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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 advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the significant growth in the use of food consumption tracking and recommendation-related apps in the app stores have created a need for an evaluation system, as minimal information is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sabiha Samad , Fahmida Ahmed , Samsun Naher , Muhammad Ashad Kabir , Anik Das , Sumaiya Amin , Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam

In the past decade, digital technologies have started to profoundly influence healthcare systems. Digital self-tracking has facilitated more precise epidemiological studies, and in the field of nutritional epidemiology, mobile apps have the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-18 Gianrocco Lazzari , Yannis Jaquet , Djilani Kebaili , Laura Symul , Marcel Salathé

With the rise and development of computer vision and LLMs, intelligence is everywhere, especially for people and cars. However, for tremendous food attributes (such as origin, quantity, weight, quality, sweetness, etc.), existing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhenbo Xu , Jinghan Yang , Gong Huang , Jiqing Feng , Liu Liu , Ruihan Sun , Ajin Meng , Zhuo Zhang , Zhaofeng He

This comprehensive review explores food data in the Semantic Web, highlighting key nutritional resources, knowledge graphs, and emerging applications in the food domain. It examines prominent food data resources such as USDA, FoodOn, FooDB,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Darko Sasanski , Riste Stojanov

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

An important aspect of health monitoring is effective logging of food consumption. This can help management of diet-related diseases like obesity, diabetes, and even cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, food logging can help fitness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Doyen Sahoo , Wang Hao , Shu Ke , Wu Xiongwei , Hung Le , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-Peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi

Direct computer vision based-nutrient content estimation is a demanding task, due to deformation and occlusions of ingredients, as well as high intra-class and low inter-class variability between meal classes. In order to tackle these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Matthias Fontanellaz , Stergios Christodoulidis , Stavroula Mougiakakou

To complement traditional dietary surveys, which are costly and of limited scale, researchers have resorted to digital data to infer the impact of eating habits on people's health. However, online studies are limited in resolution: they are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Luca Maria Aiello , Rossano Schifanella , Daniele Quercia , Lucia Del Prete

Food is very essential for human life and it is fundamental to the human experience. Food-related study may support multifarious applications and services, such as guiding the human behavior, improving the human health and understanding the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Weiqing Min , Shuqiang Jiang , Linhu Liu , Yong Rui , Ramesh Jain

Nutrient-based meal recommendations have the potential to help individuals prevent or manage conditions such as diabetes and obesity. However, learning people's food preferences and making recommendations that simultaneously appeal to their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Longqi Yang , Cheng-Kang Hsieh , Hongjian Yang , Nicola Dell , Serge Belongie , Curtis Cole , Deborah Estrin

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

Although recipe data are very easy to come by nowadays, it is really hard to find a complete recipe dataset - with a list of ingredients, nutrient values per ingredient, and per recipe, allergens, etc. Recipe datasets are usually collected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Gordana Ispirova , Tome Eftimov , Barbara Koroušić Seljak

Food communities on online platforms enjoy great popularity among social media users. Due to the far-reaching consequences of food-related content on user eating behavior, recent research has studied the factors that drive user online…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gabriela Ozegovic , Thorsten Ruprechter , Denis Helic

In the European Union, official food safety monitoring data collected by member states are submitted to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and published on Zenodo. This data includes 392 million analytical results derived from over…

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

The development of automatic nutrition diaries, which would allow to keep track objectively of everything we eat, could enable a whole new world of possibilities for people concerned about their nutrition patterns. With this purpose, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

Automatic dietary assessment based on food images remains a challenge, requiring precise food detection, segmentation, and classification. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer new possibilities by integrating visual and textual reasoning. In…

Food image classification serves as a fundamental and critical step in image-based dietary assessment, facilitating nutrient intake analysis from captured food images. However, existing works in food classification predominantly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

77% of adults over 50 want to age in place today, presenting a major challenge to ensuring adequate nutritional intake. It has been reported that one in four older adults that are 65 years or older are malnourished and given the direct link…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Mattie Kerrigan , Yuhao Chen , Saeejith Nair , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong