ChineseFoodNet
DATA INTRODUCTION:
The CHINESEFOODNET dataset is a large collection of labelled Chinese food images. The dataset was captured by douguo user and labelled by the Midea employees . It allows for training robust machine learning models to recognize dishes. It is available free of charge for academic research. Commercial licenses are available upon request.
CITE
@article{chen2017chinesefoodnet,
title={ChineseFoodNet: A large-scale Image Dataset for Chinese Food Recognition},
author={Chen, Xin and Zhou, Hua and Zhu, Yu and Diao, Liang},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02743},
year={2017}
}
DATA FORMAT:
The dataset is provided with the total size of 19.4 GB. We have splited the whole dataset into training, testing and validation sets. There are 145,065 images for training, 20,253 images for validation and 20,310 images for testing. This folder contains 3 sub directories including:
train --- images for training
val --- images for validation
testing --- images for testing
In the train and val folder, there are 208 directories numbered from 000 to 207. Each directory contains JPG images with its original size. Each directory contains only one type of food. In the test folder, only images are provided without ground truth labels. Besides, there are 5 files in this folder:
class_names.csv --- class names in both Chinese and English
train_list.txt, --- image names and labels of the training set
val_list.txt, --- image names and labels of the validation set
README
COPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
The ChineseFoodNet dataset consists of images from douguo [1], which are not property of MIDEA EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD. Any use beyond non-commercial fair use must be negotiated with the respective picture owners.
[1]http://www.douguo.com/
DATASET DOWNLOAD:
If you want to download the ChineseFoodNet dataset, download from https://goo.gl/kWNV8a. If you have any question, please contact us via mideaetc@midea.com
ACCESS TERMS
Researcher has requested permission to use the ChineseFoodNet at MIDEA EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD.
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If you have any question about the dataset, please contact us at mideaetc@midea.com