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Traditional machine learning algorithms using hand-crafted feature extraction techniques (such as local binary pattern) have limited accuracy because of high variation in images of the same class (or intra-class variation) for food…

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Obesity is a risk factor for many health issues, including heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and certain cancers. One of the primary behavioral causes, dietary intake, has proven particularly challenging to measure and track. Current…

This technical report records the experiments of applying multiple machine learning algorithms for predicting eating and food purchasing behaviors of free-living individuals. Data was collected with accelerometer, global positioning system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Jiayi Wang , Jiue-An Yang , Supun Nakandala , Arun Kumar , Marta M. Jankowska

Food diary applications represent a tantalizing market. Such applications, based on image food recognition, opened to new challenges for computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms. Recent works in the field are focusing either on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Niki Martinel , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

Crop diseases are a major threat to food security, but their rapid identification remains difficult in many parts of the world due to the lack of the necessary infrastructure. The combination of increasing global smartphone penetration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Sharada Prasanna Mohanty , David Hughes , Marcel Salathe

A reasonable and balanced diet is essential for maintaining good health. With the advancements in deep learning, automated nutrition estimation method based on food images offers a promising solution for monitoring daily nutritional intake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yuzhe Han , Qimin Cheng , Wenjin Wu , Ziyang Huang

With the rapid development of society and continuous advances in science and technology, the food industry increasingly demands higher production quality and efficiency. Food image classification plays a vital role in enabling automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xinle Gao , Linghui Ye , Zhiyong Xiao

Food delivery platforms face the challenge of helping users navigate vast catalogs of restaurants and dishes to find meals they truly enjoy. This paper presents RED, an automated recommendation system designed for iFood, Latin America's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Fernando F. Granado , Davi A. Bezerra , Iuri Queiroz , Nathan Oliveira , Pedro Fernandes , Bruno Schock

Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shervin Minaee , Yuri Boykov , Fatih Porikli , Antonio Plaza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Accurate nutritional assessment is critical for public health, but existing profiling systems require detailed data often unavailable or inaccessible from colloquial text descriptions of food. This paper presents a machine learning pipeline…

The purpose of the Insect Detection System for Crop and Plant Health is to keep an eye out for and identify insect infestations in farming areas. By utilizing cutting-edge technology like computer vision and machine learning, the system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Md. Mahmudul Hasan , SM Shaqib , Ms. Sharmin Akter , Rabiul Alam , Afraz Ul Haque , Shahrun akter khushbu

Growing awareness of wellness has prompted people to consider whether their dietary patterns align with their health and fitness goals. In response, researchers have introduced various wearable dietary monitoring systems and dietary…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhihan Jiang , Running Zhao , Lin Lin , Yue Yu , Handi Chen , Xinchen Zhang , Xuhai Xu , Yifang Wang , Xiaojuan Ma , Edith C. H. Ngai

Food logo detection plays an important role in the multimedia for its wide real-world applications, such as food recommendation of the self-service shop and infringement detection on e-commerce platforms. A large-scale food logo dataset is…

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This paper explores the segmentation of very small medical objects with significant clinical value. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly UNet-like models, and recent Transformers have shown substantial progress in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Lingjie Kong , Qiaoling Wei , Chengming Xu , Han Chen , Yanwei Fu

Nowadays, driven by the increasing concern on diet and health, food computing has attracted enormous attention from both industry and research community. One of the most popular research topics in this domain is Food Retrieval, due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Han Fu , Rui Wu , Chenghao Liu , Jianling Sun

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successful in representing the fully-connected inferencing ability perceived to be seen in the human brain: they take full advantage of the hierarchy-style patterns commonly seen in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Joshua Ball

The increasing interest in computer vision applications for nutrition and dietary monitoring has led to the development of advanced 3D reconstruction techniques for food items. However, the scarcity of high-quality data and limited…

Social media provide a wealth of information for research into public health by providing a rich mix of personal data, location, hashtags, and social network information. Among these, Instagram has been recently the subject of many…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Jaclyn Rich , Hamed Haddadi , Timothy M. Hospedales

Self-diagnostic image-based methods for healthy weight monitoring is gaining increased interest following the alarming trend of obesity. Only a handful of academic studies exist that investigate AI-based methods for Body Mass Index (BMI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Hera Siddiqui , Ajita Rattani , Dakshina Ranjan Kisku , Tanner Dean

The escalating global concern over extensive food wastage necessitates innovative solutions to foster a net-zero lifestyle and reduce emissions. The LILA home composter presents a convenient means of recycling kitchen scraps and daily food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Raiyan Rahman , Mohsena Chowdhury , Yueyang Tang , Huayi Gao , George Yin , Guanghui Wang