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The 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa2023) is organized in conjunction with the 31st ACM International Conference in Multimedia (ACMM2023).

Website: www.madima.org

Place: Ottawa, Canada

Date: October 29th-November 3rd, 2023

Submission Deadline: 21st July 2023

RATIONALE

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The prevention of onset and progression of diet-related acute and chronic diseases 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 AI, computer vision, wearable, 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 and recipe 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 MADiMa2023 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 21st, 2023

– Notification of acceptance: August 8th, 2023

– Camera ready deadline: August 12th, 2023

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

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– Stavroula Mougiakakou, University of Bern, Switzerland

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

– Dario Allegra, University of Catania, Italy

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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– Lorenzo Brigato, University of Bern, Switzerland

– Lorenzo Catania, University of Catania, Italy (lcatania@pm.me)

– Jingjing Chen, Fudan University, Shanghai

– Christos Diou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

– Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan

– Ioannis Papathanail, University of Bern, Switzerland

– 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

Keiji Yanai

Dario Allegra