Food and fluid intake monitoring are essential for reducing the risk of dehydration,
malnutrition, and obesity. The existing research has been preponderantly focused on dietary …

Background Despite their reliability-and validity-related challenges, self-reports remain the
most common data collection method in nutrition research, food-related consumer and …

Unhealthy dietary habits are considered as the primary cause of various chronic diseases,
including obesity and diabetes. The automatic food intake monitoring system has the …

Camera-based passive dietary intake monitoring is able to continuously capture the eating
episodes of a subject, recording rich visual information, such as the type and volume of food …

Leading a healthy lifestyle significantly reduces the risk of developing Non-Communicable
Diseases (NCD). However, defining and monitoring healthy eating behaviour depends on …

Absolute energy from fats and carbohydrates and the proportion of carbohydrates in the food
supply have increased over 50 years. Dietary energy density (ED) is primarily decreased by …

Food sharing and communal eating are very common in some countries. To assess
individual dietary intake in food sharing scenarios, this work proposes a vision-based …

In our recent dietary assessment field studies on passive dietary monitoring in Ghana, we
have collected over 250k in-the-wild images. The dataset is an ongoing effort to facilitate …

Conventional approaches to dietary assessment are primarily grounded in self-reporting
methods or structured interviews conducted under the supervision of dietitians. These …

The papers in this special section focus on camera-based monitoring for pervasive
healthcare informatics. Measuring physiological signals from the human face and body …