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Food portion estimation is crucial for monitoring health and tracking dietary intake. Image-based dietary assessment, which involves analyzing eating occasion images using computer vision techniques, is increasingly replacing traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinge Ma , Xiaoyan Zhang , Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , 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

Child malnutrition remains a global crisis, yet existing screening methods are laborious and poorly scalable, hindering early intervention. In this work, we present NutriScreener, a retrieval-augmented, multi-pose graph attention network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Misaal Khan , Mayank Vatsa , Kuldeep Singh , Richa Singh

Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semi-automatically in clinical routine, and is thus prone to inter- and intra-observer variability.…

Image segmentation is pivotal in medical image analysis, facilitating clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease evaluation. Deep learning has significantly advanced automatic segmentation methodologies by providing superior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zhengyong Huang , Ning Jiang , Xingwen Sun , Lihua Zhang , Peng Chen , Jens Domke , Yao Sui

Dietary intake estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the nutritional habits of individuals and populations, aiding in the prevention and management of diet-related health issues. Accurate estimation requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chi-en Amy Tai , Saeejith Nair , Olivia Markham , Matthew Keller , Yifan Wu , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

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

Accurate food volume estimation is crucial for dietary monitoring, medical nutrition management, and food intake analysis. Existing 3D Food Volume estimation methods accurately compute the food volume but lack for food portions selection.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Umair Haroon , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

Image segmentation is a critical step in computational biomedical image analysis, typically evaluated using metrics like the Dice coefficient during training and validation. However, in clinical settings without manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sikha O K , Meritxell Riera-Marín , Adrian Galdran , Javier García Lopez , Julia Rodríguez-Comas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Precise 3D segmentation of infant brain tissues is an essential step towards comprehensive volumetric studies and quantitative analysis of early brain developement. However, computing such segmentations is very challenging, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers , Li Wang , Jing Yuan , Dinggang Shen , Ismail Ben Ayed

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

High calorie intake in the human body on the one hand, has proved harmful in numerous occasions leading to several diseases and on the other hand, a standard amount of calorie intake has been deemed essential by dieticians to maintain the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Pallavi Kuhad , Abdulsalam Yassine , Shervin Shirmohammadi

This paper proposes a novel image segmentation approachthat integrates fully convolutional networks (FCNs) with a level setmodel. Compared with a FCN, the integrated method can incorporatesmoothing and prior information to achieve an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Min Tang , Sepehr Valipour , Zichen Vincent Zhang , Dana Cobzas , MartinJagersand

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

Accurate nutrient estimation from unstructured recipe text is an important yet challenging problem in dietary monitoring, due to ambiguous ingredient terminology and highly variable quantity expressions. We systematically evaluate models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Wei-Chun Chen , Yu-Xuan Chen , I-Fang Chung , Ying-Jia Lin

Food image recognition is one of the promising applications of visual object recognition in computer vision. In this study, a small-scale dataset consisting of 5822 images of ten categories and a five-layer CNN was constructed to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuzhen Lu

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

With one in four individuals afflicted with malnutrition, computer vision may provide a way of introducing a new level of automation in the nutrition field to reliably monitor food and nutrient intake. In this study, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Kaylen J. Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Braeden Syrnyk , Alexander Wong

Advances in remote sensing technology have led to the capture of massive amounts of data. Increased image resolution, more frequent revisit times, and additional spectral channels have created an explosion in the amount of data that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Saba Dadsetan , David Pichler , David Wilson , Naira Hovakimyan , Jennifer Hobbs

Segmentation maps of medical images annotated by medical experts contain rich spatial information. In this paper, we propose to decompose annotation maps to learn disentangled and richer feature transforms for segmentation problems in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yizhe Zhang , Michael T. C. Ying , Danny Z. Chen