In recent years several speech recognition systems that use visual
together with audio information showed significant increase in performance
over the standard speech recognition systems. The use
of visual features is justified by both the bimodality of the speech
generation and by the need of features that are invariant to acoustic
noise perturbation. The audio-visual speech recognition system
presented in this paper introduces a novel audio-visual fusion
technique that uses a coupled hidden Markov model (HMM). The
statistical properties of the coupled-HMM allow us to model the
state asynchrony of the audio and visual observations sequences
In recent years several speech recognition systems that use visual
together with audio information showed significant increase in performance
over the standard speech recognition systems. The use
of visual features is justified by both the bimodality of the speech
generation and by the need of features that are invariant to acoustic
noise perturbation. The audio-visual speech recognition system
presented in this paper introduces a novel audio-visual fusion
technique that uses a coupled hidden Markov model (HMM). The
statistical properties of the coupled-HMM allow us to model the
state asynchrony of the audio and visual observations sequences
In recent years several speech recognition systems that use visual
together with audio information showed significant increase in performance
over the standard speech recognition systems. The use
of visual features is justified by both the bimodality of the speech
generation and by the need of features that are invariant to acoustic
noise perturbation. The audio-visual speech recognition system
presented in this paper introduces a novel audio-visual fusion
technique that uses a coupled hidden Markov model (HMM). The
statistical properties of the coupled-HMM allow us to model the
state asynchrony of the audio and visual observations sequences
This paper deals with the biomimetic inspired design of solar panel which takes it roots from the nature. Fibonacci numbers are natures numbering system, they appear everywhere in nature from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flowers. This arrangement in the plants help them to perform photosynthesis more effectively. Our team has observed the process in the nature and mimicked the design. The leaves on this plant are staggered in a spiral pattern to permit optimal exposure to sunlight. If we apply the Golden Ratio to a circle we can see how it is that this plant exhibits Fibonacci qualities. Our design consists of a tree shaped structure and solar panels placed at their Fibonacci positions for optimal efficiency. Our design also deals with a hybrid integration of wind power unlike the traditional turbines which cut the winds, which have many disadvantages citing to operational, maintenance and environmental issues. It uses the natural cantilever principle to generate energy.