This paper presents a bimodal acoustic-visual synthesis technique that concurrently generates the acoustic speech signal and a 3D animation of the speaker’s outer face. This is done by concatenating bimodal diphone units that consist of both acoustic and visual information. In the visual domain, we mainly focus on the dynamics of the face rather than on rendering. The proposed technique overcom...

Surfactant deficiency contributes to acute lung injury and may result from the elaboration of bioactive lipids such as oxysterols. We observed that the oxysterol 22-hydroxycholesterol (22-HC) in combination with its obligate partner, 9-cis-retinoic acid (9-cis-RA), decreased surfactant phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) synthesis by increasing phosphorylation of the regulatory enzyme CTP:phosphocholi...

This paper suggests an automated design methodology for synthesizing designs for multi-domain systems, such as mechatronic systems. The domain of mechatronic systems includes mixtures of, for example, electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and thermal components, making it difficult to design a system to meet specified performance goals with a single design tool. The multi-domain design ...

The increase in prominence of model-driven software development (MDSD) has placed emphasis on the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) during the development process. DSMLs allow for domain concepts to be conceptualized and represented at a high level of abstraction. Currently, most DSML models are converted into high-level languages (HLLs) through a series of model-to-model and/or...

Most analogue systems are designed manually because automatic circuit synthesis tools are presently available for only a limited range of design problems. This paper presents a new approach to circuit synthesis based on Genetic Algorithms. Using this method it is possible in principle to synthesize circuits to meet any linear or non-linear, frequency-domain or time-domain, specification. When a...

Time-frequency concentration operators restrict the integral analysis-synthesis formula for short-time Fourier transform to a given compact domain. We estimate how much corresponding eigenvalue counting function deviates from Lebesgue measure