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A payment card (such as debit or credit) is one of the most convenient payment methods for purchasing goods and services. Hundreds of millions of card transactions take place across the globe every day, generating a massive volume of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Himel Dev , Hossein Hamooni

To support people trying to lose weight and stay healthy, more and more fitness apps have sprung up including the ability to track both calories intake and expenditure. Users of such apps are part of a wider ``quantified self'' movement and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Ingmar Weber , Palakorn Achananuparp

Automatically constructing a food diary that tracks the ingredients consumed can help people follow a healthy diet. We tackle the problem of food ingredients recognition as a multi-label learning problem. We propose a method for adapting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Marc Bolaños , Aina Ferrà , Petia Radeva

Dysphagia affects 590 million people worldwide and increases risk for malnutrition. Pureed food may reduce choking, however preparation differences impact nutrient density making quality assurance necessary. This paper is the first study to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Kaylen J. Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Audrey G. Chung , Alexander Wong

We present MM-Food-100K, a public 100,000-sample multimodal food intelligence dataset with verifiable provenance. It is a curated approximately 10% open subset of an original 1.2 million, quality-accepted corpus of food images annotated for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yi Dong , Yusuke Muraoka , Scott Shi , Yi Zhang

An important goal for personalized diet systems is to improve nutritional quality without compromising convenience or affordability. We present an end-to-end framework that converts dietary standards into complete meals with minimal change.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Trevor Chan , Ilias Tagkopoulos

Diet management is key to managing chronic diseases such as diabetes. Automated food recommender systems may be able to assist by providing meal recommendations that conform to a user's nutrition goals and food preferences. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmed A. Metwally , Ariel K. Leong , Aman Desai , Anvith Nagarjuna , Dalia Perelman , Michael Snyder

Accurate food intake monitoring is crucial for maintaining a healthy diet and preventing nutrition-related diseases. With the diverse range of foods consumed across various cultures, classic food classification models have limitations due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hassan Kazemi Tehrani , Jun Cai , Abbas Yekanlou , Sylvia Santosa

One of the most common critical factors directly related to the cause of a chronic disease is unhealthy diet consumption. In this sense, building an automatic system for food analysis could allow a better understanding of the nutritional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Eduardo Aguilar , Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

Obesity treatment requires obese patients to record all food intakes per day. Computer vision has been introduced to estimate calories from food images. In order to increase accuracy of detection and reduce the error of volume estimation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yanchao Liang , Jianhua Li

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

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

Nutrigenomics is an emerging field that explores the intricate interaction between genes and diet. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive database to help clinicians and patients understand the connections between genetic disorders,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-25 Fahmida Hai , Shriya Samudrala , Ijeoma Ezengwa , Rubayat Khan , Saif Nirzhor , Don Roosan

Accurate dietary intake estimation is critical for informing policies and programs to support healthy eating, as malnutrition has been directly linked to decreased quality of life. However self-reporting methods such as food diaries suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Saeejith Nair , Yuhao Chen , Yifan Wu , Olivia Markham , Krish Parmar , Pengcheng Xi , Heather Keller , Sharon Kirkpatrick , Alexander Wong

The enormous progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) enables retail companies to automate their processes and thus to save costs. Thereby, many AI-based automation approaches are based on machine learning and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Christoph Brosch , Alexander Bouwens , Sebastian Bast , Swen Haab , Rolf Krieger

This Policy Comment describes how the Food Policy article entitled 'Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries' (first published October 2020) and 'Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-01 William A. Masters

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

Assessment of dietary intake has primarily relied on self-report instruments, which are prone to measurement errors. Dietary assessment methods have increasingly incorporated technological advances particularly mobile, image based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Gautham Vinod , Zeman Shao , Fengqing Zhu

A common, yet regular, decision made by people, whether healthy or with any health condition, is to decide what to have in meals like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, consisting of a combination of foods for appetizer, main course, side…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Vansh Nagpal , Siva Likitha Valluru , Kausik Lakkaraju , Biplav Srivastava

High calorie intake in the human body on the one hand, has proved harmful in numerous occasions leading to several diseases and on the other hand, a standard amount of calorie intake has been deemed essential by dieticians to maintain the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Pallavi Kuhad , Abdulsalam Yassine , Shervin Shirmohammadi