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Accurate nutrient estimation from unstructured recipe text is an important yet challenging problem in dietary monitoring, due to ambiguous ingredient terminology and highly variable quantity expressions. We systematically evaluate models…

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Modern deep learning techniques have enabled advances in image-based dietary assessment such as food recognition and food portion size estimation. Valuable information on the types of foods and the amount consumed are crucial for prevention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Zeman Shao , Janine L. Wright , Deborah A. Kerr , Carol J. Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

Food recognition plays an important role in food choice and intake, which is essential to the health and well-being of humans. It is thus of importance to the computer vision community, and can further support many food-oriented vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weiqing Min , Zhiling Wang , Yuxin Liu , Mengjiang Luo , Liping Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

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

The widespread adoption of camera-equipped mobile devices and wearables has enabled convenient capture of meal images, making food recognition a key component for real time dietary monitoring. However, real-world food images present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Woojin Lee , Pranav Mekkoth , Ye Tian , Onat Gungor , Tajana Rosing

The obesity phenomenon, known as the heavy issue, is a leading cause of preventable chronic diseases worldwide. Traditional calorie estimation tools often rely on specific data formats or complex pipelines, limiting their practicality in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Dongyu Yao , Keling Yao , Junhong Zhou , Yinghao Zhang

Food image analysis is the groundwork for image-based dietary assessment, which is the process of monitoring what kinds of food and how much energy is consumed using captured food or eating scene images. Existing deep learning-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Andrew Peng , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Worldwide, in 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these, over 600 million were obese. Accurately documenting dietary caloric intake is crucial to manage weight loss, but also presents challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Chang Liu , Yu Cao , Yan Luo , Guanling Chen , Vinod Vokkarane , Yunsheng Ma

Progress in AI for automated nutritional analysis is critically hampered by the lack of standardized evaluation methodologies and high-quality, real-world benchmark datasets. To address this, we introduce three primary contributions. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Amir Hosseinian , Ashkan Dehghani Zahedani , Umer Mansoor , Noosheen Hashemi , Mark Woodward

Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have significantly advanced a variety of vision-language tasks. The scalability and availability of high-quality training data play a pivotal role in the success of LMMs. In the realm of food, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Pengkun Jiao , Xinlan Wu , Bin Zhu , Jingjing Chen , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yugang Jiang

Researches have shown that diet recording can help people increase awareness of food intake and improve nutrition management, and thereby maintain a healthier life. Recently, researchers have been working on smartphone-based diet recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Junyi Gao , Weihao Tan , Liantao Ma , Yasha Wang , Wen Tang

Nutrition estimation is crucial for effective dietary management and overall health and well-being. Existing methods often struggle with sub-optimal accuracy and can be time-consuming. In this paper, we propose NuNet, a transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhengyi Kwan , Wei Zhang , Zhengkui Wang , Aik Beng Ng , Simon See

Many aging individuals encounter challenges in effectively tracking their dietary intake, exacerbating their susceptibility to nutrition-related health complications. Self-reporting methods are often inaccurate and suffer from substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Matthew Keller , Chi-en Amy Tai , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

Food portion estimation is crucial for monitoring health and tracking dietary intake. Image-based dietary assessment, which involves analyzing eating occasion images using computer vision techniques, is increasingly replacing traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinge Ma , Xiaoyan Zhang , Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Food image classification is challenging for real-world applications since existing methods require static datasets for training and are not capable of learning from sequentially available new food images. Online continual learning aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Recent advancements in multimodal fusion have witnessed the remarkable success of vision-language (VL) models, which excel in various multimodal applications such as image captioning and visual question answering. However, building VL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zhiwei Hao , Jianyuan Guo , Li Shen , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen

The pre-trained vision-language model, exemplified by CLIP, advances zero-shot semantic segmentation by aligning visual features with class embeddings through a transformer decoder to generate semantic masks. Despite its effectiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zicheng Zhang , Tong Zhang , Yi Zhu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang , QiXiang Ye , Wei Ke

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

Automated radiology report generation is key for reducing radiologist workload and improving diagnostic consistency, yet generating accurate reports for 3D medical imaging remains challenging. Existing vision-language models face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pengcheng Shi , Minghui Zhang , Kehan Song , Jiaqi Liu , Yun Gu , Xinglin Zhang

Accurate estimation of meal macronutrient composition is a pre-perquisite for precision nutrition, metabolic health monitoring, and glycemic management. Traditional dietary assessment methods, such as self-reported food logs or diet recalls…