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With diet and nutrition apps reaching 1.4 billion users in 2022 [1], it's not surprise that popular health apps, MyFitnessPal, Noom, and Calorie Counter, are surging in popularity. However, one major setback [2] of nearly all nutrition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Michelle Han , Junyao Chen , Zhengyuan Zhou

Clinical dietary assessment can generate detailed but high-dimensional nutrient and food-group information that is difficult to translate quickly into counselling priorities. This paper proposes an explainable unsupervised-to-supervised…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-12 Wing Yi Yu , Chun Yin Chiu

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…

Smart phone apps that enable users to easily track their diets have become widespread in the last decade. This has created an opportunity to discover new insights into obesity and weight loss by analyzing the eating habits of the users of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-02 Wesley Tansey , Edward W. Lowe , James G. Scott

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

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

Objective: Numerous glucose prediction algorithm have been proposed to empower type 1 diabetes (T1D) management. Most of these algorithms only account for input such as glucose, insulin and carbohydrate, which limits their performance.…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-20 Chengyuan Liu , Josep Vehi , Nick Oliver , Pantelis Georgiou , Pau Herrero

Understanding the links between diet, metabolic changes, and health outcomes is a key focus in nutritional science and broader biological research. Analyzing relationships, such as those between ultra-processed food (UPF) intake and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Sang Kyu Lee , Erikka Loftfield , Hyokyoung G. Hong , Haolei Weng

Food image classification is a fundamental step of image-based dietary assessment, enabling automated nutrient analysis from food images. Many current methods employ deep neural networks to train on generic food image datasets that do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xinyue Pan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

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

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

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

Food logging, both self-directed and prescribed, plays a critical role in uncovering correlations between diet, medical, fitness, and health outcomes. Through conversations with nutritional experts and individuals who practice dietary…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Liam Bakar , Zachary Englhardt , Vidya Srinivas , Girish Narayanswamy , Dilini Nissanka , Shwetak Patel , Vikram Iyer

This study aims to optimize meal planning for nutritional health and cost efficiency using linear programming. Linear optimization provides an effective framework for addressing the problem of an optimal diet, as the composition of food can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Utkarsh Prajapati , Tanushree Jain , Abhishek Machiraju , Divyam Kaushik

Food recommendation system has proven as an effective technology to provide guidance on dietary choices, and this is especially important for patients suffering from chronic diseases. Unlike other multimedia recommendations, such as books…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Jianing Qiu , Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Benny Lo

Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge. Early prediction and identification of the children at a high risk of developing childhood obesity may help in engaging earlier and more effective interventions to prevent and manage…

Applications · Statistics 2022-05-03 Mehak Gupta , Thao-Ly T. Phan , Timothy Bunnell , Rahmatollah Beheshti

Whether wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) contains dietary information remains unknown. We trained a language model on 1.1M meals to predict meal descriptions from PPG, aligning PPG to text. PPG nontrivially predicts meal content;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kyle Verrier , Achille Nazaret , Joseph Futoma , Andrew C. Miller , Guillermo Sapiro

Food recognition and nutritional apps are trending technologies that may revolutionise the way people with diabetes manage their diet. Such apps can monitor food intake as a digital diary and even employ artificial intelligence to assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Lubnaa Abdur Rahman , Ioannis Papathanail , Lorenzo Brigato , Elias K. Spanakis , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Accurate food intake monitoring is crucial for maintaining a healthy diet and preventing nutrition-related diseases. With the diverse range of foods consumed across various cultures, classic food classification models have limitations due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hassan Kazemi Tehrani , Jun Cai , Abbas Yekanlou , Sylvia Santosa