[vslist] FALL VISION MEETING. ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

[Susana Marcos]

Dear colleagues:

The Online Abstract Submission and Registration for the FALL VISION MEETING
is now open. 
Please note that registration is necessary before submitting an abstract.
Details of the meeting and the online registration and abstract submission
may be found at
http://www.eyes.arizona.edu/fallvisionmeeting/

Submissions are invited for papers to coordinate with the Symposium
Topics or on any other aspect of vision.
Submission deadline is June 30, 2003.


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FALL VISION MEETING OVERVIEW
FVM2003 is sponsored by the University of Arizona with cooperation from the
Optical Society of America. The meeting will be held from Oct 4-6, at the
Tucson Marriott
University Park Hotel, which is adjacent to the University of Arizona Campus.
The mission of the FVM has been to hold a low-cost, high-quality meeting in
a small setting. The Optical Society of America has kindly agreed to
cooperate by providing free one-day registration for the OSA Annual Meeting
on Monday, October 6.
The highlight of this year's meeting will be the Boynton Lecture. This year
the lecture will be given by Russell L. De Valois. Two symposia will also
be held in his honor.
The abstracts that are accepted at the this year's meeting will be
published in the online Journal of Vision.
The Young Investigator Award is an OSA tradition and will be awarded to the
student or postdoc who gives the best presentation. The winner of the award
will receive a cash prize and free registration to the 2004 Fall Vision
Meeting. Application for the Young Investigator Award can be made through
the Abstract Submission and Registration page.


*******SYMPOSIA***********
Symposia are organized into subcategories (Vision, Color Vision,Clinical
Vision Sciences,Applications of Vision Science), which include the four 
Vision and
Color Division Groups. Symposia related to ocular imaging will be presented
at the OSA Annual (Submissions are now closed for the OSA Annual Meeting)

VISION. Organizers: Miguel Eckstein & Ione Fine

"Segmentation and Grouping"
Moderator: Ione Fine, University of California, San Diego
Invited Moderator: Jitendra Malik, University of California, Berkeley
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.

"Cue combination"
Moderator: Marty Banks, University of California, Berkeley
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.

COLOR VISION. Organizers: Mike Webster & John S. Werner

"Color Vision Symposium in Honor of Russell L. DeValois-Physiology "
Moderator: Michael Webster, University of Nevada, Reno

"Color Vision Symposium in Honor of Russell L. DeValois-Psychophysics"
Moderator: John S. Werner, University of California, Davis
The two 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.

CLINICAL VISION. Organizer: Marilyn Schneck

"New Approaches to Retinal Disease"
Moderator: Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy, University of California, Berkeley
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.

APPLICATIONS OF VISION SCIENCE. 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 visual optics in
general, and the following symposia in particular.

"Optical Quality Metrics for the Eye"
Moderator: Raymond A. Applegate, University of Houston
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.

"Accommodation and Refractive Error"
Moderator: Christine Wildsoet, University of California, Berkeley
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.

"Visual Optics and Visual Aids"
Moderator: Geunyoung Yoon, University of Rochester
Optical performance of conventional and custom contact lenses, intraocular
lenses; multifocal optics, intacts; design and visual performance of low
vision aids (optical and digital).