[vslist] Chistmas Vision Meeting in the UK

[Tim Meese]

Dear all - Apologies if you receive this more than once. Please find 
the programme for this year's AVA Christmas Meeting below.

If you would like to attend the meeting and have not done so already 
you should register by sending an e-mail to Vicky Heath 
<v.e.heath at aston.ac.uk> and provide your vehicle registration details 
if you intend to drive. You should also pay in advance by sending a 
cheque made payable to the 'Applied Vision Association' for the sum 
below to the address below. Please note, overseas visitors can pay on 
the day but we are unable to accept payments by credit card.

Finally, we have one or two spare slots for posters so if anyone 
would like to bring along a recent VSS/ARVO/ECVP poster then please 
drop me a note (t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk).

           R E G I S T R A T I O N   F E E S (pounds sterling)

               Students            Other
AVA member       10                 18
Non-member       15                 28


Vicky Heath
Neurosciences Research Institute
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET UK

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The Seventh AVA Christmas Meeting

Aston University
Wed 18th Dec 2002
Human Vision: When it Works and When it Fails

Programme

Vision Sciences, Aston University
room G03

10.15 am
Registration in reception of Vision Sciences

10.55 am
Welcome and Introduction

Session 1 (Spatial Vision) Chair: Andrew Schofield
11.00 am
A model for motion sharpening: contrast gain control precedes 
compressive non-linearity
Gill S. Barbieri-Hesse, Mark A. Georgeson , Stephen T. Hammett & 
Samantha Bedingham

11.15 am
Perceiving edge blur: linear filtering and a rectifying non-linearity
Keith A. May, & Mark A. Georgeson

11.30 am
Orientation-masking: suppression and mechanism bandwidths
Tim S. Meese & David J. Holmes

11.45 am
Border ownership and holes
Marco Bertamini

12.00 noon (Invited talk)
Distortions in the visual perception of size in Parkinson's disease
John Harris

12.30 - 1.30 pm
Lunch and posters

Session 2 (Time & Changes) Chair: Tom Troscianko
1.30 pm (Invited talk)
Time and the observer revisited
David Rose

2.00 pm
Distorting time
Derek H. Arnold, Colin W. G. Clifford  & Alan Johnston

2.15 pm
Detection of changes of objects, colours and shadows in natural scenes.
Michael J. Wright, Seema Shah & Louise Alston

2.30 pm
Neural correlates of change detection and change blindness
Louise Alston and Michael J. Wright

2.45 pm
Attentional capture by new objects and attentional loss by old objects
Angus. R. H. Gellatly &  G. Cole

3.00 - 3.30 pm
Tea, coffee and posters

Session 3 (Dynamic Vision and Noise) Chair: Andrew Schofield

3.30 pm (Invited talk)
Spatial interference in dynamic stimuli
Peter. J. Bex, A. J. Simmers & S. C. Dakin

4.00 pm
Males are 'noisy females' when it comes to reporting the 
psychological structure of the basic colours
Lewis D. Griffin

4.15 pm
Understanding cone distributions from saccadic dynamics. Is information rate
maximised?
Alex Lewis, Raquel Garcia & Li Zhaoping

4.30 pm
Ambiguity and biological motion
Ian M. Thornton

4.45 pm
Analysing optic flow generated by locomotion through a natural environment
Johannes M. Zanker & Jochen Zeil

5.00 onwards
Posters and wine

The visual control of braking.
Paul Rock & Mike Harris

Trade stands (all day)

CRS
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