Statistical Pattern and Image Analysis Area / ISTL / PARC

Extracting content from document images Model-directed recognition
Recognition, compression, & retrieval Formal probabilistic models
Page layout and printed text Automatic inference of models
 
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The Statistical Pattern And Image Analysis research team and their principal interests:

Henry Baird Model-directed, retargetable document-image analysis
Tom Breuel Document layout, compression, pattern recognition, WWW
Prateek Sarkar Pattern recognition and document image analysis
Jeanette Figueroa Administrative assistance

The group was founded by Gary Kopec around the Document Image Decoding (DID) project, which was also the initial name for the group. In the last five years, these people have worked within the SPIA area for periods of at least six months:
  • Dan Bloomberg (retired)
  • Phil Chou (now with Microsoft Research)
  • Jia Li (now Asst Professor, Statistics Dept, Penn State Univ.)
  • Les Niles (now a self-employed consultant)
  • Kris Popat (now in the HDI area at PARC)
  • Taku Tokuyasu (now at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center)

In the last three years, these people have worked within the SPIA area for short periods, often as summer interns:
  • Tom Minka
  • Piyada Phanaphat
  • Lei Poo
  • Justin Romberg
  • Kristina Toutanova
  • Joel Young