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Dysphagia affects 590 million people worldwide and increases risk for malnutrition. Pureed food may reduce choking, however preparation differences impact nutrient density making quality assurance necessary. This paper is the first study to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Kaylen J. Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Audrey G. Chung , Alexander Wong

We present a mobile application made to recognize food items of multi-object meal from a single image in real-time, and then return the nutrition facts with components and approximate amounts. Our work is organized in two parts. First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jianing Sun , Katarzyna Radecka , Zeljko Zilic

Malnutrition is a major public health concern in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding food and nutrient intake across communities, households and individuals is critical to the development of health policies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Frank Po Wen Lo , Modou L Jobarteh , Yingnan Sun , Jianing Qiu , Shuo Jiang , Gary Frost , Benny Lo

Hierarchical image recognition seeks to predict class labels along a semantic taxonomy, from broad categories to specific ones, typically under the tidy assumption that every training image is fully annotated along its taxonomy path.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Seulki Park , Zilin Wang , Stella X. Yu

There is rising evidence of the health benefit associated with specific dietary interventions. Current food-disease databases focus on associations and treatment relationships but haven't provided a reasonable assessment of the strength of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-18 Wanting Su , Dongwei Liu , Feng Tan , Lun Hu , Pengwei Hu

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

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

Food image segmentation is a critical task for dietary analysis, enabling accurate estimation of food volume and nutrients. However, current methods suffer from limited multi-view data and poor generalization to new viewpoints. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Guillermo Rivo , Carlos Jiménez-Farfán , Umair Haroon , Farid Al-Areqi , Hyunjun Jung , Benjamin Busam , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

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

Nutrient-based meal recommendations have the potential to help individuals prevent or manage conditions such as diabetes and obesity. However, learning people's food preferences and making recommendations that simultaneously appeal to their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Longqi Yang , Cheng-Kang Hsieh , Hongjian Yang , Nicola Dell , Serge Belongie , Curtis Cole , Deborah Estrin

We investigate image recognition of multiple food items in a single photo, focusing on a buffet restaurant application, where menu changes at every meal, and only a few images per class are available. After detecting food areas, we perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Masashi Anzawa , Sosuke Amano , Yoko Yamakata , Keiko Motonaga , Akiko Kamei , Kiyoharu Aizawa

A growing proportion of the global population is becoming overweight or obese, leading to various diseases (e.g., diabetes, ischemic heart disease and even cancer) due to unhealthy eating patterns, such as increased intake of food with high…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Weiqing Min , Shuqiang Jiang , Ramesh Jain

Food image classification models are crucial for dietary management applications because they reduce the burden of manual meal logging. However, most publicly available datasets for training such models rely on web-crawled images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mitsuki Watanabe , Sosuke Amano , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Yoko Yamakata

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

This study introduces an innovative approach to classifying various types of Persian rice using image-based deep learning techniques, highlighting the practical application of everyday technology in food categorization. Recognizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mahmood Saeedi kelishami , Amin Saeidi Kelishami , Sajjad Saeedi Kelishami

The current deep neural network algorithm still stays in the end-to-end training supervision method like Image-Label pairs, which makes traditional algorithm is difficult to explain the reason for the results, and the prediction logic is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yishuang Tian , Ning Wang , Liang Zhang

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

Clinical dietary assessment can generate detailed but high-dimensional nutrient and food-group information that is difficult to translate quickly into counselling priorities. This paper proposes an explainable unsupervised-to-supervised…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-12 Wing Yi Yu , Chun Yin Chiu

Food recognition has received more and more attention in the multimedia community for its various real-world applications, such as diet management and self-service restaurants. A large-scale ontology of food images is urgently needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Weiqing Min , Linhu Liu , Zhiling Wang , Zhengdong Luo , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

Fine-grained visual categorization is a classification task for distinguishing categories with high intra-class and small inter-class variance. While global approaches aim at using the whole image for performing the classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler