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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

The demand for accurate food quantification has increased in the recent years, driven by the needs of applications in dietary monitoring. At the same time, computer vision approaches have exhibited great potential in automating tasks within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Valasia Vlachopoulou , Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos

Robots operating in human-centered environments, such as retail stores, restaurants, and households, are often required to distinguish between similar objects in different contexts with a high degree of accuracy. However, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Songsong Xiong , Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

In the realm of food computing, segmenting ingredients from images poses substantial challenges due to the large intra-class variance among the same ingredients, the emergence of new ingredients, and the high annotation costs associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiongwei Wu , Sicheng Yu , Ee-Peng Lim , Chong-Wah Ngo

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

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

Food image classification systems play a crucial role in health monitoring and diet tracking through image-based dietary assessment techniques. However, existing food recognition systems rely on static datasets characterized by a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Justin Yang , Zhihao Duan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Reliance on images for dietary assessment is an important strategy to accurately and conveniently monitor an individual's health, making it a vital mechanism in the prevention and care of chronic diseases and obesity. However, image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Gautham Vinod , Fengqing Zhu

Reconstructing 3D representations from 2D inputs is a fundamental task in computer vision and graphics, serving as a cornerstone for understanding and interacting with the physical world. While traditional methods achieve high fidelity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Weijie Wang , Qihang Cao , Sensen Gao , Donny Y. Chen , Haofei Xu , Wenjing Bian , Songyou Peng , Tat-Jen Cham , Chuanxia Zheng , Andreas Geiger , Jianfei Cai , Jia-Wang Bian , Bohan Zhuang

Food diary applications represent a tantalizing market. Such applications, based on image food recognition, opened to new challenges for computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms. Recent works in the field are focusing either on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Niki Martinel , Gian Luca Foresti , Christian Micheloni

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

3D reconstruction and view synthesis are foundational problems in computer vision, graphics, and immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and digital twins. Traditional methods rely on computationally…

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

There has been increasing interest in smart factories powered by robotics systems to tackle repetitive, laborious tasks. One impactful yet challenging task in robotics-powered smart factory applications is robotic grasping: using robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yuhao Chen , E. Zhixuan Zeng , Maximilian Gilles , Alexander Wong

Maintaining health and fitness through a balanced diet is essential for preventing non communicable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. NutriVision combines smart healthcare with computer vision and machine learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Madhumita Veeramreddy , Ashok Kumar Pradhan , Swetha Ghanta , Laavanya Rachakonda , Saraju P Mohanty

Food volume estimation is an essential step in the pipeline of dietary assessment and demands the precise depth estimation of the food surface and table plane. Existing methods based on computer vision require either multi-image input or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ya Lu , Thomai Stathopoulou , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Automatic dietary assessment based on food images remains a challenge, requiring precise food detection, segmentation, and classification. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer new possibilities by integrating visual and textual reasoning. In…

Automatic image-based food recognition is a particularly challenging task. Traditional image analysis approaches have achieved low classification accuracy in the past, whereas deep learning approaches enabled the identification of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Chairi Kiourt , George Pavlidis , Stella Markantonatou

We aim to estimate food portion size, a property that is strongly related to the presence of food object in 3D space, from single monocular images under real life setting. Specifically, we are interested in end-to-end estimation of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zeman Shao , Shaobo Fang , Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Jo Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

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