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We introduce a robotic assembly system that streamlines the design-to-make workflow for going from a CAD model of a product assembly to a fully programmed and adaptive assembly process. Our system captures (in the CAD tool) the intent of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yotto Koga , Heather Kerrick , Sachin Chitta

Programming often involves converting detailed and complex specifications into code, a process during which developers typically utilize visual aids to more effectively convey concepts. While recent developments in Large Multimodal Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kaixin Li , Yuchen Tian , Qisheng Hu , Ziyang Luo , Zhiyong Huang , Jing Ma

Despite significant progress in robotic systems for operation within human-centric environments, existing models still heavily rely on explicit human commands to identify and manipulate specific objects. This limits their effectiveness in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shiyu Jin , Jinxuan Xu , Yutian Lei , Liangjun Zhang

The modern saying, "You Are What You Eat" resonates on a profound level, reflecting the intricate connection between our identities and the food we consume. Our project, Deep Image-to-Recipe Translation, is an intersection of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiangqin Ma , Bilal Mawji , Franz Williams

Food image segmentation is a critical task for dietary analysis, enabling accurate estimation of food volume and nutrients. However, current methods suffer from limited multi-view data and poor generalization to new viewpoints. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Guillermo Rivo , Carlos Jiménez-Farfán , Umair Haroon , Farid Al-Areqi , Hyunjun Jung , Benjamin Busam , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

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…

Accurate food intake detection is vital for dietary monitoring and chronic disease prevention. Traditional self-report methods are prone to recall bias, while camera-based approaches raise concerns about privacy. Furthermore, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jiaxi Yin , Pengcheng Wang , Han Ding , Fei Wang

Computational gastronomy increasingly relies on diverse, high-quality recipe datasets to capture regional culinary traditions. Although there are large-scale collections for major languages, Macedonian recipes remain under-represented in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Darko Sasanski , Dimitar Peshevski , Riste Stojanov , Dimitar Trajanov

Visual planning asks a model to generate the remaining steps of a procedure in natural language given a partial video context and a goal. Progress on this task is bottlenecked by annotation: clean labeled datasets are small, domain-narrow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Luigi Seminara , Antonino Furnari , Lorenzo Torresani

Assessing dietary intake accurately remains an open and challenging research problem. In recent years, image-based approaches have been developed to automatically estimate food intake by capturing eat occasions with mobile devices and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zeman Shao , Runyu Mao , Fengqing Zhu

The demand for accurate food quantification has increased in the recent years, driven by the needs of applications in dietary monitoring. At the same time, computer vision approaches have exhibited great potential in automating tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Valasia Vlachopoulou , Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos

Following recipes while cooking is an important but difficult task for visually impaired individuals. We developed OSCAR (Object Status Context Awareness for Recipes), a novel approach that provides recipe progress tracking and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Franklin Mingzhe Li , Kaitlyn Ng , Bin Zhu , Patrick Carrington

Pretrained multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong performance on diverse multimodal tasks, but remain limited in reasoning capabilities for domains where annotations are difficult to collect. In this work, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xinyi Gu , Jiayuan Mao , Zhang-Wei Hong , Zhuoran Yu , Pengyuan Li , Dhiraj Joshi , Rogerio Feris , Zexue He

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

Understanding causal relationships between machines is crucial for fault diagnosis and optimization in manufacturing processes. Real-world datasets frequently exhibit up to 90% missing data and high dimensionality from hundreds of sensors.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ting-Yun Ou , Ching Chang , Wen-Chih Peng

Effective dietary monitoring is critical for managing Type 2 diabetes, yet accurately estimating caloric intake remains a major challenge. While continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) offer valuable physiological data, they often fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Adarsh Kumar

Many aging individuals encounter challenges in effectively tracking their dietary intake, exacerbating their susceptibility to nutrition-related health complications. Self-reporting methods are often inaccurate and suffer from substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Matthew Keller , Chi-en Amy Tai , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

A common, yet regular, decision made by people, whether healthy or with any health condition, is to decide what to have in meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, consisting of a combination of foods for appetizer, main course, side…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Vansh Nagpal , Siva Likitha Valluru , Kausik Lakkaraju , Biplav Srivastava

Procedural video understanding is gaining attention in the vision and language community. Deep learning-based video analysis requires extensive data. Consequently, existing works often use web videos as training resources, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Koki Maeda , Tosho Hirasawa , Atsushi Hashimoto , Jun Harashima , Leszek Rybicki , Yusuke Fukasawa , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can process text presented as images, yet they often perform worse than when the same content is provided as textual tokens. We systematically diagnose this "modality gap" by evaluating seven MLLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kaiser Sun , Xiaochuang Yuan , Hongjun Liu , Chen Zhao , Cheng Zhang , Mark Dredze , Fan Bai