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This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform bene... more This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It also assesses the Agrarian Production Credit Program, which is a program being implemented in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and the Land Bank of the Philippines for ARBs using agrarian reform beneficiary organizations as retailers. Moreover, the study determines specific gaps and issues related to meeting the credit needs of smallholders and identifies possible strategic interventions by both government and the private sector that can enhance smallholders' access to financial services.
The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further ... more The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. They are being circulated in a limited number of copies only for purposes of soliciting comments and suggestions for further refinements. The studies under the Series are unedited and unreviewed. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Not for quotation without permission from the author(s) and the Institute.
This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform bene... more This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It also assesses the Agrarian Production Credit Program, which is a program being implemented in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and the Land Bank of the Philippines for ARBs using agrarian reform beneficiary organizations as retailers. Moreover, the study determines specific gaps and issues related to meeting the credit needs of smallholders and identifies possible strategic interventions by both government and the private sector that can enhance smallholders' access to financial services.
The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further ... more The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. They are being circulated in a limited number of copies only for purposes of soliciting comments and suggestions for further refinements. The studies under the Series are unedited and unreviewed. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Not for quotation without permission from the author(s) and the Institute.
Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications V, 2008
In this paper we provide an overview of a content-based retrieval (CBR) system that has been spec... more In this paper we provide an overview of a content-based retrieval (CBR) system that has been specifically designed for handling UAV video and associated meta-data. Our emphasis in designing this system is on managing large quantities of such information and providing intuitive and efficient access mechanisms to this content, rather than on analysis of the video content. The retrieval unit in our system is termed a "trip". At capture time, each trip consists of an MPEG-1 video stream and a set of time stamped GPS locations. An analysis process automatically selects and associates GPS locations with the video timeline. The indexed trip is then stored in a shared trip repository. The repository forms the backend of a MPEG-21 1 compliant Web 2.0 application for subsequent querying, browsing, annotation and video playback. The system interface allows users to search/browse across the entire archive of trips and, depending on their access rights, to annotate other users' trips with additional information. Interaction with the CBR system is via a novel interactive map-based interface. This interface supports content access by time, date, region of interest on the map, previously annotated specific locations of interest and combinations of these. To develop such a system and investigate its practical usefulness in real world scenarios, clearly a significant amount of appropriate data is required. In the absence of a large volume of UAV data with which to work, we have simulated UAV-like data using GPS tagged video content captured from moving vehicles.
Pattern Recognition, 2002
The Centre for Digital Video Processing at Dublin City University conducts concentrated research ... more The Centre for Digital Video Processing at Dublin City University conducts concentrated research and development in the area of digital video management. The current stage of development is demonstrated on our Web-based digital video system called Físchlár [1], which provides for efficient recording, analysing, browsing and viewing of digitally captured television programmes. Advertisement breaks during or between television programmes are typically recognised by a series of 'black' video frames simultaneously accompanying a depression in audio volume which separate each advertisement from one another by recurrently occurring before and after each individual advertisement. It is the regular prevalence of these flags that enables automatic differentiation between what is programme and what is a commercial break. This paper reports on the progress made in the development of this idea into an advertisement detector system that automatically detects the commercial breaks from the bitstream of digitally captured television broadcasts.
In this paper we describe past and present work dealing with the use of textual resources, out of... more In this paper we describe past and present work dealing with the use of textual resources, out of which semantic information can be extracted in order to provide for semantic annotation and indexing of associated image or video material. Since the emergence of semantic web technologies and resources, entities, relations and events extracted from textual resources by means of Information Extraction (IE) can now be marked up with semantic classes derived from ontologies, and those classes can be used for the semantic annotation and indexing of related image and video material. More recently our work aims additionally at taking into account extracted Audio-Video (A/V) features (such as motion, audio-pitch, close-up, etc.) to be combined with the results of Ontology-Based Information Extraction for the annotation and indexing of specific event types. As extraction of A/V features is then supported by textual evidence, and possibly also the other way around, our work can be considered as going towards a "crossmedia feature extraction", which can be guided by shared ontologies (Multimedia, Linguistic and Domain ontologies).
In this paper we present different sources of information complementary to audiovisual (A/V) stre... more In this paper we present different sources of information complementary to audiovisual (A/V) streams and propose their usage for enriching A/V data with semantic concepts in order to bridge the gap between low-level video analysis and high-level analysis. Our aim is to extract crossmedia feature descriptors from semantically enriched and aligned resources so as to detect finer-grained events in video. We introduce an architecture for complementary resources analysis and discuss domain dependency aspects of this approach connected to our initial domain of soccer broadcasts.
Proceedings of …, 2001
As a partner in the Centre for Digital Video Processing, the Visual Media Processing Group at Dub... more As a partner in the Centre for Digital Video Processing, the Visual Media Processing Group at Dublin City University conducts research and development in the area of digital video management. The current stage of development is demonstrated on our Web-based digital video system called Físchlár [1,2], which provides for efficient recording, analyzing, browsing and viewing of digitally captured television programmes. In order to make the browsing of programme material more efficient, users have requested the option of automatically deleting advertisement breaks. Our initial work on this task focused on locating ad-breaks by detecting patterns of silent black frames which separate individual advertisements and/or complete ad-breaks in most commercial TV stations. However, not all TV stations use silent, black frames to flag ad-breaks. We therefore decided to attempt to detect advertisements using the rate of shot cuts in the digitised TV signal. This paper describes the implementation and performance of both methods of ad-break detection.
A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has highlighted the food ... more A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production will have to increase by 70 percent in 2050 to keep up with a global population that is projected to grow from 6 billion to 9 billion. There has to be more investments in agriculture to improve productivity, which will be critical to the goal of achieving food security. There is scope for governments and the private sector cooperation in food production. The paper discusses innovative financing schemes geared to food production and identifies policy gaps, that is, areas where governments could intervene to enhance the workings of the market.
Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Ea... more Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Asia, the paper tries to find out how those institutions and their clientele have been affected by the global financial crisis, how they have coped with the ongoing crisis, and what they plan to do in the future to ensure the stability of the rural financial system and the continuing access of clients to financial services. The microfinance sector in Asia continues to evolve with emphasis on efficiency and strong growth in outreach. The limited data from the quick survey validate the growth in loan portfolios and increase in the number of clients, with growth varying significantly by country depending on internal and external factors during the period before the global financial crisis. Impacts vary depending on external and internal factors faced by RFIs and MFIs. However, they continue to maintain a positive attitude and expect that business will pick up as a result of an increase i...
The current global financial crisis has hit both the real and financial sectors with unexpected s... more The current global financial crisis has hit both the real and financial sectors with unexpected severity and uncharacteristic speed, not ever witnessed since the Great Depression of the twentieth century. A World Bank update for East Asia in the wake of the global financial crisis likened the coping being taken by countries that have been impacted by the crisis to "navigating the perfect storm". The paper provides an analysis of the impact of the global financial crisis on the rural and microfinance sector in East and South Asia. It draws some lessons therein for policy makers, bank regulators and the rural financial institutions and microfinance and provides recommendations for sustainable rural and microfinance operation amid a challenging financial environment.
Development Economics Working Papers, 2010
Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes s... more Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. They are being circulated in a limited number of copies only for purposes of soliciting comments and suggestions for further refinements. The studies under the Series are unedited and unreviewed. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Not for quotation without permission from the author(s) and the Institute.
This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform bene... more This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It also assesses the Agrarian Production Credit Program, which is a program being implemented in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and the Land Bank of the Philippines for ARBs using agrarian reform beneficiary organizations as retailers. Moreover, the study determines specific gaps and issues related to meeting the credit needs of smallholders and identifies possible strategic interventions by both government and the private sector that can enhance smallholders' access to financial services.
The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further ... more The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. They are being circulated in a limited number of copies only for purposes of soliciting comments and suggestions for further refinements. The studies under the Series are unedited and unreviewed. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Not for quotation without permission from the author(s) and the Institute.
This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform bene... more This paper looks at the existing credit programs for smallholders, including agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It also assesses the Agrarian Production Credit Program, which is a program being implemented in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and the Land Bank of the Philippines for ARBs using agrarian reform beneficiary organizations as retailers. Moreover, the study determines specific gaps and issues related to meeting the credit needs of smallholders and identifies possible strategic interventions by both government and the private sector that can enhance smallholders' access to financial services.
The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further ... more The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. They are being circulated in a limited number of copies only for purposes of soliciting comments and suggestions for further refinements. The studies under the Series are unedited and unreviewed. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Not for quotation without permission from the author(s) and the Institute.
Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications V, 2008
In this paper we provide an overview of a content-based retrieval (CBR) system that has been spec... more In this paper we provide an overview of a content-based retrieval (CBR) system that has been specifically designed for handling UAV video and associated meta-data. Our emphasis in designing this system is on managing large quantities of such information and providing intuitive and efficient access mechanisms to this content, rather than on analysis of the video content. The retrieval unit in our system is termed a "trip". At capture time, each trip consists of an MPEG-1 video stream and a set of time stamped GPS locations. An analysis process automatically selects and associates GPS locations with the video timeline. The indexed trip is then stored in a shared trip repository. The repository forms the backend of a MPEG-21 1 compliant Web 2.0 application for subsequent querying, browsing, annotation and video playback. The system interface allows users to search/browse across the entire archive of trips and, depending on their access rights, to annotate other users' trips with additional information. Interaction with the CBR system is via a novel interactive map-based interface. This interface supports content access by time, date, region of interest on the map, previously annotated specific locations of interest and combinations of these. To develop such a system and investigate its practical usefulness in real world scenarios, clearly a significant amount of appropriate data is required. In the absence of a large volume of UAV data with which to work, we have simulated UAV-like data using GPS tagged video content captured from moving vehicles.
Pattern Recognition, 2002
The Centre for Digital Video Processing at Dublin City University conducts concentrated research ... more The Centre for Digital Video Processing at Dublin City University conducts concentrated research and development in the area of digital video management. The current stage of development is demonstrated on our Web-based digital video system called Físchlár [1], which provides for efficient recording, analysing, browsing and viewing of digitally captured television programmes. Advertisement breaks during or between television programmes are typically recognised by a series of 'black' video frames simultaneously accompanying a depression in audio volume which separate each advertisement from one another by recurrently occurring before and after each individual advertisement. It is the regular prevalence of these flags that enables automatic differentiation between what is programme and what is a commercial break. This paper reports on the progress made in the development of this idea into an advertisement detector system that automatically detects the commercial breaks from the bitstream of digitally captured television broadcasts.
In this paper we describe past and present work dealing with the use of textual resources, out of... more In this paper we describe past and present work dealing with the use of textual resources, out of which semantic information can be extracted in order to provide for semantic annotation and indexing of associated image or video material. Since the emergence of semantic web technologies and resources, entities, relations and events extracted from textual resources by means of Information Extraction (IE) can now be marked up with semantic classes derived from ontologies, and those classes can be used for the semantic annotation and indexing of related image and video material. More recently our work aims additionally at taking into account extracted Audio-Video (A/V) features (such as motion, audio-pitch, close-up, etc.) to be combined with the results of Ontology-Based Information Extraction for the annotation and indexing of specific event types. As extraction of A/V features is then supported by textual evidence, and possibly also the other way around, our work can be considered as going towards a "crossmedia feature extraction", which can be guided by shared ontologies (Multimedia, Linguistic and Domain ontologies).
In this paper we present different sources of information complementary to audiovisual (A/V) stre... more In this paper we present different sources of information complementary to audiovisual (A/V) streams and propose their usage for enriching A/V data with semantic concepts in order to bridge the gap between low-level video analysis and high-level analysis. Our aim is to extract crossmedia feature descriptors from semantically enriched and aligned resources so as to detect finer-grained events in video. We introduce an architecture for complementary resources analysis and discuss domain dependency aspects of this approach connected to our initial domain of soccer broadcasts.
Proceedings of …, 2001
As a partner in the Centre for Digital Video Processing, the Visual Media Processing Group at Dub... more As a partner in the Centre for Digital Video Processing, the Visual Media Processing Group at Dublin City University conducts research and development in the area of digital video management. The current stage of development is demonstrated on our Web-based digital video system called Físchlár [1,2], which provides for efficient recording, analyzing, browsing and viewing of digitally captured television programmes. In order to make the browsing of programme material more efficient, users have requested the option of automatically deleting advertisement breaks. Our initial work on this task focused on locating ad-breaks by detecting patterns of silent black frames which separate individual advertisements and/or complete ad-breaks in most commercial TV stations. However, not all TV stations use silent, black frames to flag ad-breaks. We therefore decided to attempt to detect advertisements using the rate of shot cuts in the digitised TV signal. This paper describes the implementation and performance of both methods of ad-break detection.
A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has highlighted the food ... more A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production will have to increase by 70 percent in 2050 to keep up with a global population that is projected to grow from 6 billion to 9 billion. There has to be more investments in agriculture to improve productivity, which will be critical to the goal of achieving food security. There is scope for governments and the private sector cooperation in food production. The paper discusses innovative financing schemes geared to food production and identifies policy gaps, that is, areas where governments could intervene to enhance the workings of the market.
Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Ea... more Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Asia, the paper tries to find out how those institutions and their clientele have been affected by the global financial crisis, how they have coped with the ongoing crisis, and what they plan to do in the future to ensure the stability of the rural financial system and the continuing access of clients to financial services. The microfinance sector in Asia continues to evolve with emphasis on efficiency and strong growth in outreach. The limited data from the quick survey validate the growth in loan portfolios and increase in the number of clients, with growth varying significantly by country depending on internal and external factors during the period before the global financial crisis. Impacts vary depending on external and internal factors faced by RFIs and MFIs. However, they continue to maintain a positive attitude and expect that business will pick up as a result of an increase i...
The current global financial crisis has hit both the real and financial sectors with unexpected s... more The current global financial crisis has hit both the real and financial sectors with unexpected severity and uncharacteristic speed, not ever witnessed since the Great Depression of the twentieth century. A World Bank update for East Asia in the wake of the global financial crisis likened the coping being taken by countries that have been impacted by the crisis to "navigating the perfect storm". The paper provides an analysis of the impact of the global financial crisis on the rural and microfinance sector in East and South Asia. It draws some lessons therein for policy makers, bank regulators and the rural financial institutions and microfinance and provides recommendations for sustainable rural and microfinance operation amid a challenging financial environment.
Development Economics Working Papers, 2010
Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes s... more Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas The PIDS Discussion Paper Series constitutes studies that are preliminary and subject to further revisions. They are being circulated in a limited number of copies only for purposes of soliciting comments and suggestions for further refinements. The studies under the Series are unedited and unreviewed. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. Not for quotation without permission from the author(s) and the Institute.