Mixed-dish recognition with contextual relation networks

L Deng, J Chen, Q Sun, X He, S Tang, Z Ming… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International conference on multimedia, 2019dl.acm.org
Mixed dish is a food category that contains different dishes mixed in one plate, and is
popular in Eastern and Southeast Asia. Recognizing individual dishes in a mixed dish
image is important for health related applications, eg calculating the nutrition values.
However, most existing methods that focus on single dish classification are not applicable to
mixed-dish recognition. The new challenge in recognizing mixed-dish images are the
complex ingredient combination and severe overlap among different dishes. In order to …
Mixed dish is a food category that contains different dishes mixed in one plate, and is popular in Eastern and Southeast Asia. Recognizing individual dishes in a mixed dish image is important for health related applications, e.g. calculating the nutrition values. However, most existing methods that focus on single dish classification are not applicable to mixed-dish recognition. The new challenge in recognizing mixed-dish images are the complex ingredient combination and severe overlap among different dishes. In order to tackle these problems, we propose a novel approach called contextual relation networks (CR-Nets) that encodes the implicit and explicit contextual relations among multiple dishes using region-level features and label-level co-occurrence, respectively. This is inspired by the intuition that people are likely to choose dishes with common eating habits, e.g., with multiple nutrition but without repeating ingredients. In addition, we collect a large-scale dataset of mixed-dish images that contain mixed-dish images from school canteens in Singapore. Extensive experiments on both our dataset and a smaller-scale public dataset validate that our CR-Nets can achieve top performance for localizing the dishes and recognizing their food categories.
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