Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
10-2017
Abstract
The art of cooking is always fascinating. Nevertheless, reproducing a delicious dish that one has never encountered before is not easy. Even if the name of dish is known and the corresponding recipe could be retrieved, the right ingredients for cooking the dish may not be available due to factors such as geography region or season. Furthermore, knowing how to cut, cook and control timing may be challenging for one whose has no cooking experience. In this paper, an all-around cooking assistant mobile app, named Pic2Dish, is developed to help users who would like to cook a dish but neither know the name of dish nor has cooking skill. Basically, by inputting a picture of the dish and the list of ingredients at hand, Pic2Dish automatically recognizes the dish name and recommends a customized recipe together with video clips to guide user on how to cook the dish. Importantly, the recommended recipe is modified from a retrieved recipe that best matches the given dish, with missing ingredients being replaced with the available ingredients that match dish context and taste. The whole process involves the recognition of dishes with convolutional neural network, classification of key and non-key ingredients, and context analysis of ingredient relationship and their cooking/cutting methods. The user studies, which recruit real users to cook dishes by using Pic2Dish, shows the usefulness of the app.
Keywords
Food recognition, Cooking instruction, Cooking recipe
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
Research Areas
Intelligent Systems and Optimization
Publication
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2017, Mountain View, California, October 23–27
First Page
1269
Last Page
1273
ISBN
9781450349062
Identifier
10.1145/3123266.3126490
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
City or Country
Mountain View
Citation
AN, Yongsheng; CAO, Yu; CHEN, Jingjing; NGO, Chong-wah; JIA, Jia; LUAN, Huanbo; and CHUA, Tat-Seng.
PIC2DISH: A customized cooking assistant system. (2017). Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2017, Mountain View, California, October 23–27. 1269-1273.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6560
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