Focus on Telecom 2009 & JFMMA

Empowering persons with disabilities through ICTs: UNESCO's pavilion at ITU Telecom World 2009, 5-9 October 2009, Geneva, Switzerland; 2009

Health indicators 2009: a focus on cardiac care in Canada.

Close to 18,000 Canadians die each year after having had a heart attack. Heart attacks are costly to the system: ischemic heart disease (including heart attacks) cost the Canadian healthcare system $8.1 billion in 2000. The Canadian Institute for Health Information's recently released Health Indicators 2009 includes new information relating to heart attacks. This article highlights some of the ...

Considerations on telecom modelling languages

Following the recommendation of the project technical reviewers, Mr. Rick Reed and Mr. Svein Hallsteinsen, to more explicitly take into account the established modelling languages in the telecom domain, this document consolidates information of relevance and establishes the relationship of Model Drive Architecture (MDA) and the Unified Modelling Language (UML) to the telecom languages. The lang...

The France Telecom Orange Labs ( Beijing ) Video High - level Feature Extraction Systems – TrecVid 2009 Notebook Paper

In this paper, we described the video high-level feature extraction systems developed at France Telecom Orange Labs (Beijing). In our systems, four categories of lowlevel visual features, namely color, edge, texture and SIFT local descriptors, were extracted. Two approaches to fusing the representative capabilities of these visual features were investigated for different runs. Under the setting...

TELECOM ParisTech at ImageClef 2009: Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task

In this paper we describe the participation of TELECOM ParisTech in the Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task at the ImageClef 2009 challenge. This year, the focus was in the extension of (i) the amount of data available for training and testing, and (ii) the number of concepts to be annotated. We use Canonical Correlation Analysis in order to infer a latent space where text ...