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Accurate assessment of dietary intake requires improved tools to overcome limitations of current methods including user burden and measurement error. Emerging technologies such as image-based approaches using advanced machine learning…

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Dietary studies showed that dietary-related problem such as obesity is associated with other chronic diseases like hypertension, irregular blood sugar levels, and increased risk of heart attacks. The primary cause of these problems is poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ghalib Tahir , Chu Kiong Loo

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

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

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

Accurate dietary assessment is critical for precision nutrition, yet most image-based methods rely on a single pre-consumption image and provide only coarse, meal-level estimates. These approaches cannot determine what was actually consumed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

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

Image-based dietary assessment refers to the process of determining what someone eats and how much energy and nutrients are consumed from visual data. Food classification is the first and most crucial step. Existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Luotao Lin , Zeman Shao , Heather A. Eicher-Miller , Fengqing Zhu

In this work we propose a methodology for an automatic food classification system which recognizes the contents of the meal from the images of the food. We developed a multi-layered deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Paritosh Pandey , Akella Deepthi , Bappaditya Mandal , N. B. Puhan

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

Food portion estimation is crucial for monitoring health and tracking dietary intake. Image-based dietary assessment, which involves analyzing eating occasion images using computer vision techniques, is increasingly replacing traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinge Ma , Xiaoyan Zhang , Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

Monitoring dietary intake is a crucial aspect of promoting healthy living. In recent years, advances in computer vision technology have facilitated dietary intake monitoring through the use of images and depth cameras. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Aaryam Sharma , Chris Czarnecki , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Linlin Xu , Alexander Wong

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…

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Accurate weight estimation of commercial and industrial waste is important for efficient operations, yet image-based estimation remains difficult because similar-looking objects may have different densities, and the visible size changes…

Unhealthy dietary habits are considered as the primary cause of various chronic diseases, including obesity and diabetes. The automatic food intake monitoring system has the potential to improve the quality of life (QoL) of people with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunzhuo Wang , T. Sunil Kumar , Walter De Raedt , Guido Camps , Hans Hallez , Bart Vanrumste

We present Implicit-Scale 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Multi-Food Images, a benchmark dataset designed to advance geometry-based food portion estimation in realistic dining scenarios. Existing dietary assessment methods largely rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yuhao Chen , Gautham Vinod , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Talha Ibn Mahmud , Bruce Coburn , Jinge Ma , Fengqing Zhu , Jiangpeng He

$ $As a result of bad eating habits, humanity may be destroyed. People are constantly on the lookout for tasty foods, with junk foods being the most common source. As a consequence, our eating patterns are shifting, and we're gravitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Sirajum Munira Shifat , Takitazwar Parthib , Sabikunnahar Talukder Pyaasa , Nila Maitra Chaity , Niloy Kumar , Md. Kishor Morol

Background: Maintaining a healthy diet is vital to avoid health-related issues, e.g., undernutrition, obesity and many non-communicable diseases. An indispensable part of the health diet is dietary assessment. Traditional manual recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Wei Wang , Weiqing Min , Tianhao Li , Xiaoxiao Dong , Haisheng Li , Shuqiang Jiang

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