Please circulate this meeting announcement:
Applied Vision Association Annual Conference 1996
"From Sensation to Visual Perception"
1-3 April 1996, University of Reading, UK
Call for papers
The growth in our understanding of the early processes in human vision is
suggesting constraints on our explanations of the later stages of vision,
which are attracting increasing attention from the machine vision as
well as the biological vision communities. Scientific papers are invited
from any area of vision research which can contribute to an understanding
of these problems, including:
* psychophysical studies which illuminate the relationship between early
and later visual processes
* physiological studies which bear on 'middle' and later stages of visual
perception
* clinical studies, for example of visual agnosias, which help in
understanding normal higher-level processes
* formal algorithms and connectionist models of the later stages of
visual perception
* hardware and software for generating displays suitable for studies of
higher-level visual processes
* applied studies of higher-level visual processes in the 'real world'
Professor Ken Nakayama, Harvard University, will give the Geoffrey J
Burton memorial lecture
Open contributions will also be accepted, on any vision-related topic. In
addition to talks, a poster/demonstration session (combined with
a reception) is planned, for which submissions from post-graduate students
would be especially welcome. The AVA committee intends to offer one or
more prizes of 50 pounds (depending on the number of submissions) for the
best post-graduate/post-doctoral posters or demonstrations.
Please send abstracts (200-300 words, deadline 6 December 1995) and
expressions of interest to:
Dr John Harris
Department of Psychology,
University of Reading,
Whiteknights,
Reading RG6 6AL, UK.
Tel: +44 1734 318522
Fax: +44 1734 316604
e-mail: sxsharis@reading.ac.uk