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Vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled strong zero-shot classification through image-text alignment. Yet, their purely visual inference capabilities remain under-explored. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of both…

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In this paper, we introduce Recipe1M+, a new large-scale, structured corpus of over one million cooking recipes and 13 million food images. As the largest publicly available collection of recipe data, Recipe1M+ affords the ability to train…

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Deriving nutritional information from online food posts is challenging, particularly when users do not explicitly log the macro-nutrients of a shared meal. In this work, we present an efficient and straightforward approach to approximating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Thorsten Ruprechter , Marion Garaus , Ivo Ponocny , Denis Helic

The automatic recognition of food on images has numerous interesting applications, including nutritional tracking in medical cohorts. The problem has received significant research attention, but an ongoing public benchmark to develop open…

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in food and nutrition research is hindered by a critical bottleneck: the lack of annotated food data. Despite the rise of highly efficient AI models designed for tasks such as food…

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Recent advancements in time series forecasting have explored augmenting models with text or vision modalities to improve accuracy. While text provides contextual understanding, it often lacks fine-grained temporal details. Conversely,…

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AI models for drug discovery and chemical literature mining must interpret molecular images and generate outputs consistent with 3D geometry and stereochemistry. Most molecular language models rely on strings or graphs, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jing Lan , Hexiao Ding , Hongzhao Chen , Yufeng Jiang , Nga-Chun Ng , Gwing Kei Yip , Gerald W. Y. Cheng , Yunlin Mao , Jing Cai , Liang-ting Lin , Jung Sun Yoo

The increasing prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases coupled with the ineffectiveness of traditional diet management methods have resulted in a need for novel tools to accurately and automatically assess meals. Recently, computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Joachim Dehais , Marios Anthimopoulos , Sergey Shevchik , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Accurate food volume estimation is essential for dietary assessment, nutritional tracking, and portion control applications. We present VolETA, a sophisticated methodology for estimating food volume using 3D generative techniques. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Umair Haroon , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

Mammography is the primary imaging tool for breast cancer diagnosis. Despite significant strides in applying deep learning to interpret mammography images, efforts that focus predominantly on visual features often struggle with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Xin Wei , Yaling Tao , Changde Du , Gangming Zhao , Yizhou Yu , Jinpeng Li

Food recommendation system has proven as an effective technology to provide guidance on dietary choices, and this is especially important for patients suffering from chronic diseases. Unlike other multimedia recommendations, such as books…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Jianing Qiu , Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Benny Lo

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to end-to-end autonomous driving due to their human-like reasoning capabilities. However, troublesome gaps remains between current VLMs and real-world autonomous driving applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hao Jiang , Chuan Hu , Yukang Shi , Yuan He , Ke Wang , Xi Zhang , Zhipeng Zhang

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…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) extend the conventional large language models by integrating visual data, enabling richer multimodal reasoning and significantly broadens the practical applications of AI. However, including visual inputs also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Daulet Toibazar , Kesen Wang , Sherif Mohamed , Abdulaziz Al-Badawi , Abdulrahman Alfulayt , Pedro J. Moreno

We investigated visual reasoning limitations of both multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and image generation models (IGMs) by creating a novel benchmark to systematically compare failure modes across image-to-text and text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Aahana Basappa , Pranay Goel , Anusri Karra , Anish Karra , Asa Gilmore , Kevin Zhu

Food is significant to human daily life. In this paper, we are interested in learning structural representations for lengthy recipes, that can benefit the recipe generation and food cross-modal retrieval tasks. Different from the common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Food image classification systems play a crucial role in health monitoring and diet tracking through image-based dietary assessment techniques. However, existing food recognition systems rely on static datasets characterized by a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Justin Yang , Zhihao Duan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Malnutrition is a major public health concern in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding food and nutrient intake across communities, households and individuals is critical to the development of health policies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Frank Po Wen Lo , Modou L Jobarteh , Yingnan Sun , Jianing Qiu , Shuo Jiang , Gary Frost , Benny Lo

BACKGROUND: Most artificial intelligence tools used to estimate nutritional content rely on image input. However, whether large language models (LLMs) can accurately predict nutritional values based solely on text descriptions of foods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco

Computer vision has been introduced to estimate calories from food images. But current food image data sets don't contain volume and mass records of foods, which leads to an incomplete calorie estimation. In this paper, we present a novel…

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