Overview

We downloaded all Kenya-originated images from Instagram during a twenty-day period in March 2019 The dataset can be applied to train machine learning systems to detect Kenyan foods in images.

Data Format

There are 52000 Kenyan food images, and 52000 kenyan non-food images in the dataset.

Citation

@inproceedings{JalalWaJeZhNsBe19,
  title={Scraping social media photos posted in Kenya and elsewhere to detect and analyze food
types},
  author={Jalal, Mona and Wang, Kaihong and Jefferson, Sankara and Zheng, Yi and Nsoesie,
Elaine O and Betke, Margrit},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on
Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management},
  pages={50--59},
  year={2019}
}