Fine-Grained Food Image Understanding via Target-Aware Data Alignment

Fine-grained food visual--semantic understanding requires models to capture subtle distinctions across ingredients, cooking methods, doneness, color, texture, and plate composition.

Fine-grained food visual--semantic understanding requires models to capture subtle distinctions across ingredients, cooking methods, doneness, color, texture, and plate composition. Although CLIP-style vision-language models provide a natural framework for this task, their…