project idea

I'm Peggy, from ubicomp lab, researching on HCI (human-computer interaction). I'd like to have the final project of this course be related to my research:

• Pei-yu Chi, Jen-hao Chen, Hao-hua Chu, Bing-Yu Chen. Enabling nutrition-aware cooking in a smart kitchen. in ACM SIGCHI 2007 extended abstract, April, 2007. (pdf)
• Jen-hao Chen, Keng-hao Chang, Pei-yu Chi, Hao-hua Chu. A smart kitchen to promote healthy cooking. Poster Paper & Adjunct Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UBICOMP 2006), California, September, 2006. (pdf)

We have a "smart kitchen" in lab336/338 in CSIE building. What we are trying to do is to recognize cooking activities and then provide nutrition awareness to family cook, for promoting healhty cooking. Currently we only make use of weight transference detection to do activity recognition, which is obvious not enough for accuracy. Thus, in this course, I'd like to make use of video analysis and indexing techniques to improve activity recognition.
I've searched for related works about cooking video indexing (shown in the previous post,) and I'm still figuring out what can be done/improved/applied into my research.