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Learning effective recipe representations is essential in food studies. Unlike what has been developed for image-based recipe retrieval or learning structural text embeddings, the combined effect of multi-modal information (i.e., recipe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Yijun Tian , Chuxu Zhang , Zhichun Guo , Yihong Ma , Ronald Metoyer , Nitesh V. Chawla

Deriving nutritional information from online food posts is challenging, particularly when users do not explicitly log the macro-nutrients of a shared meal. In this work, we present an efficient and straightforward approach to approximating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thorsten Ruprechter , Marion Garaus , Ivo Ponocny , Denis Helic

Food image analysis is the groundwork for image-based dietary assessment, which is the process of monitoring what kinds of food and how much energy is consumed using captured food or eating scene images. Existing deep learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andrew Peng , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Load forecasting is essential for the efficient, reliable, and cost-effective management of power systems. Load forecasting performance can be improved by learning the similarities among multiple entities (e.g., regions, buildings).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-07 Onintze Zaballa , Verónica Álvarez , Santiago Mazuelas

We explore the problem of automatically inferring the amount of kilocalories used by human during physical activity from his/her video observation. To study this underresearched task, we introduce Vid2Burn -- an omni-source benchmark for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Kunyu Peng , Alina Roitberg , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Food is essential for human survival, and people always try to taste different types of delicious recipes. Frequently, people choose food ingredients without even knowing their names or pick up some food ingredients that are not obvious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Md. Shafaat Jamil Rokon , Md Kishor Morol , Ishra Binte Hasan , A. M. Saif , Rafid Hussain Khan

Food image classification is a fundamental step of image-based dietary assessment, enabling automated nutrient analysis from food images. Many current methods employ deep neural networks to train on generic food image datasets that do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

Food image segmentation is a critical and indispensible task for developing health-related applications such as estimating food calories and nutrients. Existing food image segmentation models are underperforming due to two reasons: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xiongwei Wu , Xin Fu , Ying Liu , Ee-Peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi , Qianru Sun

People enjoy food photography because they appreciate food. Behind each meal there is a story described in a complex recipe and, unfortunately, by simply looking at a food image we do not have access to its preparation process. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Amaia Salvador , Michal Drozdzal , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Adriana Romero

We aim to estimate food portion size, a property that is strongly related to the presence of food object in 3D space, from single monocular images under real life setting. Specifically, we are interested in end-to-end estimation of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zeman Shao , Shaobo Fang , Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Jo Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

In this paper, we are interested in modeling a how-to instructional procedure, such as a cooking recipe, with a meaningful and rich high-level representation. Specifically, we propose to represent cooking recipes and food images as cooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Enrique Mora , Nadiia Chepurko , Kuan Wei Huang , Ferda Ofli , Antonio Torralba

Automated protein function prediction is a challenging problem with distinctive features, such as the hierarchical organization of protein functions and the scarcity of annotated proteins for most biological functions. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Marco Frasca , Nicolò Cesa Bianchi

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

Image-based table recognition is a challenging task due to the diversity of table styles and the complexity of table structures. Most of the previous methods focus on a non-end-to-end approach which divides the problem into two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Nam Tuan Ly , Atsuhiro Takasu

Consumption of diets with low glycemic impact is highly recommended for diabetics and pre-diabetics as it helps maintain their blood glucose levels. However, laboratory analysis of dietary glycemic potency is time-consuming and expensive.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Helena Lee , Palakorn Achananuparp , Yue Liu , Ee-Peng Lim , Lav R. Varshney

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

Dietary assessment is essential to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Automatic image-based dietary assessment is a growing field of research due to the increasing prevalence of image capturing devices (e.g. mobile phones). In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jack Ma , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

This paper determines the extent to which short textual inputs (in this case, names of dishes) can improve calorie estimation compared to an image-only baseline model and whether any improvements are statistically significant. Utilizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Arya Narang