch , Maria A. Cardei , Afsaneh Doryab