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Malnutrition is a multidomain problem affecting 54% of older adults in long-term care (LTC). Monitoring nutritional intake in LTC is laborious and subjective, limiting clinical inference capabilities. Recent advances in automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Kaylen J Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Audrey G Chung , Braeden Syrnyk , Alexander MacLean , Heather H Keller , Alexander Wong

Quantifying post-consumer food waste in institutional dining settings is essential for supporting data-driven sustainability strategies. This study presents a cost-effective computer vision framework that estimates plate-level food waste by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shayan Rokhva , Babak Teimourpour

Large scale visual understanding is challenging, as it requires a model to handle the widely-spread and imbalanced distribution of <subject, relation, object> triples. In real-world scenarios with large numbers of objects and relations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Ji Zhang , Yannis Kalantidis , Marcus Rohrbach , Manohar Paluri , Ahmed Elgammal , Mohamed Elhoseiny

We present a holistic approach for high resolution image classification that won second place in the ICCV/CVPPA2023 Deep Nutrient Deficiency Challenge. The approach consists of a full pipeline of: 1) data distribution analysis to check…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yi Wang

Existing approaches for image-to-recipe retrieval have the implicit assumption that a food image can fully capture the details textually documented in its recipe. However, a food image only reflects the visual outcome of a cooked dish and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Qing Wang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu Cao , Ee-Peng Lim

The pervasiveness of mobile cameras has resulted in a dramatic increase in food photos, which are pictures reflecting what people eat. In this paper, we study how taking pictures of what we eat in restaurants can be used for the purpose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vinay Bettadapura , Edison Thomaz , Aman Parnami , Gregory Abowd , Irfan Essa

Visual object tracking has focused predominantly on opaque objects, while transparent object tracking received very little attention. Motivated by the uniqueness of transparent objects in that their appearance is directly affected by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Alan Lukezic , Ziga Trojer , Jiri Matas , Matej Kristan

The increasing prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases coupled with the ineffectiveness of traditional diet management methods have resulted in a need for novel tools to accurately and automatically assess meals. Recently, computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Joachim Dehais , Marios Anthimopoulos , Sergey Shevchik , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Spatial intelligence is a critical frontier for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), empowering them to comprehend the physical world. Drawing inspiration from human perception mechanisms, prior studies attempt to construct a spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yibin Huang , Wang Xu , Wanyue Zhang , Helu Zhi , Jingjing Huang , Yangbin Xu , Yangang Sun , Conghui Zhu , Tiejun Zhao

Nutrition information is crucial in precision nutrition and the food industry. The current food composition compilation paradigm relies on laborious and experience-dependent methods. However, these methods struggle to keep up with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Peihua Ma , Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Yang Zhang , Michael Backes , Qin Wang , Cheng-I Wei

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

Progress in AI for automated nutritional analysis is critically hampered by the lack of standardized evaluation methodologies and high-quality, real-world benchmark datasets. To address this, we introduce three primary contributions. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Amir Hosseinian , Ashkan Dehghani Zahedani , Umer Mansoor , Noosheen Hashemi , Mark Woodward

Cooking recipes allow individuals to exchange culinary ideas and provide food preparation instructions. Due to a lack of adequate labeled data, categorizing raw recipes found online to the appropriate food genres is a challenging task in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nazmus Sakib , G. M. Shahariar , Md. Mohsinul Kabir , Md. Kamrul Hasan , Hasan Mahmud

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

Food image-to-recipe aims to learn an embedded space linking the rich semantics in recipes with the visual content in food image for cross-modal retrieval. The existing research works carry out the learning of such space by assuming that…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bin Zhu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Jingjing Chen , Wing-Kwong Chan

Conventional machine learning pipelines often struggle to recognize categories absent from the original trainingset. This gap typically reduces accuracy, as fixed datasets rarely capture the full diversity of a domain. To address this, we…

We present TableBank, a new image-based table detection and recognition dataset built with novel weak supervision from Word and Latex documents on the internet. Existing research for image-based table detection and recognition usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Minghao Li , Lei Cui , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

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

Background: Maintaining a healthy diet is vital to avoid health-related issues, e.g., undernutrition, obesity and many non-communicable diseases. An indispensable part of the health diet is dietary assessment. Traditional manual recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Wei Wang , Weiqing Min , Tianhao Li , Xiaoxiao Dong , Haisheng Li , Shuqiang Jiang

Food computing brings various perspectives to computer vision like vision-based food analysis for nutrition and health. As a fundamental task in food computing, food detection needs Zero-Shot Detection (ZSD) on novel unseen food objects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Pengfei Zhou , Weiqing Min , Jiajun Song , Yang Zhang , Shuqiang Jiang