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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…

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Quantifying post-consumer food waste in institutional dining settings is essential for supporting data-driven sustainability strategies. This study presents a cost-effective computer vision framework that estimates plate-level food waste by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shayan Rokhva , Babak Teimourpour

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…

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Fruit recognition using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most promising applications in computer vision. In recent times, deep learning based classifications are making it possible to recognize fruits from images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Shadman Sakib , Zahidun Ashrafi , Md. Abu Bakr Siddique

Nutrition estimation is crucial for effective dietary management and overall health and well-being. Existing methods often struggle with sub-optimal accuracy and can be time-consuming. In this paper, we propose NuNet, a transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhengyi Kwan , Wei Zhang , Zhengkui Wang , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See

Traditional dietary assessment methods heavily rely on self-reporting, which is time-consuming and prone to bias. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revealed new possibilities for dietary assessment, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guangzong Chen , Zhi-Hong Mao , Mingui Sun , Kangni Liu , Wenyan Jia

Automatic image-based food recognition is a particularly challenging task. Traditional image analysis approaches have achieved low classification accuracy in the past, whereas deep learning approaches enabled the identification of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Chairi Kiourt , George Pavlidis , Stella Markantonatou

Food recognition is an important task for a variety of applications, including managing health conditions and assisting visually impaired people. Several food recognition studies have focused on generic types of food or specific cuisines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Şeymanur Aktı , Marwa Qaraqe , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Food classification is critical to the analysis of nutrients comprising foods reported in dietary assessment. Advances in mobile and wearable sensors, combined with new image based methods, particularly deep learning based approaches, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zeman Shao , Jiangpeng He , Ya-Yuan Yu , Luotao Lin , Alexandra Cowan , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Food image classification is challenging for real-world applications since existing methods require static datasets for training and are not capable of learning from sequentially available new food images. Online continual learning aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

One third of food produced in the world for human consumption -- approximately 1.3 billion tons -- is lost or wasted every year. By classifying food waste of individual consumers and raising awareness of the measures, avoidable food waste…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Amin Mazloumian , Matthias Rosenthal , Hans Gelke

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

Food image classification systems play a crucial role in health monitoring and diet tracking through image-based dietary assessment techniques. However, existing food recognition systems rely on static datasets characterized by a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Justin Yang , Zhihao Duan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

A reasonable and balanced diet is essential for maintaining good health. With the advancements in deep learning, automated nutrition estimation method based on food images offers a promising solution for monitoring daily nutritional intake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yuzhe Han , Qimin Cheng , Wenjin Wu , Ziyang Huang

Diet is an important aspect of our health. Good dietary habits can contribute to the prevention of many diseases and improve the overall quality of life. To better understand the relationship between diet and health, image-based dietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yue Han , Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Tonmoy Ghosh , Fengqing Zhu , Edward Sazonov , Edward J. Delp

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

Understanding object states is as important as object recognition for robotic task planning and manipulation. To our knowledge, this paper explicitly introduces and addresses the state identification problem in cooking related images for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Ahmad Babaeian Jelodar , Md Sirajus Salekin , Yu Sun

Food image segmentation is a critical and indispensible task for developing health-related applications such as estimating food calories and nutrients. Existing food image segmentation models are underperforming due to two reasons: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xiongwei Wu , Xin Fu , Ying Liu , Ee-Peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi , Qianru Sun

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

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