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With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), a variety of benchmarks have been introduced to evaluate their capabilities. While most evaluations have focused on complex tasks such as scientific comprehension and…

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The visual world around us constantly evolves, from real-time news and social media trends to global infrastructure changes visible through satellite imagery and augmented reality enhancements. However, Multimodal Large Language Models…

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In recent times, the standard practice for developing MLLMs is to feed features from vision encoder(s) into the LLM and train with natural language supervision. This approach often causes models to lean towards language comprehension and…

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Food image composition requires the use of existing dish images and background images to synthesize a natural new image, while diffusion models have made significant advancements in image generation, enabling the construction of end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Chaohua Shi , Xuan Wang , Si Shi , Xule Wang , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Deep learning-based food recognition has made significant progress in predicting food types from eating occasion images. However, two key challenges hinder real-world deployment: (1) continuously learning new food classes without forgetting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiangpeng He , Xiaoyan Zhang , Luotao Lin , Jack Ma , Heather A. Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Food volume estimation is an essential step in the pipeline of dietary assessment and demands the precise depth estimation of the food surface and table plane. Existing methods based on computer vision require either multi-image input or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Key role in the prevention of diet-related chronic diseases plays the balanced nutrition together with a proper diet. The conventional dietary assessment methods are time-consuming, expensive and prone to errors. New technology-based…

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Food recognition systems has advanced significantly for Western cuisines, yet its application to African foods remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by evaluating both deep learning and traditional machine learning methods…

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Modern image classification is based upon directly predicting classes via large discriminative networks, which do not directly contain information about the intuitive visual features that may constitute a classification decision. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhili Feng , Anna Bair , J. Zico Kolter

Studying and analyzing cropland is a difficult task due to its dynamic and heterogeneous growth behavior. Usually, diverse data sources can be collected for its estimation. Although deep learning models have proven to excel in the crop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Francisco Mena , Diego Arenas , Andreas Dengel

Food classification from images is a fine-grained classification problem. Manual curation of food images is cost, time and scalability prohibitive. On the other hand, web data is available freely but contains noise. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Parneet Kaur , Karan Sikka , Ajay Divakaran

Accurate assessment of dietary intake requires improved tools to overcome limitations of current methods including user burden and measurement error. Emerging technologies such as image-based approaches using advanced machine learning…

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Visual language models encounter challenges in computational efficiency and latency, primarily due to the substantial redundancy in the token representations of high-resolution images and videos. Current attention/similarity-based…

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With the rapid development of society and continuous advances in science and technology, the food industry increasingly demands higher production quality and efficiency. Food image classification plays a vital role in enabling automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xinle Gao , Linghui Ye , Zhiyong Xiao

This study explores the effectiveness of Large Language Models in meal planning, focusing on their ability to identify and decompose compound ingredients. We evaluated three models-GPT-4o, Llama-3 (70b), and Mixtral (8x7b)-to assess their…

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Multi-view multi-label classification (MvMLC) has recently garnered significant research attention due to its wide range of real-world applications. However, incompleteness in views and labels is a common challenge, often resulting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wulin Xie , Lian Zhao , Jiang Long , Xiaohuan Lu , Bingyan Nie

Despite rapid advances in multimodal large language models, agricultural applications remain constrained by the scarcity of domain-tailored models, curated vision-language corpora, and rigorous evaluation. To address these challenges, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bo Yang , Yunkui Chen , Lanfei Feng , Yu Zhang , Xiao Xu , Jianyu Zhang , Nueraili Aierken , Runhe Huang , Hongjian Lin , Yibin Ying , Shijian Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in medical image analysis, yet their application in intraoral photography remains largely underexplored due to the lack of fine-grained, annotated datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Meng-Xun Li , Wen-Hui Deng , Zhi-Xing Wu , Chun-Xiao Jin , Jia-Min Wu , Yue Han , James Kit Hon Tsoi , Gui-Song Xia , Cui Huang

Recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on general-purpose medical tasks. However, their effectiveness in specialized domains such as dentistry remains underexplored. In particular,…

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Image-based quality assessment (QA) in additive manufacturing (AM) often relies heavily on the expertise and constant attention of skilled human operators. While machine learning and deep learning methods have been introduced to assist in…

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