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Rice is a staple food for a significant portion of the world's population, providing essential nutrients and serving as a versatile in-gredient in a wide range of culinary traditions. Recently, the use of deep learning has enabled automated…

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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

Food recognition is an important task for a variety of applications, including managing health conditions and assisting visually impaired people. Several food recognition studies have focused on generic types of food or specific cuisines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Şeymanur Aktı , Marwa Qaraqe , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

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

Humans routinely infer taste, smell, texture, and even sound from food images a phenomenon well studied in cognitive science. However, prior vision language research on food has focused primarily on recognition tasks such as meal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sabab Ishraq , Aarushi Aarushi , Juncai Jiang , Chen Chen

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

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

Accurate estimation of meal macronutrient composition is a pre-perquisite for precision nutrition, metabolic health monitoring, and glycemic management. Traditional dietary assessment methods, such as self-reported food logs or diet recalls…

Integrating artificial intelligence into modern society is profoundly transformative, significantly enhancing productivity by streamlining various daily tasks. AI-driven recognition systems provide notable advantages in the food sector,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Shayan Rokhva , Babak Teimourpour

Accurate dietary intake estimation is critical for informing policies and programs to support healthy eating, as malnutrition has been directly linked to decreased quality of life. However self-reporting methods such as food diaries suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Saeejith Nair , Yuhao Chen , Yifan Wu , Olivia Markham , Krish Parmar , Pengcheng Xi , Heather Keller , Sharon Kirkpatrick , Alexander Wong

Recent progresses in data-driven analysis methods, including network-based approaches, are revolutionizing many classical disciplines. These techniques can also be applied to food and nutrition, which must be studied to design healthy…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Seunghyeon Kim , Jaeyun Sung , Mathias Foo , Yong-Su Jin , Pan-Jun Kim

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…

Food instance segmentation is essential to estimate the serving size of dishes in a food image. The recent cutting-edge techniques for instance segmentation are deep learning networks with impressive segmentation quality and fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Huu-Thanh Nguyen , Yu Cao , Chong-Wah Ngo , Wing-Kwong Chan

The quality and safety of food is an important issue to the whole society, since it is at the basis of human health, social development and stability. Ensuring food quality and safety is a complex process, and all stages of food processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Lili Zhu , Petros Spachos , Erica Pensini , Konstantinos Plataniotis

Currently, food image recognition tasks are evaluated against fixed datasets. However, in real-world conditions, there are cases in which the number of samples in each class continues to increase and samples from novel classes appear. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Shota Horiguchi , Sosuke Amano , Makoto Ogawa , Kiyoharu Aizawa

In contemporary society, the application of artificial intelligence for automatic food recognition offers substantial potential for nutrition tracking, reducing food waste, and enhancing productivity in food production and consumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shayan Rokhva , Babak Teimourpour , Amir Hossein Soltani

77% of adults over 50 want to age in place today, presenting a major challenge to ensuring adequate nutritional intake. It has been reported that one in four older adults that are 65 years or older are malnourished and given the direct link…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Mattie Kerrigan , Yuhao Chen , Saeejith Nair , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

A common, yet regular, decision made by people, whether healthy or with any health condition, is to decide what to have in meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, consisting of a combination of foods for appetizer, main course, side…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Vansh Nagpal , Siva Likitha Valluru , Kausik Lakkaraju , Biplav Srivastava

Nutrition estimation of meals from visual data is an important problem for dietary monitoring and computational health, but existing approaches largely rely on single images of the finally completed dish. This setting is fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chengkun Yue , Chuanzhi Xu , Jiangpeng He

We investigate the scalable image classification problem with a large number of categories. Hierarchical visual data structures are helpful for improving the efficiency and performance of large-scale multi-class classification. We propose a…

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