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Accurate dietary intake estimation is critical for informing policies and programs to support healthy eating, as malnutrition has been directly linked to decreased quality of life. However self-reporting methods such as food diaries suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chi-en Amy Tai , Matthew Keller , Saeejith Nair , Yuhao Chen , Yifan Wu , Olivia Markham , Krish Parmar , Pengcheng Xi , Heather Keller , Sharon Kirkpatrick , Alexander Wong

Diet is an important aspect of our health. Good dietary habits can contribute to the prevention of many diseases and improve the overall quality of life. To better understand the relationship between diet and health, image-based dietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yue Han , Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Tonmoy Ghosh , Fengqing Zhu , Edward Sazonov , Edward J. Delp

Recent studies have shown that the environment where people eat can affect their nutritional behaviour. In this work, we provide automatic tools for a personalised analysis of a person's health habits by the examination of daily recorded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Estefania Talavera , Maria Leyva-Vallina , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Domenec Puig , Nicolai Petkov , Petia Radeva

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

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

High calorie intake in the human body on the one hand, has proved harmful in numerous occasions leading to several diseases and on the other hand, a standard amount of calorie intake has been deemed essential by dieticians to maintain the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Pallavi Kuhad , Abdulsalam Yassine , Shervin Shirmohammadi

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

Background: People's health depends on the use of proper diet as an important factor. Today, with the increasing mechanization of people's lives, proper eating habits and behaviors are neglected. On the other hand, food recommendations in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Abolfazl Ajami , Babak Teimourpour

Food image classification serves as a fundamental and critical step in image-based dietary assessment, facilitating nutrient intake analysis from captured food images. However, existing works in food classification predominantly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Dietary assessment is essential to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Automatic image-based dietary assessment is a growing field of research due to the increasing prevalence of image capturing devices (e.g. mobile phones). In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jack Ma , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Malnutrition poses a significant threat to global health, resulting from an inadequate intake of essential nutrients that adversely impacts vital organs and overall bodily functioning. Periodic examinations and mass screenings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Ashish Marisetty , Prathistith Raj M , Praneeth Nemani , Venkanna Udutalapally , Debanjan Das

What we eat is one of the most frequent and important health decisions we make in daily life, yet it remains notoriously difficult to capture and understand. Effective food journaling is thus a grand challenge in personal health…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Shubham Goyal , Qi Liu , Khairina Tajul-Arifin , Waqas Awan , Bimlesh Wadhwa , Zhenguang Liu

Many aging individuals encounter challenges in effectively tracking their dietary intake, exacerbating their susceptibility to nutrition-related health complications. Self-reporting methods are often inaccurate and suffer from substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Matthew Keller , Chi-en Amy Tai , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

Malnutrition is a major public health concern in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding food and nutrient intake across communities, households and individuals is critical to the development of health policies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Frank Po Wen Lo , Modou L Jobarteh , Yingnan Sun , Jianing Qiu , Shuo Jiang , Gary Frost , Benny Lo

Nutrient-based meal recommendations have the potential to help individuals prevent or manage conditions such as diabetes and obesity. However, learning people's food preferences and making recommendations that simultaneously appeal to their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Longqi Yang , Cheng-Kang Hsieh , Hongjian Yang , Nicola Dell , Serge Belongie , Curtis Cole , Deborah Estrin

Dietary intake estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the nutritional habits of individuals and populations, aiding in the prevention and management of diet-related health issues. Accurate estimation requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chi-en Amy Tai , Saeejith Nair , Olivia Markham , Matthew Keller , Yifan Wu , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

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

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

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…

Quantifying post-consumer food waste in institutional dining settings is essential for supporting data-driven sustainability strategies. This study presents a cost-effective computer vision framework that estimates plate-level food waste by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shayan Rokhva , Babak Teimourpour