Dear Hoover, could you please circulate over CVNet
Many thanks
Tim Meese
Here is the provisional programme for this year's AVA Christmas Meeting at
Aston. I would be most grateful if those of you who would like to attend,
but have not yet informed me, would do so as soon as possible (contact
details at bottom of message). Registration fees below (payable by overseas
visitors on the day, but for others, in advance by cheque to 'Applied
Vision Association'):
AVA Members
Regular 15 pounds
Student 10 pounds
AVA non-Members
Regular 25 pounds
Student 15 pounds
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T H E F O U R T H A V A C H R I S T M A S M E E T I N G
F R O M S E N S A T I O N
T O P E R C E P T I O N
Tues Dec 21st
Vision Sciences
Aston University
Birmingham
UK
Contact info:
http://www.aston.ac.uk/contact/
Provisional Timetable
10.20 - 10.55: Registration
Trade Stand (all day)
TrackSys Ltd: iView and EyeLink Eye Tracking Systems
10.55 - 11.00: Welcome
Tim Meese
Session 1: Spatial vision
Chair: Steve Anderson
11.00 - 11.30 (Invited Talk)
Blur discrimination and its relation to blur-mediated depth perception
George Mather
11.30 - 11.45
Perceived contrast of filtered natural images
Tom Troscianko, Mazviita Chirimuuta, Alejandro Parraga & David Tolhurst
11.45 - 12.00
Psychophysics of change detection in multiple Gabor target arrays
Michael Wright, Alison Green & Stephen Baker
12.00 - 12.15
Fourth-root summation for stimulus patches that are distant in position and
orientation
Tim Meese
12.15 - 12.30
What and where is adaptation? A contrast gain control model of the tilt
aftereffect
Mark Georgeson
12.30 - 1.30
Lunch, posters and the Aston MEG Lab
Session 2: Motion, Form & Colour
Chair: Tom Troscianko
1.30 - 2.00 (Invited Talk)
Human motion perception: Currents in the stream
David Badcock
2.00 - 2.15
Speed gain control via nulling of opponent and non-opponent processes in a
model of motion perception
Keith Langley
2.15 - 2.30
Evidence for object-based selection operating on a grouped array of
locations
R B O'Grady & H J M¸ller
2.30 - 2.45
Spatial resolution and metamerism in coloured natural scenes
M G A Thomson, S. Westland & J. Shaw
2.45 - 3.00
Psychological colour space is physical colour space
Lewis D. Griffin
3.00 - 3.30
Coffee and posters
Session 3: Motion, heading and action
Chair: Mark Bradshaw
3.30 - 4.00 (Invited Talk)
Heading in the right direction?
Brian Rogers
4.00 - 4.15
Is heading information necessary for timing behaviour?
Christos D. Giachritsis
4.15 - 4.30
Fixation could simplify, not complicate, the interpretation of retinal flow
A Glennerster, M E Hansard & A W Fitzgibbon
4.30 - 4.45
The onset repulsion effect
I. M. Thornton
4.45 - 5.00
What information do we use during interception of an approaching projectile?
Simon K. Rushton & Mark F. Bradshaw
5.00 - 5.15
The Aston MEG system
Ian Holliday
5.15 ->
Posters and wine
Posters will include:
Effect on visual function of laser flash from devices containing
optical limiters
Eric P Liggins
A linear mechanism for Gabor-patch alignment in amblyopia
Ariella V. Popple & Dennis M. Levi
Modelling the detection of blur in natural scenes: whitened kurtosis and
the rectified contrast spectrum
R J Summers & M G A Thomson
Contrast discrimination and summation
Tim Meese, David Holmes, Cristyn Williams, & Robert Hess
The extent of motion integration depends upon contrast
A M Goodwin, S M Wuerger, M Bertamini
Myopia in young children
John Ross Ainsworth and Jane Marr
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Dr Tim Meese Voice: +44 (0)121 359 3611 X5421
Neurosciences Research Institute Fax: +44 (0)121 333 4220
Vision Sciences e-mail: t.s.meese@aston.ac.uk
Aston University
Aston Triangle http://www.vs.aston.ac.uk/Staff/TMeese.html
Birmingham
B4 7ET UK
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