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Food computing is both important and challenging in computer vision (CV). It significantly contributes to the development of CV algorithms due to its frequent presence in datasets across various applications, ranging from classification and…

Food logo detection plays an important role in the multimedia for its wide real-world applications, such as food recommendation of the self-service shop and infringement detection on e-commerce platforms. A large-scale food logo dataset is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiang Hou , Weiqing Min , Jing Wang , Sujuan Hou , Yuanjie Zheng , Shuqiang Jiang

Classifying products into categories precisely and efficiently is a major challenge in modern e-commerce. The high traffic of new products uploaded daily and the dynamic nature of the categories raise the need for machine learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Tom Zahavy , Alessandro Magnani , Abhinandan Krishnan , Shie Mannor

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) and extreme multi-label classification (XML) tasks face compounded challenges from complex label interdependencies, data sparsity, and extreme output dimensions. These challenges are exemplified in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Lorenzo Molfetta , Alessio Cocchieri , Stefano Fantazzini , Giacomo Frisoni , Luca Ragazzi , Gianluca Moro

Nowadays millions of images are shared on social media and web platforms. In particular, many of them are food images taken from a smartphone over time, providing information related to the individual's diet. On the other hand, eating…

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

Deep learning-based food image classification enables precise identification of food categories, further facilitating accurate nutritional analysis. However, real-world food images often show a skewed distribution, with some food types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 GaYeon Koh , Hyun-Jic Oh , Jeonghyun Noh , Won-Ki Jeong

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

In contemporary society, the application of artificial intelligence for automatic food recognition offers substantial potential for nutrition tracking, reducing food waste, and enhancing productivity in food production and consumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shayan Rokhva , Babak Teimourpour , Amir Hossein Soltani

Diversity of food and its attributes represents the culinary habits of peoples from different countries. Thus, this paper addresses the problem of identifying food culture of people around the world and its flavor by classifying two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Mohammed Jabreel , Hatem A. Rashwan , Syeda Furruka Banu , Antonio Moreno , Petia Radeva , Domenec Puig

Food image classification models are crucial for dietary management applications because they reduce the burden of manual meal logging. However, most publicly available datasets for training such models rely on web-crawled images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mitsuki Watanabe , Sosuke Amano , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Yoko Yamakata

Many tasks such as retrieval and recommendations can significantly benefit from structuring the data, commonly in a hierarchical way. To achieve this through annotations of high dimensional data such as images or natural text can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Niels Hellinga , Vlado Menkovski

Currently, food image recognition tasks are evaluated against fixed datasets. However, in real-world conditions, there are cases in which the number of samples in each class continues to increase and samples from novel classes appear. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Shota Horiguchi , Sosuke Amano , Makoto Ogawa , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Food image segmentation is a critical and indispensible task for developing health-related applications such as estimating food calories and nutrients. Existing food image segmentation models are underperforming due to two reasons: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xiongwei Wu , Xin Fu , Ying Liu , Ee-Peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi , Qianru Sun

Hierarchical image recognition seeks to predict class labels along a semantic taxonomy, from broad categories to specific ones, typically under the tidy assumption that every training image is fully annotated along its taxonomy path.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Seulki Park , Zilin Wang , Stella X. Yu

We develop a two-stage deep learning framework that recommends fashion images based on other input images of similar style. For that purpose, a neural network classifier is used as a data-driven, visually-aware feature extractor. The latter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Hessel Tuinhof , Clemens Pirker , Markus Haltmeier

Automatic food recognition is the very first step towards passive dietary monitoring. In this paper, we address the problem of food recognition by mining discriminative food regions. Taking inspiration from Adversarial Erasing, a strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Jianing Qiu , Frank P. -W. Lo , Yingnan Sun , Siyao Wang , Benny Lo

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have revolutionized general visual understanding. However, their application in the food domain remains constrained by benchmarks that rely on coarse-grained categories, single-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Song Jin , Juntian Zhang , Xun Zhang , Zeying Tian , Fei Jiang , Guojun Yin , Wei Lin , Yong Liu , Rui Yan

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Fangda Han , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

Food classification is the foundation for developing food vision tasks and plays a key role in the burgeoning field of computational nutrition. Due to the complexity of food requiring fine-grained classification, recent academic research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Chi-Sheng Chen , Guan-Ying Chen , Dong Zhou , Di Jiang , Dai-Shi Chen