ACM MM'09 WS on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA2009)

Call for Papers

ACM Multimedia 2009 Workshop on

Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA2009)

October 23, 2009, Beijing, China

*** Submission Deadline *** Monday, June 15, 2009 ***

http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CEA2009/

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, dietary, culinary art, entertainment, and human communication. Many people who cook at home require supports for cooking because it requires experience and knowledge.
They may also need support for food-logging and menu planning for the well-being of their family. Needless to say, support for a good and enjoyable dinner would improve the quality of life. On the other hand, systematic cooking/eating support for elderly or physically challenged people is significantly important.

Thanks to modern technology, the basic environment needed for establishing such a support system at home is becoming rich. Recently, some home appliances are equipped with various sensing devices and a computer.
Reflecting this trend, researches on supporting cooking and eating activities have started individually in many corners of the world. This workshop 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.

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 logging
- 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 and supporting interface for the dementia and physically challenged persons
- Multimedia learning contents for dietary
- Multimedia information service for food safety and security

Paper Submission Guidelines

Submissions to the workshop should follow the main conference guidelines. It should be prepared in double-column ACM proceedings style not longer than eight pages, and submitted in the form of PDF files through http://edas.info/N7739 by the deadline. Once accepted, at least one author should register to and present at the workshop to publish the paper.

Important Dates
Monday, June 15, 2009 Submission Deadline
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Author Notification
Friday, July 24, 2009 Camera Ready Deadline
Friday, October 23, 2009 Workshop in Beijing

Organizing Committee
Michihiko MINOH, Kyoto University, Japan
Mutsuo SANO, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Ichiro IDE, Nagoya University / NII, Japan
Yoko YAMAKATA, NICT, Japan
Takuya FUNATOMI, Kyoto University, Japan
Kenzaburo MIYAWAKI, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee (tentative)
Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan
Yasushi Nakauchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Motoyuki Ozeki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Hidenori Tsuji, Institute of Information Technology, Japan
Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shunichi Yonemura, NTT, Japan

Contact
To reach the organizers: cea2009@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
CEA2009 Website:
http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CEA2009/
ACM Multimedia 2009 Website: http://www.acmmm09.org/