[visionlist] Journal of Vision - Call for Papers - Special Issue on Perceptual Organization

[Journal of Vision]

Call for Papers   -   Special Issue

Perceptual Organization and Neural Computation

Our understanding of perceptual organization has its roots in the observations and qualitative principles of the Gestalt psychologists. They identified and classified phenomena that reflect how perceptual systems derive representations of the environment based on fragmentary information. Recent advances in both experimental methods and theory provide the means to establish a rigorous, quantitative, and computational understanding of perceptual organization. The goal of the special issue is to highlight new methodological and theoretical developments in visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and computational vision that could lead to a more rigorous and complete understanding of perceptual organization.
We invite submissions of original research articles that develop and/or test modern computational or mathematical models of perceptual organization.  The focus of this issue is on vision, but studies concerning interactions of vision with other sensory modalities are welcome.  Contributions from the computer vision community that advance models of perceptual organization in biological systems are expressly welcome.  Articles on any topics related to perceptual organization are solicited, including but not limited to:

o	Segmentation and grouping
o	Interpolation and extrapolation of  static contours and surfaces
o	Perceptual organization based on motion cues
o	Part-whole relationships
o	Statistical models of perceptual organization
o	Perceptual organization and sensory-motor control
o	The neural bases of perceptual organization (e.g., non-classical receptive field effects)
o	Perceptual organization and learning
 
Guest Editors:

Sergei Gepshtein	Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan	sergei at brain.riken.jp

James Elder		York University, Canada		jelder at yorku.ca

Laurence T. Maloney	New York University, USA		laurence.maloney at nyu.edu

Deadline for submission:	September 1, 2007
Target publication date:	March, 2008

Online call for papers:	http://journalofvision.org/specialissues/