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Food image classification is a fundamental step of image-based dietary assessment, enabling automated nutrient analysis from food images. Many current methods employ deep neural networks to train on generic food image datasets that do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

This paper addresses the challenges of learning representations for recipes and food images in the cross-modal retrieval problem. As the relationship between a recipe and its cooked dish is cause-and-effect, treating a recipe as a text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Qing Wang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Ee-Peng Lim

Learning recipe and food image representation in common embedding space is non-trivial but crucial for cross-modal recipe retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new perspective for this problem by utilizing foundation models for data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Fangzhou Song , Bin Zhu , Yanbin Hao , Shuo Wang

Food image classification serves as the foundation of image-based dietary assessment to predict food categories. Since there are many different food classes in real life, conventional models cannot achieve sufficiently high accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Andrew Peng , Fengqing Zhu

Monitoring dietary habits is crucial for preventing health risks associated with overeating and undereating, including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Traditional methods for tracking food intake rely on self-reported data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Wallace Lee , YuHao Chen

With the exponential growth in the usage of social media to share live updates about life, taking pictures has become an unavoidable phenomenon. Individuals unknowingly create a unique knowledge base with these images. The food images, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Nitish Nag , Bindu Rajanna , Ramesh Jain

Sharing food has become very popular with the development of social media. For many real-world applications, people are keen to know the underlying recipes of a food item. In this paper, we are interested in automatically generating cooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Designing powerful tools that support cooking activities has rapidly gained popularity due to the massive amounts of available data, as well as recent advances in machine learning that are capable of analyzing them. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Micael Carvalho , Rémi Cadène , David Picard , Laure Soulier , Nicolas Thome , Matthieu Cord

As people become more aware of their food choices, food computation models have become increasingly popular in assisting people in maintaining healthy eating habits. For example, food recommendation systems analyze recipe instructions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Revathy Venkataramanan , Kaushik Roy , Kanak Raj , Renjith Prasad , Yuxin Zi , Vignesh Narayanan , Amit Sheth

The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in enabling seamless connectivity and intelligent home automation, particularly in food management. By integrating IoT with computer vision, the smart fridge employs an ESP32-CAM to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Khue Nong Thuc , Khoa Tran Nguyen Anh , Tai Nguyen Huy , Du Nguyen Hao Hong , Khanh Dinh Ba

The availability of an accurate nutrition profile of recipes is an important feature for food databases with several applications including nutritional assistance, recommendation systems, and dietary analytics. Often in online databases,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-28 Jushaan Kalra , Devansh Batra , Nirav Diwan , Ganesh Bagler

There has recently been growing interest in the automatic generation of cooking recipes that satisfy some form of dietary restrictions, thanks in part to the availability of online recipe data. Prior studies have used pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Diego Antognini , Shuyang Li , Boi Faltings , Julian McAuley

A food recipe is an ordered set of instructions for preparing a particular dish. From a visual perspective, every instruction step can be seen as a way to change the visual appearance of the dish by adding extra objects (e.g., adding an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Youssef Tamaazousti , Ferda Ofli , Ingmar Weber , Antonio Torralba

Recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to make food. It can help people from the preparation of ingredients, food cooking process, etc. to prepare the food, and increasingly in demand on the Web. To help users find the vast…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jialiang Shi , Takahiro Komamizu , Keisuke Doman , Haruya Kyutoku , Ichiro Ide

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

Personalized image generative models are highly proficient at synthesizing images from text or a single image, yet they lack explicit control for composing objects from specific parts of multiple source images without user specified masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shivam Singh , Yiming Chen , Agneet Chatterjee , Amit Raj , James Hays , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

The ability to recognize various food-items in a generic food plate is a key determinant for an automated diet assessment system. This study motivates the need for automated diet assessment and proposes a framework to achieve this. Within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Rameez Ismail , Zhaorui Yuan

Food is essential to human survival. So much so that we have developed different recipes to suit our taste needs. In this work, we propose a novel way of creating new, fine-dining recipes from scratch using Transformers, specifically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Konstantinos Katserelis , Konstantinos Skianis

This paper describes a scalable active learning pipeline prototype for large-scale brain mapping that leverages high performance computing power. It enables high-throughput evaluation of algorithm results, which, after human review, are…