Dear Hoover,
I would be grateful if you could post this job advert on CVNET.
Many thanks,
Vicki Brearley
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PhD RESEARCH PROJECT TO WORK ON MESOPIC VISION
Applied Vision Research Centre,
City University, London
A three year Research Assistantship is available from August 1998 to
contribute to a study of mesopic vision (i.e., vision at low light
levels). It is expected that the work will lead to a PhD degree. The
aim is to develop and validate a model of visual performance that can
be used to establish visual scales in the mesopic range.
Experiments have been designed to establish how receptor signals in
the eye combine and interact to determine what is frequently labelled
as the "effective contrast", or visual conspicuity of the stimulus.
These experimental data will be used to test and improve existing
models of mesopic vision. Measurements of visual search performance in
the mesopic range will then be carried out and the correlation with
model predictions examined. The experimental work involves only
non-invasive assessment of human vision using visual psychophysical
techniques that employ visual display units and optically generated
stimuli.
The successful applicant should have an interest in human vision and
should have been awarded at least an upper second class degree in
physics, experimental psychology, computing or other relevant
discipline. Experience and interest in either vision, computing or
mathematical modelling or statistics would be an advantage. Enquiries
and application forms can be obtained from Vicki Brearley (see below).
Please send your curriculum vitae and the names of three referees to:
Vicki Brearley
Research Coordinator,
Applied Vision Research Centre,
City University,
311-321 Goswell Road,
London EC1V 7DD.
e-mail: V.K.Brearley@city.ac.uk
tel. +44-171-4778000 ext.4342
fax.+44-171-4778355