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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

Computer vision has been introduced to estimate calories from food images. But current food image data sets don't contain volume and mass records of foods, which leads to an incomplete calorie estimation. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Yanchao Liang , Jianhua Li

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

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

Increased awareness of the impact of food consumption on health and lifestyle today has given rise to novel data-driven food analysis systems. Although these systems may recognize the ingredients, a detailed analysis of their amounts in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiatong Li , Fangda Han , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

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

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

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

Advances in image-based dietary assessment methods have allowed nutrition professionals and researchers to improve the accuracy of dietary assessment, where images of food consumed are captured using smartphones or wearable devices. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Daniel Mas Montserrat , David Guerra , Carol J. Boushey , Deborah A. Kerr , Fengqing Zhu

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Accurate food nutrition estimation from single images is challenging due to the loss of 3D information. While depth-based methods provide reliable geometry, they remain inaccessible on most smartphones because of depth-sensor requirements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Darrin Bright , Rakshith Raj , Kanchan Keisham

Traditional dietary assessment methods heavily rely on self-reporting, which is time-consuming and prone to bias. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have revealed new possibilities for dietary assessment, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Guangzong Chen , Zhi-Hong Mao , Mingui Sun , Kangni Liu , Wenyan Jia