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With the arrival of convolutional neural networks, the complex problem of food recognition has experienced an important improvement in recent years. The best results have been obtained using methods based on very deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Eduardo Aguilar , Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

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

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

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

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…

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 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

Understanding the nutritional content of food from visual data is a challenging computer vision problem, with the potential to have a positive and widespread impact on public health. Studies in this area are limited to existing datasets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Quin Thames , Arjun Karpur , Wade Norris , Fangting Xia , Liviu Panait , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim

In the process of intelligently segmenting foods in images using deep neural networks for diet management, data collection and labeling for network training are very important but labor-intensive tasks. In order to solve the difficulties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 D. Park , J. Lee , J. Lee , K. Lee

Advances in image-based dietary assessment methods have allowed nutrition professionals and researchers to improve the accuracy of dietary assessment, where images of food consumed are captured using smartphones or wearable devices. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Daniel Mas Montserrat , David Guerra , Carol J. Boushey , Deborah A. Kerr , Fengqing Zhu

Maintaining health and fitness through a balanced diet is essential for preventing non communicable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. NutriVision combines smart healthcare with computer vision and machine learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Madhumita Veeramreddy , Ashok Kumar Pradhan , Swetha Ghanta , Laavanya Rachakonda , Saraju P Mohanty

As obesity rates continue to increase, automated calorie tracking has become a vital tool for people seeking to maintain a healthy lifestyle or adhere to a diet plan. Although numerous research efforts have addressed this issue, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Aparup Dhar , MD Tamim Hossain , Pritom Barua

Food image analysis is the groundwork for image-based dietary assessment, which is the process of monitoring what kinds of food and how much energy is consumed using captured food or eating scene images. Existing deep learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andrew Peng , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

We propose a novel deep fusion architecture, CaloriNet, for the online estimation of energy expenditure for free living monitoring in private environments, where RGB data is discarded and replaced by silhouettes. Our fused convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Alessandro Masullo , Tilo Burghardt , Dima Damen , Sion Hannuna , Victor Ponce-López , Majid Mirmehdi

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

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

Traditional machine learning algorithms using hand-crafted feature extraction techniques (such as local binary pattern) have limited accuracy because of high variation in images of the same class (or intra-class variation) for food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Bappaditya Mandal , N. B. Puhan , Avijit Verma

The quality and safety of food is an important issue to the whole society, since it is at the basis of human health, social development and stability. Ensuring food quality and safety is a complex process, and all stages of food processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Lili Zhu , Petros Spachos , Erica Pensini , Konstantinos Plataniotis

Self-diagnostic image-based methods for healthy weight monitoring is gaining increased interest following the alarming trend of obesity. Only a handful of academic studies exist that investigate AI-based methods for Body Mass Index (BMI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Hera Siddiqui , Ajita Rattani , Dakshina Ranjan Kisku , Tanner Dean

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