... defined for these Markov chains, using Fano's inequal-ity and the data processing inequality [5,8]:where |ΩS| is the cardinality of S, I the mutual informa-tion, and H the entropy. Since ... analyze jointly the audio and videoinformation to come to a decision. The problem is cast in a hypothesis testing framework, linked to informationtheory. The resulting classifier is based on the ... [5,8], is finallydefined:Maximizing e(FA, FV) still minimizes the lower bound on the error probability defined in Eq. (3) while constraininginter-feature independence. In other words, the extractedfeatures...