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Record W4415864397 · doi:10.3390/data10110180

NutritionVerse3D2D: Large 3D Object and 2D Image Food Dataset for Dietary Intake Estimation

2025· article· en· W4415864397 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueData · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicNutritional Studies and Diet
Canadian institutionsNational Research Council CanadaUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNational Research Council Sri Lanka
KeywordsBenchmark (surveying)ViewpointsProcess (computing)Food intakeObject (grammar)Pairwise comparisonImage (mathematics)Face (sociological concept)

Abstract

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Elderly populations often face significant challenges when it comes to dietary intake tracking, often exacerbated by health complications. Unfortunately, conventional diet assessment techniques such as food frequency questionnaires, food diaries, and 24 h recall are subject to substantial bias. Recent advancements in machine learning and computer vision show promise of automated nutrition tracking methods of food, but require a large, high-quality dataset in order to accurately identify the nutrients from the food on the plate. However, manual creation of large-scale datasets with such diversity is time-consuming and hard to scale. On the other hand, synthesized 3D food models enable view augmentation to generate countless photorealistic 2D renderings from any viewpoint, reducing imbalance across camera angles. In this paper, we present a process to collect a large image dataset of food scenes that span diverse viewpoints and highlight its usage in dietary intake estimation. We first collect quality 3D objects of food items (NV-3D) that are used to generate photorealistic synthetic 2D food images (NV-Synth) and then manually collect a validation 2D food image dataset (NV-Real). We benchmark various intake estimation approaches on these datasets and present NutritionVerse3D2D, a collection of datasets that contain 3D objects and 2D images, along with models that estimate intake from the 2D food images. We release all the datasets along with the developed models to accelerate machine learning research on dietary sensing.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Dataset · Consensus signal: Dataset
Teacher disagreement score0.105
Threshold uncertainty score0.297

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it