Sixth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: annotated provisional agenda

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A rank aggregation framework for video multimodal geocoding

This paper proposes a rank aggregation framework for video multimodal geocoding. Textual and visual descriptions associated with videos are used to define ranked lists. These ranked lists are later combined, and the resulting ranked list is used to define appropriate locations for videos. An architecture that implements the proposed framework is designed. In this architecture, there are specific modules for each modality (e.g, textual and visual) that can be developed and evolved independently. Another component is a data fusion module responsible for combining seamlessly the ranked lists defined for each modality. We have validated the proposed framework in the context of the MediaEval 2012 Placing Task, whose objective is to automatically assign geographical coordinates to videos. Obtained results show how our multimodal approach improves the geocoding results when compared to methods that rely on a single modality (either textual or visual descriptors). We also show that the proposed multimodal approach yields comparable results to the best submissions to the Placing Task in 2012 using no extra information besides the available development/training data. Another contribution of this work is related to the proposal of a new effectiveness evaluation measure. The proposed measure is based on distance scores that summarize how effective a designed/tested approach is, considering its overall result for a test dataset. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Annotated provisional agenda

Includes bibliography

Annotated provisional agenda

Includes bibliography

Annotated provisional agenda

Includes bibliography

Annotated provisional agenda

The ninth session of the Regional Conference also has the function of reviewing the implementation of the international commitments undertaken in the Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, adopted at the sixth session of the Regional Conference in 1994 and reaffirmed in 2000 in the Lima Consensus. The ninth session of the Regional Conference will also give the participants an opportunity to agree on the regional input to be provided to the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March 2005.

Annotated provisional agenda

Includes bibliography

Annotated provisional agenda

Includes bibliography