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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…

Accurate food nutrition estimation from single images is challenging due to the loss of 3D information. While depth-based methods provide reliable geometry, they remain inaccessible on most smartphones because of depth-sensor requirements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Darrin Bright , Rakshith Raj , Kanchan Keisham

Direct computer vision based-nutrient content estimation is a demanding task, due to deformation and occlusions of ingredients, as well as high intra-class and low inter-class variability between meal classes. In order to tackle these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Matthias Fontanellaz , Stergios Christodoulidis , Stavroula Mougiakakou

State recognition of food images can be considered as one of the promising applications of object recognition and fine-grained image classification in computer vision. In this paper, evidence is provided for the power of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Kaoutar Ben Ahmed , Ahmad Babaeian Jelodar

Automatic food detection is an emerging topic of interest due to its wide array of applications ranging from detecting food images on social media platforms to filtering non-food photos from the users in dietary assessment apps. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ghalib Ahmed Tahir , Chu Kiong Loo

Food crystal agglomeration is a phenomenon occurs during crystallization which traps water between crystals and affects food product quality. Manual annotation of agglomeration in 2D microscopic images is particularly difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xiaoyu Ji , Ali Shakouri , Fengqing Zhu

For open vocabulary recognition of ingredients in food images, segmenting the ingredients is a crucial step. This paper proposes a novel approach that explores PCA-based feature representations of image pixels using a convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ying Dai

One third of food produced in the world for human consumption -- approximately 1.3 billion tons -- is lost or wasted every year. By classifying food waste of individual consumers and raising awareness of the measures, avoidable food waste…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Amin Mazloumian , Matthias Rosenthal , Hans Gelke

The increased worldwide prevalence of obesity has sparked the interest of the scientific community towards tools that objectively and automatically monitor eating behavior. Despite the study of obesity being in the spotlight, such tools can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Konstantinos Kyritsis , Christos Diou , Anastasios Delopoulos

Food recognition has received more and more attention in the multimedia community for its various real-world applications, such as diet management and self-service restaurants. A large-scale ontology of food images is urgently needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Weiqing Min , Linhu Liu , Zhiling Wang , Zhengdong Luo , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

Imbalanced nutrition is a global health issue with significant downstream effects. Current methods of assessing nutrient levels face several limitations, with accessibility being a major concern. In this paper, we take a step towards…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Andrew Balch , Maria A. Cardei , Afsaneh Doryab

Smartphone clip-on microscopes turn everyday devices into low-cost, portable imaging systems that can even reveal fungal structures at the microscopic level, enabling mold inspection beyond unaided visual checks. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Dinh Nam Pham , Leonard Prokisch , Bennet Meyer , Jonas Thumbs

Food image classification models are crucial for dietary management applications because they reduce the burden of manual meal logging. However, most publicly available datasets for training such models rely on web-crawled images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mitsuki Watanabe , Sosuke Amano , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Yoko Yamakata

Traditional dietary assessment methods heavily rely on self-reporting, which is time-consuming and prone to bias. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revealed new possibilities for dietary assessment, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guangzong Chen , Zhi-Hong Mao , Mingui Sun , Kangni Liu , Wenyan Jia

Image-based methods to analyze food images have alleviated the user burden and biases associated with traditional methods. However, accurate portion estimation remains a major challenge due to the loss of 3D information in the 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Gautham Vinod , Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Fengqing Zhu

Food image classification is challenging for real-world applications since existing methods require static datasets for training and are not capable of learning from sequentially available new food images. Online continual learning aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jiangpeng He , 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

Camera-based passive dietary intake monitoring is able to continuously capture the eating episodes of a subject, recording rich visual information, such as the type and volume of food being consumed, as well as the eating behaviours of the…

Food image recognition is a challenging task in computer vision due to the high variability and complexity of food images. In this study, we investigate the potential of Noisy Vision Transformers (NoisyViT) for improving food classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tonmoy Ghosh , Edward Sazonov

This paper is directed towards the food crystal quality control area for manufacturing, focusing on efficiently predicting food crystal counts and size distributions. Previously, manufacturers used the manual counting method on microscopic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Xiaoyu Ji , Jan P Allebach , Ali Shakouri , Fengqing Zhu