# Pattern Learning and Recognition on Statistical Manifolds: An Information-Geometric Review

@inproceedings{Nielsen2013PatternLA,
title={Pattern Learning and Recognition on Statistical Manifolds: An Information-Geometric Review},
author={Frank Nielsen},
year={2013}
}
• F. Nielsen
• Published in SIMBAD 3 July 2013
• Computer Science
We review the information-geometric framework for statistical pattern recognition: First, we explain the role of statistical similarity measures and distances in fundamental statistical pattern recognition problems. We then concisely review the main statistical distances and report a novel versatile family of divergences. Depending on their intrinsic complexity, the statistical patterns are learned by either atomic parametric distributions, semi-parametric finite mixtures, or non-parametric…
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