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Accurate assessment of dietary intake requires improved tools to overcome limitations of current methods including user burden and measurement error. Emerging technologies such as image-based approaches using advanced machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zeman Shao , Yue Han , Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

Image-based dietary assessment refers to the process of determining what someone eats and how much energy and nutrients are consumed from visual data. Food classification is the first and most crucial step. Existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Zeman Shao , 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

Calorie and nutrition research has attained increased interest in recent years. But, due to the complexity of the problem, literature in this area focuses on a limited subset of ingredients or dish types and simple convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ahmad Babaeian Jelodar , Yu Sun

The absence of food monitoring has contributed significantly to the increase in the population's weight. Due to the lack of time and busy routines, most people do not control and record what is consumed in their diet. Some solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Charles N. C. Freitas , Filipe R. Cordeiro , Valmir Macario

Food recognition is one of the most important components in image-based dietary assessment. However, due to the different complexity level of food images and inter-class similarity of food categories, it is challenging for an image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu

Food is essential for human survival, and people always try to taste different types of delicious recipes. Frequently, people choose food ingredients without even knowing their names or pick up some food ingredients that are not obvious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Md. Shafaat Jamil Rokon , Md Kishor Morol , Ishra Binte Hasan , A. M. Saif , Rafid Hussain Khan

In this work we propose a methodology for an automatic food classification system which recognizes the contents of the meal from the images of the food. We developed a multi-layered deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Paritosh Pandey , Akella Deepthi , Bappaditya Mandal , N. B. Puhan

Modern deep learning techniques have enabled advances in image-based dietary assessment such as food recognition and food portion size estimation. Valuable information on the types of foods and the amount consumed are crucial for prevention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Zeman Shao , Janine L. Wright , Deborah A. Kerr , Carol J. Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

Food image classification is a fundamental step of image-based dietary assessment, enabling automated nutrient analysis from food images. Many current methods employ deep neural networks to train on generic food image datasets that do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

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…

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

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

Nowadays, it is common for people to take photographs of every beverage, snack, or meal they eat and then post these photographs on social media platforms. Leveraging these social trends, real-time food recognition and reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Aknur Karabay , Arman Bolatov , Huseyin Atakan Varol , Mei-Yen Chan

Assessing dietary intake accurately remains an open and challenging research problem. In recent years, image-based approaches have been developed to automatically estimate food intake by capturing eat occasions with mobile devices and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zeman Shao , Runyu Mao , Fengqing Zhu

Accurate estimation of meal macronutrient composition is a pre-perquisite for precision nutrition, metabolic health monitoring, and glycemic management. Traditional dietary assessment methods, such as self-reported food logs or diet recalls…

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

Dietary assessment is essential to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Automatic image-based dietary assessment is a growing field of research due to the increasing prevalence of image capturing devices (e.g. mobile phones). In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jack Ma , Jiangpeng He , 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