Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Multimedia for cooking & eating activities

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the ACM Multimedia 2013 Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA'13), the fifth of its series, held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Cooking and eating have been the most fundamental activities of humankind from ancient days, 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 21 submissions from France, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. Each paper was carefully reviewed by three reviewers in related fields, and we decided to accept thirteen 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 last year. The others will be presented in the form of short oral and poster presentation to secure more time for discussions, in order to improve the works to an even higher level. These presentations are about the recent technologies in the fields of Application for cooking and eating support, Menu planning, dietary management, and foodlogging, Analysis and utilization on cooking recipe, Analysis of cooking video, Analysis of Web contents on cooking and eating activities, Cooking archiving and recognition, Learning contents creation for cooking, Recipe text / image / video retrieval and recommendation, Ubiquitous environment and interface in kitchen, and so on. As for the invited talk, we will invite Professor Amelie Cordier of Laboratoire d'Informatique en Image et Systemes d'information (LIRIS), France. In her talk, she will provide an overview of the challenges that cooking raises for computer science and information technology. She focuses on many issues such as representation of cooking recipes, suggestions, recommendations, dietary practices, personalization, social side, creativity.