Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Multimedia indexing and information retrieval for healthcare

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 ACM MM Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Information Retrieval for Healthcare -- MIIRH'13. This is the first workshop on Multimedia Information Indexing and Retrieval for Healthcare and is intended to establish a platform for the continued discussion of key research issues in multimedia for healthcare, remote monitoring and treatment. Multimodal monitoring for health can take place at home, but should be discreet, unobtrusive and personalized. Theoretical, i.e. research-oriented and practical, application-specific issues related to the extraction of lifestyle, behavior and health information from multimodal data will be examined. The setup of smart homes has become of great interest lately, as the latter need to ensure accurate, reliable, discreet and cost-efficient measurements, involving, among others, privacy protection and appropriate sensor placement. Marketing of multimodal remote monitoring options also needs to be examined carefully, as independent living at home, smart homes and remote care are forecast to gain importance in years to come. Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval research is now being oriented towards this application domain of primarily importance for the society. Workshop papers and presentations will focus on the analysis of multimodal data to obtain information pertinent to healthcare problems and also examine remote monitoring solutions. Personalization, unobtrusiveness, accuracy of analysis results, data storage, retrieval, transmission, marketability and privacy concerns are among the many topics that will be discussed. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers from all over the world to share information on their latest investigations on multimedia information retrieval and indexing with healthcare applications. MIIRH is held as a one day workshop with presentations from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm with breaks and a 1-hour lunch period. The call for papers attracted many submissions from Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas. The program committee accepted 10 papers that cover a variety of topics, including: recognition of daily living activities, analysis of therapy exercises, fall detection, context aware recommendation, experience sharing, and medical image retrieval. In addition to paper presentations, posters and demos, MIIRH will feature an invited keynote talk by Prof. Linda Shapiro on "Image Analysis for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications" as well as an invited talk by Prof. Jean-Francois Dartigues on "Dementia and Dependency: a Major Challenge for the 21st century". We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for healthcarerelated multimedia indexing and retrieval researchers and developers.