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Regular monitoring of nutrient intake in hospitalised patients plays a critical role in reducing the risk of disease-related malnutrition. Although several methods to estimate nutrient intake have been developed, there is still a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Maria F. Vasiloglou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Zeno Stanga , Stavroula Mougiakakou

In response to the increasing demand for efficient and non-invasive methods to estimate food weight, this paper presents a vision-based approach utilizing 2D images. The study employs a dataset of 2380 images comprising fourteen different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chathura Wimalasiri , Prasan Kumar Sahoo

The development of automatic nutrition diaries, which would allow to keep track objectively of everything we eat, could enable a whole new world of possibilities for people concerned about their nutrition patterns. With this purpose, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

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

We propose a network independent, hand-held system to translate and disambiguate foreign restaurant menu items in real-time. The system is based on the use of a portable multimedia device, such as a smartphones or a PDA. An accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Albert Parra , Andrew W. Haddad , Mireille Boutin , Edward J. Delp

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

Malnutrition is a multidomain problem affecting 54% of older adults in long-term care (LTC). Monitoring nutritional intake in LTC is laborious and subjective, limiting clinical inference capabilities. Recent advances in automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Kaylen J Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Audrey G Chung , Braeden Syrnyk , Alexander MacLean , Heather H Keller , Alexander Wong

Food is very essential for human life and it is fundamental to the human experience. Food-related study may support multifarious applications and services, such as guiding the human behavior, improving the human health and understanding the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Weiqing Min , Shuqiang Jiang , Linhu Liu , Yong Rui , Ramesh Jain

Detecting an ingestion environment is an important aspect of monitoring dietary intake. It provides insightful information for dietary assessment. However, it is a challenging problem where human-based reviewing can be tedious, and…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Mattie Kerrigan , Yuhao Chen , Saeejith Nair , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

Mindless eating, or the lack of awareness of the food we are consuming, has been linked to health problems attributed to unhealthy eating behaviour, including obesity. Traditional approaches used to moderate eating behaviour often rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Ben Nicholls , Chee Siang Ang , Eiman Kanjo , Panote Siriaraya , Woon-Hong Yeo , Athanasios Tsanas

It is well known that dietary habits have a significant influence on health. While many studies have been conducted to understand this relationship, little is known about the relationship between eating environments and health. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Sriram Baireddy , David Güera , Carol J. Boushey , Deborah A. Kerr , Fengqing Zhu

Regular nutrient intake monitoring in hospitalised patients plays a critical role in reducing the risk of disease-related malnutrition (DRM). Although several methods to estimate nutrient intake have been developed, there is still a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Maria F. Vasiloglou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Beat Blum , Thomas Walser , Vinzenz Meier , Zeno Stanga , Stavroula G. Mougiakakou

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Bruce Coburn , 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…

With diet and nutrition apps reaching 1.4 billion users in 2022 [1], it's not surprise that popular health apps, MyFitnessPal, Noom, and Calorie Counter, are surging in popularity. However, one major setback [2] of nearly all nutrition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Michelle Han , Junyao Chen , Zhengyuan Zhou

Food image recognition is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high variability and complexity of food images. In this study, we investigate the potential of Noisy Vision Transformers (NoisyViT) for improving food classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tonmoy Ghosh , Edward Sazonov

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

The pervasiveness of mobile cameras has resulted in a dramatic increase in food photos, which are pictures reflecting what people eat. In this paper, we study how taking pictures of what we eat in restaurants can be used for the purpose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vinay Bettadapura , Edison Thomaz , Aman Parnami , Gregory Abowd , Irfan Essa

Nutrition information is crucial in precision nutrition and the food industry. The current food composition compilation paradigm relies on laborious and experience-dependent methods. However, these methods struggle to keep up with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Peihua Ma , Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Yang Zhang , Michael Backes , Qin Wang , Cheng-I Wei