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Cooking typically involves a plethora of decisions about ingredients and tools that need to be chosen in order to write a good cooking recipe. Cooking can be modelled in an optimization framework, as it involves a search space of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Alejandro Albarca-Molina

This paper presents a novel approach to compute food composition data for Indian recipes using a knowledge graph for Indian food (FKG[.]in) and LLMs. The primary focus is to provide a broad overview of an automated food composition analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Saransh Kumar Gupta , Lipika Dey , Partha Pratim Das , Geeta Trilok-Kumar , Ramesh Jain

Connecting multiple machine learning models into a pipeline is effective for handling complex problems. By breaking down the problem into steps, each tackled by a specific component model of the pipeline, the overall solution can be made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Tomoe Kishimoto , Masahiko Saito , Junichi Tanaka , Yutaro Iiyama , Ryu Sawada , Koji Terashi

Despite the abundance of multi-modal data, such as image-text pairs, there has been little effort in understanding the individual entities and their different roles in the construction of these data instances. In this work, we endeavour to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Hai X. Pham , Ricardo Guerrero , Jiatong Li , Vladimir Pavlovic

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

In this paper, we introduce a new and challenging large-scale food image dataset called "ChineseFoodNet", which aims to automatically recognizing pictured Chinese dishes. Most of the existing food image datasets collected food images either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Xin Chen , Yu Zhu , Hua Zhou , Liang Diao , Dongyan Wang

Food image-to-recipe aims to learn an embedded space linking the rich semantics in recipes with the visual content in food image for cross-modal retrieval. The existing research works carry out the learning of such space by assuming that…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bin Zhu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Jingjing Chen , Wing-Kwong Chan

The following paper investigates the effectiveness of incorporating human salience into the task of calorie prediction from images of food. We observe a 32.2% relative improvement when incorporating saliency maps on the images of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Katherine R. Dearstyne , Alberto D. Rodriguez

Cooking is a sequential and visually grounded activity, where each step such as chopping, mixing, or frying carries both procedural logic and visual semantics. While recent diffusion models have shown strong capabilities in text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ruoxuan Zhang , Bin Wen , Hongxia Xie , Yi Yao , Songhan Zuo , Jian-Yu Jiang-Lin , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Heart rate is one of the most vital health metrics which can be utilized to investigate and gain intuitions into various human physiological and psychological information. Estimating heart rate without the constraints of contact-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mohamed Moustafa , Amr Elrasad , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Automated visual story generation aims to produce stories with corresponding illustrations that exhibit coherence, progression, and adherence to characters' emotional development. This work proposes a story generation pipeline to co-create…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yuetian Chen , Ruohua Li , Bowen Shi , Peiru Liu , Mei Si

Cooking recipes allow individuals to exchange culinary ideas and provide food preparation instructions. Due to a lack of adequate labeled data, categorizing raw recipes found online to the appropriate food genres is a challenging task in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nazmus Sakib , G. M. Shahariar , Md. Mohsinul Kabir , Md. Kamrul Hasan , Hasan Mahmud

Dish images play a crucial role in the digital era, with the demand for culturally distinctive dish images continuously increasing due to the digitization of the food industry and e-commerce. In general cases, existing text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Huijie Liu , Bingcan Wang , Jie Hu , Xiaoming Wei , Guoliang Kang

Dietary studies showed that dietary-related problem such as obesity is associated with other chronic diseases like hypertension, irregular blood sugar levels, and increased risk of heart attacks. The primary cause of these problems is poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ghalib Tahir , Chu Kiong Loo

Food computing is playing an increasingly important role in human daily life, and has found tremendous applications in guiding human behavior towards smart food consumption and healthy lifestyle. An important task under the food-computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hao Wang , Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Ee-peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi

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

We present a new framework for vision-based estimation of calorific expenditure from RGB-D data - the first that is validated on physical gas exchange measurements and applied to daily living scenarios. Deriving a person's energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Lili Tao , Tilo Burghardt , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen , Ashley Cooper , Sion Hannuna , Massimo Camplani , Adeline Paiement , Ian Craddock

Nowadays millions of images are shared on social media and web platforms. In particular, many of them are food images taken from a smartphone over time, providing information related to the individual's diet. On the other hand, eating…

Today, many public or private institutions provide professional food service for personnels working in their own organizations. Regarding the planning of the said service, there are some obstacles due to the fact that the number of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 M. Hanefi Calp

We present a method for compositing virtual objects into a photograph such that the object colors appear to have been processed by the photo's camera imaging pipeline. Compositing in such a camera-aware manner is essential for high realism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Jun Gao , Xiao Li , Liwei Wang , Sanja Fidler , Stephen Lin