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Optical Society of America Annual Meeting
The OSA Annual Meeting will be held in Dallas, TX on October 2
through 7. The abstract deadline is April 11, but this year
the abstract has been shortened to 50 words. Information on
electronic submission can be obtained by sending the message
SENDME ABSTRACT.INSTRUCTIONS
to osamtg@osa.org
In addition to symposia (listed below) contributed papers are
welcome in all areas of Vision. Talks will begin on Sunday and
we will attempt to finish the entire vision related program by
Wednesday afternoon. Discussion sessions will be organized in
closer proximity to the talks. In general there are 100 to 150
Vision related papers at the Annual Meeting.
Symposia Topics
Functional Brain Imaging by Magnetic Resonance (Marg)
-Experience with Functional MRI of the Human Visual Brain at
Medical College of Wisconsin (De Yoe); Experience with
Functional MRI of the Human Visual Brain at Stanford
University (Wandell); Experience with Functional MRI
of the Human Visual Brain at Harvard University (Tootell)
Vision and Aging (Sekuler)
-Spatial Vision in the Elderly (Owsley); Aging of
the Human Retina (Curcio); Color and Light
Perception in the Elderly (Werner)
Color Appearance and Color Discrimination (Smith)
-Tests of a Cone Contrast Model of Color Discrimination and
Color Appearance (Eskew); Color Constancy in the
Natural Image (Brainard)
Temporal Phase Relations in Visual Channels (Eskew)
-Large Cone Phase Shifts Transform Moving Chromatic Gratings
into Luminance Gratings (Stromeyer); Cone Phase
Lags, Temporal Frequency Responses and the Functional
Organization of the Visual Pathway (Stockman)
Surface Structure and Surface Appearance (Zaidi)
-Visual Flatness of Diffuse Surfaces (Nayar)
Application for Vision Research to Digital Image Compression
(Stan Klein)
-tutorial - Applications of Vision Research to Digital
Image Compression (Watson), invited talks by Jeff
Lubin and Christof Zetsche
Combining Multiple Depth Cues (Kersten)
-Psychophysical Support for a Bayesian Framework for Depth
Cue Integration (Buelthoff); In defense of Weak
Fusion: Measurements and Modeling of Depth Cue
Combinations (Maloney); Bayesian Decision Theory for
Depth Cue Integrations (Yuille)
Manipulating the Eye's Optical System: Scientific, Industrial
and Clinical Challenges (R Applegate)
-Modeling the Eye as an Optical System (Grievenkamp);
Public Health Concerns Following Clinical Intervention
(Maguire); Designing Systems to Modify the Eye's
Optics (Telfair)
In addition we will be hosting a limited number of informal
Special Interest Groups. IF you have a topic that you would like
considered contact amember of the Technical COuncil listed below.
Rhea Eskew (eskew@neu.edu) Qasim Zaidi (qz@paradox.psych.columbia.edu),
Mike Landy (landy@nyu.edu
Ray Applegate (applegate@thorin.uthscsa.edu), Larry Thibos
(thibos@ucs.indiana.edu), Ken Alexander, (ken.alexander@uic.edu),
Lynn Olzak (olzak@cognet.ucla.edu), Steve Burns (sburns@vision.eri.harvard.edu)
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Steve Burns
Eye Research Institute
617-723-6078 x596
sburns@vision.eri.harvard.edu
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