[ML-news] 2nd CFP: IJCAI 2019 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Food

[Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee]

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                            2ND CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

 Workshop on AI and Food, IJCAI 2019

                             August 10-12, 2019

                         Macau, China

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ijcai2019aixfood/home

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The tasks of cooking and eating present exciting research and application challenges for AI systems. Research on food preparation, delivery, and consumption build on universal human experiences and address critical human needs. At the same time, successfully developing AI systems for cooking and eating presents many challenges across the spectrum of AI: knowledge representation, machine learning, planning, robotics, assistive technologies, human-computer and human-robot interaction. The AI&Food workshop targets researchers and practitioners from any field of AI with an interest in food and cooking.

We welcome submissions in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Planning in the cooking domain for recipe and dish creation
  
• Classification of dishes, ingredients, and ingredient features (cooking state, quantity, seasoning) from images and videos (computer vision)
  
• AI and ML in novel recipe generation (computational creativity)
  
• Knowledge representation for food domain knowledge: recipes, cooking procedure, ingredient interaction, flavor, nutrition, and health facts
  
• Knowledge extraction for food domain knowledge: ontologies, recipes
  
• Recipe and food domain knowledge extraction from text (natural language processing)
  
• Reasoning for changing recipes, dealing with nutritional aspects, health
  
• Interfaces for monitoring food intake and promoting healthy eating
  
• Shared autonomy for cooking and eating in the real world
  
• Interfaces for food related AI systems (HCI)
  
• Food manipulation and cooking skill learning for robots (robot learning)

Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to): 

• Cooking robots
  
• Assistive feeding robots
  
• Every day cooking and high-end meal creation
  
• Recipe retrieval, design and creation
  
• Cooking for health and sustainability
  
• Cooking as entertainment
  

Important Dates

April 30, 2019 - (Anywhere on Earth time) - Paper submission deadline

May 7, 2019 - Notification of acceptance

June 15, 2019 - (Anywhere on Earth time) - Camera ready

August 10-12, 2019  -  Workshop

Submission:

We solicit 2-4 page extended abstracts of past, recently completed  or on-going work with contributions to any of the topics above. Please format your paper using IJCAI style files (available here). Our criteria of acceptance depend on the significance and contributions of the participants’ research work as well as the relevance to the workshop theme. If in doubt about whether your extended abstract is in scope for the workshop, please contact us directly. 

Please submit extended abstracts through: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIXFOOD2019

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ijcai2019aixfood/home
Workshop location: Macao, China
The workshop is part of IJCAI-19 (https://ijcai19.org/).
Contact: Michael Spranger < michael[dot]spranger[at]gmail[dot]com >

------------------ Organizing Committee ------------------

Henny Admoni (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tapomayukh "Tapo" Bhattacharjee (University of Washington)
Katerina Fragkiadaki (Carnegie Mellon University)
Oliver Kroemer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Michael Spranger (Sony)