Plate presentation based on a 3D food database

• Main Authors: Lo, Jui, 羅睿
• Other Authors: Wang, Yu-shuen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q97g97

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 多媒體工程研究所 === 105 === Plate presentation plays an important role nowadays. Just like the proverb says, “you eat with your eyes first”. People expect foods to be not only delicious but also visually pleasing. Several researches also have shown that a good plate presentation can attract attention from people and lead them into a good mood. The influence is significant particularly to children. In general, a plate presentation is the combination of foods that appears like a cartoon character or an interesting pattern. Therefore, the goal is to arrange foods at different positions and layers to approximate colors and boundaries of a pattern. Given that the task is difficult to novice users who have bad sense of shape analysis and are not talent to aesthetics, even a bad design would cost them a lot of time and efforts. Accordingly, we introduce a fully automatic algorithm to generate plate presentations. The presented system analyzes the input pattern and determines an optimal arrangement of foods to approximate the pattern's colors and contours. We claim that the results are physically achievable in the real world because scales and shapes of foods are retained by our system. Compared to a manual design that is time consuming, our system computes a comparable plate presentation within five minutes, as demonstrated in our results.