1st International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa) Call for Papers

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1st International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa)
In conjunction with the 
18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP)

Genova, Italy, September 8th 2015

Website: www.madima.org
Submission Deadline: 18 May 2015
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RATIONALE
The prevention of onset and progression of diet-related acute and
chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and
cancer) requires reliable and intuitive dietary management. The need
for accurate, automatic, real-time and personalized dietary advice has
been recently complemented by the advances in computer vision and
smartphone technologies, permitting the development of the first
mobile food multimedia content analysis applications. The proposed
solutions rely on the analysis of multimedia content captured by
wearable sensors, smartphone cameras, barcode scanners, RFID readers
and IR sensors, along with already established nutritional databases
and often require some user input. In the field of nutritional
management, multimedia not only bridges diverse information and
communication technologies, but also computer science with medicine,
nutrition and dietetics. This confluence brings new challenges and
opportunities on dietary management.

SCOPE

MADiMa2015 aims to bring together researchers from the diverse fields
of engineering, computer science and nutrition who investigate the use
of information and communication technologies for better monitoring
and management of food intake. The combined use of multimedia, machine
learning algorithms, ubiquitous computing and mobile technologies
permit the development of applications and systems able to monitor the
dietary behavior, analyze food intake, identify eating patterns and
provide feedback to the user towards healthier nutrition. The
researchers will present their latest progress and discuss novel ideas
in the field. Besides the technologies used, emphasis will be given to
the precise problem definition, the available nutritional databases,
the need for benchmarking multimedia databases of packed and unpacked
food and the evaluation protocols.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
* Ubiquitous and mobile computing for dietary assessment
* Computer vision for food detection, segmentation and recognition
* 3D reconstruction for food portion estimation
* Augmented reality for food portion estimation
* Wearable sensors for food intake detection
* Computerized food composition (nutrients, allergens) analysis
* Multimedia technologies for eating monitoring
* Smartphone technologies for dietary behavioral patterns
* Food multimedia databases
* Evaluation protocols of dietary management systems
* Multimedia assisted self-management of health and disease

PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings of the MADiMa 2015 Workshop, will be published in the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, indexed as
peer-reviewed publication in the Web of Science. Papers will be
selected by a single blind (reviewers are anonymous) review process
based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and
clarity of presentation.

The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an
extended version (at least 40+% different than the workshop versions)
of their papers to a special issue (with open call and peer review) of
an international journal in the involved field.

IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission: May 18th, 2015
Notification of acceptance: June 15th, 2015
Camera ready paper submission: June 29th, 2015
Workshop date: September 8th, 2015

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
* Stavroula Mougiakakou, University of Bern, Switzerland
* Giovani Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy
* Keiji Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

INVITED SPEAKERS
*Prof. Edward Sazonov, University of Alabama, USA
- Talk Title: Wearable solutions for detection and characterization of
food intake

* Dr. Gerald Cultot, Research Programme Officer – European
Commission, Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and
Technology, Health and Well-Being
- Talk Title: The role of food scanning in the portfolio of the EU well-being

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
* Antonella Agodi, University of Catania, Italy
* Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
* Oliver Amft, University of Passau, Germany
* Marios Anthimopoulos, University of Bern, Switzerland
* Andreas Arens, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxemburg
* Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania, Italy
* Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA
* Ajay Divakaran, SRI, USA
* David Duke, ROCHE Diagnostics Inc, USA
* Xian-Hua Han, Ritsumeikan Unversity, Japan
* Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino, Italy
* Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK
* Vikas Ramachandra, Qualcomm, USA
* Daniele Ravi, Imperial College, London
* Sergey Shevchik, EMPA, Switzerland
* Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
* Jindong Tan, University of Tennessee, USA
* Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College, London

For more information please visit the workshop website at www.madima.org