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Understanding and reasoning about cooking recipes is a fruitful research direction towards enabling machines to interpret procedural text. In this work, we introduce RecipeQA, a dataset for multimodal comprehension of cooking recipes. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Semih Yagcioglu , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have made impressive progress in many vision-language tasks. Nevertheless, the performance of general LMMs in specific domains is still far from satisfactory. This paper proposes FoodLMM, a versatile food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yuehao Yin , Huiyan Qi , Bin Zhu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Chong-Wah Ngo

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

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

People enjoy food photography because they appreciate food. Behind each meal there is a story described in a complex recipe and, unfortunately, by simply looking at a food image we do not have access to its preparation process. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Amaia Salvador , Michal Drozdzal , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Adriana Romero

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Fangda Han , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

AI creation, such as poem or lyrics generation, has attracted increasing attention from both industry and academic communities, with many promising models proposed in the past few years. Existing methods usually estimate the outputs based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Hao Jiang , Guang Yang , Zhao Cao

Calorie and nutrition research has attained increased interest in recent years. But, due to the complexity of the problem, literature in this area focuses on a limited subset of ingredients or dish types and simple convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ahmad Babaeian Jelodar , Yu Sun

Cross-modal retrieval between food images and recipe texts is an important task with applications in nutritional management, dietary logging, and cooking assistance. Existing methods predominantly rely on dual-encoder architectures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Keisuke Gomi , Keiji Yanai

We propose a unified food-domain QA framework that combines a large-scale multimodal knowledge graph (MMKG) with generative AI. Our MMKG links 13,000 recipes, 3,000 ingredients, 140,000 relations, and 14,000 images. We generate 40,000 QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Srihari K B , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

In recent decades, neuroscientific and psychological research has traced direct relationships between taste and auditory perceptions. This article explores multimodal generative models capable of converting taste information into music,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Matteo Spanio , Massimiliano Zampini , Antonio Rodà , Franco Pierucci

Recent advances in the machine learning community allowed different use cases to emerge, as its association to domains like cooking which created the computational cuisine. In this paper, we tackle the picture-recipe alignment problem,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Micael Carvalho , Rémi Cadène , David Picard , Laure Soulier , Matthieu Cord

Creating recipe images is a key challenge in food computing, with applications in culinary education and multimodal recipe assistants. However, existing datasets lack fine-grained alignment between recipe goals, step-wise instructions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ruoxuan Zhang , Jidong Gao , Bin Wen , Hongxia Xie , Chenming Zhang , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

This paper presents a case study on how to process cooking recipes (and more generally, how-to instructions) in a way that makes it possible for a robot or artificial cooking assistant to support human chefs in the kitchen. Such AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Remi van Trijp , Katrien Beuls , Paul Van Eecke

Understanding food recipe requires anticipating the implicit causal effects of cooking actions, such that the recipe can be converted into a graph describing the temporal workflow of the recipe. This is a non-trivial task that involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Liangming Pan , Jingjing Chen , Jianlong Wu , Shaoteng Liu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Min-Yen Kan , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tat-Seng Chua

Conventional approaches to dietary assessment are primarily grounded in self-reporting methods or structured interviews conducted under the supervision of dietitians. These methods, however, are often subjective, potentially inaccurate, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Frank P. -W. Lo , Jianing Qiu , Zeyu Wang , Junhong Chen , Bo Xiao , Wu Yuan , Stamatia Giannarou , Gary Frost , Benny Lo

Multi-language recipe personalisation and recommendation is an under-explored field of information retrieval in academic and production systems. The existing gaps in our current understanding are numerous, even on fundamental questions such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Niall Twomey , Mikhail Fain , Andrey Ponikar , Nadine Sarraf

AI illustrator aims to automatically design visually appealing images for books to provoke rich thoughts and emotions. To achieve this goal, we propose a framework for translating raw descriptions with complex semantics into semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Jiaying Liu

With the advancement of AIGC (AI-generated content) technologies, an increasing number of generative models are revolutionizing fields such as video editing, music generation, and even film production. However, due to the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Daoan Zhang , Wenlin Yao , Xiaoyang Wang , Yebowen Hu , Jiebo Luo , Dong Yu

Traditional dietary assessment methods heavily rely on self-reporting, which is time-consuming and prone to bias. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revealed new possibilities for dietary assessment, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guangzong Chen , Zhi-Hong Mao , Mingui Sun , Kangni Liu , Wenyan Jia