2012 Proceeding- General Chair:
- Mutsuo Sano,
- Program Chair:
- Ichiro Ide
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the ACM Multimedia 2012 Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA'12), the fourth of its series, held in Nara, Japan, the ancient Capital of Japan and also the terminal of the "Silk Road."
Cooking and eating have been the most fundamental activities of humankind since the days of trading caravans in the ancient days until now, which affect various aspects of human life such as health, dietary, human communication, safety of food, entertainment, culinary art, welfare, and so on. However, 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 health 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 and eating support for the elderly and/or physically challenged people are significantly important.
The call for papers attracted fifteen submissions from Asia, France, United Kingdom and United States. Each paper was carefully reviewed by three reviewers in related fields, and the Program Committee decided to accept eleven papers based on the reports. Three of the accepted papers will be presented in the form of oral presentation, which includes one Best Paper Award winning paper, established for the first time this year. The others will be presented in the form of a poster presentation to secure more time for discussions, in order to improve the works to an even higher level. Through these presentations, participants of the workshop will learn the current state of the usage and its effects of multimedia sensors, and the handling of knowledge databases with experimental results toward human behavior understanding in the context of cooking and eating applications. They will also see novel applications for supporting cooking and eating activities through contents construction support for cooking and human-to-human communication support at a dining table.
As for the invited talk, we will invite Professor Kimiko Ohtani from Kyoto Prefectural University to introduce us, her recent activities on food education and design based on Japanese food culture. The talk will introduce both the traditional food culture in Japan and also food education in the modern era.
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Intelligent menu planning: recommending set of recipes by ingredients
With the growth of recipe sharing services, online cooking recipes associated with ingredients and cooking procedures are available. Many recipe sharing sites have devoted to the development of recipe recommendation mechanism. However, there is a need ...
Food region segmentation in meal images using touch points
We propose an interactive scheme for segmenting meal images for automated dietary assessment. A smartphone user photographs a meal and marks a few touch points on the resulting image. The segmentation algorithm initializes a set of food segments with ...
Recognizing ingredients at cutting process by integrating multimodal features
- Atsushi Hashimoto,
- Jin Inoue,
- Kazuaki Nakamura,
- Takuya Funatomi,
- Mayumi Ueda,
- Yoko Yamakata,
- Michihiko Minoh
We propose a method for recognizing ingredients in food preparing activity. The research for object recognition mainly focuses on only visual information; however, ingredients are difficult to recognize only by visual information because of their ...
Cooking rehabilitation support for self-reliance of cognitive dysfunction patients
Cognitive dysfunction patients often interfere with cooking action and give up it. We have proposed the navigation system which supports cooking according to the grade of cognitive dysfunction, and have conducted the experiments of cognitive ...
Table talk enhancer: a tabletop system for enhancing and balancing mealtime conversations using utterance rates
The purpose of this research is to enhance mealtime communication by visualizing the utterance rates of individuals during meals. We developed a system called "Table Talk Enhancer" that visualizes mealtime communication by illuminating the dining table ...
Influences of a robot's presence and speeches in a cooking support system
Home cooking sometimes lacks pleasure and motivation because most people cook by themselves. Our approach to solve this problem is to introduce a conversational robot. We explored the influences of the conversational robot in the cooking support system. ...
Cooking gesture recognition using local feature and depth image
In this paper, we propose a method combining visual local features and depth image information to recognize cooking gestures. We employ the feature calculation method[2] which used extended FAST detector and a compact descriptor CHOG3D to calculate ...
Food menu selection support system: considering constraint conditions for safe dietary life
This paper proposes a food menu selection support system to realize a safe dietary life considering constraint conditions. Nowadays, people have greater choice in food menu selection due to diversification of diet such as food choices available by ...
Biologeek, an intelligent system for service mashups tuned for recipe processing and rendering
Biologeek has been designed to provide users a way to create and share mashups of web services, exploiting online content processing and communication facilities. It combines intuitive graphical user interfaces with powerful techniques such as Natural ...
Laser cooking: a novel culinary technique for dry heating using a laser cutter and vision technology
We propose a novel cooking technology that uses a laser cutter as a dry-heating device. In general, dry-heat cooking heats the whole surface of an ingredient, while a laser cutter heats a small spot of the surface in a very short time. Our approach ...
Recipe sub-goals and graphs: an evaluation by cooks
Following recipes can be difficult for cooks. Many recipes use technical culinary language and condense their instructions into brief sentences, cooks may also get lost in long paragraphs as they jump around the recipe to find tasks to perform in ...
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