Workshop: Automated Dietary Monitoring – The grand challenge from lab to real-life solutions

March 4, 2018

This year’s workshop ‘Automated Dietary Monitoring – The grand challenge from lab to real-life solutions’ was held in conjunction with BSN 2018 in Las Vegas, USA on March 4, 2018. The event was co-organised by Oliver Amft, Samantha Kleinberg, Benny Lo, and Edison Thomaz. The event attracted substantial interest with a series of exiting talks and discussions.

General information: https://bhi-bsn.embs.org/2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2018/01/workshop1_slide_program.pdf

Programme and speakers:

8:20am – 8:30am	Welcome and introduction	Organizers
8:30am – 8:55am	Rethinking Sensor-based Dietary Monitoring. Are we moving the needle for clinically relevant applications?	Temiloluwa Prioleau, Rice University
8:55am – 9:20am	Diet monitoring in unconstrained environments	Abdelkareem Bedri, CMU
9:20am – 9:45am	Tracking Wrist Motion During Free Living to Detect and Measure Energy Intake	Adam Hoover, Clemson University
9:45am – 10:10am	Eating Detection with Wrist-Mounted Sensors: Challenges, Lessons Learned and Next Steps	Edison Thomaz, University of Texas at Austin
10:10am – 10:30am	Break & Poster session
10:30am – 10:55am	Top-down and bottom-up eating timing spotting in free-living using smart eyeglasses	Rui Zhang, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
10:55am – 11:20am	Auracle: a wearable device for detecting and monitoring eating behavior	David Kotz, Dartmouth College
11:20am – 11:45am	Multimodality Monitoring for Estimating Food Type in Daily Life	Samantha Kleinberg, Stevens Institute of Technology
11:45am – 12:00pm	Short break
12:00pm – 12:25pm	Wearable devices for monitoring dietary intake across the globe	Megan McCroy, Boston University
12:25pm – 12:50pm	Food detection in egocentric images using artificial intelligence technology	Wenyan Jia, University of Pittsburgh
12:50am – 1:10pm	Plenary discussion & planning	Organizers
1:10pm – 1:15pm	Conclusion	Organizers