7th Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA2015) - The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

Call for Papers

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Cooking is one of the most fundamental activities of humankind. It is not only connected with the joy of eating but also deeply affects various aspects of human life such as health, culinary art, entertainment, and human communication. Cooking at home requires experience and knowledge. They may also need support for food-logging and menu planning for their family health. Needless to say, support for a good and enjoyable meal would improve the quality of life. Systematic cooking/eating support for elderly or physically challenged people is also significantly important.

Since a cooking activity requires people to manipulate foods, watch their conditions, listen to the sounds, smell the aromas, and taste it, a cooking assistive system should also be capable of multiple sensitivities. CEA has been aiming to provide an opportunity for such research groups to discover each other, introduce their trials, and discuss their status and where they should go. The research community of CEA is truly interdisciplinary, including health science, domestic science, and cultural science. Even if we limit ourselves to computer science, there are related works in multimedia, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.

As the seventh meeting of this workshop series, it aims to provide an opportunity for such research groups to discover each other, introduce their trials, and discuss how it should be and where they should go.

Topics

The workshop welcomes contributions in, but not limited to, the following topics:

Application for cooking and eating support
Cooking archiving and recognition
Learning contents creation for cooking
Analysis of cooking video
Recipe image/video retrieval
Analysis and utilization on cooking recipe
Menu planning, dietary management, and food log
Artificial agent for cooking/eating activity
Sensing of taste/ smell/ texture
Food communication (human-to-human / human-to-computer communication)
Ubiquitous environment and interface in kitchen
Intelligent home appliance
Cooking navigation interface for the dementia and physically challenged person support
Multimedia learning contents for dietary
Multimedia information service for food safety and security
Analysis of Web contents on cooking/eating activities

Review criteria and process

Each paper submission will be reviewed by more than two experts. Submissions are reviewed based on:

Originality of the content
Quality of the content
Relevance to the theme
Clarity of the written presentation