FoodieQA: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Chinese Food Culture

Github Repo

😋 We release all tools and code used to create the dataset at https://github.com/lyan62/FoodieQA.

Paper

For more details about the dataset, please refer to 📄 FoodieQA: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Chinese Food Culture

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1. Research Purpose: The data is provided solely for research purposes and must not be used for any commercial activities.

2. Evaluation Only: The data may only be used for evaluation purposes and not for training models or systems.

3. Compliance: Users must comply with all applicable laws and regulations when using the data.

4. Attribution: Proper attribution must be given in any publications or presentations resulting from the use of this data.

5. License: The data is released under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Users must adhere to the terms of this license.

Data Structure

• /images: contains all images needed for multi-image VQA and single-image VQA task.

• mivqa_tidy.json questions for Multi-image VQA task.

  • data format

    {
        "question": "哪一道菜适合喜欢吃肠的人？",
        "choices": "",
        "answer": "0",
        "question_type": "ingredients",
        "question_id": qid,
        "ann_group": "闽",
        "images": [
            img1_path, img2_path, img3_path, img4_path
        ],
        "question_en": "Which dish is for people who like intestine?"
    }
    

• sivqa_tidy.json question for Single-image VQA task.

  • data format

    {
        "question": "图片中的食物是哪个地区的特色美食?",
        "choices": [
            ...
        ],
        "answer": "3",
        "question_type": "region-2",
        "food_name": "梅菜扣肉",
        "question_id": "vqa-34",
        "food_meta": {
            "main_ingredient": [
                "肉"
            ],
            "id": 253,
            "food_name": "梅菜扣肉",
            "food_type": "客家菜",
            "food_location": "餐馆",
            "food_file": img_path
        },
        "question_en": translated_question,
        "choices_en": [
            translated_choices1,
            ...
        ]
    }
    

• textqa_tidy.json

  • data format

    {
        "question": "酒酿圆子属于哪个菜系?",
        "choices": [
            ...
        ],
        "answer": "1",
        "question_type": "cuisine_type",
        "food_name": "酒酿圆子",
        "cuisine_type": "苏菜",
        "question_id": "textqa-101"
    },
    

Models and results for the VQA tasks

Evaluation	Multi-image VQA (ZH)	Multi-image VQA (EN)	Single-image VQA (ZH)	Single-image VQA (EN)
Human	91.69	77.22†	74.41	46.53†
Phi-3-vision-4.2B	29.03	33.75	42.58	44.53
Idefics2-8B	50.87	41.69	46.87	52.73
Mantis-8B	46.65	43.67	41.80	47.66
Qwen-VL-12B	32.26	27.54	48.83	42.97
Yi-VL-6B	-	-	49.61	41.41
Yi-VL-34B	-	-	52.73	48.05
GPT-4V	78.92	69.23	63.67	60.16
GPT-4o	86.35	80.64	72.66	67.97

Models and results for the TextQA task

Model	Best Accuracy	Prompt
Phi-3-medium	41.28	1
Mistral-7B-instruct	35.18	1
Llama3-8B-Chinese	47.38	1
YI-6B	25.53	3
YI-34B	46.38	3
Qwen2-7B-instruct	68.23	3
GPT-4	60.99	1

BibTeX Citation

@article{li2024foodieqa,
  title={FoodieQA: A Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Chinese Food Culture},
  author={Li, Wenyan and Zhang, Xinyu and Li, Jiaang and Peng, Qiwei and Tang, Raphael and Zhou, Li and Zhang, Weijia and Hu, Guimin and Yuan, Yifei and S{\o}gaard, Anders and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11030},
  year={2024}
}