[vslist] FALL VISION MEETING

[Susana Marcos]

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FALL VISION MEETING
in cooperation with the Optical Society of America
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Oct 4 - 6th, 2003
University of Arizona, Tucson & Hilton Tucson El Conquistador=20

Abstract submission deadlines:
	OCULAR IMAGING SYMPOSIUM (OSA Annual Meeting). April 21. Guidelines for
abstract preparation and online submission:
http://www.osa.org/meetings/annual/presenter/prep/
	REST OF SYMPOSIA. June 30. Guidelines for abstract preparation and online
submission: to be announced

Overview
The Vision & Color Division of the Optical Society of America organizes an
expanded version of the very successful Fall Vision Meetings in Irvine 2001
and San Francisco 2002. The meeting will include symposia on Vision, Color,
Clinical Vision and Visual Optics (Saturday & Sunday at the University of
Arizona), and symposia on Ocular Imaging, joint with the Optics in Biology
and Medicine OSA Division (Monday, at the OSA Annual Meeting). The meeting
will be free of cost, thanks to the sponsorship of the University of
Arizona. The Optical Society of America is waiving one-day (Monday)
registration for all those attending the Vision Meeting. The meeting will
include the presentation of the Boynton Lecture. Presentations will be in
the form of oral presentations and posters.
The goal of the meeting is to bring together those interested in
quantitative visual science and those developing medical applications of
this high-quality field in an appealing venue with extensive opportunities
for cross-fertilization at the clinical/lab interface. The connection with
the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting will favor the interactions
with other OSA Divisions, who present a wide program on biomedical imaging
and on recent advances on photonics and optoelectronics.=20

SYMPOSIA

BASIC VISION. Organizers: Miguel Eckstein & Ione Fine
=B7	Segmentation and Grouping. To recognize objects in natural environments
requires segmenting their contours from the background environment, while
grouping joins "like with like".  This symposium will focus on
segmentation, grouping, and how these two tasks are related.. Moderator:
Ione Fine. Invited Moderator: Jitendra Malik
=B7	Cue combination. In many tasks (e.g. estimating 3D depth and shape or
estimating the illuminant) there are a variety of cues available to the
visual system, and no single cue is either necessary or sufficient. The
symposium will focus on recent work examining how sensory systems combine
information across different cues.  Moderator: Marty Banks

COLOR VISION. Organizers: Mike Webster & John S Werner
Brief description: Color symposia will mark the career of Russell L. De
Valois, with talks by his former students and colleagues on the neural
coding and representation
of color and form. Contributed papers are also solicited.
=B7	Color Vision symposium in Honor of Russell L. DeValois. Physiology
Moderator: Michael Webster
=B7	Color Vision symposium in Honor of Russell L. DeValois. Psychophysics.
Moderator:  John S Werner

CLINICAL VISION. Organizer:  Marilyn Schneck
=B7	New Approaches to Retinal Disease. Moderator: Gunilla Haegerst=F6m-Portn=
oy
Papers are solicited for this symposium. Topics include genetics of retinal
disease, emerging treatments (including preventative measures, photodynamic
therapy, implants, transplants and gene therapy). In addition, papers
concerning candidate outcome measures for assessing efficacy of treatments
(electrophysiological and psychophysical measures of function and retinal
imaging) are requested.


VISUAL OPTICS. Organizers: Susana Marcos, Austin Roorda & Jim Schwiegerling
Studies of the optical properties of the eye and optical  imaging of  the
visual system, together with applications of knowledge of optics and visual
system in medicine and industry. Papers are solicited for general visual
optics in general, and the following symposia in particular.
=B7	Optical quality metrics for the Eye. Moderator: Ray Applegate.
Wavefront sensors can provide accurate measurements of the wave aberrations
of the eye, but how can we use that information to describe how well, or
how poorly the eye sees? While image quality metrics are well understood
for optical systems with low aberrations, they generally fail to apply for
the high aberrations found in the eye. An understanding of optical image
quality in the eye is important for many applications, ranging from
measurements of the outcomes of refractive surgery to building a better
autorefractor.
=B7	Accommodation and Refractive Error. Moderator: Christine Wildsoet.
The symposium will include studies of the etiology of refractive errors,
animal models for myopia, control of ocular growth, optical aberrations and
refractive errors, clues for accommodation, and presbyopia and aging of the
crystalline lens.
=B7	Visual Optics and Visual Aids. Moderator: Geunyoung Yoon=20
Optical performance of conventional and custom contact lenses, intraocular
lenses; multifocal optics, intacts; Design and visual performance of low
vision aids (optical and digital).

OCULAR IMAGING. Organizers: Susana Marcos, Austin Roorda & Jim
Schwiegerling (OSA Color & Vision Division) and Jennifer Barton, Chris
Schaffer & Nimmi Ramanujam (OSA Optics in Biology and Medicine). Papers and
posters submissions are requested following OSA Annual Meeting guidelines.
=B7	Novel  imaging devices and applications: ocular imaging. This  session
will  cover  endoscope-based imaging systems (e.g. OCT, confocal,
spectroscopic), with a focus on the probe design  (using micro optics,
MEMS). New imaging opportunities that these devices allow will be=
 emphasized.
Invited speakers:=20
Wolfgang Drexler, U. Vienna, "OCT in the human eye"
Richard Rosen, New York Eye Enfermery, "En face OCT"
David Williams, U, Rochester, "Adaptive optics in the human eye"

=B7	Optical manipulation of biological tissues in the human eye. This=
 session
will include topics like short-pulse cutting of  corneal tissue,
photochemistry to induce biological change in the retina
Invited speakers:
Francois Delori, Schepens Eye Research Institute & Harvard-  Tutorial.
Laser-tissue interaction in the human retina
Alfred Vogel, Laser corneal ablation
Benjamin Rockwell, Air Force Research Lab: photodynamic therapy and
toxicity induced by multiphoton absorption in melanin

=B7	Current trends in  Spectroscopy and Imaging for Disease Diagnosis. This
will emphasize the origins of  optical signals from biological tissue (i.e.
the retina or the visual cortex, etc=85.)and how they can be used to
understand the appearance and progression of disease (with particular
emphasis of image processing and visual understanding).
	Invited speakers:
Francois Delori, Schepens Eye Research Institute & Harvard-Autofluorescence
imaging.
Tim Holmes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Deconvolution of retinal=
 images
Elisabeth Krupinski, University of Arizona, Analyzing medical images
incorporating the effects of the observer into the processing.=20