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Understanding the nutritional content of food from visual data is a challenging computer vision problem, with the potential to have a positive and widespread impact on public health. Studies in this area are limited to existing datasets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Quin Thames , Arjun Karpur , Wade Norris , Fangting Xia , Liviu Panait , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim

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

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems built on incomplete or biased data will often exhibit problematic outcomes. Current methods of data analysis, particularly before model development, are costly and not standardized. The Dataset Nutrition…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Sarah Holland , Ahmed Hosny , Sarah Newman , Joshua Joseph , Kasia Chmielinski

The energy inefficiency of the apps can be a major issue for the app users which is discussed on App Stores extensively. Previous research has shown the importance of investigating the energy related app reviews to identify the major causes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Noshin Nawal

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

With the increasing use of smartphones in our daily lives, these devices have become capable of performing many complex tasks. Concerning the need for continuous monitoring of vital signs, especially for the elderly or those with certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Taha Samavati , Mahdi Farvardin , Aboozar Ghaffari

With the rising incidence of some diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, a healthy diet is arousing increasing attention. However, most existing food-related research efforts focus on recipe retrieval, user preference-based food…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Wenjie Wang , Ling-yu Duan , Hao Jiang , Peiguang Jing , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Nie

Recommendation systems and assistants (in short, recommenders) influence through online platforms most actions of our daily lives, suggesting items or providing solutions based on users' preferences or requests. This survey systematically…

Users can easily export personal data from devices (e.g., weather station and fitness tracker) and services (e.g., screentime tracker and commits on GitHub) they use but struggle to gain valuable insights. To tackle this problem, we present…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Christian Reiser

Human values are an important aspect of life and should be supported in ubiquitous technologies such as mobile applications (apps). There has been a lot of focus on fixing certain kinds of violation of human values, especially privacy,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Conghui Li , Humphrey O. Obie , Hourieh Khalajzadeh

Mobile apps provide new opportunities to people with disabilities to act independently in the world. Motivated by this trend, researchers have conducted empirical studies by using the inaccessibility issue rate of each page (i.e., screen…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Sen Chen , Chunyang Chen , Lingling Fan , Mingming Fan , Xian Zhan , Yang Liu

We propose a mechanism to use the features of flavour to enhance the quality of food recommendations. An empirical method to determine the flavour of food is incorporated into a recommendation engine based on major gustatory nerves. Such a…

Contemporary mobile applications (apps) are designed to track, use, and share users' data, often without their consent, which results in potential privacy and transparency issues. To investigate whether mobile apps have always been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Saad Sajid Hashmi , Nazar Waheed , Gioacchino Tangari , Muhammad Ikram , Stephen Smith

With smartphone technologies enhanced way of interacting with the world around us, it has also been paving the way for easier access to our private and personal information. This has been amplified by the existence of numerous embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Tanusree Sharma , Masooda Bashir

Obsolete devices add to the rising levels of electronic waste, a major environmental concern, and a contributing factor to climate change. In recent years, device manufacturers have established environmental commitments and launched…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Craig Goodwin , Sandra Woolley , Ed de Quincey , Tim Collins

The number of applications in Google Play has increased dramatically in recent years. On Google Play, users can write detailed reviews and rate apps, with these ratings significantly influencing app success and download numbers. Reviews…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mohsen Jafari , Forough Majidi , Abbas Heydarnoori

Food recognition has received more and more attention in the multimedia community for its various real-world applications, such as diet management and self-service restaurants. A large-scale ontology of food images is urgently needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Weiqing Min , Linhu Liu , Zhiling Wang , Zhengdong Luo , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

Imbalanced nutrition is a global health issue with significant downstream effects. Current methods of assessing nutrient levels face several limitations, with accessibility being a major concern. In this paper, we take a step towards…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Andrew Balch , Maria A. Cardei , Afsaneh Doryab