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Polygon-Aware Deep Learning Framework for Meal-Level Nutrition Estimation From Food Images.

Amani Tahsin Yasin1, Elham Tahsin Yasin2, Murat Koklu3

  • 1Nutrition and Dietetics Department, Faculty of Applied Science, Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq.

Journal of Food Science
|June 26, 2026
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This study introduces a new method for estimating meal nutrition from images using precise food segmentation. The polygon-aware approach significantly improves accuracy, offering a scalable solution for automated dietary monitoring.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Nutritional Science
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Automated dietary assessment relies on accurate nutritional content estimation from food images.
  • Existing computer vision methods often use coarse bounding boxes, limiting quantitative nutrition estimation.
  • Precise food segmentation is crucial for detailed analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a polygon-aware, instance-level framework for precise meal nutrition estimation.
  • To integrate fine-grained food segmentation with region-specific feature extraction.
  • To enhance the accuracy of automated dietary assessment systems.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a YOLOv8n-based instance segmentation model for food item localization.
  • Utilized polygon-aware extraction of shape, color, and texture features from segmented food regions.

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  • Aggregated instance-level features using area-weighted pooling for meal-level representation.
  • Applied multiple regression models (Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, Ridge, CNN) for nutrition estimation.

    • Main Results:

    • Achieved mask mAP@0.5 of 0.4232 and mAP@0.5:0.95 of 0.3400.
    • Demonstrated high qualitative overlap with a mean IoU of 0.9434 and F1-score of 0.87 for instance-level classification.
    • Polygon-aware features consistently improved nutrition estimation by an average of 11.63%, with XGBoost performing best.
    • Statistical significance testing confirmed robust improvements (p < 0.05 for most nutrients).

    Conclusions:

    • Fine-grained, polygon-level representations are effective for reliable and explainable image-based nutrition estimation.
    • The proposed framework offers a scalable foundation for real-world dietary monitoring applications.
    • This method can assist consumers and professionals in assessing meal composition via mobile devices.