In this paper, we describe the ICSI/Berkeley video location estimation system presented at the MediaEval 2012 Placing Task. We describe the graphical model based framework that poses the geo-tagging problem as inference over the graph. Our algorithm jointly estimates the geo-locations of all the test videos, which helps obtain performance improvements over existing algorithms in the literature ...

Years of industrialization and reliance on energies such as oil coal have resulted in global pollution an unprecedented scale. Carbon footprint, destruction forests, melting away ice caps the North Pole, climate change persuaded many to adopt a more sustainable growth. In wake this catastrophe, “green” energy is phenomenon that takes step toward sustained development. Green consists innovative ...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

As in other areas, technological transformations, along with their high speed, have been incorporated into weapons systems throughout the global defense industry. However, it is not possible to know what extent new leaderships are undermining foundations of those that existed until now. Along this, changes geo-political and geo-economics spheres generating a reality which aspects such as intern...

Abstract In 2002, the interferometric gravitational wave detector GEO 600 took part in a coincident science run (S1) with other detectors world-wide. When completed, GEO will employ a dual-recycling scheme which will allow its peak sensitivity to be tuned over a range of frequencies in the detection band. Still in the commissioning phase, GEO was operated as a power-recycled Michelson for the d...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is unevenly distributed within populations with a higher burden in low socio-economy groups. Several attempts have been made to allocate resources to those that need them the most; there is a need for convenient approaches to population-based monitoring of caries risk over time. The aim of this study was to develop the geo-map concept, addressing time trends in caries r...

Image segmentation is a key prerequisite for object-based classification. However, it is often difficult, or even impossible, to determine a unique optimal segmentation scale due to the fact that various geo-objects, and even an identical geo-object, present at multiple scales in very high resolution (VHR) satellite images. To address this problem, this paper presents a novel unsupervised objec...