Istanbul 2013

Being There : the 2013 Anti - Government Protests in Istanbul , Turkey

By happenstance, we found ourselves in Istanbul, Turkey in early June 2013 only days after a mass anti-government protest developed in and around Gezi Park. In addition to informal discussions and interviews with academics and others, we visited the protest site and traveled throughout Istanbul to directly experience the atmosphere and events. We also conducted two studies of Turks’ participati...

Istanbul Declaration

2. However, it is with deep disappointment that, at the conclusion of this process, it is clear our voices have not been heard and reflected in the conference outcomes. The negotiations started with analyses of the failings of the Brussels Programme of Action, also reflected in UNCTAD’s LDC report 2010. These showed that development partners failed to deliver their commitments to provide adequa...

The Greening of Istanbul

Istanbul, August 1955

Istanbul Technical University at TRECVID2008

In this paper we describe the system designed by the ITU MSPR Group for content based video fingerprinting as applied to the TRECVID 2010 Content Based Copy Detection (CBCD) benchmark. This year focus of the system was on integration of audio and video fingerprinting to improve the robustness to attacks. The proposed system consists of three main modules: Audio/video fingerprint extraction, aud...