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Obesity treatment requires obese patients to record all food intakes per day. Computer vision has been introduced to estimate calories from food images. In order to increase accuracy of detection and reduce the error of volume estimation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yanchao Liang , Jianhua Li

Food segmentation, including in videos, is vital for addressing real-world health, agriculture, and food biotechnology issues. Current limitations lead to inaccurate nutritional analysis, inefficient crop management, and suboptimal food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Adrián Galán , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

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 recognition is one of the most important components in image-based dietary assessment. However, due to the different complexity level of food images and inter-class similarity of food categories, it is challenging for an image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu

Accurate assessment of dietary intake requires improved tools to overcome limitations of current methods including user burden and measurement error. Emerging technologies such as image-based approaches using advanced machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zeman Shao , Yue Han , Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

Nowadays, it is common for people to take photographs of every beverage, snack, or meal they eat and then post these photographs on social media platforms. Leveraging these social trends, real-time food recognition and reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Aknur Karabay , Arman Bolatov , Huseyin Atakan Varol , Mei-Yen Chan

Diet is an important aspect of our health. Good dietary habits can contribute to the prevention of many diseases and improve the overall quality of life. To better understand the relationship between diet and health, image-based dietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yue Han , Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Tonmoy Ghosh , Fengqing Zhu , Edward Sazonov , Edward J. Delp

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become increasingly challenging in today's sedentary society marked by poor eating habits. To address this issue, both national and international organisations have made numerous efforts to promote…

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…

The increase in awareness of people towards their nutritional habits has drawn considerable attention to the field of automatic food analysis. Focusing on self-service restaurants environment, automatic food analysis is not only useful for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eduardo Aguilar , Beatriz Remeseiro , Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

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

Understanding the nutritional content of food from visual data is a challenging computer vision problem, with the potential to have a positive and widespread impact on public health. Studies in this area are limited to existing datasets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Quin Thames , Arjun Karpur , Wade Norris , Fangting Xia , Liviu Panait , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim

Reliance on images for dietary assessment is an important strategy to accurately and conveniently monitor an individual's health, making it a vital mechanism in the prevention and care of chronic diseases and obesity. However, image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Gautham Vinod , Fengqing Zhu

Malnutrition is a major public health concern in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding food and nutrient intake across communities, households and individuals is critical to the development of health policies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Frank Po Wen Lo , Modou L Jobarteh , Yingnan Sun , Jianing Qiu , Shuo Jiang , Gary Frost , Benny Lo

Humans routinely infer taste, smell, texture, and even sound from food images a phenomenon well studied in cognitive science. However, prior vision language research on food has focused primarily on recognition tasks such as meal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sabab Ishraq , Aarushi Aarushi , Juncai Jiang , Chen Chen

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…

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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

Deep learning based methods have achieved impressive results in many applications for image-based diet assessment such as food classification and food portion size estimation. However, existing methods only focus on one task at a time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

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

Food recognition systems has advanced significantly for Western cuisines, yet its application to African foods remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by evaluating both deep learning and traditional machine learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu , Kenechukwu Anigbogu , Doris Asogwa , Tochukwu Belonwu