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Call For Papers (apologies for multiple copies)    

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The 7th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa2022) is organized in conjunction with the 30th ACM International Conference in Multimedia (ACMM2022), collocated with International Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking, Eating, and related Applications 2022 (CEA2022). 

Website: www.madima.org 

Place: Lisbon, Portugal 

Date: October 10th-14th 2022 (TBA)     

Submission Deadline: 1st July 2022

RATIONALE

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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 monitoring and 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 food-related (e.g., food composition, recipes) 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 monitoring, assessment, and management.

SCOPE

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The main scope of MADiMa2022 is 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, assessment, and management of food intake. The combined use of multimedia, machine learning algorithms, ubiquitous computing and mobile technologies permits 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 and demonstrate 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

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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

– Deep learning for food analysis

– 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

– Food image analysis and social media

– Smartphone technologies for dietary behavioral patterns

– Food multimedia databases

– Evaluation protocols of dietary management systems

– Multimedia assisted self-management of health and disease

– ICT technologies for tackling mal- and undernutrition

– Dietary monitoring systems for Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) settings

– Vision techniques for food quality check

– ICT for personalization of dietary advice

– Personalized dietary recommendation systems

IMPORTANT DATES

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– Paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2022

– Notification of acceptance: July 29th, 2022

– Camera ready deadline: August 7th, 2022

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

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– Stavroula Mougiakakou, University of Bern, Switzerland

– Giovani Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy

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

– Dario Allegra, University of Catania, Italy

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 

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– Oliver Amft, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

– Jingjing Chen, Fudan University, Shanghai

– Stergios Christodoulidis, Université Paris-Saclay, France

– Anastasios Delopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

– Christos Diou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

– Touradj Ebrahimi,Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

– Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan

– Alessandro Mazzei, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy

– Petia Radeva, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

– Raimondo Schettini, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

– Yoko Yamakata, University of Tokyo, Japan

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

The workshop chairs,

Stavroula Mougiakakou

Giovanni Maria Farinella

Keiji Yanai

Dario Allegra