@inproceedings{
gui2024navigating,
title={Navigating Weight Prediction with Diet Diary},
author={Yinxuan Gui and Bin Zhu and Jingjing Chen and Chong-Wah Ngo and Yu-Gang Jiang},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia 2024},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=mYmxQBntqv}
}
Current research in food analysis primarily concentrates on tasks such as food recognition, recipe retrieval and nutrition estimation from a single image. Nevertheless, there is a significant gap in exploring the impact of food intake on physiological indicators (e.g., weight) over time. This paper addresses this gap by introducing the DietDiary dataset, which encompasses daily dietary diaries and corresponding weight measurements of real users. Furthermore, we propose a novel task of weight prediction with a dietary diary that aims to leverage historical food intake and weight to predict future weights. To tackle this task, we propose a model-agnostic time series forecasting framework. Specifically,
we introduce a Unified Meal Representation Learning (UMRL) module to extract representations for each meal. Additionally, we design a diet-aware loss function to associate food intake with weight variations. By conducting experiments on the DietDiary dataset with two state-of-the-art time series forecasting models, NLinear and iTransformer, we demonstrate that our proposed framework achieves superior performance compared to the original models. We will make our dataset, code, and models publicly available.
Navigating Weight Prediction with Diet Diary
Yinxuan Gui Bin Zhu Jingjing Chen Chong-Wah Ngo Yu-Gang Jiang