Shape-Preserving Generation of Food Images for Automatic Dietary Assessment

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Guangzong, Mao, Zhi-Hong, Sun, Mingui, Liu, Kangni, Jia, Wenyan
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author Chen, Guangzong
Mao, Zhi-Hong
Sun, Mingui
Liu, Kangni
Jia, Wenyan
author_facet Chen, Guangzong
Mao, Zhi-Hong
Sun, Mingui
Liu, Kangni
Jia, Wenyan
contents 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 through analysis of food images. Recognizing foods and estimating food volumes from images are known as the key procedures for automatic dietary assessment. However, both procedures required large amounts of training images labeled with food names and volumes, which are currently unavailable. Alternatively, recent studies have indicated that training images can be artificially generated using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Nonetheless, convenient generation of large amounts of food images with known volumes remain a challenge with the existing techniques. In this work, we present a simple GAN-based neural network architecture for conditional food image generation. The shapes of the food and container in the generated images closely resemble those in the reference input image. Our experiments demonstrate the realism of the generated images and shape-preserving capabilities of the proposed framework.
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spellingShingle Shape-Preserving Generation of Food Images for Automatic Dietary Assessment
Chen, Guangzong
Mao, Zhi-Hong
Sun, Mingui
Liu, Kangni
Jia, Wenyan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
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 through analysis of food images. Recognizing foods and estimating food volumes from images are known as the key procedures for automatic dietary assessment. However, both procedures required large amounts of training images labeled with food names and volumes, which are currently unavailable. Alternatively, recent studies have indicated that training images can be artificially generated using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Nonetheless, convenient generation of large amounts of food images with known volumes remain a challenge with the existing techniques. In this work, we present a simple GAN-based neural network architecture for conditional food image generation. The shapes of the food and container in the generated images closely resemble those in the reference input image. Our experiments demonstrate the realism of the generated images and shape-preserving capabilities of the proposed framework.
title Shape-Preserving Generation of Food Images for Automatic Dietary Assessment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13358