English
Related papers

Related papers: Kitchen Food Waste Image Segmentation and Classifi…

200 papers

One of the most common critical factors directly related to the cause of a chronic disease is unhealthy diet consumption. In this sense, building an automatic system for food analysis could allow a better understanding of the nutritional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Eduardo Aguilar , Marc Bolaños , Petia Radeva

Efficient nutrient management is critical for crop growth and sustainable resource consumption (e.g., nitrogen, energy). Current approaches require lengthy analyses, preventing real-time optimization; similarly, imaging facilitates rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Abigail R. Cohen , Yuming Sun , Zhihao Qin , Harsh S. Muriki , Zihao Xiao , Yeonju Lee , Matthew Housley , Andrew F. Sharkey , Rhuanito S. Ferrarezi , Jing Li , Lu Gan , Yongsheng Chen

Small object segmentation, like tumor segmentation, is a difficult and critical task in the field of medical image analysis. Although deep learning based methods have achieved promising performance, they are restricted to the use of binary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Huiyu Li , Xiabi Liu , Said Boumaraf , Xiaopeng Gong , Donghai Liao , Xiaohong Ma

The ability to recognize various food-items in a generic food plate is a key determinant for an automated diet assessment system. This study motivates the need for automated diet assessment and proposes a framework to achieve this. Within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Rameez Ismail , Zhaorui Yuan

Food protein digestibility and bioavailability are critical aspects in addressing human nutritional demands, particularly when seeking sustainable alternatives to animal-based proteins. In this study, we propose a machine learning approach…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-02 Sara Malvar , Anvita Bhagavathula , Maria Angels de Luis Balaguer , Swati Sharma , Ranveer Chandra

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

Given a food image, can a fine-grained object recognition engine tell "which restaurant which dish" the food belongs to? Such ultra-fine grained image recognition is the key for many applications like search by images, but it is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Feng Zhou , Yuanqing Lin

Regular nutrient intake monitoring in hospitalised patients plays a critical role in reducing the risk of disease-related malnutrition (DRM). Although several methods to estimate nutrient intake have been developed, there is still a clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Maria F. Vasiloglou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Beat Blum , Thomas Walser , Vinzenz Meier , Zeno Stanga , Stavroula G. Mougiakakou

An important aspect of health monitoring is effective logging of food consumption. This can help management of diet-related diseases like obesity, diabetes, and even cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, food logging can help fitness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Doyen Sahoo , Wang Hao , Shu Ke , Wu Xiongwei , Hung Le , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-Peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi

Nowadays, proper urban waste management is one of the biggest concerns for maintaining a green and clean environment. An automatic waste segregation system can be a viable solution to improve the sustainability of the country and boost the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Md. Shahariar Nafiz , Shuvra Smaran Das , Md. Kishor Morol , Abdullah Al Juabir , Dip Nandi

Deep learning based food image classification has enabled more accurate nutrition content analysis for image-based dietary assessment by predicting the types of food in eating occasion images. However, there are two major obstacles to apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

It is common in anthropology and paleontology to address questions about extant and extinct species through the quantification of osteological features observable in micro-computed tomographic (micro-CT) scans. In cases where remains were…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Yung-Chen Sun , Nicholas B. Stephens , Timothy Ryan , Vishal Monga

Diet is central to the epidemic of lifestyle disorders. Accurate and effortless diet logging is one of the significant bottlenecks for effective diet management and calorie restriction. Dish detection from food platters is a challenging…

Waste recycling is an important way of saving energy and materials in the production process. In general cases recyclable objects are mixed with unrecyclable objects, which raises a need for identification and classification. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yuheng Wang , Wen Jie Zhao , Jiahui Xu , Raymond Hong

Recent progresses in data-driven analysis methods, including network-based approaches, are revolutionizing many classical disciplines. These techniques can also be applied to food and nutrition, which must be studied to design healthy…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Seunghyeon Kim , Jaeyun Sung , Mathias Foo , Yong-Su Jin , Pan-Jun Kim

Accurate food intake detection is vital for dietary monitoring and chronic disease prevention. Traditional self-report methods are prone to recall bias, while camera-based approaches raise concerns about privacy. Furthermore, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jiaxi Yin , Pengcheng Wang , Han Ding , Fei Wang

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

Cancer grade is a critical clinical criterion that can be used to determine the degree of cancer malignancy. Revealing the condition of the glands, a precise gland segmentation can assist in a more effective cancer grade classification. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Yijie Zhu , Shan E Ahmed Raza

The improper disposal and mismanagement of medical waste pose severe environmental and public health risks, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and the spread of infectious diseases. Efficient and accurate medical waste classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Bennet van den Broek , Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami

We present a sensor-fusion framework for rapid, non-destructive classification and quality control of organic substances, built on a standard Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller platform equipped with three commercial environmental and gas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Borhan Uddin Chowdhury , Damian Valles , Md Raf E Ul Shougat