Publication Type
Transcript
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2025
Abstract
Food is central in our life for its fundamental role in our survival, health, mood and culture. The deployment of various networks (e.g., IoT and mobile networks), devices (e.g., hyperspectral imaging devices, electronic nose/tongue), databases (e.g., nutrition tables and food compositional databases), recipe-sharing websites (e.g., Yummly and Meishijie) and social media (e.g., Twitter and Weibo) has generated unprecedented volumes of multi-modal food data. Such multi-source multi-modal food data provides new perspectives to analyze and understand food consumption via multimedia computing. Riding on the wave of AI, food-oriented multimedia computing integrates AI, multimedia technology and food science to enable a wide spectrum of food computing tasks like food-oriented recognition, retrieval, recommendation, generation and knowledge graph construction, driving food intelligence. For its broad potential applications in dietary experience, food safety, nutrition and health, this field has gained increasing attention in the multimedia community in recent years.
Keywords
Food products, Data analysis, Multimedia computing
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Volume
27
First Page
2708
Last Page
2712
ISSN
1520-9210
Identifier
10.1109/TMM.2025.3566452
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
MIN, Weiqing; JIANG, Shuqiang; RADEVA, Petia; PAVLOVIC, Vladimir; NGO, Chong-wah; AIZAWA, Kiyoharu; and LI, Wanqing.
Guest editorial: When multimedia meets food: Multimedia computing for food data analysis and applications. (2025). IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 27, 2708-2712.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/10236
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