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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

Human beings keep exploring the physical space using information means. Only recently, with the rapid development of information technologies and the increasing accumulation of data, human beings can learn more about the unknown world with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Tongya Zheng , Gang Chen , Xinyu Wang , Chun Chen , Xingen Wang , Sihui Luo

With the recent advances in radio-frequency identification (RFID), low-cost wireless sensor devices, and Web technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) approach has gained momentum in connecting everyday objects to the Internet and…

Cloud computing represents a shift away from computing as a product that is purchased, to computing as a service that is delivered to consumers over the internet from large-scale data centers - or "clouds". This paper discusses some of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Ali Khajeh-Hosseini , Ian Sommerville , Ilango Sriram

Food recognition and nutritional apps are trending technologies that may revolutionise the way people with diabetes manage their diet. Such apps can monitor food intake as a digital diary and even employ artificial intelligence to assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Lorenzo Brigato , Elias K. Spanakis , Stavroula Mougiakakou

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

Advances in science are being sought in newly available opportunities to collect massive quantities of data about complex systems. While key advances are being made in detailed mapping of systems, how to relate this data to solving many of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-05 Yaneer Bar-Yam

Human routines structure daily life, yet remain challenging for computational systems to understand. This paper presents the first systematic review of routine computing, a previously implicit but increasingly recognized field that focuses…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Borislav Pavlov , Jiajin Li , Jun Fang , Yuntao Wang , Yuanchun Shi

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…

Nowadays millions of images are shared on social media and web platforms. In particular, many of them are food images taken from a smartphone over time, providing information related to the individual's diet. On the other hand, eating…

Cloud computing (cloud computing) is a kind of distributed computing, referring to the network "cloud" will be a huge data calculation and processing program into countless small programs, and then, through the system composed of multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yufu Wang , Mingwei Zhu , Jiaqiang Yuan , Guanghui Wang , Hong Zhou

A growing proportion of the global population is becoming overweight or obese, leading to various diseases (e.g., diabetes, ischemic heart disease and even cancer) due to unhealthy eating patterns, such as increased intake of food with high…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Weiqing Min , Shuqiang Jiang , Ramesh Jain

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

The number of objects is considered an important factor in a variety of tasks in the agricultural domain. Automated counting can improve farmers decisions regarding yield estimation, stress detection, disease prevention, and more. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Guy Farjon , Liu Huijun , Yael Edan

This paper presents a multimodal dataset of 1,000 indigenous recipes from remote regions of India, collected through a participatory model involving first-time digital workers from rural areas. The project covers ten endangered language…

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

Big streams of Earth images from satellites or other platforms (e.g., drones and mobile phones) are becoming increasingly available at low or no cost and with enhanced spatial and temporal resolution. This thesis recognizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Vasileios Sitokonstantinou

Food insecurity is a significant social and public health issue that plagues many urban metropolitan areas around the world. Existing approaches to identifying food insecurity rely primarily on qualitative and quantitative survey data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 David Li

This study reviews the topic of big data management in the 21st-century. There are various developments that have facilitated the extensive use of that form of data in different organizations. The most prominent beneficiaries are internet…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Okal Christopher Otieno

World food supply is crucial to the well-being of every human on the planet in the basic sense that we need food to live. It also has a profound impact on the world economy, international trade and global political stability. Furthermore,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-04 H. G. J. van Mil , E. A. Foegeding , E. J. Windhab , N. Perrot , E. van der Linden