The 3rd MetaFood Workshop (MTF)


MozzaVID: Mozzarella Volumetric Image Dataset
Pawel Tomasz Pieta,
Peter Winkel Rasmussen,
Anders Bjorholm Dahl,
Jeppe Revall Frisvad,
Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli,
Carsten Gundlach,
Anders Nymark Christensen
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Pieta_2026_CVPR, author = {Pieta, Pawel Tomasz and Rasmussen, Peter Winkel and Dahl, Anders Bjorholm and Frisvad, Jeppe Revall and Bigdeli, Siavash Arjomand and Gundlach, Carsten and Christensen, Anders Nymark}, title = {MozzaVID: Mozzarella Volumetric Image Dataset}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9560-9572} }

An Agentic Vision-Language Pipeline for Interactive Nutritional Estimation from Food Images
Gayatri Bhatambarekar,
Abhijit Sarkar
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Bhatambarekar_2026_CVPR, author = {Bhatambarekar, Gayatri and Sarkar, Abhijit}, title = {An Agentic Vision-Language Pipeline for Interactive Nutritional Estimation from Food Images}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9492-9500} }

MyoVision: A Mobile Research Tool and NEATBoost-Attention Ensemble Framework for Real Time Chicken Breast Myopathy Detection
Chaitanya Pallerla,
Siavash Mahmoudi,
Dongyi Wang
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Pallerla_2026_CVPR, author = {Pallerla, Chaitanya and Mahmoudi, Siavash and Wang, Dongyi}, title = {MyoVision: A Mobile Research Tool and NEATBoost-Attention Ensemble Framework for Real Time Chicken Breast Myopathy Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9549-9559} }

Edge-Aware Self-Attention in Vision Transformers for Food Image Segmentation
Chenfan Wang,
Quan Sun,
Tianwei Hao
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2026_CVPR, author = {Wang, Chenfan and Sun, Quan and Hao, Tianwei}, title = {Edge-Aware Self-Attention in Vision Transformers for Food Image Segmentation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9622-9631} }

Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Inverse Material Estimation in Food Fracture Simulation
Adrian Ramlal,
Yuhao Chen,
John S. Zelek
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ramlal_2026_CVPR, author = {Ramlal, Adrian and Chen, Yuhao and Zelek, John S.}, title = {Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Inverse Material Estimation in Food Fracture Simulation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9573-9581} }

EgoCal: Combining Egocentric Data with Vision-Language Fusion for Real-time Dietary Tracking
Gautham Vinod,
Siddeshwar Raghavan,
Bruce Coburn,
Wei-Lun Chu,
Jinge Ma,
Fengqing Zhu
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Vinod_2026_CVPR, author = {Vinod, Gautham and Raghavan, Siddeshwar and Coburn, Bruce and Chu, Wei-Lun and Ma, Jinge and Zhu, Fengqing}, title = {EgoCal: Combining Egocentric Data with Vision-Language Fusion for Real-time Dietary Tracking}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9601-9611} }

DateVar-30: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Multi-Stream Vision Transformer Architecture for Fine-Grained Date Variety Classification
Khaled Waleed Dawoud,
Muhammad Haris Khan
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Dawoud_2026_CVPR, author = {Dawoud, Khaled Waleed and Khan, Muhammad Haris}, title = {DateVar-30: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Multi-Stream Vision Transformer Architecture for Fine-Grained Date Variety Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9501-9509} }

HSIFoodInspection: A Comprehensive Hyperspectral Dataset for Industrial Food Anomaly Detection
Chi Zhang,
Jungkwon Kim,
Jihun Kim,
Jeonghyeon Park,
Kwangsun Yoo,
Seok-Joo Byun
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Zhang_2026_CVPR, author = {Zhang, Chi and Kim, Jungkwon and Kim, Jihun and Park, Jeonghyeon and Yoo, Kwangsun and Byun, Seok-Joo}, title = {HSIFoodInspection: A Comprehensive Hyperspectral Dataset for Industrial Food Anomaly Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9652-9661} }

MetaFood Training-Free Cultural Generalization in Food Recognition via Knowledge-Grounded Prompt Expansion
Janos Horvath
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Horvath_2026_CVPR, author = {Horvath, Janos}, title = {MetaFood Training-Free Cultural Generalization in Food Recognition via Knowledge-Grounded Prompt Expansion}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9510-9520} }

KitchenTwin: Semantically and Geometrically Grounded 3D Kitchen Digital Twins
Quanyun Wu,
Kyle Gao,
Daniel Long,
David A Clausi,
Jonathan Li,
Yuhao Chen
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wu_2026_CVPR, author = {Wu, Quanyun and Gao, Kyle and Long, Daniel and A Clausi, David and Li, Jonathan and Chen, Yuhao}, title = {KitchenTwin: Semantically and Geometrically Grounded 3D Kitchen Digital Twins}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9632-9640} }

Food Type and State Recognition with VLMs Using Different Prompting Strategies
Yicheng Shi,
Saeed S. Alahmari,
Tawfiq Salem
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Shi_2026_CVPR, author = {Shi, Yicheng and Alahmari, Saeed S. and Salem, Tawfiq}, title = {Food Type and State Recognition with VLMs Using Different Prompting Strategies}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9582-9590} }

FoodSense: A Multisensory Food Dataset and Benchmark for Predicting Taste, Smell, Texture, and Sound from Images
Sabab Ishraq,
Aarushi Aarushi,
Juncai Jiang,
Chen Chen
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ishraq_2026_CVPR, author = {Ishraq, Sabab and Aarushi, Aarushi and Jiang, Juncai and Chen, Chen}, title = {FoodSense: A Multisensory Food Dataset and Benchmark for Predicting Taste, Smell, Texture, and Sound from Images}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9521-9530} }

DietDelta: A Vision-Language Approach for Dietary Assessment via Before-and-After Images
Gautham Vinod,
Siddeshwar Raghavan,
Bruce Coburn,
Fengqing Zhu
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Vinod_2026_CVPR, author = {Vinod, Gautham and Raghavan, Siddeshwar and Coburn, Bruce and Zhu, Fengqing}, title = {DietDelta: A Vision-Language Approach for Dietary Assessment via Before-and-After Images}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9591-9600} }

VolETA++: A Fully Automatic Depth-Free Radiance-Field Framework for Food 3D Reconstruction and Volume Estimation
Ahmad AlMughrabi,
Ricardo Marques,
Petia Radeva
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{AlMughrabi_2026_CVPR, author = {AlMughrabi, Ahmad and Marques, Ricardo and Radeva, Petia}, title = {VolETA++: A Fully Automatic Depth-Free Radiance-Field Framework for Food 3D Reconstruction and Volume Estimation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9482-9491} }

GroceryWild500: Benchmarking Novel View Synthesis in Realistic Grocery Store Scenes
Shreyas M Muragodmath,
Michael Elgin,
Shivanand Venkanna Sheshappanavar
[pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Muragodmath_2026_CVPR, author = {Muragodmath, Shreyas M and Elgin, Michael and Sheshappanavar, Shivanand Venkanna}, title = {GroceryWild500: Benchmarking Novel View Synthesis in Realistic Grocery Store Scenes}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9539-9548} }

Not Your Stereo-Typical Estimator: Combining Vision and Language for Volume Perception
Gautham Vinod,
Bruce Coburn,
Siddeshwar Raghavan,
Fengqing Zhu
[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Vinod_2026_CVPR, author = {Vinod, Gautham and Coburn, Bruce and Raghavan, Siddeshwar and Zhu, Fengqing}, title = {Not Your Stereo-Typical Estimator: Combining Vision and Language for Volume Perception}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9612-9621} }

Evaluating the Feasibility of Inferring Dietary Behavior Change Receptivity from Egocentric Images of Eating Environment
Long Li,
Yuning Huang,
Heather A. Eicher-Miller,
J. Graham Thomas,
Fengqing Zhu,
Edward Sazonov
[pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Li_2026_CVPR, author = {Li, Long and Huang, Yuning and Eicher-Miller, Heather A. and Thomas, J. Graham and Zhu, Fengqing and Sazonov, Edward}, title = {Evaluating the Feasibility of Inferring Dietary Behavior Change Receptivity from Egocentric Images of Eating Environment}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9531-9538} }

Dual-Imbalance Continual Learning for Real-World Food Recognition
Xiaoyan Zhang,
Jiangpeng He
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Zhang_2026_CVPR, author = {Zhang, Xiaoyan and He, Jiangpeng}, title = {Dual-Imbalance Continual Learning for Real-World Food Recognition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9662-9672} }

V-Nutri: Dish-Level Nutrition Estimation from Egocentric Cooking Videos
Chengkun Yue,
Chuanzhi Xu,
Jiangpeng He
[pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Yue_2026_CVPR, author = {Yue, Chengkun and Xu, Chuanzhi and He, Jiangpeng}, title = {V-Nutri: Dish-Level Nutrition Estimation from Egocentric Cooking Videos}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2026}, pages = {9641-9651} }