Third International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa 2017)

After the success of the past MADiMa workshops, we would like to present you the MADiMa2017 to be held with ICIAP2017. Food and nutrition are closely related to good health and wellness. Worldwide, the prevention of onset and progression of diet-related acute (e.g. food allergic reactions) and chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and cancer) requires reliable and intuitive dietary monitoring and management. The need for accurate, automatic, real-time and personalized dietary advice has been recently complemented by the advances in computer vision, machine learning, wearable devices and smartphone technologies, permitting the development of the first systems for diet monitoring, analysis and assessment using multimedia technologies. In the field of nutritional management, multimedia not only bridges diverse information and communication technologies, but also computer science with medicine, nutrition and dietetics. This confluence brings new challenges and opportunities on dietary management.