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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…

Deep learning-based food recognition has made significant progress in predicting food types from eating occasion images. However, two key challenges hinder real-world deployment: (1) continuously learning new food classes without forgetting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiangpeng He , Xiaoyan Zhang , Luotao Lin , Jack Ma , Heather A. Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

In this work we propose a methodology for an automatic food classification system which recognizes the contents of the meal from the images of the food. We developed a multi-layered deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Paritosh Pandey , Akella Deepthi , Bappaditya Mandal , N. B. Puhan

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

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiang Hou , Weiqing Min , Jing Wang , Sujuan Hou , Yuanjie Zheng , Shuqiang Jiang

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…

Training a model for food recognition is challenging because the training samples, which are typically crawled from the Internet, are visually different from the pictures captured by users in the free-living environment. In addition to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Qing Wang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Ee-Peng Lim , Qianru Sun

Image-based dietary assessment refers to the process of determining what someone eats and how much energy and nutrients are consumed from visual data. Food classification is the first and most crucial step. Existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Zeman Shao , Heather A. Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Food classification is critical to the analysis of nutrients comprising foods reported in dietary assessment. Advances in mobile and wearable sensors, combined with new image based methods, particularly deep learning based approaches, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zeman Shao , Jiangpeng He , Ya-Yuan Yu , Luotao Lin , Alexandra Cowan , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Food classification serves as the basic step of image-based dietary assessment to predict the types of foods in each input image. However, food image predictions in a real world scenario are usually long-tail distributed among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

We introduce RP2K, a new large-scale retail product dataset for fine-grained image classification. Unlike previous datasets focusing on relatively few products, we collect more than 500,000 images of retail products on shelves belonging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Jingtian Peng , Chang Xiao , Yifan Li

The absence of food monitoring has contributed significantly to the increase in the population's weight. Due to the lack of time and busy routines, most people do not control and record what is consumed in their diet. Some solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Charles N. C. Freitas , Filipe R. Cordeiro , Valmir Macario

Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have made impressive progress in many vision-language tasks. Nevertheless, the performance of general LMMs in specific domains is still far from satisfactory. This paper proposes FoodLMM, a versatile food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yuehao Yin , Huiyan Qi , Bin Zhu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Chong-Wah Ngo

Automatic image-based food recognition is a particularly challenging task. Traditional image analysis approaches have achieved low classification accuracy in the past, whereas deep learning approaches enabled the identification of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Chairi Kiourt , George Pavlidis , Stella Markantonatou

In response to the increasing demand for efficient and non-invasive methods to estimate food weight, this paper presents a vision-based approach utilizing 2D images. The study employs a dataset of 2380 images comprising fourteen different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chathura Wimalasiri , Prasan Kumar Sahoo

Modern deep learning techniques have enabled advances in image-based dietary assessment such as food recognition and food portion size estimation. Valuable information on the types of foods and the amount consumed are crucial for prevention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Zeman Shao , Janine L. Wright , Deborah A. Kerr , Carol J. Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

With the arrival of convolutional neural networks, the complex problem of food recognition has experienced an important improvement in recent years. The best results have been obtained using methods based on very deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Eduardo Aguilar , Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

Accurate food intake monitoring is crucial for maintaining a healthy diet and preventing nutrition-related diseases. With the diverse range of foods consumed across various cultures, classic food classification models have limitations due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hassan Kazemi Tehrani , Jun Cai , Abbas Yekanlou , Sylvia Santosa

Food image classification serves as a fundamental and critical step in image-based dietary assessment, facilitating nutrient intake analysis from captured food images. However, existing works in food classification predominantly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu