[visionlist] Provisional Programme: AVA Xmas Meeting UK

[Tim Meese]

Dear all - Apologies for multiple postings.

Here is the provisional programme for this year's AVA Christmas Meeting.

Its not too late to register, which you can do by 
sending an e-mail to either: 
t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk, or wallissa at aston.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you on the 18th Dec
(Please note we cannot accept payment by credit card on the day)

For further information go to: http://www.theava.net/

The Eleventh AVA Christmas Meeting
18th Dec 2006

Aston University
Birmingham
UK

6th Floor, Main Building
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

10.00
Registration & Morning Coffee (Café Lago)

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10.50 (Warwick Lecture Theatre)
Welcome and Business Meeting
Tim Meese

11.00
SESSION 1 (Chair: Stephen Anderson)

SR Research Ltd Guest Lecture
Frans A. J. Verstraten (University of Utrecht)
Is there a need to redefine the motion aftereffect

11.30
Ben T. Vincent, Tom Troscianko & Iain D. Gilchrist
Evaluating the weighted salience account of eye movements

11.45
Szonya Durant & Johannes M. Zanker
Determining effective motion-defined contours for the human visual system

12.00
Ian M. Thornton & J. D. I Storey
Navon in motion: Hierarchical processing of dynamic stimuli

12.15
Steve C. Dakin, Peter J. Bex, John Cass & Roger J. Watt
No role for attention in orientation crowding

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12.30 (Café Lago)
Lunch & Posters

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1.30 (Warwick Lecture Theatre)
SESSION 2 (Chair: Mark Georgeson)

CRS Guest Lecture
David J. Tolhurst (University of Cambridge)
Trying to model contrast discrimination dippers

2.00
Tim S. Meese
Human vision sums luminance contrast over area at detection threshold and above

2.15
William McIlhagga
Sampling, area summation, and contrast discrimination

2.30
Velitchko Manahilov, Gael Gordon, Julie Calvert & William A. Simpson
Subtractive suppression underlies contrast processing of visual stimuli

2.45
John B. Troy & J. Chen
Retinal ganglion cell properties at low scotopic light levels

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3.00 (Café Lago)
Afternoon tea and Posters

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3.30 (Warwick Lecture Theatre)
SESSION 3 (Chair: Johannes Zanker)

TrackSys Guest Lecture
Christopher W. Tyler (Smith-Kettlewell, San Fancisco)
A post-Bayesian analysis of perceptual estimation

4.00
Kevin R. Brooks & Richard I. Kemp
Detection of feature displacements in familiar and unfamiliar faces

4.15
Brian J. Rogers
The "uncurved lines" on Helmholtz's celestial sphere

4.30
M. S. Crosier & Lewis D. Griffin
Zipf's Law distribution of local structure in natural images

4.45
Tom Troscianko, Devin Martin & Innes Cuthill
No role for colour in symmetry perception?

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5.00 - late (Café Lago)
Wine reception & Posters

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Posters, in alphabetical order (Numbers on poster boards)
Poster board size: 117cm wide x 150cm high

1. Daniel H. Baker, Tim S. Meese, Behzad Mansouri & Robert F. Hess.
Monoptic, dichoptic & binocular masking in strabismic amblyopia

2. David Connah, Graham Finlayson & Marina Bloj
Coding contrast as brightness to convert colour images to greyscale

3. N. Daury & S. Bredart
Visual memory for people's body shape

4. Mark A. Georgeson, Tim A. Yates & Andrew J. Schofield
Depth propagation and surface construction in 3-D vision

5. Patrick R. Green, O. Drbohlav & M. Chantler
Perceived roughness of textured surfaces

6. John Harris, Lucy Campbell, Laura Dale & Deborah Parker
'Reading the game': judgements of pass trajectory 
in football are made in both egocentric and 
allocentric frames of reference

7. Claire V. Hutchinson, Curtis L. Baker & Tim Ledgeway
Response to combined first-order and second-order 
motion in visual cortex neurons

8. Jasna Martinovic, Marco Bertamini, Sophie Wuerger & Christopher Nolan
Integration of ordinal and metric cues in depth 
processing as a function of contour saliency

9. Joni. Karanaka, Simon K. Rushton & Tom C. A. Freeman
Effects of feedback on the timing of interceptive actions

10. J. S. Kennedy, M. J. Buehner & S. K. Rushton
Sensory-motor adaptation to temporal misalignment

11. Keith Langley, Stephen. J. Anderson & Peter J. Bex
The generalized Bayesian homunculus: An 
illustration using a model of direct and indirect 
tile after-effects.

12. S. J. Leat, M,. Mei & E. Jernigan
Can images be categorised by spatial frequency content?

13. Tim Ledgeway & Claire V. Hutchinson
Asymmetric spatial frequency tuning in the human visual motion system

14. Jennifer McBride, Ute Leonards & Iain D. Gilchrist
Flexible target representations underlie priming in visual search

15. Gerrit W. Maus & Romi Nijhawan
Sudden disappearance of moving objects overrides motion extrapolation

16. Andrew I Meso & Johannes M. Zanker
Perceived motion transparency from integrating of 
motion and non-motion transparency cues

17. Gillian Porter, Tom Troscianko & Chris Benton
Pupil size, light and cognitive load

18. Alexa I Rupertsberg, Alan Chambers & Marina Bloj
Characterisation of a high dynamic range display

19. Robert J Summers & Tim S. Meese
Estimating the 2AFC psychometric function: 
Effects of lapsing, psychophysical procedure and 
method of curve-fitting

20. Masahiro Suzuki & Kazutake Uehira
Depth perception when virtual objects behind 
opaque real objects are not occluded in mixed 
reality

21. M. To, P. G. Lovell, T. Troscianko & D. J. Tolhurst
Probability summation in complex visual 
discriminations using natural scene stimuli

22. Kazutake Uehira, Marie Shimizu & Masahiro Suzuki
Accommodation depth for overlapping 3-D images 
presented by two stereoscopic displays at 
different depths

23. Q. C. Vuong, I. M. Thornton
The role of high-level motion in natural scene perception

24. Stuart A. Wallis & Mark A. Georgeson
Mach edges: A key role for 3rd derivative filters in spatial vision

25. Debbie Wiggins, J. Margret Woodhouse, Tom. H. 
Margrain, Christopher M. Harris & Jonathan T. 
Erichsen
Infantile nystagmus adapts to visual demands

26. Yu Xie & Lewis D. Griffin
A 'portholes' experiment for probing perception 
of small patches of natural images

27. Johannes M. Zanker & Andrew Meso
Assessing motion transparency in space time

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