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Existing approaches for image-to-recipe retrieval have the implicit assumption that a food image can fully capture the details textually documented in its recipe. However, a food image only reflects the visual outcome of a cooked dish and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Qing Wang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu Cao , Ee-Peng Lim

Many high-level procedural tasks can be decomposed into sequences of instructions that vary in their order and choice of tools. In the cooking domain, the web offers many partially-overlapping text and video recipes (i.e. procedures) that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Angela S. Lin , Sudha Rao , Asli Celikyilmaz , Elnaz Nouri , Chris Brockett , Debadeepta Dey , Bill Dolan

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

Food image analysis is the groundwork for image-based dietary assessment, which is the process of monitoring what kinds of food and how much energy is consumed using captured food or eating scene images. Existing deep learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andrew Peng , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

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

Whilst cooking is a very important human activity, there has been little consideration given to how we can formalize recipes for use in a reasoning framework. We address this need by proposing a graphical formalization that captures the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Antonis Bikakis , Aissatou Diallo , Luke Dickens , Anthony Hunter , Rob Miller

Computational food analysis (CFA) naturally requires multi-modal evidence of a particular food, e.g., images, recipe text, etc. A key to making CFA possible is multi-modal shared representation learning, which aims to create a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Ricardo Guerrero , Hai Xuan Pham , Vladimir Pavlovic

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

A key challenge in robotic food manipulation is modeling the material properties of diverse and deformable food items. We propose using a multimodal sensory approach to interact and play with food that facilitates the ability to distinguish…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amrita Sawhney , Steven Lee , Kevin Zhang , Manuela Veloso , Oliver Kroemer

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

Automatic image-based food recognition is a particularly challenging task. Traditional image analysis approaches have achieved low classification accuracy in the past, whereas deep learning approaches enabled the identification of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Chairi Kiourt , George Pavlidis , Stella Markantonatou

Food is essential for human survival, and people always try to taste different types of delicious recipes. Frequently, people choose food ingredients without even knowing their names or pick up some food ingredients that are not obvious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Md. Shafaat Jamil Rokon , Md Kishor Morol , Ishra Binte Hasan , A. M. Saif , Rafid Hussain Khan

Food computing has emerged as a prominent multidisciplinary field of research in recent years. An ambitious goal of food computing is to develop end-to-end intelligent systems capable of autonomously producing recipe information for a food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Prateek Chhikara , Dhiraj Chaurasia , Yifan Jiang , Omkar Masur , Filip Ilievski

Grasping is a complex process involving knowledge of the object, the surroundings, and of oneself. While humans are able to integrate and process all of the sensory information required for performing this task, equipping machines with this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Matthew Veres , Medhat Moussa , Graham W. Taylor

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

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

People often watch videos on the web to learn how to cook new recipes, assemble furniture or repair a computer. We wish to enable robots with the very same capability. This is challenging; there is a large variation in manipulation actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hejia Zhang , Jie Zhong , Stefanos Nikolaidis

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

Recent advancements in text-to-image generation models have excelled in creating diverse and realistic images. This success extends to food imagery, where various conditional inputs like cooking styles, ingredients, and recipes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yuan Wang , Bin Zhu , Yanbin Hao , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yi Tan , Xiang Wang