
The Brown University Pattern Theory Group was founded in 1972 by Ulf Grenander. Since then many others, from Brown and elsewhere, have participated. Below is a partial listing of these participants.
Brown University Faculty
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Elie Bienenstock,
Brown University Compositional Models, Neuroscience |
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Stuart Geman,
Brown University Machine and Natural Vision, Compositionality, Statistics |
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Basilis Gidas,
Brown University |
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Ulf Grenander,
Brown University |
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Chip Lawrence,
Brown University Bayesian Statistics, Computational Biology |
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Donald McClure,
Brown University Image Processing, Computer Vision |
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David Mumford,
Brown University Pattern Theory, Image Statistics & Scale Invariance, Neuroscience, Shape Spaces |
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Eran Borenstein,
Brown University
Post-doctoral fellow

Luis Carvalho,
Brown University
Advisor: Chip Lawrence

Matt Feiszli,
Brown University
Advisor: David Mumford

Sergey Kushnarev,
Brown University
Advisor: David Mumford

Michael Lamar,
Brown University
Advisor: Elie Bienenstock

Zheng Li,
Brown University
Advisor: Donald McClure

Heng Lian,
Brown University
Advisor: Chip Lawrence

Mario Micheli,
Brown University
Advisor: David Mumford

Yanchun Wu,
Brown University
Advisor: Stuart Geman

Wei Zhang,
Brown University
Advisor: Stuart Geman
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Matt Harrison,
Carnegie Mellon University Ioannis Kontoyiannis,
Athens University of Economics & Business Mokshay Madiman,
Yale University Eitan Sharon,
Technion - Israel Institute of Tehcnology
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Asohan Amarasingham,
Rutgers University
Neuroscience

Yali Amit,
University of Chicago
Image Analysis, Deformable Templates

Zhiyi Chi,
University of Connecticut
Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, Large Deviations

Donald Geman,
Johns Hopkins University
Computer Vision,
Bioinformatics,
Statistical Learning

Compositionality, Statistics, Information Theory, Neuroscience

Information Theory, Applied Probability, Statistics

Information Theory and Applied Probability

Computer Vision, Shape Spaces

Anuj
Srivastava,
Florida State University
Pattern Theory, Computer Vision, Statistics

Yuri Tarnopolsky
Pattern Theory, Chemistry, and History