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This research aims to develop a method to estimate the attractiveness of a food photo. The proposed method extracts two kinds of image features: 1) those focused on the appearance of the main ingredient, and 2) those focused on the impression of the ...

In this paper, we analyze the structural differences between the instructional text in Japanese and English cooking recipes. First, we constructed an English recipe corpus of 100 recipes, designed to be comparable to an existing Japanese recipe corpus. ...

As described in this paper, we propose a new analogical description for a restaurant menu and a method to generate it automatically. A description for a dish of the menu consists of a similar dish and differences between those dishes, such as '...

In recent years, there have been plenty of cooking recipes on the internet. Because it has caused difficulty in searching for a cooking recipe that suites one's needs, many studies have researched on how to make these recipes easily accessible. Existing ...

Recipe search systems rely on keyword matching, and in this work we analyze the consistency of vocabulary, investigating how agreement differs when searching: for ingredients versus dishes; for common versus uncommon items; and, between recipe authors ...

In this paper, we propose a method to find creative mixtures of cooking ingredients and cooking method. The method is based on the estimated values of 2-tuple elements consists of cooking ingredients or cooking methods from the questionnaires. Each of 2-...

In this paper we report our approach to image classification, in particular to the food/non-food image classification problem, as used by our Cooking Log product of Cookpad Inc. We augment our existing services with an architecture which includes a ...

We attempt to train a classifier to identify food items in images captured during food preparation processes. Food changes appearance significantly during the cooking process, and different foods can be mixed together. Thus, manually annotating ...

In order to maintain and improve health, it is very important to grasp one's eating habits in his/her everyday life. Ideally, individual long-term food recording is preferred to make health suggestion about eating. However, it is not easy for an ...

In this study, we developed a method for detecting near-duplicate recipe creators based on the posting time interval and food images. Some recipe websites contain pairs of recipes with very similar cooking instructions (near-duplicate recipes), which ...