SFOOD: A Multimodal Benchmark for Comprehensive Food Attribute Analysis Beyond RGB with Spectral Insights

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04412v1
• Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:00:21 GMT
• Title: SFOOD: A Multimodal Benchmark for Comprehensive Food Attribute Analysis Beyond RGB with Spectral Insights
• Authors: Zhenbo Xu, Jinghan Yang, Gong Huang, Jiqing Feng, Liu Liu, Ruihan Sun, Ajin Meng, Zhuo Zhang, Zhaofeng He,
• Abstract summary: We build the first large-scale spectral food (SFOOD) benchmark suite.<n>The benchmark consists of 3,266 food categories and 2,351 k data points for 17 main food categories.<n>Our benchmark will be open source and continuously iterated for different food analysis tasks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the rise and development of computer vision and LLMs, intelligence is everywhere, especially for people and cars. However, for tremendous food attributes (such as origin, quantity, weight, quality, sweetness, etc.), existing research still mainly focuses on the study of categories. The reason is the lack of a large and comprehensive benchmark for food. Besides, many food attributes (such as sweetness, weight, and fine-grained categories) are challenging to accurately percept solely through RGB cameras. To fulfill this gap and promote the development of intelligent food analysis, in this paper, we built the first large-scale spectral food (SFOOD) benchmark suite. We spent a lot of manpower and equipment costs to organize existing food datasets and collect hyperspectral images of hundreds of foods, and we used instruments to experimentally determine food attributes such as sweetness and weight. The resulting benchmark consists of 3,266 food categories and 2,351 k data points for 17 main food categories. Extensive evaluations find that: (i) Large-scale models are still poor at digitizing food. Compared to people and cars, food has gradually become one of the most difficult objects to study; (ii) Spectrum data are crucial for analyzing food properties (such as sweetness). Our benchmark will be open source and continuously iterated for different food analysis tasks.

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