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Currently, food image recognition tasks are evaluated against fixed datasets. However, in real-world conditions, there are cases in which the number of samples in each class continues to increase and samples from novel classes appear. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Shota Horiguchi , Sosuke Amano , Makoto Ogawa , Kiyoharu Aizawa

In this paper, we introduce a new and challenging large-scale food image dataset called "ChineseFoodNet", which aims to automatically recognizing pictured Chinese dishes. Most of the existing food image datasets collected food images either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Xin Chen , Yu Zhu , Hua Zhou , Liang Diao , Dongyan Wang

Food logging, both self-directed and prescribed, plays a critical role in uncovering correlations between diet, medical, fitness, and health outcomes. Through conversations with nutritional experts and individuals who practice dietary…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Liam Bakar , Zachary Englhardt , Vidya Srinivas , Girish Narayanswamy , Dilini Nissanka , Shwetak Patel , Vikram Iyer

Automatic dietary assessment based on food images remains a challenge, requiring precise food detection, segmentation, and classification. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer new possibilities by integrating visual and textual reasoning. In…

Dietary assessment is a key contributor to monitoring health status. Existing self-report methods are tedious and time-consuming with substantial biases and errors. Image-based food portion estimation aims to estimate food energy values…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zeman Shao , Gautham Vinod , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

In the United States the preferred method of obtaining dietary intake data is the 24-hour dietary recall, yet the measure of most interest is usual or long-term average daily intake, which is impossible to measure. Thus, usual dietary…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-20 Raymond J. Carroll

The development of a materials synthesis route is usually based on heuristics and experience. A possible new approach would be to apply data-driven approaches to learn the patterns of synthesis from past experience and use them to predict…

Food communities on online platforms enjoy great popularity among social media users. Due to the far-reaching consequences of food-related content on user eating behavior, recent research has studied the factors that drive user online…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gabriela Ozegovic , Thorsten Ruprechter , Denis Helic

In the early 2000s, renowned chef Heston Blumenthal formulated his "food pairing" hypothesis, positing that if foods share many flavor compounds, then they tend to taste good when eaten together. In 2011, Ahn et al. conducted a study using…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-25 Giovanni Palermo , Claudio Caprioli , Giambattista Albora

Linear constrained optimization techniques have been applied to many real-world settings. In recent years, inferring the unknown parameters and functions inside an optimization model has also gained traction. This inference is often based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Farzin Ahmadi , Fardin Ganjkhanloo , Kimia Ghobadi

Textual documents need to be of good quality to ensure effective asynchronous communication in remote areas, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, defining a preferred document structure (content and arrangement) for improving…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Rina Kagawa , Masaki Matsubara , Rei Miyata , Takuya Matsuzaki , Yukino Baba , Yoko Yamakata

This study examined the use of machine learning and domain specific enrichment on patient generated health data, in the form of free text meal logs, to classify meals on alignment with different nutritional goals. We used a dataset of over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guanlan Hu , Adit Anand , Pooja M. Desai , Iñigo Urteaga , Lena Mamykina

Software applications have become an omnipresent part of modern society. The consequent privacy policies of these applications play a significant role in informing customers how their personal information is collected, stored, and used.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shidong Pan , Thong Hoang , Dawen Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Xiwei Xu , Qinghua Lu , Mark Staples

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

In grocery e-commerce, customers often build ingredient baskets guided by dietary preferences but lack the expertise to create complete meals. Leveraging recipe knowledge to recommend complementary ingredients based on a partial basket is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yanan Cao , Omid Memarrast , Shiqin Cai , Sinduja Subramaniam , Evren Korpeoglu , Kannan Achan

This Policy Comment describes how the Food Policy article entitled 'Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries' (first published October 2020) and 'Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-01 William A. Masters

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

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

Cooking recipes are complex procedures that require not only a fluent and factual text, but also accurate timing, temperature, and procedural coherence, as well as the correct composition of ingredients. Standard training procedures are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mattia Ottoborgo , Daniele Rege Cambrin , Paolo Garza

The recommendation of food items is important for many reasons. Attaining cooking inspiration via digital sources is becoming evermore popular; as are systems, which recommend other types of food, such as meals in restaurants or products in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Christoph Trattner , David Elsweiler