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With the booming of personalized recipe sharing networks (e.g., Yummly), a deluge of recipes from different cuisines could be obtained easily. In this paper, we aim to solve a problem which many home-cooks encounter when searching for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Meng Chen , Xiaoyi Jia , Elizabeth Gorbonos , Chnh T. Hong , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

As global interest in diverse culinary experiences grows, food image models are essential for improving food-related applications by enabling accurate food recognition, recipe suggestions, dietary tracking, and automated meal planning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omkar Prabhu

This research proposes a new recommender system algorithm for online grocery shopping. The algorithm is based on the perspective that, since the grocery items are usually bought in bulk, a grocery recommender system should be capable of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Gourab Nath , Jaydip Sen

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

Image segmentation is an important component of many image understanding systems. It aims to group pixels in a spatially and perceptually coherent manner. Typically, these algorithms have a collection of parameters that control the degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Austin G. Dress , Clare W. Lau , Jeffrey G. Skibo , Gordon A. Christie

Food retrieval is an important task to perform analysis of food-related information, where we are interested in retrieving relevant information about the queried food item such as ingredients, cooking instructions, etc. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Hao Wang , Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Ke Shu , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi

Recipe recommendation systems play an essential role in helping people decide what to eat. Existing recipe recommendation systems typically focused on content-based or collaborative filtering approaches, ignoring the higher-order…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Yijun Tian , Chuxu Zhang , Zhichun Guo , Chao Huang , Ronald Metoyer , Nitesh V. Chawla

A common decision made by people, whether healthy or with health conditions, is choosing meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, comprising combinations of foods for appetizer, main course, side dishes, desserts, and beverages. Often, this…

An important part of cooking with computers is using statistical methods to create new, flavorful ingredient combinations. The flavor pairing hypothesis states that culinary ingredients with common chemical flavor components combine well to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-31 Kush R. Varshney , Lav R. Varshney , Jun Wang , Daniel Myers

Despite recent progress of automatic medical image segmentation techniques, fully automatic results usually fail to meet the clinical use and typically require further refinement. In this work, we propose a quality-aware memory network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Tianfei Zhou , Liulei Li , Gustav Bredell , Jianwu Li , Ender Konukoglu

Nowadays, we can find several diseases related to the unhealthy diet habits of the population, such as diabetes, obesity, anemia, bulimia and anorexia. In many cases, these diseases are related to the food consumption of people.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Pedro Herruzo , Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

The paper presents REPeat, a Real2Sim2Real framework designed to enhance bite acquisition in robot-assisted feeding for soft foods. It uses `pre-acquisition actions' such as pushing, cutting, and flipping to improve the success rate of bite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nayoung Ha , Ruolin Ye , Ziang Liu , Shubhangi Sinha , Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

We have seen significant leapfrog advancement in machine learning in recent decades. The central idea of machine learnability lies on constructing learning algorithms that learn from good data. The availability of more data being made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Ng Hui Xian Lynnette , Henry Ng Siong Hock , Nguwi Yok Yen

For open vocabulary recognition of ingredients in food images, segmenting the ingredients is a crucial step. This paper proposes a novel approach that explores PCA-based feature representations of image pixels using a convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ying Dai

Recall assistance methods are among the key aspects that improve the accuracy of online dietary assessment surveys. These methods still mainly rely on experience of trained interviewers with nutritional background, but data driven…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Timur Osadchiy , Ivan Poliakov , Patrick Olivier , Maisie Rowland , Emma Foster

Cooking requires not only following instructions but also understanding, executing, and monitoring each step - a process that can be challenging without visual guidance. Although recipe images and videos offer helpful cues, they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Oleh Kuzyk , Zuoyue Li , Marc Pollefeys , Xi Wang

With the growth in capabilities of generative models, there has been growing interest in using photo-realistic renders of common 3D food items to improve downstream tasks such as food printing, nutrition prediction, or management of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chi-en Amy Tai , Jason Li , Sriram Kumar , Saeejith Nair , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

Image-to-recipe retrieval is a challenging vision-to-language task of significant practical value. The main challenge of the task lies in the ultra-high redundancy in the long recipe and the large variation reflected in both food item…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bhanu Prakash Voutharoja , Peng Wang , Lei Wang , Vivienne Guan

Background: Maintaining a healthy diet is vital to avoid health-related issues, e.g., undernutrition, obesity and many non-communicable diseases. An indispensable part of the health diet is dietary assessment. Traditional manual recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Wei Wang , Weiqing Min , Tianhao Li , Xiaoxiao Dong , Haisheng Li , Shuqiang Jiang

Data is a valuable asset, and sharing it as a product across organizations is key to building comprehensive and useful insights in fields such as science and industry. Before sharing, data often requires transformation to comply with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sepideh Masoudi