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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

Synthesizing realistic cooked food images from raw inputs on edge devices is a challenging generative task, requiring models to capture complex changes in texture, color and structure during cooking. Existing image-to-image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jigyasa Gupta , Soumya Goyal , Anil Kumar , Ishan Jindal

Dietary assessment is a key contributor to monitoring health status. Existing self-report methods are tedious and time-consuming with substantial biases and errors. Image-based food portion estimation aims to estimate food energy values…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zeman Shao , Gautham Vinod , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

In this paper, we are interested in modeling a how-to instructional procedure, such as a cooking recipe, with a meaningful and rich high-level representation. Specifically, we propose to represent cooking recipes and food images as cooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Enrique Mora , Nadiia Chepurko , Kuan Wei Huang , Ferda Ofli , Antonio Torralba

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

Many creative ideas are being proposed for image sensor designs, and these may be useful in applications ranging from consumer photography to computer vision. To understand and evaluate each new design, we must create a corresponding image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Haomiao Jiang , Qiyuan Tian , Joyce Farrell , Brian Wandell

Recipe image generation is an important challenge in food computing, with applications from culinary education to interactive recipe platforms. However, there is currently no real-world dataset that comprehensively connects recipe goals,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Ruoxuan Zhang , Hongxia Xie , Yi Yao , Jian-Yu Jiang-Lin , Bin Wen , Ling Lo , Hong-Han Shuai , Yung-Hui Li , Wen-Huang Cheng

Monitoring dietary intake is a crucial aspect of promoting healthy living. In recent years, advances in computer vision technology have facilitated dietary intake monitoring through the use of images and depth cameras. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Aaryam Sharma , Chris Czarnecki , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Linlin Xu , Alexander Wong

The AI community has embraced multi-sensory or multi-modal approaches to advance this generation of AI models to resemble expected intelligent understanding. Combining language and imagery represents a familiar method for specific tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 David Noever , Samantha Elizabeth Miller Noever

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…

Assessment of dietary intake has primarily relied on self-report instruments, which are prone to measurement errors. Dietary assessment methods have increasingly incorporated technological advances particularly mobile, image based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Gautham Vinod , Zeman Shao , Fengqing Zhu

Although recipe data are very easy to come by nowadays, it is really hard to find a complete recipe dataset - with a list of ingredients, nutrient values per ingredient, and per recipe, allergens, etc. Recipe datasets are usually collected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Gordana Ispirova , Tome Eftimov , Barbara Koroušić Seljak

Assessing dietary intake accurately remains an open and challenging research problem. In recent years, image-based approaches have been developed to automatically estimate food intake by capturing eat occasions with mobile devices and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zeman Shao , Runyu Mao , Fengqing Zhu

Automatically constructing a food diary that tracks the ingredients consumed can help people follow a healthy diet. We tackle the problem of food ingredients recognition as a multi-label learning problem. We propose a method for adapting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Marc Bolaños , Aina Ferrà , Petia Radeva

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

Nutrition estimation is an important component of promoting healthy eating and mitigating diet-related health risks. Despite advances in tasks such as food classification and ingredient recognition, progress in nutrition estimation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Huiyan Qi , Bin Zhu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Jingjing Chen , Ee-Peng Lim

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

In this work we propose a new computational framework, based on generative deep models, for synthesis of photo-realistic food meal images from textual list of its ingredients. Previous works on synthesis of images from text typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Fangda Han , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

Increased public interest in healthy lifestyles has motivated the study of algorithms that encourage people to follow a healthy diet. Applying collaborative filtering to build recommendation systems in domains where only implicit feedback…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Paula Fermín Cueto , Meeke Roet , Agnieszka Słowik

Cooking process visualization is a promising task in the intersection of image generation and food analysis, which aims to generate an image for each cooking step of a recipe. However, most existing works focus on generating images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mengling Xu , Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao