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Learning effective recipe representations is essential in food studies. Unlike what has been developed for image-based recipe retrieval or learning structural text embeddings, the combined effect of multi-modal information (i.e., recipe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Yijun Tian , Chuxu Zhang , Zhichun Guo , Yihong Ma , Ronald Metoyer , Nitesh V. Chawla

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

Cooking recipes are one of the most readily available kinds of procedural text. They consist of natural language instructions that can be challenging to interpret. In this paper, we propose a model to identify relevant information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Aissatou Diallo , Antonis Bikakis , Luke Dickens , Anthony Hunter , Rob Miller

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

Food recommendation systems serve as pivotal components in the realm of digital lifestyle services, designed to assist users in discovering recipes and food items that resonate with their unique dietary predilections. Typically, multi-modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yixin Zhang , Xin Zhou , Qianwen Meng , Fanglin Zhu , Yonghui Xu , Zhiqi Shen , Lizhen Cui

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

Determining proper quantities for ingredients is an essential part of cooking practice from the perspective of enriching tastiness and promoting healthiness. We introduce KitchenScale, a fine-tuned Pre-trained Language Model (PLM) that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Donghee Choi , Mogan Gim , Samy Badreddine , Hajung Kim , Donghyeon Park , Jaewoo Kang

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

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

As virtual personal assistants have now penetrated the consumer market, with products such as Siri and Alexa, the research community has produced several works on task-oriented dialogue tasks such as hotel booking, restaurant booking, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Zhengxiang Shi , Pin Ni , Meihui Wang , To Eun Kim , Aldo Lipani

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

AI has driven significant progress in the nutrition field, especially through multimedia-based automatic dietary assessment. However, existing automatic dietary assessment systems often overlook critical non-visual factors, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Recipe generation from food images and ingredients is a challenging task, which requires the interpretation of the information from another modality. Different from the image captioning task, where the captions usually have one sentence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

In this work we propose a new computational framework, based on generative deep models, for synthesis of photo-realistic food meal images from textual descriptions of its ingredients. Previous works on synthesis of images from text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Fangda Han , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

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

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

In this paper, we study the novel problem of not only predicting ingredients from a food image, but also predicting the relative amounts of the detected ingredients. We propose two prediction-based models using deep learning that output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jiatong Li , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

Sharing food has become very popular with the development of social media. For many real-world applications, people are keen to know the underlying recipes of a food item. In this paper, we are interested in automatically generating cooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

This research focuses on developing advanced methods for assessing similarity between recipes by combining different sources of information and analytical approaches. We explore the semantic, lexical, and domain similarity of food recipes,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Denica Kjorvezir , Danilo Najkov , Eva Valencič , Erika Jesenko , Barbara Koroišić Seljak , Tome Eftimov , Riste Stojanov

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