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Recognizing food images presents unique challenges due to the variable spatial layout and shape changes of ingredients with different cooking and cutting methods. This study introduces an advanced approach for recognizing ingredients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kun Fu , Ying Dai

In this paper, we study the novel problem of not only predicting ingredients from a food image, but also predicting the relative amounts of the detected ingredients. We propose two prediction-based models using deep learning that output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jiatong Li , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

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

Nutrition estimation is an important component of promoting healthy eating and mitigating diet-related health risks. Despite advances in tasks such as food classification and ingredient recognition, progress in nutrition estimation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Huiyan Qi , Bin Zhu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Jingjing Chen , Ee-Peng Lim

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Maria F. Vasiloglou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Zeno Stanga , Stavroula Mougiakakou

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

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

A reasonable and balanced diet is essential for maintaining good health. With the advancements in deep learning, automated nutrition estimation method based on food images offers a promising solution for monitoring daily nutritional intake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yuzhe Han , Qimin Cheng , Wenjin Wu , Ziyang Huang

With the growth in capabilities of generative models, there has been growing interest in using photo-realistic renders of common 3D food items to improve downstream tasks such as food printing, nutrition prediction, or management of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chi-en Amy Tai , Jason Li , Sriram Kumar , Saeejith Nair , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Alexander Wong

Calorie and nutrition research has attained increased interest in recent years. But, due to the complexity of the problem, literature in this area focuses on a limited subset of ingredients or dish types and simple convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ahmad Babaeian Jelodar , Yu Sun

A rapidly growing amount of content posted online, such as food recipes, opens doors to new exciting applications at the intersection of vision and language. In this work, we aim to estimate the calorie amount of a meal directly from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Robin Ruede , Verena Heusser , Lukas Frank , Alina Roitberg , Monica Haurilet , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

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

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

Recent advances in artificial intelligence promote a wide range of computer vision applications in many different domains. Digital cameras, acting as human eyes, can perceive fundamental object properties, such as shapes and colors, and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Swarna Sethu , Dongyi Wang

Manually tracking nutritional intake via food diaries is error-prone and burdensome. Automated computer vision techniques show promise for dietary monitoring but require large and diverse food image datasets. To address this need, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Saeejith Nair , Chi-en Amy Tai , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong

The availability of an accurate nutrition profile of recipes is an important feature for food databases with several applications including nutritional assistance, recommendation systems, and dietary analytics. Often in online databases,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-28 Jushaan Kalra , Devansh Batra , Nirav Diwan , Ganesh Bagler

Food image recognition is one of the promising applications of visual object recognition in computer vision. In this study, a small-scale dataset consisting of 5822 images of ten categories and a five-layer CNN was constructed to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuzhen Lu

Estimating Body Mass Index (BMI) from camera images with machine learning models enables rapid weight assessment when traditional methods are unavailable or impractical, such as in telehealth or emergency scenarios. Existing computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Frederik Rajiv Manichand , Robin Deuber , Robert Jakob , Steve Swerling , Jamie Rosen , Elgar Fleisch , Patrick Langer

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