Deadline still open!!!
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>From asking around I have the strong impression that many people who
would be very interested HAVE NOT SEEN the Call for Papers for the
Special Issue of the *Spatial Vision* Journal which we sent out on CVnet
last fall! So here is an urgent reminder. The deadline had been set to
Feb. 1, 1996.
SPATIAL VISION: CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on the use of display systems in visual psychophysics.
Guest Editor: Hans Strasburger
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In the last two decades, the ubiquity of computers has dramatically
changed our experimental approach to visual psychophysics. More flexible
and powerful techniques have become available, yet at the same time they
have revealed unexpected limitations. Some are due to the coarseness of
the visual interface, the CRT display: optical systems still offer far
better spatial and temporal resolution. More severe limitations,
however, result from our difficulties in handling the flexibility of
computer-controlled displays. The continous development of innumerable
incompatible software systems, tied to hardware that rapidly becomes
obsolescent, poses serious obstacles to creativity. Scientific
communications dealing with technical issues are widely scattered in the
literature, and are often to be found in methods journals that are not
always read by the psychophysics community.
This Special Issue of Spatial Vision provides a platform for encouraging
communications about computer-based experimental techniques. The CRT
display is the medium through which stimuli are presented and can thus
serve as a focus of thought.
Topics include
Spatial and temporal display characteristics
Software for psychophysical experimentation
Limitations of CRTs for visual psychophysics
Non-raster-scan CRTs
Use of displays in optical set-ups
Display calibration
Programming 3-D or `virtual reality'
Visualization
Simulation
Papers should be concerned with issues in spatial vision or motion, or
interactions of these with luminance, color, or flicker. Papers could
address issues in any of these areas, technical developments, or
problems. Tutorial-style informtion could be part (but not all) of a
paper.
Software and Hardware Notes
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In addition to full-length and short papers, there will be a `Software
and Hardware Notes' section. Descriptions of software packages by their
authors are expected to have two printed pages, with a maximum of three,
per major package; smaller packages should take less space. The editor
may condense the material. The description should include the package's
intended use, what platforms it runs on, its limitations, where it is
described in further detail, and so on. Apart from the obvious technical
information, specific emphasis should be on giving the experimenter a
flavour of how the software might be useful; how it would "fit in" with
the experimental environment. Thus, how would it link to other
packages? Who has used it? And which experiments have been realised with
it? Similar guidelines are applied for descriptions of hardware.
Manuscripts should be submitted not later than February 1, 1996, to:
Hans Strasburger | hans@groucho.imp.med.uni-muenchen.de
Inst. f. Medizinische Psychologie | Tel: (+49)(89) 5996-217
Goethestr. 31 | Fax: -615
D-80336 Muenchen, Germany | priv: (+49)(89) 48 59 19
For those readers who do not know the Journal, here is a shortened de-
scription:
SPATIAL VISION
An international journal of psychophysical, perceptual, and cognitive
research on the visual processing of spatial information
Editors-in-chief
Europe: USA:
David H. Foster Adam Reeves
Dept. of Communication and Dept. of Psychology
Neuroscience Northeastern University
Keele University Boston, Mass. 02115
Keele, Staff. ST% 5BG, UK USA
email: D.H.Foster@keele.ac.uk email: Reeves@neu.edu
Associate Editors
Terry M. Caelli (Perth) Lawrence E. Arend (Princeton)
Mario Ferraro (Turin) Walter F. Bischof (Edmonton)
Andrei Gorea (Paris) Patrick Cavanagh (Harvard)
Toshio Inui (Kyoto) Michael Landy (New York)
Keith H. Ruddock (London) Jeremy M. Wolfe (Boston)
Dov Sagi (Rehovot) Steven W. Zucker (Montreal)
Editorial Advisory Board
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Aims and Scope
*Spatial Vision* is an interdisciplinary journal aimed specifically at
the encouragement of communication between researchers on all aspects of
human spatial vision, from mathematical modelling, through biophysics
and the psychophysical analysis of visual processing, to the study of
cognitive aspects of perception and computer vision. Submission of both
theoretical and empirical papers is encouraged, as attention to signifi-
cant new developments or innovations in technique are also welcome.
Theoretical contributions to *Spatial Vision* should be firmly based on
experimental data, and mathematical arguments should be clearly presen-
ted and suffiently illustrated to be useful to the experimentalist. In
general, detailed mathematical arguments should be placed in appendices.
Experimental papers should be theoretically relevant and presented in a
manner which makes clear that relevance. Review articles and papers
dealing with matters of historical interest should emphasize the deve-
lopment of ideas in the field. From time to time, special issues dealing
with a single topic will be announced.
Publisher:
VSB BV, P.O. Box 346, 3700 AH Zeist, The Netherlands
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