Fine-grained food image retrieval is a key task in computational gastronomy, with applications in food traceability, dietary monitoring, and smart catering systems. Although hashing-based retrieval is attractive for large-scale search due to its storage efficiency and fast Hamming-distance computation, existing methods often perform poorly in fine-grained food scenarios, where subtle local semantics and frequency-sensitive visual cues are essential.
arXiv:2608. 03428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image based dietary assessment offers a scalable alternative to self reported food diaries, yet fine-grained food recognition remains challenging due to high intra-class variability and visually similar dishes.
arXiv:2606. 08948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive estimation of dietary micronutrients from food images could improve clinical nutrition care, but training such models requires large multimodal datasets linking diverse foods to complete nutrient profiles.
arXiv:2608. 08963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalized Category Discovery aims to recognize known categories while identifying novel ones within unlabeled data.
Semantic hashing methods for generating short binary hash codes that allow efficient approximate nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data spaces have gained extensive consideration in recent years. Deep learning-based methods offer better semantic capturing capabilities than traditional approaches relying on manual feature engineering.
arXiv:2607. 08423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid integration of Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into critical infrastructure promises to revolutionize personalized healthcare and dietary management.
Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) represents a challenging retrieval task that targets locating specific images through multimodal inputs. Despite recent progress in CIR techniques, prior approaches often overlook cases where images appear visually alike yet differ in attributes, potentially undermining both multimodal feature fusion and similarity modeling.
arXiv:2607. 23273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational nutrition needs precise ingredient data, but current databases are incomplete, inconsistent, and built for human reference rather than automated reasoning.
Due to their strong generalizable multimodal processing and reasoning capabilities, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential as universal image retrievers, effectively addressing diverse real-world image retrieval tasks. Nevertheless, pioneering studies, while promising, overlook the potential of fine-grained context modeling and disentangled fine-tuning objectives in enhancing MLLMs' retrieval performance, particularly for complex tasks such as long-text-to-image retrieval, visual dialog retrieval, and composed image retrieval (CIR).
arXiv:2607. 03245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput plant phenotyping generates valuable data that often remains trapped in unstructured text and isolated RGB images.
arXiv:2607. 24567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic hashing methods for generating short binary hash codes that allow efficient approximate nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data spaces have gained extensive consideration in recent years.
arXiv:2607. 16514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image-based dietary assessment promises to replace costly, bias-prone manual recalls, but portion estimation remains a major blocker.
Fashion retrieval often requires satisfying multiple attributes at once, such as category, color, pattern, and demographic. Monolithic embeddings mix these signals into a single vector, making attribute-specific control difficult at retrieval time.