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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

We present Implicit-Scale 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Multi-Food Images, a benchmark dataset designed to advance geometry-based food portion estimation in realistic dining scenarios. Existing dietary assessment methods largely rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yuhao Chen , Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Talha Ibn Mahmud , Bruce Coburn , Jinge Ma , Fengqing Zhu , Jiangpeng He

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

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

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

Monitoring dietary intake is a crucial aspect of promoting healthy living. In recent years, advances in computer vision technology have facilitated dietary intake monitoring through the use of images and depth cameras. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Aaryam Sharma , Chris Czarnecki , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Linlin Xu , Alexander Wong

Accurate food intake monitoring is crucial for maintaining a healthy diet and preventing nutrition-related diseases. With the diverse range of foods consumed across various cultures, classic food classification models have limitations due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hassan Kazemi Tehrani , Jun Cai , Abbas Yekanlou , Sylvia Santosa

Food image classification is a fundamental step of image-based dietary assessment, enabling automated nutrient analysis from food images. Many current methods employ deep neural networks to train on generic food image datasets that do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

We present a mobile application made to recognize food items of multi-object meal from a single image in real-time, and then return the nutrition facts with components and approximate amounts. Our work is organized in two parts. First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jianing Sun , Katarzyna Radecka , Zeljko Zilic

Effective dietary monitoring is critical for managing Type 2 diabetes, yet accurately estimating caloric intake remains a major challenge. While continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) offer valuable physiological data, they often fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Adarsh Kumar

Cross-modal image-recipe retrieval has gained significant attention in recent years. Most work focuses on improving cross-modal embeddings using unimodal encoders, that allow for efficient retrieval in large-scale databases, leaving aside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Mustafa Shukor , Guillaume Couairon , Asya Grechka , Matthieu Cord

Deep learning based methods have achieved impressive results in many applications for image-based diet assessment such as food classification and food portion size estimation. However, existing methods only focus on one task at a time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

Food classification is critical to the analysis of nutrients comprising foods reported in dietary assessment. Advances in mobile and wearable sensors, combined with new image based methods, particularly deep learning based approaches, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zeman Shao , Jiangpeng He , Ya-Yuan Yu , Luotao Lin , Alexandra Cowan , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

Assessing dietary intake accurately remains an open and challenging research problem. In recent years, image-based approaches have been developed to automatically estimate food intake by capturing eat occasions with mobile devices and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zeman Shao , Runyu Mao , Fengqing Zhu

The absence of food monitoring has contributed significantly to the increase in the population's weight. Due to the lack of time and busy routines, most people do not control and record what is consumed in their diet. Some solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Charles N. C. Freitas , Filipe R. Cordeiro , Valmir Macario

Monitoring dietary habits is crucial for preventing health risks associated with overeating and undereating, including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Traditional methods for tracking food intake rely on self-reported data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Wallace Lee , YuHao Chen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Ya Lu , Dario Allegra , Marios Anthimopoulos , Filippo Stanco , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Stavroula Mougiakakou

This paper determines the extent to which short textual inputs (in this case, names of dishes) can improve calorie estimation compared to an image-only baseline model and whether any improvements are statistically significant. Utilizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Arya Narang

In response to the increasing demand for efficient and non-invasive methods to estimate food weight, this paper presents a vision-based approach utilizing 2D images. The study employs a dataset of 2380 images comprising fourteen different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chathura Wimalasiri , Prasan Kumar Sahoo

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