The Center for Vision Research, part of Brown’s interdisciplinary Institute for
Brain Science, promotes and facilitates research on biological vision,
computational aspects of machine vision, visual disorders, and the brain
mechanisms underlying vision. The CVR provides in-depth training in vision
research to postdoctoral fellows, medical residents, graduate students, and
undergraduates, and serves as a unifying organization spanning traditional
departments, as well helping to bridge the gap between basic research and
clinical practice.
Vision Research at Brown includes over 30 faculty from 10 departments. What
sets the Brown vision community apart is the unusually strong interactions
between departments, and especially between faculty members in more
quantitative disciplines (e.g. applied math, computer science, engineering,
physics) and faculty in more biological or behavior-oriented disciplines (e.g.
cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology). Our goal is to nurture
multidisciplinary and translational research. Examples include theoretical
studies of vision and visual plasticity in concert with experimental tests;
biologically-inspired vision models implemented in artificial systems; and models
of visual-cortical processing to address "high-level" visual deficits in
developmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The Center for Vision Research in concert with the Institute for Brain Science
supports the research of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral
fellows through fellowships and a training grant.
The research environment is enhanced by a CVR colloquium series, in addition
to department-based seminars, that brings prominent vision researchers from
diverse disciplines to Brown.
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Contact CVR:
Center for Vision Research
Brown Institute for Brain Science
Box 1953, Providence RI 02912
TEL: 401.863.1329
FAX: 401.863.6481
