Gender Equality and Human Development: The Instrumental Rationale

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Pemanfaatan teknologi komunikasi dan informasi di perpustakaan

This article discusses the rapid development of information technology, demands librarians and librarians to struggle and work harder in developing knowledge, skills and expertise in the fields of libraries, documentation and information, as well as information technology. Information and Communication Technology is a large umbrella terminology that includes all technical equipment for processing and conveying information. keywords: communication technology, information technolog

Generalized Max Pooling

State-of-the-art patch-based image representations involve a pooling operation that aggregates statistics computed from local descriptors. Standard pooling operations include sum- and max-pooling. Sum-pooling lacks discriminability because the resulting representation is strongly influenced by frequent yet often uninformative descriptors, but only weakly influenced by rare yet potentially highly-informative ones. Max-pooling equalizes the influence of frequent and rare descriptors but is only applicable to representations that rely on count statistics, such as the bag-of-visual-words (BOV) and its soft- and sparse-coding extensions. We propose a novel pooling mechanism that achieves the same effect as max-pooling but is applicable beyond the BOV and especially to the state-of-the-art Fisher Vector -- hence the name Generalized Max Pooling (GMP). It involves equalizing the similarity between each patch and the pooled representation, which is shown to be equivalent to re-weighting the per-patch statistics. We show on five public image classification benchmarks that the proposed GMP can lead to significant performance gains with respect to heuristic alternatives.Comment: (to appear) CVPR 2014 - IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (2014