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Food recognition plays an important role in food choice and intake, which is essential to the health and well-being of humans. It is thus of importance to the computer vision community, and can further support many food-oriented vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weiqing Min , Zhiling Wang , Yuxin Liu , Mengjiang Luo , Liping Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Shuqiang Jiang

With the booming of personalized recipe sharing networks (e.g., Yummly), a deluge of recipes from different cuisines could be obtained easily. In this paper, we aim to solve a problem which many home-cooks encounter when searching for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Meng Chen , Xiaoyi Jia , Elizabeth Gorbonos , Chnh T. Hong , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

Exploratory analysis of a text corpus is essential for assessing data quality and developing meaningful hypotheses. Text analysis relies on understanding documents through structured attributes spanning various granularities of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Will Epperson , Arpit Mathur , Adam Perer , Dominik Moritz

Understanding and modeling consumers' stylistic taste such as "sporty" is crucial for creating designs that truly connect with target audiences. However, capturing taste during the design process remains challenging because taste is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Matthew K. Hong , Joey Li , Alexandre Filipowicz , Monica Van , Kalani Murakami , Yan-Ying Chen , Shiwali Mohan , Shabnam Hakimi , Matthew Klenk

Text embeddings are central to modern information retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). While dense models derived from Large Language Models (LLMs) dominate current practice, recent work has explored quantum-inspired…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dario Maio

Diet management is key to managing chronic diseases such as diabetes. Automated food recommender systems may be able to assist by providing meal recommendations that conform to a user's nutrition goals and food preferences. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmed A. Metwally , Ariel K. Leong , Aman Desai , Anvith Nagarjuna , Dalia Perelman , Michael Snyder

This study examined the use of machine learning and domain specific enrichment on patient generated health data, in the form of free text meal logs, to classify meals on alignment with different nutritional goals. We used a dataset of over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guanlan Hu , Adit Anand , Pooja M. Desai , Iñigo Urteaga , Lena Mamykina

Collecting large, aligned cross-modal datasets for music-flavor research is difficult because perceptual experiments are costly and small by design. We address this bottleneck through two complementary experiments. The first tests whether…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Matteo Spanio , Valentina Frezzato , Antonio Rodà

Existing approaches to recipe generation are unable to create recipes for users with culinary preferences but incomplete knowledge of ingredients in specific dishes. We propose a new task of personalized recipe generation to help these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Shuyang Li , Jianmo Ni , Julian McAuley

Modern deep learning techniques have enabled advances in image-based dietary assessment such as food recognition and food portion size estimation. Valuable information on the types of foods and the amount consumed are crucial for prevention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Zeman Shao , Janine L. Wright , Deborah A. Kerr , Carol J. Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

Many high-level procedural tasks can be decomposed into sequences of instructions that vary in their order and choice of tools. In the cooking domain, the web offers many partially-overlapping text and video recipes (i.e. procedures) that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Angela S. Lin , Sudha Rao , Asli Celikyilmaz , Elnaz Nouri , Chris Brockett , Debadeepta Dey , Bill Dolan

The identification of bitter peptides is crucial in various domains, including food science, drug discovery, and biochemical research. These peptides not only contribute to the undesirable taste of hydrolyzed proteins but also play key…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-30 Sarfraz Ahmad , Momina Ahsan , Muhammad Nabeel Asim , Andreas Dengel , Muhammad Imran Malik

Solving geometric tasks involving point clouds by using machine learning is a challenging problem. Standard feed-forward neural networks combine linear or, if the bias parameter is included, affine layers and activation functions. Their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Pavlo Melnyk , Michael Felsberg , Mårten Wadenbäck

Textual documents need to be of good quality to ensure effective asynchronous communication in remote areas, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, defining a preferred document structure (content and arrangement) for improving…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Rina Kagawa , Masaki Matsubara , Rei Miyata , Takuya Matsuzaki , Yukino Baba , Yoko Yamakata

This paper introduces a novel, multi-source framework for the relational validation of Large Language Models (LLMs). While existing benchmarks have demonstrated LLMs' proficiency at factual recall, their ability to understand and reproduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Moses Boudourides

This study reports on the semantic organization of English sensory descriptors of the five basic senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell in a large corpus of over 8,000 fiction books. We introduce a large-scale text data-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Roxana Girju , Charlotte Lambert

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in various creative domains, including culinary arts. However, many LLMs still struggle to deliver the desired level of culinary creativity, especially when tasked with adapting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hoonick Lee , Mogan Gim , Donghyeon Park , Donghee Choi , Jaewoo Kang

Predicting food labels and freshness from its odor remains a decades-old task that requires a complicated algorithm combined with high sensitivity sensors. In this paper, we initiate a multi-step classifier, which firstly clusters food into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Ang Xu , Tianzhang Cai , Dinghao Shen , Asher Wang

Creating recipe images is a key challenge in food computing, with applications in culinary education and multimodal recipe assistants. However, existing datasets lack fine-grained alignment between recipe goals, step-wise instructions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ruoxuan Zhang , Jidong Gao , Bin Wen , Hongxia Xie , Chenming Zhang , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

This paper addresses the problem of corpus-level entity typing, i.e., inferring from a large corpus that an entity is a member of a class such as "food" or "artist". The application of entity typing we are interested in is knowledge base…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Heike Adel , Hinrich Schütze