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In the process of intelligently segmenting foods in images using deep neural networks for diet management, data collection and labeling for network training are very important but labor-intensive tasks. In order to solve the difficulties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 D. Park , J. Lee , J. Lee , K. Lee

In this paper, we introduce Recipe1M+, a new large-scale, structured corpus of over one million cooking recipes and 13 million food images. As the largest publicly available collection of recipe data, Recipe1M+ affords the ability to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Javier Marin , Aritro Biswas , Ferda Ofli , Nicholas Hynes , Amaia Salvador , Yusuf Aytar , Ingmar Weber , Antonio Torralba

Food is essential for human survival, and people always try to taste different types of delicious recipes. Frequently, people choose food ingredients without even knowing their names or pick up some food ingredients that are not obvious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Md. Shafaat Jamil Rokon , Md Kishor Morol , Ishra Binte Hasan , A. M. Saif , Rafid Hussain Khan

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

Cross-modal retrieval between food images and recipe texts is an important task with applications in nutritional management, dietary logging, and cooking assistance. Existing methods predominantly rely on dual-encoder architectures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Keisuke Gomi , Keiji Yanai

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

Food image analysis is the groundwork for image-based dietary assessment, which is the process of monitoring what kinds of food and how much energy is consumed using captured food or eating scene images. Existing deep learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andrew Peng , Jiangpeng He , 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 recognition plays an important role in food choice and intake, which is essential to the health and well-being of humans. It is thus of importance to the computer vision community, and can further support many food-oriented vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weiqing Min , Zhiling Wang , Yuxin Liu , Mengjiang Luo , Liping Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

Food is not only essential to human health but also serves as a medium for cultural identity and emotional connection. In the context of precision nutrition, accurately identifying and classifying food images is critical for dietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lulu Liu , Zhiyong Xiao

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

Food is significant to human daily life. In this paper, we are interested in learning structural representations for lengthy recipes, that can benefit the recipe generation and food cross-modal retrieval tasks. Different from the common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Image-to-recipe retrieval is a challenging vision-to-language task of significant practical value. The main challenge of the task lies in the ultra-high redundancy in the long recipe and the large variation reflected in both food item…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bhanu Prakash Voutharoja , Peng Wang , Lei Wang , Vivienne Guan

Advances in image-based dietary assessment methods have allowed nutrition professionals and researchers to improve the accuracy of dietary assessment, where images of food consumed are captured using smartphones or wearable devices. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Daniel Mas Montserrat , David Guerra , Carol J. Boushey , Deborah A. Kerr , Fengqing Zhu

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

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

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in food and nutrition research is hindered by a critical bottleneck: the lack of annotated food data. Despite the rise of highly efficient AI models designed for tasks such as food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Lorenzo Brigato , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Worldwide, in 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these, over 600 million were obese. Accurately documenting dietary caloric intake is crucial to manage weight loss, but also presents challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Chang Liu , Yu Cao , Yan Luo , Guanling Chen , Vinod Vokkarane , Yunsheng Ma

Creating recipe images is a key challenge in food computing, with applications in culinary education and multimodal recipe assistants. However, existing datasets lack fine-grained alignment between recipe goals, step-wise instructions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ruoxuan Zhang , Jidong Gao , Bin Wen , Hongxia Xie , Chenming Zhang , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Food image classification is the fundamental step in image-based dietary assessment, which aims to estimate participants' nutrient intake from eating occasion images. A common challenge of food images is the intra-class diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu