From assc12 at ym.edu.tw Tue Jan 1 18:16:09 2008
From: assc12 at ym.edu.tw (ASSC12)
Date: Tue Jan 1 19:18:02 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ASSC12 2nd Call for Papers
Message-ID: <20080101181555.M75746@ym.edu.tw>
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPER & POSTER PROPOSALS
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
12TH ANNUAL MEETING
Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
June 19th-22 , 2008
http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/
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Confirmed speakers:
Presidential Address: David Rosenthal, City University of New York, USA
Keynote Speakers:
Thomas Metzinger, The Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany,
topic: The Self
Mitsuo Kawato, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan,
topic: Engineering Consciousness
Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University, Japan,
topic: The Mind of the Chimpanzee
Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute,USA,
topic: Microsaccades: Windows on the Mind
Symposium Speakers:
Ned Block, New York University, USA
Victor Lamme, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Barbara Jones, McGill University, Canada
Donald Pfaff, Rockefeller University, USA
Steven Laureys, University of Liege, Belgium
Adrian Owen, University of Cambridge, UK
Charles Spence, Oxford University, UK
Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK
Shaul Hochstein, Life Sciences Institute and Neural Computation Center, Israel
Tim Bayne, University of Macquarie, Australia
Ryan McKay, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Ian Gold, McGill University, Canada
Robyn Langdon, Macquarie University, Australia
The 12th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held from June 19th
to June 22nd, 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan (Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University). This is the first time for
a ASSC annual meeting to be held in Asia. ASSC12 provides a chance for you to see Taipei and Taiwan, an island
nation with a newly born democracy in Asia. Taipei offers an interesting combination of eastern and western
cultures. Taiwan has recently been selected by the National Geographic Traveler Magazine as "probably the best
traveling destination in Asia" among the 111 islands evaluated. The meeting promises to be both intellectually
stimulating and culturally interesting!
ASSC12 is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific study of consciousness. The overall goal
of the conference is to promote the scientific study of consciousness in all of its forms. Following last year's
successful symposia, ASSC members are again invited to submit proposals for symposia relevant to the overall
goals of the conference. Non-members can also submit proposals for tutorials. Symposia will address current
empirical and theoretical issues in the study of consciousness, from the perspectives of philosophy, neuroscience,
clinical medicine, psychology, and computer science.
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THE SECOND CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSION MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 1, 2008!
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Speakers in concurrent sessions are invited to talk on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness.
Submissions that include anthropological, evolutionary, physiological, psychological, philosophical, or
computational perspectives are all welcome.
Submissions for both posters and talks will be accepted (please specify preference). Any person may present only
one submission, but may be co-author on more than one.
Submit by filling out the appropriate forms at: http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/
You will be asked to include with your submission the following information:
1. Title.
2. Name, affiliation, with presenting co-author(s) designated.
3. An abstract of up to 350 words.
4. Complete contact information for the author with whom the scientific program committee will interact with
about the submission
5. Whether your first preference is for an talk or poster presentation
6. Whether your topic is a scientific or philosophical presentation
If you have any difficulties in submitting your proposal, or any other questions regarding the meeting, please
contact assc12@ym.edu.tw.
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REGISTRATION
OPEN ON FEB. 1, 2008
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As in previous years, discounted registration will be available to ASSC members, who will also enjoy a range of
book discounts and other member benefits. The registration discount will be greater than the cost of
membership, so prospective members are encouraged to join ASSC now! To find out more about the Association
for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and to apply for membership, please consult our website at
http://assc.caltech.edu/
Registration will open on Feb. 1, 2008.
All questions about paper/poster submissions should be directed to the official conference email address:
assc12@ym.edu.tw.
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ASSC-12 Scientific Program Committee:
Allen Houng & Ralph Adolphs (Co-Chairs), Shinsuke Shimojo, Max Coltheart, John Haynes, Steven Macknik, Dan
Lloyd, Michael Pauen.
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Allen Y. Houng, Ph.D.
The Local Organizer of ASSC12
Professor , Institute of Neuroscience
Dean , School of Humanities and Social Sciences
National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
From rufin at klab.caltech.edu Wed Jan 2 11:05:49 2008
From: rufin at klab.caltech.edu (Rufin VanRullen)
Date: Wed Jan 2 16:18:11 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 2 POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS: Dynamics of visual
perception and attention
Message-ID: <477B700D.2060709@klab.caltech.edu>
Thank you for posting the following ad:
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2 POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS: Dynamics of visual perception and attention
Starting date: Spring/Summer 2008
2 postdoctoral positions are available to work in collaboration with
Rufin VanRullen at the CerCo in Toulouse, France. The project
investigates temporal aspects of visual perception, attention and
awareness, using a combination of psychophysical, neuro-imaging (EEG,
fMRI) and computational tools. One position is focused on human
experimentation: the successful applicant will have prior experience
with at least one experimental technique, and a demonstrated interest in
vision and/or attention; some programming experience is also desirable.
The other position is focused on computer modeling: programming
experience and a strong computational background are necessary, as well
as an interest in neuroscience and/or psychology. Candidates fulfilling
both the above profiles would of course be welcome. More information
about the research project can be found at
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~rufin/ .
French language is not a requirement but a willingness to learn would be
beneficial. Net salary is about 1,850 Euros per month, according to
French standards. The initial appointment is one year, with a
possibility of renewing up to two more years. Additional information
about the research environment in Toulouse can be viewed at
http://www.cerco.ups-tlse.fr/fr_vers/cerco_eng/index.php?url=alaune.htm.
Applications should be sent to Rufin VanRullen
(rufin.vanrullen@cerco.ups-tlse.fr
), and should include a
detailed CV including publication list, a brief statement about research
interests, and the names of 2 references. Applications should be sent
preferably before March 1st, 2008, but later applications will be
considered until the positions are filled. Informal inquiries can also
be made at any time to the same email address.
Rufin VanRullen.
Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, UMR 5549,
Universite Paul Sabatier, CNRS, Facult? de M?decine de Rangueil,
31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France.
Tel : +33 (0)5 62 17 37 76
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~rufin/
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From petkov at cs.rug.nl Wed Jan 2 19:10:34 2008
From: petkov at cs.rug.nl (Nicolai Petkov)
Date: Wed Jan 2 21:28:18 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD student position in Computer Science -
Biologically motivated object recognition
Message-ID: <000801c84d73$26a11d90$af337d81@iwi175>
A full-scholarship PhD position in Computer Science at a leading
European university.
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~petkov/vacancies/2007PhDstudent_shape.html
PhD student position in Computer Science - Intelligent Systems -
Biologically motivated object recognition
Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science
University of Groningen
Topic of research
The objective of the project is to develop an object recognition
technique that is motivated by the function of the visual cortex. Major
aspects are representation and learning.
Type and level of the position
This is a temporary research position at the level of a PhD student for
a period of maximum four years. The tuition fees will be waived and the
student will receive a full scholarship. In this period the student will
follow relevant courses and prepare and defend a PhD thesis. The
position is embedded in the research group Intelligent Systems. The
tradition of the group is that PhD theses are based on excellent papers
in high imact journals so that our PhD graduates have a very strong
competative position on the academic market. Thesis director and
supervisor will be professor N. Petkov. The University of Groningen is a
leading European research university.
Our requirements on your qualifications
You are a university graduate (at the level of diploma or master of
science level) in one of the following disciplines: computer science,
artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, electrical
engineering, biophysics, physics. You have a demonstrated interest in
the neurosciences. You have an excellent academic record (GPA) and
belong to the top 5% of the graduates of your year and preferrably have
a graduation with a distinction such as honors or cum laude. You are
fluent in English language and able to write scientific articles and
reports (to be proven by your graduation thesis or another comparable
report or co-authorship of published scientific articles).
How to apply
Send the following information:
1) an application letter with a CV,
2) a specification of GPA and transcript of records,
3) an indication of your position in the class and year (e.g. 1st in a
class of 20),
4) evidence of excellence (e.g. graduation with honors) and a list of
relevant awards,
5) proofs of involvement in research (e.g. co-authorship of scientific
articles),
6) a description of your ideas for research in the specified area,
7) names and email addresses of three scientists (typically your former
professors) who can give a reference for you.
to prof.dr. Nicolai Petkov (petkov at cs dot rug dot nl). Applicants
will be asked to do a short assignment in order to demonstrate their
research abilities. The position will be open until a suitable candidate
is found.
From rfm at yorku.ca Thu Jan 3 17:45:18 2008
From: rfm at yorku.ca (Richard Murray)
Date: Thu Jan 3 22:57:20 2008
Subject: [visionlist] York CVR vision science summer school
Message-ID: <3406A7CF-B577-4AD5-82ED-7B4F45B87DAE@yorku.ca>
We'd greatly appreciate any in-class announcements or suggestions to
suitable undergraduate students, or putting up the attached PDF poster
in departments or labs.
Best,
Richard Murray
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York CVR Vision Science Summer School
The Centre for Vision Research (CVR) at York University in Toronto
will hold a one-week, all-expenses-paid undergraduate summer school on
the topic of vision science, during June 1-6, 2008.
The program includes talks by CVR faculty on current research topics
in vision science, as well as hands-on projects in CVR laboratories.
The curriculum reflects the wide range of active research areas at
CVR, which includes basic research on vision in humans, animals, and
machines, as well as applied topics such as virtual reality, visual
perception in low-gravity environments, and vision in clinical patients.
The program will accept 20 undergraduate students who are interested
in pursuing a career in scientific research. It is intended mainly
for undergraduates who are planning to apply to graduate school in the
fall of 2008, and are interested in investigating vision science as a
possible area of research. Both Canadian and international students
are encouraged to apply.
This year's speakers and lab coordinators will include professors
James Elder, Mazyar Fallah, Laurence Harris, Kari Hoffman, Ian Howard,
Michael Jenkin, Richard Murray, Martin Regan, Jennifer Steeves, Laurie
Wilcox, and Hugh Wilson.
The program provides on-campus accommodations, breakfast and lunch
each day, a closing banquet, and reimbursement for transportation costs.
Application instructions are available on the summer school website ( www.yorku.ca/cvrss
). The application deadline is February 1, 2008, and applicants
will be notified of decisions by March 1, 2008.
For further information, see the summer school website ( www.yorku.ca/cvrss
), or write to Dr. Richard Murray ( rfm@yorku.ca ) or Dr. Jennifer
Steeves ( steeves@yorku.ca ).
This program is funded by CIHR, NSERC, and York University.
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From jmwolfe at rics.bwh.harvard.edu Mon Jan 7 21:29:22 2008
From: jmwolfe at rics.bwh.harvard.edu (Jeremy Wolfe)
Date: Thu Jan 10 04:03:21 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Papers: Major Changes Coming at Perception and
Psychophysics
Message-ID:
Major Changes Coming at Perception and Psychophysics
New Editor: Jeremy M Wolfe, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA
New Associate Editors:
Charlie Chubb (UC Irvine, CA)
Brad Gibson (Notre Dame, IN)
Simon Grondin (U. Laval, Quebec)
Lynne Nygaard (Emory, Atlanta, GA)
Adriane Seiffert (Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN)
Josh Solomon (City U., London, UK)
Shaun Vecera (U Iowa, Iowa City, IO)
New content
Perception and Psychophysics will publish four types of items (For
specific requirements, go to -
http://www.psychonomic.org/PP/manuscript.htm)
a. Research Articles - These are articles of the sort that have
been the standard content of the Journal, typically several
experiments bound together with a coherent theoretical account.
b. Brief Reports - Short articles (c.f. Science or Psych
Science) reporting breaking news of general interest to the
Perception and Psychophysics community. You keep it brief (3000 words
plus figures) and exciting. We will strive to get it into print
swiftly.
c. Tutorial Reviews - A series of review articles, one per
issue, intended to be what you will read first when you want to know
what is going on in a part of the field outside your own area of
expertise. Length will be "moderate" (i.e. shorter Annual Review
chapters, longer than Current Directions in Psych. Sci.).
Bibliography will be extensive. Tutorial reviews will be
commissioned by invitation. However, self-nomination is welcome. Send
a brief email with a bare outline of a proposed article to any editor.
d. Research Highlights - Perception and Psychophysics will
publish very brief "news" reports on current articles in the journal
and elsewhere following the model of the "Research Highlights"
section of Nature. Typically, these will be written by the editors
and editorial board but, if you find a particular article to be
important (presumably, not one of your own), feel free to submit 2-3
brief paragraphs.
New submission procedure
From Jan 1, 2008, submissions to Perception and Psychophysics will be
made through the journal's submission website -
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pandp. For instructions, go to -
http://www.psychonomic.org/PP/manuscript.htm
New commitment to speed
We recognize that long delays between submission and eventual
publication are undesirable. The editors of the journal and the
publication office of the Psychonomic Society are committed to rapid
review and to rapid publication of accepted manuscripts while
maintaining high quality of the final result. If and when you review
for the journal, you can help us meet that commitment with timely
reviews.
New electronic features
Perception and Psychophysics' online presence will migrate to a new
platform soon. This will enable
a. Free color illustrations in the online/pdf versions of your
article even if the print version is in grayscale.
b. Easier access and downloading of articles.
c. Emailed Table of Contents alerts when new issues are put online.
d. More extensive online archiving of supplementary material,
data, code, etc.
We welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to send an email,
wolfe @ search.bwh.harvard.edu and feel free (and encouraged) to send
us the best that you have.
Timing
The new editorial board started accepting papers as of Jan. 1, 2008.
The new features will begin appearing in print and on the web within
six to twelve months.
--
Jeremy M Wolfe
Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Mailing Address:
Visual Attention Lab
Brigham & Women's Hospital
64 Sidney St. Suite. 170
Cambridge, MA 02139-4170
Phone: 617-768-8818
Fax: 617-768-8816
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From mlgamble at ucdavis.edu Tue Jan 8 22:35:31 2008
From: mlgamble at ucdavis.edu (Marissa Gamble)
Date: Thu Jan 10 04:04:20 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 2008 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp - Led by Dr. Steve J. Luck
Message-ID: <8019C903-7482-415F-B6A0-F17DACE6DF13@ucdavis.edu>
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The ERP Boot Camp, an 11-day summer workshop on the ERP technique
funded by NIMH, will be held July 7-17 2008 at UC-Davis. It is
intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers, or people
who are interested in getting started in ERP research. It is
designed for both basic scientists and clinical researchers.
The topics will include:
1) Where do ERPs come from? What do they mean?
2) ERP components
3) The design and interpretation of ERP experiments
4) EEG data acquisition
5) Filtering, artifact rejection, and artifact correction
6) Measuring and analyzing ERP components
7) ERP localization
8) Setting up and running an ERP lab
The Boot Camp consists of lectures on these topics, accompanied by
discussions of classic and contemporary ERP papers and guided lab
activities. It is led by Steve Luck, and the faculty includes many
distinguished ERP researchers from UC Davis and other universities.
Participants at previous Boot Camps have come from around the world
and have ranged from beginning graduate students to full professors.
They have included psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists,
neurologists, and speech pathologists. However, predoctoral students
should not apply unless they will have had at least 6 months of
intensive ERP experience before attending the Boot Camp.
We highly encourage the participation of individuals from
underrepresented groups.
Funding is available from NIMH to defray some or all of the costs of
attending the Boot Camp, but is limited to U.S. citizens and
permanent residents. International participants are encouraged to
apply, but they must obtain their own funding.
For more information about the Boot Camp and the application
procedures, see www.ERPinfo.org
Applications are due on March 31, 2008.
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Marissa Gamble
UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
267 Cousteau Place
Davis, CA 95618
Phone: (530) 297-4425
Fax: (530) 297-4400
Email: mlgamble@ucdavis.edu
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From rogowtz at us.ibm.com Thu Jan 10 01:09:14 2008
From: rogowtz at us.ibm.com (Bernice E Rogowitz)
Date: Thu Jan 10 04:04:36 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging -
Jan 28-31, 2008
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From J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk Thu Jan 10 11:04:22 2008
From: J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk (Solomon, Joshua)
Date: Thu Jan 10 15:28:09 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Research Studentships at City University
Message-ID:
City offers a number of three-year, full-time doctoral research
studentships, available on a University-wide competitive basis. In 2007 each
attracted a bursary of ?13,000 per annum in addition to a full tuition fee
waiver. Relevant areas of research include
1. Applied Vision Research
2. Visual Neuroscience
3. Visual Psychophysics and Perception
4. Imaging and Instrumentation
We have yet to establish an official closing date for applications, but it
will be some time in the middle of March. A full description of last year's
studentships is available at
http://www.city.ac.uk/research/resdev/studentships.html .
This year will be pretty much the same. Details of the various research
groups are available at http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/research/ .
Informal enquiries are welcome. Prospective students should contact one of
the group leaders. For further information click the URL above.
--
Joshua A. Solomon
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~solomon
From mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie Thu Jan 10 07:43:52 2008
From: mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie (Elliott, Mark)
Date: Thu Jan 10 15:28:20 2008
Subject: [visionlist] RTs and Windows
Message-ID: <7BC4FCB2B695D64CBF525CEC64375327017BB701@EVS1.ac.nuigalway.ie>
Dear netters and listers,
it's an old issue but what is the current state of the art as regards recording reaction times under MS Windows? My last attempt, using Psych toolbox running under Windows XP, with a special wrapper in the code to prioritize the appropriate interrupt, recorded up to 36 ms error relative to the timing of a concurrent EEG trigger. What might the error be without these precautions, for example in a Dos box running directly from Windows?
Would you record RTs in Windows?
all the best
Mark
Dr. Mark A. Elliott CSci
Senior Lecturer
Room 201, Cois Abhann
Dept. Psychology
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ireland
Tel.: [Direct line] +353 (0)91 495345; [Internal ext.] 5345
email: mark.elliott@nuigalway.ie
http://www.nuigalway.ie/psy/m_elliott_page.htm
From michael.hoffmann at med.ovgu.de Thu Jan 10 07:05:15 2008
From: michael.hoffmann at med.ovgu.de (Michael Hoffmann)
Date: Thu Jan 10 15:28:43 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD POSITION, Magdeburg University, Germany
Message-ID:
PhD POSITION IN VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE, MAGDEBURG UNIVERSITY, GERMANY
A PhD position is available at Michael Hoffmann?s lab (Visual
Processing Lab, Ophthalmic Department of the University of
Magdeburg). The research project will be related to our previous
investigations of motion processing in humans with non-invasive
electrophysiology, fMRI, and psychophysics [e.g. Heinrich et al.
(2004) Electrophysiological evidence for independent speed channels
in human motion processing. Journal of Vision 4:469-475] and will
focus on intermodal interactions of motion perception. The position
is funded by the German Research Council (DFG) for two years with the
potential of an extension and is available now, the exact starting
date is flexible. The payment will be commensurate with 50% E13 (TVL).
The ideal candidate is highly motivated and likes to work in an
interdisciplinary team; programming experience and knowledge of
visual and auditory sensory processing in humans is a plus.
Applicants with a background in Biology, Physics, Psychology etc.,
qualified to enrol as a PhD student at German universities will be
considered.
Informal enquiries are welcome by Dr. Michael Hoffmann:
michael.hoffmann@med.ovgu.de
Information about the Visual Processing Lab is available at: http://
www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/fme/kauge/vpl/
_________________________________
PD Dr. rer. nat. Michael Hoffmann
Head of the Visual Processing Lab
Univ.-Augenklinik Magdeburg
Leipziger Str. 44
39120 Magdeburg
Phone: 0049 (0)391 67 13585; Fax: 0049 (0)391 67 13538
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From zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jan 10 13:33:57 2008
From: zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk (Zeki PA)
Date: Thu Jan 10 15:29:50 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Associateship
Message-ID:
The Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk headed by Prof
Semir Zeki has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the
Organisation of the human visual brain:-
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Organisation of the human visual brain
A postdoctoral Research Associate is required, to work in the laboratory of
Professor Zeki (www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk) carrying out a programme of work on
the organisation of the visual brain, using imaging techniques.
A working knowledge of the visual system and proficiency in brain imaging is
essential. A high level of proficiency in fMRI and a knowledge of
Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) are desirable.
The work is supported by the Wellcome Trust. The position is available from
December 2007 and the funding is available until 31 August 2012. The
starting salary will be ?26,666 plus ?2,572 London Allowance.
For application details (and form) please go to www.anat.ucl.ac.uk
(vacancies) or contact Helen Jefferson-Brown, Department of Anatomy and
Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E
6BT; 020 7679 2200; E-mail: ucgahel@ucl.ac.uk .
Please quote Ref: FAVK01
The closing date for applications is Monday 28 January 2008.
From zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk Thu Jan 10 13:34:23 2008
From: zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk (Zeki PA)
Date: Thu Jan 10 15:30:03 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Computer Programmer/Systems Manager post
Message-ID:
The Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk headed by Prof
Semir Zeki has a vacancy for a Computer Programmer/System Manager:-
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Computer programmer / Systems manager
Organisation of the human visual brain
We are seeking a computer programmer / systems manager for our small
laboratory network. Responsibilities will include managing the network
infrastructure (software, firewall and hardware) and maintaining and
updating the laboratory website and associated databases. You will also
have a unique opportunity to expand the existing computer infrastructure for
an exciting new field of research over the coming five years. Linux
expertise is essential, in particular all aspects of network management and
network security and managing a hybrid Linux/Windows network.
The main computational workload of the laboratory is concerned with brain
imaging using Matlab and SPM, but detailed knowledge of these packages is
not essential. The ideal candidate will be versatile and able to lend
assistance in all aspects of the work of the laboratory, including
preparation of material for publication and for public lectures as well as
providing technical and operational support for an ongoing programme of
research and experimentation. The work of the laboratory is concerned with
neural basis of creativity and art appreciation, and knowledge of standard
graphics packages and an artistic flair would be favourably regarded.
The post is funded by the Wellcome Trust, and funding is available from 1
March 2008 to 28 February 2013 years initially.
The starting salary will be ?26,666 plus ?2,572 London Allowance.
The interview will take place in February.
For application details (and form) please go to www.anat.ucl.ac.uk/
(vacancies) or contact Helen Jefferson-Brown, Department of Anatomy and
Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E
6BT; 020 7679 2200; E-mail: ucgahel@ucl.ac.uk .
Please quote Ref: FAVN01
The closing date for applications is Monday 28 January 2008.
From j.lopezmoliner at ub.edu Thu Jan 10 16:44:53 2008
From: j.lopezmoliner at ub.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Joan_L=F3pez-Moliner?=)
Date: Thu Jan 10 19:01:34 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Two Positions (one PhD and one Post-doctoral) at the
University of Barcelona
Message-ID:
1. Two Positions (one PhD and one Post-doctoral) at the University of
Barcelona
Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral research
position and one PhD student in the Group of Attention, Action and
Perception (http://www.pcb.ub.es/homepcb/live/en/p2153.asp) at the
Parc Cient?fic of University of Barcelona (Spain). The post is part
of BRAINGLOT, a Spanish Research Network on
Cognitive Neuroscience (Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Scheme, Spanish
Ministry of Science and Education).
2. Project
The project is conceived with an open and multidisciplinary vocation,
as one of its major anchor points places the stress on the mutual
influence (both in terms of cognitive and neural processes) between
perception, multisensory integration, and the executive control
attention. This is an excellent opportunity for professional growth
for those interested in the fields of psychology, neurobiology,
cognitive neuroscience or related disciplines including computer
science.
The Post-doctoral position is available mainly to lead brain imaging
studies using fMRI of multisensory integration (possibly complemented
with other methodologies like ERP, behavioral, etc...).
The PhD position is available mainly to conduct studies on
multisensory integration using behavioural/psychophysical methods,
human electrophysiology and/or
neuroimaging and it is an excellent opportunity to start an academic
career for those interested in the fields of psychology, neurobiology,
cognitive neuroscience or related disciplines.
3. Candidate Profile
Post-doc:
Candidates must have a completed (or near to completion) PhD and a
solid background in the life
sciences, cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, and/or cognitive
psychology. Experience with functional
MRI data analysis and basic programming skills (e.g., Presentation, E-
prime, and Matlab) will be strongly
valued. Applicants from outside the EU are welcome to apply but must
qualify for a valid visa.
Ph.D:
We are seeking highly motivated applicants with an interest in the
Cognitive Neurosciences and who have
(or are close to have) a degree in Psychology, Life Sciences, or
related fields. Essential to the post are
good communication and writing skills. Some experience with
psychophysics, behavioral,
neuropsychology, ERPs or other neuroimaging methodologies will be
valued. Applicants from outside the
EU are welcome to apply but must qualify for a valid visa.
4. Conditions
Post-Doc:
Position: The position will be funded and renewable for up to three
years
Starting date: Flexible throughout first half of 2008
Salary: Commensurate with experience.
Travel: The project will require short trips within Spain
PhD:
Position: The positions are funded for 4 years
Starting date: Beginning of 2008
Salary: 15,000 Eur/y (before taxes)
5. How to apply
Applications should include:
? a C.V. including a list of publications
? the names of two referees who would willing to write letters of
recommendation
? a cover letter describing research interests
For informal enquiries about the position and applications, please
contact Joan L?pez-Moliner (j.lopezmoliner@ub.edu) or Salvador Soto-
Faraco (salvador.soto@icrea.es).
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Please, mention the position that you are applying for (POSTDOCTORAL
or PhD) in the email subject
Joan
--
Joan L?pez-Moliner
Grup de Recerca Neurociencia Cognitiva
Departament de Psicologia B?sica
Universitat de Barcelona
Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171
08035 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
e-mail: J.LopezMoliner@ub.edu
http://www.ub.edu/pbasic/visualperception/joan
skype: jlmoliner
phone: +34 93 3125143
fax: +34 93 402 13 63
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From sabine.susstrunk at epfl.ch Thu Jan 10 16:58:17 2008
From: sabine.susstrunk at epfl.ch (Sabine Susstrunk)
Date: Thu Jan 10 19:01:57 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral Fellow in Image/Video Content Analysis
and Recognition at EPFL
Message-ID: <47864EA9.6030602@epfl.ch>
EPFL's images and visual representation group ( http://ivrgwww.epfl.ch )
and the computer vision laboratory ( http://cvlab.epfl.ch ) have a
joint opening for a post-doctoral fellow in the field of image and video
content analysis and recognition. The position will initially be offered
for 18 months if the candidate can start before the end of June.
Description
The addition of context information (technical metadata, other sensor
data, other text data, etc.) promises to greatly increase the potential
to better segment, analyze, and recognize media content, and even to
semantically annotate it. In the current and emerging wired environment,
low level feature image/video systems will become increasingly
intertwined with physical reality, will be based on resources shared
over the Internet and will be supporting social interactions. This will
impact the image/video analysis and recognition, requiring the ability
to deal with the inherent uncertainty in the varied context information.
Position
The images and visual representation group and the computer vision
laboratory at EPFL offer a creative international environment, a
possibility to conduct highly competitive research on a global scale and
involvement in teaching. Within the project, there are opportunities to
cooperate with national and international research and industrial
partners. There is the possibility to gain valuable experience in the
emerging field of context aware imaging systems, in terms of new
theoretical models and algorithms and in prototype systems. In addition,
active participation in research projects and advising a small group of
highly motivated Ph.D. students is expected. Salaries are in the range
CHF 70000 to 80000 per year, the precise amount to be determined by
EPFL's department of human resources.
Education
The candidate must hold a Ph.D. degree with top performance in a field
related to image/video content analysis and recognition. Strong
mathematics and programming skills (C or C++ and Matlab) are a plus.
S/he should have a track record in conducting original highly
competitive scientific research and publishing the results in top
conferences and scientific journals. Maturity, self-motivation, and the
ability to work both independently and as a team player in local and
international research teams are expected. French language skills are
not required, English is mandatory.
Application
Applications can either be sent via email or letter:
Prof. Sabine Susstrunk
EPFL-IC-LCAV2, Batiment BC
Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
E-mail: sabine.susstrunk@epfl.ch
They must contain a statement of interest, a CV, a list of publications,
and the names of three references.
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Prof. P. Fua (Pascal.Fua@epfl.ch)
Tel: 41/21-693-7519 FAX: 41/21-693-7520
Url: http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~fua/
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From snavega at intelliwise.com Thu Jan 10 18:13:17 2008
From: snavega at intelliwise.com (Sergio Navega)
Date: Thu Jan 10 19:02:37 2008
Subject: [visionlist] RTs and Windows
References: <7BC4FCB2B695D64CBF525CEC64375327017BB701@EVS1.ac.nuigalway.ie>
Message-ID: <007e01c853b4$7a17add0$0201a8c0@PENTIUMIV>
Dear Mark and others,
I'm not familiar with the Psych toolbox, but I know a bit
about real time programming under Windows. It is not difficult
to build a C++ application capable of recording sub-millisecond
precision events. The key to do this is to use the following
strategies (sorry if this seems too technical):
a) Build a program that launches a specific thread running
with maximum priority
b) Upon initialization, acquire the real-time clock frequency
of the current machine:
LARGE_INTEGER freq;
QueryPerformanceFrequency(&freq);
c) During an acquisition loop, query the current time frame
between events:
LARGE_INTEGER time1, time2;
QueryPerformanceCounter(&time1);
// collect one sample
..........
..........
QueryPerformanceCounter(&time2);
d) The time between the events (in milliseconds) will be
given by:
LARGE_INTEGER timesample;
timesample.QuadPart = 1000 * (time2.QuadPart - time1.QuadPart) / freq;
Summing up, it is possible to acquire real time events in Windows
with sub-millisecond accuracy.
Sergio Navega.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliott, Mark"
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:43 AM
Subject: [visionlist] RTs and Windows
> Dear netters and listers,
>
> it's an old issue but what is the current state of the art as regards
> recording reaction times under MS Windows? My last attempt, using Psych
> toolbox running under Windows XP, with a special wrapper in the code to
> prioritize the appropriate interrupt, recorded up to 36 ms error relative
> to the timing of a concurrent EEG trigger. What might the error be without
> these precautions, for example in a Dos box running directly from Windows?
>
> Would you record RTs in Windows?
>
> all the best
>
> Mark
>
> Dr. Mark A. Elliott CSci
>
> Senior Lecturer
> Room 201, Cois Abhann
> Dept. Psychology
> National University of Ireland, Galway
> Ireland
>
> Tel.: [Direct line] +353 (0)91 495345; [Internal ext.] 5345
> email: mark.elliott@nuigalway.ie
> http://www.nuigalway.ie/psy/m_elliott_page.htm
>
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From wbeaudot at kybervision.net Thu Jan 10 15:54:01 2008
From: wbeaudot at kybervision.net (Dr. William H.A. Beaudot)
Date: Thu Jan 10 19:03:30 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Psykinematix: New Macintosh software for Visual
Psychophysics
Message-ID: <361009C4-973A-43C8-81A3-42D0F9C2988C@kybervision.net>
Dear Vision Scientists,
KyberVision is proud to announce the first public release of
Psykinematix (Beta 4), a new OpenGL-based Software Package dedicated
to Visual Psychophysics running on Macintosh computers (Mac OS X 10.4
and above). Psykinematix consists in a unique stand-alone application
that does not require any programming skill to create and run complex
experiments. Easy to use, subject-friendly, powerful and reliable,
Psykinematix runs standard psychophysical protocols, generates and
presents complex stimuli, collects subject's responses, and analyzes
results on the fly. Psykinematix is also a great learning tool to
introduce visual perception and to illustrate psychophysical concepts
to students.
Please visit our Web page to learn more about Psykinematix: http://
psykinematix.kybervision.net
If you like to provide feedback on this latest beta version, fill
free to download and try Psykinematix. Learning Psykinematix is easy
as it includes a complete documentation, numerous examples of stimuli
and experiments, and some tutorials !
Yours sincerely & Happy New Year,
William Beaudot
Consultant & Senior Scientist
KyberVision Consulting, R&D
--
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wbeaudot@kybervision.net
KYBERVISION Consulting, R & D Web: http://
www.kybervision.net
2150 Mackay, Suite
1908 http://
wbeaudot.kybervision.net
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2M2 Phone: 514-245-0714
___________________________________________________________________
Psykinematix: Visual Psychophysics Made Easy on Mac OS X
http://psykinematix.kybervision.net
"We make your vision come true"
___________________________________________________________________
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From bgc at lsr.nei.nih.gov Fri Jan 11 18:31:03 2008
From: bgc at lsr.nei.nih.gov (Bruce Cumming)
Date: Fri Jan 11 18:42:38 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position at the Laboratory of
Sensorimotor Research, NEI, NIH
Message-ID: <4787B5E7.60907@lsr.nei.nih.gov>
Postdoctoral Fellowhip in Visual Neurophysiology at NIH.
Dr Bruce Cumming has a vacancy, available immediately, for a
postdoctoral fellow to study responses of visual cortical neurons in
awake behaving monkeys. The appointment is for up to 5 years. The
experimental work centers around extracellular single unit recording in
striate or extrastriate cortex, while presenting binocular stimuli to
behaving animals. The main themes of the work are A) developing and
testing mechanistic models to explain how signals about disparity are
generated in cortex (e.g Haefner and Cumming, 2008). B) Understanding,
how in principle these signals might be used to compute depth (e.g. Read
and Cumming, 2007). And C) combining modern psychophysical techniques
with single cell recordings and microstimulation to clarify how these
signals influence perception (.e.g. Nienborg and Cumming, 2007).
The laboratory forms part of the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Resarch, a
group of seven principal investigators with a common interest in primate
neurophysiology and visual behavior. The group is well funded and offers
state-of-the-art facilities, in a collegial atmosphere. There are
opportunities to develop projects using multi-electrode recordings or
monkey fMRI. There are also close links with the rest of the NIH's
sizeable Neuroscience program.
The NIH-campus is located in Bethesda, a 15 min subway-ride away
(http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm) from the center of
Washington, DC.
The Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant field and have
experience with MATLAB. Starting salarly will be $40,800 - $63,300,
depending on experience. Applicants should send a Curriculum Vitae to:
Bruce Cumming
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research,
National Eye Institute,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD 20892-4435
Phone: 301-402-8097
Fax: 301-402-0511
Email: bgc@lsr.nei.nih.gov
*Recent Papers:*
Haefner and Cumming (2008) Neuron 57: 147-158. "Adaptation to Natural
Binocular Disparities in Primate V1 Explained by a Generalized Energy Model"
http://tinyurl.com/338soy
Read and Cumming (2007) Nature Neuroscience 10: 1322-1328 "Sensors for
impossible stimuli may solve the stereo correspondence problem"
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v10/n10/abs/nn1951.html
Nienborg and Cumming (2007) Nature Neuroscience 10: 1608-1614
"Psychophysically measured task strategy for disparity discrimination is
reflected in V2 neurons"
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v10/n12/abs/nn1991.html
--
Bruce Cumming
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research,
National Eye Institute,
Bldg 49 Room 2A50
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda
MD 20892-4435.
Phone 301 402 8097
Fax 301 402 0511
Email bgc@lsr.nei.nih.gov
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From frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu Fri Jan 11 18:58:38 2008
From: frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu (Frank Tong)
Date: Fri Jan 11 19:25:19 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in fMRI Studies of Visual Perception and
Object Recognition
Message-ID: <69911FB0-2FB5-4AA3-837F-C0FA3057F9D7@vanderbilt.edu>
A postdoctoral position to conduct fMRI studies of visual perception
and/or object recognition is available in Dr. Frank Tong?s lab in the
Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tong?s lab has
developed neural decoding/pattern classification methods to
investigate the neural representations of basic visual features and
complex objects in the human visual cortex. This project will
investigate the functional properties of these visual representations
and their role in perception, attentional selection, and awareness.
Facilities include 3T and 7T research-dedicated MRI scanners, TMS
with MRI-guided stereotactic system, and extensive equipment for fMRI
analysis and visual psychophysics.
Candidates should have a strong research background in visual
perception or object recognition. Candidates must have a PhD or MD
and extensive research experience in at least one of the following
areas: visual psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience, computational
methods, and/or functional MRI. Strong programming skills are
essential; expertise in computational methods, including multivariate
statistics, machine learning, computer vision, modeling, and/or
signal processing, is highly preferred.
Applicants should send their CV, research statement and names of
three references to: frank.tong@vanderbilt.edu. Salary and rank will
be commensurate with experience. Start date is flexible.
More information about the lab can be found at:
http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/tonglab/
Vanderbilt University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer.
--------
Frank Tong
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University
Department of Psychology
301 Wilson Hall
111 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203
tel: 615-322-1780
fax: 615-343-8449
web: http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/tonglab/index.html
From frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu Fri Jan 11 19:29:24 2008
From: frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu (Frank Tong)
Date: Fri Jan 11 19:59:39 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Research Assistant Position in fMRI Studies of Visual
Perception and Object Recognition
Message-ID: <4EFF3DB0-9B2E-4DC2-A0FA-3C1247E0D603@vanderbilt.edu>
A full-time research assistant position is available in Frank Tong?s
lab at Vanderbilt University to work on fMRI studies of visual
perception, neural decoding, face and object recognition, visual
attention and awareness. Responsibilities include coordinating
multiple lab projects, assisting with fMRI, TMS, and behavioral
studies, and analyzing behavioral and brain imaging data. BA/BS
required. Strong computer skills are required; experience with Mac,
PC and Unix is recommended; experience with programming is highly
preferred. General knowledge in the areas of visual perception,
cognition or neuroscience is recommended. Position start date is
flexible. Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience. VU/
EO/AAE.
For more info about our research, including links to publications and
media coverage of our recent work on neural decoding of conscious
perception, go to: http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/tonglab/
To apply, please send a CV, names of three references, and a
statement of interest to Devin Brady, d.brady@vanderbilt.edu
From tshipley at temple.edu Sat Jan 12 14:21:58 2008
From: tshipley at temple.edu (Thomas Shipley)
Date: Sat Jan 12 16:40:46 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for tutorial proposals
Message-ID:
Researchers in Spatial vision, please consider submitting a proposal for a
tutorial for Spatial Cognition 2008 an international multidisciplinary
conference to be held September 15-18 2008 in Feiburg Germany.
Tutorials should provide an in-depth, but comprehensive survey of topics
immediately related to the conference, that are typically not yet covered by
standard textbooks in the field. Since SC'08 places emphasis on
interdisciplinary aspects, we encourage tutorial proposals that span fields,
for example providing links between some of the following fields: robotics,
artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and
philosophy.
Proposals should be written in English, prepared in postscript, PDF, or
plain ASCII format, and sent by email to the tutorial chair:
sc08tutorial@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Proposals Due February 15, 2008
For more information on the conference see:
http://conference.spatial-cognition.de/sc08/
For information on proposal details see:
http://conference.spatial-cognition.de/sc08/tutorials
From mislav.grgic at fer.hr Mon Jan 14 08:47:51 2008
From: mislav.grgic at fer.hr (Mislav Grgic)
Date: Mon Jan 14 14:55:51 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CFP: 50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008, Zadar,
Croatia
Message-ID: <6DEE7D97D631C947A753C10193032666038B9FB1@sluga.fer.hr>
*****
50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008
*****
10-13 September 2008,
Zadar, CROATIA
Paper submission deadline: March 03, 2008
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS
TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS
IEEE Region 8
EURASIP - European Assoc. Signal, Speech and Image Processing
IEEE Croatia Section
IEEE Croatia Section Chapter of the Signal Processing Society
IEEE Croatia Section Joint Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY
IEEE Xplore
INSPEC
POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES AND SPRINGER BOOK
(only selected best papers)
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)
Springer book - series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
TOPICS
--> Image and Video Processing
--> Multimedia Communications
--> Speech and Audio Processing
--> Wireless Commununications
--> Telecommunications
--> Antennas and Propagation
--> e-Learning and m-Learning
--> Navigation Systems
--> Ship Electronic Systems
--> Power Electronics and Automation
--> Naval Architecture
--> Sea Ecology
--> Special Session Proposals - A special session consist
of 5-6 papers which should present a unifying theme
from a diversity of viewpoints; deadline for proposals
is February 04, 2008.
KEYNOTE TALKS
* Professor Sanjit K. Mitra, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, California, USA:
Image Processing using Quadratic Volterra Filters
* Univ.Prof.Dr.techn. Markus Rupp, Vienna University
of Technology, AUSTRIA:
Testbeds and Rapid Prototyping in Wireless Systems
* Professor Paul Cross, University College London, UK:
GNSS Data Modeling: The Key to Increasing Safety and
Legally Critical Applications of GNSS
* Dr.-Ing. Malte Kob, RWTH Aachen University, GERMANY:
The Role of Resonators in the Generation of Voice
Signals
SPECIAL SESSIONS (proposals open until February 04, 2008)
SS1: "VISNET II - Networked Audiovisual Systems"
Organizer: Dr. Marta Mrak, I-lab, Centre for Communication
Systems Research, University of Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM
Contact: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/profiles?s_id=3937
SS2: "Computer Vision in Art"
Organizer: Asst.Prof. Peter Peer (1), Dr. Borut Batagelj (1)
and Prof. Karolj Skala (2) - (1) University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Computer Vision
Laboratory, SLOVENIA; (2) Rudjer Bokovic Institute, Center
for Informatics and Computing, Zagreb, CROATIA
Contact: http://www.lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/~peterp/
SS3: "Wireless Sensor Networking"
Organizer: Asst.Prof. Theodore Zahariadis, Prof. Stamatis
Voliotis and Nelly Leligoy, TEI of Chalkida, Psahna, GREECE
Contact: zahariad (_at_) teihal.gr
SUBMISSION
Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in
symposium proceedings available at the symposium and
abstracted/indexed in the IEEE Xplore and INSPEC database.
More info is available here: http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
IMPORTANT: Web-based (online) paper submission of papers in
PDF format is required for all authors. No e-mail, fax, or
postal submissions will be accepted. Authors should prepare
their papers according to ELMAR-2008 paper sample, convert
them to PDF based on IEEE requirements, and submit them using
web-based submission system by March 03, 2008.
SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of full papers: March 03, 2008
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: April 21, 2008
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers : May 05, 2008
Preliminary program available online by: May 12, 2008
Registration forms and payment deadline: May 19, 2008
Accommodation deadline: June 02, 2008
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia
Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
PROGRAM CHAIR
Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Juraj Bartolic, Croatia
David Broughton, United Kingdom
Paul Dan Cristea, Romania
Kresimir Delac, Croatia
Zarko Cucej, Slovenia
Marek Domanski, Poland
Kalman Fazekas, Hungary
Janusz Filipiak, Poland
Renato Filjar, Croatia
Borko Furht, USA
Mohammed Ghanbari, United Kingdom
Mislav Grgic, Croatia
Sonja Grgic, Croatia
Yo-Sung Ho, Korea
Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Austria
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Austria
Bojan Ivancevic, Croatia
Ebroul Izquierdo, United Kingdom
Kristian Jambrosic, Croatia
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, USA
Tomislav Kos, Croatia
Murat Kunt, Switzerland
Panos Liatsis, United Kingdom
Rastislav Lukac, Canada
Lidija Mandic, Croatia
Gabor Matay, Hungary
Branka Medved Rogina, Croatia
Borivoj Modlic, Croatia
Marta Mrak, United Kingdom
Fernando Pereira, Portugal
Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak Republic
Ramjee Prasad, Denmark
Kamisetty R. Rao, USA
Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak Republic
Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom
Mubarak Shah, USA
Shiguang Shan, China
Thomas Sikora, Germany
Karolj Skala, Croatia
Marian S. Stachowicz, USA
Ryszard Stasinski, Poland
Luis Torres, Spain
Frantisek Vejrazka, Czech Republic
Stamatis Voliotis, Greece
Nick Ward, United Kingdom
Krzysztof Wajda, Poland
Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia
CONTACT INFORMATION
Assoc.Prof. Mislav Grgic, Ph.D.
FER, Unska 3/XII
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA
Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851
Fax: + 385 1 6129 568
E-mail: elmar2008 (_at_) fer.hr
For further information please visit:
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
From alessandro at idsia.ch Tue Jan 15 17:49:59 2008
From: alessandro at idsia.ch (Alessandro Antonucci)
Date: Tue Jan 15 15:12:45 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 3rd SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities: 1st
announcement
Message-ID: <20080115174959.GA12150@idsia.ch>
3rd SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities: 1st announcement
[All our apologies for cross-posting.]
Third school of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and
Applications (SIPTA), July 2-8, 2008, Montpellier, France.
Dear colleagues,
The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA)
organizes the 3rd edition of its school in Montpellier, France, during 2-8
July 2008, the local organization being handled by the Laboratoire
d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microelectronique (LIRMM) of the
university of Montpellier. The city of Montpellier is located in the south
of France, on the Mediterranean coast, and the school will be held at the
Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, which is located in the very
centre of Montpellier.
The aim of SIPTA schools is to introduce interested students and
researchers with the basics of imprecise probability topics, both
theoretical and applied. Some of the best specialists in different aspects
of imprecise probabilities lecture, during one week time, on the main
concepts and techniques associated to their area of expertise, in a
friendly environment favouring interactions between participants.
Topics & Lecturers
Imprecise probability is used as a generic term to cover all mathematical
or statistical models which measure chance or uncertainty without sharp
numerical probabilities. Imprecise probability models are needed in
inference problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or
conflicting, and in decision problems where preferences may also be
incomplete. The topics covered this year will include:
- Coherent lower previsions (Enrique Miranda, Spain, and Gert De Cooman,
Belgium)
- Predictive inference: from Bayesian inference to Imprecise Probability
(Jean-Marc Bernard, France)
- Imprecise immediate predictions (Gert De Cooman, Belgium)
- Independence concepts in Imprecise Probability (Fabio Cozman, Brazil)
- Possibility theory (Didier Dubois, France)
- Algorithms & approximation methods for Imprecise Probability (Fabio
Cozman, Brazil)
- Game-theoretic probability and its link with Imprecise Probability
(Glenn Shafer, USA)
The final program should be announced shortly on the summer school website.
Pre-registration
Since the number of participants is limited, we recommend you to inform us
of your intention to participate to the school as soon as possible, by
pre-registering by means of a simple reply to this email, indicating your
name, email, status and affiliation, or by filling the pre-registration
form at the school website.
More information is available at the school website:
http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTASchool08/
We are looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier. We also welcome you
to circulate this announcement around you.
Best regards,
Jean-Marc Bernard
Kevin Loquin
(for the scientific and organizing committees)
From wolfe at search.bwh.harvard.edu Wed Jan 16 02:09:57 2008
From: wolfe at search.bwh.harvard.edu (Jeremy Wolfe)
Date: Wed Jan 16 04:47:37 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Contest to design the cover of an S&P textbook
Message-ID:
Cover design competition for the 2nd Edition of Wolfe et al.,
Sensation & Perception
The cover of the first edition of Sensation & Perception, by Jeremy
Wolfe, Keith Kluender, Dennis Levi, Linda Bartoshuk, Rachel Herz,
Roberta Klatzky, Susan Lederman, and Daniel Merfeld featured a
lightness illusion by Bart Anderson and Jonathan Winawer based on
their report in Nature (2005). Perhaps something of yours could
grace the cover of the forthcoming second edition. We are having a
contest to determine the new cover. Send us your ideas; either your
images from your research or a creation for the occasion. You do not
need to include the title or authors. Indeed, if you do, it is likely
that the publisher will modify the design for the final cover.
The authors will choose the winning image. The winner will receive a
$500 honorarium and a copy of the book as a reward and there will be
a blurb in the front of the book describing the image and its authors.
To submit your image(s) please email a version of modest size
(ideally less than 1MB) to spcover@sinauer.com. Submissions must be
received by July 1st, 2008. The winner will be notified by email no
later than August 1st, 2008.
While the submission should not be a huge file, the winning image
will need to be available as a high resolution image, suitable for
printing at 8.5" x 11". The publisher reserves the right the use a
portion of the image or to adjust the colors as necessary unless
expressly forbidden by you in the email submission of your image. The
image should be yours to give (meaning there are no other potential
copyright holders) and you will be required to sign an agreement with
the publisher, Sinauer Associates, Inc., giving your permission to
use the image on the book, the company and book websites, as well as
on any marketing or ancillary materials created for the textbook.
To see the current cover go to http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=9385
--
>Jeremy M Wolfe
>Professor of Ophthalmology
>Harvard Medical School
>
>Mailing Address:
>Visual Attention Lab
>Brigham & Women's Hospital
>64 Sidney St. Suite. 170
>Cambridge, MA 02139-4170
>
>Phone: 617-768-8818
>Fax: 617-768-8816
>
>Best email: wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu
>URL: search.bwh.harvard.edu
>
>Looking for a good book? Try
http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=9385
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From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Wed Jan 16 19:12:53 2008
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Wed Jan 16 23:34:06 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 2nd Call for Illusion Submissions: the 4th Annual Best
Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
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**** SECOND CALL FOR ILLUSION SUBMISSIONS: THE FOURTH ANNUAL BEST VISUAL
ILLUSION OF THE YEAR CONTEST****
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
*** We are happy to announce the world's 4th Annual Best Visual Illusion of
the Year Contest!!*** The deadline for illusion submissions is February
15th, 2008!
The 2008 contest will be hosted by Stuart Anstis and held in Naples, Florida
(Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org) on Sunday,
May 11th, 2008, during the week of the Vision Sciences Society conference
(VSS). The Naples Philharmonic Center is an 8-minute walk from the main VSS
headquarters hotel in Naples, and is thus central to the VSS conference.
The 2007 annual contest, held in Sarasota, Florida, drew numerous accolades
from attendees and international media coverage, as well as over *** ONE
MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world. The First, Second
and Third Prize winners were Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and Elena
Gheorghiu (McGill University, Canada), Pietro Guardini and Luciano Gamberini
(University of Padova, Italy), and Arthur Shapiro and Emily Knight (Bucknell
University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights
from the 2007 contest, go to http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2007) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the
Contest Gala in Naples, the TOP TEN illusionists will present their
contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to
pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!
The renowned sculptor and artist, Guido Moretti, has created three amazing
works of art to serve as trophies for the TOP THREE winners!
See the trophies at:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=98&MMN_position=41:41
Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted
to the 2008 contest, as long as they meet the above requirements and were
not among the top three winners in previous years.
Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. No illusions will be posted on
the illusion contest's website without the creators' explicit permission. As
with submitting your work to any scientific conference, participating in the
Best Illusion of the Year Contest does not preclude you from also submitting
your work for publication elsewhere.
Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until February 15, 2008. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to:
. Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the
description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity
Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!
On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)
Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Stephen
Macknik, Luis Martinez, Xoana Troncoso, Peter Tse
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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com
From knill at cvs.rochester.edu Thu Jan 17 17:01:59 2008
From: knill at cvs.rochester.edu (david c knill)
Date: Thu Jan 17 19:34:29 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Undergraduate summer fellowship programm in vision
science
Message-ID:
The Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester sponsors
a 9 week long summer fellowship program in vision science for
undergraduates. The program combines research in a sponsoring faculty
member's lab with lectures and other group activities during the
summer.
Please let students in your program know about the program. It's a
great opportunity for students to get research experience and learn
more about vision science.
David Knill
>Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program in Vision Science
>June 2 -August 1, 2008
>
>The application deadline is February 1, 2008
>
>Download the Undergraduate Fellowship Poster pdf
>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/fellowship_2008.pdf
>The Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester
>announces its 2008 Summer Research Fellowship Program in Vision
>Science. Undergraduates in their junior year of baccalaureate
>studies interested in neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial
>intelligence, and biomedical science are invited to join the Center
>for Visual Science for a summer of supervised laboratory training.
>Applicants will be selected based on academic achievements and an
>interest in pursuing graduate studies in science. Both US and
>foreign applications will be accepted.
>
>Our fellowship will cover travel and on-campus housing expenses for
>non-local students and provide a stipend of $3462 for a summer of
>continuous training in a faculty member's lab. Training will also
>include an orientation with introductory lectures, weekly talks from
>CVS faculty, laboratory demos, a poster session and CVS picnic at
>summer's end. Rochester, located near Lake Ontario in western New
>York, is an internationally recognized center for visual and imaging
>science and provides a scenic and natural setting for a variety of
>outdoor activities.
>
>http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/ug_fellowship.html
>--
--
David Knill
Professor, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Assoc. Director, Center for Visual Science
University of Rochester
585-275-4597
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From visualculture at education.wisc.edu Thu Jan 17 21:14:27 2008
From: visualculture at education.wisc.edu (Visual Culture)
Date: Thu Jan 17 21:25:55 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Visual Culture Center at UW-Madison presents
Visualizing Science, February 7-8
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The Visual Culture Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents *
Visualizing Science*
February 7-8, 2008
Part 3 of New Directions in Visual Culture
A 2007-08 Series of Public Conferences
Since its establishment in 2002, Visual Culture at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison has been a leader in the emerging field of visual
culture studies. We support cutting edge creative production and
interdisciplinary research, programming and community outreach
activities. Visual Culture forges vital connections and collaborations
between the study and practice of the visual with bridges across the
arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. In the fall of 2007 the
University approved our status as a research center, and we are in the
process of planning to launch a new PhD in Visual Culture at UW-Madison.
We are excited to present /New Directions in Visual Culture/, a
2007-2008 series of public conferences whose diverse themes speak to our
broad constituencies at UW-Madison and in visual culture studies. All
events are free and open to the public./ /For more information on these
and other events, please visit our website at www.visualculture.wisc.edu
.
/New Directions in Visual Culture/ is made possible by a grant from the
Anonymous Fund._
_
*_February 7-8, 2008_**_: Visualizing Science_*
This conference is part of an ongoing collaboration between the
sciences, arts, and humanities at UW-Madison and will include a public
lecture, workshop, research colloquium and exhibition that take up
issues of visuality and visual technologies in the sciences. All events
are free and open to the public, and advanced registration is required
for the research colloquium on Friday, February 8. To register for the
conference, please visit
http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/reg/catalog_course_detail.asp?course_key=18990
For more information about the conference, please visit
http://www.visualculture.wisc.edu/Events/0708/newdirections.htm.
Thursday, February 7: "Drawing Attention to Nano: Fantastic Realism and
Other Modes of Visual Impression Management in Nanotechnology," A Public
lecture by Michael Lynch, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in
Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. 5:30pm, Chazen
Museum of Art, (800 University Avenue) Room L140. (No registration
required).
Lecture abstract:
Starting about thirty years ago, historians of science and art
historians began taking an interest in what James Elkins later called
"images that are not art," including diagrams, optical and digital
images, maps, models, and graphs. Ironically, such non-art images have
lately become fashionable /as/ art. In past work, I have studied the
composition and use of various types of non-art images, including
electron micrographs, digital images of astronomical objects, and
illustrations in field guides. My main interest has been in how
visualization exacts and enacts discipline, both in terms of the
objective fields displayed and in the practices of investigating those
fields. This presentation concerns nanotechnology: a field that has
become known for conspicuous /in/discipline in its use of imagery.
Although the coherence and very existence of "nano" remains
questionable, it has produced a proliferation of popular images, ranging
from fantastic nanobots placed in hyperrealistic nanoscapes to crude
atomic drawings that resemble children's fingerpaintings. In some
respects, nano images trade on compositional and expository practices
that are characteristic of many other technical renderings, but the
publicity and controversy that surrounds nano highlights the ethical
tensions involved in simulating invisible realms by placing them in
classic realistic compositions.
Friday, February 8: Visualizing Science: A Research Colloquium
The colloquium will feature short presentations and discussions from
UW-Madison faculty and graduate students on the following questions: how
do issues of audience and communication shape the way science is
visualized? What are the roles of culture, technology and subjectivity?
The colloquium is organized by Dr. Sheila Reaves, Professor of Life
Sciences Communication at UW-Madison. Pyle Center Auditorium (702
Langdon Street), 9:00am-12:10pm. Registration required.
Participants include:
Dominique Brossard (Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass
Communication)
Laurie Beth Clark (Professor, Art)
Wendy Crone (Associate Professor, Engineering Physics) and Greta Zenner
(Materials Research Science and Engineering Center)
Meghan Doherty (PhD Candidate, Art History)
Joan Fujimura (Professor, Sociology)
Steve Hilyard (Associate Professor, Art)
Judith Houck (Assistant Professor, Medical History and Bioethics)
Michael Lynch (Professor and Director of Science and Technology Studies
at Cornell University)
Daniel Kleinman (Director, Holtz Center for Scinece and Technology Studies)
Patty Loew (Associate Professor, Life Sciences Communication)
Lynn Nyhart (Professor, History of Science)
Shiela Reaves (Professor, Life Sciences Communication)
Dietram Scheufele (Professor, Life Sciences Communication)
Ahna Skop (Assistant Professor, Genetics & Medical Genetics)
Tom Still (Wisconsin Technology Council)
Lunch at the Pyle Center (registration required).
"Topical Contextures and Objectivity," A workshop with Michael Lynch.
1:15pm-3:15pm. Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Room 309. Open to
faculty and graduate students. Seating is limited. *Advanced
registration with the **Visual** **Culture** **Center** is required. To
register, and to gain access to the required readings, please send an
inquiry to visualculture@education.wisc.edu
. ****Please note that
registration for the morning research colloquium and lunch does not
guarantee a seat in the workshop.
The workshop will involve examples and exercises in which participants
explore how visualization is featured in scientific communication,
demonstration, and argument. Topical contexture is a term used to
describe the relationship between arrangements of visible details and
the gestalt forms they compose.
3:30pm-4:00pm: Exhibition Viewing and Curators' Talk in the Kohler Art
Library, 800 University Avenue. Guest co-curators Amy Noell and Beth
Zinsli (PhD Students, Art History) discuss "The Scientist's Eye:
Dialogues between Art and Science." The exhibition features artist and
rare books from the Kohler Art Library and Special Collections (Memorial
Library).
"Visualizing Science" is co-sponsored by the College of Agricultural and
Life Sciences, the Eye Research Institute, the Robert F. and Jean E.
Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, and the Departments of
Art, Art History, Medical History and Bioethics, and Sociology.
*MICHAEL LYNCH* is currently Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
in Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is currently
president of the Society for Social Studies of Science and editor of
Social Studies of Science. His areas of research and teaching include
ethnomethodology, sociology of science, and contemporary social theory.
His long-standing interest in visualization in science goes back to his
first book, /Art & Artifact in Laboratory Science/ (Routledge & Kegan
Paul, 1985) and his edited anthology (with Steve Woolgar),
/Representation in Scientific Practice /(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990) and
includes papers on visualization in electron microscopy, digital image
processing in astronomy, and other fields. He is co-author of a
forthcoming book, /Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA
Fingerprinting/ (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
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From lucas.paletta at joanneum.at Fri Jan 18 16:09:09 2008
From: lucas.paletta at joanneum.at (Paletta, Lucas)
Date: Fri Jan 18 19:00:24 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CfP(3): Intl. Workshop on ATTENTION in COGNITIVE
SYSTEMS (WAPCV 2008) - **new deadline**
Message-ID: <3477C5E5CA395A4F897F6E3D5DE8091A84BA4E@RZJC2EX.jr1.local>
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3rd CALL FOR PAPERS
5th International Workshop on
ATTENTION IN COGNITIVE SYSTEMS
WAPCV 2008
May 12, 2008, Santorini, Greece
http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2008/
associated with ICVS 2008
(http://icvs2008.info/Workshops.htm)
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NEWS: ** FINAL EXTENSION OF PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE **
Full paper submission: January 27, 2008 (hard deadline)
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2008
Final paper submission: March 25, 2008
Workshop day: May 12, 2008
INVITED SPEAKERS
Steve Yantis, Johns Hopkins University, USA
http://www.psy.jhu.edu/~yantis/
John M. Findlay, Durham University, UK
http://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/staff/?username=dps0jmf
SCOPE
The capacity to attend to the relevant has been part of AI systems since the early days of the discipline. Currently, with respect to the design and computational modeling of artificial cognitive systems, selective attention has again become a focus of research, and one sees it important for the organization of behaviors, for control and interfacing between sensory and cognitive information processing, and for the understanding of individual and social cognition in humanoid artifacts.
While visual cognition obviously plays a central role in human perception, findings from neuroscience and cognitive psychology have informed us on the perception-action nature of cognition. In particular, the embodiment in sensory-motor intelligence requires a continuous spatio-temporal interplay between interpretations from various perceptual modalities and the corresponding control of motor activities. In addition, the process of selecting information from the incoming sensory stream, in tune with contextual processing on a current task and global goals, becomes a challenging control issue within the viewpoint of focused attention. Seemingly attention systems must operate at many levels and not only at interfaces between a bottom-up driven world interpretation and top-down driven information selection. One may consider selective attention as part of the core of artificial cognitive systems. These insights have already produced paradigmatic changes in several AI-related disciplines, such as, in the design of behavior based robotics and the computational modeling of animats.
Within the context of the engineering domain, the development of enabling technologies such as autonomous robotic systems, miniaturized mobile - even wearable - sensors, and ambient intelligence systems involves the real-time analysis of enormous quantities of data. These data have to be processed in an intelligent way to provide "on time delivery" of the required relevant information. Knowledge has to be applied about what needs to be attended to, and when, and what to do in a meaningful sequence, in correspondence with visual feedback.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
** Techniques, modelling, and concepts:
Computational architectures for attention
Biologically inspired attention
Attentive control of robot systems
Aspects of attention in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy
Attention and control of machine vision processes
Attention in object recognition and detection
Attention and contextual modelling
Attention in multimodal information fusion
Attention in affordance perception
Performance measures for attention enabled artificial systems
Machine learning and feature selection in robot perception
Decision making and attention
Robust statistical techniques for attention
Perceptual organisation
Evolutionary aspects of attention
** Application related topics of interest:
Attentive multimodal interfaces
Attentive robotic systems
Autonomous intelligent systems
Mobile Mapping systems
Video surveillance
Video and image retrieval
Industrial inspection
Remote sensing
Medical computer vision
Usability research
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria
John K. Tsotsos, York University, Canada
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Leonardo Chelazzi, University of Verona, Italy
James J. Clark, McGill University, Canada
J.M. Findlay, Durham University, UK
Simone Frintrop, University of Bonn, Germany
Fred Hamker, University of Muenster, Germany
Dietmar Heinke, University of Birmingham, UK
Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA
Ilona Kovacs, Budapest Univ. of Technology, Hungary
Eileen Kowler, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel
Larry Manevitz, University of Haifa, Israel
Baerbel Mertsching, University of Paderborn, Germany
Giorgio Metta, University of Genoa, Italy
Vidhya Navalpakkam, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA
Aude Oliva, MIT, MA, USA
Kevin O'Regan, Universite de Paris 5, France
Fiora Pirri, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Marc Pomplun, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Catherine Reed, University of Denver, CO, USA
Ronald A. Rensink, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
Erich Rome, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
John G. Taylor, King's College London, UK
Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Nuno Vasconcelos, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Chen Yu, University of Indiana, IN, USA
Tom Ziemke, University of Sk?vde, Sweden
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Publication of the proceedings will be in LNCS/LNAI Springer format. Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages in Springer format. Appropriate style files can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/lncs (please consult instruction for authors of Springer proceedings). The organizers expect submissions in PDF format. We will perform double-blind reviews, i.e., author information must be hidden in the paper: blank author fields, no acknowledgment information, own papers should be cited only if mandatory.
Please look at http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2008/ for electronic paper submission.
Papers will be considered for review that have also been submitted to the main ICVS conference. Double submission must be indicated by authors, and the workshop organizer must be given a copy of the IJCAI reviews. In case we receive a reasonable number of high quality contributions we will consider the organization of a poster session to inform - in addition to the about all related ongoing activities in this field.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted contributions will be provided on CD-ROM as hand-outs to participants at the workshop site.
It is intended to publish post-conference proceedings of selected, revised and invited papers of the workshop in Springer LNAI - see LNCS 3368 about WAPCV 2004; LNAI 4840 about WAPCV 2007 in print.
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
WAPCV 2007, Hyderabad, India (IJCAI) - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2007
WAPCV 2005, San Diego, USA (CVPR) - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2005
WAPCV 2004, Prague, Czech Republic (ECCV) - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2004
WAPCV 2003, Graz, Austria (ICVS) - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2003
CONTACT
Dr. Lucas Paletta
JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
Institute of Digital Image Processing
Wastiangasse 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
Phone: +43 (316) 876 1769
Fax: +43 (316) 876 91769
E-mail: lucas.paletta@joanneum.at
Web: http://dib.joanneum.at/cape
Prof. John K. Tsotsos
Department. of Computer Science & Engineering
York University
4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ont. M3J 1P3, Canada
Phone: +1 416-736-2100 - 70135
Fax: +1 416-736-5872
Email: tsotsos.cse@yorku.ca
Web: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~tsotsos/
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From xud at childpsych.columbia.edu Fri Jan 18 19:53:13 2008
From: xud at childpsych.columbia.edu (XU, Dongrong)
Date: Fri Jan 18 20:00:20 2008
Subject: [visionlist] job poster: postdoc - Columbia University
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Postdoc Position, Biomedical Imaging, Columbia University, New York City
Jan 18, 2008
Position: Postdoc
Organization: Columbia University
Location: New York City, USA
Starting Date: 3/1/2008, or as early as possible
Duration: 2 years
A postdoc position funded by an NIMH grant is available at the Brain Imaging
Laboratory / Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Unit in the Department of
Psychiatry at Columbia University, for conducting biomedical image
processing and analysis of a multi-site schizophrenia research project. The
successful applicant will be trained and work broadly in the MRI fields, but
particularly in the area of diffusion tensor imaging. This position needs to
work with a multidisciplinary team on MRI neuroimaging, and will have ample
opportunities of writing and publishing scientific papers.
Applicants must have a doctoral degree in engineering, such as biomedical
engineering, computer science and engineering, or in a closely related
discipline (e.g., mathematics, statistics, MRI physics, etc.) Preference
will be given to individuals with a background or experience in the analysis
of neuroimaging data sets. Good knowledge in programming is required.
Knowledge of computer graphics, popular software platforms and image
processing packages, such as OpenGL, SPM, ITK/VTK, FSL, is preferred but not
necessary. However, the successful applicant should be willing and able to
learn and work in these software platforms. Moreover, this applicant should
be willing to accept supervision well.
Applicants should send in a cover letter, a complete curriculum vitae, two
representative publications, and names of 3 references.
Contact:
XU, Dongrong Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry
1051 Riverside Drive, NYSPI Unit 74, New York, NY 10032
Tel. 212-543-5495
Fax. 212-543-0522
Email: dx2103@columbia.edu (email contact is
preferred)
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From darnold at psy.uq.edu.au Sun Jan 20 22:31:17 2008
From: darnold at psy.uq.edu.au (Derek Arnold)
Date: Sun Jan 20 22:53:19 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Second call for Papers: Asia-Pacific Conference on
Vision
Message-ID: <4793CBB5.7070606@psy.uq.edu.au>
2nd Call for Papers
Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV)
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/apcv/
APCV 2008 will take place from Friday July 18 through to Monday July
21st 2008.
The conference will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition
Centre, a state of the art facility just minutes walk from major tourist
attractions in the centre of Brisbane - the capital city of beautiful
Queensland, Australia.
Formerly known as the Asian Conference on Vision, APCV aims to
facilitate debate concerning vision research throughout the Asia-Pacific
by bringing together scientists from the broad range of disciplines
contributing to modern vision science, including...
? Visual Psychophysics
? Visual Physiology & Anatomy
? Visual Cognition
? Computational Vision
? Artificial Vision
? Brain Imaging
? Eye movements
? Multisensory integration
. Visual Development
. Eye growth control
Keynote lectures will be given by Mandyam Srinivasan (University of
Queensland, Australia), Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of
Technology, USA) and Hidehiko Komatsu (National Institute for
Physiological Sciences, Japan).
Special symposia covering a range of topics have also been organized.
Speakers include Mel Goodale, Ken Nakayama, Atsushi Iriki, Jason
Mattingley, Roger Remington, Mike Dixon, Gill Rhodes, Mark Williams,
William Hayward & Anina Rich. Other confirmed speakers include Satoshi
Shioiri, Keiji Uchikawa, Choongkil Lee, Shinya Nishida, David Eagleman,
Hirohiko Kaneko, Rayomnd Van Ee, Alan Johnston, Arni Kristjansson,
Philip Grove and Stephen Palmisano.
Free communications will be either 15 minute oral presentations in
parallel sessions, or posters.
Abstracts (max length 200 words) will be published on-line in Perception.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is March 1st, 2008. Note that we
have delayed the submission deadline to avoid conflict with examination
periods in Japan and the Chinese New Year.
In order to submit an abstract, participants should complete the
Conference Registration process on the website and proceed to payment,
via a secure Credit Card payment system.
For additional information, visit the conference website
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/apcv/
We hope that you will join us at APCV 2008 in beautiful Queensland,
Australia.
Thanks for your attention!
From mlcalvo at fis.ucm.es Mon Jan 21 10:40:27 2008
From: mlcalvo at fis.ucm.es (mlcalvo)
Date: Mon Jan 21 15:46:43 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ICO Prize 2007 to Vision Scientist Susana Marcos
Message-ID: <001c01c85c1a$09670270$8d156093@mlcalvo>
Dear colleagues,
We are proud to announce that the International
Commission for Optics has awarded the ICO Prize
2007 to Susana Marcos (Institute of Optics, CSIC,
Spain). It is the first time that this prestigeous
prize is awarded to a vision scientist.
The ICO Prize was established in 1982 and is
given each year to an individual who has made a
noteworthy contribution to optics, before he or she has reached the age of 40.
The award proposal was unanimously approved by an
ICO Bureau meeting held in Accra (Ghana) last November.
The citation reads: "The ICO Prize for the year
2007 is given to Prof. Susana Marcos in
recognition of her outstanding contributions in
the areas of visual optics and biophotonics.
The Prize includes the Ernst Abbe Medal, donated
by Carl Zeiss Foundation. Prof. Marcos will deliver an invited plenary
lecture at ICO-21 Triennial Congress of the
International Commission for Optics (Sydney,
Australia, July 7-10, 2008) where the award ceremony will also take place.
The information appeared in the ICO Newsletter, January 2008 issue is electrocnically available at:
http://www.ico-optics.org/ico_jan08.html
With best regards.
On behalf of the International Commission for Optics
M.L. Calvo
ICO Secretary
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Secretariat of the International Commission for Optics (ICO)
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Prof. Maria L. Calvo
Head
Departamento de Optica
Facultad de Ciencias F?sicas
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
28040 Madrid, Spain
Phone (office): 34-91-3944684
Phone (lab): 34-91-3944678
Fax: 34-91-3944683
e-mail: mlcalvo@fis.ucm.es
website: http://www.ucm.es/info/giboucm/Gico%20UCM.html
ICO Administrative Secretary
Mrs. Rosario de Cecilio
Phone: 34-91-3944445
e-mail: icosec@fis.ucm.es,rcecilio@fis.ucm.es
ICO website: http://www.ico-optics.org
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From pz at hms.harvard.edu Mon Jan 21 05:52:14 2008
From: pz at hms.harvard.edu (Dr. J. S. Pezaris)
Date: Mon Jan 21 15:47:25 2008
Subject: [visionlist] AREADNE 2008 Call for Abstracts
Message-ID: <200801210552.m0L5qEfn020777@pezaris-desktop.mgh.harvard.edu>
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
AREADNE 2008
Research in Encoding and Decoding of
Neural Ensembles
June 26 - 29, 2008
Nomikos Conference Center
Santorini, Greece
http://www.areadne.org
info@areadne.org
INTRODUCTION
One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience today is to understand
how the activation of large populations of neurons give rise to higher
order functions of the brain including learning, memory, cognition,
perception, action and ultimately conscious awareness.
Electrophysiological recordings in behaving animals over the past
forty years have revealed considerable information about what the
firing patterns of single neurons encode in isolation, but it remains
largely a mystery how collections of neurons interact to perform these
functions.
Recent technological advances have for the first time provided a
glimpse into the global functioning of the brain. These technologies
include functional magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging methods
including intrinsic, voltage-sensitive dye, and two-photon imaging,
high-density electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography, and
multi-microelectrode array electrophysiology. These technologies have
expanded our knowledge of brain functioning beyond the single neuron
level.
At the same time, our understanding of how neuronal ensembles carry
information has allowed the development of brain-machine interfaces
(BMI) to enhance the capabilities of patients with sensory and motor
deficits. Knowledge of how neuronal ensembles encode sensory stimuli
has made it possible to develop perceptual BMIs for the hearing and
visually impaired. Likewise, research in how neuronal ensembles
decode motor intentions has resulted in motor BMIs by which people
with severe motor disabilities can control external devices.
CONFERENCE MISSION
First and foremost, this conference is intended to bring scientific
leaders from around the world to present their recent findings on the
functioning of neuronal ensembles. Second, the meeting will provide an
informal yet spectacular setting on Santorini in which attendees can
discuss and share ideas outside of the presentations at the conference
center. Third, this conference continues our long term project to form
a systems neuroscience research institute within Greece to conduct
state-of-the-art research, offer meetings and courses, and provide a
center for visiting scientists from around the world to interact with
Greek researchers and students.
FORMAT AND SPEAKERS
The conference will span four days, in morning and early evening
sessions. Confirmed speakers include experts in the field of
multi-neuron experiment and analysis (in alphabetic order): Larry
Abbott, John Assad, John Dani, John Donoghue, Jennifer Groh, Naoum Issa,
Nancy Kopell, George Kostopoulos, Gilles Laurent, Nikos Logothetis, Lee
Miller, Jason MacLean, Eve Marder, Tony Movshon, Bill Newsome, Catherine
Ojakangas, Tatiana Pasternak, Desmond Patterson, Yiota Poirazi, Alex
Pouget, Erin Schuman, Krishna Shenoy, Murray Sherman, and Sara Solla.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We are currently soliciting abstracts for poster presentation.
Submissions will be accepted electronically, and must be received by
March 8, 2008. Automated email acknowledgment of submission will be
provided, and manual verification will be made a few days after
submission. Notification of acceptance will be provided by April 3,
2008.
Please see our on-line Call for Abstracts at
http://areadne.org/call-for-abstracts.html for additional details.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
John Pezaris, Co-Chair
Nicho Hatsopoulos, Co-Chair
Dora Angelaki
Catherine Ojakangas
Thanos Siapas
Andreas Tolias
SPONSORS
The AREADNE 2008 Conference is being sponsored by the Center for
Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering Research, University of
Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information please see the conference web site
http://areadne.org or send email to info@areadne.org.
--
Dr. J. S. Pezaris
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114, USA
john@areadne.org
From contact at ecvp.org Mon Jan 21 17:02:11 2008
From: contact at ecvp.org (ECVP Site Manager)
Date: Mon Jan 21 17:09:19 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2008 1st Announcement
Message-ID:
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1st Announcement
31st
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON VISUAL PERCEPTION
ECVP 2008
AUGUST 24-28, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.ecvp2008.org **
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The European Conference on Visual Perception is an annual meeting
devoted to scientific study of visual perception. ECVP has been held
each year since 1978, and attracts a wide variety of participants.
The organisation welcomes you to Utrecht!
IMPORTANT DATES
Registration open: January 25, 2008
Submission open: January 25, 2008
Deadline submission: March 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: ~June 2008
Notification of travel support awards: ~June,2008**
NEWS: ** INVITED SPEAKERS **
The Perception Lecture will be given by Dr. Ian Howard from York
University, Canada
http://cvr.yorku.ca/webpages/howard.htm
The Rank Lecture will be given by Dr. Jan Koenderink from Utrecht
University, The Netherlands
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwpm/HumPerc/koenderink.html
PROGRAM
This year we will go back to the basics, meaning that we will focus
on the presentation of new and original research results. Only few
symposia will be organized - see our website for details. There will
be an exciting conference diner** and many social and cultural events.
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
See website, but note that, in order to reduce the cost of
publishing, special attention will be given to lay-out and language.
"Bat Engwish" can be a reason for rejection.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted contributions will be published in the journal Perception
http://www.perceptionweb.com/.
EXHIBITORS
Special care has been given to make sure that exhibitions are located
in an interactive central area. Please contact the organisation for
details**.
We hope to see you in Utrecht,
On behalf of the organising committee,
Frans Verstraten, coordinator.
** More information will be added at a later stage.
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From psp072 at bangor.ac.uk Tue Jan 22 16:29:55 2008
From: psp072 at bangor.ac.uk (Martijn)
Date: Tue Jan 22 17:52:01 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position___3 Years___David Linden___
Bangor University (Wales, UK)
Message-ID: <47961A03.1020100@bangor.ac.uk>
Applications are invited for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Officer
(Starting Salary: ?21,478 - ?23,883) position in social cognitive
neuroscience. This position is to work on a research grant awarded to
Professor David Linden jointly with Professor Thomas Mussweiler of the
University of Cologne, Germany. This grant is funded by the ESRC through
their bilateral programme with the German Research Council (DFG). The
aim of the project is to investigate the neural substrates of social
comparison, one of the most pervasive cognitive processes humans engage
in. The work will involve the adaptation of paradigms from social
psychology research for functional imaging and the acquisition and
analysis of behavioural and imaging data. The successful candidate will
work closely with the research officer in the Cologne team, who is being
recruited in parallel.
Professor Mussweiler's group in Cologne is internationally leading in
the fields of social judgment, stereotyping and decision making:
http://social-cognition.uni-koeln.de/.
This is a full-time position, starting on April 1st 2008. The ideal
candidate would have a PhD in cognitive neuroscience or a related field,
experience with stimulus programming and functional magnetic resonance
imaging and an interest in the application of these skills to current
topics in social psychology.
The School of Psychology at Bangor is one of the UK's leading Psychology
departments (Wolfson Centre For Clinical And Cognitive Neuroscience). It
enjoys the highest possible research rating (RAE 5*A), and offers an
exciting research environment within a dynamic and growing imaging
group. Further details of the School, including our extensive research
facilities (3T MRI, ERP, MRI-guided TMS), can be found under
http://www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/.
The University is situated on the northern coastline of Wales in an area
of outstanding natural beauty within a few miles of the Snowdonia
Mountains National Park and several quiet beaches. Bangor has direct
rail connections to London (3 hours) and Manchester (2 hours).
Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by
contacting Human Resources, Bangor University; tel: (01248)
382926/388132; e-mail: personnel@bangor.ac.uk; web: www.bangor.ac.uk
For an informal discussion about this post, potential applicants are
invited to contact Professor David Linden, tel: (01248) 382564, e-mail:
d.linden@bangor.ac.uk
Please quote reference number 08-7/93 when applying. Closing date for
applications: Friday 15th February, 2008.
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From jswerner at ucdavis.edu Tue Jan 22 18:21:36 2008
From: jswerner at ucdavis.edu (Jack Werner)
Date: Tue Jan 22 20:07:02 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Positions in Vision Science at UC Davis
Message-ID:
The University of California Davis announces the availability of NEI-
sponsored postdoctoral fellowships in vision science. The starting
date is flexible, with the first round of applicants to be chosen in
February or March 2008.
UC Davis has 33 faculty in the vision sciences with research programs
in (i) molecular biology and genetics, (ii) anatomy and physiology,
(iii) retinal imaging and bioengineering, (iv) central mechanism
neurophysiology and behavior, and (v) functional imaging,
computational modeling and psychophysics.
The vision sciences at UC Davis supports research in the basic
sciences and translational research in ophthalmology, all with a
highly interactive and colleagial faculty. Davis itself is a
friendly, medium-sized college town close to the cultural attractions
of the Bay Area and recreational opportunities from Big Sur to the
Sierra Nevada and Yosemite.
Initial inquiries should be made with a potential sponsor (for a
faculty list see the Center for Visual Sciences web site: http://cvs.ucdavis.edu/)
and copied to the training director (jswerner@ucdavis.edu). A CV
and letters of reference will be required for formal application.
Candidates with any type of doctoral degree (e.g., DVD, MD, OD, PhD)
will be considered. Applicants for these particular positions must be
citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States. (Other
postdoctoral positions may have few restrictions so all are encouraged
to inquire.) The University of California is committed to diversity
and minority applications are strongly encouraged.
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From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Tue Jan 22 20:45:04 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Tue Jan 22 21:11:03 2008
Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2008 Annual Meeting Information
Message-ID: <077001c85d37$b0a6e050$11f4a0f0$@org>
Greetings,
Plans for the VSS 2008 Annual Meeting are underway. The meeting will be held
at the Naples Grande Hotel in Naples, Florida May 9 - 14, 2008. The deadline
for early (discounted) registration is Thursday, February 28. To register
for the meeting, go to
http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html.
The meeting begins Friday afternoon at 1:00 pm with member-initiated
symposia (
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html). This year's symposia are:
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Perceptual expectations and the neural processing of complex images
Organizer: Bharathi Jagadeesh
Cortical organization and dynamics for visual perception and beyond
Organizer: Zoe Kourtzi
Crowding
Organizer: Denis G. Pelli
Visual Memory and the Brain
Organizer: Marian Berryhill
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Action for perception: functional significance of eye movements for vision
Organizers: Anna Montagnini and Miriam Spering
The past, present, and future of the written word
Organizers: Frederic Gosselin and Bosco S. Tjan
Surface material perception
Organizer: Roland W Fleming
Bayesian models applied to perceptual behavior
Organizer: Peter Battaglia
For complete symposia information, go to:
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html.
The rooms at the Naples Grande are filling up quickly, so if you haven't
made your reservation yet, we suggest you make one soon. To reserve your
room, go to
http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html and follow the links for online
reservations. If you're looking for an alternative to the meeting hotel, we
have negotiated discounted rates at two additional hotels, both ~1 mile from
the Naples Grande. See http://visionsciences.org/hotel-overflows.html for
additional information.
Upcoming Dates
Call for Demos: 2/4/08
Notices of Accepted Abstracts Sent: 2/12/08
VSS Schedule Posted to Website: 2/20/08
Early Registration: 2/28/08
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From assc12 at ym.edu.tw Wed Jan 23 02:28:49 2008
From: assc12 at ym.edu.tw (ASSC12)
Date: Wed Jan 23 02:34:49 2008
Subject: [visionlist] [CFP] The First ASSC in Taipei-ASSC12
Message-ID: <009c01c85d67$b074d300$080ba8c0@CRC01>
Don¡¦t forget to come to the great event in consciousness--the first ASSC
annual meeting in Asia!
This is a meeting guaranteed to be exciting as well as exotic!
Taipei provides a wealth of resources to explore, from the most traditional
Chinese cultures, exotic blend of modern/traditional influences of the East
and West, to its dazzling variety of natural landscapes and wildlife.
Don¡¦t miss out this event in Taipei and join top consciousness researchers
around the world in one of the most exciting meetings to be remembered!
Allen Houng & Ralph Adolphs
Co-Chairs, Scientific Program Committee, ASSC12
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
12TH ANNUAL MEETING
Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
June 19-22, 2008
http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/
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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE JUST AROUND THE CORNER!
SUBMISSION MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 1,2008!
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Confirmed speakers and workshops include:
Presidential Address:
David Rosenthal, City University of New York, USA
Keynote Speakers:
Thomas Metzinger, The Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany,
topic: The Self
Mitsuo Kawato, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International,
Japan,
topic: Engineering Consciousness
Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University, Japan,
topic: The Mind of the Chimpanzees
Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute, USA,
topic: Microsaccades: Windows on the Mind
Confirmed Symposium Speakers:
Ned Block, New York University, USA
Victor Lamme, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sid Kouider, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Barbara Jones, McGill University, Canada
Donald Pfaff, Rockefeller University, USA
Steven Laureys, University of Liege, Belgium
Haibo Di, Zhejiang University, China
Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK
Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK
Shaul Hochstein, Life Sciences Institute and Neural Computation Center,
Israel
Tim Bayne, University of Oxford, UK
Ryan McKay, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Ian Gold, McGill University, Canada
Robyn Langdon, Macquarie University, Australia
Confirmed Tutorial Workshops:
Antoine Bechara, topic: Emotion, Feeling, and Interoception
Juliane Wilcke, topic: The Evolutionary Function of Consciousness
Jennifer Windt /Thomas Metzinger, topic: Dreaming
Tim Bayne & Jakob Hohwy, topic: Conscious States and Conscious Creatures:
Explanatory Strategies in The Science of Consciousness
Andrew Brook, topic: Consciousness Terminology
Shigeru Kitazawa & Shin'ya Nishida, topic: Adaptive Anomalies in Conscious
Time Perception
Speakers in concurrent sessions are invited to talk on any topic relevant to
the scientific study of consciousness. Submissions that include
anthropological, evolutionary, physiological, psychological, philosophical,
or computational perspectives are all welcome.Submissions for both posters
and talks will be accepted (please specify preference). Any person may
present only one submission, but may be co-author on more than one.
Submit by filling out the appropriate forms at: http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/
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REGISTRATION
OPEN ON FEB. 1, 2008
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As in previous years, discounted registration will be available to ASSC
members, who will also enjoy a range of book discounts and other member
benefits. The registration discount will be greater than the cost of
membership, so prospective members are encouraged to join ASSC now! To find
out more about the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness,
and to apply for membership, please consult our website at
http://assc.caltech.edu/
Registration will open on Feb. 1, 2008.
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ASSC-12 Scientific Program Committee:
Allen Houng & Ralph Adolphs (Co-Chairs), Shinsuke Shimojo, Max Coltheart,
John Haynes, Steven Macknik, Dan Lloyd, Michael Pauen.
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From ad2069 at columbia.edu Wed Jan 23 21:00:35 2008
From: ad2069 at columbia.edu (Aniruddha Das)
Date: Wed Jan 23 17:56:42 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in vision science at Columbia University
Message-ID: <200801231754.m0NHsmRW003801@brinza.cc.columbia.edu>
Lab of Aniruddha Das
Columbia University, Dept of Neuroscience
Applications are invited for post doctoral
positions to study the cortical mechanisms
underlying early visual processing. There are
currently three projects in the lab:
* We have developed a technique for
dual-wavelength optical imaging in the alert
monkey, simultaneously measuring blood volume and
oxygenation. Using this, we have discovered a
novel, stimulus-independent anticipatory response
in V1 that brings fresh arterial blood to cortex
in expectation of predictable visual tasks. We
are currently exploring the functional
consequences of this novel cortical response.
* Using the same optical imaging technique in
alert monkeys we find nonlinear interactions
amongst visual elements in V1, appropriate for
parsing visual scenes into simple visual forms ?
contours, textures, simple shapes. The second
project relates these measured nonlinearities to
the animals? reported perceptions of the same visual forms.
* Using a novel technique for measuring
tuning in fMRI signals we find, in human fMRI,
some of the same tuned nonlinear neuronal
interactions that we see in monkey optical
imaging. This allows us to relate monkey
physiology to more complex human perceptual tasks.
Candidates to work on these projects should have
a strong quantitative background with a
demonstrated interest in applying such
quantitative methods to problems in neurobiology.
Experience working in visual neurophysiology,
particularly with alert animals is preferred,
though not a requirement. The candidate?s Ph.D.
could be in Neuroscience, Physics, Computer
Science, Engineering or a related field. A
facility with Matlab / IDL and / or C++ is highly desirable.
We are located in the Center for Integrative
Neuroscience at Columbia University. We share a
floor with 5 other groups also working on issues
of systems neuroscience ? with diverse interests
ranging over attentional mechanisms, oculomotor
control, emotional circuitry and computational
neurobiology. Our Center is committed to
maintaining a strongly interactive and
collaborative atmosphere amongst the different laboratories.
Please send inquiries or CVs plus the names of 3 references to:
Aniruddha Das (ad2069@columbia.edu).
*******************************************************
Aniruddha Das
Department of Neuroscience,
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 87,
NYSPI Kolb Annex Rm 563
New York, NY 10032-2695
ph: 212 543-6931 x 200
fax: 212 543-5816
e-mail: ad2069@columbia.edu
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From editor at visionscience.com Thu Jan 24 05:55:55 2008
From: editor at visionscience.com (VisionList Editor)
Date: Thu Jan 24 06:01:26 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Atwell Award
Message-ID:
The Low Vision Research Group is seeking nominees for the Atwell
Award. The award is a $500 cash prize as well as an engraved plaque.
Students, post-docs and junior faculty members (with less than 5
years since their last doctoral degree) presenting work related to
low vision are encouraged to apply by sending their abstract to the
current president, J. Vernon Odom at jodom@wvu.edu . If you do not
receive an acknowledgement within 2 working days that Vernon has
received your abstract, please call 304-598-6959 and let him know.
The Atwell Award is given annually to a young investigator whose
research in the area of low vision is presented at the annual meeting
of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).
The recipient is selected from nominations made to the Program
Committee of the Low Vision Research Group. Selection is based on the
quality and promise of the research.
The Atwell Award is named in honor of Dr. Constance W. Atwell. While
a member of the staff of the National Eye Institute, Dr. Atwell was
instrumental in the formation of the Low Vision Research Group. She
played a pivotal role in encouraging and motivating high quality
low-vision research.
Recent Atwell Award Winners
Atwell award winner 2007: Jessica Huber, University of Waterloo
"Self-reported Visual Function and Quality of Life following the
Adoption of a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Device for Low Vision"
Atwell award winner 2007: Laura E. Dreer, Department of
Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Development of a
Nursing Home Vision-Specific Health Related Quality of Life
Questionnaire
Atwell award winner 2004: Werner Eisenbarth , University of Munich,
Generation Research Program (GRP) "Reduced motion sensitivity inside
and outside the macula in age-related maculopathy"
J. Vernon Odom, Ph.D.
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University
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From editor at visionscience.com Thu Jan 24 05:57:18 2008
From: editor at visionscience.com (VisionList Editor)
Date: Thu Jan 24 06:08:31 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ISCEV 2008
Message-ID:
International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV)
46th Annual Symposium: July 10 - July 15, 2008
ISCEV Teaching Course: July 8 - July 10, 2008
ISCEV Animal Course: July 8 - July 10, 2008
Morgantown, West Virginia
ISCEV 2008 Location
The Annual ISCEV Symposium provides an exciting
venue to share the latest in clinical and
research findings with those devoted to all
aspects of clinical electrophysiology of vision.
In 2008, the 46th Annual ISCEV Symposium will be
held in downtown Morgantown, WV. Morgantown is
the home of West Virginia University with the WVU
Eye Institute and a rapidly growing visual
neuroscience research community. The symposium
hotel, the Waterfront Place Hotel, is located
along the Monongahela River and Caperton Trail.
Web site: www.ISCEV2008.org
Scientific Topics
l Correlation of Structure and Function:
Paper and Poster Sessions
Invited Speakers
l Paul Sieving, MD, PhD, USA
l Aina Puce, PhD, USA
l Low Vision and Electrophysiology:
Paper and Poster Sessions
Invited Speakers
l Kenji Yanashima, MD, Japan
l Frans Riemslag, PhD, Netherlands
l Adachi Award Lecture
l William W. Dawson, PhD, USA
l Free Topics
Presenters may also submit papers on topics of their choice
Free Paper Sessions
Free Poster Sessions
l The 50th Anniversary of ISCEV
In honor of the 50th anniversary of ISCEV a
special poster session will reflect the history
of clinical electrophysiology of vision and honor
our leaders and founders
Genealogy of Electrophysiology
Social Program
For participants in the ISCEV Annual Symposium,
the registration fee includes a welcoming
reception, lunch and dinner most days, a farewell
banquet and a tour of local sites.
There will be a full social program for accompanying persons.
Details of the Social program are provided on the
conference website:
http://www.ISCEV2008.org
For Information contact:
J. Vernon Odom, PhD Monique Leys, MD
e-mail:
odomj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu
e-mail:
mleys@hsc.wvu.edu
West Virginia University Eye Institute
1 Stadium Drive
P.O. Box 9193
Morgantown, WV 26506-9193
Phone: +1 (304) 598-6959
Fax: +1 (304) 598-6928
January 10, 2008
Web site officially opens
All Registrations Open
Abstract Submission starts
March 10, 2008
Travel Grant Application Deadline
March 20, 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline
May 6, 2008
Abstract Acceptance Information
May 10, 2008
Early Bird Registration Ends
June 10, 2008
Hotel Booking Deadline for Special Rates
For updates and further information see:
http://www.ISCEV2008.org
Preconference Activities
l Courses:
July 8 - July 10, 2008
ISCEV Course: Human Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision
lCourse Director: Graham Holder, PhD, UK with an
outstanding international faculty of clinical
scientists and physicians
Animal Electrophysiology: From Laboratory to Clinic
lCourse Director: Neal Peachey, PhD, USA with an
outstanding international faculty of basic
scientists and veterinarians.
l Clinical Cases Session: July 10, 2008
lSession Coordinator: Michael Marmor, MD, USA
A two hour session highlighting problem or
unusual clinical cases. Presentations limited in
time and number of slides.
TRAVEL TO MORGANTOWN
Flights to Morgantown's Hart Field (MGW) from
Washington, DC Dulles Airport (IAD) are
available on United Airlines.
Pittsburgh (PIT) is the closest major airport to
Morgantown. Bus and shuttle service from the
Pittsburgh Airport is also available (77 mi /
123km).
When considering ISCEV 2008, remember the words
from John Denver's song "Country Roads".
"Almost heaven, West Virginia / Blue Ridge
Mountains, Shenandoah River ?. Country roads,
take me home / to the place, I belong."
ISCEV 2008 will provide a valuable educational
experience and chance for the international
exchange of scientific and clinical information.
J. Vernon Odom, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology and Physiology
West Virginia University Eye Institute
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
West Virginia University
1 Stadium Drive
P.O. Box 9193
Morgantown, WV 26506-9193
U.S.A.
Work Telephone +1 304 598 6959 Beeper 0496
FAX +1 304 598 6928
Electronic-Mail odomj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu
jodom@wvu.edu
http://iscev2008.org/
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From: jfeldman at sunyopt.edu (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Thu Jan 24 20:20:04 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D. in Vision Science at SUNY Optometry
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From Haline_E.Schendan at tufts.edu Fri Jan 25 03:46:14 2008
From: Haline_E.Schendan at tufts.edu (Schendan, Haline E.)
Date: Fri Jan 25 03:57:35 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 2nd Call for Abstracts for Tufts Conference,
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF VISUAL KNOWLEDGE: WHERE
VISION MEETS MEMORY
Message-ID: <9544C4F568FAB045BA02DD1742602DEB1009A6FD@TFTMEXCH1.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF VISUAL KNOWLEDGE:
WHERE VISION MEETS MEMORY
Second Annual Tufts University Conference on Emerging Trends in
Behavioral, Affective, Social, and Cognitive (BASC) Neurosciences
Sponsored by Tufts University, the American Psychological Association,
and the Charles River Association for Memory
Dates: Thurs, May 29 - Sat, May 31, 2008
Location: Tufts University in Medford, MA
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
February 15, 2008: Deadline for poster abstract submission.
March 31, 2008: Deadline for early registration.
How can people interact appropriately with and understand the world they
see around them? Research suggests that prior knowledge about the world
influences visual perception and cognition at both conscious and
non-conscious levels. Emerging research on the neural basis of visual
knowledge has begun to synthesize ideas from vision and learning and
memory fields. A group of distinguished speakers has been carefully
selected from the fields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive
Psychology, Neurobiology, and Computational Modeling to discuss vision
and memory, two important fields of Psychology that have proceeded
largely in parallel. The goal of the conference is to enable
interactions among cognitive psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists,
and computational modelers who study vision, memory, and visual
knowledge in humans and animals. This conference will serve to
facilitate not only the cross-pollination of ideas among scientists in
each field but also to promote the emergence of a new field of study
focused on the brain basis of visual knowledge. Cognitive neuroscience
of visual knowledge incorporates key ideas from the established research
domains of vision and memory, and, in turn, will provide new insights
motivating the further development of theories of vision and memory, as
well as theories of human knowledge.
For more information about this conference, and to submit an abstract
and register, please go to http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/conference/
Invited Speakers:
* Jocelyne Bachevalier, Professor of Psychology, Emory University.
* Neal J. Cohen, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Brain and Cognition Division of the Beckman Institute.
* Charles E. Connor, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins
University.
* Robert Cook, Professor and Chair of Psychology, Tufts
University.
* Stephen Grossberg, Chairman and Wang Professor of Cognitive and
Neural Systems, Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical
Engineering, Director, Center for Adaptive Systems, Director, Center of
Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology, Boston
University.
* Ray Jackendoff, Seth Merrin Professor, Dept. of Philosophy,
Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University.
* Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology,
Harvard University
* Alex Martin, Chief of the Section on Cognitive Neuropsychology,
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health.
* Ken A. Paller, Professor of Psychology, Interdepartmental
Neuroscience Program and Department of Psychology, Northwestern
University.
* Mary A. Peterson, Professor of Psychology, University of
Arizona.
* Suparna Rajaram, Professor of Psychology, Stony Brook
University.
* Lynn C. Robertson, Professor of Psychology, University of
California at Berkeley
* Haline E. Schendan, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tufts
University.
* Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Associate Professor of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania.
Program Committee:
Haline E. Schendan (primary organizer)
Robert Cook
Gina R. Kuperberg
Heather Urry
Lisa M. Shin
Holly A. Taylor
Ayanna K. Thomas
________________________________________________
Haline E. Schendan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
The Psychology Building
490 Boston Ave
Medford, MA 02155
Email: Haline_E.Schendan@tufts.edu
Phone: 617-627-2143
Fax: 617-6273181
Vision & Memory Neuroimaging Lab
Website http://www.ase.tufts.edu/psychology/vmn/
Visiting Scientist, MGH-NMR Martinos Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Boston University
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From: editor at visionscience.com (VisionList Editor)
Date: Sat Jan 26 19:30:17 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Eckstein, Gauthier awarded 2008 Troland Awards
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Miguel Eckstein, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and
Isabel Gauthier of Vanderbilt University, have been awarded the 2008
Troland Awards. The Troland awards are given to young investigators
(age 40 or younger) to recognize unusual achievement and further
empirical research in psychology regarding the relationships of
consciousness and the physical world.
http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_troland
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/tna-ah1012208.php
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1712
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/1/24/vanderbilt-psychologist-wins-prestigious-national-academy-of-sciences-award
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From jeedward at yahoo.com Mon Jan 28 15:00:29 2008
From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward)
Date: Mon Jan 28 15:14:51 2008
Subject: [visionlist] AIPR-08 and ARCS-08 Final Call for papers
Message-ID: <168376.43340.qm@web45913.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
AIPR-08 and ARCS-08 Final Call for papers.
The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) and the 2008 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the deadline for draft paper submission is just few days from now.
We are also planning to organize a special session on computer vision as part of these two conferences.
The conferences will be held at the same time and place where several other major events are taking place. The website contains more details.
Sincerely
John Edward
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From dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de Tue Jan 29 08:42:56 2008
From: dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de (Florence Dancoisne)
Date: Tue Jan 29 14:53:10 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 13th ACCN - second announcement - registration open
Message-ID: <479EE710.7080407@bccn.uni-freiburg.de>
13th ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (A Bernstein/Gatsby
Neuroscience School)
Second Announcement
August 4th - 29th, 2008
Freiburg, Germany
DIRECTORS:
* Israel Nelken (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
* Nicolas Brunel (CNRS Paris)
* John Rinzel (NYU, New York, USA)
* Peter Latham (University College London, UK)
LOCAL ORGANIZER:
* Florence Dancoisne (Bernstein Center for Computational
Neuroscience Freiburg)
After three years in Arcachon (France), the Advanced Course in
Computational Neuroscience will be held in Freiburg in Breisgau
(Germany) this year for its 13th edition, and until 2010.
The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience is for advanced
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in
learning the essentials of the field.
The course has two complementary parts. Mornings are devoted to lectures
given by distinguished international faculty on topics across the
breadth of experimental and computational neuroscience. During the rest
of the day, students are given practical training in the art and
practice of neural modelling, by pursuing a project of their choosing
under the close supervision of expert tutors.
The first week of the course introduces students to essential
neurobiological concepts and to the most important techniques in
modelling single cells, networks and neural systems. Students learn how
to solve their research problems using software packages such as MATLAB,
NEST, NEURON, XPP, etc. During the following three weeks the lectures
cover specific brain areas and functions. Topics range from modelling
single cells and subcellular processes through the simulation of simple
circuits, large neuronal networks and system level models of the brain.
The course ends with project presentations by the students.
The course is designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows from a variety of disciplines, including neuroscience, physics,
electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics and psychology.
Students are expected to have a keen interest and basic background in
neurobiology as well as some computer experience. Students of any
nationality can apply.
A maximum of 30 students will be accepted. The current fee for the
course will be EUR 500; this will cover tuition, lodging, breakfast and
dinner. There will be a limited number of course fee scholarships, and
travel stipends available for students who need financial help for
attending the course. We specifically encourage applications from
researchers who work in the developing world. These students will be
selected according to the normal submission procedure.
Applications, including a description of the target project must be
submitted electronically (see below) and will need to be accompanied by
the names and email details of two referees who have agreed to furnish
references. Applicants will need to ensure that their referees have
submitted their references. Applications will be assessed by a
committee, with selection being based on the following criteria: the
scientific quality of the candidate (CV) and of the project, the
recommendation letters, and evidence that the course will afford
substantial benefit to the candidate.
Please apply electronically using a web browser.
More information and access to the application database:
http://www.neuroinf.org/courses/EUCOURSE/F08/index.shtml
Contact address:
* Fiona Siegfried
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Hansastrasse 9A
79104 Freiburg
Germany
* mail: siegfried@bccn.uni-freiburg.de
Application deadline: March 28th, 2008
Deadline for letters of recommendation: March 28th, 2008
Notification of results: April 25th, 2008
INVITED FACULTY (* = confirmed)
Ad Aertsen, U. Freiburg, Germany*
Amos Arieli, Weizmann Institute, Israel*
Jeff Beck, U. of Rochester, USA*
Nathaniel Daw, NYU, USA*
Erik De Schutter, OIST, Japan
Alain Destexhe, CNRS Gif, France*
Wulfram Gerstner, EFPL, Switzerland
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Honda, Germany*
Zhaoping Li, UCL, UK*
David Hansel, CNRS Paris, France*
Yael Niv, Princeton, USA*
Stefano Panzeri, U. of Manchester, UK*
Jonathan Pillow, UCL, UK*
Yifat Prut, Hebrew U. Israel*
Yasser Roudi, UCL, UK*
Idan Segev, Hebrew U., Israel*
Haim Sompolinsky, Hebrew U., Israel
Karl Svoboda, Cold Spring Harbor, USA
Alex Thomson, UL, UK*
Mark Van Rossum, U. of Edinburgh, UK*
TUTORS(all confirmed)
Janet Best, Ohio State, USA
Hermann Cuntz, UCL, UK
Moritz Helias, U. Freiburg, Germany
Alex Lerchner, UCL, UK
Tim Vogels, Columbia, USA
more to be invited
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Bernd Wiebelt, U. Freiburg, Germany
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Administrative Coordinator
Hansastr. 9A
D-79104 Freiburg
http://www.bccn.uni-freiburg.de
phone: + 49 761 203 9314
fax: + 49 761 203 9559
From a.seiffert at vanderbilt.edu Tue Jan 29 17:45:10 2008
From: a.seiffert at vanderbilt.edu (Adriane Seiffert)
Date: Tue Jan 29 23:09:20 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Full-time Post-Doctoral Position Available at
Vanderbilt University
Message-ID: <048164B2-0955-4F68-A155-F8F2DF8A02D8@vanderbilt.edu>
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Full-time Post-Doctoral Position Available at Vanderbilt University
Post-doctoral fellow is needed starting late summer 2008 for at least
a 1-year commitment to design, implement and publish experiments on
visual attention and motion perception. The goal of the research is
to understand how visual attention interacts with motion perception
and visuo-motor systems to track the motion of target objects. The
lab uses a combination of techniques including psychophysics,
traditional cognitive experiments, and functional neuroimaging
(fMRI). Successful candidates for the post-doc position should have
experience in vision science, cognitive psychology, computer
programming, and/or functional neuroimaging. Candidates with
experience studying motor performance or the neural basis of motor
control, but with an interest in studying visual perception, will
also be considered. Vanderbilt University has an active Vision
Research Center (http://vision-research.vanderbilt.edu/) and a strong
Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience Center (http://
cicn.vanderbilt.edu/). In addition, the Vanderbilt Post Doctoral
Association (http://bret.mc.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/html/
postdoc_PDA.htm) is a very supportive group that helps postdoctoral
fellows gain information about managing a lab, preparing for job
interviews, writing grants and other useful skills.
To apply for the position, please send a one-page research statement
describing your goals and interests, a CV, 3 letters of reference and
examples of recent publications to Asst. Prof. Adriane Seiffert by
email or regular mail. Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Vanderbilt University is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to
excellence through diversity.
Asst. Prof. Adriane Seiffert
Email: a.seiffert@vanderbilt.edu
Regular Mail:
Psychology Department
Vanderbilt University
111 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN
37203
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From a.johnston at ucl.ac.uk Wed Jan 30 10:30:59 2008
From: a.johnston at ucl.ac.uk (Alan Johnston)
Date: Wed Jan 30 14:19:39 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Three Postdoctoral Research Associates (UCL and QMUL)
Message-ID:
Three Postdoctoral Research Associates (UCL and QMUL)
Applications are invited for two postdoctoral research posts for an
EPSRC project on ?Analysing Dynamic Change in Faces? with Prof Alan
Johnston and Prof Celia Heyes (Experimental Psychology, UCL) and one
with Prof Peter McOwan (Computer Science, QMUL). The project will
develop new tools for photorealistic facial animation, which will be
exploited to study the perception of dynamic events through
psychophysical experiments on facial movement recognition and
imitation. The researcher at UCL (Post 1) will join Prof Johnston?s
lab and will be an experimental psychologist with excellent technical
and computing skills. The researcher at QMUL (Post 2) will be a
computer scientist with experience in video-based computer vision or
dynamic 3D shape acquisition. The third postdoctoral Associate (Post3)
will join a BBSRC funded project on ?From Local to Global Motion
Perception?. Candidates for this post should be psychophysicists with
an interest in computational modelling. For posts 1 and 3 the salary
will be at grade 7 (?27,466-?29138 + ?2649 from 01/05/08) depending on
knowledge and experience. For post 2, the salary will be in the range
of ?30,968 ? 34,518 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance) on Grade
5 of the Queen Mary Pay and Grading Structure.
Applications (e-mail or hard copy) by covering letter, CV, the names
and addresses of three referees and Personal Information form (the
latter available at: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/Personal_Information.doc
), to Anouchka Sterling, Department of Psychology, University
College London, Gower Street , London WC1E 6BT, a.sterling@ucl.ac.uk
specifying whether you are applying for Post 1, 2 or 3. If applying by
e-mail please submit all requested information in one pdf file named
by your surname eg Smith.pdf. Further information concerning the posts
can be found at http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/johnston_rf.htm or
by contacting Prof. Alan Johnston (a.johnston@ucl.ac.uk).
The closing date for applications is 26 February 2008. Provisional
dates for interviews will be 7th March 2008. The preferred starting
date for all posts is 31st March 2008.
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From Francoise.Vitu-Thibault at univ-provence.fr Wed Jan 30 20:23:34 2008
From: Francoise.Vitu-Thibault at univ-provence.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7oise_Vitu-Thibault?=)
Date: Thu Jan 31 14:38:28 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Two-year PostDoc position on eye movement control in
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From lbuxbaum at einstein.edu Thu Jan 31 02:36:39 2008
From: lbuxbaum at einstein.edu (Laurel Buxbaum)
Date: Thu Jan 31 14:38:39 2008
Subject: [visionlist] RA Position Opening
Message-ID:
MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Research Assistant Position Opening
Full-time position available beginning now or as late as summer 2008 for
Research Assistant in the Cognition and Action Laboratory at Moss
Rehabilitation Research Institute. RA will be involved in all aspects of
NIH- and NIDRR-funded research projects focusing on perception and action
and their relationships to other cognitive domains including language and
executive functions. RA will have the opportunity to work with patients
with apraxia and hemispatial neglect, as well as control subjects, using
virtual reality, kinematic motion analysis, brain imaging, and
transcranial magnetic stimulation, among other techniques. Moss
Rehabilitation Research Institute is a part of Thomas Jefferson
Healthcare Network, and the Cognition and Action Lab is closely
affiliated with the Cognitive Neurology division at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania, and offers numerous ongoing educational
opportunities including weekly case conferences and lectures.
Qualifications:
RA must have outstanding organizational, interpersonal, and computer
skills. BA in psychology or neuroscience with training in cognitive
neuroscience and statistics required. Prior research experience working
with data also required. Occasional travel within Philadelphia (e.g.,
to the University of Pennsylvania) will be required. Preference will be
given to applicants who can commit to a 2-year period.
MossRehab offers a competitive salary and healthcare benefits package
along with tuition reimbursement.
Email or Fax resume, cover letter, and contact information for 3
references, Attention: Action RA, to:
EMAIL: Lbuxbaum@einstein.edu
MAIL: Dr. Laurel Buxbaum
Attention: "Action RA"
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Room 423F Sley Building.
1200 W. Tabor Road
Philadelphia, PA 19141
WEBSITES: http://www.ncrrn.org/people/buxbaum
http://www.einstein.edu/yourhealth/physicalrehab/research/article8959.html
From jfeldman at sunyopt.edu Thu Jan 31 15:28:07 2008
From: jfeldman at sunyopt.edu (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Thu Jan 31 23:09:19 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D. Vision Science Program at SUNY Optometry
Message-ID:
The Ph.D. Program in Vision Science at the SUNY Optometry at a Glance!
http://www.sunyopt.edu/academics/Vision_at_a_Glance.pdf
Among the architectural landmarks overlooking Manhattan?s Bryant Park is
the State University of New York, College of Optometry. This 19-story
campus houses not only SUNY?s renowned clinical facilities, but also its
outstanding research labs that are investigating the human visual system
at all levels?clinical, experimental, and theoretical/computational.
This year, thanks to system-wide initiatives at SUNY, training in the
graduate program has been given a new look. Fellowships at $30,000/year
will be offered to select students starting July 1, 2008. Faculty have
recently been hired in areas from cell-signaling to perception and action,
and there are firm plans to hire additional basic and clinical scientists
to extend further coverage of the visual sciences. The graduate curriculum
is undergoing complete revision in order to prepare Ph.D.s to do research
as faculty in departments of Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology, Cognitive
Science, Optometry, Medicine, or in industry. The new curriculum provides
a flexible way for talented students to focus on their research while
receiving maximum support from SUNY?s diverse community of outstanding
scientists. Students receive foundational training in visual neuroscience,
perception and psychophysics, ocular physiology and anatomy, and
computational theory, plus expert instruction in such practical matters as
how to write scientific papers, how to get a grant, and how to land a job.
Watch for our new website to debut this spring. For more information,
visit the current website http://www.sunyopt.edu/aca demics/grad.shtml or
email jfeldman@sunyopt.edu, or get in touch directly with faculty members
whose research is of interest to you. Applicants who are interested in
doing research on any aspect of vision and have strong backgrounds in
any of the following areas are encouraged to apply: physics,
neuroscience, engineering, biology, cognition, computer science,
chemistry, psychology, mathematics, or the health sciences.
From N.M.Robertson at hw.ac.uk Thu Jan 31 20:15:54 2008
From: N.M.Robertson at hw.ac.uk (Robertson, Neil M)
Date: Thu Jan 31 23:09:35 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Job: Prize Studentship in Edinburgh
Message-ID: <5B06DAE64C7BD940A7F46B25DA26EA014BA283@ex6.mail.win.hw.ac.uk>
The Edinburgh Research Partnership (www.erp.ac.uk ) is seeking to recruit a PhD student in Computer Vision. This Prize studentship will fund doctoral research in the Joint Research Institute in Signal and Image Processing. The successful candidate will be registered at, and graduate from, both Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities.
The project will research novel methods for automatically sensing human activity using pan/tilt/zoom cameras. This is a challenge which is of particular interest in the surveillance domain but has application in a wide range of scenarios including sports video analysis/interpretation. Current work which exploits the pan/tilt/zoom capability of a camera has enabled the sensor to react to detected changes in the world. By contrast, this project will attempt to actively sense the scene to gather information which is perceived a priori to be significant. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake research which encompasses some of the following technical challenges:
* Person tracking
* Learning and modelling normal activity
* Semantic interpretation of human behaviour
* Real-time pan/tilt/zoom control
Applicants should have, or expect to obtain at least a 2(i) Honours degree in a relevant numerate discipline e.g. Computer Science, Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering or Mathematics. Priority will be given to applicants with a basic understanding and experience in writing scientific software (MATLAB, C/C++) and a background in image processing or computer vision.
The appointment is for 3 years starting as soon as possible between March and October 2008. The successful candidate will be supported by a tax-free stipend of ?12,600 per annum and all Home/EU University fees will be paid. EPSRC nationality and residency rules apply (see www.epsrc.ac.uk for details).
Informal enquiries should be made in the first instance to Dr Neil Robertson (n.m.robertson@hw.ac.uk) or Dr John Hannah (john.hannah@ee.ed.ac.uk).
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Edinburgh Research Partnership
Heriot-Watt University & University of Edinburgh
www.erp.ac.uk --- www.neilrobertson.co.uk
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From dts at inf.ed.ac.uk Fri Feb 1 14:32:24 2008
From: dts at inf.ed.ac.uk (Don Sannella)
Date: Fri Feb 1 15:21:38 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Scholarships for PhD study in Informatics@Edinburgh
Message-ID: <18339.11640.143679.856543@gallowridge.inf.ed.ac.uk>
FIFTY research scholarships are available for UK, EU and overseas students. Many are full scholarships, paying your tuition fees and a stipend of 12940 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year, rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and/or a contribution towards living expenses. Payment of fees for non-EU students is subject to successful competition for an Overseas Research Student award. By making contributions to teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, you can expect to earn an additional 500-1000 pounds per year.
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From jfeldman at sunyopt.edu Fri Feb 1 15:53:18 2008
From: jfeldman at sunyopt.edu (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Sat Feb 2 00:15:48 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D. in Vision Science at SUNY Optometry
Message-ID:
The Ph.D. Program in Vision Science at the SUNY Optometry at a Glance!
http://www.sunyopt.edu/academics/Vision_at_a_Glance.pdf
Among the architectural landmarks overlooking Manhattan?s Bryant Park is
the State University of New York, College of Optometry. This 19-story
campus houses not only SUNY?s renowned clinical facilities, but also its
outstanding research labs that are investigating the human visual system
at all levels?clinical, experimental, and theoretical/computational.
This year, thanks to system-wide initiatives at SUNY, training in the
graduate program has been given a new look. Fellowships at $30,000/year
will be offered to select students starting July 1, 2008. Faculty have
recently been hired in areas from cell-signaling to perception and action,
and there are firm plans to hire additional basic and clinical scientists
to extend further coverage of the visual sciences. The graduate curriculum
is undergoing complete revision in order to prepare Ph.D.s to do research
as faculty in departments of Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology, Cognitive
Science, Optometry, Medicine, or in industry. The new curriculum provides
a flexible way for talented students to focus on their research while
receiving maximum support from SUNY?s diverse community of outstanding
scientists. Students receive foundational training in visual neuroscience,
perception and psychophysics, ocular physiology and anatomy, and
computational theory, plus expert instruction in such practical matters as
how to write scientific papers, how to get a grant, and how to land a job.
Watch for our new website to debut this spring. For more information,
visit the current website http://www.sunyopt.edu/academics/grad.shtml or
email jfeldman@sunyopt.edu, or get in touch directly with faculty members
whose research is of interest to you. Applicants who are interested in
doing research on any aspect of vision and have strong backgrounds in
any of the following areas are encouraged to apply: physics,
neuroscience, engineering, biology, cognition, computer science,
chemistry, psychology, mathematics, or the health sciences.
_______________________________________________
visionlist mailing list
visionlist@visionscience.com
http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist
Jerry Feldman, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
SUNY, State College of Optometry
33 West 42nd Street, room 1542
New York, N.Y. 10036
Phone: 212 938-5541
Fax: 212 938-5537
e-mail: jfeldman@sunyopt.edu
http://www.sunyopt.edu/index.shtml
From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Fri Feb 1 21:29:36 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Sat Feb 2 00:16:01 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Nominations to the VSS Board of Directors
Message-ID: <02e401c86519$90b025b0$b2107110$@org>
Nominations are open for two 4-year positions on the Vision Sciences Society
Board of Directors to replace outgoing Board members Tania Pasternak and
Marvin Chun.
Responsibilities of the Board include scheduling the Annual Meeting,
implementing and monitoring VSS policies, budget oversight, and other
VSS-related activities. The Board meets twice a year, during the Annual
Meeting and in late January.
Any regular VSS member in good standing may be nominated, with the exception
of current members of the Board and past members whose term ended within the
last 4 years.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE:
- Each nomination must be "signed" by 3 regular VSS members. One person
should email the nomination to
shauneywilson@visionsciences.org with a cc: to the other two nominators. The
other two nominators should indicate their concurrence by forwarding the
nominating email to
shauneywilson@visionsciences.org.
- Include a recent vita and a short paragraph of qualifications with the
nomination
- Prior to making a nomination, please seek assurance that the nominee is
willing to serve.
SELECTION OF SLATE OF CANDIDATES:
(
http://www.visionsciences.org/nominating.html)
The VSS bylaws provide for a Nominating Committee, composed of VSS members
who are highly respected scientists chosen to represent the broad range of
disciplines representative of VSS members (the VSS president chairs the
Nominating Committee). The current members of the Nominating Committee are
Martin Banks, Greg DeAngelis, Eileen Kowler, Concetta Morrone and Steven
Shevell. For each open Director position, the Nominating Committee selects
from the nominees a slate of two candidates who are highly respected
scientists and who, when added to the Board of Directors, would result in
broad representation of the disciplines representative of VSS members.
CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
(
http://www.visionsciences.org/board.html)
The names, term-end dates and areas of expertise are listed below (terms end
immediately after the VSS meeting of the year listed).
Marvin Chun (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Attention; visual memory; psychophysics and fMRI
Wilson Geisler (2010)
Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Pascal Mamassian (2011)
3D perception; binocular vision; motion; ambiguous and rivalrous perception;
multisensory perception; perception and action; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Tony Movshon (2011)
Neural mechanisms; motion perception; spatial vision; visual development;
neurophysiology, psychophysics, animal behavior
Tatiana Pasternak (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Cortical mechanisms of perception, motion, working memory; neurophysiology
and psychophysics
Mary Peterson (2009)
Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual
learning; psychophysics and imaging
Allison Sekuler (2009)
Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging;
psychophysics and neuroimaging
Steven Shevell (2009)
Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics
SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION:
February 1, 2008 Nominations open
March 3, 2008 Nominations close
April 1, 2008 Election begins (online)
April 25, 2008 Election ends
May 1, 2008 Election results announced
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From hnx at brain.riken.jp Sat Feb 2 06:53:14 2008
From: hnx at brain.riken.jp (hiroyuki nakahara)
Date: Sat Feb 2 11:56:29 2008
Subject: [visionlist] FYI RIKEN BSI Summer School 2008
Message-ID: <20080202155222.ECA9.HNX@brain.riken.jp>
Dear colleagues,
I forward the following information.
- Hiro Nakahara
Call for Applications
RIKEN Brain Science Institute 2008 Summer Program
URL: http://www.brain.riken.jp/en/summer/index.html
Application deadline; February 29, 2008
Lecture Course: July 28 - August 8
Internship: June 25 - August 20
Every summer, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Wako, Japan; nearby Tokyo)
organizes the international summer school. The short summary of the
summer school this year is attached below. Application guideline,
further information of the coming and past summer schools and etc are
on the above URL.
The summer school program has two types of applications. One
("Lecture Course application") is to attend the lecture course.
The other ("Inernship application") is to have a two-months
intership in one of laboratories at RIKEN Brain Science
Instiute in addition to the attendance at the lecture course. In both
types, financial support for travel and accommodation will be considered
for those without external funding.
For questions, please send any general inquiry not to me but to the
adminstration or organizing committee of the summer school shown in the
above summer school URL, while you can send inquiry to me if
it is specifically about my laboratory (lab URL: http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp).
2008 Summer Program
Developmental Foundations of Brain Function and Dysfunction
Advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of neural development
have made significant impacts on broader areas of brain science. These
areas include studies of neural plasticity and neuropsychiatric
disorders, and improvement of therapeutic strategies for nervous system
damage. This year, the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has organized a
series of lectures by leading scientists that emphasize the links
between the molecular and cellular bases of neural development,
plasticity, dysfunctions and repair.
2008 Summer Program Lecture Schedule
[Invited Lecturers]
Silvia BUNGE (UC Berkeley)
Eric COURCHESNE (UC San Diego)
Marie FILBIN (Hunter College, CUNY)
Lawrence GOLDSTEIN (UC San Diego)
Elizabeth GOULD (Princeton Univ.)
Masanobu KANO (Tokyo Univ.)
Pat LEVITT (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Fumio MATSUZAKI (RIKEN CDB)
Randolph NUDO (Kansas Univ.)
Hideyuki OKANO (Keio Univ.)
Hitoshi SAKANO (Tokyo Univ.)
Akira SAWA (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Stephen SMITH (Stanford Univ.)
Lawrence ZIPURSKY (UC Los Angeles)
[Special lecturer]
Sandra BLAKESLEE (Science writer)
[BSI Speakers]
Teiichi FURUICHI (Lab. for Molecular Neurogenesis)
Atsushi IRIKI (Lab. for Symbolic Cognitive Development)
Hiroyuki KAMIGUCHI (Lab. for Neuronal Growth Mechanisms)
Hitoshi OKAMOTO (Lab. for Developmental Gene Regulation)
Keiji TANAKA (Lab. for Cognitive Brain Mapping)
Kazuhiro YAMAKAWA (Lab. for Neurogenetics)
---------------------------------
Hiro Nakahara
Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2-1 Hirosawa Wako
Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
Email: hn@brain.riken.jp
Lab webpage: http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp/
From jcarroll at mcw.edu Sun Feb 3 19:02:12 2008
From: jcarroll at mcw.edu (Joseph Carroll)
Date: Sun Feb 3 19:13:02 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Please Post
Message-ID:
Postdoctoral Opportunity in Retinal Imaging
A postdoctoral position, in Dr. Joseph Carroll's lab at the Medical College
of Wisconsin (MCW), is available to a highly motivated and ambitious
individual with a strong background in optics and/or biomedical engineering.
This position is appropriate for technically trained individuals who are
looking to expand their training into vision science applications of retinal
imaging in order to prepare for a career in academia. The successful
candidate will be involved in using a state-of-the-art devices (adaptive
optics ophthalmoscope and spectral domain OCT) for high-resolution imaging
of the living human retina, and will be able to receive concurrent training
in many aspects of human vision - including electrophysiology,
psychophysics, and molecular genetics. Initial projects in the lab will
focus on using retinal imaging in combination with functional measures of
vision in order to understand the mechanism of photoreceptor-based vision
disorders. The successful candidate will be given significant time and
dedicated lab space to explore independent research projects of their own,
and will have access to the career development services of the Office of
Postdoctoral Education at MCW
(http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=2414).
MCW is located in a suburban setting about seven miles west of downtown
Milwaukee with easy highway access from all surrounding communities. It is
one of the most rapidly growing research institutions in the country in
terms of NIH funding. The MCW vision research group consists of 13 faculty
members in multiple departments with research in the biochemistry, genetics,
cell and molecular biology of the retina and anterior segment. The vision
research group is highly interactive and supported by both Core and Training
Grants from the NEI.
Qualifications should include a Ph.D. in physics, optics, biomedical
engineering, or other related field. Strong quantitative skills are highly
desirable, as is proficiency with C++, MatLab, and ZEMAX. For application
consideration please forward curriculum vitae, a statement of research
activities and interests, and the names and contact information of three
individuals who can provide letters of reference to the address below:
Joseph Carroll, Ph.D.
The Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Ophthalmology
925 North 87th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53226-4812
FAX: (414) 456-6690
E-mail: jcarroll@mcw.edu
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=17448
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From announcements at journalofvision.org Mon Feb 4 20:36:33 2008
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Mon Feb 4 21:08:14 2008
Subject: [visionlist] News from the Journal of Vision: New Editors
Message-ID:
We are delighted to announce the appointment of six new Editors to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Vision:
Colin Clifford University of Sydney, Australia
David Eagleman Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Kalanit Grill-Spector Stanford University, USA
Zoe Kourtzi University of Birmingham, UK
Kathy Mullen McGill University, Canada
Pawan Sinha MIT, USA
Bosco Tjan USC USA
Shimon Ullman Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
These exceptional individuals will provided added breadth, wisdom and energy as the journal expands and our rates of submission and publication continue to rise.
Andrew B. Watson, Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Vision http://journalofvision.org/
From contact at ecvp.org Mon Feb 4 21:32:46 2008
From: contact at ecvp.org (ECVP Site Manager)
Date: Mon Feb 4 21:51:37 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2008 Abstract Submission & Registration open
Message-ID:
31st EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON VISUAL PERCEPTION
ECVP 2008
AUGUST 24-28, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.ecvp2008.org
--------------------------------------------------
2nd Announcement
REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION are now OPEN
Note: Registration is required in order to submit an abstract.
---------------------------------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline submission: March 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: ~June 2008
Notification of travel support awards: ~June,2008**
see the website www.ecvp2008.org for details.
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From jeedward at yahoo.com Tue Feb 5 19:36:44 2008
From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward)
Date: Tue Feb 5 20:22:25 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Draft paper submission deadline is extended: AIPR-08
Message-ID: <594721.65476.qm@web45903.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Dear Colleagues and Friends
Kindly share the announcement below with those who may be interested: thank you in advance.
Sincerely
John Edward
AIPR-08 draft paper submission deadline is extended
The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the submission deadline is extended until February 19 2008 due to several requests from the authors.
The conference will be held at the same time and place where several major events (please see below) are taking place. The website contains more details.
Sincerely
John Edward
? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08)
? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08)
? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08)
? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08)
? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08)
? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08)
? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08)
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From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Wed Feb 6 01:47:28 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Wed Feb 6 01:58:19 2008
Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2008 Call for Demos
Message-ID: <06bb01c86862$3f1f03a0$bd5d0ae0$@org>
We are pleased to announce the 6th Annual Visual Demos Evening at VSS will
be Monday, May 12, 2008 from 6:00 - 9:00pm in the Vista Ballroom of the
Naples Grande Hotel. This will be an informal celebration of the
experiential phenomena of vision science, with a diverse offering of visual
demos accompanied by a delicious BBQ out by the pool and Sunset deck and
terrace.
We are seeking dramatic, provocative, educational, and entertaining
demonstrations of visual phenomena new and old. We especially encourage the
submission of demonstrations that transcend the bounds of the table top,
such as immersive experiences, and also ones that are "physical", that do
not rely on computer graphics. We can provide tabletops, electrical outlets,
some wall-space for projections, and poster boards are available upon
request. We can help coordinate special needs (e.g. theatrical lighting).
Otherwise each presenter will be responsible for bringing and setting up the
necessary equipment for their own demos, including data projectors or other
displays.
If you have a demo you'd like to present, please fill out the Demo
Submission Form located at:
http://www.visionsciences.org/callfordemosform.html no later than March 3rd,
2008.
This year's Demo Evening will be organized and curated by Richard Brown,
Arthur Shapiro and Shinsuke Shimojo.
Please direct questions about possible demos to robrown@exploratorium.edu.
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From announcements at journalofvision.org Wed Feb 6 18:40:19 2008
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Thu Feb 7 15:09:28 2008
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 8, Issue 1
Message-ID:
Journal of Vision
Volume 8, Number 1 doi:10.1167/8.1
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/ ISSN 1534-7362
Articles
Face adaptation does not
improve performance on search or discrimination tasks
Minna Ng
Geoffrey M. Boynton
Ione Fine
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/1/
Chromatic discrimination of
natural objects
Thorsten Hansen
Martin Giesel
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/2/
The initial interactions
underlying binocular rivalry require visual awareness
Sarah Hancock
David Whitney
Timothy J. Andrews
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/3/
Localized information is
necessary for scene categorization, including the Natural/Man-made
distinction
Lester C. Loschky
Adam M. Larson
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/4/
Perceptual learning of
bisection stimuli under roving: Slow and largely specific
Khatuna Parkosadze
Thomas U. Otto
Maka Malania
Archil Kezeli
Michael H. Herzog
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/5/
The correlation dimension: A
useful objective measure of the transient visual evoked potential?
Mei Ying Boon
Bruce I. Henry
Catherine M. Suttle
Stephen J. Dain
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/6/
Head and eye movements and the
role of memory limitations in a visual search paradigm
Gregor Hardiess
Sabine Gillner
Hanspeter A. Mallot
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/7/
Separating color from color
contrast
Arthur G. Shapiro
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/8/
More efficient scanning for
familiar faces
Jennifer J. Heisz
David I. Shore
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/9/
The loss of the PDE6
deactivating enzyme, RGS9, results in precocious light adaptation at low
light levels
Andrew Stockman
Hannah E. Smithson
Andrew R. Webster
Graham E. Holder
Naheed A. Rana
Caterina Ripamonti
Lindsay T. Sharpe
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/10/
Geometric structure and
chunking in reproduction of motion sequences
Yigal Agam
Robert Sekuler
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/11/
The spatiotemporal profile of
cortical processing leading up to visual perception
J. J. Fahrenfort
H. S. Scholte
V. A. F. Lamme
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/12/
Illusory displacement due to
object substitution near the consciousness threshold
Mariano Sigman
J?r?me Sackur
Antoine Del Cul
Stanislas Dehaene
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/13/
Highlight disparity contributes
to the authenticity and strength of perceived glossiness
Gunnar Wendt
Franz Faul
Rainer Mausfeld
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/14/
Influence of adaptation state
and stimulus luminance on peri-saccadic localization
Katharina Georg
Fred H. Hamker
Markus Lappe
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/15/
Apparent contrast differs
across the vertical meridian: Visual and attentional factors
Stuart Fuller
Ruby Z. Rodriguez
Marisa Carrasco
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/16/
Monitoring mouse retinal
degeneration with high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence
tomography
Ki Hean Kim
Mehron Puoris'haag
Gopi N. Maguluri
Yumiko Umino
Karen Cusato
Robert B. Barlow
Johannes F. de Boer
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/17/
Changes in crystalline lens
radii of curvature and lens tilt and decentration during dynamic
accommodation in rhesus monkeys
Patricia Rosales
Mark Wendt
Susana Marcos
Adrian Glasser
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/18/
On the decline of 1st and 2nd
order sensitivity with eccentricity
Robert F. Hess
Daniel H. Baker
Keith A. May
Jian Wang
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/19/
Covert inhibition potentiates
online control in a double-step task
Vishal Kapoor
Aditya Murthy
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/20/
Visual-haptic cue weighting is
independent of modality-specific attention
Hannah B. Helbig
Marc O. Ernst
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/21/
Temporal dynamics of
directional selectivity in human vision
Peter Neri
Dennis Levi
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/22/
A scale invariant measure of
clutter
Mary J. Bravo
Hany Farid
http://journalofvision.org/8/1/23/
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From mqbsseg6 at manchester.ac.uk Wed Feb 6 09:55:09 2008
From: mqbsseg6 at manchester.ac.uk (Emma Gowen)
Date: Thu Feb 7 15:16:37 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Applied Vision Association 2008 ABSTRACT DEADLINE 15th
FEB
Message-ID: <20080206095509.r4gts7hornk0s0wg@webmail.manchester.ac.uk>
The AVA Annual Meeting 2008 and AGM will be held at the University of Manchester
on TUESDAY 1ST APRIL 2008 in conjunction with The University of Manchester's
Neuroscience Research Institute.
The theme adopted for this years meeting is VISUAL VARIATION AND BIAS but
submissions on any aspect of vision research will be welcome.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: FEB 15TH
The AVA Annual Meeting 2008 and AGM will be held in the Stopford building on the
University of Manchester Campus on Tuesday 1st April 2008. This year, the
meeting is being held jointly with The University of Manchester's
Neuroscience Research Institute (http://www.neuroscience.manchester.ac.uk/)
The G J Burton Memorial lecture, sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems will be
given by
Dr. Kate Plaisted (University of Cambridge):
"Magnocellular processing in autism"
SUBMISSIONS:
Abstracts (max length: 250 words) should be submitted by e-mail to Emma
Gowen(emma.gowen@manchester.ac.uk) by Feb 15th.
Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and should cover previously unreported research
on any aspect of vision.
Abstracts must state the title, authors and include addresses.
References should be given in the body of the abstract in full, but without the
title, e.g. (Rayner et al, 2001, Vis Res, 41, 943-954.
Accepted abstracts will be published in Perception (similar to AVA-Christmas
meeting).
Deadline for abstract submission: FRIDAY, 15th February 2008
PLEASE NOTE:
1) Abstracts should be appended with a statement of preference for a talk or a
poster.
2) The e-mail accompanying the abstract should indicate which of the authors
will and will not be attending the meeting.
3) Unless otherwise stated, it will be assumed that the first author will be the
presenting author.
The organisers will try to accommodate preferences for a talk or poster; however
this may not always be possible.
REGISTRATION FEES
Registration fees *should* be paid in advance at the registration rates shown
below using PayPal. Go to our website http://www.theava.net and follow the link
to the AVA 2008 meeting. (If you have problems accessing the web page, drop me
an email)
If you do not have a PayPal account, then cheques (drawn on a UK Bank in ?
Sterling and made payable to Applied Vision Association) can be sent to Emma
Gowen at the address below.
Cash or cheque payments will also be accepted on the door, but credit card
facilities will *not* be available. Please, make sure we know that you are
coming by dropping us an email, if you neither submit an abstract nor pay in
advance.
Member registration @ ?25
Non-member registration @ ?35
Membership & registration special offer @ ?45
Student member registration @ ?10
Student non-member registration @ ?20
Membership & student registration special offer @ ?30
Optional registration payment for grant-holders @ ?80
(includes membership, if not already a member)
As many of you will know, the AVA has moved to a policy of a one payment, life
membership fee (of 25.00 pounds sterling). One way in which we hope to offset
some of our meeting costs is by introducing the 'premium' category of
registration fee. There is no obligation to pay this fee, and we expect that
most people will pay either the 'student'or 'other' rates as appropriate.
But, we do hope that grant holders might consider paying the premium rate. In
all cases, a receipt will be provided on the day for the fee paid, but this
will not indicate the category.
HOW TO GET THERE
Information on how to get to the University of Manchester can be found at:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/
The Stopford building is no.79 on the campus map and is accessed off Oxford
Road. State that you are attending the AVA meeting at the reception desk and
they will let you through the barriers.
CARS
There is public parking at the Manchester Aquatics Centre multi-storey car park
on Booth Street East.
TRAINS
The Stopford building is about a 15-minute walk from Manchester Oxford Road
station and a 30-minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly station (see campus
map for directions). There is a campus bus service (Oxford road link, 147) that
runs from Piccadilly along Oxford road every 10 minutes
(http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/bus/)
AIRPORT
Manchester airport is served by a number of no-frills airlines and there is a
regular train service from the Airport station to Manchester Piccadilly. See
http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manweb.nsf
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation can be booked at the Days hotel in the Manchester Conference
Centre (no. 11 on campus map). Details and booking can be found at
http://www.meeting.co.uk/dayshotel/
TUESDAY EVENING RECEPTION
The meeting will finish with a drink reception and buffet dinner.
For registration and updates on the meeting, check the web page of the AVA:
http://www.theava.net
We look forward to seeing you on the 1st April!
--
With kind regards
Emma
Dr Emma Gowen
Lecturer
Faculty of Life Sciences
Moffat Building
The University of Manchester
PO Box 88
Sackville Street
Manchester
M60 1QD
Tel: 0161 306 4548/4178
Fax: 0161 306 3887
emma.gowen@manchester.ac.uk
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/emma.gowen/
From Jenny.Campos at Tuebingen.MPG.de Thu Feb 7 16:26:14 2008
From: Jenny.Campos at Tuebingen.MPG.de (Jenny L. Campos)
Date: Thu Feb 7 16:37:44 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Team Leader/Senior Research Scientist: VR and
Psychophysics
Message-ID:
Team Leader/Senior Research Scientist: VR and Psychophysics
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
T?bingen, Germany
www.kyb.mpg.de
The Department of Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics (headed by
Prof. Heinrich B?lthoff) at the Max Planck Institute of Biological
Cybernetics conducts basic research in the area of human perception with
a highly interdisciplinary team of 80 scientists. The main philosophy of
the department is to understand the complexities of sensory processing
by conducting highly controlled experiments in life-like, simulated
environments. Much of this research takes place in the Cyberneum
(www.cyberneum.de), which is a newly developed, state-of-the-art Virtual
Reality (VR) research facility equipped with several sophisticated VR
systems that are providing unique opportunities to study human
perception and human-machine interactions. The main areas of research in
the Cyberneum relate to self-motion perception, spatial cognition,
multiuser interactions, multisensory integration, and cybernetics as it
relates to perception and action. Within this environment we are seeking
a Group Leader/Senior Research Scientist who will conduct original,
high-impact research in one of the mentioned areas as well as manage a
small team of scientists and technicians.
Requirements: Applicants for the group leader position should have a PhD
in Psychology, Cognitive science, Neuroscience, Computer science,
Biology, Physics or related areas. A strong background in psychophysics
and VR technology, an excellent publication record, and project
management skills are required.
Offer: The position is available immediately and lasts 5 years with the
option of renewal. The salary depends on the applicant's qualifications,
based on the TV?D E14 payscale (35.000-46.000 ?/y), according to the
German Public Service regulations. Disabled applicants with equal
qualifications will be given preferential treatment. Applications will
be considered until the position is filled. Candidates should send CV
(including research statement), reprints, and the names of 3 referees to
jobs.agbu@tuebingen.mpg.de (electronic submission preferred; postal
addresses available upon request). Further information about the
position can be obtained from the same address.
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From Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de Fri Feb 8 13:38:43 2008
From: Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Karl Gegenfurtner)
Date: Fri Feb 8 14:28:29 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Summer School Visual Neuroscience September 2008
Message-ID: <47AC5B63.60900@uni-giessen.de>
E U R O P E A N S U M M E R S C H O O L
Visual Neuroscience: from spikes to awareness
Rauischholzhausen Castle (near Frankfurt, Germany)
August 31 - September 12, 2008
Application deadline: March 31, 2008
Organizers: Jochen Braun, Frank Bremmer, Karl Gegenfurtner
Funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation
http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch
Visual neuroscience studies the neural underpinnings of visual function and
visual sensation. Its results contribute to our understanding of cognitive brain
processes in general and also help to boost the capabilities of technological
vision systems.
Visual neuroscience involves a wide variety of methods and approaches ---
computational theory, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, functional imaging,
psychophysics, neuropsychology, and others --- and illustrates perhaps more
clearly than any other area of brain research, the overriding need to combine
and coordinate these diverse efforts.
The European Summer School exposes young vision researchers --- at the late
pre-doctoral or early post-doctoral level --- to the principal methods and
seminal issues of contemporary visual neuroscience. In addition, it seeks to
build a basic fluency in the emerging lingua franca of computational
neuroscience. The range of topics is broad, literally from spikes to
awareness, and the pace correspondingly brisk. This intensive experience should
allow participants to take a broader view of, and make more informed
decisions about, their future research direction.
The European Summer School is taught by leading researchers in neurobiology,
neuropsychology, psychophysics, and theoretical neuroscience. Two thematically
related topics are covered each day, with approximately 3 hours allotted to each
(including discussion time). An after-dinner discussion provides an opportunity
to contrast and compare the day?s lectures. In addition, students pursue
computational and theoretical projects (based on Matlab) during the afternoon,
to experiment with key concepts and techniques of computational neuroscience.
Confirmed speakers in 2008 are Alessandra Angelucci (Salt Lake City), David Burr
(Florence), Jochen Braun (Magdeburg), Frank Bremmer (Marburg), Matteo Carandini
(San Francisco), Gustavo Deco (Barcelona), Heiner Deubel (Munich), Karl
Gegenfurtner (Giessen), Michael Goldberg (New York), John-Dylan Haynes (Berlin),
David Heeger (New York), Concetta Morrone (Milano), Tony Movshon (New York),
Pieter Roelfsema (Amsterdam), Simon Thorpe (Toulouse), Stefan Treue (G?ttingen),
Lucia Vaina (Boston) and Heinz W?ssle (Frankfurt).
The European Summer School meets at idyllic and inspiring Schloss
Rauischholzhausen in Hessia, Germany. The main selection
criterion for participants is the degree of benefit that each applicant can be
expected to derive from the course. In addition, the organizers attempt to
balance fields, nationalities, and genders among participants. All
participants receive full stipends and (at least) partial travel support.
Application forms can be downloaded from the website
http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/application.html. Please
fill in the form and return it by email to karl.gegenfurtner at
psychol.uni-giessen.de. You are also be asked to arrange for at least one letter
of recommendation to be sent separately by email to karl.gegenfurtner at
psychol.uni-giessen.de. The deadline for receipt of the complete application is
31 March 2008.
We look forward to welcome you to the summer school.
Jochen Braun, Frank Bremmer and Karl Gegenfurtner
--
Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Justus-Liebig-Universit?t, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen
phone: +49 641 9926100 mailto:gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de
fax: +49 641 9926119 http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl
From r.volcic at gmail.com Fri Feb 8 18:45:12 2008
From: r.volcic at gmail.com (Robert Volcic)
Date: Fri Feb 8 19:07:50 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Haptic perception at the ECVP conference
Message-ID:
*Haptic perception at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)*
This year's ECVP is held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference is
organised by a large number of researchers from the Helmholtz Institute. As
both visual perception and haptic perception are important research topics
of the institute, the organisers decided to allow contributions on haptic
perception as well (even though the conference is on visual perception!).
One of the accepted topics at this conference will be:
*Analogous concepts in haptics and vision*
Thus, as long as you are able to relate your haptic perception research to
vision, your contribution is more than welcome!
The conference will be held from the 24th until the 28th of August 2008.
Deadline for abstract submission: March 30, 2008
The abstracts will be published as a supplement to the Perception journal.
This is an important chance for haptic perception researchers to get
together!!
Useful links:
ECVP: *http://www.ecvp2008.org* /
Helmholtz Institute: *http://www.phys.uu.nl/~wwwfm/*
___________________________________________________
Drs. R. Volcic (Robert)
Helmholtz Institute
Utrecht University
Princetonplein 5
3584 CC Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail: *r.volcic@phys.uu.nl*
Web: *http://www.phys.uu.nl/~volcic*
Phone: +31 30 253 2831
Fax: +31 30 252 2664
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From bulloj at rpi.edu Sat Feb 9 20:47:08 2008
From: bulloj at rpi.edu (Bullough, John)
Date: Sat Feb 9 20:52:47 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CORM 2008 conference
Message-ID:
On June 10-11 of this year, the Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (an organization dealing with light measurements and photometry and standards, www.corm.org ) is holding their annual conference in Troy, NY at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The theme is visual optics and there are going to be sessions on color rendering, measurement/photometry issues, mesopic/scotopic/spectral issues, and transportation/signal lighting. The call for abstracts is attached. There will also be a half-day LED workshop on June 9 organized by NIST and LRC and LRC tours on the 12th. It is not a formal conference and papers are not written but insterad the Powerpoints are collected as a record of the conference proceedings.
The abstract submission deadline is Feb. 15, only a few days away, but if anyone is interested in submitting something, even a descriptive title would be sufficient at this point, and we could get the remainder of the abstract a little later. I do realize that the conference date is quite close and the abstract deadline very close.
Thanks, and if anyone has any questions feel free to reply to me.
Take care,
John
--
John D. Bullough, Ph.D. - bulloj@rpi.edu
Senior Research Scientist, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
tel +1.518.687.7100, fax +1.518.687.7120, web www.lrc.rpi.edu
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From J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk Mon Feb 11 11:27:33 2008
From: J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk (Jenny Read)
Date: Mon Feb 11 14:26:55 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD in stereo vision / computational neuroscience in
Newcastle, UK
Message-ID: <47B03125.6020706@ncl.ac.uk>
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in Jenny Read's lab at
Newcastle University, UK, starting in September 2008. Dr Read's research
combines human psychophysics and computational modelling to address the
neuronal basis of stereopsis (see for example Read & Cumming 2007 Nature
Neurosci 10:1322). The successful candidate will have a good degree in a
science subject, ideally one towards the mathematical end of the spectrum.
Newcastle's Institute of Neuroscience forms one of the largest
neuroscience communities in the UK. Research within the Institute was
awarded the maximum 5* score on the last RAE (UK national Research
Assessment Exercise). It is housed in the modern, attractive Henry
Wellcome Building, built with an ?8 million Joint Infrastructure Fund
award. The historic city of Newcastle on the River Tyne
boasts a vibrant cultural, leisure, sporting and nightlife scene, within
easy reach of the beautiful Northumbrian countryside and coast.
The studentship is funded by Newcastle's Institute of Neuroscience, and
is open to students of any nationality. It provides a stipend at the
BBSRC rate (currently ?12,600 per annum), plus tuition fees at the EU
rate. Non-EU candidates are eligible but will need additional funding.
Newcastle provides a limited number of Overseas Research Scholarships to
cover the additional fees payable by non-EU candidates, but the closing
date for these is end of Feb 2008, so candidates who would require one
of these should contact Dr Read as soon as possible.
For more information and details on how to apply, visit
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/PhD
From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Mon Feb 11 22:00:36 2008
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Mon Feb 11 22:27:01 2008
Subject: [visionlist] FINAL Call for Illusion Submissions: the 4th Annual
Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
Message-ID: <00b501c86cf9$89e0b280$9da21780$@com>
**** FINAL CALL FOR ILLUSION SUBMISSIONS: THE FOURTH ANNUAL BEST VISUAL
ILLUSION OF THE YEAR CONTEST****
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
*** We are happy to announce the world's 4th Annual Best Visual Illusion of
the Year Contest!!*** The deadline for illusion submissions is February
15th, 2008!
The 2008 contest will be hosted by Stuart Anstis and held in Naples, Florida
(Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org) on Sunday,
May 11th, 2008, during the week of the Vision Sciences Society conference
(VSS). The Naples Philharmonic Center is an 8-minute walk from the main VSS
headquarters hotel in Naples, and is thus central to the VSS conference.
The 2007 annual contest, held in Sarasota, Florida, drew numerous accolades
from attendees and international media coverage, as well as over *** ONE
MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world. The First, Second
and Third Prize winners were Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and Elena
Gheorghiu (McGill University, Canada), Pietro Guardini and Luciano Gamberini
(University of Padova, Italy), and Arthur Shapiro and Emily Knight
(Bucknell University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other
highlights from the 2007 contest, go to
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2007) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the
Contest Gala in Naples, the TOP TEN illusionists will present their
contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to
pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!
The renowned sculptor and artist, Guido Moretti, has created three amazing
works of art to serve as trophies for the TOP THREE winners!
See the trophies at:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=98&MMN_position=41:41
Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted
to the 2008 contest, as long as they meet the above requirements and were
not among the top three winners in previous years.
Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. No illusions will be posted on
the illusion contest's website without the creators' explicit permission. As
with submitting your work to any scientific conference, participating in the
Best Illusion of the Year Contest does not preclude you from also submitting
your work for publication elsewhere.
Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until February 15, 2008. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to:
. Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the
description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity
Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!
On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)
Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Stephen
Macknik, Luis Martinez, Xoana Troncoso, Peter Tse
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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com
From alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk Wed Feb 13 11:18:19 2008
From: alex.thiele at ncl.ac.uk (Alexander Thiele)
Date: Wed Feb 13 14:55:56 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 2 post-doc (PhD) positions investigating "Neuronal
Mechanisms and Neuropharmacology of Perceptual Learning"
(Prof. A Thiele, Newcastle University, UK)
Message-ID: <007501c86e32$239a15e0$c2c7f080@alex26>
Applications are invited for two posts of Postdoctoral Research
Associates and/or PhD positions in the Institute of Neuroscience,
Newcastle University, UK
The positions are full-time and are available for 4 years from 1st April
2008 until 31th March 2011, working on a MRC funded Research Grant:
"Neuronal Mechanisms and Neuropharmacology of Perceptual Learning", held
by Prof. Alexander Thiele.
The post-holders will play leading roles in conducting research in
association with Prof. Alexander Thiele, concerning the mechanisms and
neuropharmacology of perceptual learning in macaques in striate and
extrastriate visual brain areas. The study will employ
electrophysiological, neuropharmacological, and psychophysical
techniques in task performing macaques. The post- holders will design,
implement, complete and write up experiments, in close collaboration
with Alexander Thiele and others.
Required skills for Research Associates include:
* Research experience in sensory and cognitive neuroscience.
* PhD in neuroscience or a related field. Experience in
conducting research with any or all of the following methods;
electrophysiology, psychophysics, mathematical modelling (applicants for
a PhD require equivalent qualifications at the undergraduate level).
* Interest and knowledge in the research field of learning,
sensory processing, attention and neuropharmacology.
* Experience with software used in electrophysiological
recordings.
* Record of publishing papers in high-impact peer-review
journals in the field (only applicable for applicants at the
post-doctoral level).
* Expertise in Matlab and C programming.
Salary will be from ?25,134 -?32,796, depending on knowledge and
experience. PhD positions will be funded ~ according to PhD stipends
from the UK Research Councils (currently at ?12,600 p.a.).
Applications (e-mail or hard copy) by covering letter, CV, names of 2
referees, and Personal Information form (the latter available at:
www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/employ.rtf), by email to alex.thiele@ncl.ac.uk
or by regular mail to: Prof. Alexander Thiele, Henry Wellcome Building,
Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH.
Further information concerning the post is at:
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/alex.thiele/
The closing date for applications is 31 March 2008, or until the
adequate candidates have been found.
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From Marcello.Rosa at med.monash.edu.au Fri Feb 15 11:45:46 2008
From: Marcello.Rosa at med.monash.edu.au (mrosa)
Date: Fri Feb 15 14:45:25 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral position in Melbourne,
Australia- Development of visual cortex
Message-ID:
We are seeking expressions of interest in a postdoctoral position
funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, in a
project involving the development of primate visual cortex. The
position is available for 3 years, subject to yearly performance
appraisal. Monash University is located in Melbourne, consistently
voted as one of the World's most livable cities, and the site of a
vibrant community of neuroscientists.
The position is suitable for those about to complete, or who have just
completed, a PhD. However, more experienced candidates will also be
considered, and salary conditions negotiated accordingly. The ideal
candidate will have some experience in sensory neurophysiology and/ or
neuroanatomical tract-tracing methods. Knowledge of quantitative
methods, and some basic experience using MatLab, would also be an
advantage. However, we will also consider candidates with other
backgrounds, and offer on-site training, with the key criterion being a
good record of early career achievement.
Ideally the candidate should be in a position to start employment in
the first semester of 2008. However, there is some flexibility to take
into account individual circumstances.
Deadline for applications is 30 March 2008. For additional queries,
email: Marcello.Rosa@med.monash.edu.au.
Prof. Marcello Rosa
Department of Physiology
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800
Australia
Fax: +61 3 9905 2547
Ph: +61 3 9905 2522 (office)
Ph: +61 3 9905 2538 (Vision Research Laboratory)
From Julia.Trommershaeuser at psychol.uni-giessen.de Fri Feb 15 15:24:14 2008
From: Julia.Trommershaeuser at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Julia Trommershaeuser)
Date: Fri Feb 15 15:34:18 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Computational Workshop, Cue Combination, October 2008
Message-ID: <20080215162414.nksgokxq84kswo4k@horde.hrz.uni-giessen.de>
COMPUTATIONAL WORKSHOP
Cue combination - Unifying perceptual theory
Rauischholzhausen Castle (near Frankfurt, Germany)
October 12 - 15, 2008
Application deadline: May 20, 2008
Organizers: Konrad K?rding, Michael Landy, Julia Trommersh?user
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/compws/
Traditionally, research in robotics, artificial intelligence,
computational neuroscience and cognitive science follow different
goals in the development and application of computational models. The
goal of research in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics
is to understand and ultimately copy the human brain's ability to
quickly decode, efficiently process and represent relevant
information. On the other hand, research in the area of computational
neuroscience aims to apply computational models to test hypotheses
about brain architecture and neural coding of information based on
experimental evidence gained through electrophysiology, EEG, fMRI and
psychophysics. In between these two extremes lies cognitive science,
which aims to provide models of human behavior in cognitive tasks, but
often at a more general level that does not map neatly onto specific
neural components. Recent work, however, has highlighted the
importance of integrating knowledge across all these disciplines.
This conference aims to bring together leading researchers from the
fields of computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence,
robotics and vision to discuss theoretical approaches to modeling
human sensory processing and multi-sensory integration. The workshop
will focus particularly on applying computational concepts and models
to sensory cue integration. Selected participants will be able to
present and discuss their own work.
Confirmed speakers include Dora Angelaki (Washington University School
of Medicine), Martin Banks (UC Berkeley), David Burr (Universit? di
Firenze, and Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR) Sophie Deneve (Institut
des Sciences Cognitives, Bron), Fulvio Domini (Brown University), Marc
Ernst (MPI for Biological Kybernetics), Robert Jacobs (University of
Rochester), Dan Kersten (University of Minnesota), Konrad K?rding
(Northwestern University), Michael Landy (New York University), Wei-Ji
Ma (University of Rochester), Pascal Mamassian (CNRS & Universit?
Paris 5), Maneesh Sahani (UC London), Charles Spence (Oxford
University), Julia Trommersh?user (Giessen University), Sethu
Vijayakumar (University of Edinburgh), Andrew Welchman (University of
Birmingham).
A limited number of spots for advanced graduate students and postdocs
are available at the workshop. Preferences will be given to applicants
who are applying to present a poster at the workshop.
Participants wishing to attend should submit an application ?
including an abstract of 200 words ? until May 20, 2008. Room and
board expenses at the castle will be paid for all selected participants.
We look forward to welcoming you in Rauischholzhausen.
Konrad K?rding, Michael Landy, and Julia Trommersh?user
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From franck.davoine at gmail.com Fri Feb 15 21:53:50 2008
From: franck.davoine at gmail.com (Franck Davoine)
Date: Fri Feb 15 22:09:06 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position in Computer Vision, CNRS, Beijing,
P.R. China, LIAMA Lab.
Message-ID: <9f8ee10e0802151353j6275fc39qb7d422bc096dc430@mail.gmail.com>
Postdoc position in ** Computer Vision and Statistical Learning for Human
Behavior Analysis **.
LIAMA Sino-French Laboratory in Computer Science, Automation and Applied
Mathematics, BEIJING, P.R. CHINA.
French CNRS postdoctororal contract, for two years.
The closing date for application is ** March 30, 2008 **.
The postdoc project is described on:
https://www2.cnrs.fr/DRH/post-docs08/?pid=1&action=view&id=596&lang=en
Formal description of the position is available on:
https://www2.cnrs.fr/DRH/post-docs08/?pid=8&lang=en
For further information, feel free to contact Franck.Davoine at gmail.com
Applications include a CV and a statement of interest, a link to the Ph.D.
thesis, a list of publications, references (names, homepages), in
PDF-format, and the formal application form available on
https://www2.cnrs.fr/DRH/post-docs08/?pid=1&action=view&id=596&lang=en at
the following address:
Dr. Franck Davoine,
LIAMA / CASIA, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
95, Zhongguancun Dong Lu, PO Box 2728, BEIJING 100080, P.R. CHINA.
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Despite active research in the past decades, robust analysis of facial
actions for automatic human behavior understanding in unconstrained
environments, as well as non invasive and very accurate capture of subtle
facial performances are still very difficult problems, and pose significant
research challenges. This is mainly due to the high variability of the
face's appearance over time, caused by intrinsic and extrinsic factors such
as changes in illumination, out-of-plane rotations, occlusions, facial
expressions, etc.
The postdoc position is in the field of human activity and behavior
analysis. The successful candidate is expected to participate in the
development of novel methods, together with Dr. Franck Davoine, considering
richer adaptive models for a better analysis of faces, possibly considering
contextual knowledge extracted for example from modalities like body
postures or hand gestures. Different focus options are available depending
on the interests and strengths of the candidate.
He will be expected to do leading-edge research in the area of computer
vision and statistical learning, and be involved in collaborative research
projects with academic and industrial partners. He will be employed by the
CNRS, and based at the LIAMA Sino-French laboratory in Beijing, P.R.China,
during 24 months.
LIAMA is located in the northwestern part of Beijing, in the Haidian science
park described as China's Silicon Valley. It offers a very exciting
environment for research, a possibility to conduct competitive research and
opportunities to cooperate with some of the best groups in China.
Information about the LIAMA is available on http://liama.ia.ac.cn/wiki/
We seek a post-doctoral researcher worldwide. Applicants must have most of
the following attributes:
* Excellent computer programming abilities in C/C++/Matlab.
* Proven knowledge and experience of modern computer vision or statistical
methods for machine learning.
* A track record of publications in first-rank international computer vision
or statistical learning conferences and journals.
* Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
* Creative team player.
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From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Fri Feb 15 23:18:35 2008
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Sat Feb 16 01:11:31 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Illusion submission EXTENSION: The 4th Annual Best
Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!
Message-ID: <00d801c87029$18253200$486f9600$@com>
***DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND*** --The deadline for the 4th Annual Best Visual
Illusion of the Year Contest has been extended. FINAL (no exceptions)
submission date is now ***March 1st***!
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Many of the most outstanding illusion creators in the world have asked us to
extend the deadline so as to perfect their contributions for the Contest!
The voters at the 4th Annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, in Naples,
Florida, will certainly see the Best and Most Exciting New Illusions of the
Year. This award is chosen by the community, and not by a committee, so
please come and make your vote!
The 2008 contest will be hosted by Stuart Anstis and held in Naples, Florida
(Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org) on Sunday,
May 11th, 2008, during the week of the Vision Sciences Society conference
(VSS). The Naples Philharmonic Center is an 8-minute walk from the main VSS
headquarters hotel in Naples, and is thus central to the VSS conference.
The 2007 annual contest, held in Sarasota, Florida, drew numerous accolades
from attendees and international media coverage, as well as over *** ONE
MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world. The First, Second
and Third Prize winners were Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and Elena
Gheorghiu (McGill University, Canada), Pietro Guardini and Luciano Gamberini
(University of Padova, Italy), and Arthur Shapiro and Emily Knight
(Bucknell University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other
highlights from the 2007 contest, go to
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Visual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal
illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2007) in standard
image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges
will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the
Contest Gala in Naples, the TOP TEN illusionists will present their
contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to
pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!
The renowned sculptor and artist, Guido Moretti, has created three amazing
works of art to serve as trophies for the TOP THREE winners!
See the trophies at:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_
user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=98&MMN_position=41:41
Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted
to the 2008 contest, as long as they meet the above requirements and were
not among the top three winners in previous years.
Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the
authors/creators will retain full copyright. No illusions will be posted on
the illusion contest's website without the creators' explicit permission. As
with submitting your work to any scientific conference, participating in the
Best Illusion of the Year Contest does not preclude you from also submitting
your work for publication elsewhere.
Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest
Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart@neuralcorrelate.com)
until ***March 01, 2008***. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more
than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings
(if known). Illusions will be rated according to:
. Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the
description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . Spectacularity
Visit the illusion contest website for further information and to see last
year's illusions: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!
On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion
Contest Coordinator)
Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Stephen
Macknik, Luis Martinez, Xoana Troncoso, Peter Tse
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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com
From denis.pelli at nyu.edu Sun Feb 17 22:17:41 2008
From: denis.pelli at nyu.edu (Denis Pelli)
Date: Mon Feb 18 00:26:39 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for abstracts - Crowding symposium at ECVP 2008
Message-ID:
We invite you to submit an abstract for a proposed Crowding symposium
in honor of Herman Bouma to be held at the European Conference on
Visual Perception (ECVP) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 24-28,
2008.
- Denis G. Pelli & Frans W. Cornelissen, symposium organizers.
CROWDING
In the periphery, a visual object that is easily recognized when shown
in isolation is hard to identify when surrounded by other objects.
This is "crowding". Diverse studies of crowding come together to
reveal one universal story: to be identified, simple objects must be
separated by at least the observer's critical spacing -- as reported
in the pioneering work of Herman Bouma in the 1970's. Recent work
confirms Bouma's claim that crowding severely limits the rates of
reading and searching. While the phenomenon of crowding has been well
described, theoretical understanding of it is still tentative. For
instance, it has been suggested that crowding may be feature
integration for object recognition, or compulsory averaging for
texture perception.
We invite contributions to this symposium that help to expose the
mechanics and functional significance of crowding. Contributions are
welcome from any field.
Herman Bouma has agreed to give a short historical presentation of his
original observations on crowding.
If you are interested in participating in this symposium (subject to
approval by ECVP), please send us a tentative title and abstract
(which can be changed until March 30th). There will be at least four
15-minute presentations, chosen by the organizers to achieve the best
symposium, considering the quality of both the abstracts per se and
the symposium as a whole. Speakers should plan to come to ECVP 2008,
August 24-28, as normal participants, as there is no special funding
for symposium speakers. ECVP abstracts have a maximum length of 170
words (excluding title, authors, affiliation, and funding
acknowledgments). Feel free to add anything, in your email, to help us
reach a positive decision on your contribution.
We must receive your abstract by February 25, 2008 in order to meet
the ECVP symposium-proposal deadline. You will be notified of our
decision by March 10, 2008. If not included in the symposium, we
encourage you to submit your abstract to ECVP by their deadline of
March 30, 2008. http://ecvp.org
Thanks. We hope to hear from you,
Denis & Frans
Denis G. Pelli
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/pelli/
denis.pelli@nyu.edu
Frans W. Cornelissen
Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Centre
Groningen
http://cornelis.med.rug.nl/leo/people/frans/
f.w.cornelissen@rug.nl
From p.hendicott at qut.edu.au Mon Feb 18 01:50:40 2008
From: p.hendicott at qut.edu.au (Peter Hendicott)
Date: Mon Feb 18 02:48:33 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Research fellow position: refractive errors
Message-ID: <6821FE23D98BAC41AC2A91E7970F31AF1CCFB641A0@QUTEXMBX02.qut.edu.au>
The Vision Domain, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology requires a Research Fellow to work within a program of research focused on investigating issues relevant to the development of refractive errors in children and adolescents, including research in the areas of epidemiology of refractive errors, ocular growth mechanisms, visual optics, visual psychophysics, retinal imagery or refractive error corrections.
The successful candidate will work with Institute researchers with an aim of contributing to the understanding of refractive error development in children and adolescents. The scope of the Institute's current program of research into refractive errors, and project team leaders, includes among others:
1. Optical and biometric characteristics of emmetropic and myopic eyes (Professor David Atchison);
2. The interaction of visual optics and eye growth (Professor Michael Collins);
3. Confocal microscopic examination of the cornea in refractive surgery (Professor Nathan Efron);
4. Retinal control of eye growth (Associate Professor Katrina Schmid);
5. Retinal mechanisms controlling visual function in myopia (Dr Andrew Zele).
For further information on the position, and application process, please follow the link below
http://www.hrd.qut.edu.au/recruitment/forapplicant/careersatqut/28051.jsp
For information on the Institute of health and Biomedical Innovation at QUT see: http://www.ihbi.qut.edu.au/
For the School of Optometry at QUT see: http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/opt/
Dr Peter Hendicott
Acting Head of School
School of Optometry, QUT
Ph: + 61 7 3138 5738
Fax: + 61 7 3138 5665
Email: p.hendicott@qut.edu.au
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From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Mon Feb 18 14:58:12 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Mon Feb 18 17:07:07 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Reminder: Call for Nominations to the VSS Board of
Directors
Message-ID: <062e01c8723e$b2f50500$18df0f00$@org>
Deadline for Nominations: March 3, 2008
Nominations are open for two 4-year positions on the Vision Sciences Society
Board of Directors to replace outgoing Board members Tania Pasternak and
Marvin Chun.
Responsibilities of the Board include scheduling the Annual Meeting,
implementing and monitoring VSS policies, budget oversight, and other
VSS-related activities. The Board meets twice a year, during the Annual
Meeting and in late January.
Any regular VSS member in good standing may be nominated, with the exception
of current members of the Board and past members whose term ended within the
last 4 years.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE:
- Each nomination must be "signed" by 3 regular VSS members. One person
should email the nomination to shauneywilson@visionsciences.org with a cc:
to the other two nominators. The other two nominators should indicate their
concurrence by forwarding the nominating email to
shauneywilson@visionsciences.org.
- Include a recent vita and a short paragraph of qualifications with the
nomination
- Prior to making a nomination, please seek assurance that the nominee is
willing to serve.
SELECTION OF SLATE OF CANDIDATES:
(http://www.visionsciences.org/nominating.html)
The VSS bylaws provide for a Nominating Committee, composed of VSS members
who are highly respected scientists chosen to represent the broad range of
disciplines representative of VSS members (the VSS president chairs the
Nominating Committee). The current members of the Nominating Committee are
Martin Banks, Greg DeAngelis, Eileen Kowler, Concetta Morrone and Steven
Shevell. For each open Director position, the Nominating Committee selects
from the nominees a slate of two candidates who are highly respected
scientists and who, when added to the Board of Directors, would result in
broad representation of the disciplines representative of VSS members.
CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
(http://www.visionsciences.org/board.html)
The names, term-end dates and areas of expertise are listed below (terms end
immediately after the VSS meeting of the year listed).
Marvin Chun (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Attention; visual memory; psychophysics and fMRI
Wilson Geisler (2010)
Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Pascal Mamassian (2011)
3D perception; binocular vision; motion; ambiguous and rivalrous perception;
multisensory perception; perception and action; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Tony Movshon (2011)
Neural mechanisms; motion perception; spatial vision; visual development;
neurophysiology, psychophysics, animal behavior
Tatiana Pasternak (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Cortical mechanisms of perception, motion, working memory; neurophysiology
and psychophysics
Mary Peterson (2009)
Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual
learning; psychophysics and imaging
Allison Sekuler (2009)
Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging;
psychophysics and neuroimaging
Steven Shevell (2009)
Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics
SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION:
February 1, 2008 Nominations open
March 3, 2008 Nominations close
April 1, 2008 Election begins (online)
April 25, 2008 Election ends
May 1, 2008 Election results announced
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From jeffrey.d.schall at vanderbilt.edu Tue Feb 19 14:21:38 2008
From: jeffrey.d.schall at vanderbilt.edu (Jeff Schall)
Date: Tue Feb 19 14:51:01 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral training in executive control of visually
guided action
Message-ID: <47BAE5F2.1060904@vanderbilt.edu>
Postdoctoral training in executive control of visually guided action
Jeff Schall?s laboratory in the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center has an
immediate opening for a postdoctoral research associate. The goal of the
research is to understand how the frontal lobe controls and monitors
behavior. Preference will be given to candidates with experience or
strong interest in collecting and analyzing neurophysiology data in
alert animals. Send CV, description of research interests and names of
two individuals who will provide letters of reference to Jeff Schall,
Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Wilson Hall, 111 21st Avenue South,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240-0009,
URL - http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/schall, Voice (615)
343-7620, Fax (615) 343-5027.
From David_Berson at brown.edu Tue Feb 19 18:04:01 2008
From: David_Berson at brown.edu (Berson, David)
Date: Tue Feb 19 19:11:22 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral positions in visual neuroscience
Message-ID: <3FAE88BA080B0F4EB7247FFCCFB4DF920A884B79@MAIL1.AD.Brown.Edu>
Brown University - Postdoctoral Positions in Visual Neuroscience
Openings are available immediately at Brown University for postdoctoral
training in visual neuroscience and other areas within the brain
sciences. Support for these positions comes from an interdepartmental
postdoctoral training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH).
Eligibility is restricted to US citizens and permanent residents with no
more than two years of prior postdoctoral support from federally funded
postdoctoral training grants or individual fellowships. Priority will
be given to candidates with little or no previous postdoctoral training.
Brown University is a vibrant and exciting environment for postdoctoral
study in vision. The newly established Center for Vision Research
(http://www.vision.brown.edu/ ) brings together a collegial and highly
interactive group of world-class interdisciplinary laboratories.
Together, these cover the spectrum of cutting-edge approaches to vision,
from molecular and cellular neurobiology through systems to cognitive,
computational and clinical neuroscience. Other areas covered by the
training grant include neural development and plasticity, voluntary
movement, synaptic physiology, sensory systems, theoretical neuroscience
and learning and memory. Most trainers have laboratory space in a
stunning new building
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Building_Brown/projects/sciences/ . For
further information on the postdoctoral training program, visit
http://neuroscience.brown.edu/postdoc .
Interested students should send a letter, curriculum vitae, and at least
three letters of recommendation to:
Dr. David Berson
Director, NIMH Postdoctoral Training Grant
Department of Neuroscience, Box G-LN
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
David_Berson@brown.edu
Faculty trainers in vision actively seeking new trainees:
Carlos Aizenman visual system development;
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/aizenmanlab/Aizenman+Lab+Home
David Berson retinal cells and circuits; circadian rhythms;
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/David_Berson
Mike Paradiso cortical vision in primates
http://neuroscience.brown.edu/paradisolab/
Jerome Sanes visual motor coordination and motor skill
learning http://neuroscience.brown.edu/saneslab/index.htm
David Sheinberg neurophysiology of high level vision
http://charlotte.neuro.brown.edu/
Mike Tarr real-time MRI methods for exploring neural
codes in ventral cortex http://titan.cog.brown.edu:8080/TarrLab/
Other faculty trainers actively seeking new trainees:
Mayank Mehta hippocampal mechanisms of learning and memory;
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Mayank_R_Mehta
Rob Reenan evolution of brain and behavior; RNA editing
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Robert_Reenan
Anna Dunaevsky spine motility and synaptogenesis;
http://neuroscience.brown.edu/DUNAEVSK/DUNAEVSK.html
Diane Lipscombe voltage gated calcium channels; role in chronic
pain http://neuroscience.brown.edu/LipscombeLab/homepage/home2.htm
Barry Lester development in infants at risk;
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Barry_Lester
Mark Zervas development of dopaminergic circuits
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Mark_Zervas
John Donoghue voluntary movement; neural prostheses for
paralysis http://donoghue.neuro.brown.edu/
Justin Fallon synaptic plasticity, neurobiology of disease
http://neuroscience.brown.edu/Fallon/home.htm
James Simmons bat echolocation
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/James_Simmons
James Padbury genetic determinants of perinatal growth
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/James_Padbury
Ed Hawrot nicotinic receptors
http://bms.brown.edu/faculty/h/hawrot/
Rebecca Burwell postrhinal and perirhinal cortex
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Psychology/people/facultypage.php?id=11
06970253
Other potential trainers can be found at
http://neuroscience.brown.edu/postdoc . Brown University is an
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply.
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From davidfreedman at alum.mit.edu Wed Feb 20 16:27:43 2008
From: davidfreedman at alum.mit.edu (David Freedman)
Date: Wed Feb 20 16:34:00 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position in Visual/Cognitive
Neurophysiology (U. of Chicago)
Message-ID: <005701c873dd$87e33440$97a99cc0$@mit.edu>
Postdoctoral Position available at The University of Chicago
Neurophysiology of Visual Learning, Memory and Recognition
The laboratory of David Freedman (www.freedmanlab.org) at The University of
Chicago (Department of Neurobiology) has a postdoctoral position available
to study the neurophysiological mechanisms of visual learning, memory and
recognition. We use a combination of behavioral and multi-electrode
neurophysiological recording techniques in awake behaving primates to
investigate the relationship between neuronal activity and visual
perception, learning, and memory.
A Ph.D. and/or M.D. is required, and candidates with prior experience with
electrophysiological techniques, behavioral techniques, data analysis and
computer programming are especially encouraged to apply.
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact David Freedman
(davidfreedman@alum.mit.edu) and visit http://www.freedmanlab.org for more
information.
Applicants should send a CV, statement of research interests, and names and
addresses of several references.
David J. Freedman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
The University of Chicago
http://www.freedmanlab.org
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From a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk Wed Feb 20 16:39:29 2008
From: a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk (Sahraie, Dr Arash)
Date: Wed Feb 20 21:50:58 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Lectureships in Psychology, University of Aberdeen,
Scotland
Message-ID:
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland is advertising
Lectureships in Psychology. As vision research is a significant part of
research in Aberdeen, applications from vision researchers are
particularly welcome.
You can also email me at arash@abdn.ac.uk for informal enquiries.
Further details are available here:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YPS219A
Kind regards
Arash Sahraie
As part of its continued development, the opportunity has arisen for
suitable qualified individuals with strong research records to join the
School of Psychology. Research in the School is currently arranged
around four themes: Applications are welcome from suitably qualified
individuals whose interests complement any of the School's existing
research strengths (Cognition, Health & and Industrial Psychology,
Neuropsychology, and Social Cognitive Neuroscience. All staff members
and research students are primarily associated with one theme. There are
several special interest groups both within and across themes, and
collaborations are encouraged. Applications are welcome from suitably
qualified individuals whose interests complement any of the School's
existing research strengths. The successful applicant will join a School
that is committed to developing and supporting the careers of newly
appointed staff).
You will show exceptional promise as an independent researcher and the
ability to deliver inspiring teaching.
Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Peter McGeorge (tel: 01224 272248,
email mcgeorge@abdn.ac.uk).
Dr. A. Sahraie
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 2UB
Scotland
Tel: 01224 27 3919
www.abdn.ac.uk/vision
From triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de Wed Feb 20 15:29:41 2008
From: triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (Jochen Triesch)
Date: Wed Feb 20 21:51:15 2008
Subject: [visionlist] FIAS Summer School Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex
Systems (2-24 August 2008, Frankfurt, Germany)
Message-ID: <47BC4765.2040803@fias.uni-frankfurt.de>
Announcement and Call for Applications:
The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is organizing a
PENS-Blackwell Summer School on:
Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems
Frankfurt, Germany, August 2-24, 2008
We invite applications for this three-week summer school from graduate
students and post-docs in experimental and computational neuroscience
and theoretical physics. Up to 30 students will be accepted.
The school is supported by PENS - the Programme of European
Neuroscience Schools, an IBRO-FENS collaboration.
Application deadline: Monday, April 7.
School: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro_school/
Application: http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/pens/2008/schools/frankfurt/
Scientific Directors:
W. Maass, C. von der Malsburg, G. Pipa,
W. Singer, J. Triesch, M. Tsodyks
Lecturers and Tutors Include:
* Dana Ballard, UT Austin, USA
* Emery Brown, Harvard/MIT, Cambridge, USA
* Yang Dan, UC Berkeley, USA
* Sophie Deneve, CNRS, France
* Rodney Douglas, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
* Wulfram Gerstner, EPFL, Switzerland
* Ann Graybiel, MIT, USA
* Mary Hayhoe, UT Austin, USA
* Jurgen Kurths, University of Potsdam, Germany,
* Jorg Lucke, FIAS, Germany
* Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universitat, Graz, Austria
* Christoph von der Malsburg, FIAS, Germany
* Sergio Neuenschwander, MPIH, Germany
* Danko Nikolic, MPIH, Germany
* Gordon Pipa, FIAS and MPIH, Germany
* Austra Saudargiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
* Kerstin Schmidt, MPIH, Germany
* Wolf Singer, MPIH, Germay
* Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA
* Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Germany
* Peter Uhlhaas, MPIH, Germany
* Raul Vicente, FIAS and MPIH, Germany
* Cornelius Weber FIAS, Germany
* Michael Wibral, MPIH, Germany
* Kai Willadsen, FIAS, Germany
* Junmei Zhu, FIAS, Germany
Topics:
mathematical and biological foundations of theoretical neuroscience;
analysis of neural data; modelling of neurons and small networks;
plasticity and learning; modelling higher cognitive functions,
embodiment
Format:
- a 3-day pre-school to establish a common foundation and language
- daily lectures by renowned international faculty
- hands-on work on self-defined projects in interdisciplinary groups
- round table discussions
- a social and cultural program
Registration Fees, Travel Expenses and Waivers:
The school covers the expenses for accommodation and the cultural
program. Students will have to pay a registration fee of 400 EURO. A
small number of grants are available for students who need support for
their travel expenses and a waiver for the registration fee. They are
primarily intended for students from disadvantaged regions. If you
consider applying for financial support, please indicate this in your
application. We also need an estimate of your travel expenses (in
EUROs).
For further information, please contact:
Neuro School
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
email: neuro_school@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
tel: +49 69 798 47601
fax: +49 69 798 47611
From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Thu Feb 21 19:48:59 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Fri Feb 22 03:30:17 2008
Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2008 Annual Meeting Information
Message-ID: <0d1101c874c2$cfb0d850$6f1288f0$@org>
Greetings,
Below is some important information about the VSS 2008 meeting, which will
be held May 9 - 14 at the Naples Grande hotel in Naples, Florida.
Registration
---------------
The deadline for early registration for the meeting is next Thursday,
February 28. To register for the meeting at the discounted rates, go to
http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html.
VSS Shuttle Service
-----------------------
VSS has arranged for discounted transportation from Fort Meyers airport to
the meeting hotels. The one-way VSS fare is $25/person each way. The VSS
Shuttle Service will be available for arrivals on Thursday, May 8 or Friday,
May 9, and departures on Tuesday, May 13 or Wednesday, May 14.
All reservations must be made in advance by Friday, April 18. You can
reserve a seat on the VSS Shuttle Service when you register for the meeting.
If you already registered, you may log in and edit your registration to add
the shuttle option. (http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html)
For more information about the VSS Shuttle Service and the other options
available for getting to the meeting hotels, go to
www.visionsciences.org/airport_transportation.html.
VSS Program and Schedule
---------------------------------
The complete VSS program and schedule will be available tomorrow, Friday,
February 22, 2008. To view the VSS schedule, you will need to log into your
account. To access your online account, log in to the VSS Online Membership
and Meeting System (http://www.visionsciences.org/vss_online_2007/).
Hotel Reservations
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If you have not yet made your hotel reservations yet, there are still a few
rooms left at the Naples Grande. To reserve your room, go to
http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html and follow the links for online
reservations. If you're looking for an alternative to the meeting hotel,
rooms are available at discounted rates at three additional hotels, both ~1
mile from the Naples Grande. See
http://visionsciences.org/hotel-overflows.html for more information.
Upcoming Dates
Early Registration: 2/28/08
Last Day to Submit Nominations to the VSS Board of Directors: 3/3/08
Last Day to Submit Demos for Demo Night: 3/3/08
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From fhamker at uni-muenster.de Fri Feb 15 12:39:25 2008
From: fhamker at uni-muenster.de (Fred Hamker)
Date: Fri Feb 22 03:30:49 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Peri-Saccadic Perception of Objects and Space
Message-ID: <79BFE819-ADE6-4FE3-B819-AB7FC8B3ECB3@uni-muenster.de>
Dear Members of the visionlist,
since PLoS Comput Biol is not one of the primary Journals scanned by
researchers from vision science, I would like to announce the
following article to you.
Best
Fred Hamker
The Peri-Saccadic Perception of Objects and Space
Hamker FH, Zirnsak M, Calow D, Lappe M (2008) PLoS Comput Biol 4(2): e31
Eye movements affect object localization and object recognition.
Around saccade onset, briefly flashed stimuli appear compressed
towards the saccade target, receptive fields dynamically change
position, and the recognition of objects near the saccade target is
improved. These effects have been attributed to different mechanisms.
We provide a unifying account of peri-saccadic perception explaining
all three phenomena by a quantitative computational approach
simulating cortical cell responses on the population level. Contrary
to the common view of spatial attention as a spotlight, our model
suggests that oculomotor feedback alters the receptive field
structure in multiple visual areas at an intermediate level of the
cortical hierarchy to dynamically recruit cells for processing a
relevant part of the visual field. The compression of visual space
occurs at the expense of this locally enhanced processing capacity.
Please find the article here:
http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-
document&doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0040031
--------------------
PD Dr. Fred H Hamker
Institute of Psychology
Westf. Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
Fliednerstr. 21
D-48149 M?nster
Germany
Tel:+49 (0)251/83-34171
Fax:+49 (0)251/83-34180
email: fhamker@uni-muenster.de
www: http://wwwpsy.uni-muenster.de/Psychologie.inst2/AELappe/personen/
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From peter at 4doptics.com Sun Feb 24 17:26:10 2008
From: peter at 4doptics.com (Peter West)
Date: Sun Feb 24 17:33:20 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Optical Physicist/Engineer
Message-ID: <3267ABAF-4604-4737-977D-9D5BBA674B94@4doptics.com>
Optical Physicist/Engineer
A start-up based in Essex, UK offers the opportunity to join a small
dynamic research team working on Adaptive Optics Ophthalmic
instrumentation. We are commencing a new project to investigate the
potential application of novel technologies to adaptive imaging in
the eye. This is the ideal opportunity for someone with research
experience in this field to become a key part of an innovating
group. The project is the groundwork for the development of a new
generation of instruments for low-cost high resolution imaging in the
eye.
Candidates should have a good first degree in an appropriate science
or engineering discipline and a research based higher degree in an
area related to Adaptive Optics technology. Some experience in
programming would be an advantage.
To find out more, contact jobs@4Doptics.com.
From J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk Mon Feb 25 13:10:52 2008
From: J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk (Wann JP)
Date: Mon Feb 25 15:06:05 2008
Subject: [visionlist] UK Postdoctoral Position
Message-ID:
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Judgments of vehicle approach amongst primary school children and children with Developmental Coordination Disorder.
Salary in the range ?24,466 to ?28,800 inclusive of London Allowance.
A 3 year ESRC funded postdoctoral position is available working with Prof John Wann and Dr Kate Wilmut to study young children's sensitivity to motion cues that would allow safe and reliable road crossing. Applicants should have experience of conducting human behavioral research ideally with some relevance to perceptual processing. Experience in simple programming tasks, in any language, is desirable as the successful applicant will be trained in the design of virtual environments for road simulations. Experience in testing children would be useful but not essential provided applicants express an interest in developmental themes. A post-graduate student will be joining the project in Sept 2008 and the successful post-doctoral candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to post-graduate supervision. Because the project involves working with children any offer of appointment will be dependent upon an applicant being approved by CRB (police records check) regarding prior convictions.
The post is available from April 2008 and appointment before June 2008 would be desirable. Informal enquiries to John Wann (j.p.wann@rhul.ac.uk; tel. +44(0) 1784 443526 ) are welcome. For further details see: http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/
________________________________________
Prof John Wann J.P.Wann@rhul.ac.uk
Dept of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX
Tel: +44 (0)1784 276177 Fax: +44 (0)1784 434347 ( Reading: +44 (0)118 3788418 )
Action Research Labs: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ARL
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From henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch Mon Feb 25 11:27:47 2008
From: henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henning_M=FCller?=)
Date: Mon Feb 25 15:06:22 2008
Subject: [visionlist] special issue of CVIU on multimedia retrieval
evaluation
Message-ID: <47C2A633.1010201@sim.hcuge.ch>
Concerns: Special Issue of CVIU on Multimedia Retrieval Evaluation
The submission deadline for papers for the CVIU Special Issue on Image
and Video Retrieval Evaluation has been extended to the 30th of April
2008.
The Call for Papers is also here:
http://www.imageclef.org/?q=cviusi
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Special Issue on Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation
Guest Editors:
* Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* Henning M?ller, University and Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
* Paul Clough, The University of Sheffield, UK
Important Dates:
Manuscript submission: 30 April 2008 (extended deadline)
Acceptance Notification: 1 September 2008
Final Manuscript Due: 1 November 2008
Special Issue to Publisher: 15 January 2009
Expected Publication Date: Mid 2009
Summary:
Visual information is ubiquitous and the amount produced with cheap
digital cameras is rising strongly. To better manage this information,
content-based image and video retrieval has been proposed for general
retrieval as well as in specialised domains. While many techniques have
been developed for image and video retrieval, one of the problems is
that many published approaches are very difficult to compare to each
other as varying databases, performance measures, and methodologies are
used.
In order to mitigate this problem, there has been increased focus on the
evaluation of visual information retrieval systems in the last years.
Similar to the text retrieval domain many years ago, several visual
information retrieval benchmarks with a varying focus have been created
and run. This evaluation is particularly important as many visual
information retrieval techniques and systems are at the point where they
are ready to leave the academic field and become integrated into
commercial prototypes and products. This requires techniques not only to
be interesting as theoretical approaches but also to be comparable with
respect to performance obtained.
The role of this special issue is to fill the need for a comprehensive
overview of the current visual information retrieval evaluation
activities. This is envisioned to include evaluation campaigns as well
as activities at a lower level, such as dataset creation, innovative
approaches to ground truth collection and relevance judgements,
discussion of evaluation metrics and the planning of "realistic" queries
and user models.
Scope:
The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects of the
evaluation of visual information retrieval.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Evaluation campaigns
* Evaluation techniques
* Evaluation metrics
* Datasets and dataset creation
* Query topic creation
* Ground truth collection
* Relevance judgements
* Evaluation of image and video features for retrieval
* Challenges in image and video retrieval evaluation
* User requirement modelling and user modelling
* Evaluation of user interfaces to search engines
Submission Procedure:
Papers should be appropriate for journal publication. Submissions should
follow the guidelines set out by the CVIU.
When submitting papers, the authors should select the specific article
type indicated AND include a line in their cover letter as a failsafe
[example: "This manuscript is submitted to the Special Issue on Image
and Video Retrieval Evaluation"].
All papers should be submitted via the CVIU web-site with Article Type
'Special Issue: Image and Video Retrieval'
http://ees.elsevier.com/cviu/
Full author guides (Preparation of Manuscript, Copyright and
Permissions, Author Inquiries, Submission of Manuscripts) and on-line
submission links can be found at the above link.
All papers will be peer reviewed following the CVIU reviewing procedures.
From celliott at bcs.rochester.edu Mon Feb 25 21:00:35 2008
From: celliott at bcs.rochester.edu (Caroline Elliott)
Date: Mon Feb 25 22:25:24 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Job Posting - Research Assistantship - Human Learning,
Technology
and Brain Plasticity - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Message-ID:
Research Assistantship -Human Learning, Technology and Brain Plasticity
U. of Rochester, Rochester NY
Applications are invited for a two-year research assistantship in The
Brain and Vision Laboratory, department of Brain and Cognitive
Sciences, University of Rochester, to work on a project designed to
study the effects of video game playing on visual and cognitive
skills (www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/daphne/).
The position will involve a number of responsibilities including
designing/programming experiments, scheduling/testing subjects,
analyzing data (behavioral, eye tracking and brain imaging-MRI). It
is an excellent position for those interested in gaining experience
in the field before entering a graduate program.
Qualified applicants will have: 1)A BA/BS in a natural science;
2)Previous experience in programming (the majority of the programming
in the lab is done in MATLAB, but other languages such as JAVA or C++
are also acceptable), 3) knowledge of statistics.
Interested individuals should send a resume as well the names/contact
information of three references to Daphne Bavelier -
daphne@bcs.rochester.edu. Start date: Summer 2008.
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From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Mon Feb 25 20:12:31 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Mon Feb 25 22:25:35 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Reminder: Call for Nominations to the VSS Board of
Directors
Message-ID: <068901c877ea$c7a8cc00$56fa6400$@org>
Deadline for Nominations: March 3, 2008
Nominations are open for two 4-year positions on the Vision Sciences Society
Board of Directors to replace outgoing Board members Tania Pasternak and
Marvin Chun.
Responsibilities of the Board include scheduling the Annual Meeting,
implementing and monitoring VSS policies, budget oversight, and other
VSS-related activities. The Board meets twice a year, during the Annual
Meeting and in late January.
Any regular VSS member in good standing may be nominated, with the exception
of current members of the Board and past members whose term ended within the
last 4 years.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE:
- Each nomination must be "signed" by 3 regular VSS members. One person
should email the nomination to shauneywilson@visionsciences.org with a cc:
to the other two nominators. The other two nominators should indicate their
concurrence by forwarding the nominating email to
shauneywilson@visionsciences.org.
- Include a recent vita and a short paragraph of qualifications with the
nomination
- Prior to making a nomination, please seek assurance that the nominee is
willing to serve.
SELECTION OF SLATE OF CANDIDATES:
(http://www.visionsciences.org/nominating.html)
The VSS bylaws provide for a Nominating Committee, composed of VSS members
who are highly respected scientists chosen to represent the broad range of
disciplines representative of VSS members (the VSS president chairs the
Nominating Committee). The current members of the Nominating Committee are
Martin Banks, Greg DeAngelis, Eileen Kowler, Concetta Morrone and Steven
Shevell. For each open Director position, the Nominating Committee selects
from the nominees a slate of two candidates who are highly respected
scientists and who, when added to the Board of Directors, would result in
broad representation of the disciplines representative of VSS members.
CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
(http://www.visionsciences.org/board.html)
The names, term-end dates and areas of expertise are listed below (terms end
immediately after the VSS meeting of the year listed).
Marvin Chun (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Attention; visual memory; psychophysics and fMRI
Wilson Geisler (2010)
Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Pascal Mamassian (2011)
3D perception; binocular vision; motion; ambiguous and rivalrous perception;
multisensory perception; perception and action; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Tony Movshon (2011)
Neural mechanisms; motion perception; spatial vision; visual development;
neurophysiology, psychophysics, animal behavior
Tatiana Pasternak (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Cortical mechanisms of perception, motion, working memory; neurophysiology
and psychophysics
Mary Peterson (2009)
Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual
learning; psychophysics and imaging
Allison Sekuler (2009)
Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging;
psychophysics and neuroimaging
Steven Shevell (2009)
Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics
SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION:
February 1, 2008 Nominations open
March 3, 2008 Nominations close
April 1, 2008 Election begins (online)
April 25, 2008 Election ends
May 1, 2008 Election results announced
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From fcap at fordham.edu Tue Feb 26 00:44:17 2008
From: fcap at fordham.edu (fcap@fordham.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 26 00:50:42 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Proposals - Fordham U. Psychometrics
Conference in NY
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From darnold at psy.uq.edu.au Tue Feb 26 06:40:25 2008
From: darnold at psy.uq.edu.au (darnold)
Date: Tue Feb 26 14:53:13 2008
Subject: [visionlist] FINAL Call for papers: Asia-Pacific Conference on
Vision
Message-ID: <045164DB-3AF1-4F93-A09E-08ABCE4804A7@psy.uq.edu.au>
FINAL Call for Papers
Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV)
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/apcv/
APCV 2008 will take place from Friday July 18 through to Monday July
21st 2008.
The conference will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition
Centre, a state of the art facility just minutes walk from major
tourist attractions in the centre of Brisbane - the capital city of
beautiful Queensland, Australia.
Formerly known as the Asian Conference on Vision, APCV aims to
facilitate debate concerning vision research throughout the Asia-
Pacific by bringing together scientists from the broad range of
disciplines contributing to modern vision science, including...
? Visual Physiology & Anatomy
? Visual Psychophysics
? Visual Cognition
? Computational Vision
? Artificial Vision
? Brain Imaging
? Eye movements
? Multisensory integration
. Visual Development
. Eye growth control
Keynote lectures will be given by Mandyam Srinivasan (University of
Queensland, Australia), Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of
Technology, USA) and Hidehiko Komatsu (National Institute for
Physiological Sciences, Japan).
Special symposia covering a range of topics have been organized.
Speakers include Mel Goodale, Ken Nakayama, Atsushi Iriki, Paul
Martin, Justin Marshall, Shoji Kawamura, Jason Mattingley, Roger
Remington, Mike Dixon, Chai-Youn Kim, Gill Rhodes, Mark Williams,
William Hayward & Anina Rich. Other confirmed speakers include Keiji
Uchikawa, Shinya Nishida, David Eagleman, Satoshi Shioiri , Hirohiko
Kaneko, Raymond Van Ee, Alan Johnston, Arni Kristjansson and Stephen
Palmisano.
Free communications will be either 15 minute oral presentations, in
parallel sessions, or posters.
Abstracts (max length 200 words) will be published on-line in
Perception.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is MARCH 1ST, 2008.
In order to submit an abstract, participants should complete the
Conference Registration from the website and proceed to payment, via a
secure Credit Card payment system.
For additional information, visit the conference website
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/apcv/
We hope that you will join us at APCV 2008 in beautiful Queensland,
Australia.
Thanks for your attention!
From keller at inf.ed.ac.uk Tue Feb 26 10:52:20 2008
From: keller at inf.ed.ac.uk (Frank Keller)
Date: Tue Feb 26 14:53:45 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD position, University of Edinburgh
Message-ID: <18371.61284.920565.369796@costello.inf.ed.ac.uk>
PHD STUDENTSHIP IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF VISUAL PROCESSING
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
The Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within
the School of Informatics and the Human Communication Research Centre
(HCRC) invites applications for a three-year PhD studentship funded by
the European Research Council, starting September 1, 2008.
The successful applicant will work on a project that investigates the
synchronous processing of linguistic and visual information. The
project studies key features of synchronous processing by tracking
participants' eye movements when they view a naturalistic scene and
listen to a speech stimulus at the same time. The experimental results
will feed into a series of computational models that predict the
eye-movement patterns that humans exhibit when they view a scene and
listen to speech at the same time. These models will incrementally
construct aligned linguistic and visual representations, and will be
evaluated against eye-tracking data.
The PhD student will be part of a team of experts in linguistic and
visual processing, including both experimentalists and computational
modelers. The student will contribute to the modeling component of the
project, and should have previous experience in image processing,
computer vision, or computational models of perception and attention.
Applicants should have a good honors degree or equivalent in cognitive
science, artificial intelligence, computer science, or a related
discipline. Good programming skills, preferably in Matlab, Java, C, or
C++, are required. Familiarity with probabilistic modeling and machine
learning is essential.
The studentship will provide maintenance only funding at an enhanced
research council rate. Both UK/EU and overseas candidates are
encouraged to apply.
For further information please contact Dr. Frank Keller
(keller@inf.ed.ac.uk). Application forms and details on how to apply
are available from:
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html
More information about the project can be found at:
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/news/kellerercgrant.html
On your application, please indicate "Studentship: Synchronous
Processing".
Application deadline: March 31, 2008.
Applications received after the deadline may be considered, but this
cannot be guaranteed.
From jcarroll at mcw.edu Wed Feb 27 14:58:34 2008
From: jcarroll at mcw.edu (Joseph Carroll)
Date: Wed Feb 27 15:07:08 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 2008 OSA Vision Meeting
Message-ID:
The 8th annual Optical Society of America Vision Meeting
, sponsored this year by
the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, is a low cost,
high quality meeting designed to focus discussion on key issues in vision
science. The meeting will be held at the University of Rochester Medical
Center on October 24, 25, and 26, 2008. Rochester, located in Western New
York State, is an internationally recognized center for vision and imaging
science and provides a scenic and natural setting for a variety of outdoor
activities. The OSA Vision meeting is scheduled to take place directly after
the OSA Frontiers in Optics (FiO) meeting.
As in past years, the Optical Society of America will
offer a one-day "free pass" to all OSA members who are pre-registered for
the OSA Vision Meeting. This pass allows OSA Vision Meeting registrants to
also attend the OSA FiO Meeting on Thursday, October 23 (where there will be
additional vision-related sessions, including a special symposium on the
Stiles-Crawford Effect).
Meeting Overview:
The OSA Vision Meeting is a low cost, high quality meeting designed to focus
discussion on key issues in vision science. The registration fee will be $75
for students/postdocs and $250 for all others. The fee will increase to $100
for students/postdocs and $300 for all others after the registration
deadline August 31, 2006. The registration fee includes breakfast, lunch,
and coffee breaks for all 3 days. This year?s meeting will celebrate Brian
Wandell as the 2008 recipient of the Tillyer Award for distinguished service
in the field of vision. The meeting will also include a Festschrift and
banquet in honor of Walter Makous, who will be retiring in 2008. The Young
Investigator Award, which includes a cash prize, will be given to the
student or post-doc who gives the best presentation at the meeting.
The local organizing committee is chaired by David Williams, University of
Rochester, and the program committee is chaired by Alex Wade,
Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute.
The main strength of the OSA Vision Meeting is its small size, which allows
for engaging scientific discussion among colleagues. Another advantage of
this format is that there are no parallel sessions, allowing every
participant to attend all of the talks they want to hear. The meeting is
organized around 6 workshops, each with 4 speakers and a format designed to
promote active discussion of key issues in vision science. Each workshop
will end with 30-40 minutes of general discussion of the issues presented.
We encourage all registrants to submit a scientific abstract to the meeting.
Based on their merits as judged by the program committee, twelve of these
abstracts will be allocated to contributed talk sessions and the remainder
will be poster presentations. All of the abstracts accepted for this year's
meeting (including the invited ones) will be published in the online Journal
of Vision .
Scientific Sessions (titles are tentative)
Retinopathy and Visual Dysfunction
Moderator: Peter Gouras, Columbia University
Fred Fitzke, University College London
?Retinal imaging using the latest AO and OCT techniques and functional
studies in the living human eye to reveal fine structural changes that
accompany loss of visual sensitivity?
Yi-Zhong Wang, Retina Foundation of the Southwest
?Early detection/assessment/monitoring of vision loss in AMD and Stargardt
disease?
David G. Birch, Retina Foundation of the Southwest
?The role of electroretinography in detecting and following retinal
dystrophies?
Peter Coffey, University College London
?Animal models of ARMD and RPE transplant in human patients?
Long-term Adaptive Effects in Color Vision
Moderator: Angela Brown, Ohio State University
Billy Hammond, University of Georgia
?Compensation for macular pigment: Color appearance and sensitivity
regulation?
Jack Werner, University of California-Davis
?What the aging lens can tell us about color constancy?
Rhea Eskew, Northeastern University
?Potential mechanisms of long-term adaptation in color vision, and failures
to find evidence for them?
Aline Bompas, Cardiff University
?Eye movements participate in color appearance?
Color and Motion Processing
Moderator: Karen Dobkins, University of California-San Diego
Shin?ya Nishida, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
?Trajectory integration of color signals for motion deblurring?
Jonathan Nassi, Harvard Medical School
?LGN inputs to MT?
Declan McKeefry, University of Bradford
?Color in motion revealed by motion after-effects?
Brian White, Queen?s University
?Visually guided movements to color targets?
Gene Therapy Approaches to Basic and Clinical Vision Sciences
Moderator: Jay Neitz, Medical College of Wisconsin
Matt Mauck, Medical College of Wisconsin
?Using gene therapy to dissect the circuitry for color vision?
Andras Komaromy, University of Pennsylvania
?Restoration of cone function in dog models of rod monochromacy?
Ken Greenberg, University of California-Berkeley
?Electrophysiology of channelrhodopsin in rabbit retina?
Kate Kolstad, University of California-Berkeley
?Control of neuronal activity with a light-gated glutamate receptor?
Between the Eyes and the Cortex: Active and Passive Filtering in the
Geniculate
Moderator: Peter Lennie, University of Rochester
Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
?Neural correlates of visual attention and awareness in the human LGN?
Geraint Rees, University College London
?The LGN and visual awareness?
Jose-Manuel Alonso, SUNY College of Optometry
?Receptive field dynamics and response gain in visual thalamus?
Henry Alitto, University of California-Berkeley
?The influence of spatial attention on visual processing in the Macaque LGN
?
Measuring Population Activity in Visual Cortex
Moderator: Alex Pouget, University of Rochester
Adam Kohn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
?Neural correlation in V1 and its effect on coding?
David Fitzpatrick, Duke University
?The dynamics of V1 population response to changes in direction of stimulus
motion?
Justin Gardner, New York University
?Inferring population responses in human visual cortex with classification
analysis?
Serge Dumoulin, Stanford University
?Population receptive field estimates in human visual cortex?
Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Walt Makous
Moderator: David Williams, University of Rochester
Don MacLeod, University of California-San Diego
Julie Schnapf, University of California-San Francisco
Bill Geisler, The University of Texas-Austin
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From treue at gwdg.de Wed Feb 27 17:18:39 2008
From: treue at gwdg.de (Prof. Stefan Treue)
Date: Wed Feb 27 21:27:50 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Computational Neuroscience Vision Course offered at
CSHL
References: <77B2B6579FFE3A479CD609D3E80E20B21CC184@mailbox09.cshl.edu>
Message-ID:
Summer course
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE: VISION
June 20-July 3, 2008
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
Application Deadline: March 15, 2008
Arranged by: Geoffrey Boynton, Gregory Horwitz and Stefan Treue
This course is one of the longest running and most successful courses
at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It is offered only every two years
and gives 24 international advanced graduate students and postdocs the
chance for intensive interchange with a diverse faculty in a very
stimulating environment.
The goal of the course is to introduce its students to the processing
of visual information as a model for general issues in systems
neuroscience. The emphasis is on approaches with strong theoretical
bases. Besides talks by an international faculty the course offers
plenty of opportunity to interact with the speakers and hands-on
projects to apply the knowledge gained in the course.
Please see http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/c-visi08.shtml for more
information about the course, the faculty and the application procedure.
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From max.snodderly at mail.utexas.edu Wed Feb 27 21:32:07 2008
From: max.snodderly at mail.utexas.edu (Max Snodderly)
Date: Wed Feb 27 23:46:38 2008
Subject: [visionlist] postdocs, visual physiology, behaving monkeys
Message-ID: <688evr$8hkkkv@ironman.mail.utexas.edu>
Please post.? Thanks.
POSTDOCS?BEHAVING MONKEY VISUAL PHYSIOLOGY
________________________________________________
Two postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of
Professor Max Snodderly at the University of Texas, Austin, to study
response properties of neurons in the early visual pathway (LGN, V1, V2).
Projects include multielectrode recording of simultaneous responses in
related areas, effects of eye movements, and responses to natural images.
Facilities are also available for high resolution MRI.
The neuroscience community at UT Austin is growing and provides many
opportunities for interaction. See Institute for Neuroscience
(http://www.utexas.edu/neuroscience/index.html), and the Center for
Perceptual Systems (http://www.cps.utexas.edu), which include outstanding
faculty from multiple departments. The diversity of activities at UT Austin
is both fascinating and stimulating. As a town, Austin is a fun place to
live, and I have yet to meet anybody that doesn?t like it.
To apply or inquire, please send a curriculum vitae, statement of
research interests, and other pertinent information by email. I will be at
the Cosyne meeting and workshops with my cell phone (512-922-8777) if you
would like to speak with me about the positions. Email
max.snodderly@mail.utexas.edu.
Max Snodderly, Ph.D.
Professor, Human Ecology/ Nutritional Sciences
Inst for Neuroscience and Ctr for Perceptual Systems
1 University Station/ A2700
The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
Off: (512) 232-3307; Cell: (512) 922-8777 Fax:471-5844
http://www.he.utexas.edu/ntr/snodderly.php
From duje at cvs.rochester.edu Thu Feb 28 20:42:07 2008
From: duje at cvs.rochester.edu (Duje Tadin)
Date: Thu Feb 28 21:26:05 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 26th Symposium of the Center for Visual Science,
University of Rochester
Message-ID:
Dear colleagues:
We are pleased to announce the 26th Center for Visual Science
Symposium, titled
"Blurring the Borders Between Vision, Cognition and Action"
to be held on May 29-31, 2008 at the University of Rochester. This
year, our aim is to bring together researchers whose work focuses on
the intricate interplay between mechanisms of vision, cognition, and
action. A limited number of travel awards and fellowship will be
provided for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Electronic
registration and abstract submission is available on-line.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symp_2008.html
The symposium poster is available for download at:
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symposium2008.pdf
Invited speakers:
John Assad - Harvard Medical School
Helen Barbas - Boston University
Randolph Blake - Vanderbilt University
David Burr - Universit? di Firenze, Italy
Marisa Carrasco - New York University
Patrick Cavanagh - Harvard University & University of Paris, France
Leonardo Chelazzi - University of Verona, Italy
Carol Colby - University of Pittsburgh
Charles Gilbert - The Rockefeller University
Tirin Moore - Stanford University
Andreas Nieder - University of Tuebingen, Germany
Carl Olson - Carnegie Mellon University
Tatiana Pasternak - University of Rochester
Emilio Salinas - Wake Forest University
Shinsuke Shimojo - California Institute of Technology
Wendy Suzuki - New York University
Simon Thorpe - CNRS, France
Frank Tong - Vanderbilt University
Stefan Treue - University of G?ttingen, Germany
Leslie Ungerleider - NIMH
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Duje Tadin
University of Rochester
Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences / Center for Visual Science
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/duje/home.html
Office: 585.275.8682 Fax: 585.271.3043 Lab: 585.275.7259
Email: duje@cvs.rochester.edu
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From heiko.neumann at uni-ulm.de Fri Feb 29 10:42:52 2008
From: heiko.neumann at uni-ulm.de (Heiko Neumann)
Date: Fri Feb 29 15:37:01 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Research position, University of Ulm (Germany)
Message-ID: <47C7E1AC.8090508@uni-ulm.de>
RESEARCH POSITION IN NEURAL COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF VISION
The research group in Neural Information Processing (Neuroinformatik)
at the Universit?t Ulm (Germany) invites applications for a position
of a Research Scientist (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) that is
available by March 1, 2008. Salary is according to German scale for
research staff personnel (TVL-13). The position is initially for
12 months, starting in March 2008 (or soon after), but a full duration
of 3 years funding is expected.
The position is funded within the EU research project SEARISE. The
overall project pursues a highly interdisciplinary approach to develop
neural architecture and mechanisms of visual information processing in
an observer to analyse motion and form in scenes, group scenic features
and deploy attention to salient locations in surveillance scenarios.
The announced position here particularly focuses on the development of
neural mechanisms of motion integration, how they enter to build
attention maps and the development of fast algorithms to demonstrate
their real-time performance.
An ideal candidate brings in
* a Diploma or Master degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Physics, or related fields,
* extensive programming experience (Matlab, C/C++),
* sound knowledge in neural models of vision, image processing and/or
computer vision, applied mathematics, knowledge about structure and
function of the visual cortical architecture,
* basic knowledge in pursuing scientific project work,
* English speaking and writing skills.
The research within the project is expected to be in collaboration with
project partners from several European countries and includes on-site
visits in different laboratories. It is expected that the candidate
pursues a PhD project related to the research topics of the research
project.
The University of Ulm is an equal opportunity employer. Women are
encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants will receive priority in case
they have equal qualifications.
Please send applications as soon as possible, preferentially via email
(PDF document with all the usual data, such as application letter, CV,
transcript of records, letters of reference if available) to
heiko.neumann@uni-ulm.de.
Alternatively, applications can be sent via regular mail to
Prof. Heiko Neumann
Institut f?r Neuroinformatik
Fakult?t f?r Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik
Universit?t Ulm
D-89069 Ulm
Germany
From mlcalvo at fis.ucm.es Fri Feb 29 17:13:44 2008
From: mlcalvo at fis.ucm.es (mlcalvo)
Date: Fri Feb 29 20:01:30 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ICO-21 Congress Paper Deadline
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From henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch Sat Mar 1 02:04:47 2008
From: henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henning_M=FCller?=)
Date: Sat Mar 1 17:55:47 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ImageCLEF registration
Message-ID: <47C8B9BF.5070603@sim.hcuge.ch>
Dear all,
the registration for ImageCLEF, a benchmark on visual information
retrieval is now open. You can find all the informations on the CLEF web
pages at http://www.clef-campaign.org/ .
Everything on the visual retrieval tasks can also be found at
http://www.imageclef.org/ . We will have several exciting tasks and new
databases this year, among them a new medical retrieval database
containing 67'000 images from the medical literature to be indexed.
Kind regards, Henning
From goodman at unr.edu Sun Mar 2 23:24:03 2008
From: goodman at unr.edu (Philip H Goodman)
Date: Mon Mar 3 00:26:54 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Pls post this PostDoc ad
Message-ID:
Pls post this PostDoc position to the list's jobboard.
Thank you, -Phil Goodman goodman@unr.edu
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BRAIN COMPUTATION LABORATORY, University of Nevada, Reno
& COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE, Paris, France
Research focus:
Computational Neurodynamics with Social Robotic Applications
Details: http://brain.unr.edu/jobs/Postdoc_Reno_2008.pdf
Position: 12-month contract salary at approximately US $42,000,
plus standard university benefits including health insurance,
vacation, and retirement. Based at UNR with strong collaboration
and possible block on-site visits with the CNRS collaborator.
Requirements:
1. PhD in computational neuroscience or closely related area
(theoretical neurobiology, neural networks, complex systems)
2. Very strong programming skills, in particular C++ and Matlab
3. Interest in interactive socal robotics
Northern Nevada offers great natural beauty, with Lake Tahoe a
short drive away, the Truckee River offering kayaking and fishing,
and our beautiful mountainous high desert environment. Reno also
has wonderful cultural activities, including our own symphony,
chamber orchestra, opera, and rich community theatre offerings.
San Francisco is a 3 hour drive away.
Interested candidates should email a resume and a cover letter
in English describing your interests and availability to:
goodman@unr.edu with copy to doursat@shs.polytechnique.fr
From sarah.creem at psych.utah.edu Mon Mar 3 04:42:13 2008
From: sarah.creem at psych.utah.edu (Sarah Creem-Regehr)
Date: Mon Mar 3 04:48:54 2008
Subject: [visionlist] APGV 08 - Second call for papers
Message-ID: <47CB81A5.2060302@psych.utah.edu>
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APGV 08: FIFTH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND
VISUALIZATION
Co-located with ACM Siggraph in Los Angeles, USA
9th - 10th August, 2008
http://www.apgv.org
SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to
benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception. Since 2004,
this symposium has brought together researchers from the fields of
perception, graphics, and visualization, to facilitate a wider
exchange of ideas.
Submissions are invited in the broad range of areas at the
intersection of computer graphics, visualization, and perception to
fulfill two goals of this multidisciplinary community.
Goal 1. Use insights from perception to advance the design of methods
for visual, auditory and haptic representation. Specific examples
include, but are not limited to:
* applications of insights from perception to the development of
algorithms for more efficient, effective or realistic modeling,
rendering and/or animation
* applications of perception in the design and evaluation of methods
for more effective representation and communication of data
* computational aesthetics, stylization and perceptual aspects of
non-photorealistic rendering
* perceptual issues arising due to fusion of digital imaging, computer
vision, and computer graphics techniques
* perception-inspired interfaces for immersive activities in virtual
worlds
Goal 2. Advance and facilitate novel basic perception and cognition
research that uses and is relevant to applications in computer
graphics and visualization. Here specific examples include, but are
not limited to:
* perception and visuomotor control in computer games, virtual and
augmented environments
* fundamental contributions in spatial and temporal vision
* integration of empirical perception research with computational
models
* color vision and color appearance modeling
* the influence of attention and eye movements on visual perception
and visual memory
* statistical learning and perception of natural scenes
* perception of shapes, surfaces and materials
* visual illusions and perceptual organization having potential to
enhance image depiction
Proceedings, which will include the poster abstracts, will be
published by ACM SIGGRAPH. Best papers from the symposium will be
invited to be extended for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on
Applied Perception.
http://www.acm.org/tap/
By co-locating APGV 08 with the thirty-fifth annual SIGGRAPH
Conference (SIGGRAPH 08), we aim to further promote communication
between the core perception and the core computer graphics
communities, and also bring APGV back to the United States.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University
Betty Mohler, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Sarah Creem-Regehr, University of Utah
Karol Myszkowski, MPI Informatik
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: Monday, April 7, 2008
Poster Submission: Monday, May 12, 2008
Symposium: Saturday, August 9, 2008 - Sunday, August 10, 2008
From psquire at gmu.edu Mon Mar 3 13:40:04 2008
From: psquire at gmu.edu (Peter Squire)
Date: Mon Mar 3 14:59:31 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CRT vs. LCD
Message-ID: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop>
I am currently running behavioral testing with E-Prime
software. I am displaying a probe stimuli near the edge of
the screen for 30 msec. I have piloted the task on a LCD and
CRT monitor. The CRT monitor appears to display the image
fine, however, the LCD monitor does not appear to be
presenting the image or is only displaying a partially
image. Does any one have any ideas/papers/tech man. that I
could check out for a reason why this is occuring.
From robert.montes at uv.es Mon Mar 3 15:16:32 2008
From: robert.montes at uv.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_Mont=E9s_Mic=F3?=)
Date: Mon Mar 3 16:08:25 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Journal of Optometry
Message-ID: <001001c87d41$907e9460$571b9c93@hvp1>
Dear Colleagues,
I want to inform you about the launch of a new scientific peer-reviewed
publication, Journal of Optometry (JO).
Audience of JO includes Optometrists, Ophthalmologists and Visual Scientists
as well as undergraduate and post-graduate students in these fields.
The JO welcomes the submission of original manuscripts and reviews
describing clinical and experimental research in the field of Optometry,
Ophthalmic Optics, Ocular Surface and Basic and Applied Visual Science in
general; research on Instruments and Techniques, Reports of Clinical Cases,
and clinically relevant laboratory investigations are also welcomed. The
journal will be published each
3 months and is accessible for free on the Internet at
www.journalofoptometry.org.
The JO publishes Full-Length Original Articles, Technical Reports, Critical
Reviews, Case Reports, Editorials, Correspondence to Editor and other
Authors. Manuscripts must be submitted in English language irrespective of
the native language of the authors. Within each issue, all abstracts will be
translated into Spanish by the Editorial Office. Periodically, selected
articles from each issue will be also translated into Spanish in order to
widespread the scientific knowledge and expand the readership of the
journal.
All manuscript types including Full-Length Original Articles, Technical
Reports, Critical Reviews, Case Reports and Editorials are peer-reviewed
prior publication. The JO does not reveal the identities of the reviewers to
the authors and does not allow the authors to make proposals for the
reviewers of their work. Authors publishing in JO retain the copyright of
their articles. All manuscripts are accepted under the author?s compromise
that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere in any format,
and that there are no ethical concerns with the contents or data collection.
Authors may be requested to produce the data upon which the manuscript is
based and to answer expeditiously any questions about the manuscript or its
authors. The authors also warrant that the information submitted is not
redundant and respects general guidelines of ethics in publishing.
The main journal features are:
Free on-line access
Large readership
Authors retain copyright of their work
Print version also available
International Editorial Board
Online manuscript submission and tracking system
Color publication on-line and black & white in printed version
Movies are accepted
I hope those of you who work in these areas considers the JO to publish your
research.
Sincerely yours,
Robert Mont?s-Mic?
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Optometry
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Dr. Robert Mont?s-Mic? OD, MPhil, PhD
Associate Professor
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Optometry
www.journalofoptometry.org
Optics Department, University of Valencia
C/ Dr. Moliner 50. 46100 (Burjassot)
SPAIN
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From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Mon Mar 3 22:40:26 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Mon Mar 3 22:42:45 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Reminder: Call for Nominations to the VSS Board of
Directors
Message-ID: <117c01c87d7f$97f280b0$c7d78210$@org>
Deadline for Nominations: March 3, 2008
Nominations are open for two 4-year positions on the Vision Sciences Society
Board of Directors to replace outgoing Board members Tania Pasternak and
Marvin Chun.
Responsibilities of the Board include scheduling the Annual Meeting,
implementing and monitoring VSS policies, budget oversight, and other
VSS-related activities. The Board meets twice a year, during the Annual
Meeting and in late January.
Any regular VSS member in good standing may be nominated, with the exception
of current members of the Board and past members whose term ended within the
last 4 years.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE:
- Each nomination must be "signed" by 3 regular VSS members. One person
should email the nomination to shauneywilson@visionsciences.org with a cc:
to the other two nominators. The other two nominators should indicate their
concurrence by forwarding the nominating email to
shauneywilson@visionsciences.org.
- Include a recent vita and a short paragraph of qualifications with the
nomination
- Prior to making a nomination, please seek assurance that the nominee is
willing to serve.
SELECTION OF SLATE OF CANDIDATES:
(http://www.visionsciences.org/nominating.html)
The VSS bylaws provide for a Nominating Committee, composed of VSS members
who are highly respected scientists chosen to represent the broad range of
disciplines representative of VSS members (the VSS president chairs the
Nominating Committee). The current members of the Nominating Committee are
Martin Banks, Greg DeAngelis, Eileen Kowler, Concetta Morrone and Steven
Shevell. For each open Director position, the Nominating Committee selects
from the nominees a slate of two candidates who are highly respected
scientists and who, when added to the Board of Directors, would result in
broad representation of the disciplines representative of VSS members.
CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
(http://www.visionsciences.org/board.html)
The names, term-end dates and areas of expertise are listed below (terms end
immediately after the VSS meeting of the year listed).
Marvin Chun (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Attention; visual memory; psychophysics and fMRI
Wilson Geisler (2010)
Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Pascal Mamassian (2011)
3D perception; binocular vision; motion; ambiguous and rivalrous perception;
multisensory perception; perception and action; psychophysics and
computational modeling
Tony Movshon (2011)
Neural mechanisms; motion perception; spatial vision; visual development;
neurophysiology, psychophysics, animal behavior
Tatiana Pasternak (2008) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2008
Cortical mechanisms of perception, motion, working memory; neurophysiology
and psychophysics
Mary Peterson (2009)
Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual
learning; psychophysics and imaging
Allison Sekuler (2009)
Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging;
psychophysics and neuroimaging
Steven Shevell (2009)
Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics
SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION:
February 1, 2008 Nominations open
March 3, 2008 Nominations close
April 1, 2008 Election begins (online)
April 25, 2008 Election ends
May 1, 2008 Election results announced
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From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Tue Mar 4 00:25:05 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Tue Mar 4 01:18:36 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Reminder: VSS Demo Submissions Deadline Today - March
3, 2008
Message-ID: <123c01c87d8e$357112d0$a0533870$@org>
We are pleased to announce the 6th Annual Visual Demos Evening at VSS will
be Monday, May 12, 2008 from 6:00 - 9:00pm in the Vista Ballroom of the
Naples Grande Hotel. This will be an informal celebration of the
experiential phenomena of vision science, with a diverse offering of visual
demos accompanied by a delicious BBQ out by the pool and Sunset deck and
terrace.
We are seeking dramatic, provocative, educational, and entertaining
demonstrations of visual phenomena new and old. We especially encourage the
submission of demonstrations that transcend the bounds of the table top,
such as immersive experiences, and also ones that are "physical", that do
not rely on computer graphics. We can provide tabletops, electrical outlets,
some wall-space for projections, and poster boards are available upon
request. We can help coordinate special needs (e.g. theatrical lighting).
Otherwise each presenter will be responsible for bringing and setting up the
necessary equipment for their own demos, including data projectors or other
displays.
For full consideration, please submit your demo proposal by end of day
today, March 3. The Demo Submission Form is located at:
http://www.visionsciences.org/callfordemosform.html.
This year's Demo Evening will be organized and curated by Richard Brown,
Arthur Shapiro and Shinsuke Shimojo. Please direct questions about possible
demos to robrown@exploratorium.edu.
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From Theo.Veenker at let.uu.nl Tue Mar 4 13:13:06 2008
From: Theo.Veenker at let.uu.nl (Theo Veenker)
Date: Tue Mar 4 14:38:34 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CRT vs. LCD
In-Reply-To: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop>
References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop>
Message-ID: <47CD4AE2.60301@let.uu.nl>
Peter Squire wrote:
> I am currently running behavioral testing with E-Prime
> software. I am displaying a probe stimuli near the edge of
> the screen for 30 msec. I have piloted the task on a LCD and
> CRT monitor. The CRT monitor appears to display the image
> fine, however, the LCD monitor does not appear to be
> presenting the image or is only displaying a partially
> image. Does any one have any ideas/papers/tech man. that I
> could check out for a reason why this is occuring.
For the why part check out wikipedia and the many other resources about the
differences between CRT and LCD technology. I guess the response time of
your LCD is relatively long compared to the 30ms. BTW what refresh rate
enables you to get this 30ms number? At 100Hz three frames will give you
30ms, but I assume LCD can't do that. At 60Hz you can get 33ms.
In short, a CRT display (for computer/tv) is fast (electron beam hits fluorecent
screen, the phosphors emit light), an LCD display is slow (as it involves changing
alignment of crystal molecules). The important factors here are the response time
and input lag. There is a difference between black-to-black response time and
gray-to-gray response time. I understand the latter tends to be slower, although
some say the opposite is true. I suppose it depend on whether some sort of
overdrive/overshoot technique can be used to speed up the transition of the
crystals. Anyway marketing dictates that vendors will mention the fastest response
times whether btb or gtg. So in reality the numbers will probably be worse than
reported. Input lag is something you don't want. On wikipedia I read it can introduce
a delay of several frames. Also the contrast ratio of an LCD monitor is usually
not that good. So LCD's because of their poor specs, although they are getting
better, can't yet be used as drop-in replacement for CRTs.
While I'm here allow me to ask about CRT replacements. In our lab (mostly
experimental psycholinguistics, no vision research) we have CRTs everywhere, but
what to do once we can't buy CRTs anymore? I would love to see an LCD selection
sheet listing the minimal specs required for particular experimental purposes.
Or a list of recommended LCD (or plasma) monitors.
Theo
From ginis at ivo.gr Tue Mar 4 08:15:27 2008
From: ginis at ivo.gr (Harilaos Ginis)
Date: Tue Mar 4 14:39:06 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 4th European Meeting in Physiological Optics: ABSTRACT
SUBMISSION is open.
Message-ID:
4th European Meeting in Visual & Physiological Optics
August 31 ? September 2, 2008, Heraklion, Greece
The Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO) at University of Crete,
Greece, is pleased to announce the organisation of the 4th European
Meeting in Visual & Physiological Optics. The meeting plans to build
upon the very successful predecessors in Wroclaw (1999), Granada
(2003) and most recently London (2005). Many aspects of Physiological
and Visual Optics, including basic research, instrumentation and
clinical studies will be covered with an emphasis on:
- Refraction and ocular aberrations,
- Retinal image quality,
- Scattering in the eye,
- Crystalline lens and accommodation,
- Adaptive optics in vision research and ophthalmic imaging,
- Advances in spectacle, contact lens and intraocular lens design.
For more information visit: www.ivo.gr/4empo
Online registration is now open: http://www.ivo.gr/4empo/
registration.html
Online abstract submission : http://www.ivo.gr/4empo/abstracts.html
4th EMPO is associated with the 7th Aegean sumer School in Visual
Optics (August 28-30): http://www.ivo.gr/summerschool/
_____________________________________
Harilaos Ginis, PhD
Institute of Vision and Optics
University of Crete, Greece
TEL: +302810394807
FAX: +302810394653
www.ivo.gr
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From Michael.Bach at uni-freiburg.de Tue Mar 4 09:13:59 2008
From: Michael.Bach at uni-freiburg.de (Michael Bach)
Date: Tue Mar 4 14:40:08 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CRT vs. LCD
In-Reply-To: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop>
References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop>
Message-ID:
Dear Peter + all:
> I am currently running behavioral testing with E-Prime software. I
> am displaying a probe stimuli near the edge of the screen for 30
> msec. I have piloted the task on a LCD and CRT monitor. The CRT
> monitor appears to display the image fine, however, the LCD monitor
> does not appear to be presenting the image or is only displaying a
> partially image. Does any one have any ideas/papers/tech man. that I
> could check out for a reason why this is occuring.
What you are seeing is temporal aliasing. Briefly soapboxing: "Limits
of CRTs in Vision Research"
should now be complemented by "Limits of LCDs in Vision Research".
The topic has already been touched upon on this list in some earlier
posts. The problem with CRTs is that they (typically) have an internal
frame buffer, which is read out (copied to the screen storage
transitors) at 60 Hz. What you are feeding in, be it via VGA
connection (analog) or DVI (digital) refreshes said buffer at whatever
rate you are driving it. Only sorry results can result, if you are
changing the screen content every 30 ms or so.
This is a very problematic state of affairs, especially for people
doing evoked potential stuff where you care about single milliseconds
in response to visual change -- BOLD responders couldn't care less.
If anyone would come up with a solution, that would be really great! I
have just bought another good CRT monitor for the shelf...
Best, Michael.
--
Prof. Michael Bach PhD, Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg,
Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
President of ISCEV
Visual illusions:
From a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 11:19:31 2008
From: a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk (Andrew Welchman)
Date: Tue Mar 4 14:40:33 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD positions in a European Training Network
Message-ID: <003901c87de9$9e5f3230$9d04bc93@adf.bham.ac.uk>
8 PhD positions in Sensory Motor Neuroscience
European Training Network
Applications are invited for PhD positions in the field of Sensory Motor
Neuroscience. Successful applicants will join a thriving research
environment to study human perception, action production and cognitive
neuroscience. Projects involve combining behavioural techniques, brain
imaging, movement recording and computational modelling.
Successful applicants will work as part of a network that brings together
leading researchers in industry and academia from across Europe (France,
Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK). This offers exciting
opportunities for advanced training, collaboration with international
centres of excellence, travel, interdisciplinary exchange and industrial
secondments.
More information on the network can be found here: www.optimaldecisions.org
Candidates should hold (or expect) a good undergraduate degree (equivalent
of at least a 2.1 in UK system) or Masters degree in a relevant discipline
(e.g. Psychology, Neuroscience, Physiology, Bioengineering, Computer
Science, Mathematics or Physics). Candidates should be numerate and
comfortable learning computer programming and the use of advanced software
for behavioural and brain imaging data analysis. Above all, candidates
should be enthusiastic to learn new techniques and to contribute to new
experiments.
Salaries will be paid at rates set by the European Commission. Applications
are welcome from overseas students as well as EU nationals. Positions start
on 1st October 2008.
Interested candidates should consult the network's website for information
on how to apply and who to contact:
www.optimaldecisions.org/opportunities
In line with current EC policy, we particularly encourage applicants from
women. All applicants will be accorded equal opportunities irrespective of
ethnicity or gender.
From vaegan at unsw.edu.au Tue Mar 4 16:59:48 2008
From: vaegan at unsw.edu.au (Vaegan)
Date: Tue Mar 4 18:32:39 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Re: CRT Vs LCD
Message-ID: <1204649988.47cd80049f71f@unimail.unsw.edu.au>
I agree with all comments about LCDs failing to follow fast/brief changes. It
has been extensively discussed on this list. There should be a way to retrieve
the thread but I have never found it - does any one know?.
I don't see a looming CRT shortage yet. You can buy any number of high quality
24" CRT trinitron monitors here. I got a new HP1230 for ca $A400 last year and
there are lots of second hand monitors from traders, let alone EBay for less. I
could easily stock a room with them. The second had ones will be around for a
while and cheap because they get traded in. They are huge, weigh a ton, are
hard to move and no one except vision scientists want them!
Yrs truly
Vaegan,
CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G
From nishina at bu.edu Tue Mar 4 18:15:19 2008
From: nishina at bu.edu (Shigeaki Nishina)
Date: Tue Mar 4 18:32:52 2008
Subject: [visionlist] March 15 EPA Special Symposium on Perceptual Learning
Message-ID: <9CBCD0BF-09BC-43AD-A7F8-F9843DA5D9F2@bu.edu>
The Eastern Psychological Association would like to invite your
attendance to a special symposium at our annual meeting this year in
Boston.
PERCEPTIONS OF PERCEPTUAL LEARNING
Researchers from both animal learning and human vision will each
present their own perspective of what is "perceptual learning" through
a discussion of their research. The goal is not only to appreciate how
the topic is viewed in other areas, but also identify common and
distinct themes that will increase the depth of our understanding of
the subject.
Each speaker listed below will have a 30-minute presentation.
Theories of Perceptual Learning
Nicholas Mackintosh (Cambridge University)
Perceptual Learning studied by means of visual psychophysics and
physiology
Takeo Watanabe (Boston University)
Perceptual Learning: An Animal Model and its Application to Humans
Geoffery Hall (University of York)
Perceptual Learning and Representational Learning
Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis University)
Discussant: Chris Mitchell (University of New South Wales)
The symposium will be on Saturday, March 15, from 9:30 to 12:20 at the
Boston Park Plaza hotel and the registration fee is $45. For
information, please visit our website www.easternpsychological.org or
contact the Program Committee Chair at JamesByron.Nelson@ehu.es
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From argunsah at su.sabanciuniv.edu Tue Mar 4 19:13:21 2008
From: argunsah at su.sabanciuniv.edu (Ali Ozgur Argunsah)
Date: Tue Mar 4 19:24:15 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Re: CRT Vs LCD
In-Reply-To: <1204649988.47cd80049f71f@unimail.unsw.edu.au>
References: <1204649988.47cd80049f71f@unimail.unsw.edu.au>
Message-ID: <47CD9F51.1040608@su.sabanciuniv.edu>
There are very fast LCDs. Did anyone try them?
Note: Example, www.viewsonic.com/pdf/wp_4msResponseTime050205.pdf
Vaegan wrote:
> I agree with all comments about LCDs failing to follow fast/brief changes. It
> has been extensively discussed on this list. There should be a way to retrieve
> the thread but I have never found it - does any one know?.
> I don't see a looming CRT shortage yet. You can buy any number of high quality
> 24" CRT trinitron monitors here. I got a new HP1230 for ca $A400 last year and
> there are lots of second hand monitors from traders, let alone EBay for less. I
> could easily stock a room with them. The second had ones will be around for a
> while and cheap because they get traded in. They are huge, weigh a ton, are
> hard to move and no one except vision scientists want them!
>
> Yrs truly
> Vaegan,
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From editor at visionscience.com Tue Mar 4 18:59:34 2008
From: editor at visionscience.com (VisionList Editor)
Date: Tue Mar 4 19:24:59 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Re: CRT Vs LCD
In-Reply-To: <1204649988.47cd80049f71f@unimail.unsw.edu.au>
References: <1204649988.47cd80049f71f@unimail.unsw.edu.au>
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To respond to one of Vaegan's questions, previous threads on VisionList
can be found by going to the link at the bottom of each message
(http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist), and then
clicking on the link to "visionlist Archives
". Then use your browser
to search for the topic of interest, e.g., "lcd."
Vaegan wrote:
> I agree with all comments about LCDs failing to follow fast/brief changes. It
> has been extensively discussed on this list. There should be a way to retrieve
> the thread but I have never found it - does any one know?.
> I don't see a looming CRT shortage yet. You can buy any number of high quality
> 24" CRT trinitron monitors here. I got a new HP1230 for ca $A400 last year and
> there are lots of second hand monitors from traders, let alone EBay for less. I
> could easily stock a room with them. The second had ones will be around for a
> while and cheap because they get traded in. They are huge, weigh a ton, are
> hard to move and no one except vision scientists want them!
>
> Yrs truly
> Vaegan,
> CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G
> _______________________________________________
> visionlist mailing list
> visionlist@visionscience.com
> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist
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>
From announcements at journalofvision.org Tue Mar 4 22:04:01 2008
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Tue Mar 4 22:33:11 2008
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 8, Issue 2
Message-ID: <0E0ACD32725742A6A37CF092D06AEDC0@jov>
Journal of Vision
Volume 8, Number 2 doi:10.1167/8.2
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/ ISSN 1534-7362
Articles
Anti-Glass patterns and real
motion perception: Same or different mechanisms?
Maria Michela Del Viva
Monica Gori
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/1/
Task-demands can immediately
reverse the effects of sensory-driven saliency in complex visual stimuli
Wolfgang Einh?user
Ueli Rutishauser
Christof Koch
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/2/
Learning optimal integration of
arbitrary features in a perceptual discrimination task
Melchi M. Michel
Robert A. Jacobs
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/3/
Occlusion and the solution to
visual motion ambiguity: Looking beyond the aperture problem
Maarten J. van der Smagt
Gene R. Stoner
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/4/
The L:M cone ratio in males of
African descent with normal color vision
Carrie McMahon
Joseph Carroll
Stella Awua
Jay Neitz
Maureen Neitz
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/5/
What can saliency models
predict about eye movements? Spatial and sequential aspects of fixations
during encoding and recognition
Tom Foulsham
Geoffrey Underwood
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/6/
If I saw it, it probably wasn't
far from where I was looking
Eli Brenner
Pascal Mamassian
Jeroen B. J. Smeets
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/7/
Contrast and stimulus
information effects in rapid learning of a visual task
Craig K. Abbey
Binh T. Pham
Steven S. Shimozaki
Miguel P. Eckstein
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/8/
Object features used by humans
and monkeys to identify rotated shapes
Kristina J. Nielsen
Nikos K. Logothetis
Gregor Rainer
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/9/
Integration of ordinal and
metric cues in depth processing
Marco Bertamini
Jasna Martinovic
Sophie M. Wuerger
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/10/
Motion-induced blindness is not
tuned to retinal speed
Thomas S. A. Wallis
Derek H. Arnold
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/11/
First- and second-order motion
mechanisms are distinct at low but common at high temporal frequencies
R?my Allard
Jocelyn Faubert
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/12/
How keratoconus influences
optical performance of the eye
Bo Tan
Kevin Baker
Ying-Ling Chen
James W. L. Lewis
Lei Shi
Tracy Swartz
Ming Wang
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/13/
A single "stopwatch" for
duration estimation, A single "ruler" for size
Michael J. Morgan
Enrico Giora
Joshua A. Solomon
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/14/
Nearly instantaneous brightness
induction
Barbara Blakeslee
Mark E. McCourt
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/15/
Gating of remote effects on
lightness
Paola Bressan
Peter Kramer
http://journalofvision.org/8/2/16/
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From andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov Tue Mar 4 22:25:45 2008
From: andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov (Andrew Watson)
Date: Tue Mar 4 22:55:30 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Re: CRT Vs LCD
Message-ID: <47CDCC69.5090704@nasa.gov>
Just to add one small point to the discussion of the speed of LCD displays.
The response in time of an LCD pixel differs in two ways from that of a
CRT. The first is that the LCD may be slow to switch from off to on, but
the second and more significant difference is that the LCD remains on
for the duration of the frame (it is a "hold-type" display). This causes
"motion blur" as the eye tracks a moving target, and will do so even if
the switching time is reduced to zero. There are many techniques now
being developed (and sold) to ameliorate this problem, among them "black
insertion" (essentially reducing the hold time), 120 Hz frame rate with
motion interpolation, and strobing and scanning backlights (which can in
principle make the LCD into a sample-type display).
All of these techniques show promise but carry with them trade-offs and
potential artifacts. It will be interesting to see which, if any,
produce displays that are suitable for vision research with rapidly
moving images. I hope folks will share their experiences.
-Beau
From mailinglists at tobias-elze.de Wed Mar 5 00:14:31 2008
From: mailinglists at tobias-elze.de (mailinglists@tobias-elze.de)
Date: Wed Mar 5 00:19:34 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Re: CRT Vs LCD
Message-ID: <200803050014.m250EVM0006963@post.webmailer.de>
Hi Ali,
> There are very fast LCDs. Did anyone try them?
>
> Note: Example, www.viewsonic.com/pdf/wp_4msResponseTime050205.pdf
I didn't try out any of their monitors, but we have measured response times of more than a dozen LCD monitors, and having compared my results to the manufacturers' specification makes me doubt the results shown in the paper you cite there. Some reasons for this:
(1) They don't specify the monitor settings used for the measurements. The response times vary for different settings, and manufacturers tend to choose their measurement settings not according to sensible values for someone working with the monitor but to receive shortest response times.
(2) They don't specify their measurement and data analysis procedure. Did they measure from the 10% to the 90% value of the transition, or did they try to find the saturation points of the two plateaus (which makes an enormous difference), or did they do something completely different? Moreover, how did they filter the backlight effects, smooth the data etc.? Why don't they cite any measurement standard according to which they had been working?
(3) If they really receive response times as short as they show in Fig. 5, they must use heavy overdrive. If so, their Fig. 1 definitely can't be from one of their monitors: An overdrive optical wave transform is characterized by an overshoot of the luminance in the rising transition, so that the luminance exceeds the 100%-level and then approaches asymptotically to it from above. In the figure shown, it approaches from below.
The last point matters if you want to do vision science with such a monitor: Just imagine you want to change a stimulus luminance from one frame to the other from a value v1 to a value v2. What you get in an overdrive monitor is a sharp transition from v1 to v3 = v2+x, and then a slow transition from v3 to v2. The manufacturers usually calculate the time from v1 until the luminance curve first gets to the 100% (or usually 90%) Level of v2, but not the time it takes the signal to _saturate_ at v2 after reaching v3. And without you noticing this, the stimulus is presented for a short time brighter than you had actually expected knowing your "target luminance" v2 only.
Best,
Tobias.
From brainard at psych.upenn.edu Wed Mar 5 02:11:15 2008
From: brainard at psych.upenn.edu (David Brainard)
Date: Wed Mar 5 02:14:52 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Workshop on Perception of Material Properties in 3D
Scenes
Message-ID:
Subject: Workshop on Perception of Material Properties in 3D Scenes
A workshop on Perception of Material Properties in 3D Scenes will be
held at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the
University of Pennsylvania, October 17-19, 2008.
The workshop will examine questions that arise from considering
object surface
properties in 3D scenes, which sit at the intersection of the fields of
visual perception, computer vision, and computer graphics. These
include a) what is the effect of object material (e.g. wood, plastic,
metal) on color and lightness perception (visual perception), b) how
are object reflectance properties best measured and parameterized
(computer graphics and computer vision), c) what are good models of
image formation for complex scenes (computer graphics and computer
vision), d) how do we perceive what materials an object is made of
(visual perception), e) how do we integrate chromatic information
across the image of an object to arrive at unified percept of the
object=92s color (visual perception), f) what information that might
allow separation of object and illuminant properties is available in
the image (computer vision), and g) whether this information used by
human
vision (visual perception)?
Work on these questions has already led to new consideration of the
interactions between object shape and orientation, object material, and
the distribution of illumination in a scene (=93the light field=94), and
to led to
thinking about color, lightness, gloss, and visual roughness as a set
of perceptual
attributes that together inform us about object properties, rather
than dimensions that should be studied separately.
Invited talks will be given by Ted Adelson, Bart Anderson, Marina
Bloj, David Brainard, Mike Chantler, Hany Farid, Roland Fleming,
David Foster, Karl Gegenfurtner, Alan Gilchrist, Anya Hurlbert, Larry
Maloney, Shin'ya Nishida, Sylvia Pont, Qasim Zaidi, and Todd Zickler.
To register to attend the workshop or to present a poster, please go
to URL http://color.psych.upenn.edu/workshop08/.
Registration for workshop attendees is $80.00. This registration fee
includes access
to all activities and talks, as well as a boxed lunch on Friday.
There is also an optional
workshop dinner on Saturday, October 18. The cost is $75.00 per
person for workshop
attendees. Scholarship support for student and post-doc attendance
may be available, the
registration site provides details for applying for assistance.
Sincerely,
David Brainard
Anya Hurlbert
Larry Maloney
From kyfranke at ieee.org Wed Mar 5 00:36:07 2008
From: kyfranke at ieee.org (Katrin Franke)
Date: Wed Mar 5 02:15:31 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CFP - Computational Forensics
Message-ID:
(Apologies for cross posting)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> 2nd International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF'08) -
Methods, Applications and Challenges in Computer-Assisted Criminal
Investigations ( http://iwcf08.arsforensica.org/ )
National Academy of Sciences: Keck Center in Washington DC, USA
August 7-8, 2008
>>> CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission Deadline: April 20, 2008
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.
The workshop is endorsed by the
International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Computational Forensics is an emerging research domain. It concerns the
investigation of forensic problems using computational methods.
IWCF?08 serves as a forum for researchers in computer and forensic sciences
to discuss current challenges in computer-assisted forensic investigations
and to present recent work and research results.
The workshop addresses a broad spectrum of forensic disciplines that use
computational methods, i.e. statistical pattern analysis, computer-based
recognition, modeling, and simulation. Possible disciplines are
anthropology, ballistics, biology, impressions, pathology, prints and trace.
Objects to be studied are, for example, tool marks, shoeprints, friction
ridge impressions, vehicles, tire impressions, questioned documents, fire
debris, physiological and behavioral patterns. A particular focus of the
workshop is the analysis of pattern evidence where is there is much human
subjectivity.
IWCF?08 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work from
all areas of computational forensics.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Topics
The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
Algorithms: Filtering, Image and Data Representation, Image Registration,
Super Resolution, Feature Extraction, Statistical Data Analysis, Confidence
Measures, Bayesian Approaches, Data Mining, Search Techniques, Machine
Learning, Computational Intelligence.
Applications: Anthropology, Ballistics and Fire Arms, Biology, Fiber
Analysis, Fire Debris, Pathology, Physiological and Behavioral Patterns,
Prints, Questioned Documents, Friction Ridge Impressions, Tire Impressions,
Tool Marks, Traces, Shoeprints, Vehicles.
>>> Paper Submission
Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical,
experimental or application nature, or be unique experience reports.
Manuscripts have to be prepared in accordance with the Springer LNCS format
guidelines. ( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 ).
The maximum number of pages is 12.
Electronic submissions received via the workshop site until April 20, 2008
will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness by
at least three independent experts.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Important Dates
April 20, 2008 Paper-Submission Deadline
May 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification
May 23, 2008 Camera-Ready-Paper Due
May 23, 2008 Author-Registration Deadline
August 7-8, 2008 Workshop
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Inquiries
Email: iwcf08@arsforensica.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With kind regards,
Workshop Co-Chairs
Sargur Srihari, Katrin Franke
--
Dr. Katrin FRANKE - Associate Professor
Norwegian Information Security Laboratory (NISlab),
Department of Computer Science and Media Technology,
Gjovik University College, Teknologivegen 22,
P.O.Box 191, N-2802 Gjovik, Norway.
Phone: +47 61 135 254, Fax: +47 61 135 240,
Email: kyfranke@ieee.org, Internet: http://kyfranke.com
From m.kamermans at nin.knaw.nl Wed Mar 5 10:12:40 2008
From: m.kamermans at nin.knaw.nl (Maarten Kamermans)
Date: Wed Mar 5 14:42:21 2008
Subject: [visionlist] postdoctoral positions at the NIN (Maarten Kamermans)
Message-ID: <001001c87ea9$723d4550$b50a57c0@Maarten>
Postdoctoral positions in visual neuroscience available in the research
group "Retinal Signal Processing" of Maarten Kamermans in the Netherlands
Institute for Neuroscience.
Projects include: 1) Mechanism and function of lateral inhibition in the
outer retina. 2) Contribution of outer retinal lateral inhibition to the
surround responses of ganglion cells and the visual performance of the whole
animal. 3) Information coding in the outer retina and its consequences for
color vision. 4) The role of connexins and pannexins in retinal processing.
The Kamermans lab is strongly multidisciplinary and has a background in
electrophysiology, morphology, molecular biology, computational modeling and
behavioral assays. The group makes extensive use of the wild-type and
transgenic zebrafish.
Candidates with expertise in patch clamping, two-photon imaging or zebrafish
genetics are strongly encouraged to apply. Knowledge of the visual system is
highly appreciated.
Details about the research group can be found at
http://www.nin.knaw.nl/~kamermans/
For further details contact:
Maarten Kamermans, Professor
Group-leader: Retinal Signal Processing
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Department of Retinal Signal Processing
Meibergdreef 47
1105 BA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 566 5180
Email: m.kamermans@nin.knaw.nl
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From Maximilian.Bruchmann at uni-muenster.de Wed Mar 5 08:35:48 2008
From: Maximilian.Bruchmann at uni-muenster.de (Maximilian Bruchmann)
Date: Wed Mar 5 14:43:54 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CRT Vs LCD
Message-ID: <47CE5B64.8050601@uni-muenster.de>
Dear all,
we recently bought an LCD (LG1970HR) in order to use it in our MEG
chamber. We know that this is not an optimal presentation device but
since it appears to be much better than the often used video beamer,
here are some issues that might concern others in a similar situation:
We put an oscilloscope to the screen and presented white or black
rectangles on gray background for one frame (as far as I know, people
define gray-to-gray in different ways, so this is our definition). We
ran the monitor at 60Hz and at its maximum rate of 75Hz. The latter can
only be run using VGA, not with DVI.
Every "feature" of the monitor was turned off, i.e. in our case the so
called fEngine which is supposed to increase display quality for e.g.
text reading or movies. (You have a big problem, when LCDs have features
that can not be turned off. E.g. some calculate the mean brightness of
each screen and add a certain amount if it gets too dark. That may be
fine for watching movies but not for running experiments!)
The combined rise- and fall time we measured was about 4-5 ms, but I
have to admit that we did not specify any saturation point but simply
looked where the plateaus were reached.
I assume it depends on the monitor, but with ours, all backlighting
effects (reflected by a 260Hz component) disappeared, when the monitor's
brightness was set to 100%. In that case our oscillations looked just
like those in the viewsonic document. No filtering necessary.
Open issues are chromatic accuracy and a slightly inhomogeneous light
distribution across the screen.
Best regards,
Max
--
_____________________________________________________________
Maximilian Bruchmann, PhD
Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis
Address: Malmedyweg 15
48149 M?nster
Germany
Phone: +49-(0)251-83-56884
E-Mail: Maximilian.Bruchmann@uni-muenster.de
Internet: http://biomag.uni-muenster.de
_____________________________________________________________
From psquire at gmu.edu Wed Mar 5 12:17:05 2008
From: psquire at gmu.edu (Peter Squire)
Date: Wed Mar 5 14:44:37 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CRT vs. LCD Thanks..
In-Reply-To: <47CD4AE2.60301@let.uu.nl>
Message-ID: <20080305121707.E31CDD05A3@mxout-04.mxes.net>
I admit that there are some issues with the display timing. When I mentioned
that the display time was 30 msec, I meant that was the time I set within
the program. However, I understand that the correct procedure is to adjust
the length according to the refresh sampling rate - i.e., 100 Hz, 10 sec per
refresh. I was using a LCD with 75 Hz, so the timing was off. However, even
with the timing correction the problem still persisted. This list has
provided me with a vast about of possible reasons for the differences which
I will be exploring over the next couple of weeks; but most importantly I
have learned to use only CRTs.
Again, thank you all for the input.
Peter
From Etienne.Roesch at pse.unige.ch Wed Mar 5 16:03:40 2008
From: Etienne.Roesch at pse.unige.ch (Etienne B Roesch)
Date: Wed Mar 5 18:30:21 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CRT Vs LCD
In-Reply-To: <47CE5B64.8050601@uni-muenster.de>
References: <47CE5B64.8050601@uni-muenster.de>
Message-ID: <4B5355F7-9781-49B1-9BC5-915CB7256FF5@pse.unige.ch>
Dear all,
As the discussion about CRT vs LCD heats up, I figured I could send
to everyone the articles I forwarded to Pierre Squire upon his post.
May be of interest for a broader audience, so here they are.
I personally prefer to use CRT + Psychtoolbox.
What are you experiences with softwares to run expt? (i.e., i have
doubts about e-prime)
-----
Etienne Roesch, PhD candidate / Teaching-Research Assistant
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
CISA - University of Geneva
7, rue des Battoirs
CH-1205 Geneva - Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)22 379 98 08 / Fax: +41 (0)22 379 92 19
http://www.unige.ch/fapse/emotion/members/etienne/
http://www.affective-sciences.org/staff/?uid=86
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From: menegaz at dii.unisi.it (Gloria Menegaz)
Date: Wed Mar 5 18:30:40 2008
Subject: [visionlist]
PhD in Medical Image Perception @ University of Verona, Italy
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From mbethge at tuebingen.mpg.de Wed Mar 5 19:44:05 2008
From: mbethge at tuebingen.mpg.de (Matthias Bethge)
Date: Wed Mar 5 20:53:38 2008
Subject: [visionlist] CVN Symposium, Tuebingen, 7-8 April 2008
Message-ID:
Dear colleagues,
To promote the interchange of ideas about principles of neural
information processing in the visual system we are organizing a two-
day symposium on April 7+8. The symposium will be held at the Max-
Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen. It will
start on Monday at 2 p.m. with a welcome reception and the official
program ends on Tuesday with lunch. The time after lunch is free for
discussions. Confirmed speakers are:
Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis University)
Eero Simoncelli (New York University (NYU))
Jonathan Victor (Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY)
Fred Wolf (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Goettingen)
Eberhart Zrenner (University Eye Hospital Tuebingen)
In addition to the talks we will also have a poster session with an
award for the best student poster.
For registration and further details see http://www.kyb.mpg.de/bethgegroup/symposium/
Please do not forget to register. Due to space constraints we can
accommodate only a limited number of participants.
We look forward to seeing you in Tuebingen
-- Matthias Bethge
___________________________________________
Dr. Matthias Bethge, Group Leader
Computational Vision & Neuroscience Group
MPI for Biological Cybernetics, T"ubingen
[ http://www.kyb.mpg.de/bethgegroup/ ]
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From l.diazsantana at gmail.com Wed Mar 5 21:24:19 2008
From: l.diazsantana at gmail.com (Luis Diaz-Santana)
Date: Wed Mar 5 22:16:17 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Stimulating Nystagmus
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <0A4444FE-19F0-434A-B9D0-DB941062AF78@gmail.com>
Hello All,
I would like to know if there is any literature on stimulating
nystagmus on normal subjects. I have noticed that sometimes, on a
train, passengers can make very fast and periodic eye movements when
following targets outside the train.
This is outside of my area of expertise, and thought of asking here
first, before launching myself in a literature search. I wonder if
this has been studied, and how similar these movements are to the ones
found in nystagmus patients.
Many thanks
Luis
Luis Diaz-Santana
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK.
http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/research/laboratories/visor/
Tel: +44 (0)20 7040 8335
Fax: +44(0)20 7040 8355
e-mail: luisd@city.ac.uk
From lewistl at mcmaster.ca Wed Mar 5 22:56:02 2008
From: lewistl at mcmaster.ca (Terri Lewis)
Date: Thu Mar 6 00:04:56 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Stimulating Nystagmus
In-Reply-To: <0A4444FE-19F0-434A-B9D0-DB941062AF78@gmail.com>
References:
<0A4444FE-19F0-434A-B9D0-DB941062AF78@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2E4325E7-143C-498C-9827-3043B0DAC209@mcmaster.ca>
Optokinetic nystagmus is a series of reflexive eye movements elicited
by a repetitive pattern in the visual field such as telephone poles
on the side of the road when viewed from the window of a moving
train. They can also be elicted if the subject is stationary but the
repetitive pattern is moved in front of the eyes. These eye
movements are entirely normal and are elicited even at birth. They
are very different from the spontaneous eye movements that one
sometimes sees in patients with eye disorders such as congenital
nystagmus or early binocular deprivation. These spontaneous
nystagmoid eye movements occur even in the absence of external
stimulation.
Attached is one of our studies on the development of optokinetic
nystagmus in normal infants.
terri lewis
?
On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Luis Diaz-Santana wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I would like to know if there is any literature on stimulating
> nystagmus on normal subjects. I have noticed that sometimes, on a
> train, passengers can make very fast and periodic eye movements
> when following targets outside the train.
>
> This is outside of my area of expertise, and thought of asking here
> first, before launching myself in a literature search. I wonder if
> this has been studied, and how similar these movements are to the
> ones found in nystagmus patients.
>
> Many thanks
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Terri L. Lewis, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
McMaster University
Chair, Psychology Student Research Ethics Committee, McMaster
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, U. of Toronto
Vision Scientist, Dept of Ophthalmology, The Hospital for Sick Children
Adjunct Scientist, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children
Mailing address:
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, CANADA
Phone: 905-525-9140 Ext. 23009
FAX: 905-529-6225
URL: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/terri.html
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From: menegaz at dii.unisi.it (Gloria Menegaz)
Date: Fri Mar 7 18:07:29 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD position in Color Naming and Color Imaging @
University of Verona
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From ocarter at wjh.harvard.edu Fri Mar 7 10:01:46 2008
From: ocarter at wjh.harvard.edu (Olivia Carter)
Date: Fri Mar 7 18:08:05 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for nominations for the William James Prize for
Consciousness research.
Message-ID: <47D1128A.2000508@wjh.harvard.edu>
*The ASSC William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of
Consciousness*
-- Deadline for submission of nominations is May 15, 2008 --
The William James Prize is awarded for an outstanding published
contribution to the empirical or philosophical study of consciousness by
a graduate student or postdoctoral scholar/researcher within 5 years of
receiving a PhD or other advanced degree. This year, preference will be
giving to theoretical or empirical work using non-imaging techniques.
For more information, go to http://assc.caltech.edu/
The prize consists of:
* An award of $1000 (USD)
* A lifetime membership in ASSC
* An invitation to present a plenary address at either ASSC12, held
from June 19. to June 22. 2008 in Taipei/Taiwan, or at ASSC13, held in
June 2009 in Berlin/Germany (travel, Accommodation, and registration
paid by ASSC)
Nominations, including self nominations, should be sent to Christof Koch
(ASSC Prize Committee; koch.christof@gmail.com). The nomination letter
should include a brief statement as to why the contribution is
outstanding, and for co-authored publications, there should be a
statement describing the nominee's role. To be considered, the
contribution must be published or accepted for publication and be
written in English. Electronic copies in PDF format of the contribution
and the nominee's CV should be attached to the nomination letter.
Prize Committee:
* Daniel Dennett, Tufts University (chair)
* Chris Frith, University College London
* Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology
* Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
-- Deadline for submission of nominations is May 15, 2008 --
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Olivia Carter
Vision Sciences lab
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
Ph: +1 617 495 3884(ext3)
Fax:+1 617 495 3764
http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Olivia/olivia.html
From petkov at cs.rug.nl Fri Mar 7 18:25:14 2008
From: petkov at cs.rug.nl (Nicolai Petkov)
Date: Fri Mar 7 18:41:41 2008
Subject: [visionlist] full-scholarship PhD student position in Biologically
motivated object recognition
Message-ID: <003801c88080$9682e8b0$af337d81@iwi175>
A full-scholarship PhD student position in Computer Science at a leading
European university.
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~petkov/vacancies/2007PhDstudent_shape.html
PhD student position in Biologically motivated object recognition
Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science
University of Groningen
Topic of research
The objective of the project is to develop an object recognition
technique that is motivated by the function of the visual cortex. Major
aspects are representation and learning.
Type and level of the position
This is a temporary research position at the level of a PhD student for
a period of maximum four years. The tuition fees will be waived and the
student will receive a full scholarship. In this period the student will
follow relevant courses and prepare and defend a PhD thesis. The
position is embedded in the research group Intelligent Systems. The
tradition of the group is that PhD theses are based on excellent papers
in high imact journals so that our PhD graduates have a very strong
competative position on the academic market. Thesis director and
supervisor will be professor N. Petkov. The University of Groningen is a
leading European research university.
Our requirements on your qualifications
You are a university graduate (at the level of diploma or master of
science level) in one of the following disciplines: computer science,
artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, electrical
engineering, biophysics, physics. You have a demonstrated interest in
the neurosciences. You have an excellent academic record (GPA) and
belong to the top 5% of the graduates of your year and preferrably have
a graduation with a distinction such as honors or cum laude. You are
fluent in English language and able to write scientific articles and
reports (to be proven by your graduation thesis or another comparable
report or co-authorship of published scientific articles).
How to apply
Send the following information:
1) an application letter with a CV,
2) a specification of GPA and transcript of records,
3) an indication of your position in the class and year (e.g. 1st in a
class of 20),
4) evidence of excellence (e.g. graduation with honors) and a list of
relevant awards,
5) proofs of involvement in research (e.g. co-authorship of scientific
articles),
6) a description of your ideas for research in the specified area,
7) names and email addresses of three scientists (typically your former
professors) who can give a reference for you.
to prof.dr. Nicolai Petkov (petkov at cs dot rug dot nl). Applicants
will be asked to do a short assignment in order to demonstrate their
research abilities. The position will be open until a suitable candidate
is found.
From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Sat Mar 8 16:56:52 2008
From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde)
Date: Sat Mar 8 17:22:41 2008
Subject: [visionlist] NSF-FUNDED 3-year POSTDOC POSITION IN VISUAL
NEUROSCIENCE
Message-ID: <00c901c8813d$6a724140$3f56c3c0$@com>
NSF-FUNDED 3-year POSTDOC POSITION IN VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE
An NSF-funded 3-year postdoctoral position is available in the
Martinez-Conde Laboratory (Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ) to
study the physiological and perceptual consequences of fixational eye
movements. The experiments will directly follow from the line of research
featured as the Cover Story of Scientific American last August:
http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com/files/publications/martinez-conde_macknik_sci
am07.pdf. The project will combine single-neuron recordings, eye-movement
tracking, and visual psychophysics.
Previous electrophysiology experience is not required. The ideal candidate
will have a strong background in psychophysics and/or computational modeling
and/or single-neuron recordings and/or functional imaging, as evidenced by
first-author publications. Programming experience with Matlab or C is very
desirable.
The Barrow Neurological Institute is a TOP 10 rated clinical neuroscience
institute (US News and World Report), and is located in central Phoenix, the
5th largest metropolitan area in the US. A generous benefits package
includes medical, dental, vision, and retirement (with a value equal to
24.7% of the salary). EOE.
Please visit the Martinez-Conde lab's website at:
http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com
Please send CV and letters of reference to:
Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde
smart@neuralcorrelate.com
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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Division of Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute
350 W. Thomas Rd
Phoenix AZ 85013, USA
Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484
Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172
Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com
http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab/
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From nips2008publicity at gmail.com Sun Mar 9 22:52:51 2008
From: nips2008publicity at gmail.com (Antonio Torralba)
Date: Sun Mar 9 23:11:55 2008
Subject: [visionlist] NIPS'2008 preliminary call for papers
Message-ID:
NIPS*2008
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 6, 2008, 23:59 Universal Standard
Time (4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time).
Submissions are solicited for the Twenty Second Annual meeting of an
interdisciplinary Conference (December 8-11) that brings together
researchers interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing
and computation. The Conference will include invited talks as well as oral
and poster presentations of refereed papers. It is single track and highly
selective. Preceding the main Conference will be one day of Tutorial
(December 7), and following will be two days of Workshops at
Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 12-13).
Submissions: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information
processing and statistical learning, including (but not limited to):
* Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, neural
networks, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes,
dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection,
combinatorial optimization, relational learning.
* Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use
machine learning, including systems for time series prediction,
bioinformatics, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics.
* Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG
(electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG
(magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain
mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces.
* Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical,
computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human
or animal learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving, natural language
processing, and neuropsychology.
* Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control, exploration,
planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game-playing, multi-agent
coordination, computational models of classical and operant conditioning.
* Hardware Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic
engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS,
neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing.
* Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection,
Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of
learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and
approximations, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information
theory.
* Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of processing and
transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, including
spike train generation, synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation.
* Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis,
denoising, segmentation, source separation, auditory perception,
psychoacoustics, dynamical systems, recurrent networks, Language Models,
Dynamic and Temporal models.
* Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and
coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and
tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation.
Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical
quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Papers that balance new
algorithmic contributions with a more applied focus are particularly
encouraged. These include papers that contain a substantial evaluation on
real-world problems, or papers that combine results on novel applications
with analysis of their relevance from a machine learning perspective. We
would also like to encourage submissions by authors who are new to NIPS.
Submission Instructions: all submissions will be made electronically at
http://nips2008.confmaster.net. Submissions must be in PDF format. As in
previous years, reviewing will be double-blind: the reviewers will not know
the identities of the authors. Papers will be limited to 8 pages, including
figures and references, in the NIPS style. Complete submission and
formatting instructions, including style files, can be found at the NIPS
website: http://nips.cc. Electronic submissions will be accepted until
midnight June 6, 2008, Universal Standard Time (5pm Pacific Daylight Time).
There will be an opportunity after the meeting to revise accepted
manuscripts.
Demonstrations: There is a separate Demonstration track at NIPS. Authors
wishing to submit to the Demonstration track should consult the Call for
Demonstrations (coming soon).
Workshops: The workshops will be held at Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort from
December 12-13. The upcoming workshop proposal will provide details.
Program Committee:
Jean-Yves Audibert (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss?es)
Francis Bach (INRIA - Ecole Normale Sup?rieure)
Yoshua Bengio (Universit? de Montr?al) [Co-Chair]
Kristin Bennett (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Michael Bowling (University of Alberta)
Aaron Courville (Universit? de Montr?al)
Koby Crammer (University of Pennsylvania)
Sanjoy Dasgupta (University of California, San Diego)
Nathaniel Daw (New York University)
Eleazar Eskin (Univerisity of California, Los Angeles)
David Fleet (University of Toronto)
Paolo Frasconi (Universit? di Firenze)
Arthur Gretton (Max Planck Institute)
Tony Jebara (Columbia University)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Ron Meir (Technion)
Noboru Murata (Waseda University)
Erkki Oja (Helsinki University of Technology)
Doina Precup (McGill University)
Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California)
Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta) [Co-Chair]
Fei Sha (Yahoo! Research)
Alan Stocker (New York University)
Ingo Steinwart (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Erik Sudderth (University of California, Berkeley)
Yee-Whye Teh (University College London)
Antonio Torralba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Max Welling (University of California, Irvine)
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From dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de Mon Mar 10 14:40:31 2008
From: dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de (Florence Dancoisne)
Date: Mon Mar 10 15:35:49 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 13th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience -
final announcement
Message-ID: <47D5485F.6000706@bccn.uni-freiburg.de>
13th ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (A Bernstein/Gatsby
Neuroscience School)
Final Announcement
August 4th - 29th, 2008
Freiburg, Germany
DIRECTORS:
* Israel Nelken (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
* Nicolas Brunel (CNRS Paris)
* John Rinzel (NYU, New York, USA)
* Peter Latham (University College London, UK)
LOCAL ORGANIZER:
* Florence Dancoisne (Bernstein Center for Computational
Neuroscience Freiburg)
After three years in Arcachon (France), the Advanced Course in
Computational Neuroscience will be held in Freiburg in Breisgau
(Germany) this year for its 13th edition, and until 2010.
The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience is for advanced
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in
learning the essentials of the field.
The course has two complementary parts. Mornings are devoted to lectures
given by distinguished international faculty on topics across the
breadth of experimental and computational neuroscience. During the rest
of the day, students are given practical training in the art and
practice of neural modelling, by pursuing a project of their choosing
under the close supervision of expert tutors.
The first week of the course introduces students to essential
neurobiological concepts and to the most important techniques in
modelling single cells, networks and neural systems. Students learn how
to solve their research problems using software packages such as MATLAB,
NEST, NEURON, XPP, etc. During the following three weeks the lectures
cover specific brain areas and functions. Topics range from modelling
single cells and subcellular processes through the simulation of simple
circuits, large neuronal networks and system level models of the brain.
The course ends with project presentations by the students.
The course is designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows from a variety of disciplines, including neuroscience, physics,
electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics and psychology.
Students are expected to have a keen interest and basic background in
neurobiology as well as some computer experience. Students of any
nationality can apply.
A maximum of 30 students will be accepted. The fee for the course will
be EUR 500; this will cover tuition, lodging, breakfast and dinner.
There will be a limited number of course fee scholarships, and travel
stipends available for students who need financial help for attending
the course. We specifically encourage applications from researchers who
work in the developing world. These students will be selected according
to the normal submission procedure.
Applications, including a description of the target project must be
submitted electronically (see below) and will need to be accompanied by
the names and email details of two referees who have agreed to furnish
references. Applicants will need to ensure that their referees have
submitted their references. Applications will be assessed by a
committee, with selection being based on the following criteria: the
scientific quality of the candidate (CV) and of the project, the
recommendation letters, and evidence that the course will afford
substantial benefit to the candidate.
Please apply electronically using a web browser.
More information and access to the application database:
http://www.neuroinf.org/courses/EUCOURSE/F08/index.shtml
Contact address:
* Fiona Siegfried
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Hansastrasse 9A
79104 Freiburg
Germany
* mail: siegfried@bccn.uni-freiburg.de
Application deadline: March 28th, 2008
Deadline for letters of recommendation: March 28th, 2008
Notification of results: April 25th, 2008
confirmed FACULTY:
Ad Aertsen, U. Freiburg, Germany
Amos Arieli, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Jeff Beck, U. of Rochester, USA
Nathaniel Daw, NYU, USA
Erik De Schutter, OIST, Japan
Alain Destexhe, CNRS Gif, France
Wulfram Gerstner, EFPL, Switzerland
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Honda, Germany
Zhaoping Li, UCL, UK
David Hansel, CNRS Paris, France
Yael Niv, Princeton, USA
Stefano Panzeri, U. of Manchester, UK
Jonathan Pillow, UCL, UK
Yifat Prut, Hebrew U. Israel
Yasser Roudi, UCL, UK
Idan Segev, Hebrew U., Israel
Alex Thomson, UL, UK
Mark Van Rossum, U. of Edinburgh, UK
confirmed TUTORS
Janet Best, Ohio State, USA
Hermann Cuntz, UCL, UK
Moritz Helias, U. Freiburg, Germany
Alex Lerchner, UCL, UK
Tim Vogels, Columbia, USA
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Bernd Wiebelt, U. Freiburg, Germany
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Florence Dancoisne
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg
Administrative Coordinator
Hansastr. 9A
D-79104 Freiburg
http://www.bccn.uni-freiburg.de
phone: + 49 761 203 9314
fax: + 49 761 203 9559
From frank at psy.gla.ac.uk Mon Mar 10 15:18:11 2008
From: frank at psy.gla.ac.uk (Frank Pollick)
Date: Mon Mar 10 15:35:59 2008
Subject: [visionlist] RA to study brain mechanisms of action understanding
in viewing dance
Message-ID: <96759f94fc4abb92fa23733ff63cff78@psy.gla.ac.uk>
Hi,
Could you please post the following job ad. Thanks!
Frank
UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW
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DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
FACULTY OF INFORMATION & MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
?
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
?
?23,692 - ?26,666
?
REF NO:?14123/DPO/A3
?
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Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work with Dr Frank
Pollick and Dr Marie-Helene Grosbras on a 30 month post to study the
neural mechanisms underlying the observation and affective processing
of dance movements. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council and involves collaboration with Professor Dee Reynolds
at the University of Manchester and Dr. Matthew Reason of York St John
University who will be conducting related studies on audience reactions
to dance performance.? The assistant will conduct behavioral and brain
imaging (fMRI, TMS) experiments that investigate neural mechanisms of
action understanding and affective processing of dance.
?
Responsibilities will include liaising with project partners,
organizing video materials, and the design and analysis of behavioral
and brain imaging experiments.? Brain imaging experiments will take
place within the newly established Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
(CCNi) in the Department of Psychology.?
?
This post is available from 1 May 2008 and has funding for 30 months.
?
Informal enquiries may be made to Frank Pollick (+44 (0)141 330 3945:?
frank@psy.gla.ac.uk ).
?
For further details about the post please see our website at
http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies ?or contact Clare Alexander,
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ (+44 (0) 1414
330 5090, email c.alexander@psy.gla.ac.uk
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Applications should be submitted to Clare Alexander at the above
address.
Closing date: 26 March 2008.
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From M.J.vanSteensel at umcutrecht.nl Tue Mar 11 14:15:52 2008
From: M.J.vanSteensel at umcutrecht.nl (Steensel, M.J. van)
Date: Tue Mar 11 14:22:00 2008
Subject: [visionlist] International Symposium dedicated to Brain-Computer
Interfacing
Message-ID:
Dear Colleague,
Please take note of the following symposium on Brain-Computer
Interfacing.
Yours Sincerely,
The Organizing Committee of 'Brain-Computer Interfacing in 2008'
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'Brain-Computer Interfacing in 2008'
A Symposium on the cutting edge of Applied Neuroscience
Brain-Computer Interfacing is a young research arena where leading
experts from various fields converge to perform Applied Neuroscience on
the cutting edge. Where the goal is to develop Neuroprosthesis systems
for people who are paralyzed.
What is this? A two-day symposium on Brain-Computer
Interfacing
When and Where? Utrecht, Netherlands, July 3-4 in 2008
By Whom? RMI Utrecht and the BRAINGAIN Consortium
For Whom? Anyone interested in:
Human Brain Function
Interfacing with the human brain and
mind
Developing solutions for paralyzed
patients
What is special? 14 Speakers from US and EU
2 days of cutting edge science
Leading experts present their work
For more information, please visit
www.bci2008.nl
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From mqbsseg6 at manchester.ac.uk Wed Mar 12 15:14:26 2008
From: mqbsseg6 at manchester.ac.uk (Emma Gowen)
Date: Wed Mar 12 15:42:25 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Annual AVA meeting
Message-ID: <20080312151426.yzc581tve3wgw0go@webmail.manchester.ac.uk>
Please find details of the annual AVA meeting to be held in April at
The University of Manchester....
AVA annual meeting 2008 Tuesday 1st APRIL , in conjunction with The
University of Manchester?s Neuroscience Research Institute
VISUAL VARIATION AND BIAS
University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road
10.00 Registration and morning coffee (Foyer outside lecture theatre)
11.00 Session 1 (lecture theatre 2) Chair person: Marco Bertamini
On the Role of Fourier Spectra in the Separation of Transparent Motion
Components
Johannes M. Zanker & Andrew Meso (Royal Holloway University of London)
11.20
Subtracting Out Redundancy in 1-d and 2-d Image Signals: Illustrations
from Tilt After-effects and Contrast Matching
Langley, K.1 & Anderson, S.J2 (1 University College London, 2 Aston
University)
11.40
Detecting image symmetry using single linear filters
Lewis D Griffin (University College London)
12.00
Naso-temporal asymmetry for signals invisible to the retinotectal pathway
Sumner, Petroc1, Bompas, Aline1, Robert, Rafal2 (1 Cardiff University,
2 University of Wales)
12.20
Eye Movement Prediction in Visual Interactive Environments Considering
Physical Actions
Ali Borji (Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and
Mathematics, Tehran, Iran)
12.40 Lunch and posters (Foyer outside lecture theatre 2)
13.20 Business meeting (lecture theatre 2)
13.40 Session 2 (lecture theatre 2) Chair person: Emma Gowen
The Geoffrey Burton Memorial Lecture:
Dr. Kate Plaisted (University of Cambridge)
Magnocellular processing in autism
14.20
Implicit Memory of Visual Context is intact in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Anastasia Kourkoulou, John M Findlay, Susan R Leekam (University of Durham)
14.40
Is inhibition of return blind?
Geoff G. Cole1, Paul A. Skarratt2, & Gellatly, A. R. H3 (1 University
of Durham, 2 University of Hull, 3 Oxford Brookes University).
15.00
Inferring attentional capture by differences in search slopes.
Paul A. Skarratt, Geoff G. Cole, & Gellatly, A. R. H (University of Hull)
15.20 Coffee break and posters (Foyer outside lecture theatre 2)
15.40 Session 2 (lecture theatre 2) Chair person: Mark Scase
An ERP investigation of changes in facial expression.
Michael J Wright (Brunel University)
16.00
Contrasted pattern of brain activity in negative priming: a MEG study.
F. Boy, S. D. Muthukumaraswamy, K. D. Singh & P. Sumner (Cardiff University)
16.20
The role of convexity in the integration of ordinal and metric cues in depth
Marco Bertamini, Jasna Martinovic, Sophie Wuerger (University of Liverpool)
16.40
Perception of motion-in-depth using binocular cues: a fair comparison
of changing disparity and inter-ocular velocity differences
Julie M. Harris, Harold T. Nefs and Catherine E. Grafton (University
of St Andrews)
17.00 Wine and buffet reception and posters (Foyer outside lecture theatre 2)
Posters (in alphabetical order)
Active adaptation of colour perception across the visual field.
Aline Bompas and Petroc Sumner (School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK)
How does the frontal eye field (FEF) affect early visual processing?
Contrast discrimination in patients with FEF lesions
Ursula Budnik1, Robert Rafal2 and Petroc Sumner1 (1Cardiff University;
2 University of Wales, Bangor)
The Physiological Basis Of rTMS-Induced Speed Bias: Facilitation or
Suppression of Neural Processing?
Burton, M.P., McKeefry, D.J., Barrett, B.T. & Vakrou, C (University of
Bradford)
Comparison of the estimates of receptive field centre sizes of retinal
ganglion cells using the Hermann grid illusion and Westheimer functions.
Michael J.Cox and Jose B. Ares-Gomez (University of Bradford)
The movement of motion-defined contours can bias perceived position
Szonya Durant and Johannes M. Zanker (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Spatial frequency processing in the central visual field and
Task-dependent effects on perception of natural scenes in hemianopes
Isabelle Gaudry 1, 2, 3, Olivier Coubard 1, 2, C?line Cavezian 1, 2,
Carole Peyrin 1, C?line Perez 1, 2, 3, Micka?l Obadia 3, Olivier Gout
3, Sylvie Chokron 1, 2, 3
(1CNRS, Grenoble, France; 2 ERT TREAT VISION, Paris, France;3 Service
de Neurologie, Fondation Ophtalmologique Rothschild, Paris, France)
Multisensory processing in autism spectrum disorders
Lois Grayson1, Josie Briscoe2, Petroc Sumner1 & Alex O. Holcombe3 (1
Cardiff University; 2 Bristol University; 3 University of Sydney)
A case of developmental prosopagnosia: the role of experience in face
recognition
L.A. Hill and M.O. Scase (De Montfort University)
Low-contrast classification images and early nonlinearities.
W. McIlhagga (Bradford University)
Involuntary inhibition of movement initiation alters oculomotor
competition resolution
Eugene McSorley and Alice G. Cruickshank (University of Reading)
Distinct position assignment mechanisms revealed by cross-order motion
Andrea Pavan1 and George Mather2 (1University of Padua; 2 University
of Sussex)
Measuring the impact of ocular aberrations on contrast sensitivity;
the importance of orientation
Tahir HJ1, Pallikaris A2, Parry NRA3 and Murray IJ1 (1 The University
of Manchester; 2 Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, University of Crete)
Ipsilesional attentional deficits in left hemianopia
Celine Perez1, 2, 3, Olivier Coubard 1, 2,, Seta Kazandjian1,2,
Jacqueline Lain? 1, 2, Micka?l Obadia 3, Olivier Gout 3, Monte
Buchsbaum4, & Sylvie Chokron 1, 2, 3 (1 CNRS, Grenoble, France; 2 ERT
TREAT VISION, Paris, France;3 Fondation Ophtalmologique Rothschild,
Paris, France; 4 Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mount, Sinai Medical
Center, New York)
Model-free estimation of a threshold from a psychometric function
K. ?ychaluk and D.H. Foster (University of Manchester)
--
With kind regards
Emma
Dr Emma Gowen
Lecturer
Faculty of Life Sciences
Moffat Building
The University of Manchester
PO Box 88
Sackville Street
Manchester
M60 1QD
Tel: 0161 306 4548/4178
Fax: 0161 306 3887
emma.gowen@manchester.ac.uk
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/emma.gowen/
From Theodora.Tsikrika at cwi.nl Sun Mar 16 21:09:24 2008
From: Theodora.Tsikrika at cwi.nl (Theodora Tsikrika)
Date: Sun Mar 16 22:10:51 2008
Subject: [visionlist] New task at ImageCLEF 2008: retrieval of wikipedia
images
Message-ID: <55939.87.210.217.32.1205701764.squirrel@webmail.cwi.nl>
*** REGISTRATION NOW OPEN AT IMAGECLEF 2008 ***
*** Call for participation: wikipediaMM image retrieval 2008 ***
In 2008, ImageCLEF introduces a new ad hoc image retrieval task that
provides a testbed for the system-oriented evaluation of visual
information retrieval from a collection of Wikipedia images. The aim is to
investigate multimodal retrieval approaches in the context of a larger
scale and heterogeneous collection of images (similar to those encountered
on the Web) searched by users with diverse information needs.
This task is called wikipediaMM and will use the image collection created
and employed by the INEX Multimedia (MM) Track (2006-2007) that contains
approximately 150,000 images covering diverse topics of interest. These
images are associated with unstructured and noisy textual annotations in
English.
The main aim is to investigate:
* how well do the retrieval approaches cope with larger scale image
collections?
* how well do the retrieval approaches cope with noisy and unstructured
textual annotations?
* how well do the content-based retrieval approaches cope with images
that cover diverse topics and are of varying quality?
* how well can systems exploit and combine different modalities given a
user's multimedia information need? Can they outperform monomodal
approaches like query-by-text, query-by-concept or query-by-image?
If you are interested in participating in this task, read on and/or go to
the ImageCLEF web site and register.
http://www.imageclef.org/?q=ImageCLEF2008
http://www.imageclef.org/?q=2008/wikipedia
*** IMPORTANT CONDITION ***
The wikipediaMM task adopts the user model followed in INEX, whereby the
participants in the various tracks create (some of) the topics and perform
the relevance assessments themselves.
Therefore, participation in ImageCLEF's wikipediaMM task requires that
each participating group:
* creates topics
* performs the relevance assessments on the created topics
Note that only those who participate in the topic development and
assessment process will be granted access to the relevance assessments.
The schedule can be found here:
* 20.2.2008: registration opens for all CLEF tasks
* 15.3.2008: data release
* 17.3.2008: instructions and formatting criteria for candidate
topics/queries provided to participants
* 10.4.2008: submission deadline for candidate topics
* 16.4.2008: topic release
* 30.5.2008: submission of runs
* 4.6.2008: distribution of merged results to participants for
relevance assessments
* 7.7.2008: submission deadline for relevance assessments
* 15.7.2008: release of results
* 15.8.1008: submission of working notes papers
* 17.-19.9.2008: CLEF workshop in Aarhus, Denmark
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
Organisers
* Theodora Tsikrika, Database Architectures and Information Access Group,
CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Theodora.Tsikrika@cwi.nl
* Jana Kludas, Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory, University of
Geneva, Switzerland, Jana.Kludas@cui.unige.ch
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CWI, room C1.17 Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
Kruislaan 413 Email: Theodora.Tsikrika@cwi.nl
1098 SJ Amsterdam tel: +31-(0)20-5924319
The Netherlands fax: +31-(0)20-5924312
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From mariya at ego.psych.mcgill.ca Mon Mar 17 17:23:39 2008
From: mariya at ego.psych.mcgill.ca (Mariya V. Cherkasova)
Date: Mon Mar 17 17:26:14 2008
Subject: [visionlist] dizziness from making high-amplitude saccades?
Message-ID: <002901c88853$a6d8fa80$25099d8e@MYK>
I observed a strange side effect in my eye movement experiment. The
subject's task is to make horizontal saccades away from centrally presented
images. Those saccades tend to have fairly high amplitudes (about 15
degrees). After making about 100 of those saccades, 2 of my subjects (out
of 33) reported nausea and dizziness (to the point of blacking out). I am
trying to explain this to myself, and the only thing that seems plausible is
that for some reason a long succession of high amplitude saccades might have
resulted in something like that. Has anyone encountered anything like this
before? What might be the explanation for this?
Thanks!
Mariya V. Cherkasova
PhD Candidate
Department of Psychology
McGill University
1205 Dr. Penfield Ave,
Montreal, QC H3A 1B1
tel: 514-398-4916
fax: 514-398-4896
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From jocelyn.faubert at umontreal.ca Mon Mar 17 18:39:48 2008
From: jocelyn.faubert at umontreal.ca (Jocelyn Faubert)
Date: Mon Mar 17 18:52:44 2008
Subject: [visionlist] dizziness from making high-amplitude saccades?
In-Reply-To: <002901c88853$a6d8fa80$25099d8e@MYK>
Message-ID:
Hi Mariya,
Were your subjects wearing ophthalmic lenses? If so, depending on the
ametropia, base curve, experience etc. they may have suffered from side
effects driven by dynamic distortions, especially if their head remained
fixed while making eye movements...
Best
Jocelyn
Jocelyn Faubert
Professor & NSERC-Essilor Industrial Research Chair
Visual Psychophysics and Perception Laboratory
?cole d?optom?trie
Universit? de Montr?al
Phone: 514.343.7289
http://vision.opto.umontreal.ca
Le 17/03/08 13:23, ??Mariya V. Cherkasova?? a
?crit?:
> I observed a strange side effect in my eye movement experiment? The subject?s
> task is to make horizontal saccades away from centrally presented images.
> Those saccades tend to have fairly high amplitudes (about 15 degrees). After
> making about 100 of those saccades, 2 of my subjects (out of 33) reported
> nausea and dizziness (to the point of blacking out). I am trying to explain
> this to myself, and the only thing that seems plausible is that for some
> reason a long succession of high amplitude saccades might have resulted in
> something like that? Has anyone encountered anything like this before? What
> might be the explanation for this?
> Thanks!
>
> Mariya V. Cherkasova
> PhD Candidate
> Department of Psychology
> McGill University
> 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave,
> Montreal, QC H3A 1B1
> tel: 514-398-4916
> fax: 514-398-4896
>
>
>
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From epstein at psych.upenn.edu Mon Mar 17 20:26:03 2008
From: epstein at psych.upenn.edu (Russell Epstein)
Date: Mon Mar 17 21:24:09 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Research Assistant position at U Penn
Message-ID:
fMRI Research Assistant Position Available
A full-time research assistant position is available in Dr. Russell
Epstein's laboratory in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the
University of Pennsylvania. Our laboratory uses fMRI to investigate
the neural systems underlying visual scene recognition, spatial
cognition, and spatial memory. Duties will include assisting with the
design and preparation of experiments, recruiting subjects, analyzing
fMRI data, supervising undergraduates in the lab, and coordinating lab
activities. A BA/BS in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience or
other related scientific field required, as are strong computer
skills, prior research experience, and an ability to solve technical
problems independently. This would be an excellent position for a
graduating senior who wishes to hone their research skills before
continuing on to postgraduate study. A 2-year commitment with an
early summer start date is preferred. The Center for Cognitive
Neuroscience is a lively, collaborative, supportive intellectual
environment. Penn offers excellent employee benefits. For more
information about the lab, see
http://wernicke.ccn.upenn.edu/epstein_web/home.shtml.
If interested, please send resume and contact information for 2
references to Emily Ward at emward@facstaff.sas.upenn.edu.
From meinharg at uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 18 05:43:48 2008
From: meinharg at uni-mainz.de (Guenter Meinhardt)
Date: Tue Mar 18 09:47:31 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Research Assistant Position at Uni Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <47DFB904.9040501@uni-mainz.de>
Research Assistant Position at Uni Mainz, Germany
A research assistant position (50%, TVL13 equiv. Bat2a/2) is vacant
in the Psychophysics Lab of G. Meinhardt, Mainz, Germany.
In a 2 years project the temporal dynamics of contextual modulation
shall be explored with a series of psychophysical studies and modeling
according to an existing project outline. The project is apt for
postgraduate
study in order to reach a phd, and starts in may 2008. There are no
teaching duties.
Applicants should have a diploma or MSc in Cognitive Science, Physics,
Biology,
Psychology or ComputerScience, good technical expertise, programming
skills, and
the ability to solve technical problems independently.
Please sent common documents, an application letter
and contact information for 2 references to the address given below.
(email with pdfs preferred)
--
Prof. Dr. G. Meinhardt
Psychologisches Institut
Abteilung Methodenlehre & Statistik
Johannes Gutenberg Universit?t
Staudinger Weg 9
D-55099 Mainz
meinharg@uni-mainz.de
http://www.psych.uni-mainz.de/abteil/met/
Tel. 06131/39-22426
Fax. 06131/39-22480
mobil 0171-6424926
home 06131-4809545
From petkov at cs.rug.nl Tue Mar 18 05:36:32 2008
From: petkov at cs.rug.nl (Nicolai Petkov)
Date: Tue Mar 18 09:47:39 2008
Subject: [visionlist] full-scholarship PhD student position in image
processing / computer vision / pattern recognition
Message-ID: <000301c888f4$b2a0f5b0$af337d81@iwi175>
A full-scholarship PhD student position in Computer Science at a leading
European research university.
PhD student position in image processing / computer vision / pattern
recognition
Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science
University of Groningen
Topic of research
One of the following topics will be chosen according to the skills and
preferences of the successful candidate:
1) Development of a content based image retrieval system for remote
diagnosis (via internet) in dermatology in cooperation with the academic
hospital.
2) Use of computer vision techniques for domotics applications (of
computers in and around the home).
3) Development of image and video processing methods for producing
artistic effects.
4) Development of an object recognition method that is motivated by the
function of the visual cortex. Major aspects are representation and
learning.
Type and level of the position
This is a temporary research position at the level of a PhD student for
a period of maximum four years. The tuition fees will be waived and the
student will receive a full scholarship according to the university
regulations. In this period the student will follow relevant courses and
prepare and defend a PhD thesis. The position is embedded in the
research group Intelligent Systems. The tradition of the group is that
PhD theses are based on excellent papers in high imact journals so that
our PhD graduates have a very strong competative position on the
academic market. Thesis director and supervisor will be professor N.
Petkov.
Our requirements on your qualifications
You are a university graduate (at the level of diploma or master of
science level) in one of the following disciplines: computer science,
artificial intelligence, electrical engineering, biophysics,
computational neuroscience, physics. You have an excellent academic
record (GPA) and belong to the top 5% of the graduates of your year and
preferrably have a graduation with a distinction such as first class
honors or cum laude. You are fluent in English language and able to
write scientific articles and reports (to be proven by your graduation
thesis or another comparable report or co-authorship of published
scientific articles).
How to apply
Send the following information:
1) an application letter with a CV,
2) a specification of grade point average (GPA) and transcript of
records,
3) an indication of your rank in the class and year (e.g. 1st in a
class of 20),
4) evidence of excellence (e.g. graduation with honors) and a list of
relevant awards,
5) proofs of involvement in research (e.g. co-authorship of scientific
articles),
6) a description of your ideas for research in one of the specified
areas,
7) names and email addresses of three scientists (typically your former
professors) who can give a reference for you.
Send this information to prof. N. Petkov (petkov at cs dot rug dot nl).
Applicants will be asked to do a short assignment in order to
demonstrate their research abilities. The position will be open until a
suitable candidate is found.
From john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk Thu Mar 20 09:10:24 2008
From: john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk (John M. Henderson)
Date: Thu Mar 20 10:16:28 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doctoral Fellowships, ERP Research,
The University of Edinburgh
Message-ID: <20080320161024.h0b9px0oysckgw88@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
Post-Doctoral Fellowships, ERP Research, The University of Edinburgh.
Two post-doctoral positions are available in Psychology at The
University of Edinburgh related to a new ERP initiative.
The first post is for a Research Associate with technical expertise in
ERPs. Area of research is open but we are particularly interested in
candidates who match one or more of Edinburgh Psychology's strengths
in visual cognition and psycholinguistics.
The second post is for a Teaching Fellow associated with a new
three-year ESRC grant on attention and eye movements in scene
perception. The successful applicant will cover undergraduate teaching
in visual cognition broadly defined and will have particular expertise
in ERPs. The Fellow will have access to and be encouraged to use the
new ERP Lab.
This initiative is associated with Edinburgh University's
consolidation of the cognitive sciences in the central George Square
campus with completion of two new attached buildings housing the
School of Informatics (including computational neuroscience,
computational vision, and computational linguistics) and the majority
of the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences. The
Psychology Department and the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems
occupy immediately adjacent buildings. The ERP Lab will be housed in
custom space in this new build.
Both posts are expected to be available beginning September 2008 and
are for an initial period of one year with potential extension
contingent on future funding. Formal advertisement will be
forthcoming, and in the meantime potential candidates are strongly
encouraged to contact Prof John M. Henderson
(john.m.henderson@ed.ac.uk) or Prof Fernanda Ferreira
(fernanda.ferreira@ed.ac.uk) to express initial interest.
--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
From a.seiffert at vanderbilt.edu Fri Mar 21 12:22:05 2008
From: a.seiffert at vanderbilt.edu (Adriane Seiffert)
Date: Fri Mar 21 13:25:02 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Open: Full-time Research Assistant Position
Message-ID: <5C22FD62-B25A-4ACC-A4A2-55572249172A@vanderbilt.edu>
FULL TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION:
Applications are invited for a full-time Research Analyst position
available in the Perception, Attention and Control lab (PAC lab, http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/seiffert/)
at Vanderbilt University Psychological Sciences (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/
). Research in the lab aims to understand how visual attention
interacts with motion perception and visuo-motor systems to track
objects. We test healthy young adults following objects amidst
distraction to determine how the brain calculates and tracks the
motion of attended targets. The methods include human psychophysics,
cognitive experiments, and human neuroimaging (fMRI). Training on any
or all of these techniques will be offered. Responsibilities include
helping to design experiments, screening and scheduling participants,
collecting data, preparing, analyzing and archiving data, as well as
writing research reports. The successful candidate should be able to
work independently as well as function as a part of a multi-
disciplined team. Organizational skills are important. The position
requires a Bachelor?s degree. A background in psychology,
neuroscience or vision science is preferred. New college graduates
who are looking to spend a year or more gaining valuable research
experience before going on to graduate or medical school are
especially encouraged to apply. Employee benefits are included as for
all full-time staff appointments. Starting date for the position is
summer 2008 (flexible). A one-year commitment is required with,
subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation period for new
appointees, a possibility of reappointment for an additional year.
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Please send resume and contact information for 3 references to:
a.seiffert@vanderbilt.edu
Or mail to:
Prof. Adriane Seiffert
Psychology Dept. Vanderbilt Univ.
111 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203
From fcap at fordham.edu Fri Mar 21 20:30:23 2008
From: fcap at fordham.edu (fcap@fordham.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 21 21:25:34 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for Proposals Deadline 4/1 - Fordham U.
Psychometrics Conference in NY
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From ale at sissa.it Sun Mar 23 01:50:42 2008
From: ale at sissa.it (Alessandro Treves)
Date: Sun Mar 23 08:27:44 2008
Subject: [visionlist] SISSA Spring faculty search
Message-ID: <1250.82.61.20.42.1206262242.squirrel@webmail.sissa.it>
The Cognitive Neuroscience Sector at SISSA seeks to recruit independent
group leaders.
The 3-year Plan approved by SISSA last Fall includes strengthening
cognitive neuroscience research and identifies as priorities:
- Behavioural Neuroscience, investigated through electrophysiology in
awake animals
- Cognitive Development and/or Learning
- Functional Imaging, in connection with the new fMRI-sharing agreement in
Udine
- Language and/or Higher Cognitive Function
The Sector aims to identify up to 3 suitable candidates already this
Spring, although the appointments and so the establishment of new research
groups may be scattered over the period 2008-10. The Sector is
particularly interested in reaching candidates with no previous history of
collaboration with SISSA. If selected, they will be offered positions at a
level commensurate with their qualifications, in the expectation that
within 5 years they will succeed in obtaining tenure as Associate or Full
Professors. Candidates with whose work SISSA is familiar may be offered ad
hoc arrangements if selected, but they will first be assessed together
with the others.
SISSA is one of the three purely postgraduate and postdoctoral
institutions within the Italian university system. It operates in English
and the Sector is keen to enhance its international character and its
intellectual diversity. The Sector currently has 23 PhD students supported
on SISSA fellowships, almost half of whom are not Italians. Postdocs,
however, are normally supported by individual research funding. Faculty
members are required to teach limited PhD mini-courses, and to
individually supervise the research of students in their groups. Current
faculty members are Mathew Diamond, Jacques Mehler, Raffaella Rumiati, Tim
Shallice and Alessandro Treves, with visiting professors Evan Balaban,
Luca Bonatti and Marina Nespor. Further information about the Sector can
be found on the webpage http://www.sissa.it/cns/
Those interested should write to Alessandro Treves,
alessandrotreves@gmail.com, before April 30th, 2008, attaching their
curriculum vitae. Receipt of CVs will be acknowledged weekly.
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From mlcalvo at fis.ucm.es Sun Mar 23 09:33:22 2008
From: mlcalvo at fis.ucm.es (MARIA LUISA CALVO PADILLA)
Date: Sun Mar 23 10:27:28 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Call for papers, ICO, St. Petersburg, 15-18 Sept 2008
Message-ID:
Dear Colleague
Please consider submitting a paper to:
The Topical Meeting in Optoinformatics, 2008, an ICO sponsored international conference, planned for
September 15-18, 2008, St.Petersburg, Russia
http://ysa.ifmo.ru/tmo2008/sessions.php
We would also appreciate informing your colleagues about this meeting.
Abstracts (200 words) deadline: March 31, 2008
Session "Bio-Optics, Bio-Photonics, High Resolution Imaging,
Vision and Photo-receptors"
Chairs: Adrian Podoleanu (University of Kent, UK); Richard
B. Rosen (New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, USA)
Topics:
Optical Coherence Tomography
Ocular Wavefront Aberrometry, Adaptive Optics, Photoreceptors,
Processing and Modeling of Visual Information
Flying Spot Scanning Laser in Ophthalmoscopy and Microscopy
Multi-photon Microscopy, Multidimensional Microscopy and Super-
resolution Photons, Ultrasound and Biomedical Vibration Spectroscopy in
Sensing and Imaging Optical Manipulation of Cells and Biomolecules
Mechanisms of Photo toxicity and Damage Assessment Optics of the Tissue
Low Level Laser Therapy Polarization Measurements and Imaging of Tissue
Optics for Tumor Detection, Visualization and Treatment,
Systems for Photodynamic Therapy
Laser Welding of Tissue
Optical Devices for Bio-Photonics Instrumentation and Bio-
Sensors, Nano Bio-Photonics
Invited speakers: Prof. Susana Marcos (Instituto de Optica in
Madrid, Spain); Prof. David Sampson, University of Western
Australia, Australia);
Prof. Maria L. Calvo
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ICO General Secretariat
*******************************************
Prof. Maria L. Calvo
Head
Departamento de ?ptica
Facultad de Ciencias F?sicas
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
28040 Madrid, Spain
e-mail: mlcalvo@fis.ucm.es
Phone: 34 91 3944684
Fax: 34 91 3944683
http://www.ico-optics.org
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From announcements at journalofvision.org Tue Mar 25 21:47:10 2008
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Tue Mar 25 21:49:11 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Journal of Vision Merchandise
Message-ID: <47BD85AE76C24348BC56181CB7C33C3B@jov>
With the approach of ARVO, VSS, and ECVP, vision scientists will confront the perennial question: what to wear? How about a t-shirt emblazoned with your own JOV icon and citation? A fashion statement, a scientific communication, and a practical garment, all in one. For details, visit
http://journalofvision.org/merchandise/
From jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk Wed Mar 26 05:45:36 2008
From: jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk (James A. Bednar)
Date: Wed Mar 26 06:34:30 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD studentships in Neuroinformatics and Computational
Neuroscience, Edinburgh
Message-ID: <18410.17776.900085.638637@lodestar.inf.ed.ac.uk>
UPDATE: Application deadline extended to 15 April 2008!
PhD studentships in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience,
Edinburgh
We invite applications for 12 fully-funded PhD studentships at the
University of Edinburgh Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in
Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. The DTC is a
world-class centre for research at the interface between neuroscience
and the engineering and physical sciences.
Our four-year programme is ideal for students with strong
computational and analytical skills who want to work on problems in
neuroscience and related fields. The first year consists of courses
in neuroscience and informatics, as well as lab projects. This is
followed by a three-year PhD project done in collaboration with one of
the many departments and institutes affiliated with the DTC.
The DTC focuses on research into understanding the brain and the
nervous system using computational models and experiments, and also
includes applying findings from neuroscience to build better software
and hardware (robots and microcircuits), and using advanced methods to
improve data handling and analysis including clinical diagnosis. PhD
topics fall into five main areas:
* Computational neuroscience: Using analytical and computational
models, potentially supplemented with experiments, to gain
quantitative understanding of the nervous system. Current projects
focus on the development and function of sensory and motor systems,
including neural coding, learning, and memory.
* Cognitive science: Studying human cognitive processes and analysing
them in computational terms.
* Biomedical imaging algorithms and tools: Using advanced data
analysis techniques, such as machine learning and Bayesian
approaches, for imaging-based diagnosis and research.
* Software systems and applications: Using discoveries from
neuroscience to develop intelligent computer interfaces and software
that can handle real-life data.
* Neurorobotics and VLSI: Using insights from neuroscience to help
build better hardware, such as neuromorphic VLSI circuits and robots
that perform robustly under natural conditions.
Edinburgh has a world-class research community in these areas and
leads the UK in creating a coherent programme in neuroinformatics and
computational neuroscience. Edinburgh has been voted 'best place to
live in Britain', and has many exciting cultural and student
activities.
Students with a strong background in computer science, mathematics,
physics, or engineering are particularly welcome to apply. Motivated
students with other backgrounds will also be considered.
Up to 12 full studentships (?12,600-?14,000 pa) are available to UK
students and a small number of EU students. Non-EU/non-UK applicants
will need to provide their own funding and evidence thereof.
Further information and application forms can be obtained from:
http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/dtc
The application deadline is 15 April 2008 for entry September 2008.
From DawnM at usca.edu Wed Mar 26 10:05:33 2008
From: DawnM at usca.edu (Dawn Morales)
Date: Wed Mar 26 10:10:53 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Instructor position
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From duje at cvs.rochester.edu Wed Mar 26 09:07:17 2008
From: duje at cvs.rochester.edu (Duje Tadin)
Date: Wed Mar 26 10:11:13 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 26th Symposium of the Center for Visual Science,
University of Rochester
Message-ID: <3A1A3F39-7116-4FA4-A2E4-EB4A3A2BAE2E@cvs.rochester.edu>
Dear colleagues:
We are pleased to re-announce the 26th Center for Visual Science
Symposium, titled
"Blurring the Borders Between Vision, Cognition and Action"
to be held on May 29-31, 2008 at the University of Rochester, co-
sponsored by NSF and ONR.
NSF-sponsored travel fellowships are available for graduate students
and postdoctoral fellows. The travel fellowships will cover the
registration fee and up to $600 towards round-trip airfare. Abstract
submission is not required for the travel fellowships.
Fellowship application deadline: April 10th
Abstract submission deadline: April 20th
Additional information, electronic registration and abstract
submission is available on-line:
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symp_2008.html
The symposium poster is available for download at:
http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/symposium2008.pdf
Invited speakers:
John Assad - Harvard Medical School
Helen Barbas - Boston University
Randolph Blake - Vanderbilt University
David Burr - Universit? di Firenze, Italy
Marisa Carrasco - New York University
Patrick Cavanagh - Harvard University & University of Paris, France
Leonardo Chelazzi - University of Verona, Italy
Carol Colby - University of Pittsburgh
Charles Gilbert - The Rockefeller University
Tirin Moore - Stanford University
Andreas Nieder - University of Tuebingen, Germany
Carl Olson - Carnegie Mellon University
Tatiana Pasternak - University of Rochester
Emilio Salinas - Wake Forest University
Shinsuke Shimojo - California Institute of Technology
Wendy Suzuki - New York University
Simon Thorpe - CNRS, France
Frank Tong - Vanderbilt University
Stefan Treue - University of G?ttingen, Germany
Leslie Ungerleider - NIMH
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University of Rochester
Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences / Center for Visual Science
http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/duje/home.html
Office: 585.275.8682 Fax: 585.271.3043 Lab: 585.275.7259
Email: duje@cvs.rochester.edu
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From A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk Thu Mar 27 06:35:12 2008
From: A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk (Andrew Schofield)
Date: Thu Mar 27 06:47:18 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD opertunities. Birmingmam UK
Message-ID: <47EBA290.13434.105F3B1@A.J.Schofield.Bham.ac.uk>
PhD in Psychology: Visual Perception.
In addition to the 10 studentships detailed below I have an EPSRC
funded place to study shape-from-shading in humans (Covers UK/EU
fees + 12600 GBP stipend). Anyone interested in this specific
opertunity should contact me as soon as possible (preferably by 7th
April) by sending an email to a.j.schofield@bham.ac.uk to express an
interest.
Anyone interested in other aspects of visual perception should
respond to Parveen Chahal as detailed below to be considered for one
of our ten competitive studentships.
University of Birmingham, School of Psychology:
10 PhD Studentships available for October 2008
The School of Psychology seeks excellent applicants for up to 10
University and Research Council funded research studentships for
students wishing to start a research degree in October.
These studentships are available in any of the areas covered by the
School of Psychology?s three major subject groupings:
(i) Behavioural Neuroscience
(neuroimaging, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology, cognitive
neurophysiology)
(ii) Developmental, Social and Applied Psychology
(developmental psychology, forensic, clinical, social cognition)
(iii) Language, Cognition and Perception.
(visual perception, reading, speech and gesture production)
Further details on the research groupings can be found here:
http://www.psychology.bham.ac.uk/research
More detailed descriptions of the research interests of our staff can be
found here:
http://psychology-people.bham.ac.uk/people-pages/staff.php
The studentships pay the tuition fee and a maintenance allowance
currently ?12,600 per annum. Home and international students are
eligible to be considered for these studentships.Tuition fees for non-
EU overseas applicants will be paid at the home tuition fee rate.
Applications and further details can be obtained from:
Mrs Parveen Chahal, Course Administrator
Telephone: 0121 414 4906
Email: p.k.chahal@bham.ac.uk
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* Dr Andrew Schofield
* School of Psychology
* University of Birmingham
* Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
* +44 (0)121 414 5644
From opam.info at gmail.com Thu Mar 27 08:44:57 2008
From: opam.info at gmail.com (OPAM info)
Date: Thu Mar 27 10:05:57 2008
Subject: [visionlist] OPAM 2008 first call for papers
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID:
*********************************** OPAM 2008 ******************************
15th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory
November 13, Chicago, IL
Chicago Hilton hotel
Keynote speaker: Dr. Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham
********************************************************************************
Online submissions for this year's OPAM are now being accepted. The meeting
will take place on November 13th in Chicago, immediately before Psychonomics
and at the same hotel. We are pleased to announce that Glyn Humphreys will
deliver the keynote address.
*July 1, 2008*, is the deadline for receipt of completed submissions. If you
wish to submit an abstract you can do so already through the on-line
submission form at http://www.opam.net/opam2008/submissions.php.
General information about OPAM, the submission process and review procedure
can be found at http://www.opam.net
*About OPAM: *The OPAM conference is dedicated to issues in object
perception, attention, and memory, as well as other areas of visual
cognition. It takes place each year on the first day of the meeting of the
Psychonomic Society. OPAM is intended as a forum primarily for scientists
early in their careers, such as graduate students or post-docs, and it
represents an excellent opportunity to present one's work to a large
audience mainly drawn from the Psychonomics community. Research may be
presented as either a talk or a poster. We strongly encourage submissions
from researchers who do not yet have the opportunity to present at
Psychonomics. The conference embraces diversity of approaches, including
psychophysics, developmental psychology, neuroscience, etc. Conference
proceedings are published in Visual Cognition.
*Donations: *With the help of our sponsors we are working hard to try to
bring another year of free registration. If you or your organization would
like to help support OPAM please consider making a contribution. We accept
donations via various methods. Please visit our website www.opam.net or
contact one of the organizers about how to make a contribution.
The OPAM organizers:
Artem Belopolsky, Joseph Brooks, Kim Curby, and Sarah Shomstein
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contact: opam.info@gmail.com
website: www.opam.net
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From ritier at rotman-baycrest.on.ca Thu Mar 27 08:36:22 2008
From: ritier at rotman-baycrest.on.ca (Roxane Itier)
Date: Thu Mar 27 10:06:16 2008
Subject: [visionlist] children's face stimuli
Message-ID: <47EBBEF6.4060008@rotman-baycrest.on.ca>
hello,
would anyone have children's face photographs available as stimuli for
studies?
I am looking for any age and with gaze averted or straight (with face in
front view or turned).
Thanks in advance!
Roxane
--
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Dr. Roxane J. Itier, Ph.D.
Research Associate
The Rotman Research Institute
Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care
3560 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario
M6A 2E1, Canada
phone: (416) 785-2500 ext. 3812
Fax: (416) 785-2862
e-mail: ritier@rotman-baycrest.on.ca
web page: http://www.rotman-baycrest.on.ca/profile/Itier
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From dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Thu Mar 27 15:01:49 2008
From: dayan at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (Peter Dayan)
Date: Thu Mar 27 15:03:15 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Gatsby Postdoc Training Fellowships
In-Reply-To: <20070708230220.GA2602@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
References: <20061013122857.GA10331@flies.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
<20070708230220.GA2602@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <20080327220149.GA13656@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
Postdoctoral Training Fellowships - Theoretical Neuroscience
The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications for
postdoctoral training fellowships in theoretical neuroscience and
related areas.
The Gatsby Unit is a centre for theoretical neuroscience and machine
learning, focusing on the interpretation of neural data, population
coding, perceptual processing, neural dynamics, neuromodulation, and
learning. The Unit also has significant interests across a range of
areas in machine learning.
For further details of our research please see:
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html
The Unit provides a unique environment in which a critical mass of
theoreticians interact closely with each other and with other
world-class research groups in related departments at UCL, including
Anatomy, Computer Science, Functional Imaging, Physics, Physiology,
Psychology, Neurology, Ophthalmology, and Statistics, and the
cross-faculty Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning.
The Unit's visitor and seminar programmes enable staff and students to
engage with leading researchers from across the world.
Candidates must have a strong analytical background and demonstrable
interest and expertise in theoretical neuroscience.
Salaries are competitive, based on experience and achievement. Funding
for the positions is available for an initial period of between one and
two years.
Applicants should send in pdf, plain text or Word format a CV, a
statement of research interests, and the names and full contact details
(including e-mail addresses) of three referees to:
asstadmin@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk
Applicants are directed to further particulars about the positions
available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies
The closing date for applications is 27 April 2008.
From F.A.J.Verstraten at uu.nl Fri Mar 28 01:39:43 2008
From: F.A.J.Verstraten at uu.nl (Frans Verstraten)
Date: Fri Mar 28 07:05:46 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2008 Utrecht: 31 March deadline
Message-ID:
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Announcement: Deadline now really approaching 31 March 2008
31st
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON VISUAL PERCEPTION
ECVP 2008
AUGUST 24-28, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.ecvp2008.org
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The European Conference on Visual Perception is an annual meeting devoted to
scientific study of human visual perception. ECVP has been held each year
since 1978, and attracts a wide variety of participants. You are welcome to
Utrecht, city of vision science.
SOME IMPORTANT NOTES
1. For the (traditional) CONFERENCE BANQUET
We will have 400 seats. First come (registered),
first served basis. cost: 45 Euro's.
2. The best located HOTELS are filling fast and keep in mind that the Friday
after the conference the Utrecht Old Music Festival will start. This
festival attracts many many foreigners who are also looking for hotelrooms.
3. Due to some rules beyond our control, only mastercard and Visa can be
accepted for payment. If you don't have one, try to sort things out with
your friends/colleagues etc.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline submission of abstracts: March 31, 2008. (extra day).
NEWS:
The PERCEPTION Lecture: Professor Ian Howard (York University).
The RANK Lecture: Professor Jan Koenderink (Utrecht University).
Special lecture: Rembrandt's home made perception theories by Professor
Ernst van de Wetering, Emeritus Professor Art History
University of Amsterdam and Director Rembrandt Research Project. He is an
international expert on Rembrandt and if he thinks it is a real Rembrandt...
it probably is!
PROGRAM
There will be two parallel sessions for paper presentations, poster
sessions, and 4 special symposia on Crowding (with a presentation of THE
Bouma, Synesthesia, Perceptual Instability & Visual Consciousness, and
Marburg 30+ (30 years progress on topics presented at the first ECVP
meeting)
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
See website www.ecvp2008.org
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted contributions will be published in the journal Perception
http://www.perceptionweb.com/. Note that, in order to reduce the cost of
publishing, special attention will be given to lay-out and language. 'Bat
Engwish' can be a reason for rejection.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
go to http://www.ecvp.org
We hope to see you in Utrecht
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Frans Verstraten, coordinator.
From ginis at ivo.gr Fri Mar 28 12:18:32 2008
From: ginis at ivo.gr (Harilaos Ginis)
Date: Fri Mar 28 12:35:56 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 4th European Meeting in Visual & Physiological Optics:
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION deadline extension
Message-ID:
4th European Meeting in Visual & Physiological Optics
August 31 ? September 2, 2008, Heraklion, Greece
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE is extended until APRIL 14 2008.
The Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO) at University of Crete,
Greece, is pleased to announce the organisation of the 4th European
Meeting in Visual & Physiological Optics. The meeting plans to build
upon the very successful predecessors in Wroclaw (1999), Granada
(2003) and most recently London (2005). Many aspects of Physiological
and Visual Optics, including basic research, instrumentation and
clinical studies will be covered with an emphasis on:
- Refraction and ocular aberrations,
- Retinal image quality,
- Scattering in the eye,
- Crystalline lens and accommodation,
- Adaptive optics in vision research and ophthalmic imaging,
- Advances in spectacle, contact lens and intraocular lens design.
For more information visit: www.ivo.gr/4empo
Online registration is now open: http://www.ivo.gr/4empo/
registration.html
Online abstract submission : http://www.ivo.gr/4empo/abstracts.html
(The form supports only UTF-8 characters. For mathematical symbols
and special characters please contact the organisers to arrange
submission via email)
4th EMPO is associated with the 7th Aegean sumer School in Visual
Optics (August 28-30): http://www.ivo.gr/summerschool/
_____________________________________
Harilaos Ginis, PhD
Institute of Vision and Optics
University of Crete, Greece
TEL: +302810394807
FAX: +302810394653
www.ivo.gr
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From yshelepin at yandex.ru Sun Mar 30 05:52:18 2008
From: yshelepin at yandex.ru (yshelepin)
Date: Sun Mar 30 09:43:34 2008
Subject: [visionlist] iop2008
Message-ID: <1204131206881538@webmail24.yandex.ru>
Dear Colleagues!
The coming XIV World Congress of Psychophysiology ?Olympics of the Brain? will take place 8-13.09.2008 in St-Petersburg (Russia).
XIV World Congress of Psychophysiology ?Olympics of the Brain? is the official congress of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (I.O.P.) associated with the United Nations.
Please note that deadline for submission abstracts was postponed to 15 April 2008.
Please find the detailed information about the Congress on the official website:
http://www.world-psychophysiology.org/iop2008/index.htm
The symposium ?Psychophysiology of vision? (Chair ? Yuri Shelepin) will be provide.
The online registration form and all information about registration and abstracts are available here:
http://www.onlinereg.ru/congress2008
Please note for the symposium
?Psychophysiology of vision? (Chair ? Yuri Shelepin)
Julia Khomenko,
Secretary of the Local Organizing Committee
Of the 14th World Congress of Psychophysiology
"The Olympics of the Brain" (8-13 September, 2008)
iop2008@ihb.spb.ru
iop2008@rambler.ru
--
Professor Yuri Shelepin
Head of Vision Physiology Department
I.P.Pavlov Institute of Physiology
Russian Academy of Sciences
St-Petersburg,199034, Russia
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From sarah.creem at psych.utah.edu Sun Mar 30 21:28:13 2008
From: sarah.creem at psych.utah.edu (Sarah Creem-Regehr)
Date: Mon Mar 31 07:13:39 2008
Subject: [visionlist] APGV 08 call for papers
Message-ID: <47F0685D.6090405@psych.utah.edu>
The online submission is now open on the APGV 08 website.
http://www.apgv.org/Submission.html
The deadlines are soon approaching:
April 3, 2008, Obligatory abstract submission deadline
April 7, 2008, Paper submission deadline
May 12, 2008, Poster submission deadline
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APGV 08: FIFTH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND
VISUALIZATION
Co-located with ACM Siggraph in Los Angeles, USA
9th - 10th August, 2008
http://www.apgv.org
THIRD CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Research in computer graphics and visualization has great potential to
benefit from, and contribute to, research in perception. Since 2004,
this symposium has brought together researchers from the fields of
perception, graphics, and visualization, to facilitate a wider
exchange of ideas.
Submissions are invited in the broad range of areas at the
intersection of computer graphics, visualization, and perception to
fulfill two goals of this multidisciplinary community.
Goal 1. Use insights from perception to advance the design of methods
for visual, auditory and haptic representation. Specific examples
include, but are not limited to:
* applications of insights from perception to the development of
algorithms for more efficient, effective or realistic modeling,
rendering and/or animation
* applications of perception in the design and evaluation of methods
for more effective representation and communication of data
* computational aesthetics, stylization and perceptual aspects of
non-photorealistic rendering
* perceptual issues arising due to fusion of digital imaging, computer
vision, and computer graphics techniques
* perception-inspired interfaces for immersive activities in virtual
worlds
Goal 2. Advance and facilitate novel basic perception and cognition
research that uses and is relevant to applications in computer
graphics and visualization. Here specific examples include, but are
not limited to:
* perception and visuomotor control in computer games, virtual and
augmented environments
* fundamental contributions in spatial and temporal vision
* integration of empirical perception research with computational
models
* color vision and color appearance modeling
* the influence of attention and eye movements on visual perception
and visual memory
* statistical learning and perception of natural scenes
* perception of shapes, surfaces and materials
* visual illusions and perceptual organization having potential to
enhance image depiction
Proceedings, which will include the poster abstracts, will be
published by ACM SIGGRAPH. Best papers from the symposium will be
invited to be extended for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on
Applied Perception.
http://www.acm.org/tap/
By co-locating APGV 08 with the thirty-fifth annual SIGGRAPH
Conference (SIGGRAPH 08), we aim to further promote communication
between the core perception and the core computer graphics
communities, and also bring APGV back to the United States.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University
Betty Mohler, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Sarah Creem-Regehr, University of Utah
Karol Myszkowski, MPI Informatik
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission: Monday, April 7, 2008
Poster Submission: Monday, May 12, 2008
Symposium: Saturday, August 9, 2008 - Sunday, August 10, 2008
From alexwade at gmail.com Mon Mar 31 15:54:52 2008
From: alexwade at gmail.com (Alex Wade)
Date: Mon Mar 31 16:17:22 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc advert
Message-ID: <76eaaa9a0803311554w18991952o2ec232d7e6d3a981@mail.gmail.com>
Postdoc in Visual Neuroscience - San Francisco
Applications are invited for an NIH and NSF-funded postdoctoral
fellowship starting immediately in the laboratory of Alex Wade at the
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. Our
laboratory uses state-of-the-art equipment at both Smith-Kettlewell
and UCSF to study the spatiotemporal cortical dynamics of early visual
processing using a combination of fMRI, source-imaged EEG and
psychophysics. We are particularly excited by color vision.
Applicants are expected to have a strong background in vision science
and excellent scientific programming skills. A background in human
neuroimaging is an advantage but motivated candidates with other
skill-sets are encouraged to apply.
Smith-Kettlewell (www.ski.org) offers an outstanding, collaborative
research environment with a large group of interdisciplinary
investigators sharing the common goal of understanding vision. It is
located in San Francisco: a dynamic, cosmopolitan city famous for its
warm summer weather and low cost of living.
For further details contact
Dr Alex Wade
wade@ski.org
http://www.wadelab.net
--
A.R. Wade Ph.D.
Associate Scientist
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
2318 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
tel. 415 345 2083
fax. 309 416 6533
From mr287 at georgetown.edu Mon Mar 31 13:47:46 2008
From: mr287 at georgetown.edu (Maximilian Riesenhuber)
Date: Mon Mar 31 16:17:32 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position: EEG of fast visual recognition
Message-ID: <47F14DF2.1050607@georgetown.edu>
Postdoctoral Position: EEG of fast visual recognition
Riesenhuber Lab
Department of Neuroscience
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
We have an opening for a postdoctoral fellow, starting immediately, to
participate in a research project studying the neural mechanisms
underlying "fast" object recognition using high-density EEG, focusing on
attentional requirements and interference between recognition tasks
(e.g., under dual-task conditions), as part of a larger collaborative
project aiming to develop a real-time neurally-based target detection
system combining machine and biological vision.
A strong quantitative background and experience in neural data analysis
are required. Experience with EEG and psychophysics is a strong plus, as
is training in biological and/or machine vision. Experience with Mac OS
X, MATLAB, and C++ preferred.
Our lab investigates the computational mechanisms underlying human
object recognition as a gateway to understanding information processing
and learning in cortex. In our work, we combine computational modeling
with psychophysical, fMRI and most recently EEG data from our own lab
and collaborators, as well as with single unit data obtained in
collaboration with physiology labs. For more information, see
http://maxlab.neuro.georgetown.edu.
The position is for one year, with the option to renew for two
additional years, given satisfactory performance and available funding.
Salary is competitive. Candidates should be US citizens or permanent
residents.
Interested candidates should send a CV, a brief (1 page) statement of
research interests, representative reprints, and the names and contact
information of three references by email to Maximilian Riesenhuber
(mr287@georgetown.edu). Review of applications will begin immediately,
and will continue until the position is filled. Informal inquiries are
welcome.
**********************************************************************
Maximilian Riesenhuber phone: 202-687-9198
Department of Neuroscience fax: 202-784-3562
Georgetown University Medical Center email: mr287@georgetown.edu
Research Building Room WP-12
3970 Reservoir Rd., NW
Washington, DC 20007 http://maxlab.neuro.georgetown.edu
**********************************************************************
From frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu Tue Apr 1 08:08:29 2008
From: frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu (Frank Tong)
Date: Tue Apr 1 10:35:05 2008
Subject: [visionlist] http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/tonglab/
Message-ID: <5ECEADDD-9409-4EC5-8CE5-8EDD1C8CB411@vanderbilt.edu>
A postdoctoral position to conduct fMRI studies of visual perception
and/or object recognition is available in Dr. Frank Tong?s lab in the
Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tong?s lab has
developed neural decoding/pattern classification methods to
investigate the neural representations of basic visual features and
complex objects in the human visual cortex. This project will
investigate the functional properties of these visual representations
and their role in perception, attentional selection, and awareness.
Facilities include 3T and 7T research-dedicated MRI scanners, TMS with
MRI-guided stereotactic system, and extensive equipment for fMRI
analysis and visual psychophysics.
Candidates should have a strong research background in visual
perception or object recognition. Candidates must have a PhD or MD and
extensive research experience in at least one of the following areas:
visual psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience, computational methods,
and/or functional MRI. Strong programming skills are essential;
expertise in computational methods, including multivariate statistics,
machine learning, computer vision, modeling, and/or signal processing,
is highly preferred.
Applicants should send their CV, research statement and names of three
references to: frank.tong@vanderbilt.edu. Salary and rank will be
commensurate with experience. Start date is flexible.
More information about the lab can be found at:
http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/tonglab/
Vanderbilt University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer.
From john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk Wed Apr 2 02:41:01 2008
From: john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk (John M. Henderson)
Date: Wed Apr 2 06:41:04 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position: Active Viewing of Dynamic Scenes
Message-ID: <47F354AD.9090000@ed.ac.uk>
Postdoctoral Position: Active Viewing of Dynamic Scenes
Psychology Department
University of Edinburgh
A two-year postdoctoral research assistantship is available on a project
investigating the active viewing of dynamic scenes. The research, funded
by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on understanding how attention and gaze
are oriented in video depicting real-world events. The project includes
development of new techniques for analyzing and visualizing eyetracking
data in video.
Candidates should have a PhD in Cognitive Psychology or a related
Cognitive Science discipline and experience with eyetracking. A strong
quantitative background and knowledge of MATLAB or similar programming
environment are preferred.
The Visual Cognition Lab is focused on understanding human vision during
complex real-world scene perception. Because human vision involves
active information seeking via eye movements, much of the work in the
lab focuses on human gaze control. We are also interested in
computational approaches and implementation of underlying attentional
processes in the human brain. A new focus in the lab combines
eyetracking with ERPs. The Visual Cognition Lab is part of an extensive
cognitive science community at Edinburgh University.
Interested candidates should send a CV, a brief (2 page max) statement
of research interests, representative reprints, and the names and
contact information of two references by email to John Henderson
(john.m.henderson@ed.ac.uk). Start date is flexible. Informal inquiries
are welcome.
--
Prof John M. Henderson
Visual Cognition Unit
Psychology Department
7 George Square
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ
United Kingdom
john.m.henderson@ed.ac.uk
http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/people/jhender9/henderson_index.html
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
From announcements at journalofvision.org Wed Apr 2 09:36:58 2008
From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision)
Date: Wed Apr 2 09:52:54 2008
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 8, Issue 3
Message-ID: <8128098F9A804972834B6435BAD24977@jov>
Journal of Vision
Volume 8, Number 3 http://journalofvision.org/8/3/
Articles
The effect of positive lens
defocus on ocular growth and emmetropization in the tree shrew
Sangeetha Metlapally
Neville A. McBrien
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/1/
Implicit knowledge of visual
uncertainty guides decisions with asymmetric outcomes
Louise Whiteley
Maneesh Sahani
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/2/
Interesting objects are
visually salient
Lior Elazary
Laurent Itti
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/3/
Eye movement statistics in
humans are consistent with an optimal search strategy
Jiri Najemnik
Wilson S. Geisler
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/4/
The effect of senescence on
orientation discrimination and mechanism tuning
Peter B. Delahunt
Joseph L. Hardy
John S. Werner
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/5/
Cortical representation of
color is binocular
Jonathan W. Peirce
Samuel G. Solomon
Jason D. Forte
Peter Lennie
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/6/
The surface of the empirical
horopter
Kai M. Schreiber
James M. Hillis
Heather R. Filippini
Clifton M. Schor
Martin S. Banks
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/7/
Induced motion in depth and the
effects of vergence eye movements
Harold T. Nefs
Julie M. Harris
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/8/
Resolution acuity for
equiluminant gratings of S-cone positive or negative contrast in human
vision
Margarita B. Zlatkova
Angel Vassilev
Roger S. Anderson
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/9/
Unconscious associative memory
affects visual processing before 100 ms
Maximilien Chaumon
Val?rie Drouet
Catherine Tallon-Baudry
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/10/
It doesn't matter how you feel.
The facial identity aftereffect is invariant to changes in facial
expression
Christopher J. Fox
Ipek Oru?
Jason J. S. Barton
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/11/
Unconscious orientation
processing depends on perceptual load
Bahador Bahrami
David Carmel
Vincent Walsh
Geraint Rees
Nilli Lavie
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/12/
Dynamic distortion of visual
position representation around moving objects
Katsumi Watanabe
Kenji Yokoi
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/13/
Motion processing at low light
levels: Differential effects on the perception of specific motion types
Jutta Billino
Frank Bremmer
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/14/
Cross-orientation interactions
in human vision
Urte Roeber
Elaine M. Y. Wong
Alan W. Freeman
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/15/
Effects of fixation instability
on multifocal VEP (mfVEP) responses in amblyopes
Bin Zhang
Scott S. Stevenson
Han Cheng
Michal Laron
Girish Kumar
Jianliang Tong
Yuzo M. Chino
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/16/
Transient pupil constrictions
to faces are sensitive to orientation and species
C. A. Conway
B. C. Jones
L. M. DeBruine
A. C. Little
A. Sahraie
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/17/
ERP evidence that surface-based
attention biases interocular competition during rivalry
Wayne Khoe
Jude F. Mitchell
John H. Reynolds
Steven A. Hillyard
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/18/
The subjective visual vertical
in a nonhuman primate
Nabil Daddaoua
Peter W. Dicke
Peter Thier
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/19/
The prototype effect revisited:
Evidence for an abstract feature model of face recognition
Guy Wallis
Ulrike E. Siebeck
Kellie Swann
Volker Blanz
Heinrich H. B?lthoff
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/20/
Early correlates of visual
awareness in the human brain: Time and place from event-related brain
potentials
Urte Roeber
Andreas Widmann
Nelson J. Trujillo-Barreto
Christoph S. Herrmann
Robert P. O'Shea
Erich Schr?ger
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/21/
Disparity-energy signals in
perceived stereoscopic depth
Seiji Tanabe
Satoko Yasuoka
Ichiro Fujita
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/22/
Time-course and surround
modulation of contrast masking in human vision
Toni P. Saarela
Michael H. Herzog
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/23/
Human trimodal perception
follows optimal statistical inference
David R. Wozny
Ulrik R. Beierholm
Ladan Shams
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/24/
Rebounding V1 activity and a
new visual aftereffect
Xin Huang
Samuel Levine
Michael A. Paradiso
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/25/
An anti-Hick's effect in monkey
and human saccade reaction times
Bonnie M. Lawrence
Alex St. John
Richard A. Abrams
Lawrence H. Snyder
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/26/
The attentional influence of
new objects and new motion
Shawn E. Christ
Richard A. Abrams
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/27/
Temporal "Bubbles" reveal key
features for point-light biological motion perception
Steven M. Thurman
Emily D. Grossman
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/28/
Adapting to an aftereffect
Bhavin R. Sheth
Shinsuke Shimojo
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/29/
Color appearance: The limited
role of chromatic surround variance in the "gamut expansion effect"
Franz Faul
Vebj?rn Ekroll
Gunnar Wendt
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/30/
Adaptation to global structure
induces spatially remote distortions of perceived orientation
Neil W. Roach
Ben S. Webb
Paul V. McGraw
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/31/
Contrast sensitivity of insect
motion detectors to natural images
Andrew D. Straw
Tamath Rainsford
David C. O'Carroll
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/32/
Vergence-accommodation
conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue
David M. Hoffman
Ahna R. Girshick
Kurt Akeley
Martin S. Banks
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/33/
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From michael.bach at uni-freiburg.de Wed Apr 2 21:52:28 2008
From: michael.bach at uni-freiburg.de (Michael Bach)
Date: Thu Apr 3 06:43:49 2008
Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 8, Issue 3
Message-ID: <8A2BBAE9-DB0B-4B9F-A500-C960BFC55D72@uni-freiburg.de>
Journal of Vision
Volume 8, Number 3 http://journalofvision.org/8/3/
Articles
The effect of positive lens
defocus on ocular growth and emmetropization in the tree shrew
Sangeetha Metlapally
Neville A. McBrien
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/1/
Implicit knowledge of visual
uncertainty guides decisions with asymmetric outcomes
Louise Whiteley
Maneesh Sahani
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/2/
Interesting objects are
visually salient
Lior Elazary
Laurent Itti
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/3/
Eye movement statistics in
humans are consistent with an optimal search strategy
Jiri Najemnik
Wilson S. Geisler
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/4/
The effect of senescence on
orientation discrimination and mechanism tuning
Peter B. Delahunt
Joseph L. Hardy
John S. Werner
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/5/
Cortical representation of
color is binocular
Jonathan W. Peirce
Samuel G. Solomon
Jason D. Forte
Peter Lennie
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/6/
The surface of the empirical
horopter
Kai M. Schreiber
James M. Hillis
Heather R. Filippini
Clifton M. Schor
Martin S. Banks
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/7/
Induced motion in depth and the
effects of vergence eye movements
Harold T. Nefs
Julie M. Harris
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/8/
Resolution acuity for
equiluminant gratings of S-cone positive or negative contrast in human
vision
Margarita B. Zlatkova
Angel Vassilev
Roger S. Anderson
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/9/
Unconscious associative memory
affects visual processing before 100 ms
Maximilien Chaumon
Val?rie Drouet
Catherine Tallon-Baudry
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/10/
It doesn't matter how you feel.
The facial identity aftereffect is invariant to changes in facial
expression
Christopher J. Fox
Ipek Oru?
Jason J. S. Barton
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/11/
Unconscious orientation
processing depends on perceptual load
Bahador Bahrami
David Carmel
Vincent Walsh
Geraint Rees
Nilli Lavie
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/12/
Dynamic distortion of visual
position representation around moving objects
Katsumi Watanabe
Kenji Yokoi
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/13/
Motion processing at low light
levels: Differential effects on the perception of specific motion types
Jutta Billino
Frank Bremmer
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/14/
Cross-orientation interactions
in human vision
Urte Roeber
Elaine M. Y. Wong
Alan W. Freeman
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/15/
Effects of fixation instability
on multifocal VEP (mfVEP) responses in amblyopes
Bin Zhang
Scott S. Stevenson
Han Cheng
Michal Laron
Girish Kumar
Jianliang Tong
Yuzo M. Chino
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/16/
Transient pupil constrictions
to faces are sensitive to orientation and species
C. A. Conway
B. C. Jones
L. M. DeBruine
A. C. Little
A. Sahraie
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/17/
ERP evidence that surface-based
attention biases interocular competition during rivalry
Wayne Khoe
Jude F. Mitchell
John H. Reynolds
Steven A. Hillyard
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/18/
The subjective visual vertical
in a nonhuman primate
Nabil Daddaoua
Peter W. Dicke
Peter Thier
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/19/
The prototype effect revisited:
Evidence for an abstract feature model of face recognition
Guy Wallis
Ulrike E. Siebeck
Kellie Swann
Volker Blanz
Heinrich H. B?lthoff
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/20/
Early correlates of visual
awareness in the human brain: Time and place from event-related brain
potentials
Urte Roeber
Andreas Widmann
Nelson J. Trujillo-Barreto
Christoph S. Herrmann
Robert P. O'Shea
Erich Schr?ger
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/21/
Disparity-energy signals in
perceived stereoscopic depth
Seiji Tanabe
Satoko Yasuoka
Ichiro Fujita
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/22/
Time-course and surround
modulation of contrast masking in human vision
Toni P. Saarela
Michael H. Herzog
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/23/
Human trimodal perception
follows optimal statistical inference
David R. Wozny
Ulrik R. Beierholm
Ladan Shams
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/24/
Rebounding V1 activity and a
new visual aftereffect
Xin Huang
Samuel Levine
Michael A. Paradiso
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/25/
An anti-Hick's effect in monkey
and human saccade reaction times
Bonnie M. Lawrence
Alex St. John
Richard A. Abrams
Lawrence H. Snyder
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/26/
The attentional influence of
new objects and new motion
Shawn E. Christ
Richard A. Abrams
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/27/
Temporal "Bubbles" reveal key
features for point-light biological motion perception
Steven M. Thurman
Emily D. Grossman
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/28/
Adapting to an aftereffect
Bhavin R. Sheth
Shinsuke Shimojo
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/29/
Color appearance: The limited
role of chromatic surround variance in the "gamut expansion effect"
Franz Faul
Vebj?rn Ekroll
Gunnar Wendt
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/30/
Adaptation to global structure
induces spatially remote distortions of perceived orientation
Neil W. Roach
Ben S. Webb
Paul V. McGraw
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/31/
Contrast sensitivity of insect
motion detectors to natural images
Andrew D. Straw
Tamath Rainsford
David C. O'Carroll
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/32/
Vergence-accommodation
conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue
David M. Hoffman
Ahna R. Girshick
Kurt Akeley
Martin S. Banks
http://journalofvision.org/8/3/33/
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From n8 at hp.com Thu Apr 3 16:13:26 2008
From: n8 at hp.com (Nathan Moroney)
Date: Thu Apr 3 16:50:42 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 16th Color Imaging Conference - submit by April 13
Message-ID: <47F56496.8070905@hp.com>
Hi all,
The 16th IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference will be in
Portland, OR November 10-15. For more details see:
http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/color/archive/2008/04/03/6101.html
Paper submissions are due by April 13. Please forward
as appropriate. Thanks & best regards,
Nathan Moroney & Jim Larimer
CIC16 General Chairs
From john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk Fri Apr 4 07:42:48 2008
From: john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk (John M. Henderson)
Date: Fri Apr 4 08:13:25 2008
Subject: [visionlist] MSc Programme in Visual Cognition,
University of Edinburgh
Message-ID: <47F63E68.3020002@ed.ac.uk>
Taught MSc Programme in Visual Cognition
The University of Edinburgh
A new MSc Programme in Visual Cognition based in Psychology at the
University of Edinburgh is now accepting applicants for 2008-2009. This
full-time one-year taught programme provides intensive, advanced
graduate-level study in the field of visual cognition and psychological
research methods, and forms a strong basis for further (typically PhD)
study. The programme is intended for post-graduate students in
psychology or related cognitive science disciplines who wish to pursue a
research-oriented career, or for students who need to retrain in
experimental psychology prior to applying to a related PhD programme.
The Visual Cognition MSc Programme draws on many disciplines within the
University, including Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science and
Neuroscience. A central focus of the programme is a treatment of human
vision as an active process engaging sensory, cognitive, and
motor/action systems. The MSc programme at Edinburgh has special
strengths in real-world scene perception, vision and action, vision and
language, and the role and eye movements and attention in human vision.
Teaching in the Visual Cognition MSc Programme includes core courses in
Visual Attention, Visual Memory, Perception and Action, Research Design
and Methods, and Statistics. In addition students are given the
opportunity to specialise via optional courses such as Language and the
Visual World, Visual Word Recognition, and Working Memory in the Healthy
& Damaged Brain; and from a range of courses in computational vision and
visual neuroscience. The programme culminates in a supervised MSc
research project.
For more information about the MSc Programme in Visual Cognition,
including contact information, please see:
http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/postgrad/msc/vc
For general information about Visual Cognition research at Edinburgh
University please see: http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/research/vc/
--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
From coss.eps at ceu.es Mon Apr 7 06:11:53 2008
From: coss.eps at ceu.es (coss.eps@ceu.es)
Date: Mon Apr 7 08:32:18 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Second CEU Summerschool on Advanced Data Analysis and
Modelling (July 9th-27th, 2007)
Message-ID: <20080407131153.D3D7F32E89D@reggae.cnb.csic.es>
Dear Sir,
I am attaching information about a Summerschool on Data Analysis. If you
find it of interest for the Visionlist , could you, please, post this message in the corresponding distribution list?
Thanks in advance, Carlos Oscar
Dear colleagues,
San Pablo - CEU University in collaboration with other five universities (Málaga,
Politécnica de Madrid, País Vasco, Complutense, and Castilla La Mancha), Unión Fenosa, CSIC and IEEE
organizes a summerschool on "Advanced Statistics and Data Mining" in 2 weeks.
Attendees may register in each course independently. Registration will be considered upon
strict arrival order.For more information, please, visit
http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/~coss/Docencia/ADAM/ADAM.htm.
Best regards, Carlos Oscar
*List of courses and brief description* (full description at
http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/~coss/Docencia/ADAM/ADAM.htm)
Week 1 (June 30th - July 4th, 2008)
Course 1: Bayesian networks (15 h), Practical sessions: Hugin, Elvira, Weka, LibB
Bayesian networks basics. Inference in Bayesian networks.
Learning Bayesian networks from data
Course 2: Multivariate data analysis (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB
Introduction. Data Examination. Principal component analysis (PCA).
Factor Analysis. Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). Correspondence analysis.
Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). Canonical correlation.
Course 3: Supervised pattern recognition (Classification) (15 h), Practical sessions: Weka
Introduction. Assessing the Performance of Supervised Classification Algorithms.
Classification techniques. Combining Classifiers.
Comparing Supervised Classification Algorithms
Course 4: Association rules (15 h), Practical sessions: Bioinformatic tools
Introduction. Association rule discovering. Rule Induction. KDD in biological data.
Applications. Hands-on exercises.
Course 5: Neural networks (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB
Introduction to the biological models. Nomenclature. Perceptron networks.
The Hebb rule. Foundations of multivariate optimization. Numerical optimization.
Rule of Widrow-Hoff. Backpropagation algorithm.
Practical data modelling with neural networks
Course 6: Time series analysis (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB
Introduction. Probability models to time series. Regression and Fourier analysis.
Forecasting and Data mining.
Week 2 (July 7th - July 11th, 2008)
Course 7: Regression (15 h), Practical sessions: SPSS
Introduction. Simple Linear Regression Model. Measures of model adequacy.
Multiple Linear Regression. Regression Diagnostics and model violations.
Polynomial regression. Variable selection. Indicator variables as regressors.
Logistic regression. Nonlinear Regression.
Course 8: Practical Statistical Questions (15 h), Practical sessions: study of cases (without computer)
I would like to know the intuitive definition and use of …: The basics.
How do I collect the data? Experimental design.
Now I have data, how do I extract information? Parameter estimation
Can I see any interesting association between two variables, two populations, …?
How can I know if what I see is “true”? Hypothesis testing
How many samples do I need for my test?: Sample size
Can I deduce a model for my data? Other questions?
Course 9: Hidden Markov Models (15 h), Practical sessions:HTK
Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms for Hidden Markov Models.
Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models. Continuous Hidden Markov Models.
Unit selection and clustering. Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs.
Other applications of HMMs
Course 10: Statistical inference (15 h), Practical sessions: SPSS
Introduction. Some basic statistical test. Multiple testing. Introduction to bootstrapping
Course 11: Dimensionality reduction (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB
Introduction. Matrix factorization methods. Clustering methods. Projection methods.
Applications
Course 12: Unsupervised pattern recognition (clustering) (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB
Introduction. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based clustering.
Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation. Miscellanea
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Carlos Óscar Sánchez Sorzano coss.eps@ceu.es
Escuela Politécnica Superior Tel:+34 91 372 4034
Univ. San Pablo - CEU Fax:+34 91 372 4049
Campus Urb. Montepríncipe s/n
28668 Boadilla del Monte - Madrid http://www.uspceu.com
Spain
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From resume2007 at tangamgaming.com Mon Apr 7 13:04:42 2008
From: resume2007 at tangamgaming.com (resume@tangamsystems.com)
Date: Mon Apr 7 16:31:07 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Job Posting - Computer Vision & Artificial
Intelligence Engineer
Message-ID:
*Company Information*
Tangam Systems is a technology company that provides monitoring and data
analysis solutions based on computer vision and machine learning. Our award
winning solution for casinos provides casino management with functionality
to track, manage and improve player profiling, game security and human
resources performance.
*Contact Information:*
http://tangamsystems.com
Suite 17, Accelerator Centre
295 Hagey Blvd., 1st Floor, West Entrance
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6R5
Phone: (519) 513-2417
Fax: (519) 513-2421
Please send all resumes to: *resume@tangamsystems.com*
*Description of Responsibilities:*
The successful applicant will join our core Development Team and will play a
significant role in the research and development of Tangam's computer vision
and machine learning technology for current products as well as new
products.
This person is passionate about computer vision and machine learning
applications and theory. He or she enjoys the extensive prototyping and
experimentation activities involved with new product research, as well as
the implementation and optimization activities inherent in product
development and maintenance. The person has a breadth of knowledge in the
various schools of computer vision and machine learning research and keeps
up to date on the state of the art.
More specifically the computer vision engineer will:
- Work with the research team in researching, experimenting,
prototyping and developing creative solutions to real world computer vision
problems
- Design and prototype computer vision components for new products
- Stay abreast of the relevant state of the art in image processing
and machine learning algorithms, with a view to constantly improving and
optimizing existing image processing and machine learning product components
- Develop state tracking algorithms for real world event detection
- Implement supporting architecture for the computer vision modules
such as automated calibration and diagnostics
- Provide training and technical assistance to software development
and applications engineering teams for the installation, calibration and
maintenance of the product's computer vision modules
*Compensation:* Competitive salary and stock options
*Location*: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
*Minimum Education Required*:
Applicants must have a Bachelor's degree (Master's or Ph. D is preferred) in
Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering or related
discipline.
*Requirements*:
The candidate *must have*:
- Strong background in the theory and practice of Computer Vision and
Machine Learning algorithms
- One or more years of hands-on experience in researching, developing,
prototyping, testing and troubleshooting computer vision and image
processing applications.
- 1+ years programming experience in C/C++ with an understanding of
object oriented programming concepts
- Experience in searching and evaluating journal publications and
research papers
The following are *nice to have* skills:
- .Net
- Python
- Direct X or OpenGL
- Embedded systems programming or assembly level programming
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From a.johnston at ucl.ac.uk Wed Apr 9 04:41:41 2008
From: a.johnston at ucl.ac.uk (Alan Johnston)
Date: Wed Apr 9 23:16:01 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Associate
Message-ID: <476DA958-1FD6-4445-B1EC-F1DE499DCE2B@ucl.ac.uk>
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Experimental Psychology, University College London
Applications are invited for a three year postdoctoral research post
for an EPSRC project on ?Analysing Dynamic Change in Faces? with Prof
Alan Johnston and Prof Celia Heyes (Experimental Psychology, UCL) and
Prof Peter McOwan (Computer Science, QMUL). The project will develop
new tools for photorealistic facial animation, which will be exploited
to study the perception of dynamic events through psychophysical
experiments on facial movement recognition and imitation. A computer
scientist tasked with developing photorealistic animation has already
been appointed. The new research associate will join Prof Johnston?s
lab and will preferably be an experimental psychologist with excellent
technical and computing skills. However, candidates from the
biological and numerate sciences with an interest in face perception
are encouraged to apply. The salary will be at grade 7 (?27,466-?29138
+ ?2649) depending on knowledge and experience.
Applications (e-mail or hard copy) by covering letter, CV, the names
and addresses of three referees and Personal Information form (the
latter available at: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/Personal_Information.doc
), to Anouchka Sterling, Department of Psychology, University
College London, Gower Street , London WC1E 6BT, a.sterling@ucl.ac.uk.
If applying by e-mail please submit all requested information in one
pdf file named by your surname eg Smith.pdf. Further information
concerning the posts can be found at http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/johnston_rf.htm
or by contacting Prof. Alan Johnston (a.johnston@ucl.ac.uk).
The closing date for applications is 16th May 2008, with the post to
start as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates attending the Vision
Sciences Society meeting can discuss the post with Prof Johnston at
the meeting and should send a preliminary application to Anouchka
Sterling prior to the meeting.
Taking Action for Equality.
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From berryhil at psych.upenn.edu Wed Apr 9 19:58:59 2008
From: berryhil at psych.upenn.edu (Marian Berryhill)
Date: Wed Apr 9 23:16:24 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position
Message-ID: <98097575-D7B8-404C-91BE-DFC662B931A0@psych.upenn.edu>
*********************************************************************************
Postdoctoral Position Human Cognitive Neuroscience: Visual Memory/
Dorsal Visual Stream
Laboratory of Dr. Ingrid Olson, Temple University/U Penn Philadelphia
PA, USA
An excellent training opportunity exists for a qualified candidate to
be involved in postdoctoral research that utilizes converging methods
to study various questions topics including (a) the dorsal visual
stream (b) memory;
(c) internal attention. Supported by an NIH- funded project, the
postdoc will use a combination of psychophysical methods, fMRI, TMS,
and human lesion methods. Salary and benefits include: salary on NIH
scale, medical benefits, generous conference stipend, and equipment
coverage.
Facilities: Research resources include a 3T MRI scanner, TMS
equipment, and access to an established lesion population. The post-
doc will have the opportunity to interact with a large network of
collaborators in the greater Philadelphia area. Philadelphia is a
beautiful and affordable city, a 2-
hour train ride away from NYC and Washington D.C.
Qualifications: Candidates must hold a PhD (or equivalent) in
psychology or neuroscience. Programming experience is highly desirable.
Interested candidates should email a CV that includes a detailed
description of technical and computer skills, and include contact
information for two or three people who are willing to provide
references. Contact Ingrid Olson with questions: iolson [at] temple.edu
Start date: between May 2008 and September 2008.
From mark.brady at ndsu.edu Wed Apr 9 12:25:19 2008
From: mark.brady at ndsu.edu (Dr. Mark Brady)
Date: Wed Apr 9 23:17:09 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Reference Source
Message-ID:
Dear Colleagues,
Does anyone have any suggestions for a luminance reference source for use in
calibrating photometers?
Mark J. Brady
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
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From shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org Wed Apr 9 09:41:42 2008
From: shawnalampkin at visionsciences.org (Shawna Lampkin)
Date: Wed Apr 9 23:17:24 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Important VSS 2008 Information
Message-ID: <01e701c89a60$9cd82cd0$d6888670$@org>
VSS 08 is quickly approaching. Here are a few important reminders.
Registration - If you haven't registered for the meeting, there is still
time to do so. Online registration will close next Friday, April 18.
Pre-registering now will mean a shorter wait at check in and less money
(onsite rates are higher). To register, go to:
http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/. All pre-registrants may pick up
their badge and meeting materials at the Pre-Registration check-in table
located on the second level of the Naples Grande Hotel (in the Royal Palm
foyer). Onsite registration will open at 11am on Friday, May 9.
Symposia - Don't forget, the VSS meeting will open with eight
member-initiated symposia, beginning at 1:00 pm on Friday, May 9. No signup
necessary - but we suggest you arrive early to reserve your spot. For
complete symposia information, go to:
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html. Following the Symposia at 5:30
pm, please join us for the first poster session and an Opening Night
Reception in the Vista Ballroom.
Keynote Lecture - Edward Callaway, Salk Institute will give this year's
Keynote Address "Unraveling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of visual
cortical circuits" on Saturday, May 10, 7:00 pm in the Royal Palm Ballroom.
For more information, go to:
http://www.visionsciences.org/keynote.html.
VSS Program Schedule - To see the VSS Program and to create your own
personal meeting itinerary, log in to the VSS Online Meeting System at:
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For a list of Poster Sessions, see
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Sessions, see
http://www.visionsciences.org/talk_sessions.html.
Childcare - The Naples Grande Hotel will offer a children's program during
the VSS meeting; 1/2 day, full day and evening programs are available. See
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information.
VSS Shuttle Service - It's not too late to sign up for the VSS shuttle. VSS
has arranged for discounted transportation from Fort Meyers airport to the
meeting hotels. The one-way VSS fare is $25/person each way and is available
for arrivals on Thursday, May 8 or Friday, May 9, and departures on Tuesday,
May 13 or Wednesday, May 14. More information can be found at
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Last Day to Register Online at Discounted Rates: 4/18/08
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From F.A.J.Verstraten at uu.nl Thu Apr 10 01:05:34 2008
From: F.A.J.Verstraten at uu.nl (Frans Verstraten)
Date: Thu Apr 10 08:37:27 2008
Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2008 Utrecht: Deadline early registration
approaching
Message-ID:
31st
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON VISUAL PERCEPTION
ECVP 2008
AUGUST 24-28, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.ecvp2008.org
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The European Conference on Visual Perception is an annual meeting devoted
scientific study of visual perception. ECVP has been held each year since
1978, and attracts a wide variety of participants.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Early registration deadline: April 15, 2008
Cheap housing deadline: April 15, 2008
Hotels blocked until 1 June, 2008.
NEWS:
Abstract submission is closed, we have a full house. As things look now, we
will be able to send out the acceptance letters earlier than planned.
We have a zillion requests for travel support, so start looking for a summer
job...
HOTELS
As I mentioned before, immediately after the ECVP, the Utrecht Old music
Festival will start. We have blocked many rooms in hotels until the 1st of
June. After that date, I expect that it will be very difficult to find
hotelrooms downtown (some hotels are already asking whether we NEED the
rooms).
CONFERENCE BANQUET
We will have 400 seats at the conference diner. First come (registered),
first served basis. We still have a good number of chairs, but don't wait
too long.
PROGRAM
Part of the talks are downtown (the beautiful Cathedral of Utrecht. And yes,
we tested the acoustics, so no need to remind us).
The main conference is at the new University Campus known as DE UITHOF.
Registered participants will have free bus tickets during the conference.
You can also bike (about 10-15 minutes).
LOCATION OF UTRECHT
Just in case you don't know. Utrecht is located in the centre of the
Netherlands. From my office at the Utrecht Campus I can see the control
tower of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It will take you about half an hour by
train to reach Utrecht Central Station. The train tracks are under the
airport, no need for expensive taxis. Utrecht is about 30 minutes by train
to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Arnhem (in case you want to see the city of the
movie A bridge too far). Nijmegen, Eindhoven and the Hague a bit less than
an hour. Maastricht and Groningen will take you about two hours (may be...).
But as an American colleague once said to me: "you Dutch start complaining
when a train is 1 minute late, in the U.S. we are happy if the train shows
up at all..."
All the best,
On behalf of the organizing committee
Frans Verstraten, coordinator.
From mbethge at tuebingen.mpg.de Thu Apr 10 08:05:05 2008
From: mbethge at tuebingen.mpg.de (Matthias Bethge)
Date: Thu Apr 10 08:37:52 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Bernstein Award 2008, call for proposals
Message-ID: <04A4FEF3-7A33-4DAA-8AF5-A203CB803EB5@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Dear colleagues,
within the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, the
German Federal Ministry of of Education and Research (BMBF) has once
more announced a call for proposals for the 'Bernstein Award 2008'.
This grant allows young researchers of any nationality to get fundig
(up to 1.25 M?, over a period of 5 years) for their own, independent
research group, to be installed at any German University or research
institution.
Please find the complete announcement on the webpage:
http://www.bernstein-zentren.de/en/551.php
or see below.
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Announcement
of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
from Regulations for the "Bernstein Award" Funding Initiative
within the framework of the
National Network for Computational Neuroscience
14.11.2007
1. Funding purpose and legal basis
1.1 Funding purpose
Computational Neuroscience is a very dynamic research discipline in
the field of the neurosciences. With its interdisciplinary approach
and systematic cooperation between biology, medicine, physics,
mathematics and computer science, this research area promises the
accelerated generation of new findings as well as major impetus for
application-oriented fields such as health research, information
technology and education.
The BMBF has established four "Bernstein Centres for Computational
Neuroscience" (http://www.bernstein-zentren.de/en/index.php) within
the framework of its "National Network for Computational Neuroscience"
funding activity. These high-performing centres are the main
structural elements of the National Network. This means that a new
structure has been created which is necessary for developing a new
quality in Computational Neuroscience, for networking this research
area and for promoting its international visibility.
It is particularly important to attract excellent young researchers in
order to lastingly establish and strengthen Computational Neuroscience
as a field of research in Germany. The Bernstein Centres contribute
substantially to achieving this goal with their concepts for
supporting junior researchers by means of study programmes and
postgraduate research groups. But there is also a great need to
attract and support young researchers at the level of research group
leaders, where they will be able to develop their own research
profiles and attain greater scientific independence by establishing
and heading their own junior research groups.
The "Bernstein Award" funding activity aims to support research
projects in the field of Computational Neuroscience, thus enabling
excellent young researchers working in this field to implement
innovative project ideas in Computational Neuroscience in the German
research environment. This is intended to promote the academic
qualification of these outstanding young researchers, among other
things. The projects supported under the "Bernstein Award" initiative
will become an integral part of the National Network for Computational
Neuroscience and give new impetus to scientific activities.
As announced in the funding regulations for the "Bernstein Award"
initiative of 21 March 2006, the Federal Ministry of Education and
Research intends to support one research project under this initiative
in 2008.
1.2. Legal basis
Project grants can be awarded in accordance with the present funding
regulations, the BMBF's standard terms and conditions for grants on
expenditure or cost basis and the administrative regulations under
section 44 of the Federal Budget Code (BHO). Applicants have no legal
claim to a grant. The grant-awarding agency will decide freely after
due assessment of the circumstances within the framework of the budget
funds available.
2. Object of funding
Funding is provided for research projects which have been designed by
German or non-German young scientists (post-docs) and which will be
carried out by these young scientists at a German research
institution. Researchers are expected to furnish evidence of
extraordinary scientific achievements in the field of Computational
Neuroscience. By realizing research projects which they have designed
and will supervise themselves and by establishing their own junior
research group, the young project leaders are to be given an
opportunity to conduct independent research. The funded research
projects are to be conducted at a German university or scientific
institution (see section 3 below) within or outside the Bernstein
Centres.
The funded projects of the young researchers are to be integrated in
the National Network for Computational Neuroscience in order to
strengthen this network. The young researchers should therefore
participate in the annual workshops and status seminars of the
Bernstein Centres. The purpose of the status seminars is to facilitate
exchanges on the progress and results of research and to promote
networking between the Bernstein Centres.
3. Grant recipients
Research proposals may be submitted by institutions of higher
education and non-university research institutions based in Germany.
Research institutions which receive joint basic funding from the
Federal Government and the L?nder can only be awarded project funding
to cover their additional expenditure under certain conditions.
4. Prerequisites for funding
Funding under the "Bernstein Award" initiative is only provided for
innovative research projects which have been designed by outstanding
post-docs and will be conducted by them at a university or non-
university research institution in Germany (see sections 2 and 3
above). A project will only be eligible for funding if the university
or research institution concerned employs the young researcher during
the funding period. Furthermore, the host institution is expected to
provide the working facilities required for carrying out the project
(basic equipment in terms of laboratory space and other
infrastructure) and to support the young researcher in all matters. A
statement made to that effect by the host institution must be included
with the project outline to be submitted in accordance with section
7.2.1 below.
In their own interest, applicants should familiarize themselves with
the EU's Research Framework Programme in the context of the planned
national project. They should check whether the planned project
includes specific European components which make it eligible for
exclusive EU funding. Applicants should also examine whether a
supplementary application for funding can be submitted to the EU in
the context of the planned national project. Applicants should briefly
state the results of these investigations in their national application
5. Type, scope and rates of funding
Project funding may be awarded in the form of non-repayable grants.
Grants for universities, research and science institutions and similar
establishments will be calculated on the basis of the project-related
expenditure eligible for funding (grants for Helmholtz centres and the
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG) will be calculated on the basis of the
project-related costs eligible for funding); in individual cases, up
to 100 per cent of this expenditure/these costs can be funded.
The European Commission's Community Framework for State Aid for
Research and Development must be taken into account when fixing the
rates of funding. The Community Framework allows differentiated rules
on extra percentage points for collaborative projects proposed by
applicants from the new German L?nder and for small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs), which may result in a higher rate of funding.
Under the "Bernstein Award" initiative, funding will be provided for
one research project per year to the extent that this is possible
within the confines of relevant medium-term fiscal planning. The
maximum funding period for each individual project is five years.
Funding for each individual project can amount to up to ?1.25 million
over the entire project period.
During the project period, funding can be provided for the salary of
the young project leader (up to salary group E14 TV?D or Ib BAT), for
up to two positions for further scientific staff (E13 TV?D or IIa
BAT), and for the required technical personnel in accordance with the
relevant collective agreements. Funding cannot be provided for posts
which are financed from public funds. Equipment and investment costs
will be reimbursed in accordance with the other terms and conditions
which are applicable (see sections 6 and 7 below, for example).
6. Other terms and conditions for awarding funds
The Auxiliary Terms and Conditions for Funds Provided by the BMBF to
Commercial Companies for Research and Development Projects on a Cost
Basis (Nebenbestimmungen f?r Zuwendungen auf Kostenbasis des BMBF an
Unternehmen der gewerblichen Wirtschaft f?r Forschungs- und
Entwicklungsvorhaben - NKBF 98) will be part of the notification of
award for grants on a cost basis.
The General Auxiliary Conditions for Grants for the Promotion of
Projects (Allgemeine Nebenbestimmungen f?r Zuwendungen zur
Projektf?rderung - ANBest-P) and the Special Auxiliary Terms and
Conditions for Funds Provided by the BMBF for the Promotion of
Projects on an Expenditure Basis (Besondere Nebenbestimmungen f?r
Zuwendungen des BMBF zur Projektf?rderung auf Ausgabenbasis - BNBest-
BMBF 98) will be part of the notification of award for grants on an
expenditure basis.
7. Procedure
7.1. Involvement of a project management organization and request for
documents
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research has commissioned the
following project management organization to implement the funding
activity:
Projekttr?ger PT-DLR - Projekttr?ger Gesundheitsforschung
Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1
53227 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: + 49 (0)228-3821 210 (Sekretariat)
Fax: + 49 (0)228-3821 257
Internet: http://www.dlr.de/pt/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-4270/6848_read-6936/
The contact is Dr. Kr?ger (Tel.: + 49 (0)228-3821 296).
Application forms, guidelines, information for applicants and the
auxiliary terms and conditions are available here or can be obtained
from the project management organization. Applicants are strongly
advised to use the electronic application system "easy" for drafting
formal applications.
7.2 Two-tiered funding procedure
The funding procedure is two-tiered.
7.2.1 Submission and selection of project outlines
In a first step, written project outlines must be submitted by post to
the project management organization (PT-DLR) by 2 June 2008 at the
latest. If necessary, further selection rounds will be carried out on
the basis of these funding regulations. The deadlines for the
submission of project outlines will be published on http://www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/en/175.php
in due course.
With a view to the international evaluation procedure, it is
recommended that the project outlines be submitted to the PT-DLR in
English. The deadline for submission is not a cut-off deadline.
However, it may prove impossible to consider project outlines which
are received after that date.
Young German and non-German researchers who meet the criteria set out
in this announcement (see section 4 above) are entitled to submit
project outlines in agreement with the host university or research
institution.
The project outlines must include a description structured along the
following lines:
* Name of the young researcher, full office address, contact details
(phone, fax, e-mail).
* A meaningful CV (up to five pages, Arial 11 pt) which includes
achievements in Computational Neuroscience (e. g. supervision of young
researchers, national and international cooperation, raising of
external funds, invitations to or hosting of conferences, membership
of editorial boards of relevant scientific journals, expert opinions,
other activities)
* List of publications
* Preliminary project description for the research programme of the
entire proposed junior research group, including all planned
scientific and technical staff members (up to ten pages Arial 11 pt)
and a financial plan
* Statement from the university or research institution at which the
research programme is to be carried out confirming that the young
researcher will be provided with the working facilities needed to
perform the project (basic equipment in terms of laboratory space and
other infrastructure) and will be supported in all matters.
Applicants are requested to submit 10 copies of their outlines.
No legal claims can be derived from the submission of a project outline.
The evaluation of the project outlines received will involve external
experts and be based on the following criteria:
1. Previous achievements of the young researcher in the field of
Computational Neuroscience
* Scientific work including publications
* Supervisory activities
* International activities
* Other activities (raising of external funds, etc.)
2. Quality of the proposed research programme
* Scientific and methodical quality
* Scientific expertise of the applicant
* Innovative potential
* Relevance to the research focuses of the host institution
A suitable project idea will be selected for funding on the basis of
the evaluation. The applicants will be informed in writing about the
result of the selection procedure.
7.2.2 Submission of formal applications and decision-making procedure
In a second step, applicants whose project outlines have received a
positive evaluation will be invited to submit (within six weeks of the
invitation) a formal application of the institution where the research
project is to be carried out; a decision on this formal application
will be taken after the final evaluation.
The approval, payment of and accounting for the funds as well as proof
and examination of proper use and, if necessary, the revocation of the
award and reclaiming of the funds awarded are governed by the
administrative regulations pertaining to section 44 of the Federal
Budget Code (BHO) and sections 48 to 49a of the Administrative
Procedure Act (VwVfG) unless deviation is allowed under the present
funding regulations.
8. Entry into force
These funding regulations will enter into force on the date of
publication in the Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger).
Berlin, 29 October 2007
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Dr. Christiane Buchholz
Molecular Life Sciences Division
___________________________________________
Dr. Matthias Bethge, Group Leader
Computational Vision & Neuroscience Group
MPI for Biological Cybernetics, T"ubingen
[ http://www.kyb.mpg.de/bethgegroup/ ]
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From mleyton at dimacs.rutgers.edu Thu Apr 10 07:29:44 2008
From: mleyton at dimacs.rutgers.edu (Michael Leyton)
Date: Thu Apr 10 08:38:36 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Design, Computing & Cognition Conference: Registration
References: <47F0685D.6090405@psych.utah.edu>
Message-ID: <005701c89b17$51ff2d50$1a536c42@LEYTON>
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION - DCC08
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
23-25 June 2008
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/
This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and
cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in design.
PAPERS
Papers, 60 authors from 12 countries, will be presented in the following sessions, which include two poster sessions:
Session 1: Shape Grammars
Session 2: Design Cognition 1
Session 3: Knowledge-Based Design
Session 4: Sketching, Diagrams and Visualization
Session 5: Design Creativity
Session 6: Poster Session 1
Session 7: Design Cognition 2
Session 8: Design Support
Session 9: Spatial Configuration
Session 10: Poster Session 2
Session 11: The Virtual and the Physical
WORKSHOPS
The conference is preceded by a series of half-day workshops on specialist topics in design computing and cognition.
Workshop 1: Generative Urban Design
Workshop 2: Design Thinking
Workshop 3: Informing Computational Support for Conceptual Design: Lessons Learned from Sketching Studies
Workshop 4: Design Creativity
Workshop 5: Form-Making versus Form-Finding: Distributed Cognition and the Affordances of Design Media
Workshop 6: High Tech/High Touch: Digital and Analog Design Tools
Workshop 7: IT in Design
Doctoral Consortium (4 half-day workshop sessions)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mary Lou Maher
Program Director, Creative IT, US National Science Foundation
Full details and registration are available at: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/
From nts at ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de Thu Apr 10 02:10:02 2008
From: nts at ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de (Nils T Siebel)
Date: Thu Apr 10 08:38:57 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Reference Source
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID:
Dear Mark,
If you are looking for a reference for the definition of "luminance"
and other terms in video/TV technology the CIE recommendations (e.g.
601, 709) are the definitive sources. In a more practical sense the
following text is a very good source of information, with formulas
etc. (the CIE recommendations are also cited and explained there):
@Misc{FordRobe98,
author = {Adrian Ford and Alan Roberts},
title = {Colour Space Conversions},
howpublished = {Available at \url{http://www.poynton.com/PDFs/coloureq.pdf}},
month = {August},
year = 1998
}
Charles Poynton's colour home page at
http://www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html is a good starting point for
more information. His colour FAQ is a very good source, too.
>From the colour FAQ:
"3. What is luminance?
"Brightness is defined by the CIE as the attribute of a visual
sensation according to which an area appears to emit more or less
light. Because brightness perception is very complex, the CIE defined
a more tractable quantity luminance which is radiant power weighted by
a spectral sensitivity function that is characteristic of vision. The
luminous efficiency of the Standard Observer is defined numerically,
is everywhere positive, and peaks at about 555 nm. When an SPD is
integrated using this curve as a weighting function, the result is CIE
luminance, denoted Y.
"The magnitude of luminance is proportional to physical power. In that
sense it is like intensity. But the spectral composition of luminance
is related to the brightness sensitivity of human vision.
"Strictly speaking, luminance should be expressed in a unit such as
candelas per meter squared, but in practice it is often normalized to
1 or 100 units with respect to the luminance of a specified or implied
white reference. For example, a studio broadcast monitor has a white
reference whose luminance is about 100 cd*m -2, and Y = 1 refers to
this value."
Hope this helps,
Nils.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Dr. Mark Brady wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a luminance reference source for use
> in calibrating photometers?
>
> Mark J. Brady
>
> Department of Psychology
> North Dakota State University
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> visionlist mailing list
> visionlist@visionscience.com
> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist
>
>
--
Nils T Siebel
Cognitive Systems Group
Institute of Computer Science
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Olshausenstr. 40
24098 Kiel, Germany.
From J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk Mon Apr 14 07:14:34 2008
From: J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk (Jenny Read)
Date: Mon Apr 14 07:46:59 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Reference Source
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <480366CA.5050908@ncl.ac.uk>
I assumed Mark was wanting a light source of a known luminance, to check
the numbers output by his photometer. I don't have any knowledge to
offer, but I get my photometer calibrated at Optical Test and
Calibration Ltd, http://www.otc.co.uk/, and assume they or a similar
company would be able to provide more information if you were to
approach them...
Best wishes,
Jenny
Nils T Siebel wrote:
> Dear Mark,
>
> If you are looking for a reference for the definition of "luminance"
> and other terms in video/TV technology the CIE recommendations (e.g.
> 601, 709) are the definitive sources. In a more practical sense the
> following text is a very good source of information, with formulas
> etc. (the CIE recommendations are also cited and explained there):
>
> @Misc{FordRobe98,
> author = {Adrian Ford and Alan Roberts},
> title = {Colour Space Conversions},
> howpublished = {Available at \url{http://www.poynton.com/PDFs/coloureq.pdf}},
> month = {August},
> year = 1998
> }
>
> Charles Poynton's colour home page at
> http://www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html is a good starting point for
> more information. His colour FAQ is a very good source, too.
>
> >From the colour FAQ:
>
> "3. What is luminance?
>
> "Brightness is defined by the CIE as the attribute of a visual
> sensation according to which an area appears to emit more or less
> light. Because brightness perception is very complex, the CIE defined
> a more tractable quantity luminance which is radiant power weighted by
> a spectral sensitivity function that is characteristic of vision. The
> luminous efficiency of the Standard Observer is defined numerically,
> is everywhere positive, and peaks at about 555 nm. When an SPD is
> integrated using this curve as a weighting function, the result is CIE
> luminance, denoted Y.
>
> "The magnitude of luminance is proportional to physical power. In that
> sense it is like intensity. But the spectral composition of luminance
> is related to the brightness sensitivity of human vision.
>
> "Strictly speaking, luminance should be expressed in a unit such as
> candelas per meter squared, but in practice it is often normalized to
> 1 or 100 units with respect to the luminance of a specified or implied
> white reference. For example, a studio broadcast monitor has a white
> reference whose luminance is about 100 cd*m -2, and Y = 1 refers to
> this value."
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Nils.
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Dr. Mark Brady wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for a luminance reference source for use
>> in calibrating photometers?
>>
>> Mark J. Brady
>>
>> Department of Psychology
>> North Dakota State University
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> visionlist mailing list
>> visionlist@visionscience.com
>> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
--
Dr Jenny Read Office: +44 191 222 7559
Royal Society University Research Fellow Mobile: +44 794 401 5796
Institute of Neuroscience, Fax: +44 191 222 5227
Faculty of Medical Sciences, mailto:J.C.A.Read@ncl.ac.uk
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK. http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read
From N.Barraclough at hull.ac.uk Mon Apr 14 09:31:16 2008
From: N.Barraclough at hull.ac.uk (Nick Barraclough)
Date: Mon Apr 14 10:35:12 2008
Subject: [visionlist] PhD Studentship in Action Perception,
University of Hull, UK
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From rsim at braintech.com Mon Apr 14 12:14:26 2008
From: rsim at braintech.com (Rob Sim)
Date: Mon Apr 14 12:27:32 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Job Opportunity: Robot Vision Scientist
Message-ID:
ROBOTIC VISION SCIENTIST (POSITION NUMBER 328)
THE OPPORTUNITY
Founded in 1994, Braintech, Inc. is a rapidly growing company
specializing in the design and development of machine vision products
for the industrial, consumer and government/defense robotic markets.
Braintech pioneered 3D-Vision Guided Robotics (3D-VGR) for
manufacturers in early 2000 through landmark installations at Ford
Motor Co. Braintech was also first to commercialize the development,
operation and support of VGR systems with the release of
eVisionFactory commercial software platform.
Systems built using Braintech products provide robots with the ability
to 'see', identify and locate objects accurately in 3D space. This
new capability has tremendous implications in terms of flexibility and
usability of robots and has already brought about a paradigm shift in
the industrial manufacturing market.
Braintech's unique suite of products and technologies put us at the
leading edge of the new emerging intelligent robotics market. For
more information on Braintech please visit: www.braintech.com
POSITION SUMMARY
Braintech is currently seeking candidates for the position of Robotic
Vision Scientist. The successful candidate has a PhD in Computer
Science, Electrical Engineering or related discipline, and a
demonstrated ability to conduct applied research in the areas of
mobile robotics, computer vision or machine learning. We are
especially interested in candidates with experience in autonomous
navigation, visual servoing, sensor fusion, and anomalous event
detection.
REQUIRED SKILLS
2D and/or 3D image processing knowledge.
Strong mathematical skills (linear algebra, probabilistic analysis).
An understanding of inference problems in machine learning- state
estimation, classification, etc.
Extensive coding experience in one or more of C/C++, C#, Java,
Matlab, Python, Perl.
Development experience in *nix-like environments (gcc/make, etc).
Evidence of a hands-on approach to conducting research.
Strong communication skills.
Open minded and positive
WOULD BE AN ASSET
Development experience in Windows XP or Vista.
Experience with one or more robot control platforms (MSRS,
Player/Stage, Carmen, ARIA, etc).
Experience with range imaging (Laser range finding / LIDAR., stereo)
Skills in one or more advanced machine learning techniques: POMDPs,
MRFs, Reinforcement learning, etc.
Relevant industry experience.
EDUCATION
Minimum requirement is a Ph.D. in Computer, Electrical Engineering or
similar discipline from an accredited University.
EMPLOYMENT LOCATION: Vancouver, BC, Canada
CONTACT INFO: Please forward CV and cover letter to dchiang@braintech.com
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From lori.minini at dpag.ox.ac.uk Tue Apr 15 02:07:06 2008
From: lori.minini at dpag.ox.ac.uk (Lori Minini)
Date: Tue Apr 15 06:54:36 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Video display for fMRI
Message-ID: <88ADE4C5-52E2-46B9-89EC-E810EA0A291B@dpag.ox.ac.uk>
Dear Colleagues
I am currently reviewing the video displays available for fMRI
applications and would be grateful for any relevant suggestion and
advise. I know about MRI-Live!, Avotec and projectors, but are there
other systems that should be considered? I would also be interested
to know whether there are any labs in the UK that have Avotec or a
comparable system installed.
Thanks
Lori
_______________________________________________________
Dr Lori Minini, PhD
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics & FMRIB Centre
University of Oxford
Sherrington Building
Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PT
tel +44-1865-272555
fax +44-1865-272543
email lori.minini@dpag.ox.ac.uk
www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/vision
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From Etienne.Roesch at pse.unige.ch Tue Apr 15 08:07:36 2008
From: Etienne.Roesch at pse.unige.ch (Etienne B. Roesch)
Date: Tue Apr 15 08:10:41 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Video display for fMRI
In-Reply-To: <88ADE4C5-52E2-46B9-89EC-E810EA0A291B@dpag.ox.ac.uk>
References: <88ADE4C5-52E2-46B9-89EC-E810EA0A291B@dpag.ox.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <84B562B8-D9E5-4B22-AE58-7F3F17D3D1DE@pse.unige.ch>
Hello,
Enclosed two articles about technical considerations when presenting
visual stimuli in fMRI.
Hope that helps,
Best,
Le 15 avr. 08 ? 11:07, Lori Minini a ?crit :
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I am currently reviewing the video displays available for fMRI
> applications and would be grateful for any relevant suggestion and
> advise. I know about MRI-Live!, Avotec and projectors, but are
> there other systems that should be considered? I would also be
> interested to know whether there are any labs in the UK that have
> Avotec or a comparable system installed.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lori
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CISA - University of Geneva
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From robert.hess at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 15 16:31:37 2008
From: robert.hess at mcgill.ca (Robert Hess)
Date: Tue Apr 15 16:53:50 2008
Subject: [visionlist] 2 postdoc positions; psychophysics and/or fMRI
Message-ID:
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AT McGILL VISION RESEARCH UNIT
Two postdoctoral positions are available at the McGill Vision Research
Unit. I am looking for someone with psychophysical skills and/or
someone with fMRI skills to study spatial or temporal processing in
normal and/or amblyopic vision
(http://mvr.mcgill.ca/Robert/rhess_home.html).
Interested candidates should have, or nearly have, a PhD and
experience with graphics programming for stimulus generation and/or
fMRI analysis.
The McGill Vision Research Unit consists of Faculty and
postdocs/graduate-students (20 in all) working on
neurophysiological,psychophysical, computational and brain-imaging
aspects of vision.
Montreal is a very pleasant, cosmopolitan and relatively inexpensive
city in which to live and our Research Center provides a very interactive
and international environment..
Interested candidates should send CVs to robert.hess@mcgill.ca.
--
Robert F Hess DSc.
Professor and Director of Research
Department of Ophthalmology
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tel. 514 934 1934 x 34815
http://mvr.mcgill.ca/Robert/rhess_home.html
From e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk Wed Apr 16 04:29:11 2008
From: e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk (Charles Leek)
Date: Wed Apr 16 06:58:36 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Visiting Scholar Programme. Wales Institute for
Cognitive Neuroscience, Bangor UK
Message-ID:
VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMME
Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience/School of Psychology Bangor
University, Wales
The School of Psychology at Bangor University, Wales, is seeking
applications for its new Visiting Scholar programme. The programme is
funded by a Welsh Government grant to establish the Wales Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN) among Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea Schools
of Psychology.
Purpose. The programme is intended to bring leading cognitive
neuroscientists to Bangor for a short (1-2 month) sabbatical-like
visit, to promote collaboration and the exchange of ideas not only
with Bangor scientists but with collaborators at Cardiff and Swansea.
Provision. The programme will pay travel and accommodation costs for
the Visiting Scholar, as well as a modest stipend. It will also
provide a small overhead fund to pay for research during the visit,
which can include access to Bangor?s new 3T fMRI scanner. The Visiting
Scholar will also have access to support from postdoctoral researchers
employed by WICN.
Requirements. Visiting scholars will be expected to contribute to WICN
in a number of ways, including collaborative interactions with existing
staff, contributing to the colloquium series, and running occasional
workshops for staff and graduate students.
Applications. In the first instance, informal enquiries should be
addressed to Prof Steven Tipper or Prof. Kimron Shapiro
(s.tipper@bangor.ac.uk, k.shapiro@bangor.ac.uk). Interested applicants
should send a CV and supporting letter to Donna Pierz-Fennell, WICN
Manager, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2AS,
UK. About Bangor School of Psychology The School of Psychology at
Bangor enjoys the highest possible research rating (RAE 5*A) and has
excellent resources (e.g. 3T fMRI, TMS, EEG/ERP, eye-tracking, haptic
simulators, motion capture).
For more information about the School see:
http://www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/
About the surrounding area. Bangor is located on the coast at the foot
of the Snowdonia mountains in North Wales, offering stunning scenery
as well as a clean and peaceful environment. For more information see:
http://www.visitwales.com/
Dr. Charles Leek
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
School of Psychology
University of Wales
Bangor
Gwynedd, UK
LL57 2AS
Tel: Office (+44)1248 382948 (direct line)
Fax:(+44)1248 382599
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Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu
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From S.A.Hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk Wed Apr 16 10:38:26 2008
From: S.A.Hojjatoleslami at kent.ac.uk (sah)
Date: Wed Apr 16 10:44:01 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Advert - BioMedical Imaging MSc - 4 studentships
Message-ID: <003c01c89fe8$ad32dd40$079897c0$@ac.uk>
Four EPSRC CTA studentships are available in BioMedical Imaging
The Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences (KIMHS) at the University
of Kent has established a new MSc
in BioMedical Imaging in collaboration with Departments
at the University of Kent and King's College London.
The course covers the major forms of medical imaging including MRI, PET,
ultrasound, CT, X-ray, and also the rapidly advancing fields of optical
coherence tomography and molecular imaging. There is special emphasis on
the use of computer techniques for manipulation and analysis of images, with
modules on programming and medical image computing. Visiting lecturers
include international authorities in the field. The programme includes
lectures on applications of medical imaging given by leading clinicians from
East Kent and London, industry scientists and bioscience researchers, case
studies, laboratory work and visits to major facilities to see the imaging
systems in action.
The BioMedical
Imaging MSc is aimed at those with a first degree in a
numerate subject wishing to pursue a career and/or gain further knowledge in
the area of medical imaging and image analysis. The information below is
aimed at providing some general background information on this rapidly
developing area with details about the University of Kent's MSc
in BioMedical Imaging.
The MSc is supported by an EPSRC Collaborative Training Account. The
studentships cover tuition fees and provide a maintenance grant of up to
?12,400 per annum.
Application Criteria
Applicants must normally hold a First or Second Class Honours degree in one
of the related fields, or equivalent qualifications subject to the
University's approval. The degrees include the following:
1. Biomedical Engineering
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Note: The four EPSRC studentships are available only to UK and EU
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All applicants will be considered on their own merits. The following
criteria will be considered:
For graduates with a degree in medicine or biosciences, evidence of
expertise in maths, statistics and basic science is necessary. Minimum for
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Subject to the approval of the University, exemption from these requirements
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Applying for the Studentship
To apply for the studentship, candidates should send a CV and the names of
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Email: M.P.Stone@kent.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1227 827 200
The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 30th May 2008
How to Apply for a place at the University of Kent
You may apply for a place on the programme using the online form
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Acceptance on the Course
It is our policy to offer a place on the course to any applicant whom we
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For further information, please contact:
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From klaus.libertus at duke.edu Thu Apr 17 04:36:54 2008
From: klaus.libertus at duke.edu (Klaus Libertus)
Date: Thu Apr 17 06:42:29 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Biological Motion Stimuli: Point-light stimuli
Message-ID:
Hello,
I am looking for MatLab scripts or video-clips of Biological Motion
Point-light stimuli for studies. If anybody has access to such stimuli
and is willing to share I would be very thankful. Also, any links to
web-sites are appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Klaus Libertus
Klaus Libertus
Graduate Student
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Duke University
Phone: 919-660-5790
email: klaus.libertus@duke.edu
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From s.watt at bangor.ac.uk Thu Apr 17 01:50:28 2008
From: s.watt at bangor.ac.uk (Simon Watt)
Date: Thu Apr 17 06:42:38 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair Appointment in Bangor,
Wales
Message-ID:
BANGOR UNIVERSITY, WALES
SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Senior Lecturer / Reader / Professorial Appointment in
Cognitive Neuroscience
Salary negotiable in competitive range
The 5* School of Psychology at Bangor University - one of Europe's
leading psychology departments - is looking to appoint a new staff
member in Cognitive Neuroscience. The position is supported by the Welsh
Assembly Government to promote collaborative research within Cognitive
Neuroscience between the highly rated psychology departments at Bangor,
Cardiff and Swansea Universities. You will have access to the diverse
skills of Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN) appointed
postdoctoral researchers, and work alongside leading academics on a
range of collaborative clinical and/or cognitive neuroscience research
projects.
You will have a PhD in Psychology or a related discipline. Ideally you
will have a background in one of the specialist cognitive neuroscience
areas such as Vision and Action, Attention, Learning and Memory,
Emotion, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Social Cognitive Neuroscience, or
Hearing and Language. Experience with MRI is particularly desirable, as
is experience with one or more experimental techniques (e.g. ERP, eye
and body motion analysis, MEG, TMS) and an interest in working with
clinical populations. You will have the opportunity to participate in
WICN dissemination and outreach activity in line with your skills and
experience.
Bangor is located on the coast at the foot of the Snowdonia mountains in
North Wales, offering stunning scenery as well as clean and peaceful
environment.
Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by
contacting Human Resources, Bangor University; tel: +44 (0)1248
382926/388132; e-mail: personnel@bangor.ac.uk; web: www.bangor.ac.uk
Please quote reference number 08-7/138 when applying.
Closing date for applications: Friday 30th May, 2008.
For an informal discussion about this post, potential applicants are
invited to contact Steve Tipper, Professor of Cognitive Science, tel:
+44 (0)1248 382095 or e-mail: s.tipper@bangor.ac.uk.
Also, please see the School of Psychology website at
http://www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk.
Committed To Equal Opportunities
_____________________________________________
Simon Watt PhD
Lecturer
School of Psychology
Bangor University
Gwynedd LL57 2AS
Wales
Tel: +44 (0) 1248 38 8252
Fax: +44 (0) 1248 38 2599
Email: s.watt@bangor.ac.uk
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gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y
neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar
unwaith a dilëwch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi,
rhaid i chi beidio â defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a
gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i
hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn
Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu
bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu
100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn
nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract
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From frank at psy.gla.ac.uk Thu Apr 17 08:50:48 2008
From: frank at psy.gla.ac.uk (Frank Pollick)
Date: Thu Apr 17 10:42:02 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Biological Motion Stimuli: Point-light stimuli
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID:
Hi,
Links to various resources are available at:
http://psych-s1.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/blaker/AR/AR06BM.html
which comes from the Annual Review of Psychology paper by Blake &
Shiffrar. Our motion library at http://paco.psy.gla.ac.uk/data.php
has the movement data but not the movies or the matlab code to generate
it. The paper describing the library is:
Ma Y.L., Paterson H. and Pollick F. E. (2006) A motion-capture library
for the study of identity, gender, and emotion perception from
biological motion, Behavior Research Methods, 38(1), 134-141
Best
Frank
On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:36, Klaus Libertus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for MatLab scripts or video-clips of Biological Motion
> Point-light stimuli for studies. If anybody has access to such stimuli
> and is willing to share I would be very thankful. Also, any links to
> web-sites are appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Klaus Libertus
>
> ?
>
>
> Klaus Libertus
> Graduate Student
> Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
> Duke University
> Phone:? 919-660-5790
> email: klaus.libertus@duke.edu
>
>
>
>
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From joakimv at stanford.edu Thu Apr 17 16:21:36 2008
From: joakimv at stanford.edu (Joakim Vinberg)
Date: Thu Apr 17 17:07:15 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Stanford University Vision and Perceptual Neuroscience
Lab, Lab Manager
Message-ID: <4807DB80.5030909@stanford.edu>
Description: The Vision and Perceptual Neuroscience Lab at
Stanford (vpnl.stanford.edu) seeks a Lab Manager. The Lab
Manager will support all aspect of research for our lab, which
studies the neural correlates of visual perception. Research
responsibilities include conducting fMRI scans, programming and
running behavioral experiments, design & programming of fMRI
experiments, participating in data analysis (behavioral and MRI
data), assisting in subject recruitment and coordinating
experiment and scan schedules. Responsibilities also include
maintenance of files and records, coordinating and attending
weekly meetings, software installation & maintenance of lab
computers and printers, ordering lab supplies and maintaining
inventory. Minimum duration of the position is 1 year.
Qualifications: BA/BS and previous research experience is highly
recommended, as well as previous experience in programming in
Matlab or C. Working knowledge of Mac, Linux, and Windows
operating systems required. Some experience with fMRI is a plus.
Outstanding organizational and communication skills are essential.
Please send your CV to joakimv@stanford.edu.
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From pasupat at u.washington.edu Fri Apr 18 14:19:23 2008
From: pasupat at u.washington.edu (Anitha Pasupathy)
Date: Fri Apr 18 15:00:28 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position in primate physiology -
University of Washington
Message-ID: <4809105B.6090602@u.washington.edu>
A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Biological
Structure and the Washington National Primate Research Center,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, to work in the lab of Dr. Anitha
Pasupathy. Work in our lab is focused on the neural basis of visual
shape representation and recognition. We use single and mutli-electrode
recordings in primates, psychophysics and computational modeling to
discover the physiological properties and neural circuits along the
ventral visual pathway that underlie our ability to perceive and
recognize objects. The lab is one of several highly collegial and
interactive groups in the WaNPRC and currently consists of one grad
student and two techs in addition to the PI.
Candidates with a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or engineering, an
excellent research record and strong interest in the above research
focus are encouraged to apply. Experience in extracellular recordings in
awake and/or anaesthetized animals is a plus. Please send applications
(short letter of interest, curriculum vitae and the names and addresses
of two referees), or requests for additional information, to:
pasupat@u.washington.edu.
--
Anitha Pasupathy Ph.D.
University of Washington
Dept. of Biological Structure
1959, N.E. Pacific Street
Box 357420, HSB G-514
Seattle, WA - 98195
Phone: (206) 685 0768
Fax: (206) 543 1524
--
--
Anitha Pasupathy Ph.D.
University of Washington
Dept. of Biological Structure
1959, N.E. Pacific Street
Box 357420, HSB G-514
Seattle, WA - 98195
Phone: (206) 685 0768
Fax: (206) 543 1524
From fcap at fordham.edu Sun Apr 20 07:06:19 2008
From: fcap at fordham.edu (fcap@fordham.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 20 08:08:54 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Fordham Psychometrics Conference - Registration is
open!
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From bal at dal.ca Tue Apr 22 04:37:21 2008
From: bal at dal.ca (Balwantray Chauhan)
Date: Tue Apr 22 07:20:00 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Form and Function in Ocular Disease
Message-ID:
Dear Colleagues:
I would like to draw your attention to a meeting which will take place
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on September 26-27, 2008. It is
entitled "Form and Function in Ocular Disease" and is a
multidisciplinary clinical and basic science meeting.
We have assembled guest faculty who are renowned in areas ranging from
imaging to genetics to the impact of global blindness. The faculty
will also include members from Dalhousie University. There is no cost
for registration.
More information can be found on http://
ophthalmology.medicine.dal.ca/. You can register online or by fax.
Since we are using several mailing lists and listserves, please accept
our apologies if you have received this notice more than once.
Kind regards,
Bal
______________________________________________
Balwantray Chauhan
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Dalhousie University
QEII Health Sciences Centre
1278 Tower Road, Halifax, NS
Canada B3H 2Y9
Tel: 902-473-3202 Fax: 902-473-2839 Email: bal@dal.ca
From O.Pach at nin.knaw.nl Wed Apr 23 00:11:27 2008
From: O.Pach at nin.knaw.nl (Olga Pach)
Date: Wed Apr 23 06:54:07 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Perceptual learning, motor learning, and automaticity
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From M.J.vanSteensel at umcutrecht.nl Wed Apr 23 06:55:12 2008
From: M.J.vanSteensel at umcutrecht.nl (Steensel, M.J. van)
Date: Wed Apr 23 07:35:08 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Brain-Computer Interfacing in 2008 symposium: Early
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From btjan at usc.edu Wed Apr 23 08:30:27 2008
From: btjan at usc.edu (Bosco Tjan)
Date: Wed Apr 23 09:00:06 2008
Subject: [visionlist] Postdocs in visual psychophysics and fMRI w Tjan at USC
Message-ID:
TWO postdoctoral positions are available immediately in Bosco Tjan's
laboratory at the University of Southern California to investigate
normal and impaired vision. We are looking for creative individuals
with solid training in vision science.
Position 1 will investigate form vision in the periphery using a
combination of novel psychophysical, computational, and fMRI
techniques. The overall goal is to identify the functional and neural
mechanisms that underlie several key deficits in the peripheral form
vision of normally-sighted individuals and patients with macular
disorders.
Position 2 will play a vital role in the development of an adaptive
image enhancement system, based on mid-level visual processing, to
aid people with low vision. This is part of a large multi-site multi-
investigator project. The emphases in Tjan's lab are to conduct
human testing and build observer models to predict enhancement
outcomes. The person will also interact with other investigators for
this project at USC, including Norberto Grzywacz, Bartlett Mel,
Irving Biederman, Zhong-Lin Lu, and Mark Humayun.
Candidates for both positions should have or about to have a PhD, a
strong background in visual psychophysics, good computer programming
ability, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Expertise in at least one of following areas is essential: spatial
vision, low vision, fMRI, signal processing, computational modeling
of human vision, and machine learning.
The laboratory (http://tlab.usc.edu) has state-of-the-art facilities
for visual psychophysics and computational modeling. We also have
full access to a 3T MR imager with a stimulus presentation system
designed specifically for high-precision visual psychophysics (http://
brainimaging.usc.edu/index.php?topic=facilities). The facility is
conveniently located downstairs from the laboratory.
There is a vibrant and collaborative vision research community at USC
(http://cvst.usc.edu/people) and in the greater Los Angeles area
(UCLA, Cal Tech, UC Irvine).
Position start date is flexible. Salary will be commensurate with
experience.
To apply, send a statement of interest, CV, and the names of three
references to Bosco Tjan: btjanusc.edu. Please indicate the
position. I will be available at VSS.
Bosco
From cvalenti at math.unipa.it Wed Apr 23 07:58:14 2008
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