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Main Authors: Pan, Xinyue, He, Jiangpeng, Zhu, Fengqing
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03922
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author Pan, Xinyue
He, Jiangpeng
Zhu, Fengqing
author_facet Pan, Xinyue
He, Jiangpeng
Zhu, Fengqing
contents Food image classification is the fundamental step in image-based dietary assessment, which aims to estimate participants' nutrient intake from eating occasion images. A common challenge of food images is the intra-class diversity and inter-class similarity, which can significantly hinder classification performance. To address this issue, we introduce a novel multi-modal contrastive learning framework called FMiFood, which learns more discriminative features by integrating additional contextual information, such as food category text descriptions, to enhance classification accuracy. Specifically, we propose a flexible matching technique that improves the similarity matching between text and image embeddings to focus on multiple key information. Furthermore, we incorporate the classification objectives into the framework and explore the use of GPT-4 to enrich the text descriptions and provide more detailed context. Our method demonstrates improved performance on both the UPMC-101 and VFN datasets compared to existing methods.
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spellingShingle FMiFood: Multi-modal Contrastive Learning for Food Image Classification
Pan, Xinyue
He, Jiangpeng
Zhu, Fengqing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Food image classification is the fundamental step in image-based dietary assessment, which aims to estimate participants' nutrient intake from eating occasion images. A common challenge of food images is the intra-class diversity and inter-class similarity, which can significantly hinder classification performance. To address this issue, we introduce a novel multi-modal contrastive learning framework called FMiFood, which learns more discriminative features by integrating additional contextual information, such as food category text descriptions, to enhance classification accuracy. Specifically, we propose a flexible matching technique that improves the similarity matching between text and image embeddings to focus on multiple key information. Furthermore, we incorporate the classification objectives into the framework and explore the use of GPT-4 to enrich the text descriptions and provide more detailed context. Our method demonstrates improved performance on both the UPMC-101 and VFN datasets compared to existing methods.
title FMiFood: Multi-modal Contrastive Learning for Food Image Classification
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03922