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Food diary applications represent a tantalizing market. Such applications, based on image food recognition, opened to new challenges for computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms. Recent works in the field are focusing either on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Niki Martinel , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

Waste management is a certainly a very complex and difficult process especially in very large cities. It needs immense man power and also uses up other resources such as electricity and fuel. This creates a need to use a novel method with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Saswati kumari behera , Aouthithiye Barathwaj SR Y , Vasundhara L , Saisudha G , Haariharan N C

Smartphone clip-on microscopes turn everyday devices into low-cost, portable imaging systems that can even reveal fungal structures at the microscopic level, enabling mold inspection beyond unaided visual checks. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Dinh Nam Pham , Leonard Prokisch , Bennet Meyer , Jonas Thumbs

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

Image-based methods to analyze food images have alleviated the user burden and biases associated with traditional methods. However, accurate portion estimation remains a major challenge due to the loss of 3D information in the 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Gautham Vinod , Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Fengqing Zhu

Leveraging over 30,000 images each with up to 89 labels collected by Recology---an integrated resource recovery company with both residential and commercial trash, recycling and composting services---the authors develop ContamiNet, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Khoury Ibrahim , Danielle A. Savage , Addie Schnirel , Paul Intrevado , Yannet Interian

Environmental pollution is a critical global issue, with recycling emerging as one of the most viable solutions. This study focuses on waste segregation, a crucial step in recycling processes to obtain raw material. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Maimoona Jafar , Syed Imran Ali , Ahsan Saadat , Muhammad Bilal , Shah Khalid

Food segmentation, including in videos, is vital for addressing real-world health, agriculture, and food biotechnology issues. Current limitations lead to inaccurate nutritional analysis, inefficient crop management, and suboptimal food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Adrián Galán , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

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

The nutritional quality of diets has significantly deteriorated over the past two to three decades, a decline often underestimated by the people. This deterioration, coupled with a hectic lifestyle, has contributed to escalating health…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Assylzhan Izbassar , Pakizar Shamoi

Detecting an ingestion environment is an important aspect of monitoring dietary intake. It provides insightful information for dietary assessment. However, it is a challenging problem where human-based reviewing can be tedious, and…

Food waste has a significant detrimental economic, environmental and social impact. Recent efforts in HCI re-search have examined ways of influencing surplus food waste management. In this paper, we conduct a research survey to investigate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Ahmed Fadhil

Food classification serves as the basic step of image-based dietary assessment to predict the types of foods in each input image. However, food image predictions in a real world scenario are usually long-tail distributed among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Heather Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

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 crystal agglomeration is a phenomenon occurs during crystallization which traps water between crystals and affects food product quality. Manual annotation of agglomeration in 2D microscopic images is particularly difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xiaoyu Ji , Ali Shakouri , Fengqing Zhu

The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in enabling seamless connectivity and intelligent home automation, particularly in food management. By integrating IoT with computer vision, the smart fridge employs an ESP32-CAM to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Khue Nong Thuc , Khoa Tran Nguyen Anh , Tai Nguyen Huy , Du Nguyen Hao Hong , Khanh Dinh Ba

This paper is directed towards the food crystal quality control area for manufacturing, focusing on efficiently predicting food crystal counts and size distributions. Previously, manufacturers used the manual counting method on microscopic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Xiaoyu Ji , Jan P Allebach , Ali Shakouri , Fengqing Zhu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Lorenzo Brigato , Stavroula Mougiakakou

In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation approach for food images which takes advantage of the zero-shot capabilities and promptability of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) along with the attention mechanisms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos , Anastasios Delopoulos

Malnutrition is a multidomain problem affecting 54% of older adults in long-term care (LTC). Monitoring nutritional intake in LTC is laborious and subjective, limiting clinical inference capabilities. Recent advances in automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Kaylen J Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Audrey G Chung , Braeden Syrnyk , Alexander MacLean , Heather H Keller , Alexander Wong