Food is essential for human life and it is fundamental to the human experience. Food-related
study may support multifarious applications and services, such as guiding human behavior …

Background: Maintaining a healthy diet is vital to avoid health-related issues, eg,
undernutrition, obesity and many non-communicable diseases. An indispensable part of the …

There is a growing concern about chronic diseases and other health problems related to diet
including obesity and cancer. The need to accurately measure diet (what foods a person …

Obesity has become a severe health problem in developed countries, and a healthy food
intake has been recognized as the key factor for obesity prevention. This paper presents a …

Measuring the energy intake (kcal) of a person in day-to-day life is difficult. The best
laboratory tool achieves 95% accuracy on average, while tools used in daily living typically …

Current limitations of conventional dietary assessment methods restrict the establishment of
diet–disease relationships and efficacy of dietary interventions. Technology, in particular the …

Childhood obesity continues to be a significant public health issue. mHealth systems offer
state-of-the-art approaches to intervention design, delivery, and diffusion of treatment and …

In this paper, we introduce a new and challenging large-scale food image dataset called"
ChineseFoodNet", which aims to automatically recognizing pictured Chinese dishes. Most of …

Background: Information on dietary intake provides some of the most valuable insights for
mounting intervention programmes for the prevention of chronic diseases. With the growing …

We propose a method for dietary assessment to automatically identify and locate food in a
variety of images captured during controlled and natural eating events. Two concepts are …