2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADIMA2016) Call for Papers

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Call For Papers

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2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADIMA2016)

In conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conference 2016 (ACM MM2016)


Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 16th, 2016


Website: www.madima.org

Submission Deadline: 11 July 2016


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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

MADiMa2016 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 MADiMa 2016 workshop follows the guidelines of the ACM MM2016
conference. The review process will be double blind.
 

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission:   11 July 2016

Notification of acceptance: 2 August 2016

Camera ready paper submission: 16 August 2016

Workshop date: 16 October 2016


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

- Stavroula Mougiakakou, University of Bern, Switzerland

- Giovani Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy

- Keiji Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan


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- 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

- Joachim Dehais, University of Bern, Switzerland

- Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA

- Ajay Divakaran, SRI, USA

- Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland

- Xian-Hua Han, Ritsumeikan Unversity, Japan

- Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan

- Wanqing Li, University of Wollongong, Australia

- Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino, Italy

- Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, China

- Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK

- Daniele Ravi, Imperial College, London

- Edward Sazonov, University of Alabama, USA

- Sergey Shevchik, EMPA, Switzerland

- Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada

- Jindong Tan, University of Tennessee, USA

- Yoko Yamakata, University of Tokyo, Japan

- Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College, London


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