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Monocular depth estimation is often described as an ill-posed and inherently ambiguous problem. Estimating depth from 2D images is a crucial step in scene reconstruction, 3Dobject recognition, segmentation, and detection. The problem can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Amlaan Bhoi

In this paper, we adopt 3D Convolutional Neural Networks to segment volumetric medical images. Although deep neural networks have been proven to be very effective on many 2D vision tasks, it is still challenging to apply them to 3D tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Zhuotun Zhu , Yingda Xia , Wei Shen , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

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

Endoscopic depth estimation is a critical technology for improving the safety and precision of minimally invasive surgery. It has attracted considerable attention from researchers in medical imaging, computer vision, and robotics. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ke Niu , Zeyun Liu , Xue Feng , Heng Li , Qika Lin , Kaize Shi

The automatic recognition of food on images has numerous interesting applications, including nutritional tracking in medical cohorts. The problem has received significant research attention, but an ongoing public benchmark to develop open…

With one in four individuals afflicted with malnutrition, computer vision may provide a way of introducing a new level of automation in the nutrition field to reliably monitor food and nutrient intake. In this study, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Kaylen J. Pfisterer , Robert Amelard , Braeden Syrnyk , Alexander Wong

Food image segmentation is a critical task for dietary analysis, enabling accurate estimation of food volume and nutrients. However, current methods suffer from limited multi-view data and poor generalization to new viewpoints. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Guillermo Rivo , Carlos Jiménez-Farfán , Umair Haroon , Farid Al-Areqi , Hyunjun Jung , Benjamin Busam , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

People enjoy food photography because they appreciate food. Behind each meal there is a story described in a complex recipe and, unfortunately, by simply looking at a food image we do not have access to its preparation process. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Amaia Salvador , Michal Drozdzal , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Adriana Romero

Purpose: Surgical scene understanding plays a critical role in the technology stack of tomorrow's intervention-assisting systems in endoscopic surgeries. For this, tracking the endoscope pose is a key component, but remains challenging due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Michel Hayoz , Christopher Hahne , Mathias Gallardo , Daniel Candinas , Thomas Kurmann , Maximilian Allan , Raphael Sznitman

This study introduces a novel unsupervised medical image feature extraction method that employs spatial stratification techniques. An objective function based on weight is proposed to achieve the purpose of fast image recognition. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Qishi Zhan , Dan Sun , Erdi Gao , Yuhan Ma , Yaxin Liang , Haowei Yang

Nutrition estimation of meals from visual data is an important problem for dietary monitoring and computational health, but existing approaches largely rely on single images of the finally completed dish. This setting is fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chengkun Yue , Chuanzhi Xu , Jiangpeng He

Human pose estimation aims to locate the human body parts and build human body representation (e.g., body skeleton) from input data such as images and videos. It has drawn increasing attention during the past decade and has been utilized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ce Zheng , Wenhan Wu , Chen Chen , Taojiannan Yang , Sijie Zhu , Ju Shen , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Mubarak Shah

Food recognition is an important task for a variety of applications, including managing health conditions and assisting visually impaired people. Several food recognition studies have focused on generic types of food or specific cuisines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Şeymanur Aktı , Marwa Qaraqe , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

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

Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shervin Minaee , Yuri Boykov , Fatih Porikli , Antonio Plaza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Demetri Terzopoulos

Deep learning techniques have enabled rapid progress in monocular depth estimation, but their quality is limited by the ill-posed nature of the problem and the scarcity of high quality datasets. We estimate depth from a single camera by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Sameer Ansari , Jonathan T. Barron

With the exponential growth in the usage of social media to share live updates about life, taking pictures has become an unavoidable phenomenon. Individuals unknowingly create a unique knowledge base with these images. The food images, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Nitish Nag , Bindu Rajanna , Ramesh Jain

As processing power has become more available, more human-like artificial intelligences are created to solve image processing tasks that we are inherently good at. As such we propose a model that estimates depth from a monocular image. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Fabian Truetsch , Alfred Schöttl

Recent advances in the machine learning community allowed different use cases to emerge, as its association to domains like cooking which created the computational cuisine. In this paper, we tackle the picture-recipe alignment problem,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Micael Carvalho , Rémi Cadène , David Picard , Laure Soulier , Matthieu Cord

Computer-aided medical image analysis plays a significant role in assisting medical practitioners for expert clinical diagnosis and deciding the optimal treatment plan. At present, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are the preferred…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 S Niyas , S J Pawan , M Anand Kumar , Jeny Rajan