From chiara.dellalibera at medicina.univr.it Thu Jan 1 00:01:08 2009 From: chiara.dellalibera at medicina.univr.it (Chiara Della Libera) Date: Fri Jan 2 11:42:19 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Two Post-doc fellowships in Leo Chelazzi's Lab Message-ID: Two Postdoctoral Fellowships available in Leonardo Chelazzi's lab at the University of Verona. Two positions at the postdoctoral level will be available in Leonardo Chelazzi's lab at the University of Verona, beginning in early spring 2009 (two-years duration, renewable). One position is reserved for someone to be fully in charge of a newly established TMS unit; the other is for someone to carry out single-unit recording experiments with behaving macaques. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to investigate the brain mechanisms of visual selective attention and the complex interplay between selective attention and other cognitive functions, such as learning and memory, motivation and decision making (www.attention-lab.net). Job requirements: - Solid background in the general area of cognitive neuroscience. - Strong documented experience in the relevant experimental methodologies, i.e. excellent mastering of the TMS technique and its applications within cognitive neuroscience for the first position and previous experience in single-unit and/or multi-unit recordings from behaving monkeys for the second position. - Excellent programming and statistical skills. - Strong motivation. - Creative approach towards scientific research. Please note that knowledge of the Italian language is not a requirement. If interested, please send your application, a detailed CV and two reference letters to: leonardo.chelazzi@univr.it or to: Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi Dept. of Neurological and Vision Sciences - Section of Physiology University of Verona I- 37134 Strada Le Grazie 8, Verona (Italy) Applications will be accepted if received before March 1, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. **************************************************************************** **************************** We are happy to announce that the 2009 Master-of-Ceremonies will be none other than the infamous Peter Thompson of The University of York, UK. Dr. Thompson is the creator of the famed Margaret Thatcher illusion, one of the most celebrated illusions of the 20th century. His skills as an MC are legendary. none of this year's contest's attendees will leave unchanged or unscathed. **************************************************************************** **************************** Past contests have been highly successful in drawing public attention to vision research, with over ***TWO MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world, as well as hundreds of international media stories. The First, Second and Third Prize winners at the 2008 contest were Rob van Lier & Mark Vergeer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Rob Jenkins (University of Glasgow, UK), and Thomas Papathoms (Rutgers University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2008 and previous contests, go to http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Illusion submissions can be novel visual, cognitive, or multimodal illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2008) in standard image, movie or html formats. Exciting new variants of classic or known illusions are also admissible. 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! Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted to the 2009 contest, so 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 to 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 16, 2009. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience Barrow Neurological Institute 350 W. Thomas Rd. Phoenix AZ 85013 USA Phone: +1 602 406-3484 Fax: +1 602 406-4192 Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The curriculum reflects the wide range of research areas at CVR, which includes basic research on vision in humans and animals, covering both neuroscience and behaviour, as well as applied topics such as computer vision, virtual reality, visual perception in low-gravity environments, and vision in clinical populations. For an idea of the topics to be covered, see last year's schedule at www.yorku.ca/cvrss/schedule2008.pdf . The program will accept 24 undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in scientific research. It is intended mainly for students who are planning to apply to graduate school in the fall of 2009, and who are interested in investigating vision science as a possible area of research. Both Canadian and international students are encouraged to apply. 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, 2009, and applicants will be notified of decisions by March 1, 2009. 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 NSERC and York University. Poster available at www.yorku.ca/cvrss/poster2009.pdf. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Arnold Tsunehiro Takeda Alan Johnston http://journalofvision.org/8/10/3/ The effects of parts, wholes, and familiarity on face-selective responses in MEG Alison M. Harris Geoffrey K. Aguirre http://journalofvision.org/8/10/4/ Spatial frequency tuning in human retinotopic visual areas Linda Henriksson Lauri Nurminen Aapo Hyv?rinen Simo Vanni http://journalofvision.org/8/10/5/ fMRI measurements of color in macaque and human Alex Wade Mark Augath Nikos Logothetis Brian Wandell http://journalofvision.org/8/10/6/ Color signals in the primary visual cortex of marmosets P?ter Buz?s Brett A. Szmajda Maziar Hashemi-Nezhad Bogdan Dreher Paul R. Martin http://journalofvision.org/8/10/7/ Comparison of contrast-response functions from multifocal visual-evoked potentials (mfVEPs) and functional MRI responses Jason C. Park Xian Zhang John Ferrera Joy Hirsch Donald C. Hood http://journalofvision.org/8/10/8/ The representation of subordinate shape similarity in human occipitotemporal cortex Sven Panis Joris Vangeneugden Hans P. Op de Beeck Johan Wagemans http://journalofvision.org/8/10/9/ Quantifying spatial uncertainty of visual area boundaries in neuroimaging data Dean Kirson Alexander C. Huk Lawrence K. Cormack http://journalofvision.org/8/10/10/ Orientation sensitivity of the N1 evoked by letters and digits Branka Milivojevic Michael C. Corballis Jeff P. Hamm http://journalofvision.org/8/10/11/ Identifying the human optic radiation using diffusion imaging and fiber tractography Anthony J. Sherbondy Robert F. Dougherty Sandy Napel Brian A. Wandell http://journalofvision.org/8/10/12/ Neural processing underlying tactile microspatial discrimination in the blind: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study Randall Stilla Rebecca Hanna Xiaoping Hu Erica Mariola Gopikrishna Deshpande K. Sathian http://journalofvision.org/8/10/13/ Neural correlates of the stereokinetic effect revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging Tetsuya Yamamoto Shigeko Takahashi Takashi Hanakawa Shin-ichi Urayama Toshihiko Aso Hidenao Fukuyama Yoshimichi Ejima http://journalofvision.org/8/10/14/ BOLD response to spatial phase congruency in human brain Andrea Perna Michela Tosetti Domenico Montanaro Maria Concetta Morrone http://journalofvision.org/8/10/15/ Functional brain imaging of the Rotating Snakes illusion by fMRI Ichiro Kuriki Hiroshi Ashida Ikuya Murakami Akiyoshi Kitaoka http://journalofvision.org/8/10/16/ Optic flow in human vision: MEG reveals a foveo-fugal bias in V1, specialization for spiral space in hMSTs, and global motion sensitivity in the IPS Ian E. Holliday Timothy S. Meese http://journalofvision.org/8/10/17/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Douglas Crawford http://journalofvision.org/8/16/3/ Inhibitory competition in figure-ground perception: Context and convexity Mary A. Peterson Elizabeth Salvagio http://journalofvision.org/8/16/4/ Anticipatory pursuit is influenced by a concurrent timing task Jeremy B. Badler Philippe Lef?vre Marcus Missal http://journalofvision.org/8/16/5/ The perception of illusory transparent surfaces in infancy: Early emergence of sensitivity to static pictorial cues Yumiko Otsuka Yuka Yamazaki Yukuo Konishi So Kanazawa Masami K. Yamaguchi Branka Spehar http://journalofvision.org/8/16/6/ Object perception is selectively slowed by a visually similar working memory load Alan Robinson Alberto Manzi Jochen Triesch http://journalofvision.org/8/16/7/ Visual short-term memory of local information in briefly viewed natural scenes: Configural and non-configural factors Ljiljana Velisavljevic James H. Elder http://journalofvision.org/8/16/8/ Apparent speed increases at low luminance Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam Patrick Cavanagh http://journalofvision.org/8/16/9/ Estimating classification images with generalized linear and additive models Kenneth Knoblauch Laurence T. Maloney http://journalofvision.org/8/16/10/ Brief subjective durations contract with repetition Vani Pariyadath David M. Eagleman http://journalofvision.org/8/16/11/ Color aids late but not early stages of rapid natural scene recognition Angela Y. J. Yao Wolfgang Einh?user http://journalofvision.org/8/16/12/ Visuospatial experience modulates attentional capture: Evidence from action video game players Greg L. West Sara A. Stevens Carson Pun Jay Pratt http://journalofvision.org/8/16/13/ Cues for the control of ocular accommodation and vergence during postnatal human development Shrikant R. Bharadwaj T. Rowan Candy http://journalofvision.org/8/16/14/ Visual memory during pauses between successive saccades Timothy M. Gersch Eileen Kowler Brian S. Schnitzer Barbara A. Dosher http://journalofvision.org/8/16/15/ Relative latencies of cone signals measured by a moving vernier task Zac Blake Tom Land John Mollon http://journalofvision.org/8/16/16/ Shape and motion interactions at perceptual and attentional levels during processing of structure from motion stimuli A. Miskiewicz S. Buffat A.-L. Paradis J. Lorenceau http://journalofvision.org/8/16/17/ A tilted frame deceives the eye and the hand Wenxun Li Ethel Matin Jeremiah W. Bertz Leonard Matin http://journalofvision.org/8/16/18/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Members of the Award Committee cannot serve as nominators. The Award Committee will select the winner by March 16, and the prize, which includes an honorarium, will be presented at the 2009 VSS meeting in Naples. The nominations should include: * A letter of recommendation with a detailed description of the scientific contributions of the nominee. * A curriculum vitae of the nominee. Please note, while previously considered nominees may be re-nominated, a new nomination is required (assuming the nominee is still eligible). Nominations for the 2009 Young Investigator Award should be submitted by email to Shauney Wilson ( shauneywilson@visionsciences.org). Deadline for receipt of nominations: Friday, January 9, 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Previous experience with fMRI and/or other cognitive neuroscience methods is useful but not required. A Ph.D. in a relevant field is required. Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, statement of research interests and experience, representative publications, and the names and email addresses of at least three references to Steven Yantis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 ASSC13, held in June 2009 in Berlin/Germany (travel, Accommodation, and registration paid by ASSC). Nominations, including self nominations, should be sent to Axel Cleeremans (ASSC Prize Committee; axcleer@ulb.ac.be). 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: * Axel Cleeremans, Universit? libre de Bruxelles (chair) * Daniel Dennett, Tufts University * Chris Frith, University College London * Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Deadline for submission of nominations is January 31st, 2009 -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Olivia Carter, PhD School of Behavioural Sciences Rm 811 Redmond Barry Building University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia Phone:+61 (0)3 83446372 email: ocarter@unimelb.edu.au http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Olivia/olivia.html From K.Rogers at elsevier.com Fri Jan 9 05:13:53 2009 From: K.Rogers at elsevier.com (Rogers, Kelly (ELS-OXF)) Date: Fri Jan 9 07:03:54 2009 Subject: [visionlist] FW: Vision Conference Message-ID: <4F1EB418DED58441B95F87EA9415F73F0159EA4A@ELSOXFEXCP27VA.science.regn.net> Dear Sirs, Please can you add the following conference to your conference/events page and inform me of the status when it goes live? Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me. Twelfth Annual Vision Research Conference Mechanisms of Macular Degeneration A two-day satellite event prior to the 2009 meeting of ARVO May 1-2, 2009 * Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA Abstracts for poster presentation are now invited. Please submit using the online submission form by February 2, 2009. The meeting will review the latest developments in the genetics of AMD, and focus on animal models that closely mimic early or late onset human macular diseases. Major areas to be covered will be mechanisms that lead to macular dystrophies, novel animal models of macular degeneration, and upcoming strategies in pharmacological and gene-based therapies in animal models. Visit the Vision Research website. 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090109/a1aeba92/attachment.htm From A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk Mon Jan 12 06:36:03 2009 From: A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk (Andrew Schofield) Date: Mon Jan 12 06:48:33 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Applied Vision Association AGM (Birmingham UK, 2009) Call for Submissions Message-ID: <496B5553.14087.10DC1AD@A.J.Schofield.Bham.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPLIED VISION ASSOCIATION: ANNUAL MEETING- TUESDAY 31st MARCH 2009 ABSTRACT DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 24th 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Applied Vision Association will take place on Tuesday 31st March 2009 School of Sport and Exercise Science University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, UK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's G J Burton Memorial Lecture will be Given by: Prof I. Christopher McManus, UCL. Provisional Title: Visual Aesthetics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Abstracts (max length: 250 words) should be submitted by e-mail to Andrew Schofield (a.j.schofield@bham.ac.uk) by February24th. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and published in the journal Perception (so long as presenting authors attend the meeting) and should cover previously unreported research. It is our intention to dedicate one session to the topic of Aesthetics and Appearance but open contributions on any aspect of vision are welcome. Abstracts must be in the standard format for ECVP/Perception (including addresses etc), examples of which can be seen at: http://www.perceptionweb.com/P.html 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) 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. It is expected that speakers will use their own laptop, or will bring a powerpoint presentation on a memory stick suitable for use with either a PC or a MAC. The organizers will try to accommodate preferences for a talk or poster but the number of submissions that this meeting now attracts means that this is not always possible. In particular, authors should note that tardy submissions are much less likely to be accepted as talks. REGISTRATION With the exception of overseas visitors, attendees should pay in advance at the registration rate shown below. If needs be, payment will be accepted on the door though credit card facilities will not be available. If you cannot pay in advance please still register in advance by sending an e-mail to a.j.schofield@bham.ac.uk so that we can estimate catering needs.. Overseas visitors may pay on the door but, in any case, we would be most grateful if you could give us advance warning of your intention to attend. R E G I S T R A T I O N F E E S Students Other Members 15 35 Pounds Sterling Non-members 25 45 Membership plus 35 55 registration We will be accepting registration fees using Paypal. To register go to http://www.theAVA.net/ and select the link to the AVA Annual Meeting and AGM at Birmingham. When you use Paypal for the first time it takes a little time to set things up, but thereafter it is quite quick. We do hope you will find this a convenient way of paying your registration fee. Alternatively, we still accept cheques (payable to 'Applied Vision Association') which should be sent to Andrew Schofield at the address below. (If sending cheques please indicate the registration category and who the cheque is for.) Andrew Schofield School of Psychology University of Birmingham Edbaston Birmingham B15 2TT All other enquiries should also be directed to Andrew Schofield VENUE - DIRECTIONS - ACCOMODATION Venue: School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Birmingham. Lecture Theatre 1 (talks) Atrium (registration, refreshments, lunch and posters) Directions: Directions to the Campus can be found at http://www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps/edgbaston.shtml Sport Ex is building Y14 on the Campus Map http://www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps/edgbastonmap.shtml Note that rail travel is by far the easiest way to arrive at the university as we have our own station. Ask for a ticket to 'Univeristy'. Most visitors will have to change at Birmingham New Street. Trains to University depart at approximately 10 minute intervals from New Street (Final destinations Redich or Longbridge). TRAVEL BY AIR International and long distance visitors might like to note that Birmingham International Airport accepts flights from around the world including North America (Continental), as well as internal flights. The quickest way from the airport to the University is by train. Take the free 'Air-Rail Link' to the near by Birmingham International Railway station and there buy a ticket to 'University' changing trains at New Street. ACCOMODATION There is the no organized accommodation associated with the meeting so over-night accommodation (including that on campus) should be organized on a private basis. Please note that the recommendations below are based on proximity to the Campus. Lucas House. Hotel style accommodation can be booked directly with the University Conference Park on +44 121 415 8400 ask for a room in Lucas House. Please note they will know nothing about the meeting. Copperfield House Hotel (**) 60 Upland Rd Selly Park B29 7JS. 0121 472 8344 Awentsbury Hotel 21 Serpentine Road Selly Park B29 7HU 0121 472 1258 There are many hotels including most major chains in the City Centre. I look forward to receiving your abstracts and to greeting you on the day. Andrew Schofield ***************************** * Dr Andrew Schofield * School of Psychology * University of Birmingham * Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT * +44 (0)121 414 5644 From Luca.Marchesotti at xrce.xerox.com Mon Jan 12 02:11:21 2009 From: Luca.Marchesotti at xrce.xerox.com (Marchesotti, Luca) Date: Mon Jan 12 06:48:51 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Scientist position - XEROX Research Centre Europe - Grenoble, France Message-ID: The area: Text and Visual Pattern Analysis XEROX Research Centre Europe's Text and Visual Pattern Analysis Area (TVPA) is an expanding team, which specializes in text and visual content understanding. Our mission is the delivery of Xerox's innovative solutions that make everyday interaction with visual and textual content simple and effective. Our research is the result of combining skills mainly in machine learning, pattern recognition and image analysis. In particular we focus on text and image categorization, image enhancement, quality assessment and document imaging. Your Job: Research Scientist As a research scientist in TVPA you will be asked to generate and follow up on new ideas, on build strong competencies and intellectual property in Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis. In particular, you will be pursuing activities around our new research agenda on Applied Visual Aesthetics. Moreover, you will collaborate in a small, agile team that leads the development of the OMNIA Project. OMNIA is a three year project funded by French Government aiming at developing innovative strategies for multimodal asset retrieval based on three main axes: content, emotion and visual aesthetics. Research Topics: * Design of aesthetic measures (light/colour harmony/composition analysis, aesthetic ontology design, user preference regression etc.) * Image mood analysis (development of features capturing emotional content of visual information, design of classifiers for automatic labeling of assets) * Assisted content creation and Image personalization (asset selection, features transfer, colour harmonization, etc.) Responsibilities: 1. Inventing, implementing and evaluating novel imaging software. 2. Studying the state of the art, disseminate results on international conferences and journal papers, fulfill project deliverables. 3. Collaborating with other project partners in order to integrate the research results in a common environment/platform (sharing components, algorithms and methods). Requirements - PhD in Computer Science with a strong history of systems building and publishing -Deep and substantial background on Pattern Recognition/Computer Vision and Image Processing -Strong English-language written and oral communications skills Expected start date: Mid February 2009 Type of contract: Temporary position - 18 months To apply: Please send your CV and cover letter to: luca.marchesotti@xrce.xerox.com, xrce-candidates@xrce.xerox.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090112/4b5d10fa/attachment.htm From georgios.keliris at tuebingen.mpg.de Mon Jan 12 08:21:20 2009 From: georgios.keliris at tuebingen.mpg.de (Georgios A. Keliris) Date: Mon Jan 12 10:04:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D. position available at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <003201c974d1$cd6e3af0$684ab0d0$@keliris@tuebingen.mpg.de> Ph.D. position: Study of neural plasticity and cortical reorganization following visual system injury A graduate student position has opened up at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany. The project in question focuses on the study of neural plasticity and cortical reorganization following visual system injury. State of the art functional magnetic resonance imaging methods will be used to study a cohort of carefully selected patients with lesions of the visual pathway. The opportunity exists to run a parallel comparative study in non-human primates. This project is under the joint supervision of Drs Nikos K. Logothetis (MPI for Biological Cybernetics) and Stelios Smirnakis (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA). Desired Experience: The candidate is expected to have a strong quantitative background and experience with programming, ideally in MATLAB. A strong background in biology and prior experience with imaging is desirable. Contact: Interested parties should e-mail a brief description of their interests and their CV, to Dr. Smirnakis at ssmirnakis@cns.bcm.edu ___________________________________ Dr. Georgios A. Keliris Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Spemannstr. 38 72076 Tuebingen Germany _____________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090112/449c4d50/attachment.htm From H.A.Allen at bham.ac.uk Tue Jan 13 00:01:35 2009 From: H.A.Allen at bham.ac.uk (Harriet Allen) Date: Tue Jan 13 07:05:21 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 10 PhD Studentships at Birmingham Message-ID: <496C4A5F.60108@bham.ac.uk> Below is an advert for funded PhD places at Birmingham, UK. Birmingham has thriving vision (e.g. Kourtzi, Harris, Schofield, Welchman, Allen) and visual cognition (e.g. Humphreys, Riddoch, Olson, Heinke) research groups. ************************** University of Birmingham, School of Psychology: Up to 10 PhD Studentships available for October 2009 The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is the 3rd highest ranking department for research in the UK. We seek excellent applicants for up to 10 University and Research Council funded research studentships for students wishing to start a research degree in October. The admissions process runs throughout the academic year, but we particularly encourage applications to be made by 16/03/09. 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 ?12,940 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 -- ***************************** Dr H A Allen RCUK Research Fellow Brain and Behavioural Sciences School of Psychology University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3601 Fax: +44 (0) 414 4897 Email: H.A.Allen@bham.ac.uk From mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie Tue Jan 13 05:05:23 2009 From: mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie (Elliott, Mark) Date: Tue Jan 13 07:05:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] FECHNER DAY 2009: ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS In-Reply-To: <26f46c7c739ddf21e0f2a5f2327720f0@www.ispsychophysics.org> References: <26f46c7c739ddf21e0f2a5f2327720f0@www.ispsychophysics.org> Message-ID: <5822C383-B484-4B88-A311-95AFBC5F83FC@mimectl> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090113/bda319eb/attachment.htm From rcandy at indiana.edu Tue Jan 13 08:54:28 2009 From: rcandy at indiana.edu (Rowan Candy) Date: Tue Jan 13 10:33:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position: Indiana University Message-ID: A postdoctoral position is available to work on the integration of visual cues in the development of accommodation and vergence responses. The projects are framed in the context of understanding the development of amblyopia and strabismus. This work will be conducted in collaboration with Rowan Candy at Indiana University, Bloomington. http://www.opt.indiana.edu/people/faculty/candy/index.html The lab uses a combination of psychophysics, eye-tracking, photorefraction and EEG techniques to study the normal and abnormal visual development of human infants and children. The successful applicant should have a background in vision science based in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, or clinical care and a strong interest in applying quantitative analyses. Interested candidates should send a CV with the names of and contact information for two referees to rcandy@indiana.edu . The position is available immediately and to be filled before September 2009. The city of Bloomington sits in the wooded hills and lakes of southern Indiana. More information about the campus and city is available at http://www.iub.edu/tour and http://www.visitbloomington.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ T. Rowan Candy, Associate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science, Associate Dean for Research Indiana University School of Optometry Member Cognitive Science & Neuroscience programs 800 E. 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The conference provides an opportunity for researchers working in the areas of smart camera architectures, algorithm design, embedded vision-based processing, and smart environments to exchange their most recent results. Offering insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and presentation of design methodologies employed by leading research groups working in these areas are also the objectives of the conference. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations and contributions based on industrial applications are also of interest. Topics of interest within the scope of the conference include: * Distributed vision processing algorithms * Distributed appearance modelling * Fusion of vision and other sensors * Collaborative feature extraction, data and decision fusion * Architectures and protocols for camera networks * Smart camera architectures * Image sensing techniques for smart cameras * Embedded vision programming * Wireless and mobile image sensor networks * Position discovery and middle-ware applications * Vision-based smart environments * Surveillance and tracking applications * Multi-view vision for Human-Computer Interfaces (HCI) * 3D scene analysis * Distributed multimedia and gaming applications For a more detailed list of areas within the scope and interest of the conference see http://www.icdsc.org/ Paper Submission: Full length-papers between six (6) and eight (8) A4 pages in length are solicited. Special events during of conference include - the ICDSC challenge: http://www.icdsc.org/challenge.html - a PhD Forum: http://www.icdsc.org/phdforum.html - special sessions: http://www.icdsc.org/special.html Important Dates: Special session proposals: 31 January 2009 Abstract submission: 25 March 2009 Full paper submission: 31 March 2009 PhD forum submission: 15 June 2009 Further information: http://www.icdsc.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090113/c2b5de72/attachment.htm From jocelyn.faubert at umontreal.ca Tue Jan 13 18:48:54 2009 From: jocelyn.faubert at umontreal.ca (Jocelyn Faubert) Date: Tue Jan 13 18:50:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral positions Message-ID: Postdoctoral positions in Faubert?s lab. Applications are now being accepted for postdoctoral positions in Jocelyn Faubert?s lab in Montreal. Positions available involve work in virtual reality, perception, multisensory integration and optical Imaging. Matlab C++ and OpenSG programming skills are desirable. Applicants should send their CV with references to Jocelyn Faubert at Jocelyn.faubert@umontreal.ca. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090113/637b362f/attachment.htm From e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk Wed Jan 14 01:21:17 2009 From: e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk (Charles Leek) Date: Wed Jan 14 07:20:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] BMVA one-day technical meeting: Vision Systems for Perception and Action Message-ID: <20090114092117.zm55qkpqascswso4@webmail.bangor.ac.uk> BMVA British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition Call for Participation Vision Systems for Perception and Action One Day BMVA technical meeting in London, UK, on 6th March, 2009 Chairs: Dr Neil Thacker, University of Manchester, Dr Charles Leek, Bangor University The task of constructing artificial vision systems still holds many challenges, many of which are shown into sharp relief by the apparent ease with which humans solve visual processing tasks. By comparison, many computer vision algorithms have very restricted applicability, particularly with respect to natural scenes. There appears to be more to be learned regarding which information is used and at what point during human visual processing it is obtained. What should be regarded as a semantically useful description of the world? Which tasks are inevitably `top down', and which should be achievable `bottom up'? Great strides have been made within the last twenty years in our understanding of the cognitive and neurobiological substrates of visual perception and motor control. These advances have begun to unravel the complex inner workings of the human brain providing us with unique insights into the powerful computational systems that have evolved to support seemingly effortless activities like perceiving shape, reaching and grasping. The purpose of this one day BMVA meeting is to bring together researchers from areas of biological modelling, psychophysics and computer vision, to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the computational models used when attempting tasks equivalent to human visual perception. It is intended that as well as covering material describing latest results in understanding human vision there will be more general talks which summarise the experiences and opinions of representatives from these disciplines, including challenges to current approaches. We will investigate how our understanding of human vision and motor control may be exploited by computer vision researchers, and provide constraints on the development of more efficient artificial vision and robotics systems. In turn, it is also recognised that advances in computer vision themselves provide further insights into human cognitive processing. Time will be allocated for discussion of the issues raised so that the possibilities for consensus and future synergies between these fields can be explored. If you have views on this subject please attend and join in with the discussions. Although the agenda has been organised by invitation some space is still available for additional speakers which fit in with the objectives of the meeting. If you wish to discuss the possibility of making a presentation please send an email to neil.thacker@manchester.ac.uk or Charles Leek (e.c.leek@bangor.ac.uk) by 6th February 2009. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). 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If you are not the intended recipient(s), you must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of the Bangor University. Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From jeedward at yahoo.com Fri Jan 16 06:58:56 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Fri Jan 16 07:21:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Final call for papers: special session on Computer Vision Message-ID: <758797.789.qm@web45902.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Special session on?Computer Vision at AIPR-09: final call for papers ? There is a special session on?Computer Vision at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090116/0612520a/attachment.htm From Chris.Bockisch at usz.ch Mon Jan 19 08:22:46 2009 From: Chris.Bockisch at usz.ch (Bockisch Chris) Date: Mon Jan 19 08:23:51 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position at University Hospital in Zurich Message-ID: A three-year postdoctoral position supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation is available immediately at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Vertigo and Balance Disorders at the University Hospital in Zurich to perform modelling and experimental studies in the control of human eye movements. The project extends our previous research on the function of the oculomotor neural integrator by conducting modelling studies of the neural integrator and experiments on gaze control in healthy subjects. [See Hegemann, S, Straumann, D, Bockisch, CJ. (2007). Alexander's law in patients with acute vestibular tone asymmetry - evidence for multiple horizontal neural integrators. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. (4):551-61; Bockisch CJ, Hegemann, S. (2008). Alexander's law and the oculomotor neural integrator: three-dimensional eye velocity in patients with an acute vestibular asymmetry. Journal of Neurophysiology, 100(6), 3105-16] A PhD in neuroscience or a related field is required. Candidates with engineering or physics backgrounds will also be considered. Prior experience in computational modelling and research on the human oculomotor system would be most useful. Expertise in computer programming (MatLab, C, or similar languages) is essential. The Vestibulo-Oculomotor laboratory at the Z?rich University Hospital (www.vertigocenter.ch) conducts research on the neural systems controlling balance, eye, head, and reaching movements. We are particularly interested in the diagnosis and treatment of central and peripheral diseases of the ocular motor and vestibular systems in humans. Our laboratory is equipped with unique devices (3D turntable and hexapod motions stimulators; 3D eye movement recordings with scleral search coils and video) that allow us to precisely control and measure human movements in order to study the sensorimotor interactions that are necessary to help us move in dynamic environments. Inquiries about the position may be directed to Dr. S. Hegemann Zurich University Hospital Dept. of Otorhinolaryngolgy, Head & Neck Surgery Frauenklinikstr. 24 CH-8091 Zurich Email: stefan.hegemann@usz.ch Phone: +41 (0)44 2555816 -- Christopher J Bockisch, Ph.D. Neurol. Universitaetsklinik Frauenklinikstr. 26 8091 Zuerich, Switzerland Work 41-44-255-3996 Home 41-41-710-3570 http://www.vertigocenter.ch http://www.bockisch.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This year's symposia are: ARVO@VSS: Advances in Understanding the Structure and Function of the Retina Organizer: Donald Hood Common mechanisms in Time and Space perception Organizer: David Eagleman Dynamic Processes in Vision Organizer: Jonathan D. Victor Is number visual? Is vision numerical? Investigating the relationship between visual representations and the property of magnitude Organizer: Michael C. Frank Modern Approaches to Modeling Visual Data Organizer: Kenneth Knoblauch Retinotopic and Non-retinotopic Information Representation and Processing in Human Vision Organizers: Haluk Ogmen and Michael H. Herzog For complete symposia details, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html. Hotel The rooms at the Naples Grande are filling up.If you haven't reserved your room, go to http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html and follow the links for online reservations. Benefits of staying at the meeting hotel include: . Networking. Make the most of your conference by meeting with your colleagues from around the world. . Convenience. Just an elevator ride away from the sessions and events. . Support VSS. Help us help you! We earn discounted meeting space, which keeps your registration fees down. . Complimentary Nightly Shuttle Service. Shuttles will run nightly from the Naples Grande with service to downtown and other hot spots around Naples. Airport Shuttle VSS has arranged for discounted transportation from Fort Meyers airport to the meeting hotels. The one-way VSS fare is $29/person each way. The VSS Shuttle Service will be available for arrivals and departures every day of the conference, however the discounted fare of $29 will be offered during the hours of 6 am and 6 pm only (see website for rates outside these hours). For more information and to reserve a shuttle, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/airport_transportation.html. Nightly Dinner Shuttle New this year, an evening shuttle will run between the Naples Grande hotel and downtown (with several stops in between). The shuttle will be complimentary to VSS attendees and will run approximately every 30 minutes on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings. Exact times and route tbd. More information will be available soon on our website. Upcoming Dates 2009 Membership Renewal: due now Call for Nominations to the VSS Board: 2/2/09 Call for Demos: 2/4/09 Notices of Accepted Abstracts Sent: 2/10/09 VSS Schedule Posted to Website: 2/20/09 Early Registration Deadline: 2/25/09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090119/99e315d9/attachment.htm From smcn at fisica.uminho.pt Tue Jan 20 02:48:08 2009 From: smcn at fisica.uminho.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Nascimento?=) Date: Tue Jan 20 06:45:58 2009 Subject: [visionlist] RE: 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS09) In-Reply-To: <001401c902dc$b6b70c40$242524c0$@uminho.pt> References: <001401c902dc$b6b70c40$242524c0$@uminho.pt> Message-ID: <006101c97aec$94afa7a0$be0ef6e0$@uminho.pt> Registration and abstract submission is now open for the 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) that will take place in the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from Friday July 24th to Tuesday July 28th, 2009. Early registration and abstract submission deadline is April 1st! The meeting will encompass fundamental, applied, and clinical aspects of research into colour vision, ranging from the molecular to the cognitive. In addition to the keynote presentation, there will be topical symposia, along with individual contributions reflecting the diversity of interests of the members of the ICVS, who include physiologists, psychologists, physicists, engineers, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and other related professionals with interests in colour vision and colour-vision deficiencies. A social and cultural programme will allow participants to relax and interact informally between sessions and will include visits to some of the most beautiful areas of northern Portugal, most notably the Douro valley, where the grapes for Port wine are grown. For more information go to the meeting website (http://labcolour.fisica.uminho.pt/icvs) or contact S?rgio Nascimento (smcn@fisica.uminho.pt). Scientific program overview: Invited speakers: Arthur Shapiro, Bucknell University Bevil R. Conway, Wellesley College, MA David M Hunt, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter Thomas Wachtler-Kulla, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg Historical talk: Lagerlunda J. D. Mollon and L. Cavonius Symposia: Colour vision and the statistics of natural scenes organizer: David H Foster, The University of Manchester Colour perception and art organizer: S?rgio Nascimento, Minho University Genetics and pigments organizer: James K Bowmaker, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London Interactions of color and shape variations in material perception organizer: Qasim Zaidi, State University of New York Temporal aspects of color vision organizer: Andrew Stockman, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London ------------------------------- S?rgio Nascimento Department of Physics University of Minho, Braga, Portugal smcn@fisica.uminho.pt From rkwitt at gmx.at Tue Jan 20 00:29:23 2009 From: rkwitt at gmx.at (Roland Kwitt) Date: Tue Jan 20 06:46:19 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ISPA 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: <49758B63.5090509@gmx.at> ***Call for Papers*** 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) September 16-18, 2009, Salzburg, Austria http://www.isispa.org The 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from September 16-18, 2009. The scientific program of the symposium consists of invited lectures, regular papers, and posters. The aim of the symposium is to foster interaction of researchers and exchange of new ideas. Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts reporting original work, as well as proposals for special sessions. *** Co-Operations and Co-Sponsorships*** European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Region 8 *** Symposium Topics*** A. Image and Video Processing D. Signal Processing B. Image and Video Analysis E. Signal Analysis C. Image Formation and Reproduction F. Applications For a detailed list of conference themes please visit ISPA 2009 web site. ***Important Dates*** Submission of full paper: April 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 31, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers and author registration: June 15, 2009 ***Symposium Venue*** Salzburg is a beautiful city in the heart of Europe in Austria. Situated on the northern edge of the Alps, a bit less than 300 kilometres to the west of Vienna and 150 km to the southeast of Munich, it is home to some 150,000 residents. It is best known for its greatest son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born in Salzburg, but also for the famous film "Sound of Music", which was shot in Salzburg. The old town of Salzburg is an intriguing labyrinth of small streets and beautiful little squares, that retain the original, baroque flair of its building time in the 17th and 18th century. One of the most impressive buildings, however, is the Castle of Salzburg, which is situated on a hill at the heart of Salzburg, majestically overlooking the city. ***Author Information*** Papers including title, author list and affiliations, figures, results, and references should not exceed six A4 pages. Detailed author instructions are available on the ISPA web site. All submissions will be subject to an international peer-review process. The symposium publications are abstract book and CD-ROM proceedings. Accepted papers will be available through IEEE Publications Center and in IEEExplore digital library. Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present the paper. ***Call for Special Session Proposals*** Prospective organizers of special sessions are invited to send proposals to Special Session Co-Chairs, according to instructions provided on the ISPA web site. ***Best Student Paper Award*** Best Student Paper Award in the amount of 300 EUR will be given to a student author. The student?s name must appear first on the paper and the paper must be presented at the symposium to be eligible for the award. ***Social Events*** Welcome reception, gala-dinner, and a sightseeing tour of Salzburg. *** Organizing Institutions*** University of Salzburg, Austria University of Zagreb, Croatia *** General Co-Chairs*** Peter Zinterhof, peter.zinterhof@sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria Sven Loncaric, sven.loncaric@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Program Co-Chairs*** Image processing area: Andreas Uhl, uhl@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria Signal processing area: Alberto Carini, carini@sti.uniurb.it , University of Urbino, Italy *** Special Sessions Chair*** Rade Kutil, rkutil@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria *** Local Arrangements Chair*** Peter Meerwald, pmeerw@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria *** Publications Chair*** Marko Subasic, marko.subasic@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Registration Chair*** Thomas St?tz, tstuetz@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria ***Information Tech. Chair*** Vjekoslav Levacic, vjekoslav.levacic@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Symposium Secretariat*** Helma Sch?ndorfer University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences Tel: 0043 (0)662 8044 6343 Fax: 0043 (0)662 8044 172 secretariat@isispa.org From alessandro at idsia.ch Tue Jan 20 06:18:28 2009 From: alessandro at idsia.ch (Alessandro Antonucci) Date: Tue Jan 20 06:46:39 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ISIPTA'09 - final call for papers + deadline extended to 13 February Message-ID: <20090120141828.GA15982@idsia.ch> ============================================================================= ISIPTA '09 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================================= Your help with circulating this announcement locally is much appreciated. Apologies for multiple postings. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ISIPTA '09 6th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 July 2009 Durham University, Department of Mathematical Sciences Durham, United Kingdom http://www.sipta.org/isipta09 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The ISIPTA meetings are the primary international forum to present and discuss new results on the theories and applications of imprecise probability. Imprecise probability is a generic term for the many mathematical and statistical models and methods, allowing us to measure chance or uncertainty without the restriction of sharp probabilities. These models include lower and upper expectations or previsions, interval-valued probabilities, sets of probability measures, belief functions, Choquet capacities, comparative probability orderings, fuzzy measures, possibility measures, plausibility measures, and sets of desirable gambles. Imprecise probability models are needed in inference and decision problems where the relevant information is scarce, vague or conflicting, and where preferences may be incomplete. Symposium format ---------------- It is a tradition of the ISIPTA meetings that we try to avoid parallel sessions. Each accepted paper is to be presented both (i) in a plenary session, where we ask for a short introduction and sketch of the context and relevance of the paper; and (ii) in a poster session, where ample opportunity and time is given for detailed explanation and discussion. For the 2009 meeting, we also invite posters without a paper. We hope to attract people who wish to present and discuss their work within the framework of the conference but whose results are not yet finalized, for instance, for practitioners who wish to discuss possibilities for applications in their field using imprecise probabilities, or for starting students. If you wish to present a poster without paper, you are invited to submit a one-page abstract of the work you intend to present. These abstracts will be made available at the conference and online. Themes of the symposium ----------------------- The symposium is open to contributions on all aspects of imprecise probability. But we particularly welcome contributions on imprecise probability in statistical inference and decision making. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - models of coherent imprecise assessments - sets of probability measures, credal sets - interval-valued probabilities - upper and lower expectations or previsions - non-additive set functions, and in particular Choquet capacities (and Choquet integration), fuzzy measures, possibility measures, belief and plausibility measures - random sets - rough sets - comparative probability orderings - qualitative reasoning about uncertainty - imprecision in utilities and expected utilities - limit laws for imprecise probabilities - physical models of imprecise probability - philosophical foundations for imprecise probabilities - psychological models for imprecision and indeterminacy in probability assessments - elicitation techniques for imprecise probabilities - robust statistics - probabilistic bounding analysis - data mining with imprecise probabilities - dealing with missing data - estimation and learning of imprecise probability models - decision making with imprecise probabilities - ambiguity aversion and economic models of imprecise probability - uncertainty in financial markets - algorithms for manipulating imprecise probabilities - Dempster-Shafer theory - information algebras and probabilistic argumentation systems - probabilistic logic, propositional and first-order - credal networks and other graphical models - credal classification - applications in statistics, economics, finance, management, engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy and related fields. Special sessions ---------------- In memory of Henry Kyburg and Pauline Coolen-Schrijner, two special sessions will be organized. The papers for these sessions will be selected by the steering committee. Location -------- ISIPTA '09 will be held at Durham University, Collingwood College, in Durham, United Kingdom. Collingwood College provides onsite ensuite accommodation. More information about Collingwood College can be found on this website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/collingwood/ Important dates --------------- For papers: Paper submission deadline: February 13 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: March 15 2009 Deadline for revised papers: April 15 2009 For posters without paper: Abstract submission deadline: April 15 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 1 2009 Symposium: July 14-18 2009 Submissions ----------- Papers can be submitted electronically using the conference website (http://www.sipta.org/isipta09/). Programme Committee Board ------------------------- Thomas Augustin (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany) Frank Coolen (Durham University, UK) Serafin Moral (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Matthias Troffaes (Durham University, UK) Steering Committee ------------------ Thomas Augustin (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany) Frank Coolen (Durham University, UK) Gert de Cooman (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) Serafin Moral (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Matthias Troffaes (Durham University, UK) Further details --------------- For further details about (pre)registration, paper submission, scientific and cultural programme, programme committee, please consult the ISIPTA '09 web site at http://www.sipta.org/isipta09/. Details about previous ISIPTA meetings can be found at http://www.sipta.org/isipta/. More information about SIPTA, the international organisation responsible for organizing both the ISIPTA meetings and the SIPTA Schools on Imprecise Probabilities, please consult the SIPTA web site at http://www.sipta.org. Questions --------- If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact the Steering Committee preferably by email (frank.coolen@durham.ac.uk or matthias.troffaes@gmail.com), or at the following address: Frank Coolen / Matthias Troffaes Department of Mathematical Sciences Durham University Science Laboratories, South Road Durham, DH1 3LE, ENGLAND From nicolle.ferchland at med.ovgu.de Wed Jan 21 08:11:35 2009 From: nicolle.ferchland at med.ovgu.de (Ferchland, Nicolle) Date: Wed Jan 21 08:49:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] post-doc 1 neuropsychologist and 1 behavioral neuroscientist: Institute of Medical Psychology Magdeburg Message-ID: 2 Positions for research scientists /post-docs available at the Institute of Medical Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Sabel): 1 neuropsychologist and 1 behavioral neuroscientist The neuropsychologist will carry out research in the fields of neuroplasticity in normal aging or age-associated disorders (such as stroke), with a focus on the visual system using fMRI, EEG, TMS and non-invasive current stimulation. The behavioral neuroscientist will study mechanisms of brain repair and regeneration/recovery in rat models of CNS damage using behavioural, anatomical, molecular biological and/or imaging techniques (full equipped laboratory available). Both positions are available for an initial period of 3 yrs with possibility for extension. The salary is according to the German state scale TVL-13 (about 45.000 EURO depending on qualifications). The University of Magdeburg is located about 1 hr. from Berlin and has neuroscience as one of its research specializations. The Institute and laboratories are located on the University Hospital campus with more than 200 neuroscientists. We are an interdisciplinary team (psychologist, biologists, medical scientists) working in an exciting neuroscience environment with many collaboration opportunities on campus. We offer a pleasant and productive working environment and support our employees to achieve scientific progress in an internationally competitive environment. Prior experience in scientific publishing desirable. Your qualifications: * PhD in Psychology, Neurobiology or related fields (e.g. Neuroscience, Behav. Biology, Medicine). * Experience in carrying out competitive research and publish in international journals * Team spirit and the burning desire to be successful Please send applications (application letter, CV, representative reprints) to nicolle.ferchland@med.ovgu.de From Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de Fri Jan 23 04:43:45 2009 From: Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Karl Gegenfurtner) Date: Fri Jan 23 06:48:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position in Karl Gegenfurtner's lab Message-ID: <4979BB81.1010501@uni-giessen.de> A Postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Karl Gegenfurtner at Giessen University. Research interests in the lab center around topics in color vision, visually guided actions, and the relationship between perception and action. Examples for recent research papers addressing these issues are: Schuetz, A.C., Braun, D.I., Kerzel, D. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2008) Improved visual sensitivity during smooth pursuit eye movements. Nature Neuroscience, 11, 1211-1216. White, B.J., Stritzke, M. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2008) Saccadic facilitation in natural backgrounds. Current Biology, 18, 124-128. Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2006) Memory modulates color appearance. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 1367-1368. The lab offers excellent facilities for studying visual perception and motor control. We are part of a larger research group on perception and action (http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/for560) with excellent links to scientists within Europe and world wide. The group offers a stimulating, multi-national and multi-disciplinary research environment for young scientists (http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de). The city of Giessen is a small university town, located just 60 km north of Frankfurt. A doctoral degree in psychology, physics, biology, or computer science is prerequisite. The dissertation should be on a topic relevant to the above mentioned interests. The position starts in May 2009, but later dates could be arranged. Salary is according to German research scale BAT IIa. The position is for 1 year, with the possibility of renewal. Please send applications before February 28 2009 per email as a single PDF file. Do not hesitate to contact me for informal inquiries. 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 Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de Fri Jan 23 05:25:18 2009 From: Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Karl Gegenfurtner) Date: Fri Jan 23 06:49:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Computational Vision course Rauischholzhausen August 17-21 2009 Message-ID: <4979C53E.1050707@uni-giessen.de> Training Workshop: C O M P U T A T I O N A L V I S I O N Rauischholzhausen Castle (near Frankfurt, Germany) August 17 - 21, 2009 Application deadline: March 15, 2009 Organizers: Gustavo Deco, Karl Gegenfurtner European Initial Training Network CODDE http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/compvis09 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. This intensive course introduces young scientists (from late pre-doctoral to early post-doctoral stage) to outstanding contemporary work that exemplifies a variety of approaches to Computational Vision. The training workshop consists of a series of research lectures, tutorials and hands-on experience in small groups. Scientific training will be complemented with tutorials on soft skills. The workshop is sponsored by the European Initial Training Network CODDE that links several European labs working on issues of perception and motor control. CODDE (http://www.optimaldecisions.org) stands for "Co-ordination for optimal decisions in dynamic environments". CODDE is funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme. The course will be held at idyllic and inspiring Schloss Rauischholzhausen in Hessia, Germany. The main selection criterion will be the degree to which each individual can be expected to benefit from the course. In addition, the organizers will attempt to balance fields, nationalities, and genders among participants. Food and lodging is free for all selected applicants. Travel support is not available. Confirmed speakers include Marty Banks (Berkeley), Rob van Beers (Utrecht), Matthias Bethge (T?bingen), Gustavo Deco (Barcelona), Sophie Deneve (Paris), Bill Geisler (Austin), Anya Hurlbert (Newcastle), Konrad K?rding (Chicago), Larry Maloney (New York), Pascal Mamassian (Paris), Tony Movshon (New York), Dario Ringach (Los Angeles), Eero Simoncelli (New York), and Li Zhaoping (London). Application deadline is March 15, 2009. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a list of publications and conference contributions (if any), and a statement of why you wish to attend and what you expect to gain (maximum 500 words). One letter of recommendation should be sent separately by the recommender to karl.gegenfurtner@psychol.uni-giessen.de. The deadline for receipt of complete application is 15 March 2009. Please send your application materials as *a single PDF file* by email to karl.gegenfurtner@psychol.uni-giessen.de A poster for this training workshop can be downloaded under http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/compvis09/compvis09.pdf. We look forward to welcome you to the summer school. Gustavo Deco 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 jeedward at yahoo.com Fri Jan 23 08:48:01 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Fri Jan 23 12:11:11 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Final call for papers: special session on Computer Vision at AIPR-09 Message-ID: <571824.43910.qm@web45903.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> ? There is a special session on Computer Vision at the?2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090123/b1f0ae14/attachment.htm From carly at jhu.edu Fri Jan 23 15:17:16 2009 From: carly at jhu.edu (Carly J. Leonard) Date: Fri Jan 23 15:27:03 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2009 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp Message-ID: The ERP Boot Camp, an NIH-funded summer workshop on the ERP technique, will be held July 20-29 2009 at UC-Davis. It is intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers, and 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 guided discussions of ERP papers, lab activities, and individual consultations. 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. Typically, we expect that graduate students should have had at least 6 months of significant ERP (or related) experience before attending the Boot Camp. We strongly 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. We typically accept 25 U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and 5 international participants. For more information about the Boot Camp and the application procedures, see *www.ERPinfo.org* Applications are due on March 31, 2009. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090123/f74099d1/attachment-0001.htm From yon at cim.mcgill.ca Sat Jan 24 10:13:34 2009 From: yon at cim.mcgill.ca (yon) Date: Sat Jan 24 10:15:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in Analysis and Tracking of Human Locomotion Message-ID: Postdoc in machine learning and human locomotion analysis via sensor networks at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) The Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University seeks applicants for a research position on the tracking and analysis of human walking patterns via distributed non-visual sensor networks, for interaction in virtual and augmented reality environments. The aim is to enable new interfaces for interaction via walking in intelligent environments, as captured through networks of force, acoustic, and other motion sensors, embedded in floor or ground surfaces and their surroundings. There are several possible sub-projects the researcher may engage with, depending on interests and expertise, including: - Machine learning techniques for real-time human pedestrian activity analysis and tracking using non-conventional sensor networks - Integration of multimodal sensor information in the real-time analysis from walking signatures - Development of novel nonvisual (force and acoustic) sensor networks for distributed interactive floor surfaces The candidate should have a PhD in a related discipline, and should possess experience in one of the following areas: - Machine learning for human motion analysis - Activity analysis from sensor networks - Multimodal sensor information processing - Robotic perceptual systems - Sensor network design Work will take place in the context of the project NIW: Natural Interactive Walking, funded by the European Commission 7th Framework and the Minist?re du D?veloppement, ?conomique, Innovation et Exportation (Qu?bec). The project is being undertaken in partnership with leading European research institutions in France, Italy, and Denmark, with significant exchange between them. The position is initially for two years. It will be based in the Shared Reality Environments lab of the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University. The lab is also affiliated with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. The position is available effective immediately. A short list of candidates will be interviewed, either in person or by videoconference. Interested candidates should send their CV, selected publications, and contact information for three references to: Jeremy Cooperstock niw-jobs@cim.mcgill.ca Associate Professor Centre for Intelligent Machines and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University 3480 University Street, Room 424 Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada From hannah.smithson at durham.ac.uk Sun Jan 25 02:45:53 2009 From: hannah.smithson at durham.ac.uk (Hannah Smithson) Date: Sun Jan 25 08:06:42 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral Research Associate in Vision Science: Durham, UK Message-ID: <5EF933BE-FB66-4BD6-8D3C-E59AC757735E@durham.ac.uk> DURHAM UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Post-doctoral Research Associate in Vision Science Salary: ?23,449 to ?26,391 per annum We wish to appoint a Research Associate, fixed-term for 23 months, to an ESRC-funded position, jointly supervised by Dr Hannah Smithson [1] and Professor John Mollon [2]. The project is aimed at understanding the brain's capacity to buffer sensory information, particularly information that is intrinsically spatiotemporal (for example, gestures and facial expressions). The Durham department [3] has a thriving community of researchers in visual perception [4], and is well equipped with visual display systems (e.g. CRS ViSaGe, Maxwellian view systems), eye-trackers (e.g. CRS eye-trackers, Eyelink 2), motion capture systems (Optotrak), and calibration devices - in short - everything you could want to run innovative experiments on visual perception. The Department was awarded 5A in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2001, and a score of 2.7 in the RAE of 2008. The city of Durham is a very agreeable place to live, with easy access to beautiful countryside and with rapid train services to Newcastle and London. For informal enquiries, contact Hannah Smithson (hannah.smithson@durham.ac.uk , +44 191 3343290) Further details of the post and of the application procedure are available at: https://jobs.dur.ac.uk/jobdtls.asp?vref=2967 [1] http://www.hannahsmithson.org/ [2] http://vision.psychol.cam.ac.uk/jdmollon/ [3] http://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/ [4] http://www.dur.ac.uk/cvvc.durham/ From ale at sissa.it Sun Jan 25 12:42:46 2009 From: ale at sissa.it (Alessandro Treves) Date: Sun Jan 25 15:06:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 41st EBBS meeting in Rhodes, September 2009 Message-ID: <20090125214246.c0gd84lci3o8s080@webmail.sissa.it> Dear Visionlist community, there has been a steadily increasing participation of visually oriented neuroscientists at the meetings of the European Brain and Behaviour Society, up to the last one, in September 2007 in Trieste. Registration and abstract submission is now open for the next meeting, organized in the Aegean island of Rhodes, September 14-18, 2009. See the lectures and symposia programme on http://www.ebbs-rhodes2009.com/ EBBS will award a number of travel grants to its student and postdoc members (see http://www.ebbs-science.org/ on how to join, which costs only 40 or 20 Euro). Do come to the meeting and consider joining EBBS! See you there, Alessandro Treves -- SISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, now downtown in via Stock 2/2, V fl BUT NOTE, POSTAL ADDRESS: SISSA, via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy tel:39-040-3787623 fax:39-040-3787615 http://people.sissa.it/~ale ---------------------------------------------------------------- SISSA Webmail https://webmail.sissa.it/ Powered by Horde http://www.horde.org/ From a.glennerster at reading.ac.uk Sun Jan 25 13:53:49 2009 From: a.glennerster at reading.ac.uk (Andrew Glennerster) Date: Sun Jan 25 15:06:42 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Fellow in 3D vision Message-ID: <497CDF6D.5040505@rdg.ac.uk> Research Fellow in 3D vision University of Reading and University of Oxford We are looking for a talented post-doctoral researcher to work on a 3 year Wellcome Trust funded project to study 3D spatial representation in freely moving human observers. The Research Fellow will run psychophysical experiments in a high fidelity immersive virtual reality laboratory and will have the opportunity to collaborate with robotics experts in navigation, mapping and novel view-based methods in 3D representation. The project is the result of a collaboration between the Universities of Reading and Oxford and the Fellow will work in both. Candidates should have a PhD in neuroscience, psychology or a physical science (e.g. engineering or computer science) and good programming skills (e.g. C++, OpenGL, Matlab). Experience running, analysing and modelling psychophysical experiments is desirable. Informal enquiries can be addressed to: Andrew Glennerster, School of Psychology, University of Reading (a.glennerster@reading.ac.uk, ) or Andrew Parker, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford (andrew.parker@dpag.ox.ac.uk). Further details: http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/about-jobtype.asp?url=http://www.info.rdg.ac.uk/newjobs/details.asp?RefernceNumber=RS09001 http://virtualreality.physiol.ox.ac.uk/ Closing date: 20th February 2009 From jswerner at ucdavis.edu Tue Jan 27 11:50:04 2009 From: jswerner at ucdavis.edu (Jack Werner) Date: Tue Jan 27 12:51:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdocs at UC Davis Message-ID: <180343B1-CD50-4E06-912E-9840C2F18A56@ucdavis.edu> The University of California Davis announces the availability of several NEI-sponsored postdoctoral fellowships in vision science. The starting date is flexible. UC Davis has 32 faculty in the vision sciences with research programs in (i) molecular biology, genetics and development, (ii) anatomy and retinal imaging, (iii) retinal electrophysiology and cellular mechanisms, (iv) central mechanism neurophysiology and behavior, and (v) optical and fMRI imaging, computational modeling and psychophysics. More details about the faculty may be found at: http://www.npb.ucdavis.edu/vsrg/. The vision sciences at UC Davis supports research in the basic sciences and translational research in ophthalmology, all with a highly interactive and collegial faculty. Davis itself is a friendly, medium- sized college town close to the cultural attractions of San Francisco and the recreational attractions of the Napa Valley, Yosemite and Pacific coast beaches. Initial inquiries should be made with a potential sponsor and/or John S. Werner, training program director. A CV and 3 letters of reference will be required for formal application. Applicants must be US citizens or US permanent residents, although individual faculty have postdoctroral support for non-US citizens. The University of California is committed to diversity. Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. **************************************************************************** We are happy to announce that the 2009 Master-of-Ceremonies will be none other than the infamous Peter Thompson of The University of York, UK. Dr. Thompson is the creator of the famed Margaret Thatcher illusion, one of the most celebrated illusions of the 20th century. His skills as an MC are legendary. None of this year's contest's attendees will leave unchanged or unscathed. **************************************************************************** Past contests have been highly successful in drawing public attention to vision research, with over ***TWO MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world, as well as hundreds of international media stories. The First, Second and Third Prize winners at the 2008 contest were Rob van Lier & Mark Vergeer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Rob Jenkins (University of Glasgow, UK), and Thomas Papathoms (Rutgers University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2008 and previous contests, go to http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Illusion submissions can be novel visual, cognitive, or multimodal illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2008) in standard image, movie or html formats. Exciting new variants of classic or known illusions are also admissible. An international panel of impartial judges (http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE _user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=137&MMN_position=21:21) 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! Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted to the 2009 contest, so 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 to 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 16, 2009. 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: ttp://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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience Barrow Neurological Institute 350 W. Thomas Rd. Phoenix AZ 85013 USA Phone: +1 602 406-3484 Fax: +1 602 406-4192 Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com From ocarter at unimelb.edu.au Wed Jan 28 03:00:59 2009 From: ocarter at unimelb.edu.au (Olivia Carter) Date: Wed Jan 28 06:41:46 2009 Subject: [visionlist] William James Prize for Consciousness Research Message-ID: <49803AEB.2030800@unimelb.edu.au> -- Deadline for submission of nominations is January 31st, 2009 -- The William James Prize is awarded by the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) 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. 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 ASSC13, held in June 2009 in Berlin/Germany (travel, Accommodation, and registration paid by ASSC). Nominations, including self nominations, should be sent to Axel Cleeremans (ASSC Prize Committee; axcleer@ulb.ac.be). 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: * Axel Cleeremans, Universit? libre de Bruxelles (chair) * Daniel Dennett, Tufts University * Chris Frith, University College London * Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Deadline for submission of nominations is January 31st, 2009 -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Olivia Carter, PhD School of Behavioural Sciences Rm 811 Redmond Barry Building University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia Phone:+61 (0)3 83446372 email: ocarter@unimelb.edu.au http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Olivia/olivia.html From pwilken at gmail.com Wed Jan 28 08:24:51 2009 From: pwilken at gmail.com (patrick) Date: Wed Jan 28 11:37:14 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CFP: 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Message-ID: <06A877BA-7729-40AA-9415-2933D20E744D@gmail.com> Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce that abstract submission for the ASSC 13 in Berlin is now open! Talks and posters can be submitted here: http://www.assc13.com/abstract/ For general information about the conference see: http://www.assc13.com/ Please see below for more information on the conference and on how to submit your contribution. The deadline for abstract submission is February 15th 2009. With best wishes, John-Dylan Haynes, Michael Pauen, & Patrick Wilken ----------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER & POSTER PROPOSALS ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 13TH ANNUAL MEETING June 5th to 8th, 2009 Berlin School of Mind and Brain and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany http://www.assc13.com/ ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- The thirteenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held from June 5th to June 8th, 2009, at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience. Hosted by the renowned Humboldt- University, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain is an international graduate research school on the interface of humanities and behavioral sciences with neurosciences. ASSC XIII is intended to promote interdisciplinary dialogue in the scientific study of consciousness. ASSC members as well as non-members are encouraged to submit contributions that address current empirical and theoretical issues in the study of consciousness, from the perspectives of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and cognitive ethology. ASSC XIII will provide an excellent opportunity for the presentation of new empirical findings or novel theoretical perspectives in an atmosphere that will promote discussion and debate. ------------------------------------- LOCATION: THE VIBRANT HEART OF BERLIN ------------------------------------- The main conference will take place in the wonderful Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: http://veranstaltungszentrum.bbaw.de/en/photo_gallery/ The Academy is located in the vibrant heart of Berlin and is close to many great museums, art galleries and to the nightlife of Berlin. A number of hotels ranging from luxury to budget are located within walking distance to the main conference. ------------------ CONFIRMED SPEAKERS ------------------ Presidential address: - Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin) Keynote lectures: - Susan Carey (Harvard University) - Patrick Haggard (University College London) - Jaegwon Kim (Brown University) - David Papineau (King's College London) Symposium speakers: - Valtteri Arstila (University of Turku) - Olaf Blanke (Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne) - Peter Brugger (University Hospital, Z?rich) - Zoltan Dienes (University of Sussex) - Andreas Engel (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) - Ryota Kanai (University College London) - Alva No? (University of California, Berkeley) - Ronald Rensink (University of British Columbia) - Anil Seth (University of Sussex) - Michael Tye (The University of Texas at Austin) - Rufin van Rullen (Facult? de M?decine Rangueil, Toulouse) - Jamie Ward (University of Sussex). An additional satellite meeting on "Coma and Consciousness" organized by Steven Laureys will take place on June 4th 2009. http://www.assc13.com/satellite/ Satellite Speakers: - Hal Blumenfeld, Yale University School of Medicine - Melanie Boly, University of Li?ge - Andreas Engel, University Medical Centre Hamburg - Joseph Fins, Cornell University - Joseph Giacino, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute - Michael Greicius, Stanford University School of Medicine - Andrea K?bler, Roehampton University - Steven Laureys, University of Li?ge - Marcello Massimini, University of Milano - Adrian Owen, Cambridge - Nicholas Schiff, Cornell University - Adam Zeman, Peninsula Medical School ------------------------------------ NOW OPEN: PAPER & POSTER SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------ Speakers in concurrent sessions are invited to talk on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness. Submissions that include neuroscientific, anthropological, evolutionary, 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. The abstract submission is now open! Please submit your abstract here: http://assc13.confmaster.net 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. Primary discipline (neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, computation). 5. Complete contact information for the author with whom the scientific program committee will interact with about the submission. 6. Whether your first preference is for an talk or poster presentation. If you have any difficulties in submitting your proposal please contact Sebastian Lehnert (assc13support@googlemail.com). If you have any other questions regarding the meeting, please contact the organizers at mail@assc13.com. THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSION IS FEBRUARY 15th 2009. --------------------------------- STILL OPEN: TUTORIAL SUBMISSIONS --------------------------------- One of the aims of this meeting is to allow researchers to gain a background in areas that they may know little about. Towards that end a number of tutorials to present not only their own material, but to also give a broader tutorial overview and encourage discussion and debate. A non-exclusive list of possible topics can be seen on our website. Tutorials will be held in parallel sessions on the morning and afternoon of June 5th 2009. Each tutorial is intended to last approximately three hours. The sizes of tutorials will vary between a minimum of 10 to a maximum of around 35 attendees. Tutorial presenters will receive an honorarium of 500 euros and their registration fee for the conference will be waived. The cost of attending tutorials will be 50 euros. Tutorials that do not achieve the minimum enrollment of 10 people may not be offered. THE DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP SUBMISSION IS FEBRUARY 1st 2009. http://www.assc13.com/tutorials/ ----- The program committee for ASSC 13: Kathleen Akins, Axel Cleeremans, Frederique de Vignemont, John-Dylan Haynes, Christof Koch, Michael Pauen, Vincent Walsh, & Patrick Wilken. Please direct any further questions to the local organizers: John- Dylan Haynes, Michael Pauen & Patrick Wilken (mail@assc13.com). From brainard at psych.upenn.edu Wed Jan 28 18:08:31 2009 From: brainard at psych.upenn.edu (David Brainard) Date: Thu Jan 29 06:14:20 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Workshop on Cognitive and Developmental Factors in Perceptual Constancy Message-ID: Cognitive and Developmental Factors in Perceptual Constancy Workshop to be held February 20-22, 2009 Institute for Research in Cognitive Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Organizers: Gary Hatfield, Sarah Allred Speakers are philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. The main themes concern the role of cognitive factors in perception, and the use of instructional variations and of developmental approaches to tease apart cognitive and perceptual aspects of human perceptual responses. More information can be found at http://color.psych.upenn.edu/workshop09/ To register (and receive access to pre-circulated papers), please reply to: sallred@psych.upenn.edu. From K.Rogers at elsevier.com Thu Jan 29 01:20:03 2009 From: K.Rogers at elsevier.com (Rogers, Kelly (ELS-OXF)) Date: Thu Jan 29 06:14:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Twelfth Annual Vision Research Conference, 2009 Message-ID: <4F1EB418DED58441B95F87EA9415F73F01D1C725@ELSOXFEXCP27VA.science.regn.net> Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that abstract submission deadline for the Twelfth Annual Vision Research Conference is 02 February 2009! Posters can be submitted here: http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com/call.htm For general information about the conference see: http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com/index.htm Please see below for more information on the conference and on how to submit your abstract. With best wishes, Kelly Rogers ----------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR POSTERS Twelfth Annual Vision Research Conference Mechanisms of Macular Degeneration A two-day satellite event prior to the 2009 meeting of ARVO May 1st - 2nd, 2009 Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- The meeting will review the latest developments in the genetics of AMD, and focus on animal models that closely mimic early or late onset human macular diseases. Major areas to be covered will be mechanisms that lead to macular dystrophies, novel animal models of macular degeneration, and upcoming strategies in pharmacological and gene-based therapies in animal models. --------------------------------------- LOCATION: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, USA --------------------------------------- The conference will take place at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, which is conveniently located in the city, just minutes away from the many restaurants, shops, and galleries of Las Olas Boulevard. Nearby are beaches offering a wide variety of water sports. Sightseeing trips can be arranged to the Bahamas Islands, the Florida Everglades and the waterways of the "Venice of America". ------------------------- SESSION TOPICS AND CHAIRS ------------------------- AMD/Angiogenesis/VEGF Chair: Bala Ambati, University of Utah, USA AMD Gene defects: Focus on Biology/Clinical Manifestations) Chair: Rando Allikmets, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA AMD: Pathogenesis, Genetics, Mechanisms and Treatments Plenary Speaker: Dean Bok, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Animal models of MD and cone dystrophies Chair: Donald Zack, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Cone degeneration and cone survival Chair: Constance Cepko, Harvard Medical School, USA Gene-based therapies in animal models of MD Chair: Jean Bennett, University of Pennsylvania, USA Nutritional Biochemistry of Macular Degeneration Chair: Paul Bernstein, University of Utah, USA The macula in health and disease Chair: Gregory Hageman, University of Iowa, USA An additional satellite meeting on "Coma and Consciousness" organized by Steven Laureys will take place on June 4th 2009. http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com/sessions.htm ------------------------------------ NOW OPEN: POSTER SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------ Abstracts for poster presentation are now invited. Please submit your abstract here: http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com/call.htm Topics of interest will include: AMD/Angiogenesis/VEGF AMD Gene defects: Focus on Biology/Clinical Manifestations) AMD: Pathogenesis, Genetics, Mechanisms and Treatments Animal models of MD and cone dystrophies Cone degeneration and cone survival Gene-based therapies in animal models of MD Nutritional Biochemistry of Macular Degeneration The macula in health and disease THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSION IS FEBRUARY 2ND 2009. ----------------------- ORGANIZERS The conference organizers for the Twelfth Annual Vision Research Conference: Wolfgang Baehr, University of Utah, USA; Gregory Hageman, University of Iowa, USA; Theodore Wensel, Baylor College of Medicine, USA; Samuel Wu, Baylor College of Medicine, USA; Donald Zack, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Organized and sponsored by Elsevier's Vision Research Journal and co-sponsored by ARVO. Please direct any further questions to the conference secretariat: Charlotte Wilkins, ch.wilkins@elsevier.com _______________________________________________ Elsevier Limited. Registered Office: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, Registration No. 1982084 (England and Wales). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090129/d6f70483/attachment-0001.htm From wildsoet at berkeley.edu Thu Jan 29 15:52:42 2009 From: wildsoet at berkeley.edu (Christine Wildsoet) Date: Thu Jan 29 16:30:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc position available in Wildsoet lab at UC-Berkeley Message-ID: <3396FD4F-B30E-44D3-9ECA-AEAE31DFBDD9@berkeley.edu> A Postdoctoral Position is open in the laboratory of Professor Christine Wildsoet OD, PhD, one of 5 research labs in the Center for Eye Disease and Development at the University of California - Berkeley (UCB). The main focus of her research is myopia (short- sightedness) and more generally, emmetropization and eye growth regulation, with an over-riding goal of finding the key to preventing myopia in humans. On-going projects range from investigations of optical, pharmacological and tissue engineering approaches to inhibiting the excessive scleral remodeling that underlies myopia, to more basic questions relating to the role of the retinal pigment epithelium in relaying myopic growth signals from retina to sclera, and its role in related retinal pathology in already myopic eyes. Both human and animal model studies as well as studies involving cell and tissue culture, applying modern molecular biology and bioengineering techniques are ongoing. This position is linked to animal model and culture studies and is open to any candidate with a PhD or equivalent. Experience with vision research is not essential but experience with modern molecular biology techniques is required. UC-Berkeley has a large vision research community. The Wildsoet lab is located in the School of Optometry, whose faculty is engaged in a diverse range of research spanning both clinical and basic sciences. Within and outside the school, there are many opportunities for cross- disciplinary research collaborations. The Wildsoet laboratory is equipped for both animal and human-based research and there are excellent CORE research support facilities on the Berkeley campus. The start date for this position is flexible. Salary will be set according to the NIH post-doc scale. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Interested candidates should send a letter of introduction and their CV to: wildsoet@berkeley.edu. Chris W /^\ 0<0~\_____/^^^/ \ <<< / \ << / \______/ || >- >- >- >>- >- >- >- Prof Christine Wildsoet OD, PhD, FAAO Center for Eye Disease and Development School of Optometry, 588 Minor Hall University of California Berkeley CA 94720-2020 Phone: 510-643-4472 Fax: 510-643-5109/415-921-8678 Vision Science Program: http://vision.berkeley.edu/wildsoet/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090129/5203dce8/attachment-0001.htm From juergen at idsia.ch Fri Jan 30 01:32:18 2009 From: juergen at idsia.ch (Juergen Schmidhuber) Date: Fri Jan 30 07:06:47 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 10 jobs at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA: 5 Postdocs & 5 PhD students / Theory of Surprise, Attention, Curiosity, Art, Science Message-ID: The Robot Learning Group at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA is expanding. We are seeking 5 outstanding postdocs and 5 excellent PhD students with experience / interest in topics such as (vision-based) adaptive robotics http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/learningrobots.html , curiosity- driven learning & intrinsic motivations based on the theory of surprise and interestingness http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ interest.html , reinforcement learning & policy gradients for partially observable environments http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ rl.html , artificial evolution http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/evolution.html , recurrent neural networks (RNN) http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnn.html , RNN evolution http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnnevolution.html , hierarchical reinforcement learning http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/subgoals.html , statistical / Bayesian approaches to machine learning, statistical robotics http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/statisticalrobotics.html , unsupervised learning http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ica.html , general artificial intelligence http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai.html , universal learning machines http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/unilearn.html & http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html . Goal: to improve the state of the art in adaptive robotics and machine learning in general, in both theory and practice. Funding is provided by several new EU projects, one on developmental robotics with adaptive iCub humanoids exploring the world like little infants, one on learning to control artificial hands with antagonistic & stiff muscles, and one on self-reference and "humanobs." But all postdocs and students will interact with each other and resident IDSIAni - we are one big family! Our international project partners include leading neuroscientists, machine learners, psychologists, roboticists, and other experts from Germany, the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, the US, and other countries. Salary: commensurate with experience. Postdocs ~ SFR 72,000 / year (~ US$ 67,000 / ? 48,000 / ? 46,000 as of 1/1/09). PhD fellowships: ~ SFR 38,000 / year (~ $ 35,000 as of 1/1/09). Low taxes! There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at important conferences. Interviews: most will take place at IDSIA in Switzerland, but we will also arrange meetings in the period 5-17 March 2009 in the area Washington / New York / Boston, where JS will give the AGI-09 keynote and talks at various US East Coast labs. Instructions and background: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/eu2009.html Some of the jobs will be related to the theory of surprise & attention & exploration & curiosity (1990-2008): http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html . Recent overview: Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes (2008, based on keynote talk for KES 2008 and joint invited lecture for ALT 2007 / DS 2007; variants to appear in SICE Journal & Proc. ABIALS). arXiv preprint: http://arXiv.org/abs/0812.4360 Abstract. I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively simpler and more `beautiful.' Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non- arbitrary, regular data that is novel and surprising not in the traditional sense of Boltzmann and Shannon but in the sense that it allows for compression progress because its regularity was not yet known. This drive maximizes interestingness, the first derivative of subjective beauty or compressibility, that is, the steepness of the learning curve. It motivates exploring infants, pure mathematicians, composers, artists, dancers, comedians, yourself, and recent artificial systems. Juergen Schmidhuber --- IDSIA was the smallest of the world's top ten AI labs listed in the 1997 "X-Lab Survey" by Business Week magazine, and ranked in fourth place in the category "Computer Science - Biologically Inspired". IDSIA's most important work was done after 1997 though. It is small but visible, competitive, and influential. Its highly cited Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms broke numerous benchmark records and are now widely used in industry for routing, logistics etc (today entire conferences specialize on Artificial Ants). IDSIA is also the origin of the first mathematical theory of optimal Universal Artificial Intelligence and self-referential Universal Problem Solvers (previous work on general AI was dominated by heuristics). IDSIA's artificial Recurrent Neural Networks learn to solve numerous previous unlearnable sequence processing tasks through gradient descent, artificial evolution and other methods. Research topics also include complexity and generalization issues, unsupervised learning and information theory, forecasting, learning robots. IDSIA's results were reviewed not only in science journals such as Nature, Science, Scientific American, but also in numerous popular press articles in TIME, the NY Times, der SPIEGEL, etc. Many TV shows on Tech & Science helped to popularize IDSIA's achievements. Switzerland is a good place for scientists. It is the origin of special relativity (1905) and the World Wide Web (1990), is associated with 105 Nobel laureates, and boasts far more Nobel prizes per capita than any other nation. It also has the world's highest number of publications per capita, the highest number of patents per capita, the highest citation impact factor, the most cited single-author paper, etc, etc. Switzerland also got the highest ranking in the list of happiest countries. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090130/1d570467/attachment.htm From michael.spratling at kcl.ac.uk Fri Jan 30 03:14:05 2009 From: michael.spratling at kcl.ac.uk (Michael Spratling) Date: Fri Jan 30 07:07:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc position, King's College London Message-ID: <4982E0FD.7040801@kcl.ac.uk> Postdoctoral Research Assistant King's College London An enthusiastic and well-qualified post-doctoral researcher is required to develop a biologically inspired neural network model that will be used to explore neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and behavioural development. The research will involve extending an existing hierarchical neural network in order to simulate the learning of visual-spatial representations in the dorsal pathway. The model will be used to incrementally learn to control visually guided behaviour in a stereo-vision robot head and will be evaluated by simulating infant behavioural data. This post is funded by EPSRC grant EP/D062225/1 "Exploring Mechanisms of Cognitive and Behavioural Development in Humans and Machines". Applicants should have a proven ability to carry out high quality research, have a genuine interest in the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and visually guided behaviour and be keen to carry out research in epigenetic/developmental robotics. The successful applicant is expected to have a PhD in a relevant area, have a good knowledge of neural networks and/or computational neuroscience, be proficient in C++ an MATLAB programming and ideally should have experience in robotics and machine vision. The position is available from April/May 2009 for a period of 21 months. The appointment will be made on the Grade 5 scale, point 25, currently ?27,946 per annum, inclusive of ?2,323 London Allowance, per annum. Benefits include an annual season ticket loan scheme and a final salary superannuation scheme. Further details and application packs are available on the College's website at www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs, or alternatively by emailing Human Resources at strand-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number G5/CEM/023/09. Informal inquiries can be made to Dr Michael Spratling via e-mail at: michael.spratling@kcl.ac.uk. The closing date for the receipt of applications: 9th March 2009 Equality of opportunity is College policy From announcements at journalofvision.org Fri Jan 30 10:29:33 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Fri Jan 30 11:05:58 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 1 Message-ID: <53CE4F519EA44F3EBA9F2AE42F9CC7BA@jov> Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 1 http://journalofvision.org/9/1/ Articles Multivoxel fMRI analysis of color tuning in human primary visual cortex Laura M. Parkes Jan-Bernard C. Marsman David C. Oxley John Y. Goulermas Sophie M. Wuerger http://journalofvision.org/9/1/1/ Rapid visual categorization of natural scene contexts with equalized amplitude spectrum and increasing phase noise Olivier R. Joubert Guillaume A. Rousselet Mich?le Fabre-Thorpe Denis Fize http://journalofvision.org/9/1/2/ Failure of facial configural cues to alter metric stereoscopic depth Barbara J. Gillam Barton L. Anderson Farhan Rizwi http://journalofvision.org/9/1/3/ Visual adaptation reveals asymmetric spatial frequency tuning for motion Timothy Ledgeway Claire V. Hutchinson http://journalofvision.org/9/1/4/ Emotion perception in emotionless face images suggests a norm-based representation Donald Neth Aleix M. Martinez http://journalofvision.org/9/1/5/ The Mixture of Bernoulli Experts: A theory to quantify reliance on cues in dichotomous perceptual decisions Benjamin T. Backus http://journalofvision.org/9/1/6/ Object perception: When our brain is impressed but we do not notice it J?rgen Kornmeier Michael Bach http://journalofvision.org/9/1/7/ Limits of stereopsis explained by local cross-correlation Heather R. Filippini Martin S. Banks http://journalofvision.org/9/1/8/ Shifts in spatial attention affect the perceived duration of events Guido M. Cicchini Maria Concetta Morrone http://journalofvision.org/9/1/9/ Binocular depth discrimination and estimation beyond interaction space Robert S. Allison Barbara J. Gillam Elia Vecellio http://journalofvision.org/9/1/10/ Driving is smoother and more stable when using the tangent point Farid I. Kandil Alexander Rotter Markus Lappe http://journalofvision.org/9/1/11/ Flawless visual short-term memory for facial emotional expressions ?va M. Bank? Viktor G?l Zolt?n Vidny?nszky http://journalofvision.org/9/1/12/ Effect of visual field locus and oscillation frequencies on posture control in an ecological environment Jean-Claude Piponnier Jean-Marie Hanssens Jocelyn Faubert http://journalofvision.org/9/1/13/ Perceptual and physiological evidence for a role for early visual areas in motion-induced blindness Camilo Libedinsky Tristram Savage Margaret Livingstone http://journalofvision.org/9/1/14/ World-centered perception of 3D object motion during visually guided self-motion Kazumichi Matsumiya Hiroshi Ando http://journalofvision.org/9/1/15/ Effect of target spatial frequency on accommodative response in myopes and emmetropes John Taylor W. Neil Charman Clare O'Donnell Hema Radhakrishnan http://journalofvision.org/9/1/16/ Size matters: A study of binocular rivalry dynamics Min-Suk Kang http://journalofvision.org/9/1/17/ Differences in fixations between grasping and viewing objects Anne-Marie Brouwer Volker H. Franz Karl R. Gegenfurtner http://journalofvision.org/9/1/18/ Acceleration carries the local inversion effect in biological motion perception Dorita H. F. Chang Nikolaus F. Troje http://journalofvision.org/9/1/19/ Contrast dependence of center and surround integration in primary visual cortex of the cat Chun Wang Cedric Bardy Jin Yu Huang Thomas FitzGibbon Bogdan Dreher http://journalofvision.org/9/1/20/ The time course of contrast masking reveals two distinct mechanisms of human surround suppression Yury Petrov Suzanne P. McKee http://journalofvision.org/9/1/21/ Amblyopia masks the scale invariance of normal central vision Dennis M. Levi David Whitaker Allison Provost http://journalofvision.org/9/1/22/ Monochromatic aberrations in hyperopic and emmetropic children Aldo A. Martinez Padmaja R. Sankaridurg Thomas J. Naduvilath Paul Mitchell http://journalofvision.org/9/1/23/ Humans use visual and remembered information about object location to plan pointing movements Anne-Marie Brouwer David C. Knill http://journalofvision.org/9/1/24/ Spatial characteristics of center-surround antagonism in younger and older adults Lisa R. Betts Allison B. Sekuler Patrick J. Bennett http://journalofvision.org/9/1/25/ Using geometric moments to explain human letter recognition near the acuity limit Lei Liu Stanley A. Klein Feng Xue Jun-Yun Zhang Cong Yu http://journalofvision.org/9/1/26/ Tilt aftereffects and tilt illusions induced by fast translational motion: Evidence for motion streaks Deborah Apthorp David Alais http://journalofvision.org/9/1/27/ Psychophysical properties of two-stroke apparent motion George Mather Kirsten L. Challinor http://journalofvision.org/9/1/28/ Influence of disparity on fixation and saccades in free viewing of natural scenes Lina Jansen Selim Onat Peter K?nig http://journalofvision.org/9/1/29/ Spatial and temporal limits of motion perception across variations in speed, eccentricity, and low vision Joseph S. Lappin Duje Tadin Jeffrey B. Nyquist Anne L. Corn http://journalofvision.org/9/1/30/ Homo economicus in visual search Vidhya Navalpakkam Christof Koch Pietro Perona http://journalofvision.org/9/1/31/ The influence of clutter on real-world scene search: Evidence from search efficiency and eye movements John M. Henderson Myriam Chanceaux Tim J. Smith http://journalofvision.org/9/1/32/ Do we have direct access to retinal image motion during smooth pursuit eye movements? Tom C. A. Freeman Rebecca A. Champion Jane H. Sumnall Robert J. Snowden http://journalofvision.org/9/1/33/ The specificity of the search template Mary J. Bravo Hany Farid http://journalofvision.org/9/1/34/ An anisotropy of orientation-tuned suppression that matches the anisotropy of typical natural scenes Edward A. Essock Andrew M. Haun Yeon Jin Kim http://journalofvision.org/9/1/35/ Characterizing motion contour detection mechanisms and equivalent mechanisms in the luminance domain Szonya Durant Johannes M. Zanker http://journalofvision.org/9/1/36/ Search for gross illumination discrepancies in images of natural objects P. George Lovell Iain D. Gilchrist David J. Tolhurst Tom Troscianko http://journalofvision.org/9/1/37/ Attentional influences on the dynamics of motion-induced blindness Marieke L. Sch?lvinck Geraint Rees http://journalofvision.org/9/1/38/ Reliable identification by color under natural conditions Jeroen J. M. Granzier Eli Brenner Jeroen B. J. Smeets http://journalofvision.org/9/1/39/ The detection of multiple global directions: Capacity limits with spatially segregated and transparent-motion signals John A. Greenwood Mark Edwards http://journalofvision.org/9/1/40/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information about the group, please visit http://www.neuro.mpg.de/english/junior/visualcode/. We are looking for a highly committed scientist with experience in whole-cell patch-clamp recordings to strengthen the group's experimental side. In addition, an interest in computational approaches to neuronal data analysis and modeling would be welcome. Applicants should have a PhD in biology, physics, or a related area and a publication record indicating the potential to develop independent research. The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating, lively, and international scientific environment provided by the Max Planck Institute (http://www.neuro.mpg.de) as well as the nearby university and Munich Center for Neurosciences (http://www.mcn.lmu.de). The research group is also associated with the Munich Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (http://www.bccn-muenchen.de), which provides an additional platform for interactions with scientists within the Munich area and beyond. To apply, please send an email to Dr. Tim Gollisch (tgollisch@neuro.mpg.de) and include a statement of research interests, a CV, and contact information for two or three references. --------------------------------------------- Dr. Tim Gollisch Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology Visual Coding Group Am Klopferspitz 18 82152 Martinsried-Munich, Germany Email: tgollisch@neuro.mpg.de Tel.: +49 (0)89 8578 3496 Fax: +49 (0)89 8995 0123 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 Bill Geisler, Mel Goodale, Norma Graham, Eileen Kowler, and Concetta Morrone. 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). Marisa Carrasco (2012) Visual attention, visual search, perceptual learning, spatial vision; psychophysics and neuroimaging Wilson Geisler (2010) Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and computational modeling Zoe Kourtzi (2012) Shape processing, object recognition, perceptual learning, brain imaging 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 Mary Peterson (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual learning; psychophysics and imaging Allison Sekuler (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging; psychophysics and neuroimaging Steven Shevell (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION: February 2, 2009 Nominations open March 2, 2009 Nominations close April 1, 2009 Election begins (online) April 22, 2009 Election ends May 1, 2009 Election results announced -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090203/4f3299d5/attachment.htm From susana at io.cfmac.csic.es Tue Feb 3 06:30:33 2009 From: susana at io.cfmac.csic.es (Susana Marcos) Date: Tue Feb 3 07:14:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position at the Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab, Madrid, Spain Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.1.20090203152831.040fea00@io.cfmac.csic.es> SEEKING CANDIDATES TO APPLY FOR A JUAN DE LA CIERVA POST-DOCTORAL POSITION AT THE VISUAL OPTICS AND BIOPHOTONICS LAB, INTITUTE OF OPTICS, MADRID, SPAIN Application Deadline : February 24, 2009 Starting date: September 2009 We seek candidates to apply for one 3-year postdoctoral JUAN DE LA CIERVA position (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) at the Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab The Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab (http://www.vision.csic.es) at the Institute of Optics seeks candidates with a Ph.D. in Visual Science or Applied Optics, willing to work on Ocular Imaging and Visual Optics. Candidates with strong motivation on experimental research, and ophthalmic and ocular biology applications are encouraged to apply. The selection committee will value scientific merits of the candidate as well as the opportunity of the proposed research. Candidates must hold a PhD before September 2009, and not before September 2004. The successful applicant will work on development and application of high resolution imaging techniques in the anterior segment of the eye, in particular confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography. The appointment is for three years, with a gross salary 33360 euros per year. The position also includes Social Security, family health Insurance and a program of social benefits provided by CSIC. The Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab provides a young and dynamic research environment. The laboratory is funded primarily by national and european grants (including a European Young Investigator Award), and holds excellent collaborative programs with top international laboratories, clinical institutes and industry. The Lab is part of the Spanish Visual Optics Network. The Institute of Optics (CSIC) is the oldest research institute in Optics in Spain, and holds an excellent reputation of research in optics, particularly in Visual Optics. CSIC (www.csic.es) is the National Center for Research in Spain, and the most important multidisciplinary research facility in the country. The Institute is centrally located in downtown Madrid within easy public transportation to all city districts. Madrid is a very lively city, with great cultural and leisure attractions. Expressions of interest should be sent to Susana Marcos by email, including CV, research interests and names of three references. The institutional online application process closes on Feb 04 and requires submission of a CV, PhD certificate and copy of passport. Additional resources: Juan de la Cierva Program (in Spanish): http://web.micinn.es/contenido.asp?menu1=1&menu2=3&menu3=&dir=03_Plan_IDI/00-LIAs/00@LIARRHH/02-Contratacion/01-JCierva/001Con09 Frequently Asked Questions (in English): http://web.micinn.es/03_Plan_IDI/00-LIAs/00@LIARRHH/02-Contratacion/01-JCierva/001Con09/021GPlan/06-CPrSoCID/Como%20presentar%20la%20solicitud%202009%20JC.pdf Prof. Susana Marcos Instituto de Optica, CSIC Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain Tel: +34 915616800 x2313 Fax: +34 915645557 email: susana@io.cfmac.csic.es NOTE NEW WEB SITE: http://www.vision.csic.es From wolfe at search.bwh.harvard.edu Mon Feb 2 13:49:05 2009 From: wolfe at search.bwh.harvard.edu (Jeremy Wolfe) Date: Tue Feb 3 07:15:17 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Good job for a smart senior Message-ID: PLEASE POST THIS WHERE SENIORS WILL SEE IT FULL-TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION AVAILABLE in VISION/COGNITIVE SCIENCE LOCATION: CAMBRIDGE, MA START DATE: Summer '09 This position is in the lab of Jeremy Wolfe and Todd Horowitz. We conduct psychophysical/behavioral research primarily in the area of visual attention. How do you find what you are looking for in a world full of things you are not looking for? How does a radiologist find a tumor in an x-ray? How does a baggage screener find a bomb? What is vision like without attention? How is attention deployed? How do you attend to an object if it moves around? What if it disappears? Healthy young adults are the experimental observers for most experiments. The position involves all stages of the research process from planning experiments and preparing documents for the ethics review board to helping to write up results for publication, but the main focus is data collection and analysis. Funding permitting, RAs usually attend and present at one scientific meeting each year. This position requires a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. A major in Psychology or related field would be plus, but is not necessary. Some research experience would also be useful. The lab is primarily Macintosh based. A candidate should have some computer experience and should be willing to learn how to use our statistics, graphics, and word processing packages. Programming experience is not necessary, but familiarity with MatLab would be a plus. A candidate must work in an organized, independent manner on multiple tasks and should be able to interact with subjects in a tactful and pleasant manner. This is an excellent position for a new college graduate who wants to spend two or more years in a research setting before going on to graduate or medical school. NOTE: A two-year commitment is required. The position is not appropriate for those with advanced degrees. Visa and funding issues make it extremely difficult to hire non-US residents. If interested, please contact Jeremy M Wolfe - wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu and/or Todd Horowitz - toddh@search.bwh.harvard.edu Visual Attention Lab Brigham & Women's Hospital 64 Sidney St., Cambridge, MA 02139 Visit our website: http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/ 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 The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090202/b4bfdfc0/attachment-0001.htm From andrew-hollingworth at uiowa.edu Tue Feb 3 15:27:52 2009 From: andrew-hollingworth at uiowa.edu (Andrew Hollingworth) Date: Tue Feb 3 16:46:35 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position - Hollingworth Lab, University of Iowa Message-ID: <4988D2F8.8070702@uiowa.edu> A postdoctoral position is available in the Hollingworth laboratory at the University of Iowa Department of Psychology. The lab uses psychophysical and eyetracking techniques to understand scene and object perception, visual memory, attention, and gaze control (see http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/hollingworth/). The research work will focus on, but need not be limited to, the relationship between visual working memory and eye movement control. The Department of Psychology at Iowa is dynamic environment for conducting vision research, with strong collaborative links between the vision/visual cognition laboratories (Moore, Vecera, Spencer, Hollingworth). The University is located in Iowa City, a college town with a vibrant literature, arts, and music scene. Applicants should have an excellent background in higher-level vision and cognitive psychology. Previous experience with eye tracking techniques is desirable but is not required. Salary will follow the NIH post-doc scale. Start date is flexible, but a start date on or before September 2009 is preferred. Please send a letter describing your research interests and background, CV, and the names and contact information of at least two referees to andrew-hollingworth@uiowa.edu. -- Andrew Hollingworth Associate Professor Department of Psychology The University of Iowa 11 Seashore Hall E Iowa City, IA 52242-1407 E-mail: andrew-hollingworth@uiowa.edu Web: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/hollingworth/ From ajyu at ucsd.edu Tue Feb 3 15:14:00 2009 From: ajyu at ucsd.edu (Angela J. Yu) Date: Tue Feb 3 16:46:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, UC San Diego Message-ID: <7F34736C-B8A9-43B5-A5CC-15234C417B4F@ucsd.edu> Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Angela Yu, at University of California, San Diego. Initial appointment is for one year, with flexible start date (2009) and possibility for renewal. The project is to develop a theoretical framework for the inter-related problems of sequential decision-making, sensori-motor integration, and active sensory processing. Candidates must have a strong mathematical background in areas such as probability and statistics, graphical models, Bayesian modeling, machine learning, and reinforcement learning. Experience with stochastic processes and/or stochastic control theory is a major plus. Candidate should also have programming experience, such as Matlab or equivalent. Depending on the candidates' interest and ability, the postdoctoral fellow will also design and conduct human behavioral experiments involving some combination of psychophysics, eyetracking, and fMRI. Experience with these experimental techniques are desired but not required. Dr. Yu's lab is situated within the Natural Computation Lab in the Cognitive Science department of UCSD. It is affiliated with the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, and the UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program. It provides ample opportunities for communication and collaboration with related labs not only within the department of Cognitive Science, but also in Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Electric and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Institute for Neural Computation, and the Salk Institute. Interested candidates should send a research statement, along with a CV including publications and references to: ajyu@ucsd.edu. At least two letters of references should be sent directly to the same address. Dr. Yu will be interviewing candidates at the upcoming Cosyne conference (Salt Lake City, 02/26/09-03/01/09). --------------------------------------------------------- Angela J. Yu Assistant Professor Department of Cognitive Science UCSD, Mail Code 0515 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 Email: ajyu@cogsci.ucsd.edu Phone: 858-822-3317 Fax: 858-534-1128 Website: www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu --------------------------------------------------------- From daniel.smith2 at durham.ac.uk Wed Feb 4 03:06:25 2009 From: daniel.smith2 at durham.ac.uk (SMITH D.T.) Date: Wed Feb 4 07:10:01 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Neurorehabilitation of Hemianopia Message-ID: <43AA7C14DC4E8248BC9675DBAA8648B10122AC2F@EXDUR2.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> Advert for 2.5 year Research Associate Position at Durham University: Start date: April 2009/Closing date: 10th of March 2009. Applications are invited for a three year Research Associate position, working with Dr. Thomas Schenk and Dr Daniel Smith on a Clinical Neuroscience Project. This project will be carried out in collaboration with the Department of Neurology at the Newcastle General Hospital. The aim of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of a new therapy for patients who develop visual problems after brain damage. This project will be the first randomised control trial of this type of treatment, and will offer the opportunity to develop clinical skills with neuropsychological patients, and potentially produce a therapy which could improve the quality of life for many thousands of brain-injured individuals. Applicants should hold a first degree in Psychology, Medicine, Biology or Neuroscience and preferably have a PhD/MD in a Clinical, Neuropsychological or Neuroscience related field. Candidates should be enthusiastic about Neuropsychology or Clinical Neuroscience, and should have, or be keen to learn, the skills of human eye movement measurements and the clinical assessment of visual disorders. The appointment is available immediately for 30 months but the start date can be negotiated. Please direct informal inquiries to Dr. Thomas Schenk (phone: 0191-3340438; or e-mail: Thomas.Schenk@dur.ac.uk or Dr. Daniel Smith (phone: 0191-40436; or e-mail: Daniel.smith2@dur.ac.uk) and see the laboratory web page: http://www.dur.ac.uk/thomas.schenk/ Closing date: 10th of March, 2009. ------------------------------------- Dr Daniel Smith Wolfson Research Institute Durham University, Queens Campus Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BH +44 (0)191 3340436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090204/115dadc7/attachment.htm From Y.A.W.d.Kort at tue.nl Wed Feb 4 01:11:14 2009 From: Y.A.W.d.Kort at tue.nl (Kort, Y.A.W. de) Date: Wed Feb 4 07:10:36 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2nd call for papers: EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 Message-ID: <91663392B4EC454A8C8B40EC9FD8DFCC077C36EC@EXCHANGE1.campus.tue.nl> EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 International conference on the effects of light on wellbeing 26-27 October 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands www.experiencinglight.nl EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 is an international two-day scientific conference for those interested in the effects of light and light design on human wellbeing. It approaches wellbeing in its broadest sense, including mood, emotions, subjective and objective health, comfort, atmosphere perception, productivity and performance. Academics and practitioners with an interest in research, theory, technologies, design, and applications related to the psychological effects of lighting are invited to submit their work for presentation. Original, high quality papers are sought which make substantial contributions to the field. All accepted papers will be collected in the printed volume (with ISBN) of the official conference Proceedings. EXPERIENCING LIGHT 09 will follow a thorough blind peer reviewing process in order to guarantee the quality and relevance of the work presented. The submission format is extended abstracts of up to 1200 words (excluding references), in Word or pdf format. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full papers (around 10 pages) for publication in the printed conference proceedings. Authors may also be invited to revise their paper for publication in a special issue of Lighting Research and Technology (ISSN: 1477-1535). Lighting Research & Technology is a leading international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research on the subject of light and lighting. Important dates: Extended abstract deadline: 1 March 2009 Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2009 Full paper deadline: 1 June 1009 (only for accepted abstracts) For more information see the conference website: http://www.experiencinglight.nl Or contact el2009@tue.nl On behalf of the organising committee: Yvonne de Kort, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Ingrid Vogels, Marielle Aarts, Ariadne Tenner, and Karin Smolders From ross.goutcher at stir.ac.uk Wed Feb 4 11:16:47 2009 From: ross.goutcher at stir.ac.uk (Ross Goutcher) Date: Wed Feb 4 18:49:20 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Please post: PhD studentships available at Stirling University, UK Message-ID: The Department of Psychology in the University of Stirling intends to offer two funded PhD studentship/teaching fellowships starting in October 2009. The department has an enthusiastic and vibrant research community, which provides a stimulating and exciting environment for postgraduate study. We encourage students who expect to obtain a First or Upper Second class Honours degree in Psychology or a related discipline, or who already have an MSc, to apply for a PhD at Stirling. Research supervision is available in a range of areas, including visual perception. Students interested in researching binocular vision and/or the perception of depth and three-dimensional shape should contact Dr Ross Goutcher (Ross.Goutcher@stir.ac.uk) to discuss potential projects. Please view our web pages at: www.psychology.stir.ac.uk The department has an outstanding record of success in both teaching and research. According to recent national assessment we rank among the best UK Psychology Departments for research and have achieved the highest rating, "Excellent", for Teaching Quality. The Department also has full "1+3" and "+3" ESRC recognition status as an accredited training outlet. The department's research is supported by state-of-the-art facilities, including an in-house playgroup, human electrophysiological recording and analysis facilities, health and clinical laboratories, and expertise in computational modeling. The department has excellent facilities for postgraduate students, including allocated office space, equipment and conference funding. The studentships will be fully funded at Research Council rates (circa ?12,000 per annum) and successful applicants will be expected to contribute towards teaching in the department. For application procedures please see http://www.external.stir.ac.uk/postgrad/apply/index.php or contact Linda Cullen (Linda.Cullen@stir.ac.uk) -- Academic Excellence at the Heart of Scotland. The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. From chiara.dellalibera at univr.it Fri Feb 6 04:25:35 2009 From: chiara.dellalibera at univr.it (Chiara Della Libera) Date: Fri Feb 6 07:25:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Two Post-doc fellowships in Leo Chelazzi's Lab Message-ID: <0F5D44FC79C44BB097249033740481EF@PCChiara> Two Postdoctoral Fellowships available in Leonardo Chelazzi's lab at the University of Verona. Two positions at the postdoctoral level will be available in Leonardo Chelazzi's lab at the University of Verona, beginning in early spring 2009 (two-years duration, renewable). One position is reserved for someone to be fully in charge of a newly established TMS unit; the other is for someone to carry out single-unit recording experiments with behaving macaques. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to investigate the brain mechanisms of visual selective attention and the complex interplay between selective attention and other cognitive functions, such as learning and memory, motivation and decision making (www.attention-lab.net). Job requirements: - Solid background in the general area of cognitive neuroscience. - Strong documented experience in the relevant experimental methodologies, i.e. excellent mastering of the TMS technique and its applications within cognitive neuroscience for the first position and previous experience in single-unit and/or multi-unit recordings from behaving monkeys for the second position. - Excellent programming and statistical skills. - Strong motivation. - Creative approach towards scientific research. Please note that knowledge of the Italian language is not a requirement. If interested, please send your application, a detailed CV and two reference letters to: leonardo.chelazzi@univr.it or to: Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi Dept. of Neurological and Vision Sciences - Section of Physiology University of Verona I- 37134 Strada Le Grazie 8, Verona (Italy) Applications will be accepted if received before March 1, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090206/29f15514/attachment.htm From tsliu.x at gmail.com Fri Feb 6 12:15:42 2009 From: tsliu.x at gmail.com (Taosheng Liu) Date: Fri Feb 6 13:01:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] back projection screen recommendation Message-ID: <563ff1b40902061215k1a8abbd0hb408fa82bb1bda2@mail.gmail.com> Hello, We're setting up a back projection system for fMRI. Can people recommend a screen to use for this purpose? I know Stewart Film Screen ( www.stewartfilmscreen.com) makes some screens, but this company seems really hard to work with. It's been hard for us to buy their product. Anybody has some good options? Thank you very much, Taosheng Liu Michigan State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090206/e03ac292/attachment.htm From zacher at cvr.yorku.ca Fri Feb 6 14:51:28 2009 From: zacher at cvr.yorku.ca (James Zacher) Date: Fri Feb 6 16:27:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Centre for Vision Research Summer Conference Announcement - Vision in 3D Environments - cvr2009.ca In-Reply-To: <41F59C3D.4000900@cvr.yorku.ca> References: <41F59C3D.4000900@cvr.yorku.ca> Message-ID: <498CBEF0.1010709@cvr.yorku.ca> Greetings, I would like to post the following CVR Summer conference announcement. Cheers, Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Vision in 3D Environments :: York University, Centre for Vision Research Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2009 Conference Announcement We are pleased to announce York University?s Centre for Vision Research, 2009 Conference: Vision in 3D Environments. It will be held at York University, Toronto, June 23rd- 26th, 2009. We have an excellent collection of international speakers, and invite poster submissions from students and faculty. As part of York University?s 50th celebration we are offering a number of awards for local and international students and post-doctoral fellows to help support travel and accommodation. Our list of confirmed speakers is provided below, and registration and submission information is available on our website: www.cvr2009.ca We look forward to seeing you! For more information please contact Teresa Manini: manini@cvr.yorku.ca or the organizers: Laurie Wilcox (lwilcox@yorku.ca) and Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca). :: Speaker List :: Navigation William Warren Heinrich Bulthoff Gregory Dudek Visually-Guided Motion Marc Ernst Randy Flanagan Chris Miall Pieter Medendorp Cue Integration Marty Banks David Knill Larry Maloney Depth in Naturalistic Images Ted Adelson Barbara Gillam Roland Fleming Stereopsis I Suzanne McKee Bruce Cumming (NIH) Brian Rogers (Oxford) Stereopsis II Andrew Parker (Oxford) Ning Qian (Columbia University) Christopher Tyler Natural Scene Perception Tai Sing Lee Aude Oliva Russell Epstein From harry at uow.edu.au Fri Feb 6 18:09:35 2009 From: harry at uow.edu.au (Harold Hill) Date: Sat Feb 7 08:12:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Scholarship: Relating Physical Measurements to Three-dimensional Face Perception Message-ID: PhD Scholarship: Relating Physical Measurements to Three-dimensional Face Perception. Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD scholarship in the field of three-dimensional (3D) face perception. The scholarship is part of an ARC Discovery project DP0986898 "Face-space: linking three-dimensional shape and human perception across changing viewing conditions" awarded to Harold Hill (University of Wollongong), Peter Claes (University of Melbourne) and Alan Johnston (University College London) and commencing in 2009. The scholarship will be held at the University of Wollongong with Harold Hill as the primary supervisor. The successful applicant will be closely involved with the core project. The aim of this is to relate physical measures of 3D faces to human perception of similarity. Applicants should have experience of experimental psychology and statistics. Knowledge of face perception, 3D shape perception, Matlab/R and three-dimensional computer graphics would all be advantages. The scholarship is non taxable and worth AU $26,140 per annum. Applicants from Australia and New Zealand pay no tuition fees and applicants from other countries will be able to apply for a waiver. There will be opportunities for related research assistant work and for tutorial teaching. Informal enquiries can be directed to harry@uow.edu.au Formal application should include a full CV, contact details for two academic referees and a brief description of research experience and interests. Please send applications to Harold Hill School of Psychology University of Wollongong Northfields Avenue NSW 2522 Australia Tel. +61 (0)2 4221 4073 Fax. +61 (0)2 4221 4163 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090206/acdb45ab/attachment.htm From pkmital at gmail.com Sat Feb 7 06:34:54 2009 From: pkmital at gmail.com (Parag) Date: Sat Feb 7 08:12:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] back projection screen recommendation In-Reply-To: <563ff1b40902061215k1a8abbd0hb408fa82bb1bda2@mail.gmail.com> References: <563ff1b40902061215k1a8abbd0hb408fa82bb1bda2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi, Take a look at Rosco: http://www.rosco.com/ Good luck, Parag On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Taosheng Liu wrote: > Hello, > We're setting up a back projection system for fMRI. Can people recommend a > screen to use for this purpose? I know Stewart Film Screen > (www.stewartfilmscreen.com) makes some screens, but this company seems > really hard to work with. It's been hard for us to buy their product. > Anybody has some good options? > Thank you very much, > > Taosheng Liu > Michigan State University > > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist > > From zacher at cvr.yorku.ca Sat Feb 7 09:39:32 2009 From: zacher at cvr.yorku.ca (James Zacher) Date: Sat Feb 7 09:51:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Institutes and Centers - New Entry Centre for Vision Research Message-ID: <498DC754.9090303@cvr.yorku.ca> Centre for Vision Research www.cvr.yorku.ca Founded in 1992, the Centre for Vision Research focusses on interdisciplinary research into human and machine vision and visual processes, into vision's interactions with other senses and with motor and cognitive processes, and in applications such as visually-guided robotics or clinical diagnosis and treatment. The Centre for Vision Research includes the following major research themes: * Human Visual Performance * Visual Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Virtual Reality * Visual Psychophysics * Eye Movements and Hand-Eye Coordination * Computational Modeling and Computer Vision * Electrophysiology * Clinical and Developmental Studies * Brain Imaging From jalonso at sunyopt.edu Tue Feb 10 06:38:41 2009 From: jalonso at sunyopt.edu (Jose-Manuel Alonso) Date: Tue Feb 10 06:51:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position in Visual Neuroscience Message-ID: <200902101440.n1AEeASL083671@visionscience.com> Postdoctoral position in Visual Neuroscience A postdoctoral position is available at the laboratory of Jose-Manuel Alonso at the SUNY Optometry to study the neuronal mechanisms of visual attention. The laboratory uses new multielectrode technology to monitor the activity from single neurons and neuronal populations over long periods of time in the awake brain (see Swadlow et al., J Neurophysiol 93, 2959-2965; Chen et al. Nature Neuroscience 11, 974-982). SUNY Optometry has an excellent team of researchers specialized in different areas of vision and it is located at the center of Manhattan, at walking distance from all main transportation hubs of the city. The position offers excellent opportunities to interact with researchers within and outside the New York City area, as part of ongoing research collaborations in the laboratory. Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree and prior experience in electrophysiological techniques, Matlab and C++ programming. Please, send curriculum vitae and names of two references to the address given below and do not hesitate to contact me if you need further information. Salary is determined based on experience according to the pay scale given by the National Institutes of Health. Jose-Manuel Alonso, M.D., Ph.D. SUNY Optometry 33 West 42nd street New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212) 780-0523 jalonso@sunyopt.edu http://www.sunyopt.edu/research/res_fac.shtml Jose-Manuel Alonso, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Biological Sciences State University of New York (SUNY-Optometry) Department of Biological Sciences 33 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 938-5573 Fax: (212) 938-5796 From john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk Tue Feb 10 03:44:45 2009 From: john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk (John M. Henderson) Date: Tue Feb 10 06:51:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Chair of Computational Neuroscience at Edinburgh Message-ID: <499168AD.3070309@ed.ac.uk> Informatics: Chair of Computational Neuroscience University of Edinburgh The School of Informatics seeks to appoint an outstanding computational neuroscientist to provide leadership within the existing computational neuroscience group within the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation. The development and use of predictive models plays a fundamental role in much scientific endeavour. To model the nervous system requires building and integrating models at many different spatial and temporal scales. Computational neuroscience covers a broad range of topics in the study of development and plasticity, from cellular and subcellular aspects of development through to computational models of neurons and neural circuitry which model higher brain function. The successful candidate will have an international research profile in computational neuroscience. The appointee will be expected to provide leadership within the existing computational neuroscience group within the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation. This group includes five core academic staff and five postdoctoral researchers. It has extensive research collaborations within the University, the UK and overseas, and is supported by various grants one which supports the recently renewed multimillion pound Doctoral Training Centre in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. This is funded by three UK Research Councils and offers 10 4-year PhD studentships every year until 2012. More information at www.jobs.ed.ac.uk reference number 3010248 Informal enquiries should be directed to Prof David Willshaw: willshaw 'at' inf.ed.ac.uk -- 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 VSS at visionsciences.org Mon Feb 9 19:01:42 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Tue Feb 10 06:52:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2009 Call for Demos Message-ID: <008101c98b2b$f14cda10$d3e68e30$@org> VSS is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Visual Demos Evening at VSS will be Monday, May 11, 2009 from 6:30 - 9:30 pm at the Naples Grande Hotel. This will be an informal celebration of the experiential phenomena of vision science, with a diverse offering of visual demos. Dinner will be served on the Sunset deck and pool area of the Naples Grande. VSS is seeking dramatic, provocative, educational, and entertaining demonstrations of visual phenomena new and old. Especially encouraged are 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. VSS and the Naples Grande can provide tables, electrical outlets, and some wall-space and/or screens for projections; and poster boards upon request. The organizers will help coordinate special needs (e.g. theatrical lighting). Each presenter will be responsible for bringing and setting up the necessary equipment for their own demos, including data projectors and 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 11, 2009. This year's Demo Evening will be organized and curated by Arthur Shapiro and Bart Anderson. Please direct questions about possible demos to shapiro@bucknell.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090209/86902314/attachment.htm From duje at cvs.rochester.edu Tue Feb 10 07:30:00 2009 From: duje at cvs.rochester.edu (Duje Tadin) Date: Tue Feb 10 10:58:47 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position, Univ. of Rochester, Center for Visual Science Message-ID: <0AC044E9-2446-4FEE-A358-EBF6BE8C006E@cvs.rochester.edu> A postdoctoral position to conduct behavioral, TMS and fMRI studies of visual perception and attention is available in Dr. Duje Tadin?s lab at the Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester. Initial appointment is for two years. Start date must be before 8/31/2009. Tadin lab uses psychophysics, TMS, fMRI, and eye-tracking to investigate neural mechanisms of visual perception in normal and special populations. Current projects are focused on motion perception, visual adaptation, binocular rivalry, contextual interactions, perceptual learning, visual working memory and attention. For more information see: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/Duje/VCNlab/Home.html Essential requirements: - strong research background - programming skills (MATLAB/Psychtoolbox preferred) - a PhD and/or MD (either completed or expected in 2009) - position is restricted to US citizens/permanent residents Highly preferred qualifications: - background in vision research or related fields - strong computational skills - experience with psychophysics, fMRI, TMS and/or eye-tracking - experience with and/or interest in collaborative, multi-method research approaches To apply, send CV, one paragraph research statement and names of 3 references to: duje@cvs.rochester.edu Initial salary will follow NIH guidelines. Applicants must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents. Prospective applicants are encouraged to email Dr. Tadin with any questions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090210/b49494ee/attachment.htm From dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de Thu Feb 12 06:43:13 2009 From: dancoisne at bccn.uni-freiburg.de (Florence Dancoisne) Date: Thu Feb 12 07:07:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 14th Edition - Applications open Message-ID: <49943581.8090603@bccn.uni-freiburg.de> ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 14th Edition. (A PENS/Bernstein Training Center) Applications open August 3-28, 2009 Freiburg, Germany SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS: * Nicolas Brunel (CNRS & Universit? Paris Descartes, Paris, France) * John Rinzel (New York University, New York, USA) * Peter Latham (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK) * Yifat Prut (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR: * Florence Dancoisne (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg, Germany) The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (ACCN) 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 pursue a project of their choosing under the close supervision of expert tutors. This gives them practical training in the art and practice of neural modeling. The first week of the course introduces students to essential neurobiological concepts and to the most important techniques in modeling single cells, synapses and circuits. Students learn how to solve their research problems using software such as MATLAB, NEST, NEURON, Python, XPP, etc. During the following three weeks the lectures cover networks and specific neural systems and functions. Topics range from modeling 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. In addition, we will offer three internships to ACCN students. These fully funded internships will allow students to work, post-ACCN, on a research project in a faculty member?s lab for up to three months. Applications for internships will be considered after the ACCN. The course is designed for students 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. Applications for the ACCN, 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. For more information and access to the application database go to: http://www.neuroinf.org/courses/EUCOURSE/F09/index.shtml Contact address: * Fiona Siegfried Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Hansastrasse 9A 79104 Freiburg Germany * email: accn@bccn.uni-freiburg.de Application deadline: April 2, 2009 Deadline for letters of recommendation: April 2, 2009 Notification of results: April 30, 2009 INVITED FACULTY (* = confirmed) Ad Aertsen, U. Freiburg, Germany (*) Yang Dan, UC Berkeley, USA (*) Jeff Beck, Gatsby Computational Unit, UCL, UK (*) Paul Bressloff, U. of Utah, USA (*) Mitya Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA (*) Nathaniel Daw, NYU, USA (*) Erik De Schutter, OIST, Japan (*) Alain Destexhe, CNRS Gif, France (*) Yael Niv, Princeton, USA (*) Jonathan Pillow, UCL, UK (*) Yifat Prut, Hebrew University, Israel (*) Magnus Richardson, U. of Warwick, UK (*) Yasser Roudi, UCL, UK (*) Gytis Svirskis, Kaunas Medical Academy, Lithuania (*) Alex Thomson, UL, UK (*) Matthew Tresch, Northwestern University, USA (*) Mark Van Rossum, U. of Edinburgh, UK (*) Carl van Vreeswijk, CNRS Paris, France (*) Charles Wilson, UT-San Antonio, USA Istvan Winkler, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary (*) Fred Wolf, MPI Goettingen, Germany Li Zhaoping, UCL, UK (*) TUTORS (all confirmed) Janet Best, Ohio State, USA Moritz Helias, U. Freiburg, Germany Pablo Jercog, Columbia U, USA Yann Le Franc, NIH, USA Alex Lerchner, UCL, UK Michiel Remme, NYU, USA SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR Bernd Wiebelt, U. Freiburg, Germany From naotsu at gmail.com Thu Feb 12 07:33:14 2009 From: naotsu at gmail.com (Naotsugu Tsuchiya) Date: Thu Feb 12 10:21:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for papers and travel awards: (1) 32nd Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society + (2) NIPS international workshop for "Scientific Studies of Consciousness" Message-ID: <35e3a0ab0902120733s59f5f95eyf99265aa5a93142e@mail.gmail.com> This is the announcement on (1) 32nd Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society and its travel award (deadline Feb 28) and (2) the NIPS international workshop "Scientific Studies of Consciousness". (1) The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuroscience 2009) International neuroscience conference (expected attendee : >3500 people) (All the talks and posters will be given in English) Sep 16-18, 2009 at Nagoya Congress Center, Aichi, Japan. Official homepage: http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/index.html Registration now open http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/registration/registration_main.html Travel award (Deadline: Must arrive by February 28, 2009) Travel Awards are offered to participants in the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society who come from Asian nations or developing countries in the neighborhood of Japan, and who will give a presentation at the meeting. Details of the Travel Awards are as set out below. http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/japanese/travel_award/index_travel.html (decision will be notified in April) Plenary Lectures - Christof Koch, Professor (California Institute of Technology, USA) - Barry W. Connors, Professor (Brown University, USA) - Gail Mandel, Professor (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, USA) - Robert W. McCarley, Professor?Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA Special Lectures - Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan) - Kozo Kaibuchi, Professor (Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan) - Yasuo Ihara, Professor (Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Japan) - Hideyuki Okano, Professor(Keio University, School of Medidine, Department of Physiology, Japan) For details : see http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/program/program_main.html (2) International workshop : National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) presents a workshop for "Scientific Studies of Consciousness" International workshop for scientific studies of consciousness (all the presentations will given be in English) Date: Sep 19-20, 2009 Place: Okazaki Conference Center, Aichi, Japan http://www.orion.ac.jp/occ-e/ Organizer: Masatoshi Yoshida, Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu@gmail.com) Official homepage http://www.nips.ac.jp/%7Emyoshi/workshop2009/ Registration opens on Mar 1 Abstract submission for poster presentation starts on Mar 1 and closes on July 15. (Abstract acceptance will be notified within 2-4 weeks from the submission) (No registration fee required. Participation fee is required only for a banquet and a lunch) Tentative themes: 1) Time and consciousness 2) Electrophysiological approach towards consciousness 3) Reliability of subjective reports on phenomenology 4) Consciousness vs. Attention 5) The role of thalamus in consciousness Confirmed speakers: Ralph Adolphs (Caltech) Ned Block (NYU) Olivia Carter (U of Melbourne) Ryota Kanai (UCL) Christof Koch (Caltech) Petra Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University) Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Caltech) Melanie Wilke (Caltech, NIMH) Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS) There will be two associated symposia, closely related to the topic of the neuronal basis of consciousness: 1. Frontier of neuroscientific research on consciousness (Block (NYU), Koch (Caltech), Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University), Yoshida(NIPS)) 2. Neuronal mechanisms of visual illusions : empirical approaches from psychophysics, brain stimulation, electrophysiology, and pharmacology (Carter (U of Melbourne), Kanai (UCL), Tsuchiya (Caltech), Wilke(Caltech, NIMH) ) (Note: Overlapping speakers for these symposia will present different topics at the workshop on Sep 19 and 20) }{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, Ph.D. Postdoctoral scholar in Psychology and Neuroscience Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in Caltech homepage: www.emotion.caltech.edu/~naotsu ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Although one person commented that it's worth the hassle as the quality is good (I don't have a basis for comparison). The rest are suggestions from the list, with quotes from the person (I can provide the source if you need). 2. Tierney Brothers.* www.tierneybrothers.com* "Ask for Zach. They do great work." 3. "Take a look at Rosco": *http://www.rosco.com/* 4. Screen Tech* http://www.screen-tech.de/main.html* "They have good customer services and reasonable prices, however they are based in Germany." 5. Da-Lite (*www.dalite.com* ). "We've been very pleased with them." Hope this is useful. Cheers, --Taosheng -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090212/b4e53cea/attachment.htm From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Fri Feb 13 14:49:39 2009 From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde) Date: Fri Feb 13 16:23:05 2009 Subject: [visionlist] FINAL Call for Illusion Submissions: 5th annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest Message-ID: <007701c98e2d$5c7bcea0$15736be0$@com> ****FINAL CALL FOR ILLUSION SUBMISSIONS: THE FIFTH ANNUAL BEST VISUAL ILLUSION OF THE YEAR CONTEST**** http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com *** We are happy to announce the world's 5th annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!!*** The deadline for illusion submissions is February 16th, 2009! The 2009 contest will be held in Naples, Florida (Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org/) on Sunday, May 10th, 2009, during the week of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference. 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. **************************************************************************** We are happy to announce that the 2009 Master-of-Ceremonies will be none other than the infamous Peter Thompson of The University of York, UK. Dr. Thompson is the creator of the famed Margaret Thatcher illusion, one of the most celebrated illusions of the 20th century. His skills as an MC are legendary. None of this year's contest's attendees will leave unchanged or unscathed. **************************************************************************** Past contests have been highly successful in drawing public attention to vision research, with over ***TWO MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world, as well as hundreds of international media stories. The First, Second and Third Prize winners at the 2008 contest were Rob van Lier & Mark Vergeer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Rob Jenkins (University of Glasgow, UK), and Thomas Papathoms (Rutgers University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2008 and previous contests, go to http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Illusion submissions can be novel visual, cognitive, or multimodal illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2008) in standard image, movie or html formats. Exciting new variants of classic or known illusions are also admissible. An international panel of impartial judges (http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE _user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=137&MMN_position=21:21) 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! Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted to the 2009 contest, so 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 to 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 16, 2009. 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: ttp://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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience Barrow Neurological Institute 350 W. Thomas Rd. Phoenix AZ 85013 USA Phone: +1 602 406-3484 Fax: +1 602 406-4192 Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com From owsley at uab.edu Sun Feb 15 11:03:03 2009 From: owsley at uab.edu (Cynthia Owsley) Date: Sun Feb 15 14:44:28 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for Abstracts: The Eye and The Auto International Conference Message-ID: <1B8D938D-72E6-4B24-BFB6-AAB80F381F82@uab.edu> Call for Abstracts: The Eye and the Auto International Conference September 16-18, 2009 Detroit, Michigan Abstract Submission Due Date: April 30, 2009 The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, is an international research conference dedicated to improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of motorized vehicles. Sessions will be devoted to a variety of topics including but not limited to: visual processing, visual attention, and driving tasks; human factors and design issues relevant to the driver, roadway, and/or vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions, and driver safety; policies that address vision and driving; driver assessment and rehabilitation strategies for the visually impaired driver. This meeting will be of keen interest to many types of professionals from the field of driver safety and performance including scientists, engineers, clinicians, designers, and policy specialists. A highlight of the meeting will be a tour of the GM Driving Simulator and Human Machine Interface Laboratory. The conference will take place at the GM Technical Center Campus, Warren, Michigan. There will be several invited presentations by experts in the field, including: Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation Institute Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Jonathan Hankey, PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham Eli Peli M.Sc., OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University Bryan Reimer PhD, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa Janet Szlyk, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago Jeremy Wolfe PhD, Brigham & Women?s Hospital, Harvard University Joanne Wood PhD, MCOptom, Queensland University of Technology We welcome Abstract Submissions for either a 15-minute paper or poster presentation formats. For more information on the conference and the guidelines for submitting abstracts go to: www.eyeson.org (and then follow the link for The Eye and the Auto). We look forward to your participation and encourage you to share this Call for Abstracts announcement with your colleagues. Should you have any questions about the Eye and The Auto, please feel free to contact any of members of the Conference Organizing Committee (see below). Looking forward to seeing you there - Philip C. Hessburg MD President, Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology pchessburg@eyeson.org Co-Chair, The Eye and The Auto Cynthia Owsley PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham owsley@uab.edu Co-Chair, The Eye and The Auto Edward R. O'Malley MD Henry Ford Health System Grosse Pointe Ophthalmology eromalley@comcast.com Research Committee Chairman Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology Carolyn Barth PhD Special Projects Coordinator Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology clbarth@mycomcast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 Bill Geisler, Mel Goodale, Norma Graham, Eileen Kowler, and Concetta Morrone. 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). Marisa Carrasco (2012) Visual attention, visual search, perceptual learning, spatial vision; psychophysics and neuroimaging Wilson Geisler (2010) Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and computational modeling Zoe Kourtzi (2012) Shape processing, object recognition, perceptual learning, brain imaging 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 Mary Peterson (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual learning; psychophysics and imaging Allison Sekuler (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging; psychophysics and neuroimaging Steven Shevell (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION: February 2, 2009 Nominations open March 2, 2009 Nominations close April 1, 2009 Election begins (online) April 22, 2009 Election ends May 1, 2009 Election results announced -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090215/472ff2f5/attachment-0001.htm From chavane at incm.cnrs-mrs.fr Tue Feb 17 05:06:48 2009 From: chavane at incm.cnrs-mrs.fr (Chavane Frederic) Date: Tue Feb 17 07:52:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] postdoc offer in Marseille (France) Message-ID: <499AB668.9090200@incm.cnrs-mrs.fr> A postdoctoral position to conduct optical imaging studies of the cortical impact of retinal implant is available at the Mediterranean Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences (Marseille, France) with Dr. F. Chavane in DyVA team (Dynamics of Vision and Action ). Appointment is for two years. Start date must be before the end of 2009. Research focuses on testing the functional impact of retinal implants in rats (Salzmann et al (2006) Subretinal electrode implantation in the P23H rat for chronic stimulations. British Journal of Ophthalmology vol. 90 (9) pp. 1183-1187), using optical imaging of intrinsic and voltage-sensitive dye signal in the visual cortex of implanted rats. The project is part of a consortium financed by the French ANR, whose objective is to develop a new generation of performing large-scale multi-electrode array (MEA) implant. The long-term goal of this project is to use MEA and the expertise on their functional impact to give blind-sighted a coherent visual input through those implants. The consortium includes, amongst others, labs experts in retinal implant (Institut de la Vision , S. Picaud) and labs experts in the development of MEA systems (CEA Leti ). Our team has developed multiple optical imaging platforms on monkeys and small animals and will be involved in testing the cortical impact of implanted rats. The candidate will have the responsibility to develop a benchmark model for comparing/calibrating the cortical impact of retinal implants stimulation to the functional responses evoked visually. The Team DyVA investigates the brain dynamics underlying visual motion perception and eye movement control or the preparation of reaching movements, in close collaboration with the opthalmologic center of Marseille main's hospital (la Timone, studying retinal and corneal pathologies). In the team, a variety of techniques are being used, from physiological measures (optical imaging, electrophysiology in awake monkey and rats), to psychophysics, behavioral oculomotor measures (ocular following reflex, pursuit etc...) and models. Candidates must have a strong motivation on experimental and/or ophthalmic research, with interest in bio-medical applied research. Essential requirements: - research background in animal experimentation, vision research or related fields - programming skills (MATLAB preferred) - a PhD (either completed or expected in 2009) To apply, send CV, one paragraph research statement and names of 3 references to: chavane at incm.cnrs-mrs.fr. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090217/38e1a9a2/attachment.htm From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Tue Feb 17 07:34:17 2009 From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde) Date: Tue Feb 17 07:53:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Illusion submission EXTENSION: The 5th Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!! Message-ID: <006e01c99115$34fa2800$9eee7800$@com> ***DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND*** --The deadline for the 5th Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest has been extended. FINAL (no exceptions) submission date is now ***March 2nd***! 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 5th 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 2009 contest will be hosted by Peter Thompson and held in Naples, Florida (Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org) on Sunday, May 10th, 2009, 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. Past contests have been highly successful in drawing public attention to vision research, with over ***TWO MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world, as well as hundreds of international media stories. The First, Second and Third Prize winners at the 2008 contest were Rob van Lier & Mark Vergeer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Rob Jenkins (University of Glasgow, UK), and Thomas Papathoms (Rutgers University, USA). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2008 and previous contests, go to http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com Illusion submissions can be novel visual, cognitive, or multimodal illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2008) in standard image, movie or html formats. Exciting new variants of classic or known illusions are also admissible. 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! Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted to the 2009 contest, so 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 to 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 2nd, 2009. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience Barrow Neurological Institute 350 W. Thomas Rd. Phoenix AZ 85013 USA Phone: +1 602 406-3484 Fax: +1 602 406-4192 Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com From deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au Wed Feb 18 17:36:15 2009 From: deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au (Deborah Apthorp) Date: Wed Feb 18 21:01:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] LED monitors In-Reply-To: <96F77944E1BA554D814FBC549EC5D3F0064E4FDC@moonraker.campus.ncl.ac.uk> References: <96F77944E1BA554D814FBC549EC5D3F0064E4FDC@moonraker.campus.ncl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <49F30984-7983-440F-87C0-11566FF17994@psych.usyd.edu.au> Hi, Does anyone know anything about the use of LED (NOT LCD) monitors for psychophysics? I am not sure if there are any available yet with a high enough refresh rate, but it seems as if potentially these could be very useful for vision research. I can't find much about them via Google so I wondered if anyone else in the vision community is exploring these possibilities. Thanks, Deborah Apthorp (University of Sydney, Australia) From contact at ecvp.org Wed Feb 18 07:22:13 2009 From: contact at ecvp.org (ECVP) Date: Wed Feb 18 21:05:30 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2009 1st Call for Abstracts Message-ID: <13557229-450C-4F5A-92C7-360226FB0E97@ecvp.org> Call for Papers The 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception, ECVP 2009, will take place from Monday August 24th through to Friday August 28th 2009 in Regensburg Germany. ECVP welcomes contributions on all topics of visual and perceptual sciences, including: - Visual Psychophysics - Visual Cognition - Visual Physiology & Anatomy - Computational Vision - Color Vision - Artificial Vision - Brain Imaging - Eye movements - Multisensory integration - Perceptual Robotics - Vision and Haptics Abstract (max length 200 words) will be published in a special issue of Perception. In order to submit an abstract, participants should complete the Conference Registration from the website and proceed to payment, via the secure Credit Card system (accepting Visa and Mastercard) provided and guaranteed by the official bank of the conference (HypoVereinsbank/UniCredit). The deadline for submitting an abstract is March 31st, 2009. No further extension will be granted. Free communications will be either 15 minute (12 min. talk, 3 min discussion) oral presentations in parallel sessions, or posters. Several symposia with invited speakers have also been organized, as well as various satellite events before, during and possibly after the ECVP conference. Travel fellowships will be granted competitively to a limited number of students from EU member states, North America and Asia, and from researchers from Africa, South America and some parts of Asia. The conference will begin with on Monday evening, August 24th with the Perception lecture, the traditional plenary lecture. This year's Perception lecture will be delivered by Professor Wolf Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The reception will take place in the historical city center of Regensburg in the Thon Dittmer Palace. The Rank lecture will be given by Professor Patrick Cavanagh from Harvard University on Wednesday evening and the Siemens Imaging lecture will be given by Professor Nikos Logothetis from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen. All three keynote lectures will be held in the Audi-Max of the University of Regensburg (the main venue). There will be city buses to take you from the University to the Reception Venue. The slide-presentation and poster sessions will be held at the lecture halls of the University of Regensburg. Every afternoon there will be a symposium devoted to current research on a topic of interest. The area features many tourist attractions, from medieval architecture to riverside walks, from beer gardens and traditional Bavarian tourism. Half- and full-day trips will be available from the desk of ECVP fringe for accompanying persons. We hope you will join us in the 32nd ECVP to be held in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Regensburg. For additional information, visit our website (www.ecvp2009.org) or send us an email: info@ecvp2009.org. Looking forward to seeing you there! Bis bald in Regensburg! Mark Greenlee Chair of ECVP 2009 Regensburg ---------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee Chair for Experimental Psychology University of Regensburg Universitaetsstrasse 31 93053 Regensburg, Germany Tel: ++49 941 943 3281 Fax: ++49 941 943 3233 email: mark.greenlee@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de ECVP 2009 in Regensburg: http://www.ecvp2009.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090218/dc481b14/attachment.htm From hnx at brain.riken.jp Wed Feb 18 23:42:16 2009 From: hnx at brain.riken.jp (hiroyuki nakahara) Date: Thu Feb 19 06:36:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Positions in Computational/Cognitive Neuroscience Message-ID: <20090219163247.1DBC.HNX@brain.riken.jp> Postdoctoral positions available Two postdoctoral positions are available in the laboratory of Dr. Hiro Nakahara (the Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience) at RIKEN Brain Science Institute. The first position involves the computational and neurobiological basis of decision making and reward-oriented behavior in both non-social and social contexts. Our approach is to combine fMRI experimental investigation with the development of computational models. The second position involves neural computation and coding in the same area, concerning both statistical inference and dynamical processing. For general information on our laboratory, see http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp. For both positions, we seek exceptionally talented candidates with a strong background in theoretical neuroscience and/or fMRI experiments (or possibly human-behavioral or animal-neurophysiological experiments). Proficiency in computer programming (e.g. Matlab or equivalent) is expected. Good communication and writing skills are essential. A good balance of independence and collegiality in research is required. For the first position, a solid background in cognitive or behavioral neuroscience is essential. The ideal candidate would have both strong experience with fMRI and robust experience, or at least demonstrable interest, in computational neuroscience (e.g. reinforcement learning). For the second position, solid experience in theoretical neuroscience research, a strong analytical background (typically in math, statistics, computer science, physics and/or engineering), and a ready ability to acquire new information in experimental literature are essential. Research experience in decision making and/or valuation, possibly including the frontal cortices and/or basal ganglia functions, is a major plus. We encourage candidates who have enthusiasm for linking a normative or top-down understanding of neural valuation/decision systems with a mechanical or circuit-level understanding in consideration of the rich repertory of behavior. The RIKEN Brain Science Institute (URL: www.brain.riken.jp) is located near Tokyo, Japan. It uses English as the working language, and provides an international, vigorous, and interactive environment not only for computational neuroscience but also for a broad range of disciplines in neuroscience. These positions are scheduled to start immediately, although consideration will be given to candidates who would prefer a later start date. Consideration of applications will start immediately, but all applications sent to us by March 31 will be equally considered. Appointment is on an annual basis, and starting salaries will be commensurate with relevant ability and experience. Subsequent contracts will be determined and renewed annually, upon review, for possibly up to five years. Interested candidates should apply to itninfo@brain.riken.jp with the following: a cover letter, CV, a statement of research skills and interests, contact details of three references with a brief description of your relationship to each reference, and (optional) any additional information you think might be useful (e.g. additional skills and background, general interests, and so on). Informal enquiries are also welcome. Hiro Nakahara Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience RIKEN Brain Science Institute 2-1 Hirosawa Wako Saitama, 351-0198 Japan http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp -- hiroyuki nakahara http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp From N.Ramnani at rhul.ac.uk Thu Feb 19 02:57:48 2009 From: N.Ramnani at rhul.ac.uk (Ramnani N) Date: Thu Feb 19 06:36:25 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral vacancy Message-ID: Dear All, Here are details of a post-doctoral position that has recently become available. Please get in touch if you would like further information. With best wishes, Narender Ramnani Narender Ramnani, PhD Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Department of Psychology Royal Holloway University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Tel: 01784 443519 (Direct) Fax: 01784 434347 (Departmental) email: n.ramnani@rhul.ac.uk www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/staff/n.ramnani ROYAL HOLLOWAY University of London Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Psychology Salary for this position is up to ?29,317 inclusive of London Allowance. A 16 month, full-time postdoctoral research position is available to investigate the neural basis of learning in the human brain using functional MRI. The project will study the dynamic changes in activity that accompany the acquisition of cognitive and motor skills, and on information exchange between a network of connected areas that include the cerebellum, prefrontal cortex, the cortical motor system (see Ramnani (2006), Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7(7):511-522). The project is funded by a BBSRC grant to Dr. Narender Ramnani ( www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/staff/n.ramnani ). Facilities include an on-site, research-dedicated 3T Siemens Trio MRI scanner hosted by the Psychology Department at Royal Holloway (Surrey, 35 minutes to central London). Candidates should hold a PhD in a related subject (candidates from any science research backgrounds will also be considered if their skills are relevant to the project). A record of published research, a basic working knowledge of fMRI data analysis methods, familiarity with functional neuroanatomy and good programming skills are essential. Candidates should be willing to learn new research methods and to have a strong interest in pursuing a research career. Previous post-doctoral experience is desirable. This post is available from March 2009 and will remain open until an offer of appointment has been made. Informal inquiries about project and availability of the post should be addressed to Dr. Ramnani (tel. +44 (0) 1784 443519; email n.ramnani@rhul.ac.uk). Further details and an application form are available from the Human Resources Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX; tel: 01784 414241; fax: 01784 274900; http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/JobVacancies.htm Please quote the reference X0209/4612 We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Watson Senior Scientist for Vision Research NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 (650) 604-5419 1.1.1.1 Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) The LED is a semiconductor device consisting of a single p-n junction; light is emitted when the junction is forward biased by the application of a suitable voltage. The first commercially available LEDs were introduced into the marketplace in 1968 and quickly became an important technology for indicator lamps and small segmented alphanumeric displays. LEDs are now capable of producing a full spectrum of colors with very high color saturation and good luminous efficiency. Nevertheless, relatively high cost, interconnect complexity and manufacturing limitations in building high-density arrays of full- color LEDs have restricted their usage primarily to very large displays for digital signage and electronic billboard applications. Organic LEDs (OLEDs) and polymer LEDs (PLEDs) are LEDs whose emissive electroluminescent layer consists of a film of organic compounds (Bulovic, 2005; King, 1994). These films emit light when subjected to an electric current. The SPD of the emitted light depends on the type of organic molecule in the emissive layer. Full-color OLEDs are generally achieved by either spatial patterning of R, G and B emissive materials or by use of a broad-band emissive material in conjunction with a spatial pattern of R, G, and B color selection filters. The intensity of the emitted light depends on the amount of electrical current applied. The nonlinear relationship between voltage and current provides OLEDs with a nonlinear transfer function which is well characterized by a power function. Claimed advantages for OLEDs include: simplified manufacturing structure; compatibility with flexible substrates; lower manufacturing costs than LCDs or PDPs; high contrast with true black level; high luminance with good luminous efficiency; low power consumption; fast temporal response; wide viewing angle; and excellent grayscale performance (Bulovic, 2005; Ghosh & Hack, 2004). The principal disadvantages include limited lifetime of OLED and PLED emissive materials, lack of a stable short-wavelength emissive material with good lifetime, differential aging of emissive materials with different SPDs and susceptibility to contamination and damage from moisture. In addition, reflections from metal cathodes and other metallic structures within these devices can result in high levels of internal specular reflection under ambient illumination with commensurate degradations of ambient contrast. Circular polarizers may be used to mitigate these reflections, but their use dramatically reduces the luminous efficiency of the display. OLED and PLED display technologies remain in a very active state of development with a great deal of ongoing research on OLED / PLED materials, display system architectures and manufacturing processes. To date only a few small, mobile display products using OLEDs and PLEDs have appeared and stayed on the market. Display Technology Attributes General Rating Comments Spatial Addressability Spatial Resolution High High -Spatial resolution can be enhanced by vertically stacked color pixel structure Temporal Response Medium to High -Native response in sub-millisecond range -Temporal aperture extended by sample-and-hold mode of operation in active-matrix configurations Luminance Medium to High -Material dependent -Use of circular polarizer to enhance ambient contrast reduces luminance Contrast Ambient Contrast High Low to Medium -Excellent black levels -Specular reflectance from metal cathode limits ambient contrast -Circular polarizer can be used to enhance ambient contrast Grayscale Performance Very High -Continuous analog grayscale capability -transfer function a true power function Viewing Angle Very High -Effectively Lambertian viewing -Contrast enhancement filters can attenuate luminance off axis Color Gamut Ambient Color Gamut High Low to Medium -Color gamut defined by OLED / PLED materials -Specular reflections from metal cathode reduces color gamut under ambient -Circular polarizer can be used to enhance ambient color gamut Physical Package Very High -Very small footprint & light weight -Very small depth required Application Flexibility Very high -Very amenable to portable or battery-powered applications -Great flexibility in screen sizes Other -Prone to internal specular reflections under ambient -Circular polarizer reduces luminance -Differential aging of color materials can cause color shifts over time -Active-matrix configurations prone to motion blur with dynamic imagery Table 6. OLED / PLED Technology Attribute Ratings and Comments On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Deborah Apthorp wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know anything about the use of LED (NOT LCD) monitors > for psychophysics? I am not sure if there are any available yet with > a high enough refresh rate, but it seems as if potentially these > could be very useful for vision research. I can't find much about > them via Google so I wondered if anyone else in the vision community > is exploring these possibilities. > > Thanks, > > Deborah Apthorp > > (University of Sydney, Australia) > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Salary is competitive against NIH recommended levels. Duration: 2 years with possibility of renewal. Applicants should send a current curriculum vitae including contact details of two or three people who are willing to provide references. Please make enquiries or send applications directly to: Rowland Taylor, Assoc. Prof. Casey Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, 505 NW 185th Ave., Beaverton, OR, 97006 Office: +1 503 418 2680, Lab x2682. Email: taylorw@ohsu.edu From e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk Fri Feb 20 03:22:26 2009 From: e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk (Charles Leek) Date: Fri Feb 20 07:25:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Vision Systems for Perception and Action:BMVA one-day technical meeting: Message-ID: > BMVA > British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition > > http://www.bmva.org/meetings > Vision Systems for Perception and Action > One Day BMVA symposium at the British Computer Society, > 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA, UK > on March 6th 2009. > > Chairs: Neil Thacker (University of Manchester) and Charles Leek > (Bangor University) > 10:00 Registration and coffee > 10:30 Introduction: Limits of Robotic Vision Systems > N. A. Thacker > 11:00 Vision, Affordance and Attention > Glyn Humphreys, Dietmar Heinke & Eun Young Yoon (University of > Birmingham) > 11:30 Cross-modal Integration During Tool Use: Humans Combine Vision > and Haptics Near-Optimally > Simon Watt (Bangor University) > 12:00 Making Hard Decisions on the Back of Processed Images > G. Rees (BAE Systems) > 12:30 Lunch > 13:15 Active Gaze Control in an Autonomous Binocular Vision System > J. P. Siebert (University of Glasgow) > 13:45 Computational Face Recognition Modelling via Appearance Models > N. P. Costen (Manchester Metropolitan University) > 14:15 Visual Perception of Surface Texture: Linear and Non-linear > Models > M. Chantler (Heriot-Watt University) > 14:45 Tea and Coffee > 15.15 Inhibitory Mechanisms of Object-Based Visual Selection in Human > Vision > E.C. Leek (Bangor University) > 15:45 Objects as perceptual-motor assemblies > R. Ellis (University of Plymouth) > 16:15 Discussion, Funding and Collaboration > 17:00 End of Meeting > > REGISTRATION FORM: 6th March 2009 Meeting > > Please return this form to BMVA Secretary, Royston Parkin, 95 Queen > Street, Sheffield, S1 1WG, Tel 0114 272 0306, Fax 0114 272 6158 or via > email to BMVA@roystonparkin.co.uk. The meeting is free to members of > the BMVA but a charge of ?20 is payable by non-members. A sandwich > lunch is available at a cost of ?5 and should be booked in advance. > When registering please enclose a cheque for the appropriate amount > made payable to "The British Machine Vision Association". > > NAME: ???????????????????????????????. > ADDRESS: ???????????????????????????????. > ???????????????????????????????. > TEL: ?????????????? BMVA MEMBER: YES/NO > email: ?????????????? 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From jeedward at yahoo.com Fri Feb 20 06:48:03 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Fri Feb 20 07:25:36 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Paper submission deadline extended: Computer vision Message-ID: <120241.68515.qm@web45915.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> ? ?The deadline for draft paper submission for Computer Vision Session at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. The conference will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090220/ec9ecf52/attachment.htm From A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk Fri Feb 20 09:59:56 2009 From: A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk (Andrew Schofield) Date: Fri Feb 20 10:14:20 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Deadline reminder AVA AGM 31st March Message-ID: <499EEF9C.15776.1ED6301@A.J.Schofield.Bham.ac.uk> A reminder of the abstract deadline for the AVA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING -------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVA: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING- TUESDAY 31st MARCH 2009 ABSTRACT DEADLINE: (midnight GMT) FEBRUARY 24th 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that there are some bursaries available for PhD students. See website: http://www.theava.net/meetings/ava2009.html Deadline for bursary applications in 28th Feb 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEETING DETAILS The 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Applied Vision Association will take place on Tuesday 31st March 2009 School of Sport and Exercise Science University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, UK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's G J Burton Memorial Lecture will be Given by: Prof I. Christopher McManus, UCL. Provisional Title: Visual Aesthetics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Abstracts (max length: 250 words) should be submitted by e-mail to Andrew Schofield (a.j.schofield@bham.ac.uk) by February24th. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and published in the journal Perception (so long as presenting authors attend the meeting) and should cover previously unreported research. It is our intention to dedicate one session to the topic of Aesthetics and Appearance but open contributions on any aspect of vision are welcome. Abstracts must be in the standard format for ECVP/Perception (including addresses etc), examples of which can be seen at: http://www.perceptionweb.com/P.html 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) 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. It is expected that speakers will use their own laptop, or will bring a powerpoint presentation on a memory stick suitable for use with either a PC or a MAC. The organizers will try to accommodate preferences for a talk or poster but the number of submissions that this meeting now attracts means that this is not always possible. In particular, authors should note that tardy submissions are much less likely to be accepted as talks. REGISTRATION With the exception of overseas visitors, attendees should pay in advance at the registration rate shown below. If needs be, payment will be accepted on the door though credit card facilities will not be available. If you cannot pay in advance please still register in advance by sending an e-mail to a.j.schofield@bham.ac.uk so that we can estimate catering needs.. Overseas visitors may pay on the door but, in any case, we would be most grateful if you could give us advance warning of your intention to attend. R E G I S T R A T I O N F E E S Students Other Members 15 35 Pounds Sterling Non-members 25 45 Membership plus 35 55 registration We will be accepting registration fees using Paypal. To register go to http://www.theAVA.net/ and select the link to the AVA Annual Meeting and AGM at Birmingham. When you use Paypal for the first time it takes a little time to set things up, but thereafter it is quite quick. We do hope you will find this a convenient way of paying your registration fee. Alternatively, we still accept cheques (payable to 'Applied Vision Association') which should be sent to Andrew Schofield at the address below. (If sending cheques please indicate the registration category and who the cheque is for.) Andrew Schofield School of Psychology University of Birmingham Edbaston Birmingham B15 2TT All other enquiries should also be directed to Andrew Schofield VENUE - DIRECTIONS - ACCOMODATION Venue: School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Birmingham. Lecture Theatre 1 (talks) Atrium (registration, refreshments, lunch and posters) Directions: Directions to the Campus can be found at http://www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps/edgbaston.shtml Sport Ex is building Y14 on the Campus Map http://www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps/edgbastonmap.shtml Note that rail travel is by far the easiest way to arrive at the university as we have our own station. Ask for a ticket to 'Univeristy'. Most visitors will have to change at Birmingham New Street. Trains to University depart at approximately 10 minute intervals from New Street (Final destinations Redich or Longbridge). TRAVEL BY AIR International and long distance visitors might like to note that Birmingham International Airport accepts flights from around the world including North America (Continental), as well as internal flights. The quickest way from the airport to the University is by train. Take the free 'Air-Rail Link' to the near by Birmingham International Railway station and there buy a ticket to 'University' changing trains at New Street. ACCOMODATION There is the no organized accommodation associated with the meeting so over-night accommodation (including that on campus) should be organized on a private basis. Please note that the recommendations below are based on proximity to the Campus. Lucas House. Hotel style accommodation can be booked directly with the University Conference Park on +44 121 415 8400 ask for a room in Lucas House. Please note they will know nothing about the meeting. Copperfield House Hotel (**) 60 Upland Rd Selly Park B29 7JS. 0121 472 8344 Awentsbury Hotel 21 Serpentine Road Selly Park B29 7HU 0121 472 1258 There are many hotels including most major chains in the City Centre. I look forward to receiving your abstracts and to greeting you on the day. 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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 Bill Geisler, Mel Goodale, Norma Graham, Eileen Kowler, and Concetta Morrone. 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). Marisa Carrasco (2012) Visual attention, visual search, perceptual learning, spatial vision; psychophysics and neuroimaging Wilson Geisler (2010) Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and computational modeling Zoe Kourtzi (2012) Shape processing, object recognition, perceptual learning, brain imaging 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 Mary Peterson (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual learning; psychophysics and imaging Allison Sekuler (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging; psychophysics and neuroimaging Steven Shevell (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION: February 2, 2009 Nominations open March 2, 2009 Nominations close April 1, 2009 Election begins (online) April 22, 2009 Election ends May 1, 2009 Election results announced -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Don't forget to book your Airport Shuttle for transportation from the Ft. Meyers airport to the meeting hotels. The one-way VSS fare is $29/person each way and will be available for arrivals and departures every day of the conference, beginning 3 days prior to the start of the VSS meeting. For more information and to reserve a shuttle, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/airport_transportation.html. Upcoming Dates Early Registration Deadline: 2/25/09 Deadline for Nominations to the VSS Board: 3/2/09 Deadline to submit Demos: 3/11/09 Deadline to reserve room at Naples Grande: 4/5/09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090223/5217a0b2/attachment.htm From jgrammer at arvo.org Tue Feb 24 12:12:14 2009 From: jgrammer at arvo.org (Jot Grammer) Date: Tue Feb 24 12:29:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ARVO/ISIE Meeting - Abstract Deadline March 2, 2009 Message-ID: <9C0D662A6499BB429AFCC3BBC94DEAA603541076@mail.arvo.org> ARVO/ISIE 7th Annual Meeting May 1-2, 2009 Fort Lauderdale, FL Abstract deadline March 2. Plan to attend and network with colleagues for two days of a comprehensive program that covers state-of-the-art research and technologies dedicated to ophthalmic imaging. Abstracts are now being accepted for original research on clinical and basic science advances in glaucoma, retina, cornea, anterior segment, orbit and neuro-imaging in ophthalmology. Submit your abstract by 11:59pm EST, March 2, 2009. Note: Submissions that conflict with ARVO Annual Meeting abstracts will not be accepted, including previously presented material. Register by April 10 and save $50. Questions? Please contact Jot Grammer (+1.240.221.2933). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090224/4fbce4a3/attachment.htm From editor at visionscience.com Wed Feb 25 06:01:02 2009 From: editor at visionscience.com (VisionList Editor) Date: Wed Feb 25 06:08:03 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2009 OSA Vision Meeting - Seattle, Sept. 24-26 Message-ID: The 2009 Optical Society of America Vision Meeting will take place at the University of Washington, Seattle from the 24th to the 26th of September. This year's meeting includes invited sessions on eye movements, cortical maps, glaucoma, the melanopsin pathway, and color constancy. In addition, thanks to generous support from OSA, Cambridge Research Systems and the University of Washington, we are featuring a special session entitled "The Classics of Vision Science" in which four distinguished vision scientists will each present one of their classic papers. The meeting will also contain two contributed talk sessions and a wide range of contributed poster presentations. The full program of invited talks is listed below. Last, but not least, we are pleased to announce that Professor David Williams from the University of Rochester has been chosen as this year's Boynton Lecturer. David's pioneering work is well-known within the Vision Science community and he will be honoring us with a talk entitled "Seeing Through Retinal Mosaics". Since 2001, the OSA Fall Vision Meeting has grown as a high-quality, low-cost conference focused on all aspects of the visual system . This year, we are fortunate to be located at the University of Washington, Seattle with its thriving Psychology, Opthalmology and Physiology and Biophysics departments. We invite you to join us in the Pacific Northwest for what we hope will be our most successful conference to date. Alex Wade (Chair, OSA Color and Vision Division) Joe Carroll (Vice-chair, OSA Color and Vision Division) Ione Fine (Seattle 2009 Local Organizing Committee) Steve Buck (Seattle 2009 Local Organizing Committee) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited talk sessions - 2009 Classics of Vision Science Moderator: Don MacLeod (UCSD) Speakers: Horace Barlow (University of Cambridge) Howard Howland (Cornell) Gerald Jacobs (UCSB) Margaret Livingstone (Harvard Medical School) Glaucoma Moderator: Phil Horner (UW Seattle) Speakers: Stuart McKinnon (Duke University) Ron Harwerth (University of Houston) Monica Vetter (Utah) TBD Computational Approaches to Color constancy Moderator: Bevil Conway (Wellesley) Speakers: Beau Lotto (UCL) Larry Maloney (NYU) David Brainard (U. Penn) Hannah Smithson (Durham University) Where and whether to move the eyes Moderator: Michael Shadlen (UW, Seattle) Speakers: Rich Krauzlis (Salk Institute) Marc Sommer (University of Pittsburgh) Laura Walker-Renninger (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) Al Fuchs (UW, Seattle) The Melanopsin Pathway - Sensing Light Without Sight Moderator: Dennis Dacey (UW Seattle) Speakers: Satchin Panda (Salk) Dave Berson (Brown) Samer Hattar (Johns Hopkins) Russ Van Gelder (UW Seattle) Visual Cortical Maps on Multiple Scales Moderator: Geoff Boynton (UW Seattle) Speakers: Nicholas V. Swindale (University of British Columbia) Soumya Chatterjee (Harvard University) Alyssa Brewer (University of California, Irvine) Eli Merriam (NYU) Therapeutic approaches to Vision Loss Moderator: Jim Hurley (UW Seattle) Speakers: Thomas Reh (UW Seattle) Matt McMahon (Second Sight LLC) Stelios Smirnakis (Baylor) William Hauswirth (University of Florida) (forwarded from Alex Wade) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090225/de91feb9/attachment.htm From ajyu at ucsd.edu Wed Feb 25 22:15:35 2009 From: ajyu at ucsd.edu (Angela J. Yu) Date: Thu Feb 26 05:49:32 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Reminder: Postdoc Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, UC San Diego Message-ID: <7F34736C-B8A9-43B5-A5CC-15234C417B4F@ucsd.edu> Reminder: Dr. Yu will be interviewing postdoc candidates during the Cosyne conference. Please email her (ajyu@ucsd.edu) to submit an application or schedule an appointment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Angela Yu, at University of California, San Diego. Initial appointment is for one year, with flexible start date (2009) and possibility for renewal. The project is to develop a theoretical framework for the inter-related problems of sequential decision-making, sensori-motor integration, and active sensory processing. Candidates must have a strong mathematical background in areas such as probability and statistics, graphical models, Bayesian modeling, machine learning, and reinforcement learning. Experience with stochastic processes and/or stochastic control theory is a major plus. Candidate should also have programming experience, such as Matlab or equivalent. Depending on the candidates' interest and ability, the postdoctoral fellow will also design and conduct human behavioral experiments involving some combination of psychophysics, eyetracking, and fMRI. Experience with these experimental techniques are desired but not required. Dr. Yu's lab is situated within the Natural Computation Lab in the Cognitive Science department of UCSD. It is affiliated with the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, and the UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program. It provides ample opportunities for communication and collaboration with related labs not only within the department of Cognitive Science, but also in Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Electric and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Institute for Neural Computation, and the Salk Institute. Interested candidates should send a research statement, along with a CV including publications and references to: ajyu@ucsd.edu. At least two letters of references should be sent directly to the same address. Dr. Yu will be interviewing candidates at the upcoming Cosyne conference (Salt Lake City, 02/26/09-03/01/09). --------------------------------------------------------- Angela J. Yu Assistant Professor Department of Cognitive Science UCSD, Mail Code 0515 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 Email: ajyu@cogsci.ucsd.edu Phone: 858-822-3317 Fax: 858-534-1128 Website: www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu --------------------------------------------------------- From samuel.inverso at anu.edu.au Thu Feb 26 17:25:50 2009 From: samuel.inverso at anu.edu.au (Samuel Inverso) Date: Thu Feb 26 21:16:31 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Shared Accommodation VSS2009 Message-ID: <49A7411E.3020704@anu.edu.au> Hi, I'm looking for a student to share accommodation with at the Naples Grande Hotel for the Vision Sciences Society Conference from May 8-13. Sincerely, -Sam Samuel A. Inverso PhD Candidate ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science Visual Sciences Group Research School of Biological Sciences, Bldg. 46 The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia T: + 61 2 6125 1059 F: + 61 2 6125 3808 E: samuel.inverso@anu.edu.au From Y.A.W.d.Kort at tue.nl Sat Feb 28 06:47:55 2009 From: Y.A.W.d.Kort at tue.nl (Kort, Y.A.W. de) Date: Sat Feb 28 08:30:41 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Extended deadline: EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 References: <91663392B4EC454A8C8B40EC9FD8DFCC077C36EC@EXCHANGE1.campus.tue.nl> Message-ID: <91663392B4EC454A8C8B40EC9FD8DFCC077C3744@EXCHANGE1.campus.tue.nl> Dear colleagues, The deadline for submissions (extended abstracts of 4 pages) for EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 has been extended to 15 March. EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 International conference on the effects of light on wellbeing 26-27 October 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands www.experiencinglight.nl EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 is an international two-day scientific conference for those interested in the effects of light and light design on human wellbeing. It approaches wellbeing in its broadest sense, including mood, emotions, subjective and objective health, comfort, atmosphere perception, productivity and performance. Academics and practitioners with an interest in research, theory, technologies, design, and applications related to the psychological effects of lighting are invited to submit their work for presentation. Original, high quality papers are sought which make substantial contributions to the field. All accepted papers will be collected in the printed volume (with ISBN) of the official conference Proceedings. EXPERIENCING LIGHT 09 will follow a thorough blind peer reviewing process in order to guarantee the quality and relevance of the work presented. The submission format is extended abstracts of up to 1200 words (excluding references), in Word or pdf format. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full papers (around 10 pages) for publication in the printed conference proceedings. Authors may also be invited to revise their paper for publication in a special issue of Lighting Research and Technology (ISSN: 1477-1535). Lighting Research & Technology is a leading international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research on the subject of light and lighting. Important dates: Extended abstract deadline: 15 March 2009 Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2009 Full paper deadline: 1 June 1009 (only for accepted abstracts) For more information see the conference website: http://www.experiencinglight.nl Or contact el2009@tue.nl On behalf of the organising committee: Yvonne de Kort, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Ingrid Vogels, Marielle Aarts, Ariadne Tenner, and Karin Smolders From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 12:40:22 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (Ed) Date: Sun Mar 1 13:45:37 2009 Subject: [visionlist] IICAI-09 Call for papers: Special session on Computer Vision Message-ID: <722677.98972.qm@web45903.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> IICAI-09 Call for papers: Special session on Computer Vision ? The Special session on Computer Visionat the 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) will be held in Tumkur (near Bangalore), India during December 16-18 2009. The conference consists of paper presentations, special workshops, sessions, invited talks and local tours, etc.? We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website: http://www.iiconference.org ??for more details of the conference. ? Sincerely ? ? Edward Publicity Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wilcox Robert S. Allison Ian P. Howard http://journalofvision.org/9/2/1/ Opponent motion interactions in the perception of structure from motion Padma B. Iyer Alan W. Freeman http://journalofvision.org/9/2/2/ Dichoptic difference thresholds for uniform color changes applied to natural scenes Ali Yoonessi Frederick A. A. Kingdom http://journalofvision.org/9/2/3/ Subjective time dilation: Spatially local, object-based, or a global visual experience? Joshua J. New Brian J. Scholl http://journalofvision.org/9/2/4/ Global stimulus configuration modulates crowding Toni P. Saarela Bilge Sayim Gerald Westheimer Michael H. Herzog http://journalofvision.org/9/2/5/ Selective attention contributes to global processing in vision J. Edwin Dickinson Cherese Broderick David R. Badcock http://journalofvision.org/9/2/6/ Viewpoint and center of gravity affect eye movements to human faces Markus Bindemann Christoph Scheepers A. Mike Burton http://journalofvision.org/9/2/7/ Periodic perturbations producing phase-locked fluctuations in visual perception Min-Suk Kang David Heeger Randolph Blake http://journalofvision.org/9/2/8/ Accuracy-precision trade-off in visual orientation constancy M. De Vrijer W. P. Medendorp J. A. M. Van Gisbergen http://journalofvision.org/9/2/9/ Uncovering gender discrimination cues in a realistic setting Nicolas Dupuis-Roy Isabelle Fortin Daniel Fiset Fr?d?ric Gosselin http://journalofvision.org/9/2/10/ Cue integration outside central fixation: A study of grasping in depth Hal S. Greenwald David C. Knill http://journalofvision.org/9/2/11/ Supercrowding: Weakly masking a target expands the range of crowding Timothy J. Vickery Won Mok Shim Ramakrishna Chakravarthi Yuhong V. Jiang Robert Luedeman http://journalofvision.org/9/2/12/ Context influences contour integration Steven C. Dakin Nina J. Baruch http://journalofvision.org/9/2/13/ Orientation invariance in visual shape perception Caroline Blais Martin Arguin Ian Marleau http://journalofvision.org/9/2/14/ The chromatic input to cells of the magnocellular pathway of primates Barry B. Lee Hao Sun http://journalofvision.org/9/2/15/ A speed-dependent inversion effect in dynamic object matching Benjamin Balas Pawan Sinha http://journalofvision.org/9/2/16/ Image-size differences worsen stereopsis independent of eye position Bj?rn N. S. Vlaskamp Heather R. Filippini Martin S. Banks http://journalofvision.org/9/2/17/ Learning cue validity through performance feedback Jason A. Droll Craig K. Abbey Miguel P. Eckstein http://journalofvision.org/9/2/18/ Distant background information strongly affects lightness perception in dynamic displays Maria Pereverzeva Scott O. Murray http://journalofvision.org/9/2/19/ Adaptive changes in visual cortex following prolonged contrast reduction MiYoung Kwon Gordon E. Legge Fang Fang Allen M. Y. Cheong Sheng He http://journalofvision.org/9/2/20/ Early age-related decline in the effective number of trajectories tracked in adult human vision Graeme J. Kennedy Srimant P. Tripathy Brendan T. Barrett http://journalofvision.org/9/2/21/ Comparing a novel model based on the transferable belief model with humans during the recognition of partially occluded facial expressions Zakia Hammal Martin Arguin Fr?d?ric Gosselin http://journalofvision.org/9/2/22/ Multiplication in curvature processing Elena Gheorghiu Frederick A. A. Kingdom http://journalofvision.org/9/2/23/ Role of high-order aberrations in senescent changes in spatial vision Sarah L. Elliott Stacey S. Choi Nathan Doble Joseph L. Hardy Julia W. Evans John S. Werner http://journalofvision.org/9/2/24/ The intrinsic constraint model and Fechnerian sensory scaling Fulvio Domini Corrado Caudek http://journalofvision.org/9/2/25/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 Bill Geisler, Mel Goodale, Norma Graham, Eileen Kowler, and Concetta Morrone. 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). Marisa Carrasco (2012) Visual attention, visual search, perceptual learning, spatial vision; psychophysics and neuroimaging Wilson Geisler (2010) Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search; psychophysics and computational modeling Zoe Kourtzi (2012) Shape processing, object recognition, perceptual learning, brain imaging 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 Mary Peterson (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Perceptual organization; object perception and recognition; perceptual learning; psychophysics and imaging Allison Sekuler (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Motion, pattern, and face perception; perceptual learning; aging; psychophysics and neuroimaging Steven Shevell (2009) TERM ENDING IN MAY 2009 Color; brightness; adaptation; psychophysics and genetics SCHEDULE FOR ELECTION: February 2, 2009 Nominations open March 2, 2009 Nominations close April 1, 2009 Election begins (online) April 22, 2009 Election ends May 1, 2009 Election results announced -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Especially encouraged are 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. VSS and the Naples Grande can provide tables, electrical outlets, and some wall-space and/or screens for projections; and poster boards upon request. The organizers will help coordinate special needs (e.g. theatrical lighting). Each presenter will be responsible for bringing and setting up the necessary equipment for their own demos, including data projectors and 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 11, 2009. This year's Demo Evening will be organized and curated by Arthur Shapiro and Bart Anderson. Please direct questions about possible demos to shapiro@bucknell.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090302/bf5dce36/attachment.htm From a.sillito at ucl.ac.uk Tue Mar 3 11:34:48 2009 From: a.sillito at ucl.ac.uk (Adam Sillito) Date: Wed Mar 4 08:26:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral/research assistant vacancy, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20090303193046.025a3910@pop.oneandone.co.uk> Research Assistant/Postdoctoral Research Associate UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London Applications are invited for an enthusiastic and motivated Research Assistant/Research Associate to join a research group, headed by Professor Adam Sillito, investigating the physiology of the visual system. The appointee will join a friendly multi-disciplinary team investigating the synaptic mechanisms of vision, and will be expected to contribute to innovative research on the interplay between feed forward and feedback systems in visual processing. The work brings together a range of multi-disciplinary approaches including in vivo recordings with multiple electrode arrays in conjunction with neuro-pharmacological manipulation of local circuitry and a variety of data analytical approaches. The work builds on and extends the group's previous interest in feedback, the functions of layer 6 cells and context dependent processing in the visual pathway. For examples of papers summarising the laboratory's interests see: Sillito et al, 1995, Nature 378: 492-496; Murphy et al, 1999, Science 286, 1552-1554; Jones et al, 2001 J. Neurophys. 86, 2011-2028; Sillito et al, 2006, Trends Neurosci. 29, 307-316; Wang et al. 2006, Nature Neurosci. 9, 1330-1336, Andolina et al. 2007, PNAS 104, 1685-1690. The successful applicant will be expected to play an active role in all areas of the group's work and to be prepared and able to take responsibility for effective organization and day to day running of designated aspects of the experimental programme. The post would be particularly well suited to an individual with an interest and relevant background in the neurobiology of vision and with proven expertise in all of the techniques. However, applications from candidates lacking prior experience of research in visual neurophysiology but possessing relevant background knowledge, expertise and skill sets, appropriate laboratory experience, strong technical skills and aptitude, and the commitment and desire to develop their research or technical career in this area are also encouraged. The post, funded by an MRC programme grant is available from March, for a duration of up to 42 months in the first instance. Full details of the post can be found at the Institute website: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/careers or via email at: education-ioo@ucl.ac.uk quoting reference number: 127294. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Adam Sillito (via email: a.sillito@ucl.ac.uk). From alessandro at idsia.ch Tue Mar 3 23:59:40 2009 From: alessandro at idsia.ch (Alessandro Antonucci) Date: Wed Mar 4 08:27:14 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ISIPTA'09 - call for poster contributions Message-ID: <20090304075940.GA6295@idsia.ch> ============================================================================= SIPTA '09 - CALL FOR POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS ============================================================================= Your help with circulating this announcement locally is much appreciated. Apologies for multiple postings. >From 14-18 July 2009, the 6th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theory and Applications will take place in Durham (UK), see: http://www.sipta.org/isipta09/ The deadline for full paper contributions has passed, and the reviewing process is under way. However, there is an exciting opportunity to participate at the conference by contributing a poster, which is particularly intended to open up the conference to a wider audience, and to communicate ideas about related research, applications and problems which are not yet at the stage that a full paper could be presented. For example, PhD students or researchers who are relatively new to the topic field, or would just like to explore opportunities, are welcome to present posters outlining research questions and initial ideas, and practitioners may wish to present posters with the main goal to explore applications of imprecise probabilities to specific problems. If you wish to present a poster, please submit a one-page abstract of the work you intend to present, by DEADLINE: 15 April using the poster abstract submission page: http://www.sipta.org/isipta09/submitabstract.html From harvey.swadlow at uconn.edu Wed Mar 4 11:10:10 2009 From: harvey.swadlow at uconn.edu (Harvey Swadlow) Date: Wed Mar 4 11:35:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Visual neurophysiology postdoc, UConn Message-ID: <49AED212.10001@uconn.edu> *Postdoctoral position in Visual Neuroscience at UConn:* Postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Harvey Swadlow at the University of Connecticut (main campus at Storrs). The NIH-funded position involves investigating how the visual thalamocortical system process visual information as awake subjects alternate between alert and non-alert brain states. The experimental model is the rabbit (see related references below). Requirements include a Ph.D, M. D. or equivalent degree, skills in extracellular single and multiple electrode recording of spike trains; strong quantitative/ computer skills including programming in Matlab, and a record of related published research. Good writing and communication skills are a plus. The laboratory is located in the Psychology Department, which hosts several other neuroscience laboratories that investigate sensory thalamocortical processing. The Department of Physiology and Neurobiology is also located on campus, a 5-minute walk from the Psychology building. The University is located in central Connecticut, 30 minutes from Hartford, 1.5 hours from Boston, and < 3 hours from Manhattan. Interested candidates should send a cover letter describing your research interests, current resume, and contact information for three references. Information should be sent to Ms. Carol Valone, Administrative Manager, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut. Email: carol.valone@uconn.edu . (Search # 2009) Related references: ? Stoelzel, C. R., Bereshpolova, Y., Gusev, A. G., and Swadlow, H. A. The impact of an LGNd impulse on the awake visual cortex: Synaptic dynamics and the sustained/transient distinction. /J. Neuroscience/, 28: 5018-5028, 2008. * Cano, M., Bezdudnaya, T., Swadlow, H. A., and Alonso, J.-M. Brain state and contrast sensitivity in the awake visual thalamus. /Nature Neuroscience/, 10, 1240-1242, 2006 * Bezdudnaya, T., Cano, M., Bereshpolova, Y, Stoelzel, C. R., Alonso, J.-M., and Swadlow, H. A. Thalamic burst mode and inattention in the awake LGNd. /Neuron/, 49: 421-432, 2006. * Swadlow, H. A., Gusev, A. G. and Bezdudnaya, T. Activation of a cortical column by a thalamocortical impulse. /J. Neuroscience/, 22: 7766-7773, 2002. * Swadlow, H. A. and Gusev, A. G. The impact of ?bursting? thalamic impulses on a neocortical synapse. /Nature Neuroscience./, 4: 402-408, 2001. From matjaz.jogan at fri.uni-lj.si Wed Mar 4 12:31:02 2009 From: matjaz.jogan at fri.uni-lj.si (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Matja=BE_Jogan?=) Date: Wed Mar 4 14:04:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] LEEGLE - A challenge in object class recognition in sequences Message-ID: Dear computer vision researchers, At the University of Ljubljana, Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory, http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si, we have set up a challenge in object class recognition in sequences - LEEGLE, mainly intended for students of computer vision. The competition will be organized twice a year, at the end of each semester. It is an opportunity for students to test their knowledge of computer vision and compete with student teams from other universities. Three months prior to the competition the training and validation data is made available. The training data consists of a set of 3D views of various toy objects pertaining to several object classes. A validation sequence simulates a trajectory of a camera through a toy world, depicting objects with high variations in scale, poses, orientation, lighting conditions, and some objects are likely to be occluded. The task is to detect, recognize and categorize as many of the known objects as possible. For the competition a test image sequence is given, where the algorithms developed are to be evaluated within 48 hours. The resulting scores will be available on the web site. The FIRST LEEGLE CHALLENGE will take place on May 8, 2009. More about the competition is available on the LEEGLE web site: http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/leegle We look forward to your participation! Matja? Jogan, Sanja Fidler, Marko Boben, Ale? Leonardis - Matja? 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Name: WPM$6F9A_18.PNG Type: application/octet-stream Size: 847 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090305/9c58338d/WPM6F9A_18-0001.obj From Theodora.Tsikrika at cwi.nl Fri Mar 6 12:22:29 2009 From: Theodora.Tsikrika at cwi.nl (Theodora Tsikrika) Date: Sat Mar 7 00:58:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for participation: wikipediaMM task at ImageCLEF 2009 Message-ID: <64063.80.60.116.57.1236370949.squirrel@webmail.cwi.nl> *** REGISTRATION NOW OPEN AT IMAGECLEF 2009 *** *** Call for participation: wikipediaMM image retrieval 2009 *** ImageCLEF's wikipediaMM is an ad hoc image retrieval task that provides a testbed for the system-oriented evaluation of visual information retrieval from a collection of 150,000 Wikipedia images which are associated with unstructured and noisy textual annotations in English. The aim is to investigate multimodal retrieval approaches in the context of a large and heterogeneous collection of images (similar to those encountered on the Web) searched by users with diverse information needs. 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? The main focus in 2009 is to investigate the combination of evidence of relevance derived from different modalities, through the fusion of visual, text-based, and concept-based sources of evidence. To support participants with expertise in diverse research domains, we aim at providing baseline monomedia retrieval systems. If you are interested in participating in this task, go to the ImageCLEF web site for more information: http://imageclef.org/2009 http://imageclef.org/2009/wiki Registration information can be found at: http://clef.isti.cnr.it/ Schedule: * 1.2.2009: registration opens for all CLEF tracks * 9.3.2009: instructions and formatting criteria for candidate topics/queries provided to participants * 15.3.2009: data release (images + metadata) * 31.3.2009: submission of candidate topics (optional) * 15.4.2009: topic release * 1.5.2009: registration closes for all CLEF tracks * 31.5.2009: submission of runs * 10.6.2009: distribution of merged results to participants for relevance assessments * 10.7.2009: submission deadline for relevance assessments (optional) * 15.7.2009: release of results * 15.8.2009: submission of working notes papers * 30.9-2.10.2009: CLEF workshop in Corfu, Greece If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us. The organisers: Theodora Tsikrika, Interactive 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 From jeedward at yahoo.com Sat Mar 7 07:14:01 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Sat Mar 7 11:11:25 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Draft paper submission deadline extended Message-ID: <993084.36370.qm@web45906.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Draft paper submission deadline extended ? Special Session on Computer Vision ? The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. As a result, the deadline for paper submission for the special session is also extended accordingly. The conference and the session will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090307/29a4997f/attachment.htm From henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch Mon Mar 9 05:00:52 2009 From: henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henning_M=FCller?=) Date: Mon Mar 9 17:59:49 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ImageCLEF 2009 registration open Message-ID: <49B504F4.1010409@sim.hcuge.ch> ImageCLEF 2009: Registration now open, Call for Participation Registration is now open for ImageCLEF 2009 (http://www.imageclef.org/), a benchmarking event for retrieval from image collections using visual information and/or text. ImageCLEF is part of CLEF the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (http://www.clef-campaign.org/). Registration forms are available from this webpage. Registration and participation is free of charge. ImageCLEF 2009 consists of six independent subtasks: - Retrieval from a collection of photographs (>200'000 images) - Retrieval from a collction of wikipedia images using structured annotation - Medical Retrieval from >70'000 images from the scientific literature - Medical image classification in two different sub tasks - Annotation of a large photo collection with holistic concepts that are structured in a small ontology - Classification of scenes from robot vision Main goal of ImageCLEF is to evaluate the combination of information retrieval and image understanding applications using visual data, multilingual text, and combinations of the two. Results from simple text and visual retrieval systems can be made available to participants who specialise in one of the domains for combinations. Data will be released starting from mid-March to mid-April. Information regarding all tracks is available from the ImageCLEF website at http://www.imageclef.org/. If you have any questions with respect to ImageCLEF 2007 feel free to contact me or any of the sub task organisers that are mentioned on the respective pages. Kind regards, Henning for the entire group of ImageCLEF organisers From john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk Mon Mar 9 04:20:40 2009 From: john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk (John M. Henderson) Date: Mon Mar 9 18:00:05 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Lectureship at Edinburgh University Message-ID: <49B4FB88.4050208@ed.ac.uk> Informatics: Lectureship in Machine Learning The School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh invites applications from outstanding candidates in any area of machine learning (including computer vision/multimodal sensing, models, algorithms and applications) who will strengthen Scotland's position as an international research leader in informatics and computer science. Recent investment by the Scottish Funding Council has enabled leading researchers across Scotland, including Informatics at Edinburgh, and groups and individuals at the Computer Science Departments of nine other institutions, to establish the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) http://www.sicsa.ac.uk. Where relevant, candidates should relate their applications to the SICSA research themes for securing, interfacing, modelling and engineering the systems of tomorrow. https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3010479 # Vacancy Reference: 3010479 # Department: Informatics # Job Title: Lectureship in Machine Learning # Job Function: Academic # Job Type: Full Time # Live Date: 17-Feb-2009 # Expiry Date: 20-Mar-2009 # Salary Scale: ??36,532 - ??43,622 Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Chris Williams (mail to: c.k.i.williams@ed.ac.uk) -- 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 andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk Tue Mar 10 03:32:23 2009 From: andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk (Andrea Cavallaro) Date: Wed Mar 11 05:19:54 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ACM/IEEE ICDSC 2009 - Como, Italy - cfp: Special sessions, Challenge, PhD forum Message-ID: <9A6BBBBE2AAD6746A6D961B57357426202FD0E9872@staff-mail2.vpn.elec.qmul.ac.uk> ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009) Como (Italy), 30 August - 2 September 2009 -- Full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2009 (abstracts: 25 March) -- Special sessions (open submission) http://www.icdsc.org/special.html - Embedded techniques for smart cameras - Activity monitoring by multi-camera systems - Advances in coding for distributed camera networks - Collaborative signal processing for distributed systems - Dependability, security and privacy in smart camera systems Challenge tracks http://www.icdsc.org/challenge.html - Sports track - Smart homes track PhD Forum http://www.icdsc.org/phdforum.html -- Scope After the successful meetings in Vienna (2007) and Stanford (2008), the third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras will be held at Como, Italy. The conference provides an opportunity for researchers working in the areas of smart camera architectures, algorithm design, embedded vision-based processing, and smart environments to exchange their most recent results. Offering insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and presentation of design methodologies employed by leading research groups working in these areas are also the objectives of the conference. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations and contributions based on industrial applications are also of interest. Topics of interest within the scope of the conference include: - Distributed vision processing algorithms - Distributed appearance modelling - Fusion of vision and other sensors - Collaborative feature extraction, data and decision fusion - Architectures and protocols for camera networks - Smart camera architectures - Image sensing techniques for smart cameras - Embedded vision programming - Wireless and mobile image sensor networks - Position discovery and middle-ware applications - Vision-based smart environments - Surveillance and tracking applications - Multi-view vision for Human-Computer Interfaces - 3D scene analysis - Distributed multimedia and gaming applications For a more detailed list of areas within the scope and interest of the conference see http://www.icdsc.org/ Paper Submission: Full length-papers between six (6) and eight (8) A4 pages in length are solicited. Important Dates: Abstract submission: 25 March 2009 Full paper submission: 31 March 2009 PhD forum submission: 15 June 2009 Further information: http://www.icdsc.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090310/cfa9a92f/attachment.htm From l.martinez at umh.es Wed Mar 11 02:07:15 2009 From: l.martinez at umh.es (Martinez Otero, Luis Miguel) Date: Wed Mar 11 05:21:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ART AND SCIENCE: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION meeting in Benasque, SPAIN. Message-ID: <56007AB82339A342B6573B46197394B774BF0D@exmailer2.umhnet.es> ART AND SCIENCE: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION The "Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual" in Spain, is hosting a symposium for 2009 that under the title "Art and Science: Exploring the limits of human perception" wants to be a forum for artists and scientists who have common interests. The symposium is a featured part of the year-long series of scientific meetings sponsored by the "Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual" and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The program consists of a series of public conversations between artists and scientists with the purpose of bringing together these seemingly disparate, but we feel intimately related, fields. The format of the symposium gravitates around paired special lectures by an artist and a scientist on their practice, followed by an open discussion exploring the nature of the relationship between their fields. We strongly believe that activities such as this symposium should help to raise awareness about the importance of the research in these topics and also about the specific contributions of the artists to science and vice versa. Finally, we pretend that it could serve as the perfect setting to foster future collaborations between artists and scientists that would thus benefit from each other's contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying human perception. The symposium will cover several topics including the visual science of visual arts, the perception of visual space and architecture, cinematographic arts, choreography, virtual reality, magic and attention, consciousness, olfaction and taste, music and audition, how do we perceive artistic and scientific displays, etc. In addition to the paired plenary sessions, the meeting will include contributed talks, poster presentations and special events such as wine and food tasting by one of the most original Spanish cooks, auditions, etc. The final program and registration instructions can be found in the meeting website (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009art/). This year's Art and Science Closing Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Semir Zeki from University College London. The conference will take place between the dates of July 12-16, 2009 in Benasque, a beautiful small village located in the Pyrenees, the mountain range that forms the natural border between France and Spain. Benasque is one of the preferred destinations for nature and outdoor tourism in northern Spain. The meeting will last for 5 days with a not so tight schedule so people can take some time off in the afternoons to hike or just simply visit the many Romanic churches and lakes scattered around the area. The auditorium at the "Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual" seats over 100 people and we can anticipate that the meeting will equally attract scientists and artists. The first registration deadline is approaching so please, make sure that you make all the arrangements to come on time. If you have any questions regarding registration, poster presentations, travelling to Benasque, etc, please send your messages to this e-mail address l.martinez@umh.es. Luis M. Martinez On behalf of the Organizing Committee. Luis M. Mart?nez Otero, Ph.D. Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, SPAIN. Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D. Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Az, USA. Angela Nieto, Ph.D. Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, SPAIN. Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D. Ph.D. The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. ----- Luis M. Martinez, PhD Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hern?ndez Campus de Sant Joan Avenida Ram?n y Cajal S/N 03550 Sant Joan d'Alacant SPAIN Voice: +34 965 919210 +34 965 919209 (lab) Skype: luis.m.martinez.otero l.martinez@umh.es luis.m.martinez.otero@gmail.com http://in.umh.es/IP/MartinezOtero.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In particular: what is the contribution of outer retinal lateral inhibition to the surround responses of ganglion cells and the visual performance of the whole animal. The lab is strongly multidisciplinary and has a background in electrophysiology, morphology, molecular biology, computational modeling and behavioral essays. 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. The postdoc positions involve a temporary appointment for 3 years. To apply, please send application letter, CV and two letters of recommendation, before 1 May 2008, to: Dr. M. Kamermans, PhD Professor in the Neurophysiology The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Dept. Retinal Signal Processing Meibergdreef 47 1105 BA AMSTERDAM The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 5665180 Email: m.kamermans@nin.knaw.nl Webpage: www.nin.knaw.nl/~kamermans -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090311/f387c544/attachment.htm From ahalyasubu at hotmail.com Thu Mar 12 04:33:29 2009 From: ahalyasubu at hotmail.com (ahalya subu) Date: Thu Mar 12 05:49:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Asssitant City University Message-ID: Can you please approve this email? Kind Regards Ahalya Research Assistant Department of Optometry and Visual Science School of Community Health Sciences Applications are invited to carry out a 14 month project for City University in conjunction with the RNIB. The project will investigate the role of an Eye Care Liaison Officer (ECLO) on improving the Quality of Life of subjects who are visually impaired. The project will involve an extensive literature survey, telephone and face to face interviews, running focus groups, developing a quality of life questionnaire, analysing results and preparing a report at the end of the study. There may be an opportunity to register for an MPhil degree. Applicants should have a first degree in Optometry, Psychology or Orthoptics, a qualification to MSc level would be an advantage. Applicants must also have good IT and writing skills, and the ability to communicate effectively. Experience in qualitative research methods and SPSS would be an advantage. The post is expected to start in May 2009 The salary will be ?30,594 per annum For informal enquiries contact Dr Ahalya Subramanian: Ahalya.Subramanian.1@city.ac.uk or Dr Miriam Conway: Miriam.Conway.1@city.ac.uk Closing date: 03.04.2009 To submit an application please visit www.city.ac.uk/hr or write to the Recruitment Team, HR Department, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, quoting job reference number KG/12147 _________________________________________________________________ The new Windows Live Messenger. You don?t want to miss this. http://www.microsoft.com/india/windows/windowslive/messenger.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090312/f2ba1268/attachment.htm From a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk Fri Mar 13 07:26:36 2009 From: a.sahraie at abdn.ac.uk (Sahraie, Prof. Arash) Date: Fri Mar 13 07:50:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2 PhD studentships at Aberdeen, Scotland Message-ID: <8C31A570CBEA0D4C9FAE9C4EE05B03FB7B7440613C@VMAILA.uoa.abdn.ac.uk> Please see below ads for two fully funded postgraduate studentship at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Two out of the four advertised topics are in Vision, the successful candidates will be working with Dr. Amelia Hunt and myself. To apply please do so online at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply.shtml Please do NOT send me the application directly. Prof. Arash Sahraie Chair in Vision Sciences College of Life Sciences and Medicine University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 3FX Tel: (+44) 01224 27 3919 www.abdn.ac.uk/vision Funded PhD Studentships: School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen We invite applications for one three year PhD studentship, and one four year teaching assistant post to include a part time PhD. Both will start in October 2008, and be funded by the University of Aberdeen. Successful applicants will join a thriving research community in the School of Psychology which includes around 40 PhD students. Four projects are available for these studentships, please see the topics listed A-D below. Applicants must have, or expect to obtain, a first or upper second class honours degree in Psychology or cognate discipline. Both studentships will include Home/EU student fees, an annual stipend, and a contribution towards conference attendance and consumables. The annual stipend is ?13,290. For the 4 year teaching assistantship the teaching workload will not exceed 300 hours per year. Unless applicants already have a relevant Masters degree, they will be expected to attend research training in the first year of their PhD. If you have a strong preference for the 3 year PhD 4 year teaching assistant post please specify this in your application. Applications should take the form of (1) a full academic CV including detailed information about grades obtained (or an academic transcript), and a description of past research experience (including dissertation/thesis work) (2) a covering letter explaining which of the four projects A-D is of interest, and (3) a University Postgraduate Application Form: please download from http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply.shtml. Please include the names and full contact information for two academic referees. These should be sent electronically to: Michaela Schumann: m.schumann@abdn.ac.uk. Please contact Michaela if you have further questions about the application process. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed. Closing date for applications: 27th March 2009. Project B: Constructing a stable visual world across eye movements. Supervisors: Dr Amelia Hunt & Prof Arash Sahraie How does the brain produce the experience of a stable, integrated visual world based on input that is constantly interrupted, distorted, and shifted as the eyes move around? Interest in this research question has undergone a recent resurgence as human psychophysics has converged with neurophysiology results showing that planned motor commands can influence visual perception. An accurate prediction of the expected perceptual consequences of eye movements could play a central role in keeping track of the locations of objects when they shift from one place to another on the retina. The specific focus of the project will be the role of selective attention in achieving stable representations across eye movements. The student would receive intensive training in experimental design, psychophysics techniques, and collecting and analyzing eye movement data, and would master a fast-changing literature that covers a large range of aspects of experimental psychology and neuroscience. Project D: Processing of emotional faces and bodies after occipital brain damage Supervisors: Prof Arash Sahraie, Dr Amelia Hunt & Dr Mary-Joan MacLeod Approximately 12% of stroke survivors suffer from disturbances of vision. In majority of cases this leads to loss of sight, referred to as hemianopia. In healthy adults there are differences in manual responses and eye-movements for detection of briefly presented emotional faces and bodies, with eye-movements providing a more sensitive and accurate response mode. In hemianopic patients, it has been established that there are differences between manual and saccadic localisation of small light targets. The proposed project will investigate the localisation of emotional stimuli formed by expressions of fear and anger as well and body postures conveying threat in hemianopic patients using explicit manual and eye-movement techniques as well as implicit methodologies. The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. From pgehler at tuebingen.mpg.de Fri Mar 13 07:27:19 2009 From: pgehler at tuebingen.mpg.de (Peter Vincent Gehler) Date: Fri Mar 13 07:51:17 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD in Machine Learning/Computational Photography Message-ID: <49BA6D47.4030403@tuebingen.mpg.de> We invite applications for a Microsoft Research funded PhD scholarship based at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen. The student will be co-supervised by Bernhard Schoelkopf (MPI Tuebingen) and Carsten Rother (Microsoft Research Cambridge) and will be working on the topic "Intrinsic Image Layers for Image Editing". For more information we would like to refer to the job announcement website http://www.kyb.mpg.de/jobs/intrinsic/ Links with more information about the group at MPI, http://www.kyb.mpg.de/bs/index.html ... Microsoft Research Cambridge, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/Cambridge/ ... and PhD scholarships from Microsoft. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/global/europe/apply-europe.aspx From uta.noppeney at tuebingen.mpg.de Sun Mar 15 11:01:33 2009 From: uta.noppeney at tuebingen.mpg.de (Uta Noppeney) Date: Sun Mar 15 11:58:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD/PostDoc, Multisensory integration, MPI Biological Cybernetics Message-ID: <49BD427D.3010308@tuebingen.mpg.de> The ?Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab? (Dr Uta Noppeney) at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is seeking excellent PhD and Postdoctoral research associates in the field of multisensory integration. We combine psychophysics, functional imaging (fMRI, EEG/MEG & TMS) and computational modelling to study the neural mechanisms underlying multisensory integration in humans. Effective connectivity analyses are used to investigate how information from the senses is integrated through distinct interactions amongst brain regions. The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics provides an excellent multi-disciplinary, interactive and collaborative research environment combining expertise in neurophysiology (Prof. Nikos Logothetis), psychophysics (Prof. Heinrich B?lthoff), machine learning (Prof. Bernhard Sch?lkopf) and development of MRI methodology. PhD students will have the opportunity to participate in the International Max Planck Research School for Neural and Behavioural Sciences. http://www.neuroschool-tuebingen.de/ Applicants should have a master/diploma or equivalent degree in neuroscience, psychology, computer science, physics or related areas. Prior experience in functional imaging, MatLab, data analysis and/or machine learning would be an advantage. The PhD/PostDoc position is funded by a MPI stipend or equivalent salary according to German Public service regulations. For further information, please see http://www.kyb.mpg.de/noppeneygroup/index.html or contact uta.noppeney@tuebingen.mpg.de . Applications including a CV, a statement of research interests, and the names and full contact details of two referees should be sent to: uta.noppeney@tuebingen.mpg.de . Applications will be considered until the position is filled. From VSS at visionsciences.org Mon Mar 16 18:02:56 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Mon Mar 16 20:19:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2009 Young Investigator Award Winner Announced Message-ID: <030e01c9a69c$21dbed20$6593c760$@org> Congratulations to Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University, who is the winner of the 2009 VSS Young Investigator Award. http://www.visionsciences.org/young_investigator_2009.html The award will be presented at the Annual Meeting Keynote Address in Naples, Florida on Saturday, May 9 at 7:30 pm. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Leonard) Date: Wed Mar 18 17:06:19 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2009 UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp led by Steve Luck Message-ID: The ERP Boot Camp, an NIH-funded summer workshop on the ERP technique, will be held July 20-29 2009 at UC-Davis. It is intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers, and 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 guided discussions of ERP papers, lab activities, and individual consultations. 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. Typically, we expect that graduate students should have had at least 6 months of significant ERP (or related) experience before attending the Boot Camp. We strongly 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. We typically accept 25 U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and 5 international participants. For more information about the Boot Camp and the application procedures, see www.ERPinfo.org *Applications are due on March 31, 2009*. 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This year, GCIS is organized in collaboration with the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA2009, which takes place in Oslo, Norway, in the week preceding GCIS (see http://www.scia2009.org), in order to allow many SCIA participants to participate in GCIS at the same time. This year, the focus of our symposium is "Putting human vision into image processing and evaluation". We are preparing a rich program of invited talks and discussion sessions about this hot topic in color imaging. Check at http://www.colorlab.no/gcis for updates about invited speakers and panels. However, the symposium will cover all aspects of the use of color information in digital imaging and rely on your contributions. Thus we invite researchers to submit papers covering all the research topics of digital color imaging, as well as aspects of the symposium topic "Putting human vision into image processing and evaluation", such as: * Image quality and image difference metrics * Spatial color algorithms * Color appearance in images * Measuring contrast and other perceptual features of images * Optimizing image processing algorithms based on perceptual metrics * Modeling perception of complex scenes * Print quality * Visual saliency We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, as well as research of master and PhD students, such that the workshop can become a forum for active dialog between the groups involved in this research area. Extended abstracts, including at least preliminary results, figures and references, should be submitted before May 1st, 2009, through the web interface at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcis2009. The submissions should be in form of a pdf file, preferrably formatted using the easychair.cls LaTeX class file available from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. The length of the extended abstract should be between 2 and 4 pages in total. Best Regards, Jon Y Hardeberg and Alessandro Rizzi Conference Chairs From zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk Wed Mar 18 10:20:07 2009 From: zeki.pa at ucl.ac.uk (Prof Zeki's Office) Date: Wed Mar 18 17:07:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy - UCL Laboratory of Neurobiology - Neuroaesthetics Message-ID: <49C12D47.8030007@ucl.ac.uk> Research Associate (Neuroaesthetics) Research Associate Neuroaesthetics The laboratory is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate with a knowledge of visual neurobiology and an interest in the humanities, especially philosophy or history of art, to collaborate in a programme of neuroesthetic research on the neural bases of creativity and affective mental states such as the experience of beauty. Candidates are expected to have an interest in these issues and work as part of a team enquiring into them experimentally. A knowledge of experimental techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography is essential. Candidates must have an arts qualification and a first class or upper second class degree as well as a PhD, preferably in neuroscience. The work is supported by the Wellcome Trust. The position is available immediately and the funding is available until 28 February 2013. The appointment will be on UCL Grade 7 with a starting salary of ?28,839 per annum plus ?2,781 per annum London Allowance. Further Details and an application form can be found at: http://www.cdb.ucl.ac.uk/vacancy/ Applications including a completed application form and c.v. should be sent by email (or post) to Ian Evans, Divisional Staffing Officer, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. E-mail: ian.evans@ucl.ac.uk . Please quote Ref: FAVN06 UCL Taking Action For Equality The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 15th April 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090318/419fa7f8/attachment.htm From karin.dedek at uni-oldenburg.de Thu Mar 19 06:43:37 2009 From: karin.dedek at uni-oldenburg.de (Karin Dedek) Date: Thu Mar 19 06:53:10 2009 Subject: [visionlist] European Retina Meeting 2009 - October 8-10, 2009 in Oldenburg, Germany Message-ID: <49C24C09.60709@uni-oldenburg.de> Dear Colleagues, We are happy to invite you to attend the European Retina Meeting 2009 (ERM 2009, meeting home page http://www.retina-meeting.eu/), which will be held in Oldenburg, Germany, from October 8-10, 2009. ERM 2009 will focus on early visual processing in the vertebrate retina, including anatomical, physiological and modelling approaches. The meeting will bring together retina specialists from Europe and overseas to facilitate a wider exchange of ideas and concepts and to invoke stimulating discussions about the complex mechanisms that underlie retinal processing. ERM 2009 will include two special lectures, given by Andreas Reichenbach and by John E. Dowling, and five symposia on different aspects of retinal processing. Each symposium will consist of a key note lecture by an outstanding scientist and three to four talks by speakers selected from submitted abstracts. Symposia topics and key note speakers will be: Retinal Circuits and Adaptation - Botond Roska Photoreceptors and Color Vision - Gerald H. Jacobs Development and Plasticity - Marla B. Feller Neural Computations in the Retina - E. J. Chichilnisky Synaptic Organization of the Retina - Ronald Gregg Poster sessions will be held with no conflicting events on two of the conference days, covering various aspects of retina research, including the topics of the symposia. Single-track oral and poster sessions enable all presented work to be highly visible. On October 7, 2009, the evening before the meeting starts, Reto Weiler will give a public lecture on vision and arts. This lecture will be in German and is entitled "Sehen und Kunst: das kunstvolle Auge". Registration fee is 60 Euro for students and 120 Euro for all other applicants. Please note that for space reasons the number of participants will be limited to 200, therefore early registration is recommended. Registration is open from May 1 till June 28, 2009. Abstract submission is open from May 1 till August 23, 2009. The meeting is organized by the DFG-supported Research Unit "Dynamics and Stability of Retinal Processing". For more information please visit our homepage http://www.retina-meeting.eu/ or contact us by email: info@retina-meeting.eu We are looking forward to your participation, and hope to see you in Oldenburg! Reto Weiler, University of Oldenburg Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience From karin.dedek at uni-oldenburg.de Thu Mar 19 06:42:08 2009 From: karin.dedek at uni-oldenburg.de (Karin Dedek) Date: Thu Mar 19 06:53:29 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD position in retinal physiology Message-ID: <49C24BB0.5080300@uni-oldenburg.de> The *Neurobiology* group (Weiler lab) at the *Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany* is looking for a motivated PhD student interested in *electrophysiology* and / or *molecular biology*. We are currently offering one doctoral student position for studying *gap junctions between photoreceptors in the mouse retina* (electrophysiology combined with molecular biology and/or immunohistochemistry). We are an interdisciplinary team working on diverse aspects of retinal processing. For example, we are working on the cellular distribution and functional role of gap junctions in the vertebrate retina (Shelley et al., Eur J Neurosci, 2006; Dedek et al., Eur J Neurosci, 2006; Dedek et al., PLoS ONE, 2008; Janssen-Bienhold et al., J Comp Neurol, 2009). If you are interested in retinal processing, and if you are highly motivated to learn and to employ different methods from electrophysiology (patch-clamp recordings, dye injections) to immunohistochemistry, we would be happy to receive your application. A master's degree or a diploma in natural sciences is mandatory. Experience in electrophysiology or dye injection techniques would be highly advantageous, programming skills (e.g. Matlab) and/or practical skills in molecular biology would be an asset. The PhD-position is offered within a programme that is sponsored by the European Commission and will be available from April 2009 for a period of 3 years. The salary is equivalent of 50 % TV-L 13 plus travel allowances (according to the German pay scale). Our group is located at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. We closely collaborate with several excellent national and international research groups, respectively. These collaborations give our group access to a wide range of techniques and expertise. We are part of the DFG-funded Forschergruppe Dynamics and Stability of Retinal Processing and the EU project RETICIRC. Thus, you will become part of a larger team working on closely related questions. If this sounds interesting to you, please send an application including your CV, university and high school certificates, and the names and phone numbers of at least two references by e-mail not later than March 31, 2008 to neurosensorik@uni-oldenburg.de Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Dr. Gundula Mei?ner For more information on our research, please visit: http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/neurobiologie/index.html http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/fg-retina/en/ http://www.neurosensorik.uni-oldenburg.de/en http://www.reticirc.eu -- Dr. Karin Dedek Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universit?t Oldenburg Fak. V, IBU, AG Neurobiologie Carl-von-Ossietzky-Strasse 9-11 Postfach 2503 D-26111 Oldenburg Tel.:+49-(0)441-798-3425 Fax.:+49-(0)441-798-3423 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Facilities include (or will include) a 3T Phillips research-dedicated MRI scanner, MEG, EEG and extensive equipment for fMRI analysis and visual psychophysics. Candidates should have a strong research background in Candidates must have a PhD or MD and research experience in at least two of the following areas: Visual psychophysics cognitive neuroscience functional MRI or MRS. Programming skills. Applicants should send their CV, research statement and names of three references to: ionefine@u.washington.edu Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience. Start date is flexible though I would prefer to fill the position reasonably soon. More information about the lab can be found at: www.finelab.org http://depts.washington.edu/viscog/ The University of Washington is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Ione Fine Assistant Professor of Psychology Guthrie Hall, Rm 233, Box 351525 University of Washington Seattle, WA, 98195-1525 206-685-6157 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090319/c1d734d0/attachment.htm From olivier.lezoray at unicaen.fr Thu Mar 19 15:04:01 2009 From: olivier.lezoray at unicaen.fr (olivier.lezoray@unicaen.fr) Date: Thu Mar 19 15:38:20 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D. Proposal in Caen, France Message-ID: <49C2C151.2020408@unicaen.fr> The Image Team of the GREYC laboratory (CNRS and University of Caen) in France is looking for a PhD-Student for a project on Multiresolution analysis on graphs for image and manifold processing. Description: Multiresolution is well known for regular grids for Image Processing and has enabled a lot of successful applications. With irregular domains represented by graphs of the arbitrary topology, multiresolution schemes have recently received a lot of interest for Manifold or databases processing. In this PhD project you will develop a model to perform a multiresolution analysis on irregular domains. You will have to use difference equations and kernels on graphs to perform contraction and interpolation operations. Many applications can be considered (image super-resolution, database compression, ...) Requirements: You should have a Master's degree in mathematics, computer science, or a related field. Experience with image processing and/or machine learning is an advantage. You should be familiar with programming. You should be able to work in a multi-disciplinary team. Strong theoretical skills and affinity with experimental work are required. Conditions: The GREYC is a leading French laboratory on Image processing, and offers a dynamic, challenging, and cooperative research environment. As a PhD student you will get a temporary position of three years (full-time). Application: Please send your motivation letter, curriculum vitae, list of followed courses and grades, and copies of papers that you have written and/or your M.Sc. thesis (in English), by email to Dr. Olivier Lezoray at olivier.lezoray@unicaen.fr, before May 30, 2009. Early applications are strongly encouraged. O. Lezoray -- Olivier LEZORAY GREYC - CNRS UMR 6072 Communication Networks and Services Image Team Cherbourg Institute of Technology Olivier.Lezoray@unicaen.fr IUT Saint-Lo http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~lezoray 120, Rue de l'exode Tel : +33(0)233775514 F-50000 Saint-Lo - FRANCE Fax : +33(0)233771167 From VSS at visionsciences.org Thu Mar 19 17:40:00 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Thu Mar 19 20:00:28 2009 Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2009 Satellite Events, Daycare and Shuttle Service Message-ID: <08dc01c9a8f4$6b12f1a0$4138d4e0$@org> Satellite Events at VSS VSS is now taking requests for satellite events for the 2009 meeting. Satellites are workshops, business meetings, social events or ancillary events that VSS meeting attendees may attend, but which are not planned or sponsored by VSS. For more information or to request space, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/satellite_guidelines.htm This year's satellite events include: . Funding Opportunities in Vision Research at National Eye Institute and NIH, Saturday, May 9, 1:30 - 2:30 pm . Python & Vizard User Group Meeting, Sunday, May 10, 1:00 - 2:30 pm . VVRC - CVS Social at VSS, Sunday, May 10, 10 pm For more information on this year's satellites, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/satellite_events.htm Childcare at VSS The Naples Grande Hotel will offer a children's program during the VSS meeting; 1/2 day, full day and evening programs are available to ALL VSS attendees. See http://www.visionsciences.org/daycare.html for prices and reservation information. VSS Shuttle Service Don't forget to make reservations for the VSS shuttle - transportation from Ft. Meyers airport to the meeting hotels. The one-way VSS fare is $29/person each way and is available EVERY day of the meeting. More information can be found at http://www.visionsciences.org/airport_transportation.html. Call for Demos - Extended VSS is seeking proposals for visual demonstrations to be presented at Demo Night, Monday, May 11. To submit a demo, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/CallforDemos.html. Upcoming Dates Deadline to submit Demos, April 1 Board of Director Elections, April 2 - 22 Last day to reserve a hotel room at Naples Grande, April 5 Deadline to request space for a satellite at VSS 2009, April 6 Last day to register online at discounted rates, April 22 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - VSS 2009 Annual Meeting Naples, Florida May 8 - 13, 2009 Naples Grande Hotel See you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090319/1d1fc359/attachment.htm From john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk Fri Mar 20 06:33:11 2009 From: john.m.henderson at ed.ac.uk (John M. Henderson) Date: Fri Mar 20 06:34:31 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Edinburgh University Teaching Fellowships in Visual Cognition Message-ID: <49C39B17.90107@ed.ac.uk> Edinburgh University Teaching Fellowships in Visual Cognition The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS) invites applications from highly qualified candidates for TWO 22 month fixed-term teaching fellowships, in the Department of Psychology - tenable from September 2009 or soon thereafter. These posts have been created in association with separate ESRC and ERC awards to Prof. John Henderson and Dr. James Brockmole, respectively. The successful candidates will have research interests in any area of human vision and visual cognition, including (but not limited to) attention, eye movements, object and scene recognition, and visual memory, approached from behavioural, computational, and/or neuroimaging perspectives. The successful candidates will have a research background in psychology or a related area of vision science or cognitive science, and will have a PhD and a record of peer reviewed publications commensurate with their stage in career. Further information and application procedures can be found at www.jobs.ed.ac.uk under vacancy reference number 3010677. Closing date for applications is 14 April 2009. Informal enquiries can be made to either Prof. John Henderson (Tel. +44 (0) 131 650 9863, e-mail john.m.henderson@ed.ac.uk) or Dr. James Brockmole (Tel. +44 (0) 131 650 3422, email james.brockmole@ed.ac.uk). -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From rkwitt at gmx.at Fri Mar 20 00:49:48 2009 From: rkwitt at gmx.at (Roland Kwitt) Date: Fri Mar 20 06:34:50 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Reminder - ISPA 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: <49C34A9C.4040606@gmx.at> ***Call for Papers*** 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) September 16-18, 2009, Salzburg, Austria http://www.isispa.org The 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from September 16-18, 2009. The scientific program of the symposium consists of invited lectures, regular papers, and posters. The aim of the symposium is to foster interaction of researchers and exchange of new ideas. Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts reporting original work, as well as proposals for special sessions. *** Co-Operations and Co-Sponsorships*** European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Region 8 *** Symposium Topics*** A. Image and Video Processing D. Signal Processing B. Image and Video Analysis E. Signal Analysis C. Image Formation and Reproduction F. Applications For a detailed list of conference themes please visit ISPA 2009 web site. ***Important Dates*** Submission of full paper: April 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 31, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers and author registration: June 15, 2009 ***Symposium Venue*** Salzburg is a beautiful city in the heart of Europe in Austria. Situated on the northern edge of the Alps, a bit less than 300 kilometres to the west of Vienna and 150 km to the southeast of Munich, it is home to some 150,000 residents. It is best known for its greatest son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born in Salzburg, but also for the famous film "Sound of Music", which was shot in Salzburg. The old town of Salzburg is an intriguing labyrinth of small streets and beautiful little squares, that retain the original, baroque flair of its building time in the 17th and 18th century. One of the most impressive buildings, however, is the Castle of Salzburg, which is situated on a hill at the heart of Salzburg, majestically overlooking the city. ***Author Information*** Papers including title, author list and affiliations, figures, results, and references should not exceed six A4 pages. Detailed author instructions are available on the ISPA web site. All submissions will be subject to an international peer-review process. The symposium publications are abstract book and CD-ROM proceedings. Accepted papers will be available through IEEE Publications Center and in IEEExplore digital library. Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present the paper. ***Call for Special Session Proposals*** Prospective organizers of special sessions are invited to send proposals to Special Session Co-Chairs, according to instructions provided on the ISPA web site. ***Best Student Paper Award*** Best Student Paper Award in the amount of 300 EUR will be given to a student author. The student?s name must appear first on the paper and the paper must be presented at the symposium to be eligible for the award. ***Social Events*** Welcome reception, gala-dinner, and a sightseeing tour of Salzburg. *** Organizing Institutions*** University of Salzburg, Austria University of Zagreb, Croatia *** General Co-Chairs*** Peter Zinterhof, peter.zinterhof@sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria Sven Loncaric, sven.loncaric@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Program Co-Chairs*** Image processing area: Andreas Uhl, uhl@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria Signal processing area: Alberto Carini, carini@sti.uniurb.it , University of Urbino, Italy *** Special Sessions Chair*** Rade Kutil, rkutil@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria *** Local Arrangements Chair*** Peter Meerwald, pmeerw@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria *** Publications Chair*** Marko Subasic, marko.subasic@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Registration Chair*** Thomas St?tz, tstuetz@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria ***Information Tech. Chair*** Vjekoslav Levacic, vjekoslav.levacic@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Symposium Secretariat*** Helma Sch?ndorfer University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences Tel: 0043 (0)662 8044 6343 Fax: 0043 (0)662 8044 172 secretariat@isispa.org From owsley at uab.edu Fri Mar 20 07:25:51 2009 From: owsley at uab.edu (Cynthia Owsley) Date: Fri Mar 20 07:42:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Second Call for Abstracts: The Eye and The Auto International Conference Message-ID: <9C13F1ED-79E2-4201-AFA6-60C29F25DA5E@uab.edu> Second Call for Abstracts: The Eye and the Auto International Conference September 16-18, 2009 Detroit, Michigan Abstract Submission Due Date: April 30, 2009 The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, is an international research conference dedicated to improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of motorized vehicles. Sessions will be devoted to a variety of topics including but not limited to: visual processing, visual attention, and driving tasks; human factors and design issues relevant to the driver, roadway, and/or vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions, and driver safety; policies that address vision and driving; driver assessment and rehabilitation strategies for the visually impaired driver. This meeting will be of keen interest to many types of professionals from the field of driver safety and performance including scientists, engineers, clinicians, designers, and policy specialists. A highlight of the meeting will be a tour of the GM Driving Simulator and Human Machine Interface Laboratory. The conference will take place at the GM Technical Center Campus, Warren, Michigan. There will be several invited presentations by experts in the field, including: Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation Institute Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Jonathan Hankey, PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham Eli Peli M.Sc., OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University Bryan Reimer PhD, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa Janet Szlyk, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago Jeremy Wolfe PhD, Brigham & Women?s Hospital, Harvard University Joanne Wood PhD, MCOptom, Queensland University of Technology We welcome Abstract Submissions for either a 15-minute paper or poster presentation formats. For more information on the conference and the guidelines for submitting abstracts go to: www.eyeson.org (and then follow the link for The Eye and the Auto). We look forward to your participation and encourage you to share this Call for Abstracts announcement with your colleagues. Should you have any questions about the Eye and The Auto, please feel free to contact any of members of the Conference Organizing Committee (see below). Looking forward to seeing you there - Cynthia Owsley, owsley@uab.edu Philip C. Hessburg MD President, Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology pchessburg@eyeson.org Co-Chair, The Eye and The Auto Cynthia Owsley PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham owsley@uab.edu Co-Chair, The Eye and The Auto Edward R. O'Malley MD Henry Ford Health System Grosse Pointe Ophthalmology eromalley@comcast.com Research Committee Chairman Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090320/96b11077/attachment.htm From mertsching at upb.de Fri Mar 20 11:51:07 2009 From: mertsching at upb.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?B=E4rbel_Mertsching?=) Date: Fri Mar 20 12:03:26 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009) which will take place in Paderborn, Germany, from September 15 to September 18 2009. This year there will be parallel tracks covering the breadth of today's AI research. A lot of colleagues are already supporting the conference. A focus is on the topic 'AI and Automation'. Details of the conference could be found at the following web site: http://ki2009.upb.de. I would like to encourage you to submit a paper to the conference. Even if you cannot participate actively, the conference will offer abundant benefit. Until today 5 tutorials, 12 workshops, and 11 keynotes are confirmed. Browse through the web pages and subscribe to the RSS feed. Help to get an excellent technical program and make KI 2009 your conference. Best regards Baerbel Mertsching General Chair KI 2009 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Baerbel M e r t s c h i n g _____________________ University of Paderborn Faculty of Computer Science Electrical Engineering and Mathematics GET Lab phone: +49/ (0)5251/ 60 - 5293 Pohlweg 47-49 fax: +49/ (0)5251/ 60 - 3238 D-33098 Paderborn email: mertsching@upb.de URL: http://getwww.upb.de ____________________________________________________________________ 32nd Annual Conference On Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009) Paderborn | September 15-18, 2009 | http://ki2009.upb.de ____________________________________________________________________ From John.Siderov at anglia.ac.uk Fri Mar 20 16:27:01 2009 From: John.Siderov at anglia.ac.uk (Siderov, John) Date: Fri Mar 20 17:29:08 2009 Subject: [visionlist] new post Message-ID: <4E0A2E144855D74DBFDB9EFC7BF3ABAF05716712@CAMEXCH.ANGLIA.LOCAL> Please post the following job: Professor and Director of the Vision and Eye Research Unit Faculty of Science and Technology Ref: 6150 Based in Cambridge Competitive Salary Our vibrant, modern University has ambitious plans for its future. Our two main campuses in Cambridge and Chelmsford are being transformed with major capital investments. With an annual income of ?120m, 25,500 students and 2,000 staff, we are a major force for higher education in the East of England. We have world class and international levels of research activity in the field of vision and eye research, as recognised by the recent RAE 2008 exercise. We now intend to consolidate this work within the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PMI) and create a unit of research excellence in vision and eye research. The Vision and Eye Research Unit will build on existing research across various research groups within Anglia Ruskin University and will develop further opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity for a distinguished academic to establish this unit and ensure it becomes a recognised centre of international excellence in vision and eye research. You will be responsible for the strategy, management and development of the unit as one of the priority areas within the PMI through strong research and scholarship activities. You will ensure that the unit contributes significantly to the vision and objectives of the PMI by initiating and facilitating its key objectives. The successful candidate will be an internationally recognised researcher with a background in vision and eye research. With a PhD or equivalent, you will have a track record of successful leadership within a research focussed environment, with the ability to establish, lead and develop a research team. You will be a strategic and analytical leader with vision, integrity and strong communication, financial and interpersonal skills. Closing date 16 April 2009 (12 noon) CV's will only be accepted if accompanied by a completed University Application form. Further details are available from telephone 0845 196 4740 (24 hours). E-mail jobs@anglia.ac.uk or visit on-line at www.anglia.ac.uk/hr/jobs We value diversity at Anglia Ruskin University and welcome applications from all sections of the community. ********************************************** Dr John Siderov FAAO Head of Department Optometry and Ophthalmic Dispensing Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge UK 08451962695 Skype name: johnsiderov Email: john.siderov@anglia.ac.uk ********************************************** -- EMERGING EXCELLENCE: In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, more than 30% of our submissions were rated as 'Internationally Excellent' or 'World-leading'. Among the academic disciplines now rated 'World-leading' are Allied Health Professions & Studies; Art & Design; English Language & Literature; Geography & Environmental Studies; History; Music; Psychology; and Social Work & Social Policy & Administration. Visit www.anglia.ac.uk/rae for more information. 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Responsibilities also include training and supervising undergraduate students in the lab, assistance with grant and manuscript preparation, maintenance of files and web pages, maintenance of computer software and hardware, and ordering lab supplies. Depending on the skills and the interest, the RA can become an active participant in research. Minimum duration of the position is one year. The preferred starting date would be July 1, 2009. This is an ideal position for someone interested in attending graduate schools in related areas in the future. Qualifications: BA/BS, previous research experience, general knowledge of visual perception, cognition or neuroscience, experience in programming in Matlab as well as working knowledge of Mac and Windows operating systems are required. Outstanding organizational and communication skills are essential. If interested, please send an application directly to Yaoda Xu (yaodaxu@wjh.harvard.edu) AND to the following web site: http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=40526 Applications will be considered immediately until the position is filled. Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090321/0a6027d1/attachment.htm From c.levelt at ioi.knaw.nl Tue Mar 24 09:33:47 2009 From: c.levelt at ioi.knaw.nl (Christiaan Levelt) Date: Tue Mar 24 10:12:58 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Meeting 18-19 May, Pisa: Organisation and Plasticity of the Visual Cortex Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20090324172518.036a23c0@pop.nin.knaw.nl> Announcement A European meeting entitled "Organisation and Plasticity of the Visual Cortex" will take place at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa on the 18th and 19th of May 2009. 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Andrew Schofield a.j.schofield@bham.ac.uk ***************************** * Dr Andrew Schofield * School of Psychology * University of Birmingham * Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT * +44 (0)121 41 45644 * Statistics help: http:\\www.statsguides.bham.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090325/639471d7/attachment.htm From andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk Wed Mar 25 02:58:36 2009 From: andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk (Andrea Cavallaro) Date: Wed Mar 25 06:44:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (full papers due: 14 April * new*) Message-ID: <9A6BBBBE2AAD6746A6D961B57357426202FD2AFB60@staff-mail2.vpn.elec.qmul.ac.uk> ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009) Como (Italy), 30 August - 2 September 2009 -- Full paper submission deadline: 14 April 2009 (abstracts: 7 April) * new * -- *** Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to one of the following upcoming special issues: - "Multi-camera information processing: acquisition, collaboration, interpretation and production" (Journal on Image and Video Processing) - "Video Analytics for Surveillance: Theory and Practice" (IEEE Signal Processing Magazine) -- Special sessions (open submission) http://www.icdsc.org/special.html - Embedded techniques for smart cameras - Activity monitoring by multi-camera systems - Advances in coding for distributed camera networks - Collaborative signal processing for distributed systems - Dependability, security and privacy in smart camera systems Challenge tracks http://www.icdsc.org/challenge.html - Sports track - Smart homes track PhD Forum http://www.icdsc.org/phdforum.html -- Scope After the successful meetings in Vienna (2007) and Stanford (2008), the third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras will be held at Como, Italy. The conference provides an opportunity for researchers working in the areas of smart camera architectures, algorithm design, embedded vision-based processing, and smart environments to exchange their most recent results. Offering insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and presentation of design methodologies employed by leading research groups working in these areas are also the objectives of the conference. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations and contributions based on industrial applications are also of interest. Topics of interest within the scope of the conference include: - Distributed vision processing algorithms - Distributed appearance modelling - Fusion of vision and other sensors - Collaborative feature extraction, data and decision fusion - Architectures and protocols for camera networks - Smart camera architectures - Image sensing techniques for smart cameras - Embedded vision programming - Wireless and mobile image sensor networks - Position discovery and middle-ware applications - Vision-based smart environments - Surveillance and tracking applications - Multi-view vision for Human-Computer Interfaces - 3D scene analysis - Distributed multimedia and gaming applications For a more detailed list of areas within the scope and interest of the conference see http://www.icdsc.org/ Paper Submission: Full length-papers between six (6) and eight (8) A4 pages in length are solicited. Important Dates: Abstract submission: 7 April 2009 Full paper submission: 14 April 2009 PhD forum submission: 15 June 2009 Further information: http://www.icdsc.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090325/39d92e8a/attachment.htm From dancoisne at bcf.uni-freiburg.de Wed Mar 25 07:15:14 2009 From: dancoisne at bcf.uni-freiburg.de (Florence Dancoisne) Date: Wed Mar 25 08:00:10 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 14th Edition - Final announcement Message-ID: <49CA3C72.9050005@bcf.uni-freiburg.de> *ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 14th Edition* (A PENS/Bernstein/Gatsby Training Center) *Final announcement - application deadline: April 2, 2009* August 3-28, 2009 Freiburg, Germany SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS: * Nicolas Brunel (CNRS & Universit? Paris Descartes, Paris, France) * John Rinzel (New York University, New York, USA) * Peter Latham (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK) * Yifat Prut (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR: * Florence Dancoisne (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg, Germany) The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (ACCN) 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 pursue a project of their choosing under the close supervision of expert tutors. This gives them practical training in the art and practice of neural modeling. The first week of the course introduces students to essential neurobiological concepts and to the most important techniques in modeling single cells, synapses and circuits. Students learn how to solve their research problems using software such as MATLAB, NEST, NEURON, Python, XPP, etc. During the following three weeks the lectures cover networks and specific neural systems and functions. Topics range from modeling 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. In addition, we will offer three internships to ACCN students. These fully funded internships will allow students to work, post-ACCN, on a research project in a faculty member?s lab for up to three months. Applications for internships will be considered after the ACCN. The course is designed for students 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. Applications for the ACCN, 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. For more information and access to the application database go to: http://www.neuroinf.org/courses/EUCOURSE/F09/index.shtml Contact address: * Fiona Siegfried Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg Hansastrasse 9A 79104 Freiburg Germany * email: accn@bcf.uni-freiburg.de Application deadline: April 2, 2009 Deadline for letters of recommendation: April 2, 2009 Notification of results: April 30, 2009 INVITED FACULTY (* = confirmed) Ad Aertsen, U. Freiburg, Germany (*) Yang Dan, UC Berkeley, USA (*) Jeff Beck, Gatsby Computational Unit, UCL, UK (*) Paul Bressloff, U. of Utah, USA (*) Mitya Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA (*) Nathaniel Daw, NYU, USA (*) Erik De Schutter, OIST, Japan (*) Alain Destexhe, CNRS Gif, France (*) Yael Niv, Princeton, USA (*) Jonathan Pillow, UCL, UK (*) Yifat Prut, Hebrew University, Israel (*) Magnus Richardson, U. of Warwick, UK (*) Yasser Roudi, UCL, UK (*) Gytis Svirskis, Kaunas Medical Academy, Lithuania (*) Alex Thomson, UL, UK (*) Matthew Tresch, Northwestern University, USA (*) Mark Van Rossum, U. of Edinburgh, UK (*) Carl van Vreeswijk, CNRS Paris, France (*) Istvan Winkler, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary (*) Fred Wolf, MPI Goettingen, Germany Li Zhaoping, UCL, UK (*) TUTORS Janet Best, Ohio State, USA Farzad Farkhooi, FU Berlin, Germany Moritz Helias, U. Freiburg, Germany Pablo Jercog, Columbia U, USA Yann Le Franc, NIH, USA Alex Lerchner, UCL, UK Michiel Remme, NYU, USA SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR Bernd Wiebelt, U. Freiburg, Germany From bal at dal.ca Wed Mar 25 09:15:13 2009 From: bal at dal.ca (Balwantray Chauhan) Date: Wed Mar 25 10:21:07 2009 Subject: [visionlist] North American Perimetric Society meeting, October 2009 Message-ID: <4E223BE7-0CAA-4F53-BEB9-E69B2F0C5463@dal.ca> Can you please post this on the Vision List? Thanks NORTH AMERICAN PERIMETRIC SOCIETY (NAPS) Eighth meeting October 1-2, 2009 The Lodge Conference Center, Skaneateles, New York Featured Topic Impact of eye disease on activities of daily living Keynote speakers ? Cynthia Owsley, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham ? David Crabb, PhD City University, London, UK Meeting Format ? Theme oriented presentations by keynote speakers ? Free papers on topic of your choice (deadline for abstract: August 21, 2009) ? Open forum Registration $US 180.00 (includes breakfast, lunch and refreshments) Accommodation A block of rooms is being held at the Inn at the Fingerlakes, Auburn, NY ($71/night) and the Holiday Inn, Auburn, NY ($82.50/night). You are responsible for arranging your hotel reservations. Air Travel The closest airport is Syracuse, New York (about 15 miles from Skaneateles). Further information For further information on any aspect of the meeting, please contact either Chris or Bal: Chris A. Johnson, Ph.D. Balwantray C. Chauhan, Ph.D. Department of Ophthalmology Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences The University of Iowa Dalhousie University, 2W Victoria 200 Hawkins Drive 1276 South Park Street Iowa City, IA 52246 Halifax, N.S., Canada B3H 2Y9 Tel: (319) 356-0384 Tel: (902) 473-3202 Fax: (319) 353-7699 Fax: (902) 473-2839 E-mail: chris-a-johnson@uiowa.edu E-mail:bal@dal.ca *new address* ______________________________________________ Balwantray Chauhan Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Dalhousie University 1276 South Park Street 2W Victoria, Room 2035 Halifax, NS Canada B3H 2Y9 Tel: 902-473-3202 Fax: 902-473-2839 Email: bal@dal.ca From grabner at vision.ee.ethz.ch Wed Mar 25 23:55:59 2009 From: grabner at vision.ee.ethz.ch (Helmut Grabner) Date: Thu Mar 26 06:46:01 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for Paper: ICCV'09 WS on On-line Learning for Computer Vision Message-ID: <49CB26FF.9080300@vision.ee.ethz.ch> [apologies for multiple copies, please forward to anyone interested!] ============================================================= *Call for Papers* ------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd O N - L I N E L E A R N I N G F O R C O M P U T E R V I S I O N W O R K S H O P in conjunction with ICCV 2009 http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/olcv2009 Kyoto, Japan, October 3, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: June, 19 2009 ============================================================= We invite you to participate in the 3rd On-line Learning for Computer Vision Workshop (OLCV'09) which will be held in junction with ICCV in Kyoto, Japan. The workshop will bring together computer vision researches interested in providing solid foundations to this promising and challenging area. *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission of full papers June 19, 2009 Notification of acceptance July 20, 2009 Camera ready papers August 31, 2009 Workshop October 3, 2009 *TOPICS* The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - On-line methods for object detection and tracking, - Active learning for object identification and recognition, - Incremental fusion of multi-modal data, - Applications using on-line classification methods, and - Theoretical characterizations. - We encourage work towards a solid framework for benchmarking on-line learning algorithms Prospective authors are invited to submit a full-length eight-page paper via the OLCV'09 web-page. Accepted papers will be published on DVD included in the main conference proceedings. ************************************************************ Please find the call for papers and more information at the webpage http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/olcv2009/ ************************************************************ *Organizers* Fatih Porikli, MERL *Invited Speaker* Horst Bischof, TU-Graz Pietro Perona, CALTECH Helmut Grabner, ETH-Zurich *Program Committee* Matt Brand, Tat-Jen Cham, Enis Cetin, Rama Chellappa, Larry Davis, Ahmed Elgammal, Guoliang Fan, Riad Hammoud, Omar Javed, Qiang Ji, Jiri Matas, Peter Meer, Nikunj Oza, Peter Roth, Venkatesh Saligrama, Stan Sclaroff, David Suter, Oncel Tuzel, Lior Wolf Best regards, Fatih, Horst, Helmut -- http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/olcv2009 olcv2009@vision.ee.ethz.ch From smcn at fisica.uminho.pt Thu Mar 26 03:36:28 2009 From: smcn at fisica.uminho.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Nascimento?=) Date: Thu Mar 26 06:46:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS09): Early registration deadline approaching In-Reply-To: <200901201637.n0KGbtZI014466@lawton.ewind.com> References: <200901201637.n0KGbtZI014466@lawton.ewind.com> Message-ID: <005401c9adfe$b8b221b0$2a166510$@uminho.pt> Early registration deadline is quickly approaching for the 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) that will take place in the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from Friday July 24th to Tuesday July 28th, 2009. **Early registration and abstract submission deadline is April 1st!** The meeting will encompass fundamental, applied, and clinical aspects of research into colour vision, ranging from the molecular to the cognitive. In addition to the keynote presentation, there will be topical symposia, along with individual contributions reflecting the diversity of interests of the members of the ICVS, who include physiologists, psychologists, physicists, engineers, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and other related professionals with interests in colour vision and colour-vision deficiencies. A social and cultural programme will allow participants to relax and interact informally between sessions and will include visits to some of the most beautiful areas of northern Portugal, most notably the Douro valley, where the grapes for Port wine are grown. For more information go to the meeting website (http://labcolour.fisica.uminho.pt/icvs) or contact Sergio Nascimento (smcn@fisica.uminho.pt). Scientific program overview: Invited speakers: Arthur Shapiro, Bucknell University Bevil R. Conway, Wellesley College, MA David M Hunt, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter Thomas Wachtler-Kulla, Philipps-Universitat Marburg Henrik Wann Jensen, University of California, San Diego Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter Historical talk: Lagerlunda J. D. Mollon and L. Cavonius Symposia: Colour vision and the statistics of natural scenes organizer: David H Foster, The University of Manchester Colour perception and art organizer: Sergio Nascimento, Minho University Genetics and pigments organizer: James K Bowmaker, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London Interactions of color and shape variations in material perception organizer: Qasim Zaidi, State University of New York Temporal aspects of color vision organizer: Andrew Stockman, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London ------------------------------- Sergio Nascimento Department of Physics University of Minho, Braga, Portugal smcn@fisica.uminho.pt From artstats at gmail.com Mon Mar 30 09:04:05 2009 From: artstats at gmail.com (Daniel Graham) Date: Mon Mar 30 09:20:08 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Color Filters for Luminance Meter? Message-ID: Hello, I am hoping someone knows of a manufacturer that makes color filters that would fit the Minolta LS-100 light meter. The purpose of the filters is to perform color calibration for visual psychophysics experimentation. Any leads are welcome. Best, Daniel J. Graham Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Mathematics Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 daniel.j.graham@dartmouth.edu http://math.dartmouth.edu/~dgraham/dg/ -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In order to submit an abstract, participants should complete the Conference Registration Form on the conference website and proceed to payment, via the secure Credit Card system (accepting Visa and Mastercard) provided and guaranteed by the official bank of the conference (HypoVereinsbank/UniCredit). IMPORTANT DATES: Early registration deadline: April 15, 2009; Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2009; Notification regarding acceptance of abstracts: May 15, 2009; Official withdrawal of abstract: June 1, 2009; Hotel block reservations expire on July 23, 2009. REFUND POLICY: Refunds will be granted (minus bank charges) up to June 1, 2009. After June 1, any further requests for refund of registration fees submitted (with sufficient justification) will be honored on an individual basis only. NEWS: Abstract submission deadline is April 15, so please submit your abstract soon. Pre-registration (and payment of registration fee) is required for each abstract submission. The first author of each abstract must be registered before the abstract can be submitted. Each delegate can submit only one abstract as first author. HOTELS Please use the on-line hotel reservation form to book your hotel room. Low-cost housing is also available: http://www.ecvp2009.org/travel/accommodation.html CONFERENCE BANQUET We will have space for about 500 persons at the conference dinner. Tickets will be issued on a first come - first served basis. Early reservation is recommended. The price includes buffet dinner, drinks (wine, beer, soft drinks) and live music. CURRENCY AND CREDIT CARDS The local currency is Euros, which you will need to make purchases during the conference. On-site registration payment by credit card (Master, Visa) will be possible. PROGRAM The venue is at the University Lecture Halls (Audi-Max, HS 2). Posters, exhibits and coffee will be in the Foyer area (located in-between Audi-Max and HS 2). A bus pass is included in your conference bag. Please make sure to keep the pass with you when using the buses 6 or 11 from town to the venue. Exit bus at stop Universitaet Mensa. Enter the building at Audi-Max. SATELLITE WORKSHOPS This year ECVP will be accompanied by three satellite workshops: Models of vision and decision-making: From features to behavior and perceptual robotics. Mon. August 24, 9.00 - 17:00 Animal Visual Ecology. Fri.-Sat. August 28-29 Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision. Sat. August 29; Please consult the conference website for details regarding pre-registration and participation. GETTING TO REGENSBURG Detailed information on how to get to Regensburg is located on the website (http://www.ecvp2009.org/travel/getting-there.html) We recommend train travel or the airport shuttle from Munich airport. (http://www.airportliner.com/airportshuttle.htm) On behalf of the organizing committee, we look forward to greeting you in Regensburg! Mark Greenlee and Gregor Volberg info@ecvp2009.org ---------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee Chair for Experimental Psychology University of Regensburg Universitaetsstrasse 31 93053 Regensburg, Germany Tel: ++49 941 943 3281 Fax: ++49 941 943 3233 email: mark.greenlee@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de ECVP 2009 in Regensburg: http://www.ecvp2009.org From bgc at lsr.nei.nih.gov Mon Mar 30 13:24:00 2009 From: bgc at lsr.nei.nih.gov (Bruce Cumming) Date: Mon Mar 30 15:12:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Symposia to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NEI Message-ID: <49D12A60.8090603@lsr.nei.nih.gov> Dear Colleagues: Please join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National Eye Institute this April at the first of five symposia. */Genetics and Genomics in Vision /* *Thursday, April 16, 4:00 -- 5:30 p.m.*, Lister Hill Center Auditorium, National Library of Medicine (Building 38A) *Friday, April 17, 8:30 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m.*, Lipsett Amphitheater, NIH Clinical Center (Building 10) Examine current advances in genetics and genomics and their impact on vision science. Hear leading geneticists, biologists and clinician-scientists highlight current achievements and future promises of vision research. Join us in fostering research collaborations and promoting new initiatives with colleagues within and outside the NIH community. Participate in discussions to gain a greater understanding of the genetic and biological bases of eye diseases and the exploration of new treatment strategies. */Upcoming Symposia: /* *Advances in Optical Imaging in Biomedical Science *June 1 - 2, 2009 *Neuroscience and Vision *November 20, 2009 *Focus on Glaucoma *February 19, 2010 *Novel Therapeutic Paradigms and Blindness *May 21, 2010 For more information go to: www.nei.nih.gov Sign Language Interpreters will be provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in these events should contact: Donna Wells, National Eye Institute, at 301-496-5248. For more information, contact: Dr Tiziana Cogliati cogliatitp@mail.nih.gov Neurobiology, Neurodegeneration & Repair Laboratory NIH - National Eye Institute Bldg 10 Rm 10B11 Bethesda, MD 20892-1204 - USA Phone: (301) 496-3978 Fax: (301) 480-9917 -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090330/7f9e0a3b/attachment.htm From ngk at MIT.EDU Mon Mar 30 15:39:18 2009 From: ngk at MIT.EDU (Nancy Kanwisher) Date: Mon Mar 30 16:23:58 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Full-Time Lab Manager Position in the Kanwisher Lab Message-ID: <03BF45F6-1414-4417-A7F1-02162598C5A7@mit.edu> Please forward this position opening in the Kanwisher Lab to anyone you know who might be interested. Thanks! Nancy Title: Lab Manager, Kanwisher Lab Req Number: mit-00006310 Department: McGovern Institute for Brain Research Location(s): Cambridge MA FT/PT: Full Time Employment / Payroll Category: SRS (Research) Work Shift: M-F, 9-6 LABORATORY MANAGER, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, to help with all phases of functional MRI and behavioral studies of high- level vision and cognition in a cognitive neuroscience laboratory. Responsibilities include designing and programming experiments, conducting fMRI scans and behavioral experiments, analyzing fMRI data, and general lab management. REQUIREMENTS: programming experience, e.g., MATLAB, Python, etc.; Macintosh and Windows troubleshooting skills; a bachelor's degree in cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, engineering, psychology, or math; and demonstrated interest in cognitive neuroscience. Seek organized, reliable, self-motivated individual who is able to work effectively with others and multitask efficiently in a fast-paced environment. Familiarity with vision experiments and/or fMRI experience a plus. MIT-00006310 To apply go here: http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=2342763&sn=I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The CVR will give awards to students from Canada (outside the Toronto area) and the US. We will also provide some awards for students from outside North America. These funds will help defray the costs of travel. We will consider graduate students and students in the early stages of a Post-Doctoral fellowship who have submitted a 1st- authored poster to be presented at the 2009 conference and should be submitted to Teresa Manini. The following information is required for travel award applications: 1. Conference abstract (Approximately 100 words). 2. C.V. Letter of reference from supervisor. In this letter the supervisor should confirm that the student meets the criteria for the fellowship more importantly should outline the role the student participated in the research submitted for consideration. All conference abstracts along with any travel award submissions must be received by *James Zacher *(*zacher@cvr.yorku.ca *) on or before* March 31st, 2009*. In addition, please ensure that your conference fees are received by Teresa Manini (*manini@cvr.yorku.ca* ). - From chiestand at salk.edu Tue Mar 31 10:27:25 2009 From: chiestand at salk.edu (Chris Hiestand) Date: Tue Mar 31 10:39:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] NIPS 2009 Call for Papers and Poster Contest Message-ID: <5823A54D-0F97-4A14-BE96-4232F5C66989@salk.edu> NIPS 2009 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Submissions by authors who are new to NIPS are encouraged. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorials (December 7), and following will be two days of workshops at the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 11-12). Deadline for Paper Submissions: Friday June 5, 2009, 23:59 Universal Standard Time (4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time). A full description of the Call for Papers can be found here: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/CallForPapers NIPS 2009 Conference Poster Contest This year, we'd like to capture the creativity of the NIPS community in 2009's NIPS conference poster. The winner will receive full complimentary registration for the tutorials, conference, workshop, and bus transportation to Whistler. Please design a poster and upload it in PDF, PNG, or JPG format. This is open to any member of NIPS: students, postdocs, and faculty. The NIPS board will review and vote for the best one. Upload your poster by July 15, 2009. Good luck and thank you for your valuable contributions. 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Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, it has been opened as an international conference. We expect around 300 international participants from the areas of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected abstracts will be published in the Journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of computational neuroscience including, but not limited to: learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system, brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making, information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and recurrent networks, neurotechnology. This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision. MAIN MEETING: 30 September - 2 October, 2009 Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM: 3 October, 2009 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt am Main, Germany IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission open: 4 May 2009 Abstract submission deadline: 17 May 2009 Demonstration proposals deadline: 15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009 Early registration closed: 15 August 2009 INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed): Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis) Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL) Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann) Gilles Laurent (Caltech) Klaus Obermayer (Bernstein Center Berlin) Bernstein Award 2009 winner ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Jochen Triesch Program Chairs: J?rg L?cke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf Demonstrations Chair: Cornelius Weber Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu Finace Chair: Cornelius Weber Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi PhD Student-Symposium Chair: Cristina Savin Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz From zacher at cvr.yorku.ca Tue Mar 31 13:31:42 2009 From: zacher at cvr.yorku.ca (James Zacher) Date: Tue Mar 31 14:11:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CVR2009 - Revised Poster Submission Deadline is April 17, 2009 In-Reply-To: <49D1691A.5020405@cvr.yorku.ca> References: <49D1691A.5020405@cvr.yorku.ca> Message-ID: <49D27DAE.2000508@cvr.yorku.ca> Greetings, Due to the sudden rush of poster & travel application submissions, we have extended the submission deadline to April 17, 2009 at 23:59. Please refer to the conference website for more details - www.cvr2009.ca. Have a great weekend! Cheers, Jim From ashleigh.nguyen at flashfotoinc.com Tue Mar 31 12:39:19 2009 From: ashleigh.nguyen at flashfotoinc.com (Ashleigh Nguyen) Date: Tue Mar 31 14:11:28 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Internship Message-ID: <29AF35ED8E1E9E40A26B9E1559A02FC0025E89@flashmail02.Flash.com> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Just an elevator ride away from the sessions and events. . Support VSS. Help us help you! We earn discounted meeting space, which keeps your registration fees down. . Complimentary Nightly Shuttle Service. Shuttles will run nightly from the Naples Grande with service to downtown and other hot spots around Naples. If you're looking for an alternative to the meeting hotel, we have negotiated discounted rates with several nearby hotels, (all between 1 and 4 miles from the Naples Grande). See http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel-overflows-09.html for additional information. Airport Shuttle VSS has arranged for discounted transportation from Ft. Meyers airport to the meeting hotels. The one-way VSS fare is $29/person each way. The VSS Shuttle Service will be available for arrivals and departures every day of the conference, however the discounted fare of $29 will be offered during the hours of 6 am and 6 pm only (see website for rates outside these hours). For more information and to reserve a shuttle, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/airport_transportation.html. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090331/c69fd35d/attachment.htm From jeedward at yahoo.com Wed Apr 1 01:58:41 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (Ed) Date: Wed Apr 1 06:50:03 2009 Subject: [visionlist] IICAI-09 Call for papers: special session on computer vision Message-ID: <314528.64465.qm@web45907.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> IICAI-09 Call for papers ? There is a ?special session on computer vision at the 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) will be held in Tumkur (near Bangalore), India during December 16-18 2009. The conference consists of paper presentations, special workshops, sessions, invited talks and local tours, etc.? We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website: http://www.iiconference.org ??for more details of the conference. ? Sincerely ? ? Ed Publicity Committee ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090401/a42e1ae5/attachment.htm From Wenyi.Zhao at intusurg.com Tue Mar 31 22:38:24 2009 From: Wenyi.Zhao at intusurg.com (Wenyi Zhao) Date: Wed Apr 1 06:50:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2009 Summer Research Intern - Computer Vision/Image Processing Message-ID: 2009 Summer Research Intern - Computer Vision/Image Processing Intuitive Surgical's Applied Research group is offering internships in the area of computer vision and image processing. We are seeking talented individuals to participate in exciting cross-disciplinary projects in tele-robotic surgery. Project areas include: - Development of non-rigid image registration methods. - Development of methods for improving image quality in terms of resolution, contrast and noise. - Development of methodologies for evaluating image quality. - Work with high-speed cameras to develop novel imaging applications. - The study of endoscopic imaging systems, including optical components, illumination and sensors. Expected contributions may range from evaluating existing implementations, integrating systems, improving existing algorithms, to inventing new methods. PhD candidates and advanced MS students are preferred. Other exceptional candidates will also be considered. Requirements: - A passion for working with a high energy team to develop novel technologies aimed at improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients. - Knowledge in computer vision, image processing, medical imaging. Hands-on experience in one of the areas listed above is strongly preferred. - Strong programming skill in C/C++, Matlab and fast prototyping. - Familiarity with image/video acquisition. Start time: May/June 2009 (flexible) Period: typically 3 months; extended internships may also be available Please send a resume and cover letter to the following contacts: Wenyi Zhao, PhD Simon DiMaio, PhD Senior Research Engineer Manager, Applied Research Intuitive Surgical Inc Intuitive Surgical Inc 1266 Kifer Road 1266 Kifer Road Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Wenyi.Zhao@intusurg.com Simon.DiMaio@intusurg.com Intuitive Surgical (www.intuitivesurgical.com ), located in Sunnyvale, CA, is engaged in designing, manufacturing and marketing robotic surgical systems that are revolutionizing surgery. Its da Vinci Surgical system includes six manipulator arms with a total of 41 degrees of freedom, along with a stereo endoscope and 3D video display. With over 1100 installations worldwide, surgeons perform over one hundred thousand minimally-invasive surgeries per year. The Da Vinci system represents an outstanding platform for the development and application of new technologies for surgery. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090331/95350b7b/attachment.htm From jgrammer at arvo.org Wed Apr 1 11:03:48 2009 From: jgrammer at arvo.org (Jot Grammer) Date: Wed Apr 1 11:10:19 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2009 ARVO International Society for Ocular Cell Biology Message-ID: <9C0D662A6499BB429AFCC3BBC94DEAA603541530@mail.arvo.org> 2009 ARVO International Society for Ocular Cell Biology September 9-12, 2009 Ericeira, Portugal The International Society for Ocular Cell Biology (ISOCB) has become part of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). ARVO/ISOCB (http://www.arvo.org/isocb) is a forum for the exchange of ideas through a biennial international conference. This conference is for cell biologists working in all aspects of ocular health and disease as well as those using ocular cells as model systems. ARVO/ISOCB aims to encourage better integration between cell biologists working in eye research. Scientific sessions will be topic-driven (rather than tissue-specific) and will include speakers primarily engaged in retina, lens, or cornea research who are addressing fundamental issues of cellular structure, function, and disease mechanisms that apply to all ocular tissues. Visit the ARVO/ISOCB Web site (http://www.arvo.org/isocb) for more details. Abstract submission will open April 22, 2009. This meeting will take place in beautiful Ericeira, Portugal at the Vila Gal? Ericeira Hotel (http://www.vilagale.pt/pages/hoteis/?hotel=10 ) on the western most tip of Europe, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090401/bdecb45c/attachment-0001.htm From jgrammer at arvo.org Wed Apr 1 11:05:22 2009 From: jgrammer at arvo.org (Jot Grammer) Date: Wed Apr 1 11:10:31 2009 Subject: [visionlist] SERC2009: Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Retinal Diseases: Basis Research to Clinical Application Message-ID: <9C0D662A6499BB429AFCC3BBC94DEAA603541531@mail.arvo.org> SERC2009: Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Retinal Diseases: Basis Research to Clinical Application July 31-August 1, 2009 Natcher Center, NIH Bethesda, MD Abstract Submission is Open! (http://www.arvo.org/EWEB/startpage.aspx?site=serc09&webcode=Absubinfo) Abstracts are only accepted online through the submission Website. Travel Grant Opportunities (http://www.arvo.org/EWEB/serc09/pdf/serc09_travelgrants.pdf) This conference focuses on issues related to ocular drug delivery. It will entertain an integrated approach to discussing benchmarks in drug development, delivery platform technology and proof of concept models. Faculty and students from industry, the clinic and academe will be invited to present papers and posters. Abstract submissions will be reviewed and accepted for appropriate placement in the agenda. Places are limited - Register today! (http://www.arvo.org/EWEB/dynamicpage.aspx?site=serc09&webcode=registrat ion) For more information go to www.arvo.org/serc09. Conference organizers: Henry Edelhauser, PhD, Emory University Michael Robinson, MD, Allergan Cheryl Rowe-Rendleman, PhD, Ophthalmic Medical and Research Consulting Group Co-Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute Rhonda Williams Meeting Manager Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 250 Rockville, MD 20852 U.S.A. Main: +1.240.221.2900 | Direct: +1.240.221.2908 | Fax: +1.240. 221.0370 www.arvo.org Reducing Disparities In Eye Disease and Treatment ARVO 2009 Annual Meeting Fort Lauderdale, Florida May 3-7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090401/3abee60d/attachment.htm From smcn at fisica.uminho.pt Thu Apr 2 00:40:54 2009 From: smcn at fisica.uminho.pt (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9rgio_Nascimento?=) Date: Thu Apr 2 06:38:27 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS09): Abstract Deadline Extension April 10 Message-ID: <01d301c9b366$5aaf6510$100e2f30$@uminho.pt> In response to many requests for a deadline extension, the deadline for abstract submissions for the 20th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) that will take place in the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from Friday July 24th to Tuesday July 28th, 2009 is now April 10. ** New abstract submission deadline is April 10! ** The meeting will encompass fundamental, applied, and clinical aspects of research into colour vision, ranging from the molecular to the cognitive. In addition to the keynote presentation, there will be topical symposia, along with individual contributions reflecting the diversity of interests of the members of the ICVS, who include physiologists, psychologists, physicists, engineers, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists and other related professionals with interests in colour vision and colour-vision deficiencies. A social and cultural programme will allow participants to relax and interact informally between sessions and will include visits to some of the most beautiful areas of northern Portugal, most notably the Douro valley, where the grapes for Port wine are grown. For more information go to the meeting website (http://labcolour.fisica.uminho.pt/icvs) or contact Sergio Nascimento (smcn@fisica.uminho.pt). Scientific program overview: Verriest Medal Lecture Gerald H. Jacobs Invited speakers: Arthur Shapiro, Bucknell University Bevil R. Conway, Wellesley College, MA David M Hunt, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter Thomas Wachtler-Kulla, Philipps-Universitat Marburg Henrik Wann Jensen, University of California, San Diego Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter Historical talk: Lagerlunda J. D. Mollon and L. Cavonius Symposia: Colour vision and the statistics of natural scenes organizer: David H Foster, The University of Manchester Colour perception and art organizer: Sergio Nascimento, Minho University Genetics and pigments organizer: James K Bowmaker, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London Interactions of color and shape variations in material perception organizer: Qasim Zaidi, State University of New York Temporal aspects of color vision organizer: Andrew Stockman, Institute of Ophthalmology University College London ------------------------------- Sergio Nascimento Department of Physics University of Minho, Braga, Portugal smcn@fisica.uminho.pt From announcements at journalofvision.org Fri Apr 3 06:25:32 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Fri Apr 3 06:49:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 3 Message-ID: <3FE8F9EA473C4EEB86F9DDD1B3B5ABB1@jov> Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 3 http://journalofvision.org/9/3/ Articles Task precision at transfer determines specificity of perceptual learning Pamela E. Jeter Barbara Anne Dosher Alexander Petrov Zhong-Lin Lu http://journalofvision.org/9/3/1/ Within-hemifield perceptual averaging of facial expressions predicted by neural averaging Timothy D. Sweeny Marcia Grabowecky Ken A. Paller Satoru Suzuki http://journalofvision.org/9/3/2/ Intermittent ambiguous stimuli: Implicit memory causes periodic perceptual alternations J. W. Brascamp J. Pearson R. Blake A. V. van den Berg http://journalofvision.org/9/3/3/ Adaptive pooling of visual motion signals by the human visual system revealed with a novel multi-element stimulus Kaoru Amano Mark Edwards David R. Badcock Shin'ya Nishida http://journalofvision.org/9/3/4/ Saliency, attention, and visual search: An information theoretic approach Neil D. B. Bruce John K. Tsotsos http://journalofvision.org/9/3/5/ Viewing task influences eye movement control during active scene perception Monica S. Castelhano Michael L. Mack John M. Henderson http://journalofvision.org/9/3/6/ Stable individual differences in search strategy?: The effect of task demands and motivational factors on scanning strategy in visual search Walter R. Boot Ensar Becic Arthur F. Kramer http://journalofvision.org/9/3/7/ Shape distortions and Gestalt grouping in anorthoscopic perception Murat Aydin Michael H. Herzog Haluk ?gmen http://journalofvision.org/9/3/8/ The contribution of human cone photoreceptors to the photopic flicker electroretinogram Richa Verma Michael J. Pianta http://journalofvision.org/9/3/9/ The S-cone contribution to luminance depends on the M- and L-cone adaptation levels: Silent surrounds? Caterina Ripamonti Wen Ling Woo Elizabeth Crowther Andrew Stockman http://journalofvision.org/9/3/10/ Visual scanning in the recognition of facial affect: Is there an observer sex difference? Suzane Vassallo Sian L. Cooper Jacinta M. Douglas http://journalofvision.org/9/3/11/ Induced temporal variation at frequencies not in the stimulus: Evidence for a neural nonlinearity Anthony D. D'Antona Steven K. Shevell http://journalofvision.org/9/3/12/ Inter-ocular contrast normalization in human visual cortex Farshad Moradi David J. Heeger http://journalofvision.org/9/3/13/ Influence of accommodation on off-axis refractive errors in myopic eyes Andrew Whatham Frederik Zimmermann Aldo Martinez Stephanie Delgado Percy Lazon de la Jara Padmaja Sankaridurg Arthur Ho http://journalofvision.org/9/3/14/ Uncertainty reveals surround modulation of shape Katinka van der Kooij Susan F. te Pas http://journalofvision.org/9/3/15/ Estimated capacity of object files in visual short-term memory is not improved by retrieval cueing Jun Saiki Hirofumi Miyatsuji http://journalofvision.org/9/3/16/ Binocular combination in anisometropic amblyopia Chang-Bing Huang Jiawei Zhou Zhong-Lin Lu Lixia Feng Yifeng Zhou http://journalofvision.org/9/3/17/ Can illumination estimates provide the basis for color constancy? Jeroen J. M. Granzier Eli Brenner Jeroen B. J. Smeets http://journalofvision.org/9/3/18/ Impact of scattering and spherical aberration in contrast sensitivity Guillermo M. P?rez Silvestre Manzanera Pablo Artal http://journalofvision.org/9/3/19/ Cross-orientation masking in human color vision Jos? M. Medina Kathy T. Mullen http://journalofvision.org/9/3/20/ Determination of foveal location using scanning laser polarimetry Dean A. VanNasdale Ann E. Elsner Anke Weber Masahiro Miura Bryan P. Haggerty http://journalofvision.org/9/3/21/ Spatial filtering versus anchoring accounts of brightness/lightness perception in staircase and simultaneous brightness/lightness contrast stimuli Barbara Blakeslee Daniel Reetz Mark E. McCourt http://journalofvision.org/9/3/22/ Using graphical models to infer multiple visual classification features Michael G. Ross Andrew L. Cohen http://journalofvision.org/9/3/23/ Does gravity matter? Effects of semantic and syntactic inconsistencies on the allocation of attention during scene perception Melissa L.-H. V? John M. Henderson http://journalofvision.org/9/3/24/ Slant cues are processed with different latencies for the online control of movement Christa M. van Mierlo Stefan Louw Jeroen B. J. Smeets Eli Brenner http://journalofvision.org/9/3/25/ Past rejections lead to future misses: Selection-related inhibition produces blink-like misses of future (easily detectable) events Alejandro Lleras Jun-ichiro Kawahara Brian R. Levinthal http://journalofvision.org/9/3/26/ The pupils and optical systems of gecko eyes Lina S. V. Roth Linda Lundstr?m Almut Kelber Ronald H. H. Kr?ger Peter Unsbo http://journalofvision.org/9/3/27/ Contributions of form, motion and task to biological motion perception Martin Thirkettle Christopher P. Benton Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel http://journalofvision.org/9/3/28/ Influence of visual path information on human heading perception during rotation Li Li Jing Chen Xiaozhe Peng http://journalofvision.org/9/3/29/ On the automaticity and flexibility of covert attention: A speed-accuracy trade-off analysis Anna Marie Giordano Brian McElree Marisa Carrasco http://journalofvision.org/9/3/30/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090403/c6b728c7/attachment-0001.htm From l.martinez at umh.es Mon Apr 6 03:04:21 2009 From: l.martinez at umh.es (Martinez Otero, Luis Miguel) Date: Mon Apr 6 06:15:13 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ART AND SCIENCE: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION meeting in Benasque, SPAIN. Message-ID: <56007AB82339A342B6573B46197394B774BF98@exmailer2.umhnet.es> Art and Science: Exploring the limits of human perception. Centro de Ciencias de Benasque "Pedro Pascual". Benasque, SPAIN. July 12-16, 2009. http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009art/ Thank you all very much for your interest in the "Art & Science: exploring the limits of human perception" meeting to be held in Benasque, Spain, on July 12-16, 2009. All participants are encouraged to contribute with their scientific and/or artistic presentations (find the instructions below). You can present your work in any format that might suit your goals (oral, poster, video or performance). Please contact the meeting secretariat benasque@ecm.ub.es for further instructions on how to organize an artistic display or video presentation. The instructions to submit your abstract to this meeting are pasted below. More information on registration, accommodation and financial costs can be found on the meeting website (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009art/). Please do not hesitate to contact the organizing committee (l.martinez@umh.es) or the meeting secretariat (benasque@ecm.ub.es ) should you have more questions regarding this event. I am looking forward see you all this summer in Benasque, Spain. Best wishes, Luis M. Mart?nez Registration, accommodation, financial costs and travel instructions Registration is already open (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009art/cgi-bin/appl.pl). All information on accommodation and financial costs will be soon posted on the meeting website (http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/2009art/). The easiest way to get to Benasque is to fly onto Barcelona international airport and take a shuttle or bus from there to the city of Benasque. Please, contact the meeting secretariat (benasque@ecm.ub.es ) to organize this last leg of your trip to the meeting. Since it takes about three hours to get from Barcelona to Benasque, and the closing lecture is scheduled on the evening of July 16, I would like to suggest that you book your return flight no sooner than the afternoon of July 17. Special issue on one of the Frontiers in Neuroscience journal series The organizing committee has arranged for a special issue about the meeting to be published in one of the Frontiers in Neuroscience journal series. The special issue will include a report on the meeting and several review articles, commentaries and original research papers on the topics discussed during the meeting. The issue will be peer reviewed and the submission is open to all the scientific and artistic communities, not only to those registered to the meeting. The call for papers will appear soon. Presentations. Call for abstracts Authors willing to present their communications should submit an abstract (see example below) and indicate their preference for oral, poster presentation or artistic display. Presentations will be selected on the basis of their potential quality and originality by the organizing committee. Abstracts will be published by the Frontiers in Neuroscience journal series. Abstracts must be sent to this e-mail address (l.martinez@umh.es). Deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2009. Abstracts will be formally accepted only when registration fees of the presenting author have been received. Authors will receive a confirmation via e-mail once registration has been completed. Poster presentations and artistic displays will be allocated in different sessions (at least one per day) and will be on display for the entire meeting. Abstract form Type in title, followed by authors names and affiliations in regular type (underline presenting author), leave one line before text body. Do not indent. Include 1-2 refs. if necessary. Word count for the text body should be 250 or less (including references, excluding title, authors' names and affiliations) Example: Art and Science: Exploring the limits of human perception LM Martinez, S Martinez-Conde, MA Nieto and TN Wiesel. Department of... University of... City, Country. The symposium "Art and Science: Exploring the limits of human perception" wants to be a forum for artists and scientists who have common interests. The program consists of a series of public conversations between artists and scientists with the purpose of bringing together these seemingly disparate, but we feel intimately related, fields... Supported by grant AS-009 On behalf of the Organizing Committee. Luis M. Mart?nez Otero, Ph.D. Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, SPAIN. Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D. Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Az, USA. Angela Nieto, Ph.D. Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, SPAIN. Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D. Ph.D. The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. ----- Luis M. Martinez, PhD Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hern?ndez Campus de Sant Joan Avenida Ram?n y Cajal S/N 03550 Sant Joan d'Alacant SPAIN Voice: +34 965 919210 +34 965 919209 (lab) Skype: luis.m.martinez.otero l.martinez@umh.es luis.m.martinez.otero@gmail.com http://in.umh.es/IP/MartinezOtero.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090406/f467d9a6/attachment-0001.htm From naotsu at gmail.com Wed Apr 8 07:06:01 2009 From: naotsu at gmail.com (Naotsugu Tsuchiya) Date: Wed Apr 8 07:29:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] call for abstracts : 1. International workshop on consciousness & 2. Japan Neuroscience (Sep 2009) Message-ID: <35e3a0ab0904080706j69919492jb99c8d1e96da196c@mail.gmail.com> Call for Abstracts 1. INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP "SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS" Further information: http://www.nips.ac.jp/%7Emyoshi/workshop2009/ Date: September 19th-20th, 2009 (at Okazaki Conference Center, Aichi, Japan http://www.orion.ac.jp/occ-e/) Deadline: July 15th, 2009 The regstration fee is free. The banquet fee and lunch fee are optional and required to pay onsite by cash. Organizers: Masatoshi Yoshida, Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu@gmail.com) Registration open till July 15. (all the presentations will given be in English) Tentative themes: 1) Time and consciousness 2) Electrophysiological approach towards consciousness 3) Reliability of subjective reports on phenomenology 4) Consciousness vs. Attention 5) The role of thalamus in consciousness 6) Decoding the contents of consciousness Confirmed speakers: - Ralph Adolphs (Caltech) - Ned Block (NYU) - Olivia Carter(U of Melbourne) - John-Dylan Haynes (Humboldt-University Berlin) - Ryota Kanai (UCL) - Christof Koch (Caltech) - Shin'ya Nishida (NTT Communication Science Lab) - Petra Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University D¨¹sseldorf) - Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Caltech) - Melanie Wilke (Caltech, NIMH) - Takamitsu Yamamoto(Nihon Univ.) - Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS) ---------------------- 2. THE 32nd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY (Neuroscience 2009) INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE CONFERENCE Further information: http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/index.html (expected attendee : >3500 people) Date:September 16th-18th, 2009 (at Nagoya Congress Center, Aichi, Japan) DEADLINE for Abstract Submission APR 15 (All the talks and posters will be given in English) Plenary Lectures - Christof Koch, Professor (Caltech) - Barry W. Connors, Professor (Brown Univ.) Special Lectures - Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan) There will be two associated symposia, closely related to the topic of the neuronal basis of consciousness: 1. Frontier of neuroscientific research on consciousness 2. Neuronal mechanisms of visual illusions : empirical approaches from psychophysics, brain stimulation, electrophysiology, and pharmacology 3. 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090409/e500418d/attachment.htm From matjaz.jogan at fri.uni-lj.si Fri Apr 10 02:31:53 2009 From: matjaz.jogan at fri.uni-lj.si (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Matja=BE_Jogan?=) Date: Fri Apr 10 07:44:23 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Reminder: LEEGLE - A challenge in object class recognition in sequences Message-ID: You can now register your team at the LEEGLE website: http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/leegle LEEGLE is a challenge in object class recognition in sequences, mainly intended for students and researchers in computer vision. The competition will be organized twice a year, at the end of each semester. SCHEDULE: The FIRST LEEGLE CHALLENGE will take place on May 8, 2009 The test image sequence will be available from May 6 11:59 PM CET (GMT + 2:00) The results should be submitted within 48 hours. With the results, you should also submit a PDF file with a short description (up to two pages) of your approach. Submission closes at May 8 11:59 PM CET (GMT + 2:00) Official results will be available on the web site on May 11. The best participating team will be awarded! More about the competition is available on the LEEGLE web site: http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/leegle Matja? Jogan, Sanja Fidler, Marko Boben, Ale? Leonardis From jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu Fri Apr 10 11:43:37 2009 From: jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu (Judy Ripton) Date: Fri Apr 10 11:47:33 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doctoral Position in Decision Making, Learning and Video Games, University of Rochester, Rochester NY Message-ID: <49DF9359.4060206@rcbi.rochester.edu> The University of Rochester seeks an outstanding postdoctoral fellow with research interests in the field of decision making and learning to work as part of a multi-investigator and multi-institutional program on transfer of learning. The overarching goal is to characterize the features of a training regimen that improve decision making and promote learning transfer across tasks and domains in adults (see http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/muri/index.html). The successful candidate will help design and implement decision making and statistical learning paradigms using behavior and brain imaging, as well as work in collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. Pouget on computational analyses of these tasks. The candidate will work primarily with Professor D. Bavelier and A. Pouget within the Center for Visual Sciences and the Departments of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the U. of Rochester. The successful candidate should have a strong background in vision, and in particular in issues related to decision making. A strong programming background in C++ is highly valued. Applicants should send a letter describing their graduate training and research interests, a vita, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to daphne@bcs.rochester.edu Review of applications is ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. Learn more about the faculty, students, and training facilities of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the Center for Visual Science, and the Center for Language Sciences, as well as links to other affiliated departments and programs by visiting our web sites at http://www.bcs.rochester.edu and http://www.cvs.rochester.edu. From jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu Fri Apr 10 11:44:26 2009 From: jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu (Judy Ripton) Date: Fri Apr 10 11:47:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doctoral Position in Learning, Amblyopia and Video Games, University of Rochester, Rochester NY Message-ID: <49DF938A.5090805@rcbi.rochester.edu> The University of Rochester seeks an outstanding postdoctoral fellow with research interests in the field of virtual reality-based learning and vision in humans to work as part of a multi-investigator and multi-institutional program on critical period and brain plasticity using amblyopia as the model case. The overarching goal is to develop better behavioral training for treating amblyopia in adults. The successful candidate will help design and implement a VR-based video game to rehabilitate depth perception and will design and run experiments on plasticity and learning in stereopsis. The candidate will work primarily with Professor D. Bavelier and D. Knill within the Center for Visual Sciences and the Departments of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the U. of Rochester. The successful candidate should have a strong background in vision, and in particular in issues related to depth perception. A strong programming background in C++ and 3D graphics is highly valued. Applicants should send a letter describing their graduate training and research interests, a vita, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to daphne@bcs.rochester.edu Review of applications is ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. Learn more about the faculty, students, and training facilities of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the Center for Visual Science, and the Center for Language Sciences, as well as links to other affiliated departments and programs by visiting our web sites at http://www.bcs.rochester.edu and http://www.cvs.rochester.edu From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Sun Apr 12 12:27:51 2009 From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde) Date: Sun Apr 12 14:35:32 2009 Subject: [visionlist] TOP TEN ILLUSION FINALISTS!! Message-ID: <006a01c9bba4$c6cf39f0$546dadd0$@com> The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest is happy to announce that the TOP TEN illusions have been chosen!! The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest has recently become an Official Satellite of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference. The Contest Gala will be on Sunday, May 10th, 7pm, in the Philharmonic Center of Arts (Naples Fl). The 2009 Contest Gala will be hosted by Peter Thompson! Everybody is invited!!! Who will the TOP THREE winners be??? That?s up to YOU! The audience will choose them from the current TOP TEN list. For more details, please visit our webpage: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com 2009 TOP TEN ILLUSION CONTESTANTS (alphabetical order): To see the illusions themselves you must come to the CONTEST!!! ?Color dove illusion?, Yuval Barkan and Hedva Spitzer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) ?Cubistic lands??, by Sandro Bettella, Gianluca Campana, Clara Casco, and Sergio Roncato (Universit? di Padova, Italy) ?Contrast color induced by unconscious surround?, by Haruaki Fukuda and Kazuhiro Ueda (University of Tokyo, Japan) ?Stereo vision produces new illusory contours!?, by Davi Geiger and Hiroshi Ishikawa (New York University, USA and Nagoya City University, Japan) ?Tilt illusion? by Siddharth Jain (USA) ?Another turn: a variant on the Shepard tabletop illusion?, by Lydia Maniatis (USA) ?The illusion of sex?, by Richard Russell (Harvard University, USA) ?The break of the curveball?, by Arthur Shapiro, Zhong-Lin Lu, Emily Knight, and Robert Ennis (Bucknell University, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, and SUNY College of Optometry, USA) ?Tube illusion?, by Lothar Spillmann (Universit?tsklinikum Freiburg, Germany) ?Smooth pursuit motion suppression?, by Peter Tse (Dartmouth University, USA) 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 The Neural Correlate Society is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 non-profit organization, whose mission is to promote the public awareness of vision research. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience Barrow Neurological Institute 350 W. Thomas Rd. Phoenix AZ 85013 USA Phone: +1 602 406-3484 Fax: +1 602 406-4192 Email: smart@neuralcorrelate.com http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090412/a618c425/attachment.htm From I.Patras at elec.qmul.ac.uk Mon Apr 13 04:45:47 2009 From: I.Patras at elec.qmul.ac.uk (Ioannis (Yiannis) Patras) Date: Mon Apr 13 06:40:42 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 1 Postdoctoral and 1 PhD position in Multimedia and Vision - Queen Mary, London Message-ID: <49E325EB.4010604@elec.qmul.ac.uk> 1 x Postdoctoral Research Associate ? Multimedia & Computer Vision (Ref: 09125/KR) 1 x EPSRC sponsored PhD Studentship ? Multimedia & Computer Vision (Ref: 09125ElecEng) Applications are invited for a full time Postdoctoral Research Associate and one EPSRC sponsored PhD Student to undertake research within the context of an EPSRC-funded project, ?Recognition and Localisation of Human Actions in Image Sequences?, scheduled to start in August 2009. The project will build on recent developments in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning in order to develop methods for recognition and localisation of human and animal action categories in image sequences. The methods will allow incremental learning from few examples and should deal with a large class of action categories, including facial/hand/body actions, and interaction between humans and objects in their environment. Postdoctoral Research Associate The successful candidate will be based at the Queen Mary Multimedia and Vision Laboratory (http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/mmv) one of UK's leading research laboratories in multimedia and computer vision, working with Dr. Ioannis Patras (http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/ioannisp/) in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. Candidates should have a PhD in computer vision and/or machine learning (we would consider those whose thesis? are very close to submission). The position is for 3 years starting from 1st of August 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter. Starting salary will be in the range ?30,079 - ?35,355 per annum inclusive of London Allowance. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1999. Further details and an application form for the Research Associate position can be found at www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/vacancies. To apply for the Research Associate position, please email the following documents to Ioannis Patras: I.Patras@elec.qmul.ac.uk AND Sue White: applications.research@eecs.qmul.ac.uk: Completed application forms; a CV listing all publications; two independent references; a pdf of your representative publications and a research statement describing your previous research experience and outlining the relevance to this project EPSRC sponsored PhD Studentship The applicant should have a first or upper second honours degree or equivalent in computer science, electronic engineering and be able to demonstrate good problem solving and analytical skills. S/he should have good programming skills and preferably experience with Matlab. Some research experience in one of the fields of Image Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern Recognition is a plus. Published or to-appear results in an international conference or journal would be an advantage. The studentship includes both tuition fees and a stipend in the form of a tax-free bursary in line with EPSRC recommendations (currently ?14940 pa for 2008/09 session). An application form for the Studentship can be found at http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ To apply for the PhD Studentship, please email to Dr. Ioannis Patras: I.Patras@elec.qmul.ac.uk and Melissa Yeo: phd-enquiries@eecs.qmul.ac.uk, a completed application form and the relevant documents (http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/apply.php) including an updated CV and two reference letters. Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Ioannis Patras: I.Patras@elec.qmul.ac.uk or +44 20 7882 7523. The closing date for the applications is Friday 15th May 2009. Interviews are expected to be held during the first week of June 2009. -- Dr. Ioannis Patras Lecturer in Multimedia and Computer Vision Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London Ioannis.Patras@elec.qmul.ac.uk Tel. +44 20 7882 7523 Fax: +44 20 7882 7997 http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/ioannisp/ From Mark.Elliott at nuigalway.ie Mon Apr 13 07:02:19 2009 From: Mark.Elliott at nuigalway.ie (Elliott, Mark) Date: Mon Apr 13 07:33:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Fechner Day 2009: Second call for participation Message-ID: <3A298758-5E6F-4C36-B9A8-3AB4A930ADA6@mimectl> Fechner Day 2009: Galway Ireland Second call for participation 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics Dear friends and colleagues, apologies for cross postings. This is essentially a repeat of the first call with some minor clarifications. Plus, I hope, in this email hyperlinks are not redirected through the NUIG Galway mail server as has been the case with previous postings. The 25th (Silver Anniversary) meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (ISP) will be held between October 21st and 24th 2009 at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel, Co. Galway, overlooking Loch Corrib and within a stones throw of the beautiful and atmospheric landscapes of Connemara, Galway and northern Clare. With this email, I cordially invite you to Ireland's west coast, to the luxury of the Glenlo Abbey Hotel and the scholarly and traditionally congenial atmosphere of the Fechner Day. Registration and other details may be found on the meeting web site at http://www.fechnerday.com/ The Fechner Day is the main event co-ordinated by the ISP and has run annually since the Society's inaugural meeting at Cassis, France in 1985. Traditionally the meeting is held around October 22nd, which is the anniversary of the founding of psychophysics in 1850 by mathematician and philosopher Gustav-Theodor Fechner. Details of the history of the Society may be found under http://www.ispsychophysics.org/about-society/history.html while details of previous Fechner Days may be found by following links under http://www.ispsychophysics.org/fechner-day.html The Society's web pages are all under http://www.ispsychophysics.org/ The Venue This year the meeting will be held with traditional Irish hospitality at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel, situated some 2 miles north west of Galway City. We will open with an evening reception on Wednesday October 21st, and continue to early Saturday evening, October 24th. We aim to have live Irish music every evening in one of the hotel bars, while trips to Connemara, or the Burren, are planned for the Sunday. The hotel is located between Galway and Connemara, has 5 stars, is situated on 130 acres, which includes a 9-hole golf course, trout fishing and clay-pigeon shooting. It has several function, meeting and board rooms - all of which would be available to the ISP - with modern AV equipment and complimentary WIFI. There are two restaurants, one of which consists of Pullman coaches from the Orient Express. There is an additional bar- restaurant, at least one if not two other bars and several lounges including a library in which refreshments are available. The cellar is extremely well stocked, Guinness pulls well off the tap and there are plenty of well aged single malts. Rooms are: single occupancy euro 110 per night, euro 160 double with 38 rooms reserved. Alternative accommodation (and information on how to reserve rooms at the Glenlo Abbey) is listed on the conference web site under http://www.fechnerday.com/venue.html Meeting Registration and Society Membership Early registration fees (to 31st July) are euro 194 full and a student rate of euro 90 - thereafter euro 240 and euro 120 Delegates must be ISP members with ISP membership currently at the equivalent of $100 full and $30 for students. Registration costs include refreshments, a small breakfast and light lunch with mid-morning and afternoon coffee served with mini desserts. Also covered is complimentary travel by minibus from and to the venue from the neighbouring Westwood House Hotel. A bound A5 proceedings volume (see below) is also included in the registration costs). Registration should be possible now, but will be fully available at http://www.fechnerday.com/registration.html from February 1st 2009. Early registration deadline July 31st, 2009 Getting to Ireland's West from North America - is relatively straightforward - http://www.aerlingus.com/ flies daily to Shannon from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orlando Chicago, Washington, JFK, Boston. Typical prices (currently) are between $650 - $850 return. (See http://www.jetblue.com/ for Jet Blue connections within the USA). From UK and Europe it is oddly less straightforward - but cheap - with flights from London Luton - Galway http://www.aerarran.com/), and from various European destinations (including London Stansted, Luton and Gatwick) - Shannon with http://www.ryanair.com/. Galway is also accessible from Dublin with http://www.aerarran.com/ and Dublin operates as a mini hub, linking UK and Europe with Galway and Shannon. Typical costs - including taxes - are e.g. Stansted - Shannon return: ?45 Sterling. Note, importantly, there is no bus or other public transport service between Shannon and Galway after 8:15 pm. Call for papers Authors are invited to submit papers and to propose theme sessions on topics including: Sensory processes Scaling Psychophysical methods Cognitive factors in psychophysics (e.g. memory, attention) Time perception Cross-modal processing History and philosophy of psychophysics Animal psychophysics Mathematical and computational modelling Practical applications Last year's scientific programme is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/index.php?id=8254. As in past years, conference papers will be published in a non ISBN proceedings volume. Submit proposals for theme sessions directly to submissions.fechnerday2009@gmail.com. Submission Process 1. Oral/Poster presentation Submit the following to (in subject header 'Presentation') Title Author(s) Abstract (100-150 words) Preference of oral/poster presentation Presentation Submission Deadline: May 31st, 2009 2. Proceedings manuscript The proceedings will be published in book format. For manuscript guidelines, please consult the documents posted at the meeting web site under http://www.fechnerday.com/submission.html. These instructions are for camera ready documents which will be reduced to A5 by the publisher. If you experience problems downloading these documents, please see the FAQ on the same page or contact us at enquiries.fechnerday2009@gmail.com Manuscript Deadline: August 15th, 2009 Financial Support There are limited funds to support students, and scientists from less advantaged regions who wish to attend this meeting and to make presentations. At present we can announce limited financial support (including support from the Social Sciences Research Centre at the National University of Ireland, Galway) for 3 students from Europe (euro 600) and 2 students or others from elsewhere (euro 1,000). In addition, the Conferences Fund of the National University of Ireland, Galway, has agreed to meet the costs of one speaker to an amount of no less than euro 1,000. For details and to make applications please send a brief CV, title and presentation abstract to the Society President, Dr. Jiri Wackermann at jw@iggp.de . Further funding possibilities may be announced later. Schedule in brief End of May : Deadline for presentation (poster and oral) titles and abstracts July : Early registration ends August : Deadline for proceedings submission Please refer back to http://www.fechnerday.com/ for updates. Correspondence may also be sent to me; Dr. Mark A. Elliott CSci at 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 - at - nuigalway.ie http://www.nuigalway.ie/psy/m_elliott_page.htm on behalf of my co organisers, Stanislava Antonijevic, Catriona Martyn, Heike Schmidt, Brian Bargary and Paul Mulcahy T?im ag s?il go m?r bualadh libh i nGaillimh ar l? Fechner 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090413/26b2c403/attachment-0001.htm From carlom at biocib.cib.na.cnr.it Tue Apr 14 08:24:30 2009 From: carlom at biocib.cib.na.cnr.it (Carlo Musio) Date: Tue Apr 14 11:20:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CALL FOR ABSTRACT - SYMPOSIUM AT ESP 2009, Wroclaw , Poland Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20090414170525.0264d898@140.164.53.12> CALL FOR ABSTRACT - SYMPOSIUM AT ESP 2009, Wroclaw , Poland I am pleased to announce the Symposium "Classical and novel photoreceptors in circadian vision - Non-visual photoreceptors" at the 13th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology, September 5-10 2009, Wroclaw. (http://www.esp-photobiology.it/2009congress/index.html) Symposium's details: - organizer/chair - Carlo Musio (Italy) - invited speakers who agreed to talk: Detlev Arendt (D); Russell G. Foster (UK), Akihisa Terakita (JAP) - 3-4 short oral communications will be selected amomg received abstracts. - poster session is foreseen. On-Lline Abstract submission and Registration are open. Deadline 1 May, 2009. For further info about the symposium mail to Dr. Carlo Musio For info about to the ESP Congress link to http://www.esp-photobiology.it/2009congress/index.html Carlo Musio ******************************************************************** Dr. Carlo Musio CNR Research Scientist European Society for Photobiology, Scientific Advisory Board, Member Istituto di Cibernetica "Eduardo Caianiello" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Via Campi Flegrei, 34 - Comprensorio "A. Olivetti" I-80078 Pozzuoli (Napoli) - ITALY tel. +39-081-867 5133 off. 5116 lab. fax +39-081-8675158 e-mail: ******************************************************************** From mark.greenlee at psychologie.uni-regensburg.de Tue Apr 14 13:23:08 2009 From: mark.greenlee at psychologie.uni-regensburg.de (Mark W. Greenlee) Date: Tue Apr 14 14:14:29 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Final Call for ECVP abstracts: Deadline extended to April 19! Message-ID: <49E4F0AC.2000809@psychologie.uni-regensburg.de> Final call for Abstracts: 32nd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON VISUAL PERCEPTION: ECVP 2009 AUGUST 24-28, 2009, Regensburg, Germany http://www.ecvp2009.org Owing to popular demand and high traffic on the website, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to April 19. This is really the last call for abstracts, so if you intend to submit an abstract please do so soon. There have been some reports of problems concerning registration. In almost all cases this has been related to users not having all of their information ready when they submit their registration to the website. Please have your credit card information present when you register. Please also assure that your email address is entered correctly. Both of these have to be valid in order to for you to receive a password to submit an abstract. ----------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Visual Perception is an annual meeting devoted to the scientific study of visual perception and related topics. ECVP has been held each year since 1978 and attracts participation from all areas of vision science. Abstract (max length 200 words) will be published in a special issue of Perception. In order to submit an abstract, participants should complete the Conference Registration Form on the conference website and proceed to payment, via the secure Credit Card system (accepting Visa and Mastercard) provided and guaranteed by the official bank of the conference (HypoVereinsbank/UniCredit). IMPORTANT DATES: Early registration deadline: April 19, 2009; Abstract submission deadline: April 19, 2009; Notification regarding acceptance of abstracts: May 15, 2009; Official withdrawal of abstract: June 1, 2009; Hotel block reservations expire on July 23, 2009. REFUND POLICY: Refunds will be granted (minus bank charges) up to June 1, 2009. After June 1, any further requests for refund of registration fees submitted (with sufficient justification) will be honored on an individual basis only. NEWS: Abstract submission deadline is April 15, so please submit your abstract soon. Pre-registration (and payment of registration fee) is required for each abstract submission. The first author of each abstract must be registered before the abstract can be submitted. Each delegate can submit only one abstract as first author. HOTELS Please use the on-line hotel reservation form to book your hotel room. Low-cost housing is also available: http://www.ecvp2009.org/travel/accommodation.html CONFERENCE BANQUET We will have space for about 500 persons at the conference dinner. Tickets will be issued on a first come - first served basis. Early reservation is recommended. The price includes buffet dinner, drinks (wine, beer, soft drinks) and live music. CURRENCY AND CREDIT CARDS The local currency is Euros, which you will need to make purchases during the conference. On-site registration payment by credit card (Master, Visa) will be possible. PROGRAM The venue is at the University Lecture Halls (Audi-Max, HS 2). Posters, exhibits and coffee will be in the Foyer area (located in-between Audi-Max and HS 2). A bus pass is included in your conference bag. Please make sure to keep the pass with you when using the buses 6 or 11 from town to the venue. Exit bus at stop Universitaet Mensa. Enter the building at Audi-Max. SATELLITE WORKSHOPS This year ECVP will be accompanied by four satellite workshops: 3DIllusions. Saturday August 21 ? Sunday August 22 in Leinroden: http://www.2009.leinroden.de/ Models of vision and decision-making: From features to behavior and perceptual robotics. Mon. August 24, 9.00 - 17:00: http://www.ecvp2009.org/science/symposia/perceptual-robotics.html Animal Visual Ecology. Fri.-Sat. August 28-29: http://www.theava.net/meetings/regensburg.html Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision. Sat. August 29; http://viper.psych.purdue.edu/workshops/iwsphcv09/ Please consult the conference website for details regarding pre-registration and participation for these events. GETTING TO REGENSBURG Detailed information on how to get to Regensburg is located on the website (http://www.ecvp2009.org/travel/getting-there.html) We recommend train travel or the airport shuttle from Munich airport. (http://www.airportliner.com/airportshuttle.htm) On behalf of the organizing committee, we look forward to greeting you in Regensburg! Mark Greenlee and Gregor Volberg info@ecvp2009.org From rkwitt at gmx.at Tue Apr 14 23:54:02 2009 From: rkwitt at gmx.at (Roland Kwitt) Date: Wed Apr 15 06:27:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Deadline Extension - ISPA 2009 Call for papers Message-ID: <49E5848A.5070709@gmx.at> The deadline for paper submission has been extended to *** April 26, 2009 *** ***Call for Papers*** 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) September 16-18, 2009, Salzburg, Austria http://www.isispa.org The 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from September 16-18, 2009. The scientific program of the symposium consists of invited lectures, regular papers, and posters. The aim of the symposium is to foster interaction of researchers and exchange of new ideas. Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts reporting original work, as well as proposals for special sessions. *** Co-Operations and Co-Sponsorships*** European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Region 8 *** Symposium Topics*** A. Image and Video Processing D. Signal Processing B. Image and Video Analysis E. Signal Analysis C. Image Formation and Reproduction F. Applications For a detailed list of conference themes please visit ISPA 2009 web site. ***Important Dates*** Submission of full paper: April 26, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 31, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers and author registration: June 15, 2009 ***Symposium Venue*** Salzburg is a beautiful city in the heart of Europe in Austria. Situated on the northern edge of the Alps, a bit less than 300 kilometres to the west of Vienna and 150 km to the southeast of Munich, it is home to some 150,000 residents. It is best known for its greatest son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born in Salzburg, but also for the famous film "Sound of Music", which was shot in Salzburg. The old town of Salzburg is an intriguing labyrinth of small streets and beautiful little squares, that retain the original, baroque flair of its building time in the 17th and 18th century. One of the most impressive buildings, however, is the Castle of Salzburg, which is situated on a hill at the heart of Salzburg, majestically overlooking the city. ***Author Information*** Papers including title, author list and affiliations, figures, results, and references should not exceed six A4 pages. Detailed author instructions are available on the ISPA web site. All submissions will be subject to an international peer-review process. The symposium publications are abstract book and CD-ROM proceedings. Accepted papers will be available through IEEE Publications Center and in IEEExplore digital library. Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present the paper. ***Call for Special Session Proposals*** Prospective organizers of special sessions are invited to send proposals to Special Session Co-Chairs, according to instructions provided on the ISPA web site. ***Best Student Paper Award*** Best Student Paper Award in the amount of 300 EUR will be given to a student author. The student?s name must appear first on the paper and the paper must be presented at the symposium to be eligible for the award. ***Social Events*** Welcome reception, gala-dinner, and a sightseeing tour of Salzburg. *** Organizing Institutions*** University of Salzburg, Austria University of Zagreb, Croatia *** General Co-Chairs*** Peter Zinterhof, peter.zinterhof@sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria Sven Loncaric, sven.loncaric@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Program Co-Chairs*** Image processing area: Andreas Uhl, uhl@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria Signal processing area: Alberto Carini, carini@sti.uniurb.it , University of Urbino, Italy *** Special Sessions Chair*** Rade Kutil, rkutil@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria *** Local Arrangements Chair*** Peter Meerwald, pmeerw@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria *** Publications Chair*** Marko Subasic, marko.subasic@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Registration Chair*** Thomas St?tz, tstuetz@cosy.sbg.ac.at , University of Salzburg, Austria ***Information Tech. Chair*** Vjekoslav Levacic, vjekoslav.levacic@fer.hr , University of Zagreb, Croatia *** Symposium Secretariat*** Helma Sch?ndorfer University of Salzburg, Department of Computer Sciences Tel: 0043 (0)662 8044 6343 Fax: 0043 (0)662 8044 172 secretariat@isispa.org From barrionuevopa at yahoo.com.ar Wed Apr 15 11:05:27 2009 From: barrionuevopa at yahoo.com.ar (Pablo Barrionuevo) Date: Wed Apr 15 11:15:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Accommodation VSS2009 Message-ID: <324273.89752.qm@web50305.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hi People, I know that it's late, but is there someone to share accommodation for VSS2009 annual meeting?. I don't have preferences for hotel. Therefore if someone still needs a mate to share accommodation, please contact me. Greetings. Pablo Alejandro Barrionuevo Becario CONICET Instituto de Investigaci?n en Luz, Ambiente y Visi?n. Universidad Nacional de Tucum?n. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas. Av. Independencia 1800. Tucum?n. Argentina. Tel: +54 381 4361936 email: pbarrionuevo@herrera.unt.edu.ar Yahoo! Cocina Recetas pr?cticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090415/69abde05/attachment.htm From helenv at aaoptom.org Wed Apr 15 12:12:57 2009 From: helenv at aaoptom.org (Helen Viksnins) Date: Wed Apr 15 12:38:13 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for Papers Academy 2009 Orlando Opens Today Message-ID: <42FA860782A23A40B20D17EFCFECB261011016E3@observe.aaoptom.lan> The Scientific Program Committee of the American Academy of Optometry invites the submission of abstracts April 15 - May 15, 2009, for the Scientific Program of Academy 2009 Orlando. Meeting dates are Wednesday, November 11 - Saturday, November 14, 2009, in Orlando, Florida. Guidelines can be found here: http://www.aaopt.org/meetings/meeting9/Education/PapersPosters/index.asp The Academy's Scientific Program offers scientists, educators, and clinicians the opportunity to exchange the latest information in optometry and vision science. During the paper sessions, researchers present the results of their unpublished research in classic lecture format (15 minutes). Authors summarize their work and field questions from the audience. Poster sessions involve the visual presentation of recent research findings with authors available for discussion. Submit early & submit often! Helen Helen Viksnins, MEd, FAAO Director, Education & Member Relations American Academy of Optometry http://www.aaopt.org Direct Line: 240-880-3082 Expand your world with Academy education! 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Morgan doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.02.018 Focal Activation of the Feline Retina via a Suprachoroidal Electrode Array Y.T. Wong S.C. Chen J.M. Seo J.W. Morley N.H. Lovell G.J. Suaning doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.02.020 Interpretation of optic flows synchronized with observer's hand movements Hiroyuki Umemura Hiroshi Watanabe doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.001 Narrow-band Radial Frequency shape channels revealed by sub-threshold summation Jason Bell David R. Badcock doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.002 The spatial distribution of inhibition in preview search Takayuki Osugi Takatsune Kumada Jun-ichiro Kawahara doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.005 Effect of Averageness and Sexual Dimorphism on the Judgment of Facial Attractiveness Masashi Komori Satoru Kawamura Shigekazu Ishihar doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.004 The perception of speed based on L-M and S-(L+M) cone opponent processing D.J. McKeefry M.P. Burton -- --------------------------------------- Dennis M. Levi, Dean School of Optometry University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Voice: (510) 642-3414 Office (510) 643-8685 Lab Fax: (510) 642-7806 email: dlevi@berkeley.edu web: http://levilab.berkeley.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090416/4a36285d/attachment.htm From chiestand at salk.edu Thu Apr 16 11:41:48 2009 From: chiestand at salk.edu (Chris Hiestand) Date: Thu Apr 16 11:42:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] NIPS 2009 Call For Workshops Message-ID: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) -- Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2009 Post-Conference Workshops -- December 11 and 12, 2009 Whistler Resort & Spa and Westin Hilton, BC, CANADA http://nips.cc/ Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, workshops on a variety of current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 11 and 12, 2009, in Whistler, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit proposals for workshops. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are also particularly encouraged. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control, Genetic/Evolutionary Algorithms, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Implementations, Kernel Methods, Mean-Field Methods, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, On- Line Learning, Optimization, Perceptual Learning, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Speech, Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Time Series, Topological Maps, and Vision. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops There will be six hours of workshop meetings per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Selected workshops may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including: * Coordinating workshop participation and content, including arranging short informal presentations by experts, arranging for expert commentators to sit on discussion panels, formulating discussion topics, etc. * Moderating the discussion, and reporting its findings and conclusions to the group during the evening plenary sessions. * Writing a brief summary and/or coordinating submitted material for post-conference electronic dissemination. Submission Instructions Interested parties must submit a proposal for a workshop via email to the address below by July 17, 2009 (note that this deadline is earlier than previous years, in order to allow more time to prepare the workshop programs). Proposals should include a title, description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, proposed workshop length (1 or 2 days), planned format (e.g., lectures, group discussions, panel discussion, combinations of the above, etc.), and proposed speakers. Names of potential invitees should be given where possible. Preference will be given to workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to a pure ?mini-conference? format. An example format is: * Tutorial lecture providing background and introducing terminology relevant to the topic. * Discussion or panel presentation. * Short talks or panels alternating with discussion and question/answer sessions. * General discussion and wrap-up. We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. For the same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop include no more than 12 talks per day. The proposal should motivate why the topic is of interest, why it should be discussed, and the targeted group of participants. It should include a brief r?sum? of the prospective workshop chair with a list of publications to establish scholarship in the field. We encourage workshops that build, continue, or arise from one or more workshops from previous years. Please mention any such connections. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. In any case, the organizers of each accepted workshop can name two individuals to receive free registration for the workshop program. Submissions should include the name, address, email address, phone and fax numbers for all organizers. If there is more than one organizer, please designate one organizer as the primary contact. Proposals or questions should be emailed as plain text to nips.workshop@gmail.com (please do not use attachments, Word, postscript, html, or pdf files) Richard Zemel (University of Toronto) NIPS*2009 Workshops Chair PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JULY 17, 2009 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Onsite registration will open at 9:00 am on Friday, May 8. Symposia - Don't forget, the VSS meeting will open with six member-initiated symposia, beginning at 1:00 pm on Friday, May 8. 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, please join us for the Opening Night Reception at 5:30 on the Sunset Deck and the first poster session at 6:30 pm in the Vista Ballroom. Keynote Lecture - Robert H. Wurtz, from the National Eye Institute will give this year's Keynote Address "Brain Circuits for Stable Visual Perception" on Saturday, May 9, 7:30 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: http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/. For a list of Poster Sessions, see http://www.visionsciences.org/poster_sessions_list.html. For a list of Talk 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 http://www.visionsciences.org/daycare.html for prices and reservation 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 between the hours of 6:00 am and 10:00 pm. More information can be found at http://www.visionsciences.org/airport_transportation.html. VSS 2009 Annual Meeting Naples, Florida May 8 - 13, 2009 Naples Grande Hotel See you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090416/4b74e1f7/attachment.htm From Jakob.Macke at gmx.de Fri Apr 17 01:45:55 2009 From: Jakob.Macke at gmx.de (Jakob Macke) Date: Fri Apr 17 06:08:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for papers: Statistical analysis of multi-electrode recordings Message-ID: <20090417084555.97560@gmx.net> Dear all, we are inviting submissons for a special topic in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, entitled 'Statistical analysis of multi-cell recordings: Linking population coding models to experimental data'. Short abstracts/outlines describing the focus of the study should be submitted by October 1st, the deadline for submitting full papers will be November 15. More details can be found in the attached call for papers, as well as at http://frontiersin.org/computationalneuroscience/specialtopics/36/ . This special topic is connected to a one day workshop at the Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2009 in Berlin: http://www.cnsorg.org/2009/workshops.shtml http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/bethge/workshops/cns2009/ . Best regards, Matthias Bethge, Jakob Macke and Philipp Berens Statistical analysis of multi-cell recordings: Linking population coding models to experimental data HOSTED BY Matthias Bethge, mbethge@tuebingen.mpg.de, Jakob Macke, jakob@tuebingen.mpg.de and Philipp Berens, philipp.berens@tuebingen.mpg.de ABOUT THE SPECIAL TOPIC Modern recording techniques such as multi-electrode arrays and 2-photon imaging are capable of simultaneously monitoring the activity of large neuronal ensembles at single cell resolution. This makes it possible to study the dynamics of neural populations of considerable size, and to gain insights into their computations and functional organization. The key challenge with multi-electrode recordings is their high-dimensional nature. Understanding this kind of data requires powerful statistical techniques for capturing the structure of the neural population responses and their relation with external stimuli or behavioral observations. Contributions to this special topic should advance statistical modeling of neural populations. Questions of particular interest include: 1. What classes of statistical methods are most useful for modeling population activity? 2. What are the main limitations of current approaches, and what can be done to overcome them? 3. How can statistical methods be used to empirically test existing models of (probabilistic) population coding? 4. What role can statistical methods play in formulating novel hypotheses about the principles of information processing in neural populations? This Special Topic is connected to a one day workshop at the Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2009 in Berlin (http://www.cnsorg.org/2009/workshops.shtml and http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/bethge/workshops/cns2009/). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION November 15, 2009 INFORMATIONS FOR AUTHORS Submission Procedure: Researchers are invited to submit on or before October 1st 2009 a max. 1 page abstract/outline of work related to the focus of the special section to Philipp Berens for consideration for potential inclusion as an elaborated full article in the special topic. Please include a provisional title, a full author list, and format the subject of your email as follows: "[Statistical Modeling] outline - Your Name". Authors will be notified whether their article would be suitable for the special topic by October 15th 2009. Full Article Information: Full articles will be invited based on the abstracts/outlines we receive by October 1st 2009 The deadline for submission of invited full articles is November 15th 2009. All articles will go through a full peer review process. Article formatting will be as for standard Frontiers "Original Research Articles". Guidelines and instructions for their preparation can be found at www.frontiersin.org/authorinstructions#manuscriptGuidelines. Frontiers is an open access journal, following a pay-for-publication model. You will find more details on http://frontiersin.org/publicationfees/ -- Jakob Macke Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger geh?rt? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 From zacher at cvr.yorku.ca Fri Apr 17 06:31:51 2009 From: zacher at cvr.yorku.ca (James Zacher) Date: Fri Apr 17 07:51:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Re: CVR 2009 - The Role of Three-Dimensional Vision in Perception and the Guidance of Action - Poster Submission Date is April 17, 2009 In-Reply-To: <49D1691A.5020405@cvr.yorku.ca> References: <49D1691A.5020405@cvr.yorku.ca> Message-ID: <49E884C7.8030807@cvr.yorku.ca> Just a friendly reminder that the post-it note stuck to your monitor, alarm from your Blackberry or similar PIM and/or today's date circled in red ink the calendar are reminding you that today is the abstract submission deadline for the VR 2009 - The Role of Three-Dimensional Vision in Perception and the Guidance of Action (www.cvr2009.ca). You have approximately 14 hour 23 minutes and 15 seconds left. Cheers, Jim From d.osorio at sussex.ac.uk Fri Apr 17 11:48:27 2009 From: d.osorio at sussex.ac.uk (Daniel Osorio) Date: Fri Apr 17 11:59:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Meeting Announcement Message-ID: <49E8CEFB.7000407@sussex.ac.uk> The AVA Annual Meeting on Animal Visual Ecology 28^th -29^th August, 2009. Regensburg, Germany (directly after ECVP). See: http://www.theava.net/meetings/regensburg.html The Programme starts with a Plenary Talk and Danube River Cruise on 28^th and is followed by a full day meeting on the 29^th . Speakers include: Jochen Zeil on Navigation, Martin Egelhaaf on Active Vision, Marc Holdereid on Echolocation and Sarah Zylinski on Cuttlefish Camouflage. We welcome proposals for talks and posters, which should be sent to: tom.troscianko@bris.ac.uk Innes Cuthill Ron Douglas Daniel Osorio Tom Troscianko From l.martinez at umh.es Sat Apr 18 09:53:06 2009 From: l.martinez at umh.es (Martinez Otero, Luis Miguel) Date: Sat Apr 18 10:03:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] RE: ART AND SCIENCE: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION meeting in Benasque, SPAIN. Message-ID: <56007AB82339A342B6573B46197394B774BFC5@exmailer2.umhnet.es> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/png Size: 808129 bytes Desc: image001.png Url : http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090418/eccfd431/attachment-0001.png -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Neurophysiological and psychophysical experiments are combined with computational and modeling techniques. The successful applicant would have an opportunity to work closely with our collaborators, Bill Geisler, Randolph Blake and David Heeger. The Center for Perceptual Systems (www.cps.utexas.edu) and the Institute for Neuroscience at UT Austin (www.neuroscience.utexas.edu ) offer excellent facilities, an outstanding interdisciplinary scientific environment and a very collegial atmosphere. Austin is an affordable city and is widely considered one of the most beautiful and livable cities in the US. Computational background, programming experience (C/C++/Matlab), and experience with neurophysiology or psychophysics are desirable. Please send CV, statement of research interests and the names of three references to Eyal Seidemann (eyal@mail.cps.utexas.edu). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The consortium is composed of 7 research units of 5 research centers, which provide different expertise ranging from robotics, computer vision, neuroscience and experimental psychology: University of Genoa, Italy (coordinator) Westf?lische Wilhems-University M?nster, Germany University of Bologna, Italy University Jaume I, Castell?n, Spain Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium In general, there is a growing attention for moving the active vision perspective from systems in which just the effects of action influence the perception, to systems where the acting itself, and even its planning, operate in parallel with perception, thus really closing the loops and taking full advantage of a concurrent/anticipatory perception-action processing. From this perspective, recent progress in vision research, computer vision, robotics and experimental psychology closely relates to sensorimotor paradigms at different levels of integration, specifically suggesting advantages of a mutual calibration of the vision and the arm systems. From this perspective, EYESHOTS aims to develop a system capable of ?mastering? the 3D space at a reaching distance, by gaining a perceptual visuospatial awareness in head-centered coordinates for visually guided actions in the peripersonal. The underling assumption is that a complete and operative cognition of visual space can be achieved only through active exploration of it: the natural effectors of this cognition are the eyes and the arms. The cognitive valence of an ?early? perception-action embodiment in the visual system is specifically investigated. Contacts from similar projects, research programmes, as well as individual research activities are welcome for exchange of knowledge and specific synergies. Silvio Sabatini, University of Genoa ? Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Silvio P. SABATINI - PSPC Research Group DIBE - University of Genova | e_mail: silvio.sabatini@unige.it Via Opera Pia, 11A | phone: +39 010 3532092/3532289 I-16145 Genova (ITALY) | fax: +39 010 3532289/3532777 URL: http://pspc.dibe.unige.it/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- From david.melcher at unitn.it Mon Apr 20 04:20:35 2009 From: david.melcher at unitn.it (Melcher, David Paul) Date: Mon Apr 20 07:28:54 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Conference Announcement: Rovereto Attention Workshop 29-31 October 2009 Message-ID: *Rovereto Attention Workshop: Attention and Awareness (29-31 October, 2009)* The third annual Rovereto Attention Workshop (RAW) will focus on Attention and Awareness, and will take place in Rovereto, Italy on October 29-31, 2009. Full details can be found at the workshop website: http://www.cimec.unitn.it/Raw_2009.php The goal of the workshop in Rovereto is to provide a unique forum for researchers from a range of perspectives who are interested in these topics to come together to discuss their research and develop new directions and collaborations. The workshop is hosted by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, at the University of Trento. The list of confirmed speakers includes: David Alais Marisa Carrasco Patrick Cavanagh Alan Cowey Christof Koch Rene Marois Susana Martinez-Conde Geraint Rees John Reynolds Pieter Roelfsema POSTER SESSION A poster session is organized to encourage young researchers and students to attend and present their work. A number of small travel fellowships will be awarded to the best poster submissions. THE VENUE Rovereto is a charming city situated in northern Italy. Situated in the valley of the Adige River and surrounded by the majestic Dolomites, Rovereto enjoys both a spectacular natural setting and easy access to major metropolitan areas in northern Italy and central Europe. The Trentino region is a favorite of hikers, mountain climbers, and bikers, and has been renowned since ancient times for its agricultural products, particularly its apples and wine. The town is just 30 minutes from Lake Garda, a pristine Alpine lake famous for its windsurfing, sailing, and spas. ORGANIZING COMMITEE Marisa Carrasco Leo Chelazzi Maurizio Corbetta John Duncan David Melcher Kia Nobre Jens Schwarzbach Massimo Turatto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For more information about the lab, see http://www.neurobiology.uab.edu/Visscher_Lab/home.html , email Kristina M. Visscher at kmv@uab.edu, or call (205) 934-0267. Interested applicants should email (kmv@uab.edu) a coverletter, CV and contact information for 3 references. This position is currently funded for two years. The appointment is for one year with the possibility for renewal at the end of the year based on satisfactory progress. UAB is consistently ranked as one of the top locations among US universities for training postdoctoral scholars. Birmingham is a mid- sized city located near mountains and rivers and has a cost of living lower than most metropolitan areas. See www.postdocs.uab.edu for more information about UAB and life in Birmingham. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090422/6c101966/attachment.htm From fcap at fordham.edu Thu Apr 23 06:14:26 2009 From: fcap at fordham.edu (fcap) Date: Thu Apr 23 06:16:31 2009 Subject: [visionlist] WinBugs and R Workshops - Fordham University Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090423/a89ca1a9/attachment.htm From heolsson at kth.se Fri Apr 24 02:50:55 2009 From: heolsson at kth.se (Henrik Olsson) Date: Fri Apr 24 07:14:30 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Mapping the eye-tracking market Message-ID: <01155FE84766EC4D95AEA8E070E5EC810DCDCD20F3@MAIL01.ug.kth.se> Hi everyone! I and my colleague Gustaf Stetler are writing our Master Thesis at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, with the working-title "Mapping the eye-tracking market through identifying core user-needs? In our project we are trying to get insights on how, and in which way, the requirements and demands differ depending on what kind of research the users are doing. Furthermore, we are trying to connect these needs to the technical specifications of different eye-tracking equipments. The ultimate aim of our research is consequently to present a comparison between the products based on user needs. We therefore, are highly interested in if; a) You are aware of previous published papers similar to our. b) You can take a few minutes to answer a couple of questions regarding this matter (see below). Do you have any personal experience with using eye-tracking equipment? If yes, - Which product/s have you been using? And for which kind of research? - What are your three main criteria when evaluating an eye-tracking equipment? And why are they of such an importance for your kind of research (please describe)? - What do you consider to be the central issue to solve to make eye-tracking BIG/even BIGGER in the research field you are working in? - What would you like to improve with your current eye-tracker to better fulfill your needs? If no (and you have considered eye-tracking as an option), - Why have you decided not to invest in an eye-tracking equipment? I.e. what are the main reasons for this decision? o What are the central technological limitations of the eye-tracking products available today that make them an inappropriate alternative for your specific research? - Finally, what would have to improve for you to re-consider? Our last question is about your perceived image of ?the biggest companies? within the eye-tracking market. If you have any thoughts of that nature regarding any of the following companies, please describe briefly. - SMI? - SR research? - Tobii? - ASL Once again, we would really appreciate any kind of feedback regarding this topic since it would be very valuable for our research! Please send your answers to heolsson@kth.se Kind Regards! Henrik Olsson & Gustaf Stetler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The position is a three to four year appointment and salary is approximately 50.000 CHF/year. The official language in our lab is English. Please, send curriculum vitae, list of publications, the names of three referees, and a short description of research interests by e-mail to: michael.herzog@epfl.ch. If you like to meet me, I will be at VSS. From gfrancis at purdue.edu Fri Apr 24 12:35:46 2009 From: gfrancis at purdue.edu (Gregory Francis) Date: Fri Apr 24 12:40:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] instructions for color vision tests Message-ID: I am hoping someone can help me with instructions for either of two color vision tests. I have access to two types of tests, but neither comes with instructions for administering or scoring the test. 1) The Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test. This comes in a wooden box with a label on top that reads Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test Munsell(R) Color Macbeth a division of Kollmorgen Corporation 405 Little Britain Road, Newburgh, NY 12551 Inside are four smaller boxes with chips for separate colors. I understand the basics of how this test is administered, but I'm not clear on how it is scored. 2) Ishihara's test: This is a book with the following cover ISHIHARA'S TESTS FOR COLOUR-DEFICIENCY 38 Plates Edition 1996 Kanehara & Co., LTD. Tokyo, Japan Again, I more or less understand what is going on, but I'm not sure of the details, or how to draw conclusions. Any advice, or a PDF of the instructions for either test would be greatly appreciated. -Greg Francis Professor of Psychological Sciences Purdue University From amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca Fri Apr 24 14:43:12 2009 From: amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca (Amir Shmuel, Dr.) Date: Fri Apr 24 15:38:29 2009 Subject: [visionlist] POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING References: <9C2C66775F15CB4DAC6CDF99E6331A5709F4B7B8@EXCHANGE2VS2.campus.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: <9C2C66775F15CB4DAC6CDF99E6331A5709F4B7B9@EXCHANGE2VS2.campus.mcgill.ca> POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellow position at the laboratory of Amir Shmuel, at the MNI Complex Neural Systems Group and Brain Imaging Center, McGill University. The successful candidate will investigate the cortical processing of visual information in non-human primates, with emphasis on understanding communication between visual areas. Techniques to be used include fMRI (3T TIM TRIO), optical imaging of intrinsic signals and voltage-sensitive dyes, and neurophysiology. The MNI and McGill University are vibrant scientific environments with more than 100 laboratories that pursue Neuroscience. Montreal is a cosmopolitan, livable city. The successful candidate should (nearly) have a PhD. Research experience in neurophysiology and/or visual psychophysics is desirable. Please send CV and names of 2-3 references to amir.shmuel@mcgill.ca. From owsley at uab.edu Sun Apr 26 10:01:36 2009 From: owsley at uab.edu (Cynthia Owsley) Date: Sun Apr 26 16:00:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Extended Deadline -- Call for Abstracts: The Eye and The Auto Message-ID: <4A3450EC-5F32-4849-8004-E4A48EC09D5D@uab.edu> ABSTRACT DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED: THE EYE AND THE AUTO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (There are so many grant application deadlines and meetings in the next few weeks, we have extended the Call for Abstracts for convenience.) New Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2009 (notification of acceptance June 30, 2009) The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, is an international research meeting dedicated to improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of motorized vehicles. Sessions will be devoted to a variety of topics including but not limited to: visual processing, visual attention, and driving tasks; human factors and design issues relevant to the driver, roadway, and/or vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions, and driver safety; policies that address vision and driving; driver assessment and rehabilitation strategies for the visually impaired driver. This meeting will be of keen interest to many types of professionals from the field of driver safety and performance including scientists, engineers, clinicians, designers, and policy specialists. A highlight of the meeting will be a tour of a major industry-affiliated Human/Machine Interface Laboratory. The conference will take place in the Detroit area at the GM Technical Center Campus. We welcome Abstract Submissions for either a 15 minute paper or poster presentation formats. Please follow the guidelines for submitting abstracts at: www.eyeson.org. We look forward to your participation and encourage you to share this Call for Abstracts announcement with your colleagues. Should you have any questions about The Eye and The Auto, please feel free to contact Cynthia Owsley at owsley@uab.edu. Announcing that we have just confirmed the following Keynote Speakers: Lawrence Burns PhD, Vice President, Research & Development, General Motors Michael Merzenich PhD, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Posit Science Corporation Invited Speakers: Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Lawrence Burns, PhD, Vice President, General Motors Research & Development and Planning Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation Institute Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Jonathan Hankey, PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham Eli Peli M.Sc., OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University Bryan Reimer PhD, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa Janet Szlyk, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago Jeremy Wolfe PhD, Brigham & Women?s Hospital, Harvard University Joanne Wood PhD, MCOptom, Queensland University of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090426/2dcf3375/attachment.htm From philippe.cattin at unibas.ch Mon Apr 27 07:12:50 2009 From: philippe.cattin at unibas.ch (Philippe C. Cattin) Date: Mon Apr 27 07:21:08 2009 Subject: [visionlist] position in Soft-Tissue Segmentation at MIAC, University of Basel Message-ID: <49F5BD62.4030803@unibas.ch> Closing date: May 15, 2009. Title: Soft-Tissue Segmentation Topic description: Within the scope of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) for Computer Aided and Image Guided Interventions (CO-ME) the Medical Image Analysis Center (MIAC) at the University of Basel is developing methods to segment facial soft tissue. The available challenging PhD position is part of a larger multidisciplinary project in the field of cranio maxillo facial (CMF) surgery planning. The project involves both theoretical and applied research aspects, and will be performed in close collaboration with researchers of multiple Universities in Switzerland and the MR physics group at the University Hospital in Basel in particular. The state-of-the-art methods for segmenting anatomical structures in the head for CMF surgery planning require lot of manual intervention and is a time-consuming task. The focus of this work will thus be on automising this tedious manual segmentation task as much as possible. The problem will be addressed by using a model-based segmentation approach combined with optimised MR sequences. These MR sequences are developed in close collaboration with a PhD student from the MR physics group. This project will be supported by top clinicians in the area. Skills: The candidate must have strong communication skills, the ability to combine basic research activities with the needs of clinicians and be willing to work in a clinical environment. We are looking for a motivated, proactive person with a background in computer science, biomedical engineering, physics, mathematics or other related field. The candidate will have solid programming skills, as well as a good background in general engineering mathematics. A MSc degree or comparable previous experience is required to join the PhD program at our University. Salary / Duration: The position is offered for 3 years with a salary of approximately 50 kCHF / year. Location: The PhD work will be carried out at the Medical Image Analysis Center, MIAC - University of Basel, Switzerland. http://miac.unibas.ch Person to contact: Interested candidates should send their resumes with references and school transcripts to: Prof. Dr. Philippe Cattin Medical Image Analysis Center University of Basel Spitalstrasse 21 CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland email: philippe.cattin@unibas.ch http://miac.unibas.ch From philippe.cattin at unibas.ch Mon Apr 27 07:17:02 2009 From: philippe.cattin at unibas.ch (Philippe C. Cattin) Date: Mon Apr 27 07:21:49 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD position on Motion Compensation in MRgHIFU at MIAC, University of Basel Message-ID: <49F5BE5E.7020604@unibas.ch> Title: Motion Compensation in MRgHIFU Closing date: May 15, 2009. Topic description: Within the scope of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) the Medical Image Analysis Center (MIAC) at the University of Basel is developing methods for organ motion compensation in high-frequency focused ultrasound (HIFU). The available challenging PhD position is part of a multidisciplinary project in the field of liver ablation using HIFU. The project involves both theoretical and applied research aspects, and will be performed in close collaboration with researchers of the University Hospital in Basel (UHBS) and University Hospital in Geneva (HUGE). Focused ultrasound is a tumour treatment method of the future, and has the unique capability to deposit sharply localised energy deep into the tissues producing thermal tumour ablation. Today's phased array transducers not only achieve a targeting accuracy in the range of millimetres but also allow complete electronic control over the ultrasound field that can not be achieved by any other means for tumour treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging, on the other hand, offers excellent anatomic delineation of the tumours and measures functional changes such as blood flow alteration. In addition, MRI provides excellent capabilities for spatial guidance and on line control of the therapy in particular the ablation temperature with MR thermometry. The focus of this work will be on developing methods for focal spot locking on a moving liver. For this, the 4-dimensional (3D+time) motion of the liver will be determined using a modification of our unique 4DMRI approach. The main challenge of this project is to fuse advanced imaging techniques and fast image analysis to achieve a closed loop organ motion compensation system. This project will be supported by top clinicians in the area. Skills: This project will be supported by top clinicians in the area. The candidate must have strong communication skills, the ability to combine basic research activities with the needs of clinicians and be willing to work in a clinical environment. We are looking for a motivated, proactive person with a background in computer science, biomedical engineering, physics, mathematics or other related field. The candidate will have solid programming skills, as well as a good background in general engineering mathematics. A MSc degree or comparable previous experience is required to join the PhD program at our University. Salary / Duration: The position is offered for 3 years with a salary of approximately 50kCHF / year. Location: The PhD work will be carried out at the Medical Image Analysis Center, MIAC - University of Basel, Switzerland. http://miac.unibas.ch Person to contact: Interested candidates should send their resumes with references and school transcripts to: Prof. Dr. Philippe Cattin Medical Image Analysis Center University of Basel Spitalstrasse 21 CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland email: philippe.cattin@unibas.ch http://miac.unibas.ch From tro at ccny.cuny.edu Mon Apr 27 06:06:58 2009 From: tro at ccny.cuny.edu (Tony Ro) Date: Mon Apr 27 07:22:03 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Two Postdoctoral Positions Message-ID: <49F5ADF2.5040806@ccny.cuny.edu> Applications are invited for two NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowships in Dr. Tony Ro's laboratory at The City College of the City University of New York. One of the positions will focus on understanding visual and auditory influences on tactile perception in neurologically normal participants and in patients with focal brain lesions using fMRI, DTI, TMS, optical imaging, and psychophysical methods. The other position will examine the perceptual and neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious vision, also in neurologically normal participants and in patients with focal brain lesions using fMRI, DTI, TMS, optical imaging, and psychophysical methods. To apply, please email a PDF file with a CV, statement of research interests, and the names of two references to tro@ccny.cuny.edu. Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience. Tony Ro Department of Psychology, NAC 7/120 The City College of the City University of New York 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 E-mail: tro@ccny.cuny.edu Phone: +1 212 650 5160 Lab: +1 212 650 5396 Fax: +1 212 650 5659 Web: www.ccny.cuny.edu/tro From jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk Mon Apr 27 09:24:11 2009 From: jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Julie Harris) Date: Mon Apr 27 10:27:35 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position, depth/colour/luminance St. Andrews Vision Lab Message-ID: A postdoctoral position is available to work in the Vision Lab in St. Andrews, on interactions between colour, luminance and other cues to depth. For details, see: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/employment/Code,32987,en.html The project is a collaboration between Prof. Julie Harris and Dr. Marina Bloj. If you are attending VSS, please let us know, Marina will be at the meeting and is keen to talk to prospective applicants about the project. contact: Julie Harris: jh81@st-andrews.ac.uk Marina Bloj: m.bloj@bradford.ac.uk Closing date: 21st May 2009. -- ========================================================= Julie M. Harris Prof. of Psychology St. Andrews Vision Lab School of Psychology University of St. Andrews St. Mary's Quad South St. St. Andrews KY16 9JP tel: 44-1334-462-061 fax: 44-1334-463-042 email: Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/vislab.html The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 ========================================================= From n.berthouze at ucl.ac.uk Tue Apr 28 09:30:13 2009 From: n.berthouze at ucl.ac.uk (Nadia Berthouze) Date: Tue Apr 28 10:25:07 2009 Subject: [visionlist] EpiRob 2009: call for paper (deadline 8 June 2009) Message-ID: <49F72F15.1020508@ucl.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once Please distribute as appropriate -- thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS EpiRob 2009 NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli Venice, Italy, November 12-14, 2009 http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org ** Submission Deadline: June 8, 2009 ** Epigenetic systems, whether natural or artificial, share a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment. Epigenetic robotics has the twofold goal of understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration between social/life and engineering sciences and, simultaneously, that of enabling robots and other artificial systems to autonomously develop skills for any particular environment (instead of programming them to solve particular goals for a specific environment). Interdisciplinary theory and empirical evidence are used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models can be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology and other disciplines studying cognitive development in living systems. This year's edition of Epigenetic Robotics will have a special focus on emotional and social development, particularly addressed by keynote speakers and special discussion and working groups. However, submissions are welcome regarding all aspects of the study of cognitive development. Submissions are welcome regarding all aspects of the study of cognitive development, including (but not limited to): - The roles of and interactions among motivation, emotion, and value systems in development - The development of emotional competencies and systems - The development of "social skills", such as imitation, synchrony processing, intersubjectivity, joint attention, intentionality, non-verbal and verbal communication, sensorimotor schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference, social learning, social relationships, social cognition ("mind reading", "theory of mind") - The role of play in emotional, social, and cognitive development - The development of verbal and non-verbal communication - Links between (the development of) expression and communication - Architectures for autonomous development - Dynamical systems models of emotional, social, and cognitive development - The scope and limits of maturation, the mechanisms of open-ended development - The mechanisms of stage formation and stage transitions - Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure, and experience - The interplay between embodiment, learning biases and environment - Algorithms for self-supervision, autonomous exploration, representation making, and methods for evolving new representations during ontogeny - Philosophical and social issues of development - The epistemological foundations of using robots to study development - The use of robots as theoretical tools (e.g., to make predictions) in the study of development in biological systems - The use of robots in applied settings (e.g., autism therapy) to study development in biological systems Robots that can undergo morphological changes and how they can be used to study interplays among social, emotional, cognitive and morphological development SUBMISSION INFORMATION: ----------------------------------------- EpiRob09 will accept submissions in two categories: long papers (presenting more mature research ideas and results) or short abstracts (presenting more preliminary / ongoing work). Manuscripts submitted as long papers should have a maximum length of 8 pages using the usual EpiRob format (former SAB template modified for A4 paper). Manuscripts submitted as abstracts should have a maximum length of 2 pages using the usual EpiRob format. The style files for LaTex are available in zip format and in tar format on the EpiRob'09 website, where you can also find a Word style file. All submissions must be in PDF format. Accepted long papers will have oral presentations at the conference. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters. Authors of accepted abstracts will also have the opportunity to make a brief oral presentation during a Poster Spotlight session. All submissions and camera-ready papers and abstracts should be sent as email attachments in PDF format (only) to: epirob09@epigenetic-robotics.org. IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------- June 8, 2009: Papers and abstracts submission deadline. July 20, 2009: Acceptance notification. September 8, 2009: Camera-ready versions of accepted papers and abstracts due in electronic format. November 12-14, 2009: Conference dates. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: -------------------------------------- Lola Canamero - General and Program Chair; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer - Program Co-chair; Hideki Kozima - Publicity Co-chair; Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze - Publicity Co-chair; Christian Balkenius - Publications Chair From denis at limsi.fr Tue Apr 28 12:24:14 2009 From: denis at limsi.fr (Michel Denis) Date: Tue Apr 28 12:24:31 2009 Subject: [visionlist] info to circulate: POSTDOC NAVIG Message-ID: <49F757DE.2020401@limsi.fr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A detailed description is available on the web site of the NAVIG project (http://navig.irit.fr). The work will consist in designing and conducting experiments with blind, low-vision, and sighted control participants both in laboratory settings and in natural urban environments. It will also include ergonomic tests of the device under construction. While the position is open at LIMSI-CNRS, which is located in the Orsay campus of the University of Paris-Sud, the experiments in natural urban environments will be conducted in the city of Toulouse in close partnership with the IRIT and the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles (an association of blind and low-level vision people involved in the project). Good knowledge and practice of experimental psychology methods are required. The experiments with blind persons will be conducted in French and as a consequence basic skills in speaking French are preferable. Although not being a prerequisite, the candidate's previous experience with blind participants will be considered as an added value. The net salary is 2038 euros per month. The candidates should send a letter of intention and a CV to Michel Denis (denis@limsi.fr) and Malika Auvray (malika.auvray@limsi.fr), preferably before May 31, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: POSTDOC NAVIG.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 39319 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090428/cf8abd71/POSTDOCNAVIG-0001.pdf From bbackus at sunyopt.edu Thu Apr 30 05:40:21 2009 From: bbackus at sunyopt.edu (Ben Backus) Date: Thu Apr 30 06:38:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Python & Vizard Users Group Meeting at VSS Message-ID: <550820790904300540h32fb9f5bref0cef739bbbdefc@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, We'll be having a Python & Vizard users group meeting at VSS. All are welcome. Sunday, May 10, 1:00 - 2:30 pm, Royal Ballroom 1-3. Description: Many psychophysicists and neuroscientists have migrated to Python as a platform for conducting experiments and for data analysis. Python is extensible like Matlab, has a large user base, comes pre-installed on many systems, and is widely taught as a first programming language. Unlike Matlab, Python is open source and freely available. We will hear from adopters about their experience using open-source Python tools (e.g. Vision Egg, PsychoPy) and commercial Python-based packages that add significant functionality (e.g. Vizard). During discussion we will share tips and identify issues of importance to users. If you have questions, observations, or some computer code to share please come. We will have a data projector set up so please bring a demo to share (these must be very short, 2-3 minutes max). If we run out of time, preference will be given to people who have contacted me in advance to express interest. We thank VSS for providing space for this meeting. The meeting itself is not endorsed by VSS, nor is it sponsored by any industry or commercial group. -- Benjamin T. Backus, Ph.D. Graduate Program in Vision Science SUNY College of Optometry 33 West 42nd St. New York, NY 10036 Tel. +1-212-938-1541 Fax +1-212-938-5760 http://poseidon.sunyopt.edu/backuslab From announcements at journalofvision.org Fri May 1 12:05:53 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Fri May 1 13:59:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 4 Message-ID: <39653A87D84A4887871095A6AD80B7F4@jov> Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 4 http://journalofvision.org/9/4/ Editorial Comparing citations and downloads for individual articles Andrew B. Watson http://journalofvision.org/9/4/i/ Articles Demand-based dynamic distribution of attention and monitoring of velocities during multiple-object tracking Lucica Iordanescu Marcia Grabowecky Satoru Suzuki http://journalofvision.org/9/4/1/ Biological "bar codes" in human faces Steven C. Dakin Roger J. Watt http://journalofvision.org/9/4/2/ Stereo vision requires an explicit encoding of vertical disparity Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza Jenny C. A. Read http://journalofvision.org/9/4/3/ When a never-seen but less-occluded image is better recognized: Evidence from same-different matching experiments and a model Hongjing Lu Zili Liu http://journalofvision.org/9/4/4/ An experimental criterion for consistency in interpolation of partly occluded contours Jacqueline M. Fulvio Manish Singh Laurence T. Maloney http://journalofvision.org/9/4/5/ ARTSCENE: A neural system for natural scene classification Stephen Grossberg Tsung-Ren Huang http://journalofvision.org/9/4/6/ Neuronal convergence in early contrast vision: Binocular summation is followed by response nonlinearity and area summation Tim S. Meese Robert J. Summers http://journalofvision.org/9/4/7/ Contrast independence of dynamic random dot correlogram evoked VEP amplitude Katalin Mark? Huba J. M. Kiss Eszter Mik?-Bar?th Orsolya B?rtfai B?la T?r?k Ilona Kov?cs G?bor Jand? http://journalofvision.org/9/4/8/ Deficits in local and global motion perception arising from abnormal eye movements Magella M. Neveu Glen Jeffery Anthony T. Moore Steven C. Dakin http://journalofvision.org/9/4/9/ Using fMRI to distinguish components of the multiple object tracking task Piers D. Howe Todd S. Horowitz Istvan Akos Morocz Jeremy Wolfe Margaret S. Livingstone http://journalofvision.org/9/4/10/ Modeling visual search on a rough surface Alasdair D. F. Clarke Mike J. Chantler Patrick R. Green http://journalofvision.org/9/4/11/ Early-vision brain responses which predict human visual segmentation and learning Nitzan Censor Yoram Bonneh Amos Arieli Dov Sagi http://journalofvision.org/9/4/12/ Perceptual consequences of visual performance fields: The case of the line motion illusion Stuart Fuller Marisa Carrasco http://journalofvision.org/9/4/13/ Crowding, reading, and developmental dyslexia Marialuisa Martelli Gloria Di Filippo Donatella Spinelli Pierluigi Zoccolotti http://journalofvision.org/9/4/14/ Interaction of spatial and temporal factors in psychophysical estimates of surround suppression Jan Churan Alby G. Richard Christopher C. Pack http://journalofvision.org/9/4/15/ Color constancy improves for real 3D objects Monika Hedrich Marina Bloj Alexa I. Ruppertsberg http://journalofvision.org/9/4/16/ 'Zigzag motion' goes in unexpected directions Stuart Anstis http://journalofvision.org/9/4/17/ Optimum spatiotemporal receptive fields for vision in dim light Andreas Klaus Eric J. Warrant http://journalofvision.org/9/4/18/ Perceptual organization in the tilt illusion Odelia Schwartz Terrence J. Sejnowski Peter Dayan http://journalofvision.org/9/4/19/ Contrast-reversal abolishes perceptual learning Zahra Hussain Allison B. Sekuler Patrick J. Bennett http://journalofvision.org/9/4/20/ Learning in shifts of transient attention improves recognition of parts of ambiguous figure-ground displays ?rni Kristj?nsson http://journalofvision.org/9/4/21/ Adaptive precision pooling of model neuron activities predicts the efficiency of human visual learning Robert A. Jacobs http://journalofvision.org/9/4/22/ Spatial localization: Interpolating first- and second-order visual structure David R. Badcock Paul V. McGraw Russell Bridle Jude Cullity http://journalofvision.org/9/4/23/ A crowding model of visual clutter Ronald van den Berg Frans W. Cornelissen Jos B. T. M. Roerdink http://journalofvision.org/9/4/24/ Meaningful auditory information enhances perception of visual biological motion Roberto Arrighi Francesco Marini David Burr http://journalofvision.org/9/4/25/ Color perception in the intermediate periphery of the visual field Thorsten Hansen Lars Pracejus Karl R. Gegenfurtner http://journalofvision.org/9/4/26/ Quantifying the effect of natural and arbitrary sensorimotor contingencies on chromatic judgments David P. Richters Rhea T. Eskew Jr. http://journalofvision.org/9/4/27/ Transsaccadic identification of highly similar artificial shapes Maarten Demeyer Peter De Graef Johan Wagemans Karl Verfaillie http://journalofvision.org/9/4/28/ Brain responses strongly correlate with Weibull image statistics when processing natural images H. Steven Scholte Sennay Ghebreab Lourens Waldorp Arnold W. M. Smeulders Victor A. F. Lamme http://journalofvision.org/9/4/29/ Two contrast adaptation processes: Contrast normalization and shifting, rectifying contrast comparison S. Sabina Wolfson Norma Graham http://journalofvision.org/9/4/30/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090501/e3fdb180/attachment-0001.htm From chiestand at salk.edu Fri May 1 14:04:33 2009 From: chiestand at salk.edu (Chris Hiestand) Date: Fri May 1 15:00:37 2009 Subject: [visionlist] NIPS 2009 Call For Papers Message-ID: <597BC7D6-1957-4AB3-B9B0-E3066508F639@salk.edu> NIPS 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Submissions by authors who are new to NIPS are encouraged. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorials (December 7), and following will be two days of workshops at the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 11-12). Deadline for Paper Submissions: Friday June 5, 2009, 23:59 Universal Time (UTC, 4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time). Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, neural networks, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. * Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, 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, statistical theory, 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. Papers that balance new algorithmic contributions with a more applied focus, with substantial evaluation on real-world problems, are particularly encouraged. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind -- the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. However, this year an additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Complete submission and formatting instructions, including style files, are available from the NIPS website, http://nips.cc. Electronic submissions will be accepted until June 5, 2009, 23:59 Universal Time (UTC, 4:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time). Note that this year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. Demonstrations: There is a separate Demonstration track at NIPS. Authors wishing to submit to the Demonstration track should consult the Call for Demonstrations. Policy on Dual Submissions: Submissions that are substantially similar to papers that have been previously published or accepted for publication, in either a journal or conference proceedings, are not acceptable. During the NIPS review period, a submitted paper may not be under review in parallel for another conference with a published Proceedings; the NIPS review period begins June 19 and ends September 4, 2009. Submission is permitted of a short version of a paper that has been submitted, but not yet accepted, to a journal. Workshops: The workshops will be held at the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort from December 11-12. The upcoming workshop proposal will provide details. Program Committee: Jean-Yves Audibert (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech) David Blei (Princeton University) Kwabena Boahen (Stanford University) Michael Bowling (University of Alberta) Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan) Aaron Courville (University of Montreal) Koby Crammer (University of Pennsylvania) Nathaniel Daw (New York University) David Dunson (Duke University) Paolo Frasconi (University of Florence) Nir Friedman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Arthur Gretton (Carnegie Mellon University and Max Planck Institute) Matthias Hein (Saarland University) Aapo Hyvarinen (University of Helsinki) Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University) Mark Johnson (Brown University) Charles Kemp (Carnegie Mellon University) John Lafferty (Carnegie Mellon University) [co-chair] Wee Sun Lee (National University of Singapore) Tai Sing Lee (Carnegie Mellon University) Jon McAuliffe (University of Pennsylvania) Yael Niv (Princeton University) Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo) Carl Rasmussen (University of Cambridge) Erik Sudderth (Brown University) Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania) Antonio Torralba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Bill Triggs (Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, CNRS) Sethu Vijayakumar (University of Edinburgh) Chris Williams (University of Edinburgh) [co-chair] Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford) From duje at cvs.rochester.edu Sun May 3 18:12:18 2009 From: duje at cvs.rochester.edu (Duje Tadin) Date: Sun May 3 20:19:29 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position, Center for Visual Science, Univ. of Rochester Message-ID: [interested applicants can set-up informal meetings at the upcoming VSS meeting] A postdoctoral position to conduct behavioral, TMS and fMRI studies of visual perception and attention is available in Dr. Duje Tadin?s lab at the Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester. Initial appointment is for two years. Start date must be before 8/31/2009. Tadin lab uses psychophysics, TMS, fMRI, and eye-tracking to investigate neural mechanisms of visual perception in normal and special populations. Current projects are focused on motion perception, visual adaptation, binocular rivalry, contextual interactions, perceptual learning, visual working memory and attention. For more information see: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/Duje/VCNlab/Home.html Essential requirements: - strong research background - programming skills (MATLAB/Psychtoolbox preferred) - a PhD and/or MD (either completed or expected in 2009) - position is restricted to US citizens/permanent residents Highly preferred qualifications: - background in vision research or related fields - strong computational skills - experience with psychophysics, fMRI, TMS and/or eye-tracking - experience with and/or interest in collaborative, multi-method research approaches To apply, send CV, one paragraph research statement and names of 3 references to: duje@cvs.rochester.edu Initial salary will be funded by an NEI training grant and will follow NIH guidelines. Applicants must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents. Prospective applicants are encouraged to email Dr. Tadin with any questions. ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you wish to submit an abstract you can do so already through the on-line submission form at http://www.opam.net/opam2009/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, Michi Matsukura and Melanie Palomares **************************************** contact: opam.info@gmail.com website: www.opam.net **************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please read our latest paper (below), describe your interests, mention any new ideas you've produced (in any domain), and include a curriculum vitae and names of references. I will be at VSS, May 7-14. Please contact me. Denis Pelli Professor of Psychology and Neural Science New York University http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/ 646-258-7524 voice and text denis.pelli@nyu.edu Pelli, D. G., & Tillman, K. A. (2008) The uncrowded window of object recognition. Nature Neuroscience, 11(10):1129 - 1135. http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/pubs/pelli2008uncrowded-complete.pdf For the latest version of this ad check: http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/job.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Confirmed invited speakers are: Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis) Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL) Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann) Gilles Laurent (Caltech) Klaus Obermayer (BCCN Berlin) Mriganka Sur (MIT) About the conference: The Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) strives to be the major European Conference on Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology. It has grown out of the annual Symposium of the German National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which has been held since 2005. Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), it has been opened as an international conference. We expect around 300 international participants from the areas of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected abstracts will be published in the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Best posters, talks, and demonstrations will be awarded with a total sum of 1500 Euros (supported by the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories). The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of computational neuroscience including, but not limited to: learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system, brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making, information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and recurrent networks, and neurotechnology. This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision. MAIN MEETING: 30 September - 2 October, 2009 Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM: 3 October, 2009 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt am Main, Germany IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission opened: 4 May 2009 Abstract submission deadline: 17 May 2009 Demonstration proposals deadline: 15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009 Early registration closes: 15 August 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Jochen Triesch Program Chairs: Jorg Lucke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf Demonstrations Chair: Cornelius Weber Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu Finance Chair: Cornelius Weber Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi PhD Student-Symposium Chair: Cristina Savin Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz IT Support: Alex Achenbach, Marc Henniges, Thomas Weisswange We are looking forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt! -- Dr. J?rg L?cke Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~luecke Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt Germany From matjaz.jogan at fri.uni-lj.si Tue May 5 08:56:09 2009 From: matjaz.jogan at fri.uni-lj.si (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Matja=BE_Jogan?=) Date: Tue May 5 09:25:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] First LEEGLE challenge - final call for participation Message-ID: The test sequence for the first LEEGLE challenge will be available tomorrow, May 6 11:59 PM CET (GMT + 2:00). The test sequence consists of 71 frames. The results should be submitted within 48 hours via the online submission system. Submission closes at May 8 11:59 PM CET (GMT + 2:00). Together with the results, you should also submit a PDF file with a short description (up to two pages) of your approach. LEEGLE is a challenge in visual object recognition and categorization initiated and organized by University of Ljubljana, Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory. More information can be found at http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/LEEGLE http://www.facebook.com/pages/LEEGLE-Challenge/55982667511 - Matjaz Jogan Visual Cognitive Systems Laboratory University of Ljubljana From duje at cvs.rochester.edu Tue May 5 11:04:03 2009 From: duje at cvs.rochester.edu (Duje Tadin) Date: Tue May 5 13:59:05 2009 Subject: [visionlist] VVRC-CVS Party at VSS Message-ID: <5B890FD8-7980-4E35-B407-DB1F225511B1@cvs.rochester.edu> Dear vision scientist, Continuing the long tradition of ARVO and VSS social events organized by the University of Rochester's Center for Visual Science (CVS) and the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center (VVRC), we invite all VSS attendees to the VVRC-CVS social at VSS. The event will be held on Sunday, May 10th from 10pm to 1am in the Vista Ballroom and Sunset Deck at the Naples Grande Resort. First 120 guests will receive a free drink ticket. Local organizers: Jeff Schall and 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090505/615a5ab3/attachment.htm From jon.hardeberg at hig.no Tue May 5 20:31:58 2009 From: jon.hardeberg at hig.no (Jon Yngve Hardeberg) Date: Wed May 6 08:08:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] GCIS2009 - Deadline, keynotes, JIST special section/issue Message-ID: <4A0104AE.9030608@hig.no> We are very happy to announce Eli Peli and Sabine S?sstrunk as keynote speakers at Gj?vik Color Imaging Symposium 2009 (http://www.colorlab.no/gcis). Eli, who is Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, will talk about "From Contrast to Sensitivity: Vision and image processing," while Sabine's keynote will be about "Towards a comprehensive color image quality metric." Sabine is head of the Images and Visual Representation Group at the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, and Director of Division 8 of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE). With these and other invited and submitted talks and poster presentations, we are confident the GCIS2009 program will be most worthwhile, both on the main theme of "Putting human vision into image processing and evaluation" and also in other areas of color imaging. If you plan to attend and have not submitted your work, you can still do it before May 15th. To assure that GCIS2009 will not only be a unique meeting place to share and discuss the latest color imaging research results, but also enable publication of paper that goes beyond a time-constrained conference presentation in scope, scientific rigor and level of detail, a special issue or section of Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST) will be edited, with selected, peer-reviewed full papers based on presentations at GCIS2009. Key dates are * Submission deadline: May 15th * Accepted papers notification: May 22nd * Camera-ready papers submitted: June 1st * Registration deadline: June 5th * GCIS09: June 19th * JIST submission deadline: September 1st Best Regards, Jon Y Hardeberg and Alessandro Rizzi Conference Chairs From kirsch at bccn.uni-freiburg.de Wed May 6 08:25:57 2009 From: kirsch at bccn.uni-freiburg.de (Janina Kirsch) Date: Wed May 6 13:05:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Position for a Research Associate in Neurophysiology, University of Freiburg Message-ID: <307B9BF949264147A2AF1E8FF2313094@janina> % apologies for multiple postings % Research Associate Position at the Laboratory for Biomicrotechnology, Dept. of Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering University of Freiburg, Freiburg The Laboratory for Biomicrotechnology (Prof. Ulrich Egert) offers a research associate position ( A13, up to 4 years) for a biologist with expertise on electrophysiology, cell culture of neuronal networks, neurophysiology in acute brain slices and/or Ca-imaging. We are interested in the mechanisms and structures underlying the activity dynamics in neuronal networks and the processing of neuronal activity within the network. In joint projects with computational neuroscientists we investigate how the biological neuronal networks process incoming stimuli, what determines intrinsic activity, how pathological dynamics arise and how to contain them. To address these questions we use acute brain slices, cell cultures and animal models with a variety of techniques. A central technology is extracellular recording the neuronal activity with microelectrode arrays to analyze the spatio-temporal structure of activity. Recordings with these arrays are combined with paired intracellular recordings, calcium imaging, microstimulation and advanced data analyses. New technical and analysis tools are developed as needed in collaborations with microsystems engineers. This work is embedded in the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg (BCCN Freiburg) and the new Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology - Freiburg/Tuebingen. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the teaching and training program of these iniatives. Candidates should have outstanding academic records and an interest in translational neuroscience and neurotechnology. The position is open immediately until filled. For further information, please contact Prof. Ulrich Egert (Head of laboratory) or Dr. Janina Kirsch (Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs). -- Dr. Janina Kirsch -- Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email: kirsch @bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Steinhauer, Ph.D. Director, Biometrics Research Program VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Mailing Address: Biometrics Research, 151R-H VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System 7180 Highland Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15206 USA Tel: 412-954-5366 Fax: 412-954-5369 email: sthauer@pitt.edu web: http://www.wpic.pitt.edu/research/biometrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090506/8b87cff5/attachment.htm From henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch Fri May 8 01:32:11 2009 From: henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch (=?windows-1252?Q?Henning_M=FCller?=) Date: Fri May 8 06:51:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for Papers: Theseus/ImageCLEF workshop on visual information retrieval evaluation Message-ID: <4A03EE0B.5050107@sim.hcuge.ch> Call for Papers: Theseus/ImageCLEF workshop on visual information retrieval evaluation History: The THESEUS/ImageCLEF workshop follows the tradition of preceeding QUAERO and MUSCLE Workshops between 2005 and 2008. The aim of this workshop is similar to the aim of its predecessors in giving better perspective to participants of ImageCLEF and allow for discussion of topics related to visual information retrieval. Additionally, a special focus is set on information retrieval supported by structured knowledge e.g. by using ontologies. Important Dates: 15.07.2009 ? Paper Submission Deadline (Extended Abstract) 15.08.2009 ? Author Notification 01.09.2009 ? Final Paper Submission (Camera Ready) 29.09.2009 ? Theseus/ImageCLEF Workshop in Corfu Registration Registration for this workshop is free. More information can be found at: http://www.imageclef.org/2009/preCLEF From henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch Fri May 8 00:21:59 2009 From: henning.mueller at sim.hcuge.ch (=?windows-1252?Q?Henning_M=FCller?=) Date: Fri May 8 06:51:48 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for papers: Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support Message-ID: <4A03DD97.80201@sim.hcuge.ch> ================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS MCBR-CDS 2009: Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support September 20th, 2009 London, UK http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/projects/aalim/multimodal-decision.html ================================================= ** Paper Submisions Due May 22th, 2008 ** ------------------- Call for Papers ------------------- Diagnostic decision making (using images and other clinical data) is still very much an art for many physicians in their practices today due to a lack of quantitative tools and measurements. Traditionally, decision making has involved using evidence provided by the patient?s data coupled with a physician?s a priori experience of a limited number of similar cases. With advances in electronic patient record systems, a large number of pre-diagnosed patient data sets are now becoming available. These datasets are often multimodal consisting of images (x-ray, CT, MRI), videos and other time series, and textual data (free text reports and structured clinical data). Analyzing these multimodal sources for disease-specific information across patients can reveal important similarities between patients and hence their underlying diseases and potential treatments. Researchers are now beginning to use techniques of content-based retrieval to search for disease-specific information in modalities to find supporting evidence for a disease or to automatically learn associations of symptoms and diseases. Benchmarking frameworks such as ImageCLEF (Image retrieval track in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) have expanded over the past five years to include large medical image collections for testing various algorithms for medical image retrieval. This has made comparisons of several techniques for visual, textual, and mixed medical information retrieval as well as for visual classification of medical data possible based on the same data and tasks. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in medical imaging, medical image retrieval, data mining, text retrieval, and machine learning/AI communities to discuss new techniques of multimodal mining/retrieval and their use in clinical decision support. We are looking for original, high-quality submissions that address innovative research and development in the analysis, search and retrieval of multimodal medical data for use in clinical decision support. Further, to encourage a larger group of image analysis researchers to profit from the databases and evaluations created in the context of ImageCLEF, we will provide access to the medical databases and tasks of ImageCLEF 2009 which has obtained rights from RSNA to use over 70,000 images of the journals Radiology and Radiographics. Topics for the workshop include but are not limited to: --Mining of multimodal medical data (X-ray, MRI, CT, echo videos, time series data) --Machine learning of disease correlations from mining multimodal data --Algorithms for indexing and retrieval of data from multimodal medical databases --Disease model-building and clinical decision support systems based on multimodal analysis --Practical applications of clinical decision support using multimodal data retrieval or analysis --Algorithms for medical image retrieval -------------------------- Paper Submission -------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of not more than eight(8) pages including results, figures and references. Please use the MICCAI author kit to format the papers. ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper submission deadline: May 22nd, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 28th, 2009 Camera ready copy : July 20th, 2009 Workshop date: September 20th 2009 From axon at cortex.rutgers.edu Fri May 8 10:38:42 2009 From: axon at cortex.rutgers.edu (Ralph M. Siegel) Date: Fri May 8 20:09:26 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc opening Message-ID: <008601c9d003$e7ce20f7$0201a8c0@vision.rutgers.edu> An immediate opening is available to perform parietal experiments in behaving monkey. Single unit, intrinsic imaging and two photon imaging is applied. Questions as to the localization of objects are answered. Ralph Siegel Rutgers, Newark, NJ w:973 353 3261 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Improvements on the performance of traditional/novel vision techniques such as structure from motion, multi-view stereo, and image-based modeling have made high-end acquisition of 3D structure and motion a reality. Advances in sensor technologies such as depth camera, closer-range laser range finder, and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) permit to deploy modeling systems on terrestrial, airborne, static, moving, and even handheld platforms to quickly capture 3D structure of a large environment with high degree of accuracy. Progresses in computer graphics enable effective representation, rendering and visualization of photorealistic models on PCs. The advances in high-speed network allow effective delivery of 3D models throughout the networked world. As part of the ACCV 2009, the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop will bring together researchers to present results and innovations in all aspects of modeling and representation of large-scale 3D environments. The workshop seeks original high-quality research and application submissions. All submitted papers will be subject to a peer review process. Accepted papers will be published together with the proceedings of ACCV 2009 in electronic format by Springer. High-quality papers will be selected to appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Virtual Reality (IJVR) after the conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Scene reconstruction from multi-dimensional and multi-view images - Wide-area structure from motion and stereo - 3D scene modeling from multiple sensors - Real-time scene modeling from video - Range data analysis and processing - 3D shape and feature representation - Multi-sensor data fusion, alignment, and registration - 3D model simplification and compression - Stream processing for very large datasets - Appearance/illumination modeling and representation - Real-time, mobile 3D systems - Rending and visualization of large-scale models - Applications of large-scale models and modeling systems Important Dates --------------- - Paper submission due: July 5, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2009 - Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2009 - Workshop: September 24, 2009 Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Format: papers submitted for review and publication must follow the format specified for the main ACCV 2009 conference: author guidelines for paper submission to ACCV2009. The maximum paper length for review as well as for publication is 8 pages. Submission: paper must be submitted electronically in Adobe Acrobat PDF format at the Submission Website. Review: the review process is double-blind, so the paper must not include any information which allows the authors to be identified. This means that authors should not indicate their names or affiliations on the paper, acknowledgements must not be included in the manuscript, and references to authors' previous work must only be included in a form that does not link them to the authors. Organizers ---------- Suya You, University of Southern California, USA Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Wanquan Liu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Richard Xu, Charles Sturt University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Adrien Bartoli, CNRS, France Anup Basu, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Kostas Daniilidis Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Robert Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, USA Jan-Michael Frahm, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Shinsaku Hiura, Osaka University, Japan Jana Kosecka, George Mason University, USA Ze-Nian Li, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xuelong Li, Univ. of London, UK Suresh Lodha, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA Ajmal Saeed Mian, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia Philippos Mordohai, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California, USA Ramakant Nevatia, University of Southern California, USA Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University, China Charalambos Poullis, USC, USA Gerhard Roth, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Stamos, City University of New York, USA Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, Kyushu University, Japan Jun Takamatsu, Nara Inst. of Science & Tech, Japan Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin Univ. of Technology, Australia Guanghui Wang, Univ. of Windsor, Canada John Zelek, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Zhigang Zhu, City Univ. of New York, USA Contacts -------- For any question about the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop, please contact to: modeling3d2009@gmail.com http://graphics.usc.edu/~suyay/modeling3D2009.htm ========================================================= From smart at neuralcorrelate.com Sun May 10 09:20:23 2009 From: smart at neuralcorrelate.com (Susana Martinez-Conde) Date: Sun May 10 07:21:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Illusion Contest TONIGHT SUNDAY --7pm! 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The Institute is one of the foremost eye research centres in the world and enjoys an international reputation for excellence in basic and applied research that facilitates successful translational and clinical programmes. The Institute is extremely well resourced, offers an exciting environment for collaborative research and enjoys close links with UCL Biomedicine and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Successful applicants will have a proven track record of excellence in infant visual development and will be given every opportunity to develop further and excel in their field. A PhD is a minimum requirement for this role. The successful candidate will be expected to bring with them their own independent research programme but will also be encouraged to complement current research strengths within the Institute. A major emphasis for the post will be to develop new vision tests to measure retinal function in young children and infants. These new tests will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of novel therapeutic approaches such as gene therapy. The post requires that the individual has direct experience with infant visual psychophysics and prior experience with clinical vision testing would be a distinct advantage. Starting salary will be on the UCL Grade 8 pay scale between spine points 37 ? 43 (?36,532- ?43,622 per annum), plus ?2,781 London Allowance per annum, depending on qualifications and experience. The post is funded for 5 years in the first instance. Preliminary enquiries should be made to the Search Committee Chair, Professor Gary S. Rubin (tel: +44 (0) 207 608 6989; email: g.rubin@ucl.ac.uk ). Formal applications will require a full CV, research plan and brief application form. Full details are available on our website www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo or via email at :education-ioo@ucl.ac.uk. Please quote reference number: 127299 Closing date for receipt of applications: 30 June 2009 During ARVO week, Gary Rubin can be reached via email at g.rubin@ucl.ac.uk or by text message or mobile phone at +44 (0) 774 55 66 308. Callers from outside the UK should omit the (0). UCL Taking Action for Equality Pursuing Excellence in Education and Research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090510/fbb37e8f/attachment.htm From mcs at unitn.it Wed May 13 03:21:14 2009 From: mcs at unitn.it (mcs) Date: Wed May 13 07:03:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Master in Cognitive Science - University of Trento, Italy Message-ID: Master in Cognitive Science: 1. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE TRACK - CSCNS 2. LANGUAGE AND MULTIMODAL INTERACTION TRACK - CSLMI Faculty of Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy 1. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE - CSCNS Cognitive neuroscience is the study of the mind and brain, investigating how and why people think and act the way they do. The knowledge and skills gained in the Master?s course will provide a foundation for advanced scientific research, with professional applications in the fields of education, consumer and economic decision making, psychology and clinical research. The Master?s course in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Trento provides research-focused training with a diverse, international group of faculty and researchers. The two year program combines courses in neuroscience, cognition, statistics, advanced signal and data analysis with hands-on training in cutting-edge research techniques. These include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), magnetic encephalography (MEG), computational modelling, comparative cognition (animal models), EEG, eye tracking, cinematic motion tracking and psychophysics. 2. LANGUAGE AND MULTIMODAL INTERACTION TRACK- CSLMI Communication via language and other modalities is a fundamental component of human activity. It is therefore not at all surprising that the technologies originated from the scientific study of these activities are having a major impact on modern society - it is sufficient to think about the role played by Google in everyday life, or the crucial importance of interface design in the success of technologies such as the iPhone. The Language and Multimodal Interaction track provides students with the interdisciplinary training necessary to operate in this area, whether in an academic environment or in an industrial setting. The two-year program combines a solid foundation in scientific and cognitive methods - modules in mathematics, language science, neuroscience, and psychology, including an introduction to advanced methods such as eye tracking, EEG, and fMRI ? with an extensive training in computational methods for the statistical analysis of large amounts of language and perceptual data, and in interface design. Theoretical knowledge will be supplemented by the experience acquired in substantial practical projects carried out in research and industry labs. Minimum requirements In order to be considered for admission, a Bachelor?s degree and a certified English knowledge (e.g. TOEFL, IELTS, CPE) is required. In the absence of a document certifying the level of English language, the candidate is encouraged to submit alternative proof of English proficiency (i.e. an official letter from the University stating that the candidate completed university courses taught entirely in English). The evaluation of this alternative document will be entirely at discretion of the admission committee. Selection criteria A CV, two letters of reference and a letter of motivation are required. The application form, which also allows students to apply for scholarships, is available online at http://international.unitn.it/mcs/application-form. Tuition fees and scholarships The fees vary from a maximum of about 3,000 euros/academic year to a total exemption (for yearly incomes up to 30,000 euros and 3 family members). The amount of the tuition and the scholarship, based on merit and income, will be defined on the basis of the following documentation: family certificate, income, property possessions, to be submitted within the deadlines for enrolment to the University of Trento. Language All courses are taught in English. For students wishing to familiarize with the Italian culture, Italian language courses will be offered by the Faculty of Cognitive Science. Number of students The program is intended for a small number of top level students. In the academic year 2009-2010, the program will admit at most 40 students. Final degree After successful completion of the curriculum and fulfilment of the Master?s requirements, students will be awarded a Master of Science degree (laurea magistrale) in Cognitive Science. Please note that, thanks to an agreement with the University of Osnabr?ck, students will be awarded a double Master?s degree (Italian and German), valid in both countries. Deadline The deadline to complete the on-line application is 31st July, 2009. Please note that this call is for EU citizens only, or non-EU applicants who already have a valid visa to study in the EU. We regret to inform that at this time the deadline for applications from non-EU students has already passed. For more details about the opening of the next call please visit the web site www.cogsci.unitn.it The University advantage The University of Trento has focused on excellence since its inception in 1962, and it now enjoys a strong global reputation, with its 7 Faculties, 14 Research Departments, more than 500 professors and 15,000 students. The University of Trento has been recently ranked among the 500 top universities in the Times Higher QS World University Ranking 2007, which is an excellent result given its medium size. The Faculty advantage The Faculty of Cognitive Science is specialized in mind and brain studies, psychology and human-computer interaction, and offers a wide range of programs at Master and Doctorate level. The city advantage With its vibrant cultural life and museums, the region Trentino exemplifies Italy?s unique concentration of artistic treasures. In addition to its many castles, cathedrals and theatres, Rovereto also offers many sporting opportunities, being just minutes away from ski slopes, water sports (including Garda Lake) and hiking in the Alps. Or one can simply enjoy the Italian weather and culture sitting outside in a caf?, enjoying a cappuccino or a refreshing drink. Contacts Master in Cognitive Science Faculty of Cognitive Science University of Trento Corso Bettini, 84 - 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy fax + 39 0464 808415 www.cogsci.unitn.it mcs@unitn.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Solomon http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~solomon From luecke at fias.uni-frankfurt.de Thu May 14 07:17:15 2009 From: luecke at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_L=FCcke?=) Date: Fri May 15 07:08:21 2009 Subject: [visionlist] BCCN*2009 - DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <200905141617.15933.luecke@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN*2009) http://bccn2009.org/ We would like to announce that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended. Due to several requests, abstract submission now closes on: ========================= 31 MAY 2009 at 23:59 UTC. ========================= About the conference: The Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) is an annual meeting of researchers working in Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology. It has grown out of the Symposium of the German National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which has been held since 2005. Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), it has been opened as an international conference. We expect around 300 international participants from the areas of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected abstracts will be published in the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Best posters, talks, and demonstrations will be awarded with a total sum of 1500 Euros (supported by the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories). The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of computational neuroscience including, but not limited to: learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system, brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making, information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and recurrent networks, and neurotechnology. This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision. MAIN MEETING: 30 September - 2 October, 2009 Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM: 3 October, 2009 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt am Main, Germany IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission opened: 4 May 2009 Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2009 Demonstration proposals deadline: 15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009 Early registration closes: 15 August 2009 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis) Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL) Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann) Gilles Laurent (Caltech) Klaus Obermayer (BCCN Berlin) Mriganka Sur (MIT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Jochen Triesch Program Chairs: Jorg Lucke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf Demonstrations Chair: Cornelius Weber Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu Finance Chair: Cornelius Weber Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi PhD Student-Symposium Chair: Cristina Savin Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz IT Support: Alex Achenbach, Marc Henniges, Thomas Weisswange We are looking forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt! -- Dr. J?rg L?cke Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~luecke Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt Germany From mnourel1 at jhmi.edu Thu May 14 07:10:11 2009 From: mnourel1 at jhmi.edu (Mona Mohamed) Date: Fri May 15 07:08:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] fMRI course Message-ID: <4A0BEE03020000100006D08D@cis27.hosts.jhmi.edu> fMRI Image Acquisition and Analyses Course June 15-17 The Mind Research Network (Mind) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) are pleased to announce the upcoming fMRI Image Acquisition and Analyses Course to be held June 15-17, 2009 at the Mind Research Network (Pete & Nancy Domenici Hall) on the UNM campus. This meeting is being held just prior to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting in Albuquerque. This course will cover Statistical Parametric Mapping 5 (SPM5 and relevant SPM2 issues) as well as Independent Component Analysis. The course faculty include Drs. Kent Kiehl and Vince Calhoun of Mind and UNM, and Tor Wager of Columbia University. The course will cover experimental design, image acquisition, image preprocessing, and analysis using the general linear model as well as Independent Component Analyses (ICA) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. The course is designed for fMRI researchers who range from beginning to intermediate skill levels. Participants in the course are strongly encouraged to bring laptops with Matlab 7 (or higher) installed. SPM, custom code and toolboxes will be installed on the laptops during the beginning of the course. In addition, following the lectures, participants will be trained to analyze example fMRI data on their laptops using SPM5, the Group ICA of fMRI Toolbox (GIFT), and related SPM toolboxes, such as statistical nonparametric mapping (SnPM). The course will be small, having only 30-40 students with many opportunities to work closely with the faculty. For more information and to register for the course please see: www.mrn.org/fmricourse CME credits will be provided. If you have any questions, please email Kent Kiehl (kkiehl@unm.edu). *Note that this course was formerly known as the Yale University and Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center fMRI Image Acquisition and Analyses Course. From triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de Fri May 15 08:55:46 2009 From: triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (Jochen Triesch) Date: Fri May 15 10:28:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 4 Open Professorships Message-ID: <4A0D9082.1000608@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> Four Professorships are immediately available at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt am Main and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Three positions are in the context of the Frankfurt Vision Initiative (Bernstein Focus for Neurotechnology, an initiative funded by the German ministry for education and research (BMBF): +++ At the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics: 1) Full Professorship (W3) in Software Engineering with emphasis on biologically inspired vision systems. Applicants must have an excellent track record in the areas of software engineering and biologically inspired computer vision systems.. Experiences in the management of large and complex software projects is required. The successful applicant shall closely collaborate with other groups of the Bernstein Focus. Successful acquisition of third party funding and collaborations in interdisciplinary project consortia are expected. In addition, a high commitment to teaching and University service are desired. 2) Assistant Professorship (Juniorprofessur W1) in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, a three-year temporary position with an option of prolongation for three more years, Applicants must have an excellent track record in the areas of computer vision and machine learning. The successful applicant shall closely collaborate with other groups of the Bernstein Focus. Successful acquisition of third party funding and collaborations in interdisciplinary project consortia are expected. In addition, a high commitment to teaching and University service are desired. +++ At the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Science (FIAS): 3) Associate Professorship (W2) in Computational Neuroscience (tenure track) The position is initially available for 5 years (tenure track). Applicants must have an excellent track record in the area of modeling the visual system with probabilistic techniques. Successful acquisition of third party funding and collaborations in interdisciplinary project consortia are expected. In addition, a high commitment to serve in the Institute?s self-administration is desired. The teaching obligations for this position are two hours per week. The successful candidate will also be member of the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics or the Faculty of Physics of Goethe University. A further position is available at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics: 4) Assistant Professorship (Juniorprofessur W1) in Computational Neuroscience - Detailed Modeling of Signaling in Neurons, a three-year temporary position with an option of prolongation for three more years. Applicants must have given significant contributions to modeling and signal processing in neurons on the cell level. You must further have contributed to the fields of image processing, numerical simulation methods and high-performance computing. The position is filled in cooperation with the Goethe Center for Scientific Computing and the Bernstein-Group Detailed Modeling of Signal Processing in Neurons. *** The Goethe University intends to strengthen its emphasis on complex systems research. Successful applicants shall closely collaborate with other interdisciplinary research projects and in excellence networks. The designated salary for the positions are based on ?W? on the German university scale. Goethe University is an equal opportunity employer. For further information regarding the general conditions for professorship appointments, please see: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/aktuelles/ausschreibung/professuren/index.html . Applications accompanied by the usual information (CV, degrees and certificates, list of publications, details on teaching and international experience, information on successful grant applications), should be sent to: Goethe University Frankfurt, Dean of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, E-Mail: dekanat@fb12.uni-frankfurt.de. Deadline for applications is June 15, 2009. 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Wesleyan is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and welcomes applications from women and members of historically under-represented minority groups. Please send resume, three letters of recommendation, and teaching statement to Chair, Department of Psychology, 207 High Street, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459 0408. Hilary Barth Department of Psychology Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 06459-0408 E-mail: hbarth@wesleyan.edu Phone: (860) 685-2468 http://hbarth.faculty.wesleyan.edu/ From epstein at psych.upenn.edu Mon May 18 14:57:58 2009 From: epstein at psych.upenn.edu (Russell Epstein) Date: Mon May 18 15:21:23 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Fellowship available at U Penn Message-ID: Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Scene Perception and Spatial Navigation Epstein Lab, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania A NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship is available in Dr. Russell Epstein?s cognitive neuroscience laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA). The successful applicant will use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural underpinnings of visual scene perception, place recognition, and spatial navigation. Previous experience with advanced fMRI data analysis techniques such as multi-voxel pattern analysis is a plus, although applicants who lack such experience but have excellent computational, analytical, or statistical skills will be considered. A Ph.D. in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science or related field is required, as is a well-established record of research productivity. The University of Pennsylvania has a large and diverse cognitive neuroscience community, including a 3T magnet and extensive resources for fMRI research. The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is a lively, friendly, collaborative environment. To apply, send CV, a brief statement of research experience/interests, and contact information for three references to Russell Epstein, epstein@psych.upenn.edu. The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. For more information about the Epstein lab, see http://wernicke.ccn.upenn.edu/epstein_web/ From locks_00 at yahoo.co.uk Mon May 18 21:51:07 2009 From: locks_00 at yahoo.co.uk (Kevin Brooks) Date: Mon May 18 23:06:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Scholarship in Motion Perception Message-ID: <629060.57913.qm@web26305.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> HSCI: Department of Psychology MQRES PhD Scholarships Closing Date: 30 June 2009 Speed Illusions Caused by Variations of Object Contrast A Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (MQRES) is available in the Department of Psychology for a PhD investigating ?Speed illusions caused by variations of object contrast? in association with an Australian Research Council-funded research project. The successful candidate will join a research team investigating the visual processing of motion information using psychophysical techniques in the beautiful city of Sydney, Australia. MQRES scholarships are available to domestic or international students. Candidates should have (or be about to attain) research qualifications equivalent to an Australian undergraduate degree with first class honours in Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or a similar discipline. Applications will also be considered from a discipline such as Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or similar if the applicant has a strong interest in the scientific study of human visual perception. Those with experience in psychophysical methodology and computer programming are particularly encouraged to apply. The scholarship pays a living allowance, currently $20,427 per annum, tax exempt (2009), and the tenure is a maximum 3.5 years full time, subject to satisfactory progress. Tuition fees will be funded for the scholarship tenure. Additional support for projects and travel will be available from the Faculty/Department. For further information and discussion regarding the project, applicants are encouraged to contact the supervisor, Dr Kevin Brooks; email kevin.brooks@mq.edu.au . Application forms and MQRES award conditions are available from the Higher Degree Research Office: telephone +61-2- 9850 7987, e-mail: hdrschol@vc.mq.edu.au, or from our website: www.research.mq.edu.au/students/scholarships/pages/HSCI_PSY. Applications should be forwarded to: The Scholarship Officer The Research Hub Level 3, C5C East Macquarie University NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA From hu at athena-marketing.de Tue May 19 02:00:18 2009 From: hu at athena-marketing.de (Holly Uhl) Date: Tue May 19 08:41:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] =?iso-8859-1?q?PhD_positions_in_Computing_in_Struct?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ural_and_Cell_Biology=2C_University_of_L=FCbeck=2C_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Germany?= Message-ID: <000901c9d860$3be5dd70$b3b19850$@de> PhD positions in Computing in Structural and Cell Biology, University of L?beck, Germany The Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/) at the University of L?beck invites applications for 3-year PhD scholarships in the fields of Crystallography, Bioinformatics, Protein Topogenesis, Algorithms, RNA Structure. Application deadline: June 30, 2009. Project titles: II1 ? Macromolecular Crystallography and Informatics II2 ? Inhibitor Design II3a - Fast Protein-Protein Docking Algorithms II3b - Efficient Methods for Exact Solutions of Complex Problems in Molecular Biology II3c - Synaptic Plasticity: Regulatory Mechanisms in Receptor Trafficking II3d - Virus Evolution II4 ? Determination of patterns predictive for protein topogenesis II5 ? Computational Analysis of RNA structure II6 ? Workflows for the Analysis of whole genome SNP chips II7 ? Analysis of Adult stem cells by computer vision Requirements: Candidates are expected to have a master?s degree (or its equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or engineering. Prior experiences in scientific publishing (during the university study or industry employment) are of advantage. Please prepare all the necessary documents and submit your application online: http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/?q=node/20. 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Project titles: I1a - Diffusion Tensor methods I1b - Correction of Susceptibility caused Distortions in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging I1c - Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography in the Deep Brain I1d - Small animal brain imaging with nano CT I1e - Transcranial sonography (TCS) in monogenic forms of Parkinsonism I1f - Combined motion detection and motion correction medical imaging I1g - Neurochemical whole-brain mapping using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) I2a - Stroke Rehabilitation Robot I2b - Parallel mode of action control: from human studies to intelligent robotic interfaces I2c - Learning to See Better I2d - Cardiac pacemaker localisation I3a - Memory enhancement by transcranial brain stimulation I3b - Brain Modelling I3c - Relationship between brain activity and peripheral glucose metabolism - combining experimentally acquired data with a mathematical model I4a - Robotic micromanipulator for small animal studies I4b - Navigation and electrophysiological recordings in Deep Brain Surgery I4c - Robot assisted navigation guided OCT operating microscope I5a - Definition of cortical networks for the control of eye and hand movements I5b - Wavelet-Based TMS-EEG Data Analysis I5c - 3-dimensional kinematic principles of eye, head and limb movements I6a - Interfaces based on EEG, ECoG and DBS I6b - Nonlinear and multivariate EEG analysis I6c - Basics in deep brain stimulation (DBS) I6d - Next generation auditory prosthesis I7 - Computer assisted minimally invasive interventions Requirements: Candidates are expected to have a master?s degree (or its equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or engineering. 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090519/a7bd1f50/attachment-0001.htm From luckyluke1979 at yahoo.com.ar Wed May 20 09:39:43 2009 From: luckyluke1979 at yahoo.com.ar (Lisandro Kaunitz) Date: Wed May 20 09:57:49 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Positions in Neurosciece: University of Trento, Italy Message-ID: <512921.81313.qm@web32508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> For PhD promotion Ph.D. Student in Rovereto/Trento/Italy Starting date: 2009-11-01 Application deadline: 2009-07-10 Duration: 3 years 13 PhD Positions, 11 with Fellowship, available now CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento (Italy) The CIMeC-Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento is accepting applications for a 3-year PhD Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. The program seeks to provide students with high level skills in basic and applied research in cognitive neuroscience, and will encourage them to pursue innovative research projects that require expertise in multiple areas. The program has two main areas within which research can be conducted using behavioural, neuroimaging and computational methods: 1) Cognitive Neuroscience and 2) Language, Interaction & Computation. The deadline for the application is July 10, 2009 and courses officially commence November 1st, 2009. All courses are given in English and are taught by a multi-disciplinary faculty with state-of-the-art facilities. 11 fellowships are available in the amount of ?13,638. Info: For more information about the School please visit: http://portale.unitn.it/drcimec and in order to download the official applications please visit: http://portale.unitn.it/dr/cimec/admission.htm or got to the online application: http://www4.unitn.it/Apply/en-GB/Home Contact Information Ms. Leah Mercanti University of Trento CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences Corso Bettini, 31 38068 Rovereto ITALY Phone: 390464808617 Fax: 390464808690 E-mail: PHD.CIMEC@UNITN.IT Website: http://portale.unitn.it/drcimec Yahoo! Cocina Recetas pr?cticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090520/e8266a1f/attachment.htm From chiestand at salk.edu Wed May 20 17:18:51 2009 From: chiestand at salk.edu (Chris Hiestand) Date: Wed May 20 17:29:21 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 Call For Demonstrations Message-ID: <26DC52FD-8E81-479C-9DC0-DF47FB7FF80C@salk.edu> http://nips.cc Demo Sessions: -- December 8 - 9, 2009; 7pm - midnight Hyatt Regency Vancouver, BC, CANADA Demonstration Proposal Deadline: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 23:59 UT (4:59 PM PDT) Demonstrations can bring ideas alive like no other form of presentation. This is an opportunity to showcase your novel software, hardware, or wetware technology at the NIPS 2009 Conference. Have people interact with your robot, try out your software library, or let them play your game. The Neural Information Processing Systems Conference has a Demonstration Track that will run in parallel with the popular evening Poster Sessions. Demonstrators have a chance to show their live interactive demos in any of the technical areas covered by NIPS (see Call for Papers) and can be in the form of: * Hardware technology * Software systems * Neuromorphic and biologically-inspired systems * Robotics The only hard constraints are that a demo must show novel technology and must be live, preferably with some interactive parts! A demo is not just another poster presentation - the action part is important. Submissions: Submission of demo proposals at the following URL: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/DemoForm.php Describe clearly: * What is the technology that is being demonstrated and what is novel about it? * What is the live part; what actions are taking place? * What is the interactive part; what can the viewer do? * What equipment is brought by the demonstrator? * What equipment is required at the place of the demo? 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Responsibilities include: implementing custom software solutions for neuroscience research studies and conducting individual projects aimed at the development of improved computational methods for functional and morphological neuroimaging. The successful candidate will be well versed in scientific computation on Unix or Mac workstations and possess good skills in Matlab and C programming. Additional knowledge in physics, statistics or psychology, and/or experience in the processing and analysis of MR images (including packages such as AFNI, FSL, FreeSurfer or SPM) would be an asset. The research focus of the Center is human brain functions, however the center also coordinates basic and clinical research on other topics, including pulse sequence programming and MRI coil development. The successful candidate will be based in the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging (http://www.rcbi.rochester.edu), a state-of-the-art facility equipped with a Siemens Trio 3T MR system and high-performance computing resources, with a full-time staff of cognitive neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers, and physicists. Opportunities exist to collaborate with faculty in the departments of Brain & Cognitive Science, Center for Visual Science, Imaging Sciences/Radiology, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, among others. Salary commensurable with experience. Start date flexible but a minimum of two year commitment required. If interested, please send a CV and short statement of your interest, as well as the name and address of three references to Dr. D. Bavelier, daphne@bcs.rochester.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will help design and implement a VR-based video game to rehabilitate depth perception and will design and run experiments on plasticity and learning in stereopsis. The candidate will work primarily with Professor D. Bavelier and D. Knill within the Center for Visual Sciences and the Departments of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the U. of Rochester. The successful candidate should have a strong background in vision, and in particular in issues related to depth perception. A strong programming background in C++ and 3D graphics is highly valued. Applicants should send a letter describing their graduate training and research interests, a vita, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to daphne@bcs.rochester.edu Review of applications is ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. Learn more about the faculty, students, and training facilities of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the Center for Visual Science, and the Center for Language Sciences, as well as links to other affiliated departments and programs by visiting our web sites at http://www.bcs.rochester.edu and http://www.cvs.rochester.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090522/221581f1/attachment.htm From mmeng at MIT.EDU Fri May 22 15:10:40 2009 From: mmeng at MIT.EDU (Ming Meng) Date: Fri May 22 16:22:14 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position, visual psychophysics and fMRI, Dartmouth College Message-ID: <20090522181040.dh9n0dv48zqacc4o@webmail.mit.edu> Dear colleagues, I'm moving to the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College on July 1st. A postdoctoral position will be immediately available in my lab. The research involves psychophysics and fMRI to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception. Successful candidates must have a strong research background in experimental psychology or a related field. Proficiency with programming (e.g., Matlab) is essential, experience with neuroimaging is a plus. Information about Dartmouth College, see http://www.dartmouth.edu/~psych/ About me, see http://web.mit.edu/mmeng/www/ To apply, send CV and contact information for three references to Ming Meng, mmeng@mit.edu. Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. -------------------------------------------- Ming Meng, Ph.D. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences M.I.T. Cambridge, MA 02139 http://web.mit.edu/mmeng/www/ From owsley at uab.edu Tue May 26 07:33:05 2009 From: owsley at uab.edu (Cynthia Owsley) Date: Tue May 26 08:27:17 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Final Call for Abstracts: The Eye and The Auto Message-ID: <89819D85-4773-4139-A802-D21E2467730A@uab.edu> FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: THE EYE AND THE AUTO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2009 (notification of acceptance June 30, 2009) The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, is an international research meeting dedicated to improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of motorized vehicles. Sessions will be devoted to a variety of topics including but not limited to: visual processing, visual attention, and driving tasks; human factors and design issues relevant to the driver, roadway, and/or vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions, and driver safety; policies that address vision and driving; driver assessment and rehabilitation strategies for the visually impaired driver. This meeting will be of keen interest to many types of professionals from the field of driver safety and performance including scientists, engineers, clinicians, designers, and policy specialists. A highlight of the meeting will be a tour of a major industry-affiliated Human/Machine Interface Laboratory. The conference will take place in the Detroit area at the GM Technical Center Campus. We welcome Abstract Submissions for either a 15 minute paper or poster presentation formats. Please follow the guidelines for submitting abstracts at: www.eyeson.org. We look forward to your participation and encourage you to share this Call for Abstracts announcement with your colleagues. Should you have any questions about The Eye and The Auto, please feel free to contact Cynthia Owsley at owsley@uab.edu. We have confirmed the following speakers: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lawrence Burns PhD, Vice President, Research & Development, General Motors KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Michael Merzenich PhD, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Posit Science Corporation Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation Institute Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham Jonathan Hankey, PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham Eli Peli M.Sc., OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University Bryan Reimer PhD, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa Janet Szlyk, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago Jeremy Wolfe PhD, Brigham & Women?s Hospital, Harvard University Joanne Wood PhD, MCOptom, Queensland University of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Applications should be sent by email to either of us (patrick@wjh.harvard.edu , alvarez@wjh.harvard.edu) and should include a CV, a brief statement of research interests, the expected date of availability and the names of 3 references. Applications should be sent preferably before July 1st, 2009, but later applications will be considered until the positions are filled. Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Abstract submission closes: ========================= 31 MAY 2009 at 23:59 UTC. ========================= This deadline will definitely not be extended. About the conference: The Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) is an annual meeting of researchers working in Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology. It has grown out of the Symposium of the German National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which has been held since 2005. Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), it has been opened as an international conference. We expect around 300 international participants from the areas of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected abstracts will be published in the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Best posters, talks, and demonstrations will be awarded with a total sum of 1500 Euros (supported by the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories). The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of computational neuroscience including, but not limited to: learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system, brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making, information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and recurrent networks, and neurotechnology. This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision. MAIN MEETING: 30 September - 2 October, 2009 Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM: 3 October, 2009 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt am Main, Germany IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission opened: 4 May 2009 Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2009 Demonstration proposals deadline: 15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009 Early registration closes: 15 August 2009 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis) Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL) Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann) Gilles Laurent (Caltech) Klaus Obermayer (BCCN Berlin) Mriganka Sur (MIT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Jochen Triesch Program Chairs: Jorg Lucke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf Demonstrations Chair: Cornelius Weber Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu Finance Chair: Cornelius Weber Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi PhD Student-Symposium Chair: Cristina Savin Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz IT Support: Alex Achenbach, Marc Henniges, Thomas Weisswange We are looking forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt! -- Dr. J?rg L?cke Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~luecke Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt Germany From M.Large at hull.ac.uk Thu May 28 09:27:14 2009 From: M.Large at hull.ac.uk (Mary-Ellen Large) Date: Thu May 28 10:12:01 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Studentship in Visual Marketing Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- ***************************************************************************************** To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://www.hull.ac.uk/legal/email_disclaimer.html ***************************************************************************************** From nicholas.turk-browne at yale.edu Thu May 28 09:20:56 2009 From: nicholas.turk-browne at yale.edu (Nick Turk-Browne) Date: Thu May 28 10:12:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Full-Time Research Assistant Position at Princeton Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I'll be moving to the Department of Psychology at Princeton University this summer, and will be immediately recruiting a full-time research assistant to start in the fall. If you could please forward the job description below to anybody who might be interested, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks, Nick Position Summary: Full-time research specialist position in the Department of Psychology in the new laboratory of Dr. Nicholas Turk-Browne. Research focuses on a variety of topics in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, with an emphasis on visual learning and memory. The successful candidate will assist with all aspects of research, including developing materials, programming experiments, recruiting participants, collecting behavioral and fMRI data, analyzing data, and miscellaneous research support (literature searches, manuscript and grant preparation, general lab duties). Essential Qualifications: -- Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or other related field. -- Demonstrated interest or research experience in cognitive psychology/neuroscience. -- Some exposure to one or more programming language (e.g. Matlab, Python, C/C++, Java, shell scripting, etc.). -- Undergraduate level statistics course and/or experience with statistical analysis packages (e.g. SPSS, Excel, Matlab, etc.). -- Organized, independent, diligent, and efficient work ethic. Preferred Qualifications: -- Experience with vision and/or fMRI experiments. -- Advanced training in statistics or signal processing. For more information, and to apply: http://jobs.princeton.edu (requisition #0900172) From fhamker at uni-muenster.de Fri May 29 07:16:51 2009 From: fhamker at uni-muenster.de (Fred Hamker) Date: Fri May 29 07:29:47 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post Doc / Group Leader Position for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Message-ID: Post Doc / Group Leader Position for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience A postdoctoral / group leader position is available at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) in the Department of Computer Science. The position is initially for three years, starting in October 2009 (or soon thereafter), but with a possibility of renewing. The canditate should have a PhD and prior experience in developing neurocomputational systems, particularly with respect to data in the neurosciences and psychology. Experience in interdisciplinary projects or own experimental studies is welcome. A background in parallel computing or virtual reality is beneficial but not required. The position requires teaching students in computer science in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational neuroscience and image processing but the major focus is on research. The envisaged research focus should be on the development of neurocomputational models closely linked to the neurosciences and/or the application of neurocomputational principles for cognitive systems in the area of object recognition, visual attention, visual masking, space perception, emotions, neural learning rules, cognitive control, decision making, reward-based learning (dopamine, basal ganglia), grasping, or eye movements. Additionally planned own experimental studies will be supported. It is expected that the candidate applies for research grants to expand the research group. We offer excellent research support for the development of neurocomputational systems in form of research seminars, parallel computing hardware, virtual reality setups, and eye tracking. In addition, we have many contacts to multiple experimental groups in Germany and participate in various international collaborations. The salary is according to German standards (E 13 TV-L or A13h). The university is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants will receive priority in case they have equal qualifications. Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the state of Saxony and close to scenic mountains. Major cities nearby are Leipzig and Dresden with a rich tradition of music and culture. Applications should be sent by email (preferebly in PDF format) to Fred Hamker (fred.hamker@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) before July 5th, 2009, but later applications will be considered until the position is filled. -------------------- Prof. Dr. Fred H Hamker Artificial Intelligence Department of Computer Science Technical University Chemnitz Strasse der Nationen 62 D - 09107 Chemnitz Germany Tel: +49 (0)371 531-37875 Fax: +49 (0)371 531-25739 email: fred.hamker@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de www: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/ From rousseau at lsiit.u-strasbg.fr Fri May 29 02:49:45 2009 From: rousseau at lsiit.u-strasbg.fr (Francois Rousseau) Date: Fri May 29 07:30:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CFP : Image Analysis for the Developing Brain (MICCAI Workshop) Message-ID: <4A1FAFB9.10403@lsiit.u-strasbg.fr> *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call *** Image Analysis for the Developing Brain Thursday, September 24, 2009 Organized in conjunction with MICCAI 09, London, UK http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/bicg/iadb_workshop Description ======= Understanding how the normal structural and functional patterns of the human brain are formed is a critical field of research covering many areas from basic neuroscience to clinical neuroradiology. Recent advances in clinical imaging techniques have begun to allow us to study very early brain growth in vivo and in utero. These new types of image data of developing tissues pose new challenges to image analysis methodology, and motivate the development of new algorithms and computational techniques which can be of use in a wider range of medical imaging problems. This workshop will aim to explore work being carried out in this new emerging field. It will gather together research on both imaging and image analysis techniques related to studying the growth of the brain from early clinical fetal imaging using ultrasound and MRI, to imaging studies of neonates, children and adolescents. It will include research focused toward clinical imaging as well as basic neuroscience studies. We want to cover the specific challenges to image analysis in the changing brain, and aim to include work from imaging and motion correction, through image analysis of developing tissues, to statistical techniques for spatio-temporal data. We invite the submission of papers that both explore new image analysis methodology and that examine the adaptation and validation of current techniques to the problem of studying brain growth. Key dates ====== Submission of papers: June 19, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: August 14, 2009 Workshop: September 24, 2009 Paper submission guidelines ================= Submissions to the workshop should conform to the MICCAI 2009 paper submission guidelines with the exception of anonymity guidelines. Papers (up to 8 pages) should be submitted using the online system before the paper submission deadline. All submissions to the workshop will be refereed by the program committee members. Registration Registration must be conducted through the official MICCAI 2009 conference registration website. Chairs ==== Colin Studholme (University of California San Francisco) Francois Rousseau (University of Strasbourg) Program committee ============ James Barkovich (University of California San Francisco) Alan Colchester (University of Kent) Louis Collins (McGill University) John Gilmore (University of North Carolina) Orit Glenn (University of California San Francisco) Joseph Hajnal (Imperial College London) Michel Kocher (University of Applied Sciences) Gabriele Lohmann (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) Jean-Francois Mangin (Frederic Joliot Hospital Service) John Sled (University of Toronto) Neil Weisenfeld (Harvard University) -- -------------------------------- Francois Rousseau LSIIT UMR 7005 P?le API Boulevard S?bastien Brant F-67400 ILLKIRCH tel : +33 3 90 24 44 89 (LSIIT) tel : +33 3 90 24 40 45 (LINC) http://lsiit-miv.u-strasbg.fr/miv/fiche.php?id=19 -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090529/463b5240/attachment-0001.htm From siamak at oculusai.com Fri May 29 06:36:33 2009 From: siamak at oculusai.com (Siamak Ayani) Date: Fri May 29 07:34:33 2009 Subject: [visionlist] JOB POSTING Message-ID: <001001c9e062$7b58e510$720aaf30$@com> WHERE: OculusAI Technologies, Stockholm, Sweden WHAT: COMPUTER VISION SCIENTIST OCULUSAI IS SEEKING A EXPERIENCED COMPUTER VISION SCIENTIST Take the chance of joining one of the most exciting startups in the Nordics OculusAI is a computer vision company sprung out of cutting edge academic research within object recognition. Stockholm-based OculusAI offer websites easy and efficient moderation of the huge and increasing amount of user-generated content uploaded every day. OculusAI is a Red Herring top 100 company, winner of Venture Cup in Sweden and selected as one of the top 10 most promising start-ups in the Nordics. OculusAI is now looking to strengthen its team with a highly skilled Computer Vision Scientist. You will be an integral part of our management team and will take an active role in shaping the company and the technology on which we are based on. JOB DESCRIPTION In your role you will be expected to manage and lead our growing R&D team. Candidates should have a creative mindset, be able to build quick prototypes as well as production level code. You will also be expected to: . Develop, implement, and test different solutions to a large set of problems in computer vision including object detection/recognition and image classification for image and video . Work with our software engineers to integrate the algorithms into the final product YOUR SKILLS . Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields with 3 or more years of hands-on work or research experience . You should have a very strong background in image processing and computer vision gained in industry or research and experience from developing systems and novel algorithms . Track record of performing and leading original research in computer vision and its applications. . You will have strong mathematical ability in the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning and excellent C/C++ and Matlab skills . Excellent written and oral communication skills WHAT WE OFFER We offer a chance to join a dynamic team of highly skilled professionals and an opportunity to work with the cutting edge technology of the future. The candidate is regarded as a key person for the success of OculusAI and will, beside a competitive salary, be offered stock options. We are looking for the brightest and most talented employees, and welcome candidates who have a strong desire to make a huge impact with their work. Are you one of them? CONTACTS For questions about the position, please contact Siamak Ayani: siamak@oculusai.com. To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to: careers@oculusai.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090529/74c22df3/attachment.htm From jon.hardeberg at hig.no Fri May 29 07:32:19 2009 From: jon.hardeberg at hig.no (Jon Yngve Hardeberg) Date: Fri May 29 07:35:38 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD position in multispectral color imaging (Norway-France) In-Reply-To: <4A1F975B.2060703@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <4A1EA0A7.4010709@hig.no> <4A1F975B.2060703@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <4A1FF1F3.9090303@hig.no> PhD position in multispectral color imaging (Norway-France). The purpose of the PhD position is to develop new methodologies for acquisition and reproduction of multispectral color images. Acquiring and reproducing color images using more than the conventional three color channels is a promising field of research, but several obstacles remain. Both the acquisition side and the reproduction side could be covered in this PhD thesis. Research directions which could be investigated includes new acquisition technologies using LED light sources and spectral filter arrays, spectral reflectance estimation, optimization of system parameters, spectral reproduction using inkjet printers, spectral gamut mapping, quality evaluation, combination of spectral and 3D information, compression and visualization of 3D multispectral data, and cultural heritage applications. Further specification of the topic and project plan will be done in collaboration with the selected candidate. The PhD scholarship has a duration of three years, and will be carried out in collaboration between The Norwegian Color Research Laboratory at Gj?vik University College in Gj?vik, Norway and the Laboratoire d'Electronique, Informatique et Image (LE2I UMR-CNRS 5158) at the University of Burgundy in Auxerre, France. The PhD candidate will spend approximately equal time in the two laboratories, starting in France in September 2009, under the supervision of Professor Yvon Voisin (Auxerre), Associate Professor Alamin Mansouri (Auxerre) and Professor Jon Y. Hardeberg (Gj?vik). The scholarship is partially funded by the Regional Council of Burgundy, and amounts to EUR 1350 per month. Candidates with a MSc degree in computer science, electrical engineering, physics, or a related field, and a strong academic record, are invited to submit their application before June 30th, 2009, by email to Alamin Mansouri at alamin.mansouri@u-bourgogne.fr. The application should include a letter of motivation including a brief research statement, CV, transcripts of courses/grades, and at least two letters of reference (including from the academic responsible for the candidate's master degree). For more information, please contact Jon Y. Hardeberg (jon.hardeberg@hig.no) or Alamin Mansouri (alamin.mansouri@u-bourgogne.fr), or consult http://www.colorlab.no and http://www.le2i.com. From jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu Fri May 29 11:43:22 2009 From: jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu (Judy Ripton) Date: Fri May 29 15:13:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Technician in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - University of Rochester, NY Message-ID: <4A202CCA.6060506@rcbi.rochester.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090529/d27399e2/attachment.htm From btjan at usc.edu Fri May 29 08:24:12 2009 From: btjan at usc.edu (Bosco Tjan) Date: Fri May 29 15:13:51 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position in peripheral vision and image enhancement Message-ID: <42317C89-A41C-40C9-AEC4-8FE4E54371DF@usc.edu> A postdoctoral position to study image enhancement for peripheral vision is available immediately at the laboratory of Bosco Tjan at the University of Southern California. We are looking for a creative individual with solid training in visual psychophysics. Experience in low vision research or fMRI is desirable but not required. Good writing skills and competency in computer programming (any language) and quantitative methods are essential. The lab (http://tlab.usc.edu) is supported by multiple grants from the NIH. The group dynamic of the lab is friendly, open, and collaborative. We occupy a newly renovated space with a great view from the top floor of a ten-story building. The lab is well-equipped, and our research-dedicated fMRI center, for which Bosco is one of the founders, is conveniently located in an attached building. USC has a strong and vibrant research community in vision (http://cvst.usc.edu/ ), covering topics as diverse as retinal and cortical physiology, visual cognition, computational vision, and retinal prosthesis. Our lab has active collaborations with several of these groups. Interested individuals should email Bosco with a current CV and the names of two references. ------------- Bosco Tjan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience Graduate Program 3620 South McClintock, SGM 501 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061 Email: btjan@usc.edu Tel: 213-821-2953/4 Fax: 213-746-9082 Web: http://tlab.usc.edu From announcements at journalofvision.org Sat May 30 23:59:36 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Sun May 31 08:32:36 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 5 Message-ID: <8877B50F338941D8BA42D45C0AD3EFA4@jov> Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 5 http://journalofvision.org/9/5/ Articles Gravity and observer's body orientation influence the visual perception of human body postures Christophe Lopez Christelle Bachofner Manuel Mercier Olaf Blanke http://journalofvision.org/9/5/1/ Cross-orientation masking is speed invariant between ocular pathways but speed dependent within them Tim S. Meese Daniel H. Baker http://journalofvision.org/9/5/2/ Attentional selection of noncontiguous locations: The spotlight is only transiently "split" Julien Dubois Fred H. Hamker Rufin VanRullen http://journalofvision.org/9/5/3/ Simple differential latencies modulate, but do not cause the flash-lag effect Derek H. Arnold Yolanda Ong Warrick Roseboom http://journalofvision.org/9/5/4/ A study of N250 event-related brain potential during face and non-face detection tasks Shahin Nasr Hossein Esteky http://journalofvision.org/9/5/5/ Visual performance after correcting higher order aberrations in keratoconic eyes Ramkumar Sabesan Geunyoung Yoon http://journalofvision.org/9/5/6/ Center-surround patterns emerge as optimal predictors for human saccade targets Wolf Kienzle Matthias O. Franz Bernhard Sch?lkopf Felix A. Wichmann http://journalofvision.org/9/5/7/ Characterizing global and local mechanisms in biological motion perception Dorita H. F. Chang Nikolaus F. Troje http://journalofvision.org/9/5/8/ Low-level mechanisms may contribute to paradoxical motion percepts Craig R. Aaen-Stockdale Benjamin Thompson Pi-Chun Huang Robert F. Hess http://journalofvision.org/9/5/9/ Motion streaks in fast motion rivalry cause orientation-selective suppression Deborah Apthorp Peter Wenderoth David Alais http://journalofvision.org/9/5/10/ Aging alters surround modulation of perceived contrast Renee Karas Allison M. McKendrick http://journalofvision.org/9/5/11/ Is the early modulation of brain activity by fearful facial expressions primarily mediated by coarse low spatial frequency information? Petra H. J. M. Vlamings Valerie Goffaux Chantal Kemner http://journalofvision.org/9/5/12/ Asymmetric interference between the perception of shape and the perception of surface properties Jonathan S. Cant Melvyn A. Goodale http://journalofvision.org/9/5/13/ Color and shape interactions in the recognition of natural scenes by human and monkey observers Stefanie Liebe Elvira Fischer Nikos K. Logothetis Gregor Rainer http://journalofvision.org/9/5/14/ Optimal feature integration in visual search Benjamin T. Vincent Roland J. Baddeley Tom Troscianko Iain D. Gilchrist http://journalofvision.org/9/5/15/ The reference frame of the motion aftereffect is retinotopic Tomas Knapen Martin Rolfs Patrick Cavanagh http://journalofvision.org/9/5/16/ Temporal structure of chromatic channels revealed through masking John Cass Colin W. G. Clifford David Alais Branka Spehar http://journalofvision.org/9/5/17/ Identity processing in multiple-face tracking Dongning Ren Wenfeng Chen Chang Hong Liu Xiaolan Fu http://journalofvision.org/9/5/18/ Free viewing of dynamic stimuli by humans and monkeys David J. Berg Susan E. Boehnke Robert A. Marino Douglas P. Munoz Laurent Itti http://journalofvision.org/9/5/19/ Comparing eye movements to detected vs. undetected target stimuli in an Identity Search task Michal Jacob Shaul Hochstein http://journalofvision.org/9/5/20/ The effect of notched noise on flicker detection and discrimination Hannah E. Smithson G. Bruce Henning Donald I. A. MacLeod Andrew Stockman http://journalofvision.org/9/5/21/ Daily mixed visual experience that prevents amblyopia in cats does not always allow the development of good binocular depth perception Donald E. Mitchell Jan Kennie D. Samuel Schwarzkopf Frank Sengpiel http://journalofvision.org/9/5/22/ Bayesian priors are encoded independently from likelihoods in human multisensory perception Ulrik R. Beierholm Steven R. Quartz Ladan Shams http://journalofvision.org/9/5/23/ Pulfrich phenomena are coded effectively by a joint motion-disparity process Ning Qian Ralph D. Freeman http://journalofvision.org/9/5/24/ A model of top-down attentional control during visual search in complex scenes Alex D. Hwang Emily C. Higgins Marc Pomplun http://journalofvision.org/9/5/25/ The neural pathways mediating color shifts induced by temporally varying light Jens H. Christiansen Anthony D. D'Antona Steven K. Shevell http://journalofvision.org/9/5/26/ Figure-ground assignment to a translating contour: A preference for advancing vs. receding motion Elan Barenholtz Michael J. Tarr http://journalofvision.org/9/5/27/ Combination of noisy directional visual and proprioceptive information Sascha Serwe Knut Drewing Julia Trommersh?user http://journalofvision.org/9/5/28/ Post-saccadic location judgments reveal remapping of saccade targets to non-foveal locations Th?r?se Collins Martin Rolfs Heiner Deubel Patrick Cavanagh http://journalofvision.org/9/5/29/ Motion mechanisms with different spatiotemporal characteristics identified by an MAE technique with superimposed gratings Satoshi Shioiri Kazumichi Matsumiya http://journalofvision.org/9/5/30/ An examination of binocular reading fixations based on sentence corpus data Antje Nuthmann Reinhold Kliegl http://journalofvision.org/9/5/31/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk Tue Jun 2 02:03:44 2009 From: jbednar at inf.ed.ac.uk (James A. Bednar) Date: Tue Jun 2 06:20:50 2009 Subject: [visionlist] LAST CALL -- Edinburgh PhD studentships in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience Message-ID: <18980.60144.865598.327465@cortex.inf.ed.ac.uk> PhD studentships in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience, Edinburgh This is the final call for applications for fully-funded PhD studentships at the University of Edinburgh Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience for 2009-2010. The DTC is a world-class centre for research at the interface between neuroscience and the engineering, computational, and physical sciences. Several places remain open for exceptional candidates. Our four-year programme is ideal for students with strong computational and analytical skills who want to employ cutting-edge methodology to advance research 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 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. Highly motivated students with other backgrounds will also be considered. Up to 12 full studentships (12,973-14,766 UK pounds/year) are available to UK students and a small number of EU students. Non-EU/non-UK applicants are also encouraged, but 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 For consideration for entry in September 2009, the final deadline for applications to be completed is 30 June 2009. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From hannah.smithson at durham.ac.uk Tue Jun 2 06:43:19 2009 From: hannah.smithson at durham.ac.uk (SMITHSON H.E.) Date: Tue Jun 2 08:16:49 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Training Course: Using Matlab and CRS Tools for Vision Science Message-ID: <47ECFDDE71A8EA48AC52EE08C5887CA2049594@DURMAIL5.mds.ad.dur.ac.uk> The next training course, "Using Matlab and CRS Tools for Vision Science", will run from 14th - 18th September, 2009. http://www.crsltd.com/corp-info/training/index.html Course outline: The course will run for 5 days (2-days primarily working on Matlab programming skills, and 3-days on CRS / ViSaGe / Eyetracker techniques). We plan to cover the following topics: -- Monday: Introduction to Matlab (arrays, indexing and loops) -- Tuesday: Programming in Matlab (structuring a computer program) -- Wednesday: Stimulus display (including timing-critical issues); Response collection and handling. -- Thursday: Setting up your ViSaGe (including calibration); More on stimulus specification. -- Friday: CRS video eyetracker toolbox; Spatial stimuli and animation. The course will be "hands on" with ample opportunity to practice your skills. We expect to work for the full 5 (or 3) days, from 9am-5pm. Cost: The cost will be ?500 for 5 days, (or ?350 for 3-days, for people who are already competent and confident with Matlab). If you would like to reserve a place on the September course, we are now ready to receive payments (details below). Places will be reserved in the order that we receive confirmed payments. Obviously, places are limited. Accommodation in Durham: The colleges offer bed and breakfast accommodation during the University vacation. Grey College is the closest to the Psychology Department, and offers accommodation at the following rates: Single Standard ?28.50 Twin Standard ?51.00 Single En suite ?39.50 Twin En suite ?70.00 Prices are per room, per night and include breakfast. Durham is a small city so nearly all the colleges are reasonably close (<30 min walk). Further information can be obtained from: Judith Aird Event Durham Co-ordinator Durham University Event Durham Room GB22 Mountjoy Research Centre Block 2 Stockton Road Durham DH1 3UP Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2884 Fax: +44 (0)191 334 2892 E-mail: judith.aird@durham.ac.uk Methods of payment of course fees: Option 1: Cheque (in pounds sterling), payable to "Durham University", for the full amount (either ?500, or ?350 for the reduced course). Please send your cheque to: Dr. Hannah Smithson Department of Psychology Durham University Science Laboratories South Road Durham DH1 3LE Option 2: Wire transfer. IMPORTANT: If you are paying by this method, please send me an email with the name of the person making the payment, so that it can be tracked into the correct account within the University. If you don't do this, I won't know that you've paid. The University's bank account details are as follows: Barclays Bank PLC, Market Place, Durham. DH1 3ND Sort Code 20-27-41 Account Name University of Durham General account Account Number 60897507 Swift Code BARCGB22 IBAN No. GB46BARC20274160897507 Option 3: Credit card. Please telephone: Dot Peacock, Credit Control Assistant, University of Durham +44 (0)191 3346963 You will need to tell Dot that the payment is for a course in Psychology called 'Using Matlab and CRS Tools for Vision Science'. IMPORTANT: If you are paying by this method, please send me an email with the name of the person making the payment, so that it can be tracked into the correct account within the University. If you don't do this, I won't know that you've paid. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you require further information. Best wishes, Hannah Smithson -- Dr. Hannah Smithson Durham University, UK http://www.hannahsmithson.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090602/2de776f6/attachment.html From jaf at cis.rit.edu Wed Jun 3 12:02:15 2009 From: jaf at cis.rit.edu (Jim Ferwerda) Date: Wed Jun 3 12:57:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-Doc in Image-Based 3D Modeling of Fine Art (RIT/MOMA) Message-ID: <4A26C8B7.7080403@cis.rit.edu> Post-Doctoral Position in Image-Based 3D Modeling of Fine Art (RIT/MOMA) Sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Location(s): The Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City Principal Investigators: Drs. Roy S. Berns and James A. Ferwerda Project Description: The Munsell Color Science Laboratory (MCSL) at RIT is seeking an outstanding researcher for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the area of Image-Based 3D Modeling of Fine Art. The goal of the research is to develop advanced methods for creating rich digital representations of paintings and other cultural heritage objects that can serve as surrogates for archiving, analysis, restoration, reproduction, and scholarship. The fellowship is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a project entitled ?Improving Artwork Reproduction through 3D-Spectral Capture and Computer Graphics Rendering?. Research resources of the MCSL include a light measurement laboratory, a custom imaging goniospectrophotometer, a compute cluster, and calibrated spectral printing, display systems, and visual psychophysics laboratories. In addition to research at the MCSL in Rochester NY, the appointment will include extended residencies at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Requirements: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Image Processing, or a related field. Applicants with research backgrounds in the following areas will be preferred: Image-Based Modeling/Rendering/Lighting, Computational Photography, Physically-Based Rendering, and Material Appearance. Strong mathematical and computational skills (MATLAB and C/C++) and a proven track record of independent research and publication are required. Application Process: Applicants should email a curriculum vitae, and a cover letter that describes their graduate training, research interests, and qualifications for the position to Ms. Val Hemink (val@cis.rit.edu). Applicants should also arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to the same address. Review of the applications will be ongoing and will continue until the position is filled. Salary: Commensurate with experience. Start date: Negotiable but no later than October 2009. Duration: Two years. More information about the Munsell Color Science Laboratory is available at http://mcsl.rit.edu/ From J.F.Delvenne at leeds.ac.uk Thu Jun 4 01:05:08 2009 From: J.F.Delvenne at leeds.ac.uk (Jean-Francois Delvenne) Date: Thu Jun 4 06:02:47 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc in Leeds (UK) Message-ID: Faculty of Medicine and Health Institute of Psychological Sciences Leeds Cognitive Group Research Fellow in Cognitive Psychology (Neuroscience) The Institute is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral researcher with experience of EEG/ERP methods. The main duties will be to design, run and analyse experiments in the department's new Neurophysiological Laboratories, which feature state of the art EEG/ERP equipment (Neuroscan and EGI). The successful candidate will have experience of conducting research and a strong academic understanding of cognitive neuroscience. You will have ring-fenced personal research time and will be expected to carry out your own research with a view to generating high-quality publications. You will also be expected to collaborate with Leeds Cognition Group faculty members to support selected high-quality EEG/ERP projects by aiding experimental design, implementation and analysis. This post is fixed term for a period of 12 months in the first instance, with the possibility for extension based on outstanding research performance measured by publications and grant applications. University Grade 7 (?29,704 - ?35,469 p.a.) Informal enquiries to Professor Mark Mon-Williams, tel: +44 (0)1133 435743, Email: pscmmw@leeds.ac.uk or Dr Richard Wilkie, tel: +44 (0)113 343 6681, Email: r.m.wilkie@leeds.ac.uk To apply on line please visit http://www.leeds.ac.uk and click on 'jobs' Alternatively, application packs are available from Christine Cascarino, Institute of Psychological Sciences, tel:+ 44 (0)113 343 5718; email: c.cascarino@leeds.ac.uk Job Ref 314324 Closing Date: Monday 22 June 2009 Interviews are likely to take place w/c 29 June 2009 ---------------------------------------------------- Dr Jean-Francois Delvenne Institute of Psychological Sciences University of Leeds Leeds, LS2 9JT United Kingdom E-mail: j.f.delvenne@leeds.ac.uk Web page: http://www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/people/jeffd/index.htm Secretary: Kate Allen (k.e.allen@leeds.ac.uk) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090604/170714e5/attachment.html From kirsch at bccn.uni-freiburg.de Thu Jun 4 01:56:35 2009 From: kirsch at bccn.uni-freiburg.de (Janina Kirsch) Date: Thu Jun 4 06:03:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Positions in Protein Structure and Function, Synthetic Biology and Signalling, Neurosciences, Immunology/Virology, Molecular Medicine, Developmental Biology and Molecular Plant Sciences Message-ID: The Spemann Graduate School for Biology and Medicine (SGBM, www.sgbm.uni-freiburg.de) at the University of Freiburg, Germany invites applications for 3-year PhD scholarships in the fields of Protein Structure and Function Synthetic Biology and Signalling Neurosciences Immunology/Virology Molecular Medicine Developmental Biology Molecular Plant Sciences The Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM) is the only International Graduate School funded by the German Excellence Initiative of the DFG at the University of Freiburg. It relies on the expertise provided by the Excellence Cluster bioss (Center for Biological Signalling Studies), several outstanding collaborative research centers as well as the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience. This innovative research and training program includes an MD/PhD program. Presently the school counts 60 PhD students at different stages of their doctoral work. The entire program is run in English. Knowledge of German is not necessary. We expect: * an excellent recent university degree: M.Sc. or German diploma (candidates about to obtain such a degree are welcome to apply). * motivation & interest to join one of the interdisciplinary research areas of the Graduate School * communication skills in English * interest and creativity to shape your own thesis project and select your thesis committee We offer: * a doctoral fellowship and research funding * a high-profile research environment * an exchange program with universities and industry around the world * an efficient supervision and mentoring program * courses in novel technologies and soft skills * an interdisciplinary teaching program * a campus in the center of the city with lecture rooms, social & guest rooms If you are interested, go to our homepage: www.sgbm.uni-freiburg.de. Deadline for registration: August 31, 2009. Deadline for submission of applications: September 06, 2009. Decisions will be communicated to applicants in mid December 2009 and selected applicants will be able to start in January 2010. -- Dr. Janina Kirsch -- Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email: kirsch @bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090604/945e4c4f/attachment-0001.htm From Sarah.Waugh at anglia.ac.uk Thu Jun 4 07:32:13 2009 From: Sarah.Waugh at anglia.ac.uk (Waugh, Sarah) Date: Thu Jun 4 08:12:54 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Studentship Opportunity in Cambridge, UK Message-ID: <4E0A2E144855D74DBFDB9EFC7BF3ABAF08492E66@CAMEXCH.ANGLIA.LOCAL> Please could you post this training opportunity on VisionList. Thank you very much. ***************************************************************************** ********************* RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP OPPORTUNITY Location: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, UK. * Closing date 11 June 2009 (for full application, or for commited expression of interest). We are offering a new postgraduate studentship in the Faculty of Science and Technology entitled: The most effective visual acuity chart for children Working with the Anglia Vision Research group, Department of Optometry and Ophthalmic Dispensing, this project will employ psychophysical techniques to investigate the parameters important in optimizing the design of vision charts for use with children. The project would suit a graduate in optometry, experimental psychology and other disciplines with a strong vision science base. This studentship offers a stipend of ?15,000 plus fees paid (UK & EU). Contact: Dr Sarah Waugh, sarah.waugh@anglia.ac.uk Notes: * The start date for this project is September 2009 * Overseas Applicants are welcome to apply but are required to pay the difference between the Home/EU fees and the overseas rate * Successful applicant will be expected to undertake up to six hours teaching each week during term time * Applicants should hold a Masters degree awarded by a UK university, or an overseas Masters of equivalent standard, provided that the Masters degree is in an appropriate cognate area and that the Masters degree included training in research and the execution of a research project. Applicants who hold a first or upper second class degree may also be considered. * Students for whom English is not their first language must meet our required minimum level of English language proficiency (IELTS 6.5 in all skills, or equivalent) * Closing date 11 June 2009 www.anglia.ac.uk ******************************************** Sarah J Waugh MScOptom PhD FAAO FHEA MCOptom Anglia Vision Research Reader and Research Co-ordinator Dept. of Optometry & Ophthalmic Dispensing Faculty of Science and Technology Anglia Ruskin University East Road Cambridge CB1 1PT tel: +44 (0)1223 363 271 x2685 fax: +44 (0)1223 417 712 -- EMERGING EXCELLENCE: In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, more than 30% of our submissions were rated as 'Internationally Excellent' or 'World-leading'. Among the academic disciplines now rated 'World-leading' are Allied Health Professions & Studies; Art & Design; English Language & Literature; Geography & Environmental Studies; History; Music; Psychology; and Social Work & Social Policy & Administration. Visit www.anglia.ac.uk/rae for more information. This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s)only and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error and then immediately delete the e-mail from your system. Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Anglia Ruskin University. Although measures have been taken to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Please note that this message has been sent over public networks which may not be a 100% secure communications Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems From heinen at ski.org Thu Jun 4 15:53:42 2009 From: heinen at ski.org (heinen) Date: Thu Jun 4 16:07:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position: Neuroscience of decision making for oculomotor control Message-ID: <4A285076.8050009@ski.org> A position is open immediately in Dr. Stephen Heinen's research group to work on an NIH-funded study of neuronal decision-making for eye movement control with the goal of understanding how cognition modulates the sensorimotor processing stream. The project explores how structures in frontal cortex cooperate in the decision to make or withhold smooth eye movements. To understand processing within a structure and feed-forward and feedback interactions between structures, we characterize the temporal evolution of choice probability, and of predictive, sensory, and motor components of single-neuron activity. We utilize rule-based decision tasks to identify time-varying signals associated with these processes. Electrical microstimulation and chemical inactivation complement single-unit recording. The laboratory also possesses a state of the art high-speed video eyetracker for conducting human ocular research. The laboratory is located in San Francisco at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, a research organization where investigators study vision and eye movements at a systems level. Smith-Kettlewell has a unique environment composed of basic, clinical and rehabilitation researchers that fosters cross-disciplinary collaborations. The institute also provides support for grant-writing, and mentoring in the process. Experience in visual and/or oculomotor physiology and strong quantitative skills preferred. Visit our website: http://www.ski.org/SJHeinen_lab/ Applicants should send a CV and names of three references to: heinen@ski.org -- Stephen J. Heinen, Ph.D., Senior Scientist The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute 2318 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 345-2101 heinen@ski.org http://www.ski.org/SJHeinen_lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090604/c08ca25b/attachment.htm From dlevi at berkeley.edu Mon Jun 8 10:46:27 2009 From: dlevi at berkeley.edu (Dennis Levi) Date: Mon Jun 8 10:50:21 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Fwd: ORDER OF AUSTRALIA for Gerald Westheimer Message-ID: >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.3 >Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:47:19 -0700 >To: opt-faculty@uclink.berkeley.edu, clinicalfaculty@lists.berkeley.edu >From: Dennis Levi >Subject: ORDER OF AUSTRALIA for Gerald Westheimer >X-BeenThere: clinicalfaculty@lists.berkeley.edu >List-Id: >List-Unsubscribe: >, > >List-Post: >List-Help: >List-Subscribe: >, > >Sender: clinicalfaculty-bounces@lists.berkeley.edu > >Dear All: The 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours List issued by the >Governor-General of Australia announced the appointment as member >of the ORDER OF AUSTRALIA (AM) of Gerald Westheimer, "for service >to vision science as a researcher, through optometric education >and as a mentor." >Westheimer joined the faculty of the University of >California School of Optometry in 1960 and currently holds the >rank of Clinical Professor. >-- >--------------------------------------- >Dennis M. Levi, Dean >School of Optometry >University of California >Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 > > >Voice: (510) 642-3414 Office > (510) 643-8685 Lab >Fax: (510) 642-7806 >email: dlevi@berkeley.edu >web: http://levilab.berkeley.edu/ From susana at io.cfmac.csic.es Mon Jun 8 14:00:57 2009 From: susana at io.cfmac.csic.es (Susana Marcos) Date: Mon Jun 8 14:33:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Tillyer Award Nominations Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.1.20090608225952.03b0af90@io.cfmac.csic.es> Dear Colleagues, The Edgar D. Tillyer Award, given every two years by the Optical Society of America, is one of the few awards available for recognizing career excellence in vision science. OSA is currently requesting nominations (due date October 1, 2009). Nominations should be sent to the Optical Society of America online at: http://www.osa.org/aboutosa/awards/osaawards/nominationform/AddAwardNomination.aspx If you plan to make a nomination please let me know before you begin in order to reduce the possibility of duplicate nominations. Best wishes, Susana Marcos 2010 Tillyer Award Committee: Susana Marcos (Chair) Albert J.Ahumada Pablo Artal John L. Barbur Joseph Carroll Frederick W. Fitzke From Clara.James at unige.ch Mon Jun 8 23:39:28 2009 From: Clara.James at unige.ch (Clara James) Date: Tue Jun 9 07:00:09 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroimaging of Music Message-ID: <4A2E03A0.7000607@unige.ch> Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroimaging of Music A new and exciting research project to investigate behavioral, neuro-functional and neuro-anatomical correlates of experience dependant music perception will be conducted by Dr. Clara James. Motivated individuals are invited to apply for a three-year postdoctoral position (available from 01-10-2009) at the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Imaging modalities that will be applied include functional MRI, structural MRI, diffusion MRI (DTI/DSI) and EEG to study brain functional and structural plasticity arising from music-related expertise in adults. Neuroscience is a key research priority of the University of Geneva and important facilities have been put into place. Working conditions are excellent. Applicants are required to have proven experience in fMRI and/or the application of DTI/DSI in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Interest in music is an advantage but not mandatory. Salary starts at about 68K CHF, with an annual increase of 3.4K CHF. Informal inquiries can be addressed to Clara James (Clara.James at unige.ch). Applications including a CV with a list of publications, a statement of research interests, and the names and full contact details of at least two referees should be addressed to: Clara.James at unige.ch, Laboratory of Development and Motor Learning, Uni Mail, 40 Bd du Pont-d'Arve, CH-1211, Gen?ve 4, Switzerland (Tel. : 022-3799264, Fax : 022-3799229). -- Dr. Clara JAMES Laboratory of Development and Motor Learning Geneva Neuroscience Center FPSE, University of Geneva Uni Mail, 40 Bd du Pont-d'Arve 1205 Geneva, Switzerland Tel. : 022-3799264 Fax : 022-3799229 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090608/64b01ab5/attachment.htm From david.melcher at unitn.it Tue Jun 9 06:58:00 2009 From: david.melcher at unitn.it (Melcher, David Paul) Date: Tue Jun 9 07:00:17 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Registration is now open: Rovereto Attention Workshop 29-31 October 2009 Message-ID: Registration is now available online at: http://portale.unitn.it/centre/cimec/raw.htm The third annual Rovereto Attention Workshop (RAW) will focus on Attention and Awareness, and will take place in Rovereto, Italy from October 29th to October 31st, 2009. Full details can be found at the workshop website. The goal of the workshop in Rovereto is to provide a unique forum for researchers from a range of perspectives who are interested in these topics to come together to discuss their research and develop new directions and collaborations. The workshop is hosted by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, at the University of Trento. The list of confirmed speakers includes: David Alais Marisa Carrasco Patrick Cavanagh Alan Cowey Christof Koch Rene Marois Susana Martinez-Conde Geraint Rees John Reynolds Pieter Roelfsema POSTER SESSION A poster session is organized to encourage young researchers and students to attend and present their work. A number of small travel fellowships will be awarded to the best poster submissions. THE VENUE Rovereto is a charming city situated in northern Italy. Situated in the valley of the Adige River and surrounded by the majestic Dolomites, Rovereto enjoys both a spectacular natural setting and easy access to major metropolitan areas in northern Italy and central Europe. The Trentino region is a favorite of hikers, mountain climbers, and bikers, and has been renowned since ancient times for its agricultural products, particularly its apples and wine. The town is just 30 minutes from Lake Garda, a pristine Alpine lake famous for its windsurfing, sailing, and spas. 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Message-ID: <00a301c9e9f4$9a97ee30$cfc7ca90$@washington.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OSA poster.tif Type: image/tiff Size: 24603090 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090610/3fcd91ff/OSAposter-0001.tif From axon at cortex.rutgers.edu Wed Jun 10 14:07:43 2009 From: axon at cortex.rutgers.edu (Ralph M. Siegel) Date: Thu Jun 11 08:11:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position in two-photon and optical imaging Message-ID: <6AD9B23761A6F748B9AF311D325639EE6149E8@reality.vision.rutgers.edu> The representation of visual space is being studied in behaving monkey parietal lobe using two-photon scanning microscopy and intrinsic optical signals with virally encoded voltage and calcium sensitive sensors. We are the only group we know doing this work at the moment and have funding available for a post-doc. This work is very intense and requires a person with superb experimental skill - preferentially with imaging. Monkey work can added. Successful candidates for this 2-3 year position will have experience in some or all or these areas: electrophysiological and/or optical recording, behaving monkey, visual system physiology, UNIX. Apply to Ralph M. Siegel, CMBN, Rutgers, Newark, NJ by email: axon@cortex.rutgers.edu Call soon! Note: If you have not received a response to your email within 3 days, consider whether it might have been accidentally deleted through spam and write/call me again. Ralph Mitchell Siegel, Ph.D. Professor axon@cortex.Rutgers.edu voice: 973-353-3261 fax: 973-353-1272 cell: 973-801-6933 Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Rutgers University 197 University Avenue Newark, NJ 07102 Web page: http://www.siegelweb.rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090610/0c6e98b7/attachment.htm From K.Scott-Brown at abertay.ac.uk Wed Jun 10 14:24:47 2009 From: K.Scott-Brown at abertay.ac.uk (Scott-Brown, Kenneth) Date: Thu Jun 11 08:11:52 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Position at the University of Abertay Dundee (UK) References: <200906101743.n5AHhcrb008106@lawton.ewind.com> Message-ID: <05E1A8E234083D44A6B6C426248F518F025F73CD@uadmta03.uad.ac.uk> Enhancing real-world user interfaces using audio visual and gestural control metaphors ALISON ARMSTRONG RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP Recent developments in touch-screen technologies have led to new multi-touch devices and associated input methods. The millions of ATMs and other similar devices across the world currently under-exploit this new technology. An opportunity exists to undertake research in this growth area in a unique multi-disciplinary research environment at the University of Abertay. Applications for a PhD studentship are sought from graduates with an interest in gaining experience and training in this domain. A background in psychology, creative computing or ergonomics would all be relevant. The project is sufficiently cross-disciplinary to draw upon a range of experience and will provide opportunities to develop skills in new areas. The goal of the project is to scope, delineate and evaluate new methods of multi-modal interaction with technologies such as ATMs and other 'public access' devices such as in-bank kiosks, interactive digital signage and real-time public transport timetables. In particular, the project will examine the use of integrated audio-visual cues and multi-touch control surfaces in order to enhance the user experience as appropriate for the specific commercial or social context. The Alison Armstrong Studentship offers a stipend commensurate with the Research Council rate (13,290 in the first year with annual increments) and payment of tuition fees (at Home/EU rate) for three years of study. Funding for travel and consumables is included. There may also be opportunities to supplement income teaching relevant undergraduate subjects and to undertake an internship at NCR Dundee during the period of study. The University also delivers a postgraduate teaching certificate for which candidates may be eligible to enrol. Informal enquiries are welcome from the supervisors, Dr. Ken Scott-Brown, email: k.scott-brown@abertay.ac.uk, or to Dr. Kenny McAlpine, email: k.mcalpine@abertay.ac.uk. Application forms may be obtained from Dawn Keen, Secretary of the Research Degrees Committee, Secretariat, University of Abertay Dundee, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HG, Tel:+44 (0)1382 308068, email: d.keen@abertay.ac.uk. Completed application forms, together with a CV, should be returned by Friday 19 June to Dawn Keen, quoting reference no: AAS/09/01 Kenneth Scott-Brown Lecturer Centre for Psychology University of Abertay Dundee Bell St Dundee DD1 1HG UK +44(0)1382 308590 k.scott-brown@abertay.ac.uk The University of Abertay Dundee is a charity registered in Scotland, No: SC016040 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Program director: Ioannis G Pallikaris, Professor of Ophthalmology Organising Committee: Harilaos Ginis: ginis@med.uoc.gr Sotiris Plainis: plainis@med.uoc.gr Aristophanis Pallikaris: apallik@med.uoc.gr Invited Speakers: Pablo Artal, Laboratorio de Optica, Universidad De Murcia, Spain. David Atchison, Department of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Dirk deBrouwere, Applied Optics, National University of Ireland, Galway. Vasyl Molebny, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Kiev, Ukraine. Ian J. Murray, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Dimitris Papazoglou, Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers, FORTH, Crete, Greece. Professor Charles Riva, Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie, Sion, Switzerland. Vassilis Sboros, Department of Medical Physics & Medical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Panagiotis Sapountzis, Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology The University of Nottingham. Panagiotis Kallinikos, AMVIS Hellas. Further information on the Summer School and the city of Heraklion can be found at the school's website: http://www.ivo.gr/summerschool/ For queries regarding travel / accommodation / registration please contact Ms. Eva Neofotistou : aegean@med.uoc.gr On behalf of the organising committee Sotiris Plainis ___________________________ Sotiris Plainis, MSc, PhD Honorary Lecturer, The University of Manchester Research Fellow Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO) School of Health Sciences University of Crete 71003, Heraklion tel: +302810-394807 fax: +302810-394653 http://www.ivo.gr ___________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090611/e24b188c/attachment-0001.htm From m.proulx at qmul.ac.uk Thu Jun 11 08:42:37 2009 From: m.proulx at qmul.ac.uk (Michael Proulx) Date: Fri Jun 12 14:50:13 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2 Lectureships (Assistant Professor level) Queen Mary University of London Message-ID: (Note that vision researchers for both positions are very welcome!) Post 1: Lectureship in Developmental Psychology (Ref: 09203/KR) Post 2: Lectureship in Psychology ? Open Area (Ref: 09204/KR) Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK's leading research-intensive higher education institutions, delivering world class education and knowledge exchange across a wide range of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws, Medicine and Dentistry and Science and Engineering. Within Queen Mary, the large and expanding School of Biological and Chemical Sciences provides a supportive and friendly environment and encourages interdisciplinary research. Capitalising on the College?s outstanding RAE performance, we intend to expand both staff and student numbers. For both posts we seek candidates with a strong publication record and evidence of ability to secure research funding (commensurate with the stage reached in their career) to support an exciting new research and teaching initiative in psychology. Psychology at Queen Mary is practiced as a biological and experimental science. We intend to expand the initiative by recruiting in areas to complement our existing strengths, which are in comparative cognition, neurobiology, evolution and behaviour, sex differences and vision research. Lectureship in Developmental Psychology - we are looking for someone who uses a translational approach to the development of cognition and behaviour (from animal models to human infants or children) or whose research is informed by an evolutionary framework. Lectureship in Psychology (open area) - we are seeking candidates with expertise in any area of biological and experimental psychology but applicants bringing new methodological expertise (such as EEG/ERPs) would be particularly welcome. Preference will be given to candidates whose research interests allow them to be inspiring teachers in psychology. Candidates will be expected to play an active role in the Biological and Experimental Psychology Group of the new Research Centre in Psychology and be involved in the development of new undergraduate psychology programmes (such as contributing specialist modules in their field of interest). Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1999. Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of School, Professor Peter Heathcote, e-mail address: p.heathcote@qmul.ac.uk. Further details can be obtained from the School website http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk. Alternatively, please visit the Human Resources website on: http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/vacancies. Completed BLUE application forms along with a CV, quoting the relevant reference number should be returned by the closing date to Ms Sunita Devi-Paul, School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, or by e-mail to sbcs-vacancies@qmul.ac.uk. The closing date for completed applications is 4pm on Thursday 25th June 2009 (BST). Interviews will be held w/c 20th July 2009. Applicants who are not contacted by mid-July 2009 should assume that they were not successful. *NOTES:* 2 openings. International Candidates Will Be Considered. Employer will assist with relocation costs. Additional Salary Information: Both posts are available on permanent contracts. The salary is inclusive of London Allowance and will be according to qualifications and experience (the salary quoted is based on the current exchange rate with the UK?). If suitably qualified candidates apply appointments could be at a more senior level. Best wishes, Michael J. Proulx, PhD Lecturer [Assistant Professor] in Cognitive Psychology Biological and Experimental Psychology Group School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Queen Mary University of London m.proulx@qmul.ac.uk http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/people/michael_proulx.shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090611/96101594/attachment.htm From sekuler at brandeis.edu Thu Jun 11 09:09:44 2009 From: sekuler at brandeis.edu (Robert Sekuler) Date: Fri Jun 12 14:50:39 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral research position: Brandeis University Message-ID: <775F48DE-D176-49FD-9384-28BB3E2AB66E@brandeis.edu> Postdoctoral Position: EEG/ERP studies of Visual Memory A postdoctoral research position is available now in the Vision Lab at Brandeis University, Robert Sekuler, P.I. The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate on EEG/ERP and behavioral studies of short-term sensory memory, including computational modeling of sensory memory and cognitive influences. This NIH-supported appointment is for two years. Facility in Matlab and/or C++ is essential. Candidates should have experience in computational or cognitive neuroscience. Experience with electronics would be a plus. The position is available July 1, 2009. Applicants should submit a CV, letter of research interest, and list of potential references to Robert Sekuler (vision@brandeis.edu) The lab's range of current interests and recent publications can be viewed at http://www.brandeis.edu/~sekuler Brandeis University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and members of minority groups are especially encouraged. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090611/96562423/attachment.htm From dlevi at berkeley.edu Fri Jun 12 09:00:24 2009 From: dlevi at berkeley.edu (Dennis Levi) Date: Fri Jun 12 14:51:17 2009 Subject: [visionlist] special issue of Vision Research: Visual Attention: Psychophysics, electrophysiology and neuroimaging Message-ID: >New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect > >Vision Research > >Volume >49, Issue 10, Pages 1033-1388 (2 June 2009) > >Visual Attention: Psychophysics, electrophysiology and neuroimaging >Edited by Marisa Carrasco, Geoffrey Boynton, Stefan Treue and Preeti Verghese > > 1. >C2 >- EDITORIAL BOARD >Page IFC > > 2. >Visual >attention: Neurophysiology, psychophysics and >cognitive neuroscience >Pages 1033-1036 >Marisa Carrasco, Miguel Eckstein, Pretti Verghese, Geoff Boynton, Stefan Treue > 3. >Iknow >where you are secretly attending! The topography >of human visual attention revealed with fMRI >Pages 1037-1044 >Ritobrato Datta, Edgar A. DeYoe > 4. >Using >a filtering task to measure the spatial extent >of selective attention >Pages 1045-1064 >John Palmer, Cathleen M. Moore > 5. >Pooling >and segmenting motion signals >Pages 1065-1072 >David C. Burr, Stefano Baldassi, M. Concetta Morrone, Preeti Verghese > 6. >Endogenous >attention selection during binocular rivalry at >early stages of visual processing >Pages 1073-1080 >Jyoti Mishra, Steven A. Hillyard > 7. >Intra- >and cross-modal cuing of spatial attention: Time >courses and mechanisms >Pages 1081-1096 >Zhong-Lin Lu, Hennis Chi-Hang Tse, Barbara Anne >Dosher, Luis A Lesmes, Christian Posner, Wilson >Chu > 8. >Statistical >decision theory to relate neurons to behavior in >the study of covert visual attention >Pages 1097-1128 >Miguel P. Eckstein, Matthew F. Peterson, Binh T. Pham, Jason A. Droll > 9. >Aframework >for describing the effects of attention on >visual responses >Pages 1129-1143 >Geoffrey M. Boynton > 10. >Apopulation-coding >model of attention's influence on contrast >response: Estimating neural effects from >psychophysical data >Pages 1144-1153 >Franco Pestilli, Sam Ling, Marisa Carrasco > 11. >Top-down >and bottom-up mechanisms in biasing competition >in the human brain >Pages 1154-1165 >Diane M. Beck, Sabine Kastner > 12. >Visual >attention is a single, integrated resource >Pages 1166-1173 >Alexander Pastukhov, Laura Fischer, Jochen Braun > 13. >Maximal >motion aftereffects in spite of diverted >awareness >Pages 1174-1181 >Erik Blaser, Tim Shepard > 14. >Combined >effects of spatial and feature-based attention >on responses of V4 neurons >Pages 1182-1187 >Benjamin Y. Hayden, Jack L. Gallant > 15. >Combining >spatial and feature-based attention within the >receptive field of MT neurons >Pages 1188-1193 >Dieter R. Patzwahl, Stefan Treue > 16. >How >spatial and feature-based attention affect the >gain and tuning of population responses >Pages 1194-1204 >Sam Ling, Taosheng Liu, Marisa Carrasco > 17. >Cognitively >directed spatial selection in the frontal eye >field in anticipation of visual stimuli to be >discriminated >Pages 1205-1215 >Hui-Hui Zhou, Kirk G. Thompson > 18. >Task >specific computations in attentional maps >Pages 1216-1226 >Jacqueline Gottlieb, Puiu F. Balan, Jeff Oristaglio, David Schneider > 19. >Presaccadic >discrimination of receptive field stimuli by >area V4 neurons >Pages 1227-1232 >Tirin Moore, Mindy H. Chang > 20. >Attention >and active vision >Pages 1233-1248 >Rebecca Berman, Carol Colby > 21. >Selective >attention and the active remapping of object >features in trans-saccadic perception >Pages 1249-1255 >David Melcher > 22. >Attention >during sequences of saccades along marked and >memorized paths >Pages 1256-1266 >Timothy M. Gersch, Eileen Kowler, Brian S. Schnitzer, Barbara Anne Dosher > 23. >Saccade >target selection: Do distractors affect saccade >accuracy? >Pages 1267-1274 >John M. Findlay, Hazel I. Blythe > 24. >Spatial >allocation of attention during smooth pursuit >eye movements >Pages 1275-1285 >Lee P. Lovejoy, Garth A. Fowler, Richard J. Krauzlis > 25. >Simple >summation rule for optimal fixation selection in >visual search >Pages 1286-1294 >Jiri Najemnik, Wilson S. Geisler > 26. >Bayesian >surprise attracts human attention >Pages 1295-1306 >Laurent Itti, Pierre Baldi > 27. >Saccade >trajectory deviations and inhibition-of-return: >Measuring the amount of attentional processing >Pages 1307-1315 >Jan Theeuwes, Stefan Van der Stigchel > 28. >Dynamic >interaction between "Go" and "Stop" signals in >the saccadic eye movement system: New evidence >against the functional independence of the >underlying neural mechanisms >Pages 1316-1328 >Anna Montagnini, Leonardo Chelazzi > 29. >Perceptual >objects capture attention >Pages 1329-1335 >Yaffa Yeshurun, Ruth Kimchi, Guy Sha'shoua, Tomer Carmel > 30. >The >role of judgment frames and task precision in >object attention: Reduced template sharpness >limits dual-object performance >Pages 1336-1351 >Shiau-Hua Liu, Barbara Anne Dosher, Zhong-Lin Lu > 31. >The >role of early visual cortex in visual short-term >memory and visual attention >Pages 1352-1362 >Shani Offen, Denis Schluppeck, David J. Heeger > 32. >Attention >and the detection of masked radial frequency >patterns: Data and model >Pages 1363-1377 >Philip L. Smith, Young-Eun Lee, Bradley J. Wolfgang, Roger Ratcliff > 33. >Personal >names do not always survive the attentional >blink: Behavioral evidence for a flexible locus >of selection >Pages 1378-1388 >Barry Giesbrecht, Jocelyn L. Sy, Megan K. 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Articles in this Special Issue will also be assembled into a book, and published by Brill as part of the Spatial Vision Perspectives series. PLEASE CONSIDER CONTRIBUTING! Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to): -psychophysical methodology -the limits of perception -thresholds and -scaling Contributions may be uploaded http://www.editorialmanager.com/sv/ Informal enquiries are also welcome. js PS On-line publication will be in advance of the actual anniversary! -- Joshua A. Solomon http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~solomon From hu at athena-marketing.de Mon Jun 15 04:10:31 2009 From: hu at athena-marketing.de (Holly Uhl) Date: Mon Jun 15 06:47:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD positions in Neuroengineering, Robotics and Navigation, Computing in Structural and Cell Biology, University of Luebeck, Germany Message-ID: <000e01c9eda9$e60716d0$b2154470$@de> PhD positions in Neuroengineering, Robotics and Navigation, Computing in Structural and Cell Biology, University of Luebeck, Germany The Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/) at the University of Luebeck invites applications for 3-year PhD scholarships in the fields of Brain Imaging, Robotics, Brain Plasticity, Navigation Methods, Neuroanatomy, Human-Computer Interfacing, Minimal Invasive Interventions, Computing in Structural and Cell Biology. Project details can be found at http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/?q=node/5. Application deadline: June 30, 2009. Requirements: Candidates are expected to have a master's degree (or its equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or engineering. Prior experiences in scientific publishing (during the university study or industry employment) are of advantage. Please prepare all the necessary documents and submit your application online: http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/?q=node/20. For further information, send email to: management@gradschool.uni-luebeck.de or visit our website at http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090615/a7b3ab4c/attachment.htm From M.J.Naumer at med.uni-frankfurt.de Mon Jun 15 05:39:56 2009 From: M.J.Naumer at med.uni-frankfurt.de (Marcus J. Naumer) Date: Mon Jun 15 06:47:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Assistant Professor position in Frankfurt am Main, Germany Message-ID: <009501c9edb6$6432c750$2c9855f0$@J.Naumer@med.uni-frankfurt.de> The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University of Frankfurt/Germany invites applications for a position at the Assistant Professor level in the areas of cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging. Employment duration will initially be limited to 2 years but can be extended. The limitation of the contract is based upon the regulations of the "Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz" in conjunction with the "Hessisches Hochschulgesetz". The salary will be based on BAT or the tariffs for German civil service employees. We expect the appointee to conduct vigorous independent research and participate in undergraduate training in medical psychology (in German). The Institute of Medical Psychology has its own 128-channel EEG laboratory, and we provide access to the magnetoencephalography (275 channel system) and functional magnetic resonance imaging facilities (two 3-Tesla research scanners) of the Frankfurt Brain Imaging Center. Candidates should have a background and hold a PhD (or be close to completion of their doctoral training) in Psychology, Biology, or Neuroscience. They should have experience with at least one neuroimaging technique (EEG/MEG or fMRI). Research achievements should be reflected by publications in international journals. Furthermore, the candidates should be fluent in English both orally and written. Good knowledge of statistics and programming skills are desirable. Applications of women are specifically invited. In case of similar qualifications, competence, and specific achievements, women will be considered on preferential terms within the framework of the legal possibilities. Handicapped candidates with equivalent qualifications will be given preference. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please send your application to: Prof. Jochen Kaiser Institut f?r Medizinische Psychologie Goethe-Universit?t Heinrich-Hoffmann-Stra?e 10 D-60528 Frankfurt am Main Germany j.kaiser@med.uni-frankfurt.de URL: http://www.imp.uni-frankfurt.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference is run like a workshop, with dynamic discussion sessions and social events that encourage deep interaction and collaboration across disciplines. This year, there will be special sessions on: - Visual, auditory and tactile texture - Brain imaging and perception - Attention and perception in multimedia search - Visualization and cognitiion in interactive exploration of massive data sets - Art and Perception - Artificial Retina The Call for Papers and Abstract submission Last year's program We'll look forward to seeing you in San Jose, Your conference chairs, Bernice E. Rogowitz , Vision and Visual Analysis Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas , Northwestern University and the 2010 Conference Committee : - Albert J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Center - Jan P. Allebach , Purdue University - Erhardt Barth , University of Luebeck - Walter R. Bender , MIT Media Lab - Michael H. Brill , Datacolor - John C. Dalton , Synthetik Software - Scott J. Daly , Sharp Labs of America - Huib de Ridder , Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) - Elena A. Fedorovskaya , Eastman Kodak Co. - Jennifer Gille , Raytheon Co. - Sheila Hemami , Cornell University - Laurent Itti , University of Southern California - Stanley A. Klein , University of California, Berkeley - Patrick LeCallet, Universite de Nantes - John J. McCann , McCann Imaging - Jeffrey B. Mulligan, NASA Ames Research Center - Karol Myszkowski , Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik (Germany) - Adar Pelah , University of York (United Kingdom) - Eli Peli , Harvard University - Hawley K. Rising III , Consultant - Sabine Susstrunk , EPFL (Switzerland) - Christopher W. Tyler , Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute - Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Center :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Bernice E. 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For information about the program, registration, and boat cruise, go to: http://viper.psych.purdue.edu/workshops/iwsphcv09/ Zyg Pizlo From JBorah at asleyetracking.com Thu Jun 18 11:40:05 2009 From: JBorah at asleyetracking.com (Josh Borah) Date: Thu Jun 18 11:42:44 2009 Subject: [visionlist] job opening for Tech Support Specialist as ASL Message-ID: <6E999ECAB12B6441B27B8312FA5E07F666E43E@server-sbs03.ASL.lan> Applied Science Laboratories has a job opening for a Technical Support Specialist. Applied Science Laboratories is an industry leader in video based Eye Trackers. The position will be located at corporate Headquarters just northwest of Boston in Bedford, Massachusetts. Primary responsibilities for this position will include phone, email on-line and on-site support of advanced video based Eye Tracking devices to provide complete customer satisfaction for a worldwide installation base. Additional responsibilities may include customer training in operation of installed devices. An ideal candidate will have outstanding inter-personal skills and enjoy being face to face with customers. Experience in Technical writing and/or html is preferred. A background in Eye Tracking Equipment or Eye Tracking Research will be a plus. Some background with electronics and/or optics is also a plus. This position will also offer opportunities to participate in new product development and to help customize installations for specific customer requirements. Expected travel will be up to 50%. Bachelors Degree, or equivalent, in a technical discipline required. Please send a cover letter and your resume to: HR@asleyetracking.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Improvements on the performance of traditional/novel vision techniques such as structure from motion, multi-view stereo, and image-based modeling have made high-end acquisition of 3D structure and motion a reality. Advances in sensor technologies such as depth camera, closer-range laser range finder, and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) permit to deploy modeling systems on terrestrial, airborne, static, moving, and even handheld platforms to quickly capture 3D structure of a large environment with high degree of accuracy. Progresses in computer graphics enable effective representation, rendering and visualization of photorealistic models on PCs. The advances in high-speed network allow effective delivery of 3D models throughout the networked world. As part of the ACCV 2009, the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop will bring together researchers to present results and innovations in all aspects of modeling and representation of large-scale 3D environments. The workshop seeks original high-quality research and application submissions. All submitted papers will be subject to a peer review process. Accepted papers will be published together with the proceedings of ACCV 2009 in electronic format by Springer. High-quality papers will be selected to appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Virtual Reality (IJVR) after the conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Scene reconstruction from multi-dimensional and multi-view images - Wide-area structure from motion and stereo - 3D scene modeling from multiple sensors - Real-time scene modeling from video - Range data analysis and processing - 3D shape and feature representation - Multi-sensor data fusion, alignment, and registration - 3D model simplification and compression - Stream processing for very large datasets - Appearance/illumination modeling and representation - Real-time, mobile 3D systems - Rending and visualization of large-scale models - Applications of large-scale models and modeling systems Important Dates --------------- - Paper submission due: July 5, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2009 - Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2009 - Workshop: September 24, 2009 Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Format: papers submitted for review and publication must follow the format specified for the main ACCV 2009 conference: author guidelines for paper submission to ACCV2009. The maximum paper length for review as well as for publication is 8 pages. Submission: paper must be submitted electronically in Adobe Acrobat PDF format at the Submission Website. Review: the review process is double-blind, so the paper must not include any information which allows the authors to be identified. This means that authors should not indicate their names or affiliations on the paper, acknowledgements must not be included in the manuscript, and references to authors' previous work must only be included in a form that does not link them to the authors. Organizers ---------- Suya You, University of Southern California, USA Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Wanquan Liu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Richard Xu, Charles Sturt University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Adrien Bartoli, CNRS, France Anup Basu, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Kostas Daniilidis Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Robert Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, USA Jan-Michael Frahm, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Shinsaku Hiura, Osaka University, Japan Jana Kosecka, George Mason University, USA Ze-Nian Li, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xuelong Li, Univ. of London, UK Suresh Lodha, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA Ajmal Saeed Mian, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia Philippos Mordohai, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California, USA Ramakant Nevatia, University of Southern California, USA Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University, China Charalambos Poullis, USC, USA Gerhard Roth, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Stamos, City University of New York, USA Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, Kyushu University, Japan Jun Takamatsu, Nara Inst. of Science & Tech, Japan Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin Univ. of Technology, Australia Guanghui Wang, Univ. of Windsor, Canada John Zelek, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Zhigang Zhu, City Univ. of New York, USA Contacts -------- For any question about the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop, please contact to: modeling3d2009@gmail.com http://graphics.usc.edu/~suyay/modeling3D2009.htm ========================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090619/f45e5252/attachment.htm From J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk Fri Jun 19 09:32:04 2009 From: J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk (Wann JP) Date: Fri Jun 19 10:04:58 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position, University of London In-Reply-To: <200906181921.n5IJKiX4042886@visionscience.com> References: <200906181921.n5IJKiX4042886@visionscience.com> Message-ID: Postdoctoral Position: Mechanisms in the control of ego-motion and collision avoidance Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham, Surrey: 16km from Heathrow Airport) 18 months appointment: Salary up to ?50,338 p.a. (inc EC mobility allowance) Initial Closing date: July 17th 2009 This position is funded by an EU Marie Curie Network project and will be based in the Dept of Psychology, Royal Holloway College, Univ of London, working with the Wann/Smith research groups. The wider network involves collaboration with groups at: Birmingham, UK, Paris, Marseille, Geissen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, Volvo Technology Sweden, Brain Innovation and VR Sense. Under the terms of EU Marie Curie funding, applicants for this post cannot be UK nationals or have spent more than 12 months in the UK during the 3 years previous to the start date of the position. John Wann's group (http://www.rdg.ac.uk/arl/) conducts research into the human perception in everyday settings, with specific interests in the control of steering and judgments of impending collision. Andy Smith's group conducts research into the neural processing of optic flow. (http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/vision/VRG-ATS.htm) The project will involve behavioural and fMRI studies of the control of ego-motion and errors in the perception of impending collisions. Initial queries can be made to J.P.Wann@rhul.ac.uk or A.T.Smith@rhul.ac.uk Further information about the Dept and scanner facility can be found at: http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/ http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/research/mri.htm An application form are available to download at www.rhul.ac.uk/personnel/jobvacancies.htm or from HR at recruitment@rhul.ac.uk or tel: 01784 414241. Please quote the reference X0609/5440 We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community ________________________________________ 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Recent advances in clinical imaging techniques have begun to allow us to study very early brain growth in vivo and in utero. These new types of image data of developing tissues pose new challenges to image analysis methodology, and motivate the development of new algorithms and computational techniques which can be of use in a wider range of medical imaging problems. This workshop will aim to explore work being carried out in this new emerging field. It will gather together research on both imaging and image analysis techniques related to studying the growth of the brain from early clinical fetal imaging using ultrasound and MRI, to imaging studies of neonates, children and adolescents. It will include research focused toward clinical imaging as well as basic neuroscience studies. We want to cover the specific challenges to image analysis in the changing brain, and aim to include work from imaging and motion correction, through image analysis of developing tissues, to statistical techniques for spatio-temporal data. We invite the submission of papers that both explore new image analysis methodology and that examine the adaptation and validation of current techniques to the problem of studying brain growth. Key dates ====== Submission of papers: June 29, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: August 14, 2009 Workshop: September 24, 2009 Paper submission guidelines ================= Submissions to the workshop should conform to the MICCAI 2009 paper submission guidelines with the exception of anonymity guidelines. Papers (up to 8 pages) should be submitted using the online system before the paper submission deadline. All submissions to the workshop will be refereed by the program committee members. Registration Registration must be conducted through the official MICCAI 2009 conference registration website. Chairs ==== Colin Studholme (University of California San Francisco) Francois Rousseau (University of Strasbourg) Program committee ============ James Barkovich (University of California San Francisco) Alan Colchester (University of Kent) Louis Collins (McGill University) John Gilmore (University of North Carolina) Orit Glenn (University of California San Francisco) Joseph Hajnal (Imperial College London) Michel Kocher (University of Applied Sciences) Gabriele Lohmann (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) Jean-Francois Mangin (Frederic Joliot Hospital Service) John Sled (University of Toronto) Neil Weisenfeld (Harvard University) -- -------------------------------- Francois Rousseau LSIIT UMR 7005 P?le API Boulevard S?bastien Brant F-67400 ILLKIRCH tel : +33 3 90 24 44 89 (LSIIT) tel : +33 3 90 24 40 45 (LINC) http://lsiit-miv.u-strasbg.fr/miv/fiche.php?id=19 -------------------------------- From davida at psych.usyd.edu.au Fri Jun 19 17:17:53 2009 From: davida at psych.usyd.edu.au (David Alais) Date: Fri Jun 19 18:04:28 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Fellow in Audio-Visual Psychophysics Message-ID: Postdoctoral Fellow in Audio-Visual Psychophysics School of Psychology Reference No. 146/0609 The University of Sydney is Australia's premier University with an outstanding reputation for academic and research excellence. It attracts more grant funding than any other Australian university. The School of Psychology (http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au) is Australia's oldest psychology department with a proud history of research achievement. The University is located near the centre of Sydney, a large and vibrant city full of diverse culture and blessed with a warm climate and beautiful beaches. Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship working with Associate Professor David Alais in the School of Psychology. The position will involve conducting psychophysical research in the area of audiovisual perception, with an emphasis on temporal processing. More information regarding research in the Alais laboratory can be found by visiting:http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/staff/davida Essential requirements for the position are (i) a PhD in psychology, auditory or visual science, or a similar field, and (ii) a demonstrated ability to conduct psychophysical research, including programming, executing and writing-up experiments for publication. Experience in programming audiovisual experiments in the Matlab environment would be an advantage. The successful applicant will work within a large and diverse community of visual perception researchers in the school of Psychology (Professor Anderson, A/Prof Clifford, Dr Holcombe, Dr Cass) and will work closely with the Alais laboratory's collaborators in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/research/labs/ auditory) and Electrical Engineering (www.ee.usyd.edu.au/research/allresearch/?group=carlab) who specialise in spatial hearing and high fidelity Virtual Auditory Space. The position is full-time for a fixed term of 2 years, with the possibility of extension for a further year subject to performance and funding. For any enquiries or further information, send email to David Alais at: davida@psych.usyd.edu.au Remuneration package: $79k-85k (which includes a base salary $67k - $72k p.a., leave loading and 17% employer's contribution to superannuation) For more information or to apply online, please visit http://usyd.nga.net.au/cp/ and search by reference number 146/0609. Closing: 8th July 2009 The University is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applications from equity target groups and women are encouraged. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment for financial or other reasons. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(all the presentations will given be in English) Tentative themes: 1) Time and consciousness 2) Electrophysiological approach towards consciousness 3) Reliability of subjective reports on phenomenology 4) Consciousness vs. Attention 5) The role of thalamus in consciousness Confirmed speakers: Ralph Adolphs (Caltech), Ned Block (NYU), Olivia Carter (U of Melbourne), John-Dylan Haynes (Humboldt-University Berlin), Ryota Kanai (UCL), Christof Koch (Caltech), Shin'ya Nishida (NTT Communication Science Lab), Petra Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf), Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Caltech), Melanie Wilke (Caltech, NIMH), Takamitsu Yamamoto (Nihon Univ.), & Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS) ---------------------- 2. THE 32nd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY (Neuroscience 2009) INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE CONFERENCE Corresponding Author: Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu@gmail.com) Further information: http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/index.html Date:September 16th-18th, 2009 Plenary Lectures - Christof Koch, Professor (Caltech) - Barry W. Connors, Professor (Brown Univ.) Special Lectures - Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan) There will be two associated symposia, closely related to the topic of the neuronal basis of consciousness: 1. Frontier of neuroscientific research on consciousness 2. Neuronal mechanisms of visual illusions : empirical approaches from psychophysics, brain stimulation, electrophysiology, and pharmacology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The studentships will start in September 2009. Further information on the topics/research areas are available online at: http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/CareerDevStudentship.html Eligibility Candidates should have an academic background in Psychology holding (or expecting to hold by September 09) a postgraduate Masters level qualification or equivalent and be eligible to apply for PhD level study at the University of Edinburgh. Students entering the second year of their PhD Psychology study at the University of Edinburgh are also encouraged to apply. Both International and Home/EU students are eligible to apply although please note that the tuition fees provided in the studentship are at a Home/EU level only. Application Procedure Candidates are invited to apply through the University of Edinburgh online application system (EUCLID); please ensure that you note your intention to apply for this studentship under the funding section of the application form. When you submit your application, please also email pplspg@ed.ac.uk to indicate that you have done so. The application form and further guidance is available online at: http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/CareerDevStudentship.html If you have already submitted an application for PhD Psychology and would like to be considered for these studentships, please email pplspg@ed.ac.uk to register your interest. Deadline for application: Friday 10th July 2009 Selection Process Short listed candidates will be invited to attend an interview at the University of Edinburgh. Successful candidates will be informed by Friday 14th August 2009 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From michael.hoffmann at med.ovgu.de Mon Jun 22 02:30:08 2009 From: michael.hoffmann at med.ovgu.de (Michael Hoffmann) Date: Mon Jun 22 06:30:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] POSTDOC/PhD POSITION IN VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE, UNIVERSITY MAGDEBURG, GERMANY Message-ID: <2F932F70-4A84-4084-BC9A-A6637C5D71EE@med.ovgu.de> POSTDOC/PhD POSITION IN VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE, UNIVERSITY MAGDEBURG, GERMANY A PostDoc/PhD position is available in Michael Hoffmann?s lab (Visual Processing Lab, Ophthalmic Department of the University of Magdeburg) with a focus on non-invasive investigations of the organization and plasticity of the human visual system. The interdisciplinary research project will involve patient studies using up-to-date research facilities such as fMRI at 3 and 7 Tesla, multifocal electroretinography/visual evoked potentials, and scanning laser ophthalmoscope investigations. The position is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for two years with the potential of an extension. It is available now, the exact starting date is flexible. The payment will be commensurate with E13 TVL for PostDoc, or 50% E13 TVL for PhD candidates. The ideal candidate has an outstanding interest in the organization and plasticity of the visual system, is highly motivated to work in an interdisciplinary team, and experienced in non-invasive electrophysiology, fMRI, Mat-Lab programming, and/or patient studies. Applicants with a background in biology, physics, psychology, computing, medicine etc., will be considered. The candidate will be embedded in the Magdeburg neuroscience environment, a thriving community of scientists investigating key-aspects of brain research with a large variety of state-of-the-art techniques. Informal enquiries for specific information on the project and electronic applications are welcome by PD Dr. Michael Hoffmann: michael.hoffmann@med.ovgu.de Information about the Visual Processing Lab is available at _________________________________ 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090622/0503fd0d/attachment.htm From Y.A.W.d.Kort at tue.nl Sun Jun 21 20:38:34 2009 From: Y.A.W.d.Kort at tue.nl (Kort, Y.A.W. de) Date: Mon Jun 22 06:30:30 2009 Subject: [visionlist] EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 early bird closes TODAY, preliminary program posted Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Today, Monday 22 June, the early bird registration for EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 closes. Our keynote speakers are Jim TETLOW - television and theatrical lighting designer, principal of Nautilus Entertainment Design, and the Lighting Designer for the US Presidential Debates - and Martine KNOOP - senior application specialist at the LiDAC International (Lighting Design and Application Center) of Philips Lighting, focusing on lighting solutions for physical and mental wellbeing. Their short bios are now posted on the conference website. Also, you will find there the preliminary program, listing the full papers that were accepted for presentation. For more information see the conference website: http://www.experiencinglight.nl Or contact el2009@tue.nl On behalf of the organising committee: Yvonne de Kort, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Ingrid Vogels, Marielle Aarts, Ariadne Tenner, and Karin Smolders EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 International conference on the effects of light on wellbeing 26-27 October 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands www.experiencinglight.nl EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 is an international two-day scientific conference for those interested in the effects of light and light design on human wellbeing. It approaches wellbeing in its broadest sense, including mood, emotions, subjective and objective health, comfort, atmosphere perception, productivity and performance. From mlappe at uni-muenster.de Mon Jun 22 08:18:54 2009 From: mlappe at uni-muenster.de (Lappe Markus) Date: Mon Jun 22 09:51:48 2009 Subject: [visionlist] JUNIOR GROUP LEADER VISION / COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE Message-ID: JUNIOR GROUP LEADER VISION / COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE A junior group leader position in vision or computational neuroscience is available in the lab of Prof. Markus Lappe at the Dept. of Psychology, University of M?nster, Germany. The position is funded by the University on government scale (A13, ?Akademischer Rat?) for 3 years with a possible extension to 6 years. Candidates should have a PhD in psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics or biology, a strong background in cognitive or computational neuroscience, and an interest in working on problems of visual perception, visual control of action, social interaction, or decision making. The successful candidate is expected to establish an independent research program and attract outside funding. Start-up funding for a PhD student is negotiable. The successful candidate is further expected to teach four hours per week in the BSc. and MSc. programs in Psychology and contribute to the PhD program of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (occ- muenster.de). Earliest starting date is Oct. 1, 2009. The lab of Prof. Markus Lappe pursues a theoretical and model-driven approach to experimental psychology/neuroscience in the field of visual perception and its cognitive control. We form an interdisciplinary research community with members coming from psychology, biology, physics, computer science, mathematics, and electrical engineering. The lab is funded by the DFG, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and several European Projects. The Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience provides an attractive multidisciplinary PhD program to train graduate students. The University of M?nster is one of the largest universities in Germany and situated in ?the world?s most liveable city? (LivCom Award 2004). Information about current projects in the lab is available at http://wwwpsy.uni-muenster.de/Psychologie.inst2/AELappe/en/ Please send applications by Aug.1, 2009 per email (PDF preferred) to mlappe@uni-muenster.de . The university is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants will receive priority in case they have equal qualifications. --- Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe Psychological Institute II & Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Westf. Wilhelms-University Fliednerstrasse 21 48149 M?nster Germany Tel. +49-251-83-34172 Fax +49-251-83-34173 mlappe@uni-muenster.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090622/422d765a/attachment.htm From mandon at brain.uni-bremen.de Mon Jun 22 10:51:44 2009 From: mandon at brain.uni-bremen.de (Sunita Mandon) Date: Mon Jun 22 10:54:49 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Position in Neuroscience, Bremen, Germany Message-ID: <63F3B7C148004F208148213971C9A105@brain.unibremen.de> The Center for Cognitive Sciences invites applications for 1 PhD Student Position in a BMBF funded project developing an intracranial wireless recording and stimulation device for neurological diagnostics, therapy and neuroprosthetics. The device will allow recordings of local field potential and cortical stimulation with high spatial resolution. In experiments with rats and macaques functionality and long-term stability of the device will be tested. Relevant aspects of neural coding and selective attention will be investigated together with the Bernstein Group for Computational Neurosciences Bremen. The project will be performed in co-operation with our partners in engineering science, theoretical physics, University Hospital of Bonn, an industrial partner and the Center for Neurotechnology Bremen. The successful candidate should have excellent academic records, a profound interest in neuroscience and its methodological aspects and a strong background in neurophysiology. Programming skills are of advantage. The position is available immediately for a period of 3 years. Contact: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kreiter Institute for Brain Research University of Bremen, FB Hochschulring 16 a 28359 Bremen Germany kreiter@brain.uni-bremen.de For details and informal discussion about the project please contact Prof. Kreiter on +49 (0)421 218-9093. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090622/43e552eb/attachment-0001.htm From jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu Fri Jun 26 07:01:45 2009 From: jripton at rcbi.rochester.edu (Judy Ripton) Date: Fri Jun 26 07:33:35 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Technician in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - University of Rochester, NY In-Reply-To: <4A203184.8010009@rcbi.rochester.edu> References: <4A203184.8010009@rcbi.rochester.edu> Message-ID: <4A44D4C9.9020600@rcbi.rochester.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090626/c147361a/attachment.htm From suyay at graphics.usc.edu Sun Jun 28 03:32:22 2009 From: suyay at graphics.usc.edu (Suya You) Date: Sun Jun 28 04:02:09 2009 Subject: [visionlist] *** DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JULY 20th *** ACCV 2009 Workshop on Representation and Modeling of Large-scale 3D Environments (Modeling-3D) Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20090628033136.0426d408@graphics.usc.edu> Due to numerous requests, the deadline for the paper submission has been extended. *** DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JULY 20th *** =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 2009 International Workshop on Representation and Modeling of Large-scale 3D Environments (Modeling-3D) (In conjunction with ACCV'2009) Xian, China, September 24, 2009 http://graphics.usc.edu/~suyay/modeling3D2009.htm Important Dates --------------- - Paper submission due: July 20, 2009 (updated) - Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2009 - Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2009 - Workshop: September 24, 2009 ============================================================ Recent advances in sensor and modeling technologies enable the development of novel techniques that offer both feasibility and robust performance on reconstruction of large-scale environments. Improvements on the performance of traditional/novel vision techniques such as structure from motion, multi-view stereo, and image-based modeling have made high-end acquisition of 3D structure and motion a reality. Advances in sensor technologies such as depth camera, closer-range laser range finder, and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) permit to deploy modeling systems on terrestrial, airborne, static, moving, and even handheld platforms to quickly capture 3D structure of a large environment with high degree of accuracy. Progresses in computer graphics enable effective representation, rendering and visualization of photorealistic models on PCs. The advances in high-speed network allow effective delivery of 3D models throughout the networked world. As part of the ACCV 2009, the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop will bring together researchers to present results and innovations in all aspects of modeling and representation of large-scale 3D environments. The workshop seeks original high-quality research and application submissions. All submitted papers will be subject to a peer review process. Accepted papers will be published together with the proceedings of ACCV 2009 in electronic format by Springer. High-quality papers will be selected to appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Virtual Reality (IJVR) after the conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Scene reconstruction from multi-dimensional and multi-view images - Wide-area structure from motion and stereo - 3D scene modeling from multiple sensors - Real-time scene modeling from video - Range data analysis and processing - 3D shape and feature representation - Multi-sensor data fusion, alignment, and registration - 3D model simplification and compression - Stream processing for very large datasets - Appearance/illumination modeling and representation - Real-time, mobile 3D systems - Rending and visualization of large-scale models - Applications of large-scale models and modeling systems Important Dates --------------- - Paper submission due: July 20, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2009 - Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2009 - Workshop: September 24, 2009 Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Format: papers submitted for review and publication must follow the format specified for the main ACCV 2009 conference: author guidelines for paper submission to ACCV2009. The maximum paper length for review as well as for publication is 8 pages. Submission: paper must be submitted electronically in Adobe Acrobat PDF format at the Submission Website. Review: the review process is double-blind, so the paper must not include any information which allows the authors to be identified. This means that authors should not indicate their names or affiliations on the paper, acknowledgements must not be included in the manuscript, and references to authors' previous work must only be included in a form that does not link them to the authors. Organizers ---------- Suya You, University of Southern California, USA Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Wanquan Liu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Richard Xu, Charles Sturt University, Australia Program Committee ----------------- Adrien Bartoli, CNRS, France Anup Basu, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Kostas Daniilidis Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Robert Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, USA Jan-Michael Frahm, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Shinsaku Hiura, Osaka University, Japan Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jana Kosecka, George Mason University, USA Ze-Nian Li, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xuelong Li, Univ. of London, UK Suresh Lodha, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA Ajmal Saeed Mian, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia Philippos Mordohai, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California, USA Ramakant Nevatia, University of Southern California, USA Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University, China Charalambos Poullis, USC, USA Gerhard Roth, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Stamos, City University of New York, USA Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, Kyushu University, Japan Jun Takamatsu, Nara Inst. of Science & Tech, Japan Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin Univ. of Technology, Australia Guanghui Wang, Univ. of Windsor, Canada John Zelek, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Zhigang Zhu, City Univ. of New York, USA Contacts -------- For any question about the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop, please contact to: modeling3d2009@gmail.com http://graphics.usc.edu/~suyay/modeling3D2009.htm ========================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please note that > submitting an abstract and registering for the conference are two > separate processes. > > The 2009 OSA Vision Meeting promises to be our most exciting to > date. Set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, it features a range of > invited sessions with world-class lecturers speaking on a wide range > of topics including The Melanopsin Pathway, Theraputic Approaches to > Vision Loss, When and Where to Move the Eyes and Visual Cortical > Maps on Multiple Scales. In addition, for the first time this year > we will be running a special session entitled 'Classics of Vision > Science' where four of the most influential vision science papers of > the past 50 years will be presented by one of their original authors. > > The conference program runs from the 24th to the 27th September. In > addition to a packed academic program, there will be a banquet > dinner on the evening of the 25th at the UW Faculty Club. Tickets > for this banquet may be purchased at the same time as the > registration. > > Finally, conference accommodation at a special rate has been > arranged at two local hotels > http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/conf/index.php/2009/VM2009/schedConf/accommodation > > > We look forward to seeing you in Seattle! > > Alex Wade (Chair, OSA Vision Division) > Joseph Carroll (Vice Chair, OSA Vision Division) > Ione Fine (Local Organizing Committee) > Steven Buck (Local Organizing Committee) Forwarded by the VisionList Editor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you have submitted a presentation to ECVP and you > are a student, joining the Optical Society of America may be an even > better investment that it normally is. > > Membership forms and online applications are available here > > http://www.osa.org/membership/join/default.aspx > > Best wishes > > > Alex > > -- > 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 Forwarded by the VisionList Editor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090629/6b57e6da/attachment.htm From becker54 at msu.edu Mon Jun 29 06:34:37 2009 From: becker54 at msu.edu (Mark W. Becker) Date: Mon Jun 29 06:52:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Job Posting Message-ID: <200906291334.n5TDYe8h072471@visionscience.com> Please post the following job announcement. The Perception and Attention Lab at Michigan State University is seeking a full time lab manager. The lab is headed by Mark W. Becker, PhD. and uses a combination of behavioral methods and eye tracking to investigate the role of attention in visual perception. Currently, our main projects include investigating how emotional stimuli and one's mood influence attentional processing and investigating the interactions between working memory and attention. The position requires a bachelors degree in Psychology or a related field, knowledge of the scientific method and statistics, and basic computer skills. Ability to program (e-prime, matlab, C++, visual basic, or python) and familiarity with SPSS would be a plus. The main duties will be to oversee day to day operations of the lab, run subjects, and analyze data. The manager will also assist with programming of experiments, writing of human subjects proposals, and performing background literature reviews. More information about the lab is available at https://www.msu.edu/~becker54/lab/labindex.htm. The position requires a one year commitment and is ideal for a recent graduate who is seeking additional research experience before applying to graduate school. For additional information or to apply please contact Mark Becker at becker54@msu.edu. Thanks, Mark Mark W. Becker Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 (517) 432-3367 becker54@msu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090629/52005e26/attachment.htm From erlars at erlars.org Mon Jun 29 14:47:05 2009 From: erlars at erlars.org (ERLARS Workshop) Date: Mon Jun 29 15:59:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2nd CFP: ERLARS 2009 - Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (IROS 2009 Workshop) Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once!] THE SUBMISSION HAS BEEN OPENED ************************************************************************ ERLARS 2009 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS Held in conjunction with IROS 2009 in St. Louis, USA on October 15, 2009 Submission deadline: July 5, 2009 http://www.erlars.org/2009/ ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS Objectives Learning is essential for an autonomous robot system. The range of unexpected situations it can handle while performing its task depends on its ability to adapt. Recent developments have taken autonomous robots beyond industrial settings, for example at home as toys and cleaners. However, production models usually interact with their environment following a fixed control strategy, which limits their range of application. More adaptable robots require control strategies that learn more and better from interactions with their environment. The ERLARS workshop addresses the challenge to develop efficient and versatile learning architectures for autonomous robot systems, with the main focus on adequate evolutionary and reinforcement learning algorithms. Relevant Topics Papers are invited on all aspects of learning methods for the control of autonomous robot systems, including, but not limited to: * Model-free visual servoing * Mobile robot navigation by means of reinforcement learning * Combining offline- and online learning methods for robot control * Reinforcement learning by evolutionary algorithms of neural network-based and other robot controllers * Hybrid systems that combine modelling and parameter estimation by reinforcement learning * Learning from scratch and cascaded learning architectures * Developmental and epigenetic robotics * Balancing exploration and exploitation of acquired knowledge * Simulated environments for autonomous robot learning scenarios Important Dates * July 5, 2009: Paper submission deadline * August 10, 2009: Notification of paper acceptance * August 23, 2009: Camera ready paper submission * October 15, 2009: Workshop takes place Workshop Chairs Nils T Siebel Cognitive Systems Group, Institute of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Kiel, Germany Josef Pauli Intelligent Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg, Germany Programme Committee Andrew Barto (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Peter D?rr (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) Christian Igel (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany) Yohannes Kassahun (DFKI Lab Bremen, University of Bremen, Germany) Takanori Koga (Yamaguchi University, Japan) Tim Kovacs (University of Bristol, UK) Jun Ota (University of Tokyo, Japan) Josef Pauli (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Jan Peters (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, T?bingen, Germany) Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK) Marcello Restelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Stefan Schiffer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Juergen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland) Marc Toussaint (TU Berlin, Germany) Nils T Siebel (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany) Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham, UK) ************************************************************************ More information on the workshop website: http://www.erlars.org/ ************************************************************************ From mitroff at duke.edu Mon Jun 29 14:02:25 2009 From: mitroff at duke.edu (Stephen Mitroff) Date: Mon Jun 29 15:59:54 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Lab Manager Position - Stephen Mitroff's lab @ Duke University Message-ID: Announcing a full time lab manager position in Stephen Mitroff's Visual Cognition Lab at Duke University. Research projects focus on individual differences in, and the malleability of, visual perception and attention. Study topics include what makes one individual a better visual searcher than another, how visual search abilities can be enhanced and trained, and how visual cognition can be altered through prior experiences and training regimens. The research program focus on several applied topics including athletics, security, and military searches. The position requires a Bachelor's degree and basic computer skills (programming knowledge is preferred but not required). Duties include recruiting and running subjects, managing undergraduate research assistants, overseeing day-to-day operations, and helping with data analysis. Organizational skills are a must. A one year commitment is required. Interested applicants should email Stephen Mitroff at mitroff@duke.edu and include a CV/Resume and the names and contact information for 2 references. The start date will be between August 1st and September 1st, 2009. Information about the research program can be seen here: http://www.mitrofflab.org From mitroff at duke.edu Mon Jun 29 14:02:43 2009 From: mitroff at duke.edu (Stephen Mitroff) Date: Mon Jun 29 16:00:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc Position - Stephen Mitroff's lab @ Duke University Message-ID: Announcing a postdoctoral position in Stephen Mitroff's Visual Cognition Lab at Duke University. The postdoc will collaborate on psychophysical studies that investigate individual differences in, and the malleability of, visual perception and attention. Studies focus on what makes one individual a better visual searcher than another, how visual search abilities can be enhanced and trained, and how visual cognition can be altered through prior experiences and training regimens. The research program focus on several applied topics including athletics, security, and military searches. Knowledge of vision research and programming abilities (MATLAB/Psychtoolbox preferred) are required. Given funding sources, the position is limited to US citizens and Permanent Residents. The position is for one year with an option for longer, contingent upon continued funding. The earliest start date is August 1st, 2009 but later is possible. Interested applicants should email Stephen Mitroff at mitroff@duke.edu and include a CV and the names and contact information for 2 references. Information about the research program can be seen here: http://www.mitrofflab.org From deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au Mon Jun 29 22:50:10 2009 From: deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au (Deborah Apthorp) Date: Mon Jun 29 23:52:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Data projector pixel decay times Message-ID: <4A49A792.3000107@psych.usyd.edu.au> Hi all, I'm normally a psychophysicist, but am about to embark on some fMRI work. I'm very new to all this, but was surprised to learn that it's usual to use an LCD projector with nominal 60Hz refresh rate to present stimuli in the scanner. Since I plan to do motion experiments, I'm rather concerned about the decay times on the projector and I need to know how long it will be before something I draw onto the screen will disappear. I gather that CRT monitors (which we usually use in the lab) have a phosphor decay of between 2 & 4 ms - I know the projector will be slower, but does anyone know exactly how much slower? The projector is an NEC LT 158, if that is useful to know. I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone has data on this. Thanks, Deborah Apthorp (University of Sydney, Australia) From ionefine at u.washington.edu Tue Jun 30 06:00:52 2009 From: ionefine at u.washington.edu (Ione Fine) Date: Tue Jun 30 06:28:47 2009 Subject: [visionlist] OSA Fall Vision Meeting - DEADLINE EXTENSION CORRECTION - DEADLINE JULY 7th In-Reply-To: <045401c9f8f7$f75b5be0$e61213a0$@washington.edu> References: <045401c9f8f7$f75b5be0$e61213a0$@washington.edu> Message-ID: <002701c9f982$cd2d90f0$6788b2d0$@washington.edu> My apologies, the deadline is July 7th. Ione We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission and early registration deadline for this year's OSA Fall Vision Meeting has been extended to JULY 7th. Online registration is available at the OSA meeting registration page. Online registration will still be available until the 10th of September after which registration must be performed on the door. Also, a reminder that the abstract deadline is midnight PST on July 1st (next Wednesday). To submit an abstract for the 2009 OSA Fall Vision Meeting, go to the online call for papers. Please note that submitting an abstract and registering for the conference are two separate processes. The 2009 OSA Vision Meeting promises to be our most exciting to date. Set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, it features a range of invited sessions with world-class lecturers speaking on a wide range of topics including The Melanopsin Pathway, Theraputic Approaches to Vision Loss, When and Where to Move the Eyes and Visual Cortical Maps on Multiple Scales. In addition, for the first time this year we will be running a special session entitled 'Classics of Vision Science' where four of the most influential vision science papers of the past 50 years will be presented by one of their original authors. The conference program runs from the 24th to the 27th September. In addition to a packed academic program, there will be a banquet dinner on the evening of the 25th at the UW Faculty Club. Tickets for this banquet may be purchased at the same time as the registration. Finally, conference accommodation at a special rate has been arranged at two local hotels http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/conf/index.php/2009/VM2009/schedConf/accommo dation We look forward to seeing you in Seattle! Alex Wade (Chair, OSA Vision Division) Joseph Carroll (Vice Chair, OSA Vision Division) Ione Fine (Local Organizing Committee) Steven Buck (Local Organizing Committee) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090630/00234cfd/attachment.htm From Laura.Cook at orau.org Tue Jun 30 12:41:46 2009 From: Laura.Cook at orau.org (Cook, Laura) Date: Tue Jun 30 15:47:42 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Job Posting Message-ID: <3B1B40BF9A684D49B927F7BE5CEE1D66266C8506@zirconium.orau.net> Dear Vision Science Career Representative: I am a subscriber and would like to post the following job to your web site (see below). Here are the details: Where: Washington-DC area What: Post-doctoral/Visiting Scientist Research: Visual Science and Visual Cognition in Imagery Analysis Post-doctoral opportunity for researchers in vision and/or attention Visiting Scientist Fellowship Program Visual Science and Visual Cognition in Imagery Analysis Project PROJECT #NGA-LC-2009-16 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. Geospatial intelligence is the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Information collected and processed by NGA is tailored for customer-specific solutions. By giving customers ready access to geospatial intelligence, NGA provides support to civilian and military leaders and contributes to the state of readiness of U.S. military forces. NGA also contributes to humanitarian efforts such as tracking floods and fires and in peacekeeping. NGA is a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, NGA operates major facilities in the St. Louis, MO and Washington, D.C. areas. The Agency also fields support teams worldwide. PROJECT DETAILS Complex visual search and object recognition tasks are major components of NGA's mission. Typical "Stimuli" are overhead and terrestrial images of intelligence value. Both motion imagery and still images are used. NGA analysts monitor some facilities on a regular basis; in addition, they are expected to discern anomalies and changes for geographic areas that are not closely monitored. A typical task might be something like "find all the churches in this urban setting" or "count the cattle in this field"; another assignment might be to determine if there is anything "new or unusual" in a rural setting. NGA is looking to appoint one or more post-doctoral researchers with backgrounds in vision and/or attention to collaborate with imagery analysts and with scientists who are seeking to improve the agency's performance in imagery analysis. Selected scientists would have the opportunity to observe intelligence analysts at work. They would help to outline a framework for an overall research program, influence and evaluate tools and methods intended to improve analyst performance, and perform research of interest to NGA. This appointment may include, but is not limited to, the following tasks: * Develop approximations of intelligence analysis tasks that might be used in unclassified (e.g. university) research environments * Identify variables that could have an impact on analyst performance, e.g., input data, quality, presentation mode, analyst background and expectations, work environment, etc. * Identify basic research findings likely to be applicable to the NGA setting * Identify factors that limit the applicability of those basic findings to the NGA setting * Develop methods for evaluating behavioral changes in an operational setting Several appointments are available at NGA sites or mutually agreeable facilities. INDIRECT BENEFITS OF POSITION Selected fellows will have the opportunity to perform research on topics of interest to the U.S. Government and to interact with leading scientists performing research and/or advising NGA. NGA's extensive partnering relationships with other government agencies will expose fellows to a broad government research community. Program participants will have the opportunity to meet government decision-makers and learn directly from them about the role of scientific research in government activities. Furthermore, fellows have the opportunity to learn how research products transition from the proof-of-concept stage to integrated production systems. ELIGIBILITY * Student applicants must be completing a Ph.D. or post-doctoral appointment in a field related to vision and/or attention in a work environment. * Current college or university faculty members on sabbatical are also eligible. * Other applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis. * Applicants should have experience in working within a research environment and show an ability to conceptualize a broad research agenda and to plan and execute specific research projects, and to meet task deadlines and goals. Applicants should have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Modern computer skills and experience in scientific programming, data visualization, or 3-D graphics are also desirable. * U.S. citizenship is required for the applicant. Please see further eligibility under Security Requirements. * A background check will be conducted for a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance. Completion of a Questionnaire for National Security Positions is required. Details can be found under the Security Requirements section. * NGA is a drug-free workplace. Initial and random drug tests will be conducted. BASIS OF SELECTION Participants will be selected based on a 4-page maximum statement of research interests, relevant experience, academic performance, overall technical expertise, publications, recommendations, and compatibility of background with basic and applied research programs and projects at NGA and/or the host installation. STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS The statement of research interests should describe previous research experience and outline the relevance to this project. The research interest statement is a significant component of the selection criteria and should be no longer than four-pages. NGA and the selected candidate will work cooperatively to define mutual research assignments and goals in support of the NGA mission and the candidate's educational pursuits. APPOINTMENT TERM AND WORK ENVIRONMENT The initial appointment period will vary from 3 months to one year. The appointment may be renewed for up to three periods based upon recommendation of NGA and subject to availability of funds. This is a full time residency appointment with NGA. Work will require SCI clearances and drug testing, and work will not begin until all security processes and drug testing are completed successfully. Applicants should be aware that due to security requirements, applications should be submitted no later than 6 months prior to desired start date. During the entire period of the award, participants must devote their activities to the approved research program and must be in-residence at an NGA facility or other approved facility and not at their home institution. NGA operates major facilities in the St. Louis, MO and the Washington, D.C. area. D.C. area facilities will move to Springfield, VA, in 2011. NGA approval is required before participants may accept additional monetary aid or other remuneration from another fellowship appointment or similar grant during the period of award. Participants will be working in a classified environment. Approval for any publication of articles or presentations during the appointment is subject to the NGA process for public release of information. The requirement for publications and presentations to undergo a NGA public release process extends beyond the term of the appointment when a research product, article, or presentation contains information directly arising from participation in the appointment. For inventions conceived of or reduced to practice during the appointment, the fellow shall assign to NGA a perpetual world-wide royalty-free non-exclusive irrevocable license to practice the invention on behalf of the Government. An intern or fellow may hold a copyright in information created by the intern or fellow during the appointment. COMPENSATION The selected candidate will receive a monthly stipend. The stipend rate is determined based upon level of education, training, and experience. Inbound travel and moving expenses may be considered and reimbursed according to established policies. Limited travel and other costs will also be reimbursed for training related to the project as approved by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) and the host installation. The participant does not become an NGA employee, and there are no fringe benefits paid. The participant must show proof of health and medical insurance. Health plans are available through ORISE for Postgraduate Internship or Fellowship participants. The monthly stipend is intended to cover costs for health and medical insurance. NGA does not provide additional compensation for these expenses. APPLICATION Applications are accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis. Selections are made as openings occur throughout the year. NGA expects there to be multiple positions. The Visiting Scientist Program for NGA is administered by ORISE. A complete application package consists of: * Application form or a current curriculum vitae containing the information on the form * 2 completed reference forms * 4-page maximum statement of research interests * Optional demographic form Please reference Project #NGA-LC-2009-16 when calling, emailing, or writing for information. For immediate consideration applicants may forward their resumes or curriculum vitae to the email address listed at the end of this announcement. Additional information and application material can be found on the following website www.orau.org/maryland. SECURITY REQUIREMENTS The program is open to qualified U.S. citizens ONLY without regard to race, sex, religion, color, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, or status as a Vietnam era or disabled veteran. * The "Questionnaire for National Security Positions," Standard Form 86 (SF-86) and "Fingerprint Chart," Standard Form 87 (SF-87) September 04 must be completed by the selectee to initiate a background investigation. These forms must be received within two weeks of selection for an appointment, and required clarification must be completed within two weeks of request. * Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) required (may take 4-5 months to complete). Applicants who claim dual citizenship or hold foreign passports are not eligible for DoD granted security clearances. Clearance determinations are based upon careful consideration of the following: o Allegiance to the United States o Foreign Influence o Foreign Preference o Sexual Behavior o Personal Conduct o Financial Considerations o Alcohol Consumption o Drug Involvement o Emotional, Mental, and Personality Disorders o Criminal Conduct o Security Violations o Outside Activities o Misuse of Information Technology Systems * Applicants must undergo a comprehensive background investigation and be adjudicated in accordance with the guidelines set by "Director of Central Intelligence Directive 6/4" and DoD 5200.2-R, "Department of Defense Personnel Security Program Regulation." Available, reliable information about the person, past and present, favorable and unfavorable will be considered in reaching a determination. Each case will be judged on its own merits, and any doubt concerning personnel being considered for access to classified information will be resolved in favor of national security. * A counterintelligence polygraph may be required. * NGA is a drug-free workplace. Initial and random drug tests will be conducted. CONTACT INFORMATION Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education 4692 Millennium Drive, Suite 101 Belcamp, MD 21017 Email: ORAUMaryland@orau.org Fax: (410) 306-9306 Web : www.orau.org/Maryland Thank you, Laura Cook Laura Cook Recruiter Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) | Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) 4692 Millennium Drive | Suite 101 | Belcamp, MD 21017 (Office): 410.306.9200 x104 | (Blackberry): 410.925.1803 | (Fax): 410.306.9306 Email: Laura.Cook@ORAU.org Web: www.ORAU.org/Maryland We now have a new on-line application at: https://www.orau.org/orise_maryland/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090701/8faa2413/attachment.htm From announcements at journalofvision.org Wed Jul 1 17:04:39 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Wed Jul 1 17:08:50 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 6 Message-ID: <2E4FCE85AF00435F8BA2359CEC4853E5@jov> Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 6 http://journalofvision.org/9/6/ Articles Long-lasting modulation of feature integration by transcranial magnetic stimulation Frank Scharnowski Johannes R?ter Jacob Jolij Frouke Hermens Thomas Kammer Michael H. Herzog http://journalofvision.org/9/6/1/ Color-selective attention need not be mediated by spatial attention S?ren K. Andersen Matthias M. M?ller Steven A. Hillyard http://journalofvision.org/9/6/2/ Integration of vision and haptics during tool use Chie Takahashi J?rn Diedrichsen Simon J. Watt http://journalofvision.org/9/6/3/ Accommodative lag and fluctuations when optical aberrations are manipulated Enrique Gambra Lucie Sawides Carlos Dorronsoro Susana Marcos http://journalofvision.org/9/6/4/ Background motion and the perception of shape defined by illusory contours Wang O. Li Sieu K. Khuu Anthony Hayes http://journalofvision.org/9/6/5/ Implicitly perceived objects attract gaze during later free viewing Yoni Pertzov Ehud Zohary Galia Avidan http://journalofvision.org/9/6/6/ The temporal advantage for individuating objects of expertise: Perceptual expertise is an early riser Kim M. Curby Isabel Gauthier http://journalofvision.org/9/6/7/ The initial representation of individual faces in the right occipito-temporal cortex is holistic: Electrophysiological evidence from the composite face illusion Corentin Jacques Bruno Rossion http://journalofvision.org/9/6/8/ Stereo and motion Dmax in infants John Wattam-Bell http://journalofvision.org/9/6/9/ Asymmetric interaction between motion and stereopsis revealed by concurrent adaptation Wonyeong Sohn Sang-Hun Lee http://journalofvision.org/9/6/10/ Short- and long-term plasticity of eye position information: Examining perceptual, attentional, and motor influences on perisaccadic perception Antonella C. Kis Vaughan W. A. Singh Matthias Niemeier http://journalofvision.org/9/6/11/ Blur on the retina due to higher-order aberrations: Comparison of eye growth models to experimental data Jennifer J. Hunter Melanie C. W. Campbell Marsha L. Kisilak Elizabeth L. Irving http://journalofvision.org/9/6/12/ The influence of shape and skeletal axis structure on texture perception Sarah J. Harrison Jacob Feldman http://journalofvision.org/9/6/13/ A new "tilt" illusion reveals the relation between border ownership and border binding Sergio Roncato Clara Casco http://journalofvision.org/9/6/14/ Critical features for the perception of emotion from gait Claire L. Roether Lars Omlor Andrea Christensen Martin A. Giese http://journalofvision.org/9/6/15/ Adaptation and prolonged inhibition as a main cause of motion-induced blindness Andrei Gorea Florent Caetta http://journalofvision.org/9/6/16/ Peripheral optical errors and their change with accommodation differ between emmetropic and myopic eyes Linda Lundstr?m Alejandro Mira-Agudelo Pablo Artal http://journalofvision.org/9/6/17/ Holistic crowding of Mooney faces Faraz Farzin Susan M. Rivera David Whitney http://journalofvision.org/9/6/18/ Understanding rapid category detection via multiply degraded images Chetan Nandakumar Jitendra Malik http://journalofvision.org/9/6/19/ Does the Chromatic Mach bands effect exist? Avital Tsofe Hedva Spitzer Shmuel Einav http://journalofvision.org/9/6/20/ Is attention essential for inducing synesthetic colors? Evidence from oculomotor distractors Tanja C. W. Nijboer Stefan Van der Stigchel http://journalofvision.org/9/6/21/ Dynamics of chromatic visual system processing differ in complexity between children and adults Mei Ying Boon Catherine M. Suttle Bruce I. Henry Stephen J. Dain http://journalofvision.org/9/6/22/ Cross-cultural perceptions of facial resemblance between kin Alexandra Alvergne Ryo Oda Charlotte Faurie Akiko Matsumoto-Oda Val?rie Durand Michel Raymond http://journalofvision.org/9/6/23/ Behavioral effects of visual field location on processing motion- and luminance-defined form Patricia A. McMullen Lesley E. MacSween Charles A. Collin http://journalofvision.org/9/6/24/ Corrections Corrections to: Optic flow in human vision: MEG reveals a foveo-fugal bias in V1, specialization for spiral space in hMSTs, and global motion sensitivity in the IPS Ian E. Holliday Timothy S. Meese http://journalofvision.org/9/6/25/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090701/144fb20c/attachment-0001.htm From opam.info at gmail.com Fri Jul 3 05:06:50 2009 From: opam.info at gmail.com (OPAM info) Date: Sun Jul 5 07:04:30 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Reminder: OPAM deadline is July 15th Message-ID: *********************************** OPAM 2009 ****************************** *17th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory* November 19, Boston, MA Sheraton Boston hotel Keynote speaker: Dr. Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University ******************************************************************************** 2nd Call for Papers Preparations are on the way for this year?s OPAM. The deadline for online submissions is less than two weeks away! The meeting will take place on November 19th in Boston, immediately before Psychonomics and at the same hotel. We are pleased to announce that Marlene Behrmann will deliver the keynote address. *July 15, 2009*, is the deadline for receipt of completed submissions. If you wish to submit an abstract you can do so through the online submission form at http://www.opam.net/opam2009/submissions.php. General information about OPAM, the submission process and review procedure can be found at http://www.opam.net We are looking forward to your submissions! The OPAM organizers: Artem Belopolsky, Joseph Brooks, Michi Matsukura and Melanie Palomares **************************************** contact: opam.info@gmail.com website: 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. * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090703/7eb641d3/attachment.htm From rousseau at lsiit.u-strasbg.fr Sun Jul 5 06:00:35 2009 From: rousseau at lsiit.u-strasbg.fr (Francois Rousseau) Date: Sun Jul 5 07:04:46 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post Doc, LSIIT-CNRS : Temporal Analysis of MR Brain Images Message-ID: <4A50A3F3.6070102@lsiit.u-strasbg.fr> Post Doc, LSIIT-CNRS : Temporal Analysis of MR Brain Images DeadLine: 01/11/2009 rousseau@lsiit.u-strasbg.fr http://lsiit-miv.u-strasbg.fr/miv/index.php?contenu=erc In this project, we focus on exploring fetal brain maturation and more particularly brain morphology evolution and degree of myelination changes using anatomical MRI (T2-weighted images) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). The goal is to develop realistic models of fetal brain maturation from MRI in utero data. An elegant solution to build these models is to rely on statistical atlases generated from relevant features extracted from multimodal MR data. Statistical brain atlases provide a representation of average anatomy and a range of anatomical variation within a particular population. Such atlases are of great interest for the medical community since it describes normal anatomy in a compact form and it can be easily usable for medical studies. To achieve this goal, the atlas building has to capture mean shapes and normal variability of fetal anatomy. Profiles The candidate should be familiar with image processing and applied math. The candidate must also have excellent knowledge of C++ and should be fluent in English. Application Please send a CV, a brief research statement to rousseau@lsiit.u-strasbg.fr -- -------------------------------- Francois Rousseau LSIIT UMR 7005 P?le API Boulevard S?bastien Brant F-67400 ILLKIRCH tel : +33 3 90 24 44 89 (LSIIT) tel : +33 3 90 24 40 45 (LINC) http://lsiit-miv.u-strasbg.fr/miv/fiche.php?id=19 -------------------------------- From silvio.sabatini at unige.it Fri Jul 3 10:43:18 2009 From: silvio.sabatini at unige.it (Silvio Sabatini) Date: Sun Jul 5 07:04:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] IURS'09 SUMMER SCHOOL ON VISUOMOTOR INTERACTION Message-ID: <4A4E4336.1020600@unige.it> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 9th INTERNATIONAL UJI ROBOTICS SCHOOL ON "VISUOMOTOR INTERACTION" September 14-18,2009 Bonaire Hotel, Benicassim, SPAIN http://www.robot.uji.es/lab/plone/iurs/iurs09/ This year, for the 9th edition of this long-lasting tradition school, the Robotic Intelligence Lab of Jaume-I University has joined efforts with the partners of the FP7 European project EYESHOTS [www.eyeshots.it] to organize a major event on the visuomotor interaction mechanisms involved in the cognitive representation of the 3D peripersonal space. The program is highly interdisciplinary, covering topics that span Biorobotics, Neuroscience, Vision Science and Computer Vision. Confirmed speakers: Giorgio Cannata (Genoa), Casper J. Erkelens (Utrecht), Patrizia Fattori (Bologna), Claudio Galletti (Bologna), Fred Hamker (Chemnitz), Markus Lappe (Muenster), Rosana Matuk (Buenos Aires), Michele Rucci (Boston), Silvio P. Sabatini (Genoa), Marc Van Hulle (Leuven). We welcome applications outside the consortium, from PhD students and young researchers who share the interest in the theoretical, experimental, and technological aspects of visuomotor interaction. To register, please follow this link: http://www.robot.uji.es/lab/plone/iurs/iurs09/reg Organization: Angel P. del Pobil (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) Eris Chinellato (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) Markus Lappe (Westfalishe Wilhems-University Muenster, Germany) Silvio P. Sabatini (University of Genoa, Italy) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Silvio P. SABATINI - PSPC Research Group DIBE - University of Genova | e_mail: silvio.sabatini@unige.it Via Opera Pia, 11A | phone: +39 010 3532092/3532289 I-16145 Genova (ITALY) | fax: +39 010 3532289/3532777 URL: http://pspc.dibe.unige.it/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- From J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk Mon Jul 6 05:28:04 2009 From: J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk (Wann JP) Date: Mon Jul 6 09:00:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral position, Royal Holloway, London, UK In-Reply-To: <200907051901.n65J0u2V004991@visionscience.com> References: <200907051901.n65J0u2V004991@visionscience.com> Message-ID: Postdoctoral Position: Mechanisms in the control of ego-motion and collision avoidance Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham: 16km from Heathrow Airport) 18 months appointment: Salary up to GBP50,338 p.a. (inc EC mobility allowance) Initial Closing date: July 17th 2009 This position is funded by an EU Marie Curie Network project and will be based in the Dept of Psychology, Royal Holloway College, Univ of London, working with the Wann/Smith research groups. The wider network involves collaboration with groups at: Birmingham, UK, Paris, Marseille, Geissen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, Volvo Technology Sweden, Brain Innovation and VR Sense. John Wann's group (http://www.rdg.ac.uk/arl/ ) conducts research into the human perception in everyday settings, with specific interests in the control of steering and judgments of impending collision. Andy Smith's group conducts research into the neural processing of optic flow. (http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/vision/VRG-ATS.htm ) The project will involve behavioural and fMRI studies of the control of ego-motion and errors in the perception of impending collisions. Initial queries can be made to J.P.Wann@rhul.ac.uk or A.T.Smith@rhul.ac.uk Further information about the Dept and scanner facility can be found at: http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/ http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/research/mri.htm Under the terms of EU Marie Curie funding, applicants for this post cannot be UK nationals or have spent more than 12 months in the UK during the 3 years previous to the start date of the position. An application form are available to download at www.rhul.ac.uk/personnel/jobvacancies.htm . Please quote the reference X0609/5440 We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community From peter.bex at schepens.harvard.edu Mon Jul 6 07:43:02 2009 From: peter.bex at schepens.harvard.edu (Peter Bex) Date: Mon Jul 6 09:00:38 2009 Subject: [visionlist] psychophysics, visual assessment and image enhancement Message-ID: <4992A526-A55B-4682-9F6E-28C23A22BBE8@schepens.harvard.edu> Applications are invited for postdoctoral positions in the laboratory of Peter Bex at Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. We seek creative individuals with a strong background in basic or clinical vision science. Successful applicants will collaborate in designing and conducting computer-based psychophysical experiments to study visual function in subjects with central or peripheral visual field loss and to develop novel methods for the enhancement of natural images. Applicants should demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Competence in computer programming (MatLab or C) and quantitative analytical methods are essential. The lab (http://www.schepens.harvard.edu/bex/profile.html) is supported by grants from NIH. Clinical populations are accessible through strong ties with neighboring hospitals. Boston has a strong and vibrant neuroscience research community (http:// tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/). Interested individuals should send to Peter Bex (peter.bex@schepens.harvard.edu) an email containing a current CV, a brief statement of research interests, the names of 2 referees and the expected date of availability. Applications should be received before July 31st, 2009, but later applications will be considered until the positions are filled. The Schepens Eye Research Institute is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. M/F/H/V. ___________________________ Peter Bex, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, 20 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090706/aa1668a4/attachment.htm From susana at io.cfmac.csic.es Mon Jul 6 06:17:34 2009 From: susana at io.cfmac.csic.es (Susana Marcos) Date: Mon Jul 6 09:01:11 2009 Subject: [visionlist] OSA Tillyer Award Nominations Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.1.20090706151610.0417b0a0@io.cfmac.csic.es> Dear Colleagues, The Edgar D. Tillyer Award, given every two years by the Optical Society of America, is one of the few awards available for recognizing career excellence in vision science. OSA is currently requesting nominations (due date October 1, 2009). Nominations should be sent to the Optical Society of America online at: http://www.osa.org/aboutosa/awards/osaawards/nominationform/AddAwardNomination.aspx If you plan to make a nomination please let me know (susana@io.cfmac.csic.es) before you begin in order to reduce the possibility of duplicate nominations. Best wishes, Susana Marcos 2010 Tillyer Award Committee: Susana Marcos (Chair) Albert J.Ahumada Pablo Artal John L. Barbur Joseph Carroll Frederick W. Fitzke Susana Marcos, PhD Profesora de Investigacion CSIC Instituto de Optica, CSIC Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain Tel: +34915616800 x2313 Fax: +34 915645557 email: susana@io.cfmac.csic.es NEW WEB SITE: http://www.vision.csic.es From ionefine at u.washington.edu Mon Jul 6 09:13:51 2009 From: ionefine at u.washington.edu (Ione Fine) Date: Mon Jul 6 12:31:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] OSA Fall Vision Meeting - DEADLINE JULY 7th Message-ID: <017501c9fe54$c10bbe10$43233a30$@washington.edu> The abstract submission and early registration deadline for this year's OSA Fall Vision Meeting is midnight PST on July 7th (Wednesday). To submit an abstract for the 2009 OSA Fall Vision Meeting, go to the online call for papers. Please note that submitting an abstract and registering for the conference are two separate processes. Online registration is available at the OSA meeting registration page. Online registration will still be available until the 10th of September after which registration must be performed on the door. The 2009 OSA Vision Meeting promises to be our most exciting to date. Set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, it features a range of invited sessions with world-class lecturers speaking on a wide range of topics including The Melanopsin Pathway, Theraputic Approaches to Vision Loss, When and Where to Move the Eyes and Visual Cortical Maps on Multiple Scales. In addition, for the first time this year we will be running a special session entitled 'Classics of Vision Science' where four of the most influential vision science papers of the past 50 years will be presented by one of their original authors. The conference program runs from the 24th to the 27th September. In addition to a packed academic program, there will be a banquet dinner on the evening of the 25th at the UW Faculty Club. Tickets for this banquet may be purchased at the same time as the registration. Finally, conference accommodation at a special rate has been arranged at two local hotels http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/conf/index.php/2009/VM2009/schedConf/accommo dation We look forward to seeing you in Seattle! Alex Wade (Chair, OSA Vision Division) Joseph Carroll (Vice Chair, OSA Vision Division) Ione Fine (Local Organizing Committee) Steven Buck (Local Organizing Committee) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090706/58497f58/attachment.htm From ZHYANG at mail.mcg.edu Mon Jul 6 13:36:20 2009 From: ZHYANG at mail.mcg.edu (Zhiyong Yang) Date: Mon Jul 6 13:44:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] postdoc job Message-ID: <4A52280A.603C.000A.0@mail.mcg.edu> The laboratory of Zhiyong Yang at the Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher. The long-term goal of the lab is to develop a statistical framework for understanding brain network computation. Advanced statistical modeling is combined with neuro-imaging and large-scale electro-physiological recording on awake, behaving animals. The ideal candidate will have strong background in computer vision, pattern recognition, pattern theory, statistical learning theory, Bayesian statistics and statistics of complex networks. He/she will also have strong programming skills and be available to do statistical modeling of very large datasets of natural visual scenes and objects and large sets of neural recording data. The Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute is an exciting new center for systems neuroscience, with plans for rapid expansion in the immediate future. Medical College of Georgia has strong research programs in other neuro-scientific disciplines, including molecular, cellular and developmental neuroscience, and a variety of related clinical disciplines. Opportunities for research collaborations also exist at the adjacent VA Hospital. To apply, please send (i) curriculum vitae and (ii) a cover letter describing research accomplishments and interests, and have two letters of recommendation sent to Zhiyong Yang at the address below, preferably as email attachments. In addition please apply online at www.mcg.edu/Jobs for position #9082. Medical College of Georgia is an AA/EEO/Equal Access/ADA Employer. Contact Information: Zhiyong Yang, Ph.D. Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute Medical College of Georgia 1120 15th Street, CB-2819A Augusta, GA 30912-2697 Phone: (706) 721-4506; Fax: (706) 721-3829 Email: zhyang@mail.mcg.edu From tirin at stanford.edu Wed Jul 8 08:58:11 2009 From: tirin at stanford.edu (Tirin Moore) Date: Wed Jul 8 09:03:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Object Recognition and Attention at Stanford University Message-ID: <4A54C213.20506@stanford.edu> Postdoctoral Position with Kalanit Grill-Spector and Tirin Moore at Stanford University A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratories of Kalanit Grill-Spector, Department of Psychology and Tirin Moore, Department of Neurobiology, at Stanford University. We are seeking a candidate to spearhead a collaborative effort involving parallel fMRI studies in humans and behaving monkeys in an effort to understand the neural mechanisms of visual object recognition, neural adaptation and visual attention. Candidates with either neurophysiological or neuroimaging experience are encouraged to apply, but preferences will be given to the latter. The position will be for 2 years, with the possibility of additional years. The preferred starting date is September 2009. Send a CV, a one-paragraph statement of research interests, and the names and email contacts of 3 referees to: Kalanit at psych.stanford.edu -- Tirin Moore, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Neurobiology Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 USA cell: 650.283.0188 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These positions require a background in basic cell and molecular biology techniques (e.g. immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization, confocal microscopy, organotypic culture, HPLC). In addition, experience in electrophysiology, in particular single-cell patch-clamp and intracellular recordings in whole-mount retinas, is desirable, although not strictly required but the candidates will be expected to learn those techniques. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience or relevant field, and have a working understanding of biological rhythms and/or retinal neurophysiology. A minimum commitment for 2-3 years is desired. Excellent training and interaction with other vision scientists within the department and on campus are available. To apply, please send a single pdf file that contains a curriculum vitae, a short statement of research interests and experience, and three names of references with contact information to: Christophe.P.Ribelayga@uth.tmc.edu. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christophe P. Ribelayga, Ph.D. Assistant Professor The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School - Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science Postal address: PO box 20708 - Houston, TX 77225-0708 Physical address: MSB 7.232A (office) and MSB 7.022 (lab) - 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030 Phone: +1 (713) 500-5673 (office) and +1 (713) 500-5979 (lab) Cell phone (emergency): +1 (614) 315-8494 Fax: +1 (713) 500-0682 or 500-0683 E-mail: Christophe.P.Ribelayga@uth.tmc.edu Department office: MSB 7.024; phone: +1 (713) 500-6005 [cid:C5299F2-FB17-48BAA-AEA8-11352782F9@MimeCtl] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please send resume to werblin@berkeley.edu, or call 510 642 7236. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090708/234afe36/attachment.htm From Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de Fri Jul 10 07:55:20 2009 From: Karl.R.Gegenfurtner at psychol.uni-giessen.de (Karl Gegenfurtner) Date: Fri Jul 10 08:38:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position and Ph.D. studentship in Karl Gegenfurtner's lab Message-ID: <4A575658.20904@uni-giessen.de> A Postdoctoral position and a Ph.D. studentship are available in the lab of Karl Gegenfurtner at Giessen University (Germany). The positions are for researchers interested in the perception of material properties. Potential topics of research include color vision, visuo-haptic interactions and the neural basis of material property perception (using fMRI). The positions start in October 2009, but later dates could be arranged. For the PostDoc position, a doctoral degree in psychology, physics, biology, or computer science is prerequisite. Experience in programming visual displays or measuring eye movements are of advantage. Salary is according to German research scale BAT IIa. The position is for 1 year initially and renewable for up to 5 years. For the Ph.D. studentship, a M.A. or M.Sc. degree is required. The position is paid according to German research salary scale Bat IIa/2 and is for three years. Please send applications (please indicate which position you are applying for) before August 7, 2009 per email to gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de as a single PDF file. The lab offers excellent facilities for studying visual perception and motor control. We are part of a larger research group on perception and action (http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/for560) with excellent links to scientists within Europe and world wide. The group offers a stimulating, multi-national and multi-disciplinary research environment for young scientists (http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de). The city of Giessen is a small university town, located just 60 km north of Frankfurt, right at the center of Germany. Do not hesitate to contact me for informal inquiries. 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 christian.casanova at umontreal.ca Fri Jul 10 08:20:37 2009 From: christian.casanova at umontreal.ca (Casanova Christian) Date: Fri Jul 10 08:38:26 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD in Visual Neurosciences Message-ID: <42A684B5AEF3EF4A93E379060CDE4A5B061F0972@MAPIUDEM.sim.umontreal.ca> A graduate student position (PhD) is offered for the investigation of the visual function by optical brain imaging which allows one to visualize neural activity on-line and study the functioning of the brain in normal and physiopathological conditions. A scholarship will be provided for three years. The laboratory is located at the School of Optometry at the Universit? de Montreal. The vision research group of the School comprises researchers in complementary fields (e.g., psychophysics, brain imaging, neuroanatomy). Visit the lab web site at: http://www.opto.umontreal.ca/neurosciences/. The general aim of the project is to determine the impact of the extrageniculate thalamus on the visual cortex of tree shrews by optical brain imaging. Priority will be given to those with a good academic (and publication) track record and with a MSc (or equivalent) in visual neuroscience and/or imaging (engineering) or in related neuroscience areas. Skills in programming and image analysis will be a plus. Candidates should have a interest in visual neurosciences, be motivated, hard-working, autonomous, and be able to write articles in English. Please provide the following: (1) Letter of motivation; (2) CV including publication list; (3) Academic records and diplomas; (4) Two letters of recommendation from persons in authority (e.g., professors), including the MSc supervisor. These letters should be e-mailed directly by these persons. The candidate should e-mail the remaining parts of the application (1 to 3) to: christian.casanova@umontreal.ca. _______________________________ Christian Casanova, PhD Directeur adjoint ? la recherche et aux ?tudes sup?rieures / Associate Director for Research and Graduate Studies Laboratoire des Neurosciences de la vision / Visual Neuroscience Laboratory ?cole d'optom?trie Universit? de Montr?al CP 6128, Succ Centre-Ville Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada, H3C-3J7 Tel: (514)-343-2407 Fax: (514)-343-2382 www.opto.umontreal.ca/neurosciences http://www.opto.umontreal.ca/ Adresse civique / For express mail, use the following: ?cole d'optom?trie Universit? de Montr?al 3744 Jean-Brillant, local 260-7 Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada, H3T-1P1 P Avant d'imprimer, pensez ? l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090710/049c26e7/attachment.htm From christian.casanova at umontreal.ca Fri Jul 10 09:39:24 2009 From: christian.casanova at umontreal.ca (Casanova Christian) Date: Sat Jul 11 08:42:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Training: PhD in Visual Neurosciences Message-ID: <42A684B5AEF3EF4A93E379060CDE4A5B061F0993@MAPIUDEM.sim.umontreal.ca> A graduate student position (PhD) is offered for the investigation of the visual function by optical brain imaging which allows one to visualize neural activity on-line and study the functioning of the brain in normal and physiopathological conditions. A scholarship will be provided for three years. The laboratory is located at the School of Optometry at the Universit? de Montreal. The vision research group of the School comprises researchers in complementary fields (e.g., psychophysics, brain imaging, neuroanatomy). Visit the lab web site at: http://www.opto.umontreal.ca/neurosciences/. The general aim of the project is to determine the impact of the extrageniculate thalamus on the visual cortex of tree shrews by optical brain imaging. Priority will be given to those with a good academic (and publication) track record and with a MSc in visual neuroscience and/or imaging (engineering) or in related neuroscience areas. Skills in programming and image analysis will be a plus. Candidates should have a interest in visual neurosciences, be motivated, hard-working, autonomous, and be able to write articles in English. Please provide the following: (1) Letter of motivation; (2) CV including publication list if any; (3) Academic records and diplomas; (4) Two letters of recommendation from persons in authority (e.g., professors), including the MSc supervisor. These letters should be e-mailed directly by these persons. The candidate should e-mail the remaining parts of the application (1 to 3) to: christian.casanova@umontreal.ca. _______________________________ Christian Casanova, PhD Directeur adjoint ? la recherche et aux ?tudes sup?rieures / Associate Director for Research and Graduate Studies Laboratoire des Neurosciences de la vision / Visual Neuroscience Laboratory ?cole d'optom?trie Universit? de Montr?al CP 6128, Succ Centre-Ville Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada, H3C-3J7 Tel: (514)-343-2407 Fax: (514)-343-2382 www.opto.umontreal.ca/neurosciences http://www.opto.umontreal.ca/ Adresse civique / For express mail, use the following: ?cole d'optom?trie Universit? de Montr?al 3744 Jean-Brillant, local 260-7 Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada, H3T-1P1 P Avant d'imprimer, pensez ? l'environnement. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090710/88559209/attachment.htm From matteo at carandinilab.net Sun Jul 12 12:28:41 2009 From: matteo at carandinilab.net (Matteo Carandini) Date: Sun Jul 12 12:57:46 2009 Subject: [visionlist] postdoc in Carandini-Jeffery labs at UCL Message-ID: POSTDOCTORAL BEHAVIOURAL NEUROSCIENTIST Applications are invited for the position of a postdoctoral Research Associate at University College London (UCL). The post holder will be jointly supervised by Matteo Carandini at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (www.carandinilab.net) and by Kate Jeffery at the UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience (www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/kate.jeffery/lab/). The project aims to establish the neural correlates of perceptual behaviours and choice, both in regions associated with vision, such as the primary visual cortex, and in regions associated with navigation, such as the hippocampus. The successful applicant will hold a doctoral degree in neuroscience or in a related discipline, and will have experience with neurophysiology in vivo, ideally in the context of behaviour. The ideal candidate will also have a quantitative background (e.g. maths, physics or engineering) and will be facile with Matlab programming and with the fundamentals of computational neuroscience or of cognitive neuroscience. Salary will be between ?29,704 and ?31,513 yearly, depending on experience, plus ?2,781 London Allowance. The post and the project are funded by the Medical Research Council, and the duration of the post will be for up to 2 years. A job description and an application form may be obtained via email at: education-ioo@ucl.ac.uk, In all communications please quote reference number: 127306 in the subject line. The closing date for the receipt of applications is 15 August 2009. -- Matteo Carandini, PhD GlaxoSmithKline / Fight for Sight Professor of Visual Neuroscience www.carandinilab.net UCL Institute of Ophthalmology University College London 11-43 Bath St, London EC1V 9EL From m.acosta at auckland.ac.nz Mon Jul 13 14:32:05 2009 From: m.acosta at auckland.ac.nz (Monica Acosta) Date: Mon Jul 13 15:58:09 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research opportunities in Vision Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand In-Reply-To: <4A2E03A0.7000607@unige.ch> References: <4A2E03A0.7000607@unige.ch> Message-ID: <08F8465BB0CA7A4E88D9FD84314C0449F946D0@UXCHANGE3.UoA.auckland.ac.nz> Research Opportunities in Vision Science Department of Optometry and Vision Science New Zealand National Eye Centre University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand A number of research opportunities are available in the Department of Optometry and Vision Science (DOVS) at the University of Auckland following the Department's strong performance in the 2009 Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) and Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) funding rounds. The DOVS is a founding member of the New Zealand National Eye Centre (NZ-NEC), an inter-faculty research centre bringing together researchers and clinicians in the fields of vision science, ophthalmology and optometry to promote the application of basic science to applied clinical issues. The NZ-NEC nurtures a diverse and highly collaborative research environment making the currently available positions exciting opportunities to engage in translational vision science research. Molecular Vision Laboratory - Post Doctoral Fellowship. A Post Doctoral Research position for a skilled electrophysiologist is now available in the Department of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of Auckland. The position will be based in the Molecular Vision Laboratory of Professor Paul Donaldson and funding from the HRC is available for the next 3 years. The successful applicant will be part of a multidisciplinary laboratory with extensive internal and international collaborations that studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for lens transparency. The major goal of the laboratory is to develop therapies that delay the onset of lens cataract: the major cause of blindness in the world today. A variety of ion channels (hemi channels, stretch activated cation channels, volume sensitive chloride channels) and transporters (glucose transporters, chloride transporters and amino acid transporters) are the current focus of this search for novel anti-cataract therapies. Thus highly motivated applicants who have utilized electrophysiology techniques to study ion channel and/or transporter function in any tissue are encouraged to apply. The applicant would be required to follow their own independent line of research on how the activation of cation channels in the lens contribute to the onset of lens cataract and would also have the opportunity to support electrophysiological based graduate student projects. Knowledge of the lens or other ocular tissues would be an advantage but is not a prerequisite. Expertise in ion imaging or molecular biology would be an added bonus. Contact: Professor Paul Donaldson Email: p.donaldson@auckland.ac.nz web: http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sms/physiology/mvl/default.aspx Visual Neuroscience Laboratory - PhD studentship A PhD studentship on the topic of neural plasticity and human amblyopia is available in the Visual Neuroscience Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Ben Thompson. The project will involve a variety of investigative techniques including psychophysics, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and non-invasive brain stimulation. This studentship would suit motivated graduates in psychology, optometry, neuroscience or related disciplines. The studentship is supported by the Health Research Council of New Zealand and is available from October 2009 for a period of 3 years. Contact: Dr Ben Thompson: b.thompson@auckland.ac.nz Web: http://www.opt.auckland.ac.nz/public/research/labs/VNRL/ Cell and Molecular Biology of the Retina Laboratory - Research Technician and PhD Studentship Dr Monica Acosta lab is offering a Level 4 Research Technical position for a candidate who is familiar with animal manipulations and able to conduct routine protocols such as tissue fixation and sectioning, immunocytochemical procedures and who has experience in multispectral image acquisition. The successful candidate will contribute to a research project that will investigate two distinct models of retinal disease at the cellular and molecular level. Our methodological approach focuses on the use high temporal and spatial resolution imaging techniques to detect expression of proteins compromising cellular physiology. Other tasks include the ordering of reagents and overall laboratory maintenance. The position is supported by the AMRF and will be available from October 2009 for a period of 2 years. The Acosta lab in collaboration with the team of eye surgeons and scientists at the New Zealand National Eye Centre is also looking for a motivated student interested in neurophysiology, cell and molecular biology and therapeutic intervention strategies to combat macular degeneration in the retina. This PhD project focuses on causal factors in retinal degeneration and characterization of intervention strategies in an animal model using molecular biology techniques and immunohistochemistry. Candidates who are interested in retinal degeneration intervention strategies, and who are highly motivated to learn and use different methods (dye injections, immunohistochemistry, protein and RNA extraction, electroretinogram) are invited to apply. Experience in electroretinography, immunocytochemistry and dye injection techniques is highly advantageous. The candidate student must have a master degree (or equivalent) in optometry, neuroscience, medicine, or a related field. Contact: Dr Monica Acosta m.acosta@auckland.ac.nz web http://www.opt.auckland.ac.nz/public/research/labs/CMBR/ Interested applicants should send a covering letter describing their expertise, a copy of their CV and the contact details of two academic referees to the appropriate principal investigator by the 30th of August 2009. PhD students will also need to register an expression of interest (EOI) using the following link: http://www.postgrad.auckland.ac.nz/doctoral/interest prior to being invited to apply for PhD. Monica Acosta (PhD) Lecturer Department of Optometry and Vision Science The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 New Zealand tel: + 64 9 3737599 ext 86069 mail: m.acosta@auckland.ac.nz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Vanduffel - a post-doc position in the team of Prof. W. Vanduffel - a Ph.D position in the team of Prof. R. Vogels Team of Prof. W. Vanduffel: Investigating causal functional interactions between cortical areas of non-human primates. We will combine functional imaging (fMRI) in awake behaving monkeys with local microstimulation and local reversible inactivation techniques. The student will have the opportunity to learn both fMRI and single cell recording in awake, behaving monkeys. Team of Prof. R. Vogels: Coding of natural objects in the visual temporal cortex of non-human primates. We will combine functional imaging (fMRI) and recording of single unit spiking activity and local field potentials. The student will have the opportunity to learn both fMRI and single cell recording in awake, behaving monkeys. Qualifications Candidates with a degree in neuroscience, (neuro) psychology, biomedical sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, physics etc. are considered. A good command of English and knowledge of Matlab is required. Application and further information The Ph.D. positions are available starting October 2009 for a period of 4 years and applications are currently being accepted. The Post-doc position is available starting October 2009 for a period of 3 years and applications are currently being accepted. Please send a copy of your curriculum vitae to: (submission via electronic mail is encouraged) hilde.seynnaeve@med.kuleuven.be _____________________________________________ Hilde Seynnaeve Project co?rdinator K.U.Leuven Laboratorium Neuro - en Psychofysiologie Campus Gasthuisberg, O&N 2 Herestraat 49 - bus 1021 3000 Leuven Tel. + 32 (0) 16 33 05 88 Fax + 32 (0) 16 34 59 93 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This position at the University of Louisville is part of a large multi-site consortium that includes investigators at Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, University of Louisville and Emory University. Only candidates with a Ph.D. will be considered. Training in electrophysiology is desirable, but not required. Without training in electrophysiology, the candidate should have experience working in either the retina or other parts of the visual system. Salary is commensurate with level of experience. Louisville is a large metropolitan city in the southern midwest. It has a lively arts and music scene and a large and diverse set of restaurants. Cost of living is very reasonable and most postdocs can afford to buy their own home. Interested individuals should send a CV that includes the names of three references (including their contact information) to Dr. McCall via email. mo.mccall@louisville.edu Maureen A. 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CT DC IN is the strategic R&D partner for the Computer-Aided Diagnosis & Knowledge Solutions (IKM CKS) of Siemens Healthcare USA Inc., headquartered in Malvern, PA. As a leading supplier of healthcare solutions worldwide, Siemens Healthcare is renowned for innovative products, services and solutions, ranging from diagnostic imaging systems, to therapy equipment for treatment and IT solutions that optimize workflow and increase efficiencies in the healthcare industry. IKM CKS is a world-class R&D team comprising researchers and software experts primarily in areas of Medical Imaging, Medical Image Processing, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing and Classification. IKM CKS is working on next generation technologies that combine computing advances with advances in the field of medicine, such as determining possible cardiac problems from the wall-motion analysis of the heart, the location of malignant cancer cells from x-ray images of a lung, data mining of medical records using advanced techniques to uncover hidden relationships etc. Job Title: Scientist/R&D Engineer Location: Bangalore, India We have an immediate opening for a full-time research scientist/engineer position. The scientist will conduct leading-edge research and development activities involving segmentation, registration, feature extraction, classification, modality fusion and other related medical imaging and computer aided diagnosis areas. This position also involves supervising interns, and publishing peer-reviewed scientific papers. Qualifications and Expertise: Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate all or many of the following key qualities: n PhD in CS/EE or other related disciplines. MS with solid research experience considered. n A proven research record in image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and classification. n Innovative thinking and fast prototyping. n Experience in solving real-world problems and should be able to work in teams as well as an independent researcher. n Papers in peer reviewed journals/conferences. n Strong programming skills in MATLB/C/C++. n Strong verbal and written communication skills. n Preference would be given to candidates with experience in medical imaging applications, especially relevant to Computer Aided Detection (CAD) areas. CONTACT: For immediate consideration, please send your resume to MS.Dinesh@siemens.com Siemens Information Systems Ltd. Office Address: No. 84, Keonics Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560 100 Tel Fax URL +91 80 852 1122-30 +91 80 852 1117/18 www.sisl.siemens.co.in ----------------------------------------------------- With best regards, Pandu R Devarakota, Ph.D., Siemens Information Systems Ltd. IKM - CKS - Computer Aided Diagnosis(CAD) Research No. 84, Keonics Electronics City Bangalore 560 100, India Tel: +91 (80) 25114433 (office), +91 9741711788 (Mob) Mailto: panduranga.devarakota@siemens.com www.siemens.co.in ________________________________ From: VisionList Editor [mailto:editor@visionscience.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:32 AM To: Devarakota, Pandu IN BLR SISL Subject: Re: posting an add in visionscience mailing list Here are the instructions. 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SISSA (http://www.sissa.it) is one of the leading scientific institutions in Italy, and a noted center on the international stage for cutting-edge research in different areas of Physics, Mathematics, and Neurosciences. Applications are welcomed from candidates with two kinds of research experience: (1) in-vivo electrophysiology and/or (2) molecular neurobiology. 1) In-vivo electrophysiology - Candidates should have a solid background in systems neuroscience and research experience with multi- electrode neuronal recordings in awake, behaving animals. Strong quantitative skills and good knowledge of scripting languages for data analysis and computation (such as Matlab or Python) are also required. Programming skills in C++, Objective C, Cocoa and OpenGL, as well as experience with machine learning tools are a plus. 2) Molecular neurobiology - Candidates should have a strong experience with immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization in brain slices, and should be able to apply these techniques with a high degree of independence. Previous experience in visualizing the patterns of expressions of immediate-early gene markers (e.g., c-fos and zif268) is a plus. Candidates must have a doctoral degree and must be less than 37 years old at the time of the application. The appointment is for two years, with starting date between September and December 2009. Candidates should contact by e-mail Dr. Zoccolan (zoccolan@sissa.it) and send a CV, a brief statement of research interests, the expected date of availability, and the names of 3 references. ________________________________________ Davide Zoccolan, Ph.D. (Tel. +39 040 3756 532) Neurobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience Sectors International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Web: http://people.sissa.it/~zoccolan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090715/79708b9e/attachment.htm From suyay at graphics.usc.edu Thu Jul 16 03:52:10 2009 From: suyay at graphics.usc.edu (Suya You) Date: Thu Jul 16 07:31:47 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Final CFP: ACCV 2009 Workshop on Representation and Modeling of Large-scale 3D Environments (Modeling-3D) Message-ID: <19A4894F-05F4-41EF-AFDB-08CC60EC91B3@graphics.usc.edu> (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) CALL FOR PAPERS - Final Call Representation and Modeling of Large-scale 3D Environments (Modeling-3D) (In conjunction with ACCV'200) Xian, China, September 24, 2009 http://graphics.usc.edu/~suyay/modeling3D2009.htm Important Dates ---------------------- Paper submission due: July 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2009 Workshop: September 24, 2009 =================================================================== Recent advances in sensor and modeling technologies enable the development of novel techniques that offer both feasibility and robust performance on reconstruction of large-scale environments.  Improvements on the performance of traditional/novel vision techniques such as structure from motion, multi-view stereo, and image-based modeling have made high-end acquisition of 3D structure and motion a reality. Advances in sensor technologies such as depth camera, closer-range laser range finder, and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) permit to deploy modeling systems on terrestrial, airborne, static, moving, and even handheld platforms to quickly capture 3D structure of a large environment with high degree of accuracy. Progresses in computer graphics enable effective representation, rendering and visualization of photorealistic models on PCs. The advances in high-speed network allow effective delivery of 3D models throughout the networked world. As part of the ACCV 2009, the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop will bring together researchers to present results and innovations in all aspects of modeling and representation of large-scale 3D environments.  The workshop seeks original high-quality research and application submissions.  All submitted papers will be subject to a peer review process.  Accepted papers will be published together with the proceedings of ACCV 2009 in electronic format by Springer. High-quality papers will be selected to appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Virtual Reality (IJVR) after the conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - Scene reconstruction from multi-dimensional and multi-view images - Wide-area structure from motion and stereo - 3D scene modeling from multiple sensors - Real-time scene modeling from video - Range data analysis and processing - 3D shape and feature representation - Multi-sensor data fusion, alignment, and registration - 3D model simplification and compression - Stream processing for very large datasets - Appearance/illumination modeling and representation - Real-time, mobile 3D systems - Rending and visualization of large-scale models - Applications of large-scale models and modeling systems Important Dates ----------------------- - Paper submission due: July 20, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2009 - Camera-ready paper due: August 15, 2009 - Workshop: September 24, 2009 Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------------- Format: papers submitted for review and publication must follow the format specified for the main ACCV 2009 conference: author guidelines for paper submission to ACCV2009. The maximum paper length for review as well as for publication is 8 pages. Submission: paper must be submitted electronically in Adobe Acrobat PDF format at the Submission Website. Review: the review process is double-blind, so the paper must not include any information which allows the authors to be identified. This means that authors should not indicate their names or affiliations on the paper, acknowledgements must not be included in the manuscript, and references to authors' previous work must only be included in a form that does not link them to the authors. Organizers ---------------- Suya You, University of Southern California, USA Jonathan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Wanquan Liu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Richard Xu, Charles Sturt University, Australia Program Committee ----------------------------- Adrien Bartoli, CNRS, France Anup Basu, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Kostas Daniilidis Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Robert Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, USA Jan-Michael Frahm, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Shinsaku Hiura, Osaka University, Japan Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jana Kosecka, George Mason University, USA Ze-Nian Li, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xuelong Li, Univ. of London, UK Suresh Lodha, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA Ajmal Saeed Mian, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia Philippos Mordohai, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California, USA Ramakant Nevatia, University of Southern California, USA Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University, China Charalambos Poullis, USC, USA Gerhard Roth, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Stamos, City University of New York, USA Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, Kyushu University, Japan Jun Takamatsu, Nara Inst. of Science & Tech, Japan Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin Univ. of Technology, Australia Guanghui Wang, Univ. of Windsor, Canada John Zelek, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Zhigang Zhu, City Univ. of New York, USA Contacts ------------- For any question about the Modeling-3D 2009 Workshop, please contact to: modeling3d2009@gmail.com Conference URL: http://graphics.usc.edu/~suyay/modeling3D2009.htm ========================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <723580DF-86B3-4F68-8575-15102BD62CDB@artorg.unibe.ch> Open PhD position: Advanced 3D Stereoscopic Navigation for Intraocular Treatment Procedures In medicine, there has been an advent of ever more sophisticated imaging methods, surgical technology, and computer capacity for data processing in recent years. In particular, this is true for ophthalmology, e.g. the use of the various laser-modalities or the development of high-resolution optical coherence tomography. The proposed PhD project includes several aspects of clinical treatment procedures demanding individual imaging approaches. In our group we have build individual software components for mono- and multimodal co-registration of retina images. The first objective of this PhD project is to combine the developed components with hardware in order to build a System for Computer Assisted Retinal Laser Photocoagulation. This system should be evaluated in a clinical setup to reveal potential clinical benefits. Subsequently it should be extended towards a 3D diagnosis and treatment system for ophthalmic interventions. This 3D diagnosis and treatment system will be used in a joint project between the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (http://www.iris.ethz.ch) at the ETH Zurich and our group here at the ARTORG-Center at the University of Bern to steer, electromagnetically driven, micro robots through the human eye to collect clinical data and to perform surgical interventions. We are seeking for a highly motivated candidate willing to work in a multidisciplinary environment together with clinicians and scientists. The project will be conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the ETH Zurich. This project will be supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation through the project ?Computer Aided and Image Guided Medical Interventions (CO- ME)? as part of the National Center of Competence in Research. The nature of the project demands computer vision background as well as strong programming skills in C++ and preferably in OpenGL / OpenInventor graphics. Additionally, background in Electronics would be an advantage. Applicants need to be qualified to join the Graduate Program of the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern (http://www.gcb.unibe.ch/content/index_eng.html ). If you feel attracted by this project please submit a comprehensive application to the contact address listed below. Supervisor contact: Prof Jens Kowal: jens.kowal@artorg.unibe.ch -- University of Bern ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research Prof Jens Kowal, Ph.D. Ophthalmic Technologies Inselspital Bern Ophthalmology Department From andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk Mon Jul 20 06:07:58 2009 From: andrea.cavallaro at elec.qmul.ac.uk (Andrea Cavallaro) Date: Mon Jul 20 07:07:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ACM/IEEE ICDSC 2009, Como (Italy) - Technical programme Message-ID: <9A6BBBBE2AAD6746A6D961B5735742620382AFB18A@staff-mail2.vpn.elec.qmul.ac.uk> ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009) Como (Italy), 30 August - 2 September, 2009 Technical Programme: http://www.icdsc.org/programme.html After the successful meetings in Vienna (2007) and Stanford (2008), the third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras will be held at Como, Italy. The conference offers insight into the potentials and challenges of distributed vision networks and presentation of design methodologies employed by leading research groups working in these areas are also the objectives of the conference. In addition to a PhD forum, a Challenge and a Panel, the ICDSC 2009 programme includes the following: Tutorials - Multiple cameras in smart rooms: analysis strategies - Multimodal human-centered vision systems - Multi-camera and distributed video surveillance Keynotes - Urban Surveillance Networks: a challenge for video analytics technologies - Multi-sensor coordination and control - PANOPTIC: An omnidirectional multi-aperture visual sensor Special sessions - Activity Monitoring by Multi-Camera Systems - Embedded Techniques for Smart Cameras - Advances in Coding for Distributed Camera Networks - Collaborative Signal Processing for Distributed Systems Regular Sessions - Architectures and Protocols for Camera Networks - Smart Environments and 3D Scene Analysis - Surveillance and Tracking - Embedded Smart Cameras - Camera Networks - Distributed and Collaborative Signal Processing - Camera Network Topology A reduced fee will be required for registrations until 27 July: http://www.icdsc.org/registration.html Additional info: www.icdsc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090720/89c5b60c/attachment.htm From bhanna at neuromatters.com Mon Jul 20 10:19:29 2009 From: bhanna at neuromatters.com (Barbara Hanna) Date: Mon Jul 20 10:32:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Job descriptions Message-ID: Hi, Please find attached two job descriptions for circulation on the mailing list. With thanks and best regards, Best regards, Barbara Hanna JOB POSTING #1: Neuromatters LLC (NMC) is seeking a talented individual to join its multidisciplinary team and pioneer technologies in the area of Cortically Coupled Computer Vision (C3V) applications. Founded by recognized neuroengineering experts from Columbia University and the City College of New York, NMC is at the forefront of neurotechnologies, EEG signal processing and decoding, and is developing advanced systems to significantly increase information processing throughput. The responsibilities of the successful applicant will include: - Applied algorithm development and testing - Integrated system design, development, prototyping and documentation The successful applicant will have: - a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; background in Computer Vision desirable - a very strong background in one or more of the following areas: signal processing, machine learning, neuroscience - excellent software design and development skills; excellent knowledge of C/C++ and Matlab a must; proficiency with python desirable -experience with MS Windows software development environments and tools - permanent residency or US citizenship The successful applicant will be expected to work out of NMC?s offices located in New York, NY. The position is full-time and will include competitive salary and benefits package. Please send resume and cover letter to hr@neuromatters.com. JOB POSTING #2: Neuromatters LLC (NMC) is seeking a talented individual to join its multidisciplinary team and pioneer technologies in the area of Cortically Coupled Computer Vision (C3V) applications. Founded by recognized neuroengineering experts from Columbia University and the City College of New York, NMC is at the forefront of neurotechnologies, EEG signal processing and decoding, and is developing advanced systems to significantly increase information processing throughput. The responsibilities of the successful applicant will include: -Applied algorithm development and testing - Integrated system design, development, prototyping and documentation - Participation in regular field tests - Interactions with NMC?s customers to develop appropriate system requirements and deliver excellence The successful applicant will have: - a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field; a neuroscience background is desirable - minimum 2 years experience with practical software and/or system development - a very strong background in one or more of the following areas: signal processing, machine learning, neuroscience - excellent software design and development skills; excellent knowledge of C/C++ and Matlab a must; proficiency with python desirable - experience with MS Windows software development environments and tools -US citizenship and ability to obtain clearance The successful applicant will be expected to work out of NMC?s offices located in New York, NY. The position is full-time and will include competitive salary and benefits package. Please send resume and cover letter to hr@neuromatters.com. From J.Jolij at rug.nl Tue Jul 21 03:06:05 2009 From: J.Jolij at rug.nl (Jacob Jolij) Date: Tue Jul 21 06:13:29 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD position in Groningen Message-ID: <4A65930D.1040606@rug.nl> The division of Experimental Psychology of the University of Groningen is looking for a PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience (f/m) On short term, a PhD position will be available in the division of Experimental Psychology, under supervision of Dr Jacob Jolij. In this project, you will study the interaction between conscious and unconscious visual processing, and how conscious and unconscious visual information influence higher mental processes, such as decision making and social cognition. Research methods include (but are not limited to) TMS, fMRI, EEG, and eye-tracking. The University of Groningen is a research-intensive university in the north of the Netherlands, with over 20,000 students, ranked in the top 25 of European research universities. The department of Psychology is one of the largest in the Netherlands and offers both Dutch and English language programmes. The division of Experimental Psychology consists of approx. 15 members of staff with research interests such as visual perception, consciousness, cognitive control, memory, attention, traffic psychology, and neurofeedback. Research facilities are excellent, and have recently seen large investments in cognitive neuroscience facilities, such as new EEG labs and a new TMS lab. The department participates in the Neuroimaging Centre of the University Medical Centre. Groningen is a medium sized city with a historic city centre, and a vibrant atmosphere, generally recognized as one of the most enjoyable cities in the Netherlands. Groningen is well connected to the west of the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and the north of Germany (Bremen). [The offer] A PhD bursary for four years, approx. EUR 1550 per month net. During the project you will conduct research and receive training in the Graduate School for Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences. [Requirements] An MSc or equivalent degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology or related area. Programming skills (Matlab, Delphi) are highly welcome, as is experience with neuroimaging methods. Having spent a period abroad during your studies is an important bonus, too. [Interested?] For further details about this position, please contact Dr Jacob Jolij, j.jolij@rug.nl ; +31 50 363 6348, or visit our website: http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.jolij or http://www.jolij.com . If you want to apply, please send your CV, a list of grades, names of two academic referees, and a letter stating your research interests and motivation for this position to Jacob Jolij, j.jolij@rug.nl . From ale at sissa.it Thu Jul 23 01:25:18 2009 From: ale at sissa.it (Alessandro Treves) Date: Thu Jul 23 06:21:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste, Italy Message-ID: <20090723102518.f4br7mvapj4o40c4@webmail.sissa.it> 4+ PhD positions are still open at the second admission exam in September. SISSA is the elite postgraduate research institution in Italy, devoted to Math, Physics and Neuroscience. It operates in English: roughly half the students (and faculty) in the Cognitive Neuroscience sector are not Italian. Presently located in downtown Trieste, the sector will be reunited with the rest of SISSA in early 2010, moving to a new 25,000 sqm building in a park overlooking the Gulf. We seek a diverse international group of new students. Research approaches in the CNS sector span the range from cognitive and developmental psychology and imaging in humans (including OT and a new fMRI machine) to behavioural neuroscience and multiple single-unit recording in rats, mathematical and computational modeling. Allied approaches are pursued in the Neurobiology sector. All students receive a school fellowship and engage full-time in research based in Trieste, with some coursework in the first few months. Application info http://www.sissa.it/main/?p=COURSES_PHD Alessandro Treves ale@sissa.it --- SISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, now downtown in via Stock 2/2, V fl BUT NOTE, POSTAL ADDRESS: SISSA, via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy tel:39-040-3787623 fax:39-040-3787615 http://people.sissa.it/~ale ---------------------------------------------------------------- SISSA Webmail https://webmail.sissa.it/ Powered by Horde http://www.horde.org/ From ale at sissa.it Thu Jul 23 01:29:18 2009 From: ale at sissa.it (Alessandro Treves) Date: Thu Jul 23 06:21:55 2009 Subject: [visionlist] postdocs in Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste, Italy Message-ID: <20090723102918.sf6td49wgg8ccog8@webmail.sissa.it> 2 distinct postdoctoral positions, one in "Cognitive Neuroscience" and one more specific in "Development of language and speech" are open at SISSA, with deadline for application Sept 15 (in addition to 4 other positions in Prof. Diamond's lab, which have deadline July 31). Full info on the web: http://www.sissa.it/main/?p=A3_B4&what=tpd SISSA is the elite postgraduate research institution in Italy, devoted to Math, Physics and Neuroscience. It operates in English: roughly half the students, postdocs and faculty in the CNS sector are not Italian. Presently located in downtown Trieste, the sector will be reunited with the rest of SISSA in early 2010, moving to a new 25,000 sqm building in a park overlooking the Gulf. Research approaches in the CNS sector span the range from cognitive and developmental psychology and imaging in humans (including OT and a new fMRI machine) to behavioural neuroscience and multiple single-unit recording in rats, mathematical and computational modeling. Allied approaches are pursued in the Neurobiology sector. See http://www.sissa.it/cns/ for further information. Candidates with no prior experience at SISSA are strongly encouraged to apply for either postdoctoral position. The first one, in particular, is not tied to a specific research approach, and candidates with their own research plan are most welcome. Alessandro Treves ale@sissa.it -- SISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, now downtown in via Stock 2/2, V fl BUT NOTE, POSTAL ADDRESS: SISSA, via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy tel:39-040-3787623 fax:39-040-3787615 http://people.sissa.it/~ale ---------------------------------------------------------------- SISSA Webmail https://webmail.sissa.it/ Powered by Horde http://www.horde.org/ From max.snodderly at mail.utexas.edu Thu Jul 23 10:40:43 2009 From: max.snodderly at mail.utexas.edu (Max Snodderly) Date: Thu Jul 23 11:02:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position: Causes and effects of visual aging Message-ID: <7eslao$1011sp1@ironclad.mail.utexas.edu> Please post A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Professor Max Snodderly at the University of Texas, Austin, to study determinants of visual aging in humans and their effects on visual function. Projects include the interaction of nutritionally-responsive factors such as the macular pigment and lipofuscin, with genotypes that influence risk of age-related macular degeneration. Measures of visual function include dark adaptation, S-cone sensitivity, and temporal contrast sensitivity. Candidates should have expertise in psychophysics or in-vivo retinal imaging. Computer programming skills would be a plus. There are opportunities for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. The laboratory is part of the Institute for Neuroscience (www.neuroscience.utexas.edu), and the Center for Perceptual Systems (www.cps.utexas.edu), which include outstanding faculty from multiple departments that provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. UT Austin is one of the largest state universities in the USA with a full range of fascinating academic and artistic programs. The city of 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 contact information for three references by email (max.snodderly@mail.utexas.edu). Because the current postdoc has accepted an attractive job on short notice, the position is available immediately, but it will remain open until an appropriate candidate is found. Candidates who would like another perspective on the position, are welcome to contact the former occupant at lisa.renzi@gmail.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We perform experiments with both healthy subjects and patients (~10 patients with electrode implants available for research each year). Available techniques: 128-channel EEG systems for extracranial and intracranial (ECoG) recordings, fMRI (1.5, 3 and 7 T human Philips systems), TMS and 64-channel intraoperative recordings in awake neurosurgery. Our highly interdisciplinary group consists of 4 postdocs, 10 PhD students and 6 master students, who have a background in neuroscience, psychology, biology or physics and their own expertise in the research field. The postdoc is expected to investigate new ECoG signal processing techniques for BCI purposes, as well as for cognitive neuroscience research. He/she will work in close collaboration with neuroscientists and needs to have excellent communication skills. The candidate is likely to have a PhD in biomedical engineering, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering or physics, with a record of publications. Solid experience in signal processing of any kind and excellent programming skills in Matlab are required. Experience in neuroscience is not a prerequisite, but we expect the candidate to acquire knowledge of underlying psychological and biological processes. Earliest starting date of the two-year position is July 1st, 2009. Application deadline is September 1st, 2009. Applications and information requests can be sent to Prof. dr. Nick Ramsey, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Division of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Room G.03.122, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, Netherlands, n.f.ramsey@umcutrecht.nl. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ M.J. van Steensel, PhD UMC Utrecht Dept. Neurosurgery Mailing address: BCI, G03.124 Heidelberglaan 100 3584 CX Utrecht Tel. 088-755 5121 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A capable, creative and ambitious individual is sought to design and carry out innovative projects looking at how information processing can be influenced by manipulating the contents of working memory, both in healthy and brain-damaged populations [see Soto et al 2008, Automatic guidance of attention from working memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 342-348] It is also expected that the post holder will assist with participant recruitment and project supervision of BSc and MSc students. The candidate should have strong interests in human cognition (memory, attention and learning) as well as previous doctoral and/or post-doctoral experience in psychology and/or cognitive neuroscience. Applicants must have, or have nearly completed, a PhD and expertise in computer programming (i.e. E-Prime, Matlab), functional neuroimaging (i.e. FSL, SPM, TMS) is highly desirable. This post, based at the Hammersmith Campus in East Acton, is fixed-term and is available for up to 35 months. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr David Soto at d.soto@imperial.ac.uk Our preferred method of application is online via our website at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (please select "Job Search" then enter the job title or vacancy reference number into -Keywords-). Please complete and upload an application form as directed quoting reference number * HM2009076.* Alternatively, if you are unable to apply online, please email hmrecr@imperial.ac.uk to request an application form. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090725/318f3096/attachment.htm From dsenkows at uke.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 27 00:56:29 2009 From: dsenkows at uke.uni-hamburg.de (dsenkows@uke.uni-hamburg.de) Date: Mon Jul 27 04:47:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience Message-ID: University of Hamburg, Germany The Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology (Head: Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf invites applications for a PhD student position which is available for an initial period of 2 years, starting October or November 2009. The position is funded by the German Research Foundation project: ?Multisensory processing of pain: An investigation of neural binding mechanisms in electrophysiological and hemodynamic brain responses?. Main research interests of the Department of Neurophysiology are the dynamics of distributed sensory processing, intermodal and sensorimotor integration, as well as theories of perception, action and consciousness. Current projects involve EEG/MEG/fMRI studies in humans or physiological studies in animals. Further information on research at the Department of Neurophysiology can be obtained at http://www.uke.de/institute/neurophysiologie or http://www.40hz.net. Applicants should have a background in psychology, medicine, biology or neuroscience. Experience in human EEG studies or biosignal analysis is desirable. For further details, please contact Dr. Daniel Senkowski (phone +49-40-42803-7047, email: dsenkows@uke.de, www.danielsenkowski.com) or Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel (phone +49-40-42803-6170, email: ak.engel@uke.de ). Applicants are asked to submit their CV and documentation of relevant qualification until AUGUST 15, 2009, to Dr. Daniel Senkowski (dsenkows@uke.de ), Dept. of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. -- Pflichtangaben gem?? Gesetz ?ber elektronische Handelsregister und Genossenschaftsregister sowie das Unternehmensregister (EHUG): Universit?tsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf K?rperschaft des ?ffentlichen Rechts Gerichtsstand: Hamburg Vorstandsmitglieder: Prof. Dr. J?rg F. Debatin (Vorsitzender) Dr. Alexander Kirstein Ricarda Klein Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Koch-Gromus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090727/22834eae/attachment.htm From lsvaradharajan at gmail.com Mon Jul 27 01:40:57 2009 From: lsvaradharajan at gmail.com (L. Srinivasa Varadharajan) Date: Mon Jul 27 04:47:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] EIVOC 2010 - Conference Announcement Message-ID: <7f37cd5d0907270140p719d70c3xc918c4f104b78545@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, Elite School of Optometry (ESO) plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary in the form of ESO International Vision science and Optometry Conference ? EIVOC 2010. The conference will be held in Chennai, India during 12 ? 14, August, 2010. The conference will cover a wide spectrum of areas such as clinical optometry, myopia, ocular physiology, low vision, binocular vision, contact lens, public health, optometry education, and more. Parallel workshops on many specialized areas/procedures have also been planned. We plan to invite many renowned researchers/optometrists from around the world. Following speakers have confirmed their participation: Jay M Enoch Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan Mitchell Scheiman Sarita Soni Suresh Vishwanathan Christine Wildsoet Eli Peli Abstracts are invited from vision researchers and optometrists working in all specialities of optometry and vision science. Abstract submission and registration will start on December 1, 2009. Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to submit a full-length paper that would be published in a special issue of Journal of Modern Optics. All such submissions will go through the regular peer-review process. Additional information will be available at www.eivoc2010.org from August 1, 2009. For any clarifications please write to LSVaradharajan@gmail.com With Regards, L. Srinivasa Varadharajan (Rajan) -- Dr. L. Srinivasa Varadharajan, PhD Assistant Professor, Srimathi Sundari Subramanian Department of Visual Psychophysics Elite School of Optometry (Unit of Medical Research Foundation) 8, G. S. T. Road, St. Thomas Mount Chennai - 600 016, INDIA Phone: 91 - 44 - 2232 1835 Fax: 91 - 44 - 2825 4180 From jheether at Princeton.EDU Mon Jul 27 10:39:40 2009 From: jheether at Princeton.EDU (Jeanne Heether) Date: Mon Jul 27 15:41:37 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc Position available - Please post to list members - Thanks! Message-ID: Join an active research group led by Dr. Uri Hasson at the Psychology department and the new Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. The research will focus on developing new methods to assess both shared and idiosyncratic aspects of the cortical response time courses across individuals. The experiments will be conducted on healthy typical adults as well as on some clinical populations. The work will be done in collaboration with NYU center for neuroscience and NYU Stern business school. Ph.D. in psychology, neuroscience or closely related field is required. The ideal candidate will have a solid computational background (MatLab or C++) and experience with either fMRI or EEG analysis methods. For further information and informal discussions, contact Uri Hasson. Email: hasson@princeton.edu . The final candidate must successfully pass an MR safety screening in order to work in the MR environment. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Proposed starting date is September 2009. To apply, please visit the website http://jobs.princeton.edu (requisition #0900292), create an online application. Applications should include CV, one or two representative publications and a list of two potential referees. Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations. For general application information and how to self-identify, see http://www.princeton.edu/dof/policies/forms/newappoint_reclassif/PSoftSe lfID.pdf. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090727/1680ebab/attachment.htm From owsley at uab.edu Mon Jul 27 09:12:50 2009 From: owsley at uab.edu (Cynthia Owsley) Date: Mon Jul 27 15:41:48 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Registration Now Open: The Eye and the Auto International Conference Message-ID: <0480B3A0-C9B7-4001-8360-903799496AE1@uab.edu> Registration is now open for: The Eye and the Auto International Conference on the Relationship Between Vision and the Safe Operation of a Motorized Vehicle September 16-18, 2009 Conference Site: General Motors? Research and Development Auditorium GM Technical Center Campus, Warren, MI 48090 The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, is an international research meeting dedicated to improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of motorized vehicles. Sessions will be devoted to a variety of topics including: visual processing, visual attention, and driving tasks, human factors and design issues relevant to the driver, roadway, and/or vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions, and driver safety; policies that address vision and driving; driver assessment and rehabilitation strategies for the visually impaired driver. This meeting will be of keen interest to many types of professionals from the fields of vision science, driver safety and/or performance including scientists, engineers, clinicians, designers, and policy specialists. A highlight of the meeting will be a tour of the GM Driving Simulation and Human/Machine Interface Laboratory. The conference will take place in the Detroit area at the GM Technical Center Campus. Conference speakers and topics listed at the end of this email. The conference website is at: www.eyeson.org To register, go to: www.acteva.com/go/eyeson $350/three days, $150/individual day Includes conference sessions, materials, breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks. Please feel free to direct any questions to Carolyn Barth, Ph.D. clbarth@dioeyes.org Phone 313-824-4710 Travel Arrangements can be made thru AAA at 800-854-5044. Or email negc@aaane.com Hotel Reservations: Please contact hotel directly. Somerset Inn 2601 Big Beaver Road Troy MI 48084 Phone: 248-643-7800 or 800-228-8769 Fax: 248-643-2220 Conference Code for Reservations: TEATA Room Rate: $109/night + Hotel Fee Keynote Speakers: Lawrence Burns, PhD, Vice President Research & Development, General Motors, Warren, MI The Eye, The Brain and The Auto Industry Michael Merzenich, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Posit Science Corporation, San Francisco, CA The Driver?s Brain Conference Presenters (in alphabetical order): Xiangjing An PhD, Boston University, Boston, MA - Lane Marking Detection Algorithm of a Land Departure Warning System Based on Neural Vision Models Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL- Cognitive Training: Impact on Driving & Everyday Function Timothy Brown, PhD, National Advanced Driving Simulator, Iowa City, IA - Driving Simulator Advances for Vision Testing of Contact Lenses John D. Bullough, PhD, FIES, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY - Methods of Predicting Visual Performance in Driving Situations James Davis, MS, Human Factors Specialist, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD - A Paradigm for Assessing Threat Detection & Local Area Awareness for Vehicle Research and Design Peter DeGraef, PhD, University of Leuven, Valaams-Brabant, Belgium - Virtual Navigation Training and Gaze Guidance Peter Delahunt, PhD, Posit Science, San Francisco, CA - Reducing Crash Risk in a Population of Older Automobile Insurance Policyholders Using a Computer-based Visual Training Program Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA - The Issue of Older Drivers From a Public Health Perspective: Injury Burden, Risk, and Prevention Strategies Jamie Dow, MBA, MD, SSAQ, Quebec, Canada ? Visual Field Defects May Not Affect Safe Driving Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation Institute, Ann Arbor, MI - New Light Sources, Automotive Lighting, and the Purkinje Shift Rob Gray, PhD, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ ? Multisensory Rear- End Collision Warnings During Cell Phone Use Jonathan Hankey, PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Blacksburg, VA ? Improving Transportation Safety ? The Role of Naturalistic Driving Data Shirin E. Hassan, PhD, BAppSc, Indiana University School of Optometry, Bloomington, IN ? Can Pedestrians Make Correct Street- Crossing Decisions with Impaired Vision? Kristof Karacs, PhD, Hungarian Bionic Vision Center, Budapest, Hungary ? Basic Scene Understanding and Navigation With a Bionic Camera Lisa Keay, PhD, Dana Centre for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, Sydney, Australia ? Urban and Rural Differences in Older Drivers ? Failure to Stop at Stop-signs Lex Krzyzanowski, Clepa?s LightSightSafety Initiative, Brussels, Belgium ? Xenon Car Lighting as Safety Device Dean McConnell, BS, MBA, Continental Automotive Systems, Auburn Hills, MI ? ContiGuard-How Blind Spot Elimination and Crash Avoidance Can Be Realized with Sensors and Sensor Fusion Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL ? Visual Field Impairment in Glaucoma and Motor Vehicle Collision Risk Thomas M. Meuser, PhD, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO ? Vision Data in Drivers Reported as Unfit: The Missouri Experience James B. Nolan, PhD, Envision, Wichita, KS ? Current Perspectives on Bioptic Driving: A Review of State Licensure Regulations Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL ? Older Adults and Dashboard Design: A Qualitative Assessment Eleni Papageorgiou, MD, Institute of Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Baden-Wuertemmberg, Germany ? Visual Exploration in Patients with Homonymous Visual Fields Defects Eli Peli, M.Sc., OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA ? Simulator Studies of Driving with Impaired Vision Bryan Reimer PhD, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA ? Aging Drivers: A Need for Developing Advanced Driver Workload Measurements? Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA ? In-Car Technology to Alert Attention Impaired Drivers Kathy J. Sifrit, PhD, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, DC ? Driving with Peripheral Visual Field Loss Janet Szlyk, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL ? Evidence- based Vision Requirements for Safe Driving and Solutions for Deficit Compensation Alan Taub, PhD, Vice President Elect, Research and Development, General Motors, Warren, MI - (title to be announced). Jeremy Wolfe, PhD, Brigham & Women?s Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ? 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General information: http://www.nips.ac.jp/%7Emyoshi/workshop2009/ Date: September 19th-20th, 2009 Deadline: July 15th, 2009 Organizers: Masatoshi Yoshida, Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu@gmail.com) Registration and abstract submission for poster presentation is open till July 31. (all the presentations will given be in English) Themes: * Consciousness, attention and emotion: their separate neuronal mechanisms (?) * Mechanisms of switches and stabilization of bistable percepts * The role of thalamus in sustaining arousal and controlling contents of consciousness * Timing of neuronal activity and subjective percepts * Threshold for subjective experience * Decoding consciousness from neuronal activity * Philosophical/biological framework for consciousness researches Confirmed speakers: Ralph Adolphs (Caltech), Ned Block (NYU), Olivia Carter (U of Melbourne), John-Dylan Haynes (Humboldt-University Berlin), Ryota Kanai (UCL), Christof Koch (Caltech), Shin'ya Nishida (NTT Communication Science Lab), Hakwan Lau (Columbia Univ.), Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Caltech), Melanie Wilke (Caltech, NIMH), Takamitsu Yamamoto (Nihon Univ.), & Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS) -- }{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, Ph.D. Postdoctoral scholar in Psychology and Neuroscience Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in Caltech address: m/c 114-96 CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, 91125 USA phone : +1 626 395 4025 fax: +1 626 395 2000 homepage: www.emotion.caltech.edu/~naotsu ???????(????????? www.emotion.caltech.edu/~naotsu/Site/Translation.html ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090728/42d29ba6/attachment.htm From jcarroll at mcw.edu Tue Jul 28 05:18:11 2009 From: jcarroll at mcw.edu (Joseph Carroll) Date: Tue Jul 28 05:23:49 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Tenure Track Positions in Eye and Vision Science Message-ID: Tenure Track Positions in Eye and Vision Science The Medical College of Wisconsin Eye Institute invites applications for positions at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. A strategic focus of the Vision Science program is to build upon an already strong group of investigators by recruiting up to three new faculty members in the Department of Ophthalmology. The Medical College of Wisconsin is located in a suburban setting about seven miles west of downtown Milwaukee with easy highway access from all surrounding communities. The eye and vision research group on campus consists of 11 faculty members in multiple departments with research in the biochemistry, biophysics, 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. The area of eye and vision research is open, but scientists involved in retina-related research are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants interested in translational retinal imaging will be given particular consideration since we aim to fill at least one position with an individual in this research area who may benefit from interacting with the Department's clinical faculty. Priority will be given to applicants with significant research accomplishment and demonstrated ability/potential to attract substantial extramural funding. Applications (in pdf format) and inquiries should be sent by email to: Dr. Janice M. Burke, Search Committee Chair (jburke@mcw.edu). Please include a cover letter, a statement summarizing research interests, and a curriculum vitae including a complete list of publications. Applicants at the level of Assistant Professor should also provide three letters of reference sent either by email to Dr. Burke or by regular mail to: Dr. Janice M. Burke Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology 925 N87th Street Milwaukee, WI 53226 Complete applications that are received by Wednesday, September 30, 2009 will be given priority; applications received after that will be considered until the positions are filled. The Medical College of Wisconsin is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090728/f41311b8/attachment.htm From ritier at uwaterloo.ca Tue Jul 28 07:31:46 2009 From: ritier at uwaterloo.ca (Roxane Itier) Date: Tue Jul 28 10:24:21 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc position in Psychology, University of Waterloo Message-ID: <1E4DF9605D5023498558D4034868D10056C1A3B805@CONNMAIL.connect.uwaterloo.ca> Post Doctoral Position Available Department of Psychology University of Waterloo ____________________________ The Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) invites applications for a Post Doctoral Position within the EEG-eye tracking Lab of Dr. Roxane Itier. The Fellowship is supported by a research grant (CIHR) and is a two-year full time contract position with the possibility of a one-year renewal appointment. The candidate should have a PhD in psychology or neuroscience, a demonstrated strong background in EEG-ERPs as well as in fMRI analyses and interests in the field of face and eye gaze processing. Expertise in modeling or in eye tracking methodology is also desirable. The candidate's duties will be to help integrating EEG and fMRI data collected in several face/gaze processing studies. The candidate will also help in designing research experiments and in writing research articles. In addition, the candidate will have the possibility of conducting his/her own research projects using the Lab facilities. Collaborations with other members of the department are encouraged. The psychology department at the University of Waterloo is a dynamic research environment which currently holds two new EEG labs (Biosemi, 72 channels), access to a 1.5T scanner and several eye tracking devices. In addition, access to patients, clinical and developmental populations is also possible. For more details on the department, visit: http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/index.html The city of Waterloo is a small university town, located just 1.5h west of Toronto where Dr. Itier holds major collaborations with the Rotman Research Institute and the Hospital for Sick Children. The start of this appointment is flexible but should occur within the fall 2009 and at the earliest on September 1st, 2009. Applications will be reviewed as received until the position is filled. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities. There are no citizenship restrictions. University of Waterloo Post Doctoral Guidelines can be reviewed at the following link: http://www.grad.uwaterloo.ca/postdoc/guidelines.html Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, three letters of reference and samples of scholarly work to: Dr. Roxane J. Itier Department of Psychology University of Waterloo Waterloo, On. Canada N2L 3G1 Email: ritier@uwaterloo.ca Phone: (519) 888-4567, extension 32629 Fax: (519) 846-8631 Webpage: http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/people/faculty/ritier/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090728/d9aed311/attachment.htm From ionefine at u.washington.edu Wed Jul 29 02:14:24 2009 From: ionefine at u.washington.edu (Ione Fine) Date: Wed Jul 29 06:23:19 2009 Subject: [visionlist] extension of early registration deadline for OSA Vision Meeting in Seattle Message-ID: <00e301ca102c$f7f2a440$e7d7ecc0$@washington.edu> The early registration deadline for this year's OSA Fall Vision Meeting has been extended to midnight PST on August 14th (Friday). Online registration is available at the OSA meeting registration page. Online registration will still be available until the 10th of September after which registration must be performed on the door. (Abstract submission is now closed.) The conference program runs from the 24th to the 27th September (see schedule below). In addition to a packed academic program, there will be a banquet dinner on the evening of the 25th at the UW Faculty Club. Tickets for this banquet may be purchased at the same time as the registration. Finally, conference accommodation at a special rate has been arranged at two local hotels http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/conf/index.php/2009/VM2009/schedConf/accommo dation OSA Vision Meeting Schedule Thurs 9/24 6pm-9pm WELCOME RECEPTION Vista caf?, SW of William H. Foege building ? I14 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?BIOE Friday 9/25 8-9am REGISTRATION Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 9-11am INVITED SESSION: GLAUCOMA 11.30am-1pm CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSSION 1 2.30-4.30pm INVITED SESSION: THE MELANOPSIN PATHWAY 5-6PM BOYNTON LECTURE (Dr. David Williams) 6-9pm BANQUET UW Club ? O9 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?FAC Saturday 9/26 8.30-10.30am INVITED SESSION: WHERE AND WHETHER TO MOVE THE EYES Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 10.30am-12pm POSTER SESSION (Walker Ames room, POSTERS AVAILABLE ALL DAY) 1.30-3.30 INVITED SESSION: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO COLOR CONSTANCY 4-6pm CLASSICS OF VISION SCIENCE 6-8pm POSTER RECEPTION (Walker Ames room) Sunday 9/27 8.30-12am POSTER AVAILABLE (Walker Ames room) Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 8.30-10.30 INVITED SESSION: VISUAL CORTICAL MAPS 11-12.30 CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 2 12.30-1.15pm LUNCH 1.15-2pm BUSINESS MEETING & YOUNG INVESTIGATORS AWARD (Walker Ames room) 2-4pm INVITED SESSION: THERAPUTIC APPROACHES TO VISION LOSS 4.30-5pm CLOSING REMARKS OSA Vision Meeting Schedule Thurs 9/24 6pm-9pm WELCOME RECEPTION Vista caf?, SW of William H. Foege building ? I14 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?BIOE Friday 9/25 8-9am REGISTRATION Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 9-11am INVITED SESSION: GLAUCOMA 11.30am-1pm CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSSION 1 2.30-4.30pm INVITED SESSION: THE MELANOPSIN PATHWAY 5-6PM BOYNTON LECTURE (Dr. David Williams) 6-9pm BANQUET UW Club ? O9 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?FAC Saturday 9/26 8.30-10.30am INVITED SESSION: WHERE AND WHETHER TO MOVE THE EYES Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 10.30am-12pm POSTER SESSION (Walker Ames room, POSTERS AVAILABLE ALL DAY) 1.30-3.30 INVITED SESSION: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO COLOR CONSTANCY 4-6pm CLASSICS OF VISION SCIENCE 6-8pm POSTER RECEPTION (Walker Ames room) Sunday 9/27 8.30-12am POSTER AVAILABLE (Walker Ames room) Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 8.30-10.30 INVITED SESSION: VISUAL CORTICAL MAPS 11-12.30 CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 2 12.30-1.15pm LUNCH 1.15-2pm BUSINESS MEETING & YOUNG INVESTIGATORS AWARD (Walker Ames room) 2-4pm INVITED SESSION: THERAPUTIC APPROACHES TO VISION LOSS 4.30-5pm CLOSING REMARKS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090729/f329bade/attachment-0001.htm From Mark.Elliott at nuigalway.ie Wed Jul 29 14:59:37 2009 From: Mark.Elliott at nuigalway.ie (Elliott, Mark) Date: Wed Jul 29 15:21:51 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Fechner Day 2009: Notice of early registration deadline In-Reply-To: <3A298758-5E6F-4C36-B9A8-3AB4A930ADA6@mimectl> References: <3A298758-5E6F-4C36-B9A8-3AB4A930ADA6@mimectl> Message-ID: <1DAFECC7-1BE0-414F-A038-04B310B11AE8@mimectl> Fechner Day 2009: Galway Ireland 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics Dear friends and colleagues, apologies once again for cross postings. This message is to ensure that any and all registrants for this years Fechner day are aware that the deadline for early registration (that is registration at reduced rates) ends on August 1st. Details may be found in the conference web site - http://www.fechnerday.com/ from which registration may be made. Please register ASAP so as to avail of the reduced costs - we are trying - and partly with your help can succeed in making Ireland a cheaper place. all the best and on behalf of my co organisers, Stanislava Antonijevic, Catriona Martyn, Heike Schmidt, Brian Bargary and Paul Mulcahy T?im ag s?il go m?r bualadh libh i nGaillimh ar l? Fechner 2009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090729/90ab93b4/attachment.htm From wendy.davis at nist.gov Thu Jul 30 08:34:21 2009 From: wendy.davis at nist.gov (Davis, Wendy L.) Date: Thu Jul 30 08:44:26 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for abstracts: Lighting in Artistic, Commercial, and Retail Spaces Message-ID: Hello, I'm recruiting speakers for the "Psychophysical Effects of Lighting" session at this upcoming conference (see announcement below). I'm particularly hoping that some early career researchers (e.g., students, postdocs, etc.) will want to give oral presentations, as well as meet scientists working in applied areas of vision, color, and lighting. The conference will be in October in Maryland (near Washington DC) and registration is only $150 ($75 for students & retirees). Feel free to e-mail me with any questions or if you'd like to discuss your abstract before submitting it. Wendy Lighting in Artistic, Commercial, and Retail Spaces Dates: Oct. 13-14th, 2009 NIST Green Auditorium, Gaithersburg MD The Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (CORM) and the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) would like to announce a joint meeting entitled "Lighting in Artistic, Commercial, and Retail Spaces" to be held October 13-14, 2009 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Sessions are planned on the following topics: * Use of Lighting in Artistic and Commercial Spaces This session will explore the effects of lighting in museum and retail applications. An important aspect of this is the relationship between the lighting, the materials, and color rendering of the sources with perception by human observers. * Psychophysical Effects of Lighting This session will examine the relationships between the physical dimensions of lighting and humans' visual perception, performance, and other psychological attributes. Presentations may include basic laboratory studies as well as more naturalistic investigations. * Measurement of sources in situ This session will cover the science and metrology of ambient light in the field. The goal will be to understand the measurement of physical light sources in non-laboratory environments and ultimately to relate this understanding to the applications in the first two sessions. Presentation are being solicited for these and related topics. Please submit one-page abstracts in MS Word or PDF to either of the technical contacts listed below by August 14. We anticipate presentations to be 30 minutes in length. The conference will feature tours of the NIST facility, including the new room-sized spectrally-tunable lighting facility for the psychophysical evaluation of lighting. Following this meeting will be meetings of CIE-USA and CIE-Canada, in the same venue. CIE/USA and CIE Canada will hold their Technical conference (Thursday Oct 15) and administrative committees (Friday Oct 16). Submit abstracts by August 14, 2009 to either of the technical contacts: Dr. David Wyble Munsell Color Science Laboratory (585) 475-7310 wyble@cis.rit.edu Dr. Art Springsteen Avian Technologies LLC (603) 526-2420 arts@aviantechnologies.com From chiestand at salk.edu Thu Jul 30 14:01:29 2009 From: chiestand at salk.edu (Chris Hiestand) Date: Thu Jul 30 14:44:50 2009 Subject: [visionlist] NIPS 2009 Call For Mini-Symposia Message-ID: <6B6B594E-9126-4C41-97ED-89E2CB4B3273@salk.edu> CALL FOR MINI-SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) -- Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2009 Mini-symposia December 10, 2009 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, BC, CANADA http://nips.cc/ Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, up to four mini-symposia will be held in parallel during the afternoon of December 10, 2009, in the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing a mini-symposium to submit proposals. The goal of the mini-symposia is to present topical material on a single theme, well suited to the main conference audience. Controversial issues, emerging topics, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as symposium topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints are also particularly encouraged. Possible topics for symposia include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control and Reinforcement Learning, Data Mining, Game Theory, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Independent Component Analysis, Information Theory, Kernel Methods, Large Scale Implementations and Software, Learning Theory, Mean-Field Methods, Mechanism Design, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, Nonparametric Models, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Randomized Algorithms, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Speech, Statistical Inference, Unsupervised Learning and Information Extraction, Time Series, Vision and Scene Understanding. Each of the four mini-symposia will run for three hours in the afternoon of December 10 after the end of the main conference. Organizers may consider proposing a mini-symposium in conjunction with a one- or two- day workshop proposed to be held subsequently in Whistler. In such a case proposers should take into account the more polished nature of the symposium, and, as the attendees might differ, should ensure that each stands alone programmatically. Detailed descriptions of previous symposia and workshops can be found at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/. We encourage neuroscience-related proposals, and are especially interested in those bridging areas of neuroscience and machine learning. Selected mini-symposia may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. More details and instructions for submission of proposals may be found online at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/CallForMiniSymposia. Proposals must be received by August 28, 2009. Richard Zemel (University of Toronto) Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta) Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) NIPS*2009 Symposia Co-Chairs PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 28, 2009 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A strong training in experimental methodology (not necessarily fMRI and psychophysics ? for example, single-unit neurophysiology is appropriate) with solid quantitative skills is required. RIKEN is located in Wako, Japan which is a 12 minute train ride from central Tokyo. Seminars and daily scientific activities at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute are all conducted in English. Non-Japanese applicants may apply for on-campus housing for their first year. For inquiries, send a brief cover letter stating your research interests, your CV and contact information for two scientist who can act as references to Justin L. Gardner at gru@brain.riken.jp. For more info: http://gru.brain.riken.jp From margaret_livingstone at hms.harvard.edu Fri Jul 31 06:14:08 2009 From: margaret_livingstone at hms.harvard.edu (Livingstone, Margaret S.) Date: Fri Jul 31 06:15:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] RA position open, Boston, MA Message-ID: Research Assistant position open in Margaret Livingstone's neurophysiology laboratory at Harvard Medical School. Responsibilities will include training monkeys, monitoring physiological recordings, laboratory organization, and data analysis. Interested individuals please email mlivingstone@hms.harvard.edu or view this posting at http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/search_req and search using requisition # 36987. **************************************** Margaret S. Livingstone, PhD Professor of Neurobiology 220 Longwood Ave Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 phone: 617 432 1664 fax: 617 734 7557 _~o _~o _~o _-\<,_ _-\<,_ _-\<,_ (_) / (_) (_) / (_) (_) / (_) **************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Munoz Laurent Itti http://journalofvision.org/9/7/4/ Perceived timing of new objects and feature changes Ryota Kanai Thomas A. Carlson Frans A. J. Verstraten Vincent Walsh http://journalofvision.org/9/7/5/ Learning illumination- and orientation-invariant representations of objects through temporal association Guy Wallis Benjamin T. Backus Michael Langer Gesche Huebner Heinrich B?lthoff http://journalofvision.org/9/7/6/ Cue dynamics underlying rapid detection of animals in natural scenes James H. Elder Ljiljana Velisavljevic http://journalofvision.org/9/7/7/ Assessing direction-specific adaptation using the steady-state visual evoked potential: Results from EEG source imaging Justin M. Ales Anthony M. Norcia http://journalofvision.org/9/7/8/ Effects of target enhancement and distractor suppression on multiple object tracking capacity Katherine C. Bettencourt David C. Somers http://journalofvision.org/9/7/9/ Pupil dynamics during bistable motion perception Jean-Michel Hup? C?dric Lamirel Jean Lorenceau http://journalofvision.org/9/7/10/ Higher-order aberrations produce orientation-specific notches in the defocused contrast sensitivity function Humza J. Tahir Neil R. A. Parry Aristophanis Pallikaris Ian J. Murray http://journalofvision.org/9/7/11/ Experimental validation of a Bayesian model of visual acuity Eug?nie Dalimier Eliseo Pailos Ricardo Rivera Rafael Navarro http://journalofvision.org/9/7/12/ Spatial contrast sensitivity and grating acuity of barn owls Wolf M. Harmening Petra Nikolay Julius Orlowski Hermann Wagner http://journalofvision.org/9/7/13/ Perceived duration of visual motion increases with speed Sae Kaneko Ikuya Murakami http://journalofvision.org/9/7/14/ A neurophysiologically plausible population code model for human contrast discrimination Robbe L. T. Goris Felix A. Wichmann G. Bruce Henning http://journalofvision.org/9/7/15/ Learning to attend: Effects of practice on information selection Todd A. Kelley Steven Yantis http://journalofvision.org/9/7/16/ Storing fine detailed information in visual working memory-Evidence from event-related potentials Zaifeng Gao Jie Li Junying Liang Hui Chen Jun Yin Mowei Shen http://journalofvision.org/9/7/17/ Age-related decline of contrast sensitivity for second-order stimuli: Earlier onset, but slower progression, than for first-order stimuli Yong Tang Yifeng Zhou http://journalofvision.org/9/7/18/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090804/c9a4acaa/attachment.htm From ale at sissa.it Tue Aug 4 05:09:22 2009 From: ale at sissa.it (Alessandro Treves) Date: Tue Aug 4 06:19:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] More Geometrico meeting at SISSA Message-ID: <20090804140922.h8p9wyi6r48so4g4@webmail.sissa.it> MORE GEOMETRICO An interdisciplinary conference on geometry, cognition, space and movement SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste October 6 to 8, 2009 Supported by: SISSA (Cognitive Neuroscience and Mathematical Physics Sectors), Dipartimento di Filosofia dell'Universita' degli Studi di Milano, the EU Spacebrain project. The purpose of the project More Geometrico is to discuss the increasingly fundamental role played by geometrical and topological ideas and methods in the most important fields of research, relating them to recent developments in the natural and life sciences. This 4th event of the More Geometrico series is organized in collaboration with the Cognitive Neuroscience and Mathematical Physics Sectors of SISSA, and with the EU Spacebrain project. It is open to all and free (in particular, there is no registration fee). TOPICS and SPEAKERS: MOTOR COGNITION (coord. R. Rumiati): G. Csibra, I. Dinstein, T. Flash, A. Lingnau INTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF SPACE (coord. A. Treves): A. Compte*, B. Jagadeesh, K. Jeffery, E. Kropff, E.T. Rolls SPACE AND MOVEMENT (coord. C. Sinigaglia): A. Berti, Y. Coello, E. Ladavas, G. Vallortigara PERCEIVING MOTIONS, SHAPES AND COLOURS (coord. C. Sinigaglia and L. Boi): G. Citti*, J. Koenderink, F. Lacquaniti, K. O'Regan *to be confirmed October 7 PM will feature a public discussion (in Italian) among C. Bartocci, G. Giorello, M. Frixione and V. Torre, to take place in downtown Trieste. Further details are available from the conference web page http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/moregeometrico/Conferences_2009_1.html offering information about the venue, travel to Trieste and accommodation. Registration is free but recommended for organizational reasons. For information you may also write to Prof Ugo Bruzzo, bruzzo@sissa.it Scientific committee: C. Bartocci (Univ. Genova and MG) , L. Boi (EHESS Paris and MG), U. Bruzzo (SISSA and MG), G. Giorello (Univ. Milano and MG), R. Rumiati (SISSA), C. Sinigaglia (Univ. Milano and MG), V. Torre (SISSA), A. Treves (SISSA and Spacebrain). -- SISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, now downtown in via Stock 2/2, V fl BUT NOTE, POSTAL ADDRESS: SISSA, via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy tel:39-040-3787623 fax:39-040-3787615 http://people.sissa.it/~ale ---------------------------------------------------------------- SISSA Webmail https://webmail.sissa.it/ Powered by Horde http://www.horde.org/ From purves at neuro.duke.edu Tue Aug 4 08:27:56 2009 From: purves at neuro.duke.edu (Dale Purves) Date: Tue Aug 4 09:50:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] correction- Postdoctoral positions, DUKE-NUS Singapore Message-ID: <118974150353764C964D4F04C49CC172020E7955DC29@dendrite.neuro.duke.edu> Two newly created positions, one in vision and one in audition, are available in the lab of Dale Purves, which has now moved to the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. Research in the laboratory concerns visual and auditory perception and the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual phenomena. Ongoing investigations in vision include understanding the perception of brightness, color, orientation, motion, and depth; the interest in audition concerns understanding the tonal relationships in music arising from the similarity of musical dyads and voiced speech spectra. The unifying theme of these projects is the hypothesis that visual and auditory percepts are generated according to a wholly empirical strategy that represents in perception the empirical significance of sensory stimuli rather than their physical properties. These issues are being explored by psychophysics, analyses of natural image and sound databases, and the emerging properties of virtual organisms evolving in defined environments. See purveslab.net for details. Applicants should have a PhD in neuroscience, psychology, computer science or a related discipline. Applications must include a CV with the names and contact information of three references, preferably sent by email to purves@neuro.duke.edu. Applications by regular mail to should be addressed to Dale Purves, M.D., Director, Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore 169857 Dale Purves, M.D. Duke University purves@neuro.duke.edu From giaschi at interchange.ubc.ca Tue Aug 4 11:11:33 2009 From: giaschi at interchange.ubc.ca (Debbie Giaschi) Date: Tue Aug 4 11:14:30 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral fellowship: Giaschi Lab, Vancouver, BC, Canada Message-ID: <28220196.8881249409493210.JavaMail.myubc2@handel.my.ubc.ca> A postdoctoral fellowship is available to work with Dr. Debbie Giaschi in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia (www.ubc.ca) on several projects involving children with amblyopia. We use psychophysics and functional MRI to study motion perception, stereopsis and visual acuity with a focus on fellow-eye deficits and implications for treatment. The position is available for at least 2 years beginning November 2009. Applicants must hold a PhD degree in Psychology, Neuroscience or a related field. Preference will be given to candidates with clinical or developmental psychophysical experience and Matlab programming skills. This position is funded by grants from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (in collaboration with Dr. Laurie Wilcox and Dr. David Regan at York University). Salary will be commensurate with CIHR levels. Please send CV and the names and e-mail addresses of 3 references to giaschi@interchange.ubc.ca The Giaschi lab (www.giaschilab.ca) is located in the Department of Ophthalmology at BC?s Children?s Hospital (11 km from the main UBC campus), and is part of the Child and Family Research Institute (www.cfri.ca ). -- Debbie Giaschi, PhD Associate Professor Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Department of Psychology Room A146 4480 Oak St. Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4 voice: 604-875-2345x7807 fax: 604-875-2683 www.giaschilab.ca From tgollisch at neuro.mpg.de Wed Aug 5 08:08:51 2009 From: tgollisch at neuro.mpg.de (Tim Gollisch) Date: Wed Aug 5 11:16:42 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position: Population Coding in the Retina Message-ID: <510B77F500FB6D47B27C6C1FA1782BD737E7AE3FE5@s42.neuro.mpg.de> A postdoctoral research position (2+ years) is available to investigate the neural population code of the retina in the lab of Tim Gollisch at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich-Martinsried. We study information processing and neural coding in the retinal network with a combination of electrophysiological and computational approaches. For more information about the group, please visit http://www.neuro.mpg.de/english/junior/visualcode/. We are looking for a highly committed scientist with experience in neuronal data analysis and good computer knowledge. The successful candidate will work on a combined computational and experimental project that aims at bringing together electrophysiological recordings from the retina, automated data analysis, and feedback to the visual stimulus generator in order to perform closed-loop experiments. These will be applied to studying population coding in the retina with methods from signal detection theory and information theory. The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating, lively, and international scientific environment provided by the Max Planck Institute (http://www.neuro.mpg.de) as well as the nearby university and Munich Center for Neurosciences (http://www.mcn.lmu.de). The research group is also associated with the Munich Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (http://www.bccn-muenchen.de), which provides an additional platform for interactions with scientists within the Munich area and beyond. For information or to apply, please send an email to Dr. Tim Gollisch (tgollisch@neuro.mpg.de) and include a statement of research interests and a CV. --------------------------------------------- Dr. Tim Gollisch Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology Visual Coding Group Am Klopferspitz 18 82152 Martinsried-Munich, Germany Email: tgollisch@neuro.mpg.de Tel.: +49 (0)89 8578 3496 Fax: +49 (0)89 8995 0123 From announcements at journalofvision.org Wed Aug 5 15:04:28 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Wed Aug 5 17:22:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 8 Message-ID: Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 8 http://journalofvision.org/9/8/ Abstracts Vision Sciences Society http://journalofvision.org/9/8/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090805/4b39c3b7/attachment.htm From triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de Thu Aug 6 06:10:43 2009 From: triesch at fias.uni-frankfurt.de (Jochen Triesch) Date: Thu Aug 6 07:23:23 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2-3 PhD/Post-doc positions in Reinforcement Learning Message-ID: <4A7AD653.5050407@fias.uni-frankfurt.de> We have openings for 2-3 PhD/Post-doc positions in the area of hierarchical reinforcement learning. The positions are in the context of a new four year, eight partner EU-project, IM-CLeVeR (Intrinsically Motivated Cumulative LEarning VErsatile Robots), which spans neurobiology, psychology, computational neuroscience, machine learning and robotics (http://www.im-clever.eu/). Our goal will be to develop algorithms that learn hierarchical control architectures based on intrinsic motivations, curiosity drives, and abstraction and modularization abilities. The positions will be based at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro). Generous funds are available for extended visits to other project partners. Candidates should have a keen interest in the areas of computational neuroscience, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, control theory, intelligent robotics, or related disciplines. Positions are available immediately with highly competitive salary. Required application materials comprise: * Complete Curriculum Vitae * Statement of research achievements and interests * Contact information for 2-3 references * Copy of Masters or Diploma certificate * Copy of PhD certificate, if applicable and should be sent to Ms Gaby Schmitz: schmitz@fias.uni-frankfurt.de. Best regards, Jochen Triesch -- Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch Johanna Quandt Research Professor Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Web: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/ Tel: +49 (0)69 798-47531 Fax: +49 (0)69 798-47611 From A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk Thu Aug 6 07:02:56 2009 From: A.J.Schofield at Bham.ac.uk (Andrew Schofield) Date: Thu Aug 6 07:24:17 2009 Subject: [visionlist] UK Vision Scientists meeting at ECVP - Thurs 27th Aug, 12:15 Message-ID: <4A7AF0A0.14288.146FC9E@A.J.Schofield.Bham.ac.uk> All, The AVA is hosting a meeting for all UK Vision Scientists at this years ECVP. The meeting will take place in room H2 at the main ECVP venue on Thursday 27th August at 12:15. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss funding issues. Topics may include (but are not limited to): Research council remits. Helpful reviewing. Building relationships with and influencing RC's (keeping VS on the agenda). The AVAs role as a representative body. It is hoped that there will be plenty of time for discussion from the floor. If you have a strong desire to talk/hear about a topic not listed please let me know by 20th August. We are currently looking for relatively senior researchers (eg past or present panel members) who might be willing to introduce the above topics and/or give a brief summary of their view of a particular research council remit. If this is you please let me know. Several such views may be helpful. If you'd like to make a contribution but cannot make the meeting e-mail your views to me and I'll do my best. Please note that the meeting is open to all UK Vision Scientists not just AVA members. With luck a summary of the meeting will be posted on the AVA e-mail list. Regards Andrew Schofield ***************************** * Dr Andrew Schofield * School of Psychology * University of Birmingham * Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT * +44 (0)121 414 5644 From pizlo at psych.purdue.edu Thu Aug 6 13:24:12 2009 From: pizlo at psych.purdue.edu (Zygmunt Pizlo) Date: Thu Aug 6 14:36:14 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Second International Workshop on Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision Message-ID: <4A7B3BEC.5090604@psych.purdue.edu> Topic and Motivation On the computer vision side, shape was the backbone of classical object recognition systems in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, the advent of appearance-based recognition in the 1990's drew the spotlight away from shape. While an active shape community continued in the periphery, only recently has shape re-entered the mainstream with a return to contours, shape hierarchies, shape grammars, shape priors, and even 3-D shape inference. On the human vision side, shape research was also affected by paradigm changes. Unlike the computer vision community, psychologists have usually agreed that shape is important, but it has been less clear to them what it is about shape that should be studied: surfaces, invariants, parts, multiple views, learning, simplicity, shape constancy or shape illusions? The growing interest in mathematical formalisms and computational models has begun to provide the long overdue common denominator for these various paradigms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together some of the community's most distinguished shape perception researchers, from both human and computer vision, to help bridge not only the historical gap but the cross-disciplinary gap. They will reflect on their past and current experience in working with shape, identify the major challenges that need to be addressed, and help define directions for future research. This will be the second such multidisciplinary workshop devoted specifically to shape perception. The first SPHCV was a major success, exposing students and researchers in computer vision to recent progress in the human shape perception community. We hope to provide students and researchers in human shape perception an equivalent exposure to recent progress in the computer vision community. Organization and Workshop Format The format of the one-day workshop will be 12 invited speakers (six human vision, six computer vision). Each talk will last 25 min plus 5 min for discussion. The speakers have been chosen to represent a broad cross-section of shape perception research, representing the major paradigms in both the human and computer vision communities. Speakers will be encouraged to reflect on their experience, identify critical challenges, etc., rather than present snapshots of their latest research results. Location of the Workshop The workshop is part of ECVP2009 and will be held on 29th of August 2009. For more info about the program, abstracts, and registration, as well as a boat cruise, see: http://viper.psych.purdue.edu/workshops/iwsphcv09/ Zyg Pizlo From byronyu at stanford.edu Thu Aug 6 22:31:53 2009 From: byronyu at stanford.edu (Byron Yu) Date: Fri Aug 7 07:22:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Cosyne 2010 -- Call for Workshops Message-ID: __________________________________________________________________________ ? ? ? ? ? Cosyne10 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? March 1-2, 2010 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Snowbird, Utah ? ? ? ? http://cosyne.org/wiki/Cosyne_10_workshops __________________________________________________________________________ PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Preference will be given to proposals received by 15 September 2009; proposals received by 30 October 2009 will be considered, if space is available. A series of workshops will be held after the main Cosyne meeting (http://cosyne.org/). The goal is to provide an informal forum for the discussion of important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, comparisons of competing approaches, and alternative viewpoints are encouraged. The overarching goal of all workshops should be the integration of empirical and theoretical approaches, in an environment that fosters collegial discussion and debate. Preference will be given to proposals that differ in content, scope, and/or approach from workshops of recent years (examples available at cosyne.org). Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: sensory processing; motor planning and control; multisensory integration; motivation, reward and decision making; learning and memory; adaptation and plasticity; neural coding; neural circuitry and network models; dendritic processing; and methods in computational or systems neuroscience. __________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP DETAILS: -- There will be 4-8 workshops/day, running in parallel. -- Each workshop is expected to draw between 15 and 80 people. -- The workshops will be split into morning (8:00-11:00 AM) and afternoon (4:30-7:30 PM) sessions. -- Workshops will be held at Snowbird, a ski resort located 30 miles (typically less than an hour) from the Salt Lake City airport. -- Buses from the main conference will be provided. __________________________________________________________________________ SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Deadline: ?Preference will be given to proposals received by 15 September 2009; proposals received by 30 October 2009 will be considered, if space is available. Format: ? ?plain text only -- please no attachments email to: ?cosyne10workshops@gmail.com (Adam Kohn, Mark Laubach) Proposals should include: -- Name(s) and email address(es) of the organizers (no more than 2 organizers per session, please). A primary contact should be designated. -- A title. -- A brief description of: ? what the workshop is to address and accomplish, ? why the topic is of interest, ? who the targeted group of participants is. -- Names of potential invitees, with indication of which speakers are confirmed. Preference will be given to workshops with the most confirmed speakers. -- Proposed workshop length (1 or 2 days). Most workshops will be limited to a single day. If you think your workshop needs 2 days, please explain why. -- A *brief* resume of the workshop organizer along with a *brief* list of publications (about half a page total). _________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS RESPONSIBILITIES: -- Coordinate workshop participation and content. -- Moderate the discussion. _________________________________________________________________________ SUGGESTIONS: Experience has shown that the best discussions during a workshop are those that arise spontaneously. A good way to foster these is to have short talks and long question periods (e.g. 30+15 minutes), and have plenty of breaks. Also, when it comes to the number of talks, in the words of Jerry Brown, less is more. We recommend fewer than 10 talks. _________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP COSTS: Detailed registration costs, etc, will be available at: http://cosyne.org/ Please note: Cosyne does NOT provide travel funding for workshop speakers. All workshop speakers are expected to pay for workshop registration fees. Participants are encouraged to register early, in order to qualify for discounted registration rates. ?One complementary (free) organizer registration is provided per workshop. For workshops with 2 organizers, the free registration can be given to one of the organizers or split evenly between them. _________________________________________________________________________ COSYNE 2010 WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Adam Kohn (Einstein), Mark Laubach (Yale) QUESTIONS: email: cosyne10workshops@gmail.com ------- Byron Yu Cosyne 2010 Publicity / Publications Chair From katja at bilkent.edu.tr Fri Aug 7 05:07:01 2009 From: katja at bilkent.edu.tr (Katja Doerschner) Date: Fri Aug 7 07:23:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Two Post-doc positions available: Object Perception, Psychophysics and fMRI at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Message-ID: <559A7240-A4B6-41BE-B0B1-7321869E7CB6@bilkent.edu.tr> Visual Perception in Context Two postdoctoral positions are available in the Computational and Biological Vision Group (CBVG) and the National Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (UMRAM) at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), for researchers interested in the neural basis of visual perception, with an emphasis on the effects of context on visual perceptual processes. The positions start immediately. The contracts will be given for 1 year initially and will be renewable for up to 2.5 years. Candidates must have a doctoral degree in psychology, neuroscience, physics, biology, computer science or a related field. Solid programming skills (Java, Matlab), experience with fMRI, psychophysical methods and eyetracking are of advantage. Please send applications per email to vision@bilkent.edu.tr The center offers excellent research facilities, they include a Siemens Magnetom Trio 3T MR Scanner, an ASL MR safe eyetracker, and a psychophysics setup. UMRAM and CBVG (http://vision.bilkent.edu.tr) closely collaborate with the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/index_e.html), Electrical Engineering (http://bme.bilkent.edu.tr/), Molecular Biology and Genetics (http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~bilmbg/), and Psychology (http://www.psy.bilkent.edu.tr/ ). Bilkent University (http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/) is a well established non-pro?t private research university. Founded in 1984, it has currently more than 10,000 students and over 1000 academic staff in nine faculties, four professional schools, and six graduate schools. In addition to providing an optimal research environment, Bilkent University has an excellent educational infrastructure, including a modern library and extensive computer facilities. The university has a high emphasis on international scholarly exchange and maintains strong ties with universities abroad, particularly in the USA and Canada, engaging actively in collaborative research projects, leading student exchange programs and workshops. The medium of teaching and research in the University is English. For further information about Ankara see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara . Do not hesitate to contact us for informal inquiries. Huseyin Boyaci Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey Phone: +90 (312) 290 3005 hboyaci@bilkent.edu.tr http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~hboyaci/ Katja Doerschner Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 (312) 290 3004 katja@bilkent.edu.tr http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~katja -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090807/1bc38e42/attachment.htm From nicolle.ferchland at med.ovgu.de Fri Aug 7 03:52:50 2009 From: nicolle.ferchland at med.ovgu.de (Ferchland, Nicolle) Date: Fri Aug 7 07:23:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Doctoral Student: Neuropsychologist / Cognitive Neuroscientist in Magdeburg Message-ID: At the Institute of Medical Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Sabel) a position of Doctoral Student: Neuropsychologist / Cognitive Neuroscientist is available. The candidate will carry out research in the fields of: * Neuroplasticity in normal Aging or age-associated disorders (such as stroke) using fMRI * Developement of new approaches for the treatment of patients with cognitive or vision impairments (including training and electrical stimulation using TMS or non-invasive current stimulation). The position is available from the 20.08.2009. Salary is according to German scale for research staff personnel (TVL-13/2). We are an interdisciplinary team (psychologist, biologists, medical scientists) and work in an exiting neuroscience environment with many collaboration opportunities on campus. We offer a pleasant and productive working environment and support our employees to achieve scientific progress in an internationally competitive environment; only minor teaching duties of medical students. Prior experience in scientific publishing is essential. Your qualifications are: * Degree in Psychology or related fields (e.g. Neuroscience, Behav. Biology, Medicine). * Experience in carrying out competitive research and publish in international journals * Team spirit and the burning desire to be successful Please send applications (application letter, CV, representative reprints of published work) via email to nicolle.ferchland@med.ovgu.de Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Sabel. Institute of Medical Psychology Medical Faculty Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg Leipziger Str. 44 39120 Magdeburg/Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Gallistel, Isabel Gauthier, Rochel Gelman, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Frank C. Keil, David Klahr, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Kristi Lockhart, Bruce McCandliss, Mark A. McDaniel, Jacques Mehler, Roxana Moreno, Andrea Carlo Moro, Marina Nespor, Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, Marcela Pe?a, Michael Posner, Alexandre Pouget, Marcus E. Raichle, Sidarta Ribeiro, Luiggi Rizzi, Robert S. Siegler, Mariano Sigman, Robert Stickgold, Janet F. Werker Applications are now open for the first in a series of schools aimed at training students in Cognitive and Neural Sciences research applied to learning and education. Applicants should be English-speaking graduate/postgraduate students and young researchers dedicated to explore the relationship between cognition, brain, learning and education. Application procedures. Interested researchers should register at http://www.laschool4education.com. Applications will remain open until October 10, 2009. 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The newer, and in some ways associated, ?eld of Computational Aesthetics studies the algorithmic basis of aesthetic sense. It has seen much interest from researchers in such diverse practices as computer graphics, art history, and cultural studies. This workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers working in Computational Photography and Computational Aesthetics to discuss with leading national and international ?gures in those ?elds. It is open to any research contribution related to Computational Photography and Aesthetics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: o High dynamic range imaging and rendering; o Panorama acquistion and display; o Image stabilization and deblurring; o Denoising; o Image inpainting; o Image superresolution and zooming; o Relighting; o Light?eld acquisition; o Aesthetic ranking; o Composition analysis; o Authentication; o Art restoration; SUBMISSION: Abstracts should be submitted to the conference webpage on Easychair (registration required): http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imiwcomppa09 Abstracts should be 1 page long including the title of the contribution, name and af?liation of the contributors, and a summary of the work. The slides presented at the conference will be maintained on the conference website for reference. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: Ramakrishna Kakarala, School of Computer Engineering, NTU; Xue-Cheng Tai, School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, NTU; Martin Constable, School of Arts, Design and Media, NTU; Martin Reiser, Founding Director, IMI; PROGRAM COMMITTEE Kap Luk Chan, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NTU; Shannon Castleman, School of Arts, Design and Media, NTU; Deepu Rajan, School of Computer Engineering, NTU; Sudha Natarajan, School of Computer Engineering, NTU; He Ying, School of Computer Engineering, NTU; Li-lian Wang, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU; Alfred Bruckstein, Technion, ISRAEL; Andy Yip, Mathematics, NUS; Xumei Zhang, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA; Todd Sachs, Aptina Imaging, USA. For further enquiries, please contact R Kakarala at "ramakrishna at ntu dot edu dot sg" From heinen at ski.org Fri Aug 7 16:28:02 2009 From: heinen at ski.org (heinen) Date: Fri Aug 7 16:50:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position: Neuroscience of decision making for oculomotor control Message-ID: <4A7CB882.6000100@ski.org> A position is open immediately in Dr. Stephen Heinen's research group to work on an NIH-funded study of neuronal decision-making for eye movement control with the goal of understanding how cognition modulates the sensorimotor processing stream. The project explores how structures in frontal cortex cooperate in the decision to make or withhold smooth eye movements. To understand processing within a structure and feed-forward and feedback interactions between structures, we characterize the temporal evolution of choice probability, and of predictive, sensory, and motor components of single-neuron activity. We utilize rule-based decision tasks to identify time-varying signals associated with these processes. Electrical microstimulation and chemical inactivation complement single-unit recording. The laboratory also possesses a state of the art high-speed video eyetracker for conducting human ocular research. The laboratory is located in San Francisco at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, a research organization where investigators study vision and eye movements at a systems level. Smith-Kettlewell has a unique environment composed of basic, clinical and rehabilitation researchers that fosters cross-disciplinary collaborations. The institute also provides support for grant-writing, and mentoring in the process. Experience in visual and/or oculomotor physiology and strong quantitative skills preferred. Visit our website: http://www.ski.org/SJHeinen_lab/ Applicants should send a CV and names of three references to: heinen@ski.org -- Stephen J. 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(If you submitted an abstract after the official deadline and haven?t yet heard whether it has been accepted please contact Ione Fine ionefine@u.washington.edu) Online registration will still be available until the 10th of September after which registration must be performed on the door. The conference program runs from the 24th to the 27th September (see schedule below). In addition to a packed academic program, there will be a banquet dinner on the evening of the 25th at the UW Faculty Club. Tickets for this banquet may be purchased at the same time as the registration. Finally, conference accommodation has been arranged at two local hotels. The deadline for the special rate has expired, but rooms are still available. http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/conf/index.php/2009/VM2009/schedConf/accommo dation OSA Vision Meeting Schedule Thurs 9/24 6pm-9pm WELCOME RECEPTION Vista caf?, SW of William H. Foege building ? I14 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?BIOE Friday 9/25 8-9am REGISTRATION Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 9-11am INVITED SESSION: GLAUCOMA 11.30am-1pm CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSSION 1 2.30-4.30pm INVITED SESSION: THE MELANOPSIN PATHWAY 5-6PM BOYNTON LECTURE (Dr. David Williams) 6-9pm BANQUET UW Club ? O9 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?FAC Saturday 9/26 8.30-10.30am INVITED SESSION: WHERE AND WHETHER TO MOVE THE EYES Kane Hall ? L8 http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?KNE 10.30am-12pm POSTER SESSION (Walker Ames room, POSTERS AVAILABLE ALL DAY) 1.30-3.30 INVITED SESSION: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO COLOR CONSTANCY 4-6pm CLASSICS OF VISION SCIENCE 6-8pm POSTER RECEPTION (Walker Ames room) Sunday 9/27 8.30-12am POSTER AVAILABLE (Walker Ames room) Kane Hall ? 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Applicants should have a PhD and skills relevant to human psychophysics, Bayesian statistics or computational neuroscience and an interest in the way the nervous system solves computational problems. Experience with Matlab would be very advantageous. The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) boasts a large concentration of researchers that address various questions about movement in healthy and patient populations. The department of physiology hosts many scientists probing the neural basis of movement. Informal inquiries can be addressed by email to Professor Konrad Koerding (konrad@koerding.com). For more information about the environment see the Web Pages of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (www.ric.org), the Northwestern Department of Physiology (www.physio.northwestern.edu) and the Northwestern Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (www.northwestern.edu/pmr/). The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is an Affirmative Action - Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions, and employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition, disability, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status to the extent required by law. The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago embraces diversity in its work force. Applicants should supply: - one-page statement of research interests - Copy of CV (two if sent by post) - Names and contact details of three references From pillaiaj at mail.nih.gov Wed Aug 12 09:50:30 2009 From: pillaiaj at mail.nih.gov (Ajay Pillai) Date: Thu Aug 13 01:14:49 2009 Subject: [visionlist] POSTDOCTORAL POSITION at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA Message-ID: <4A82F2D6.2000209@mail.nih.gov> POSTDOCTORAL POSITION at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA The Brain Imaging and Modeling Section directed by Barry Horwitz of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on functional brain imaging projects. The position would be initially for 2 years, with extension for several more years possible. The Brain Imaging and Modeling Section performs studies using fMRI, MEG and computational neural modeling. The emphasis in the laboratory is on studies of audition, speech and language processing. This laboratory has pioneered the use of network analysis methods and the use of biologically realistic neural modeling for understanding neuroimaging data. The successful applicant will have a Ph.D and/or MD in a relevant field, and experience with neuroimaging and/or neural modeling. Knowledge of experimental design, connectivity analysis methods, and time series analysis techniques would be particularly welcomed. MATLAB expertise and familiarity with Linux preferred. The position could start as early as Oct. 1, 2009. The search will continue until the position is filled. Salary will be commensurate with experience. The position is on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, a suburb of Washington, DC. Applicants should respond with an email to Dr. Barry Horwitz, horwitzb@mail.nih.gov; include a CV and a cover letter stating one?s research interests. See http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/research/scientists/horwitzb.asp for further information about our research group. -- Ajay S. Pillai, Ph.D. Brain Imaging and Modeling Section NIDCD, National Institutes of Health Rm 8S235B, 10 Center Dr. Bethesda MD 20892-1407 Tel. +1 301-435-5141 FAX +1 301-480-5625 pillaiaj@mail.nih.gov From pwilken at gmail.com Thu Aug 13 02:57:06 2009 From: pwilken at gmail.com (Patrick Wilken) Date: Thu Aug 13 09:34:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Berlin School of Mind and Brain: Invitation for Doctoral Applications Message-ID: <4A83E372.2040409@googlemail.com> BERLIN SCHOOL OF MIND AND BRAIN Web: http://www.mind-and-brain.de Enquiries: admissions@mind-and-brain.de The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is an international research school, located in the vibrant heart of Berlin. Founded in 2006 as part of Germany's Excellence Initiative, it offers a unique three-year interdisciplinary doctoral program in English in the mind/brain sciences. Research within the School focuses on the interface between the humanities and the neurosciences. Of particular interest are research areas that fall on the borders between the mind sciences (e.g., philosophy, linguistics, behavioural and cognitive science, economics), and the brain sciences (e.g., neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, neurology, and neurobiology). Major topics of research within the program include: 'conscious and unconscious perception', 'decision-making', 'language', 'brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny', 'mental disorders and brain dysfunction', and the 'philosophy of mind'. However, research is not limited to these areas, and students are strongly encouraged to develop and work at their own initiative on any projects that are relevant to interdisciplinary questions relating to mind and brain. The School is situated in the center of Berlin, on the grounds of the Charite, the largest medical campus in Europe. The city itself is a major center for culture, politics, media, and science and is globally recognized for its rich art-scene, museums, internationally renowned festivals, and a pleasant and highly affordable standard of living. Each year the School accepts ten to fifteen doctoral candidates into its program. Here are some excellent reasons why students might wish to be considered for one of these highly sought after positions at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain: * The School has a faculty comprised of 60 distinguished researchers, including four Max Planck directors, which cover the gamut of research in the mind and brain sciences. * Research within the School is strongly embedded in the basic and clinical research conducted within the region allowing for strong synergistic research initiatives and opportunities. Hosted by the Humboldt University, the School's research program includes scientists from the Free University, the Technical University, the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin), the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig), and the nearby universities of Potsdam and Magdeburg. * Students acquire a strong foundation for interdisciplinary work by attending ten one-week classes during the first half of their doctoral program, which cover all fields relevant for mind/brain-related research, and allow students to explore research methods and topics that they have not been previously exposed to. Each doctoral candidate is assigned two professorial advisors ? one from the brain sciences, one from the mind sciences ? in order to maximize the interdisciplinary impact of their work. * Students meet with leading international researchers via the School's Distinguished Lecture Series, interactions with its senior visiting faculty, as well as by attending international workshops and meetings. As part of the School's commitment to maximizing students' research opportunities, the School also encourages and provides assistance for students to spend time studying and conducting research abroad during the course of their doctoral candidacy. * Extensive practical services to international doctoral candidates are available, including assistance with visa applications, matriculation, health insurance, local authorities, scientific soft skill courses, and language classes. Finally, there are good financial reasons for studying at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain: * There are no tuition fees associated with the program. * Administrative fees are very low. Administrative fees for attending the Humboldt University come to only approximately 250 euros per semester. * The School offers generous scholarships to the best applicants. Students who were not successful in winning one of the school's own scholarships will receive support in obtaining alternative sources of funding (e.g. a research post within a university department or with one of the School's research groups, or help in finding alternative funding sources for a scholarship). Recent progress in the neurosciences has opened up new and exciting avenues for research that raise challenging conceptual and ethical questions calling for an interdisciplinary approach. The Berlin School of Mind and Brain offers a unique research and training environment for doctoral candidates to work at this exciting interface between the sciences and the humanities. For further information please contact: Patrick Wilken Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Berlin School of Mind and Brain Luisenstra?e 56 10099 Berlin Germany Web: http://www.mind-and-brain.de Enquiries: admissions@mind-and-brain.de From frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu Thu Aug 13 11:55:36 2009 From: frank.tong at vanderbilt.edu (Frank Tong) Date: Thu Aug 13 12:49:07 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CVNet - Postdoc in fMRI Studies of Object Perception Message-ID: <883A144B-4D2F-4692-8979-FB511E6AD11C@vanderbilt.edu> A postdoctoral position to conduct fMRI studies of object perception is available in Dr. Frank Tong?s lab in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tong?s lab has developed fMRI 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 how shapes and complex objects are represented at multiple levels of the human visual pathway. Facilities include high-field 3T and 7T research-dedicated MRI scanners, TMS with MRI-guided stereotactic system, 2000 Hz infrared eye-tracking system, and extensive equipment for fMRI analysis and visual psychophysics. Candidates should have a strong research background in vision 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 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/web/Home.html 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090813/3df2f113/attachment.htm From a.sillito at ucl.ac.uk Fri Aug 14 10:23:20 2009 From: a.sillito at ucl.ac.uk (Adam Sillito) Date: Sat Aug 15 01:25:11 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral research associate vacancies, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20090814182056.023ae868@pop.oneandone.co.uk> Postdoctoral Research Associate / Senior Research Associate (2 posts) UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London Applications are invited from suitably qualified, enthusiastic and motivated individuals for the above posts. Successful candidates will join a research group, headed by Professor Adam Sillito, using a variety of techniques to explore the mechanisms of visual perception and attention in the mammalian visual system and the application of this expertise to clinical issues. The successful applicants will have a strong interest in visual processing and the neurobiology of vision. They will join a friendly and enthusiastic team and will be expected to play an active role in all areas of the group's work and to be prepared and able to take responsibility for effective organization and day to day running of designated aspects of the experimental program. One of the new posts will be particularly involved in innovative research on the interplay between feed forward and feedback systems in visual processing and the way attentional mechanisms are integrated at thalamic level (post 1). The other (post 2) will be particularly involved in a clinical study run in collaboration with Mr Robert MacLaren, (Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital), exploring changes in vision following from novel surgical procedures shown to have great promise in treating patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration. The research, funded by the BBSRC and MRC, brings together a range of multi-disciplinary techniques including visual stimulation, in vivo electrophysiology, multiple electrode recordings, neuropharmacological manipulation, retinal transplantation surgery, neurohistology, programming and electronics together with a variety of data analytical approaches. Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant subject area (or equivalent relevant experience) and proven relevant experience of in vivo electrophysiological recording techniques and/or running behavioural experiments. Whilst experience in some or all of the other techniques would be highly advantageous, some training can be provided where necessary thus candidates with the necessary background knowledge and skill sets, technical aptitude and a commitment to learn are also encouraged to apply. The posts are available from 1st October 2009, for a period of up to four years (post 1, BBSRC funded) and up to 1 year (post 2, MRC funded) respectively in the first instance, with the possibility of further extension. Starting date is negotiable. For full details of the posts and how to apply see UCL's website: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTExMDQ4MyZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjYmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZwb3N0aW5nX2NvZGU9MjI0 Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Adam Sillito (via email: a.sillito@ucl.ac.uk) Professor Adam M Sillito FMedSci Professor of Visual Science UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Bath Street London EC1V 9EL UK From mcs at unitn.it Fri Aug 14 03:39:37 2009 From: mcs at unitn.it (mcs) Date: Sat Aug 15 01:25:21 2009 Subject: [visionlist] DEADLINE EXTENSION - Master in Cognitive Science - University of Trento, Italy Message-ID: MASTER COURSE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO, ITALY -- NEW DEADLINE AUGUST 21, 1PM ITALIAN TIME Our new Master?s course in Cognitive Science for which the applications' deadline has just been extended to August 21, 2009, 1pm Italian time comprises of two years. It is taught entirely in English by our international faculty. Students can choose between two tracks: 1. Cognitive neuroscience track (http://international.unitn.it/mcs/cns-cognitive-neuroscience) and 2. Language and multi-modal interaction track (http://international.unitn.it/mcs/lmi-language-and-multimodal-interaction). The first year aims to build the student?s methodological/theoretical bases, the second provides the opportunity for hands-on research experience. This is quite unique, as most commonly students are not granted an opportunity to have access to fMRI, EEG, MEG and Eye Trackers at the Master?s level, but have to wait to be Ph.D. candidates. The course is also ideal for students with a background outside of cognitive neuroscience or human-computer interaction to gain the training which will make them able to more effectively pursue a research doctorate. Our goal is to form a future generation of bright and young researchers, who can use this course as a springboard towards an academic career in neuroscience with a distinct advantage, and who will be accustomed to an international and English-speaking environment by the time they start their Ph.D. The application is a simple on-line procedure, which can be accessed via http://old.disi.unitn.it/edu/appform/login.xml Please feel free to widely distribute this letter to interested parties and students who may want to apply. At this time, we enrol European students only (deadline: 21 August 2009, 1 pm Italian time), as the deadline for non-EU candidates has already passed. You can find more information here: http://international.unitn.it/mcs/two-year-master-program-cognitive-science Do not hesitate to contact me for any queries you may have. Kind regards, F. Bacci Master?s Course Coordinator mcs@unitn.it Master in Cognitive Science: 1. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE TRACK - CSCNS 2. LANGUAGE AND MULTIMODAL INTERACTION TRACK - CSLMI Faculty of Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy 1. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE - CSCNS Cognitive neuroscience is the study of the mind and brain, investigating how and why people think and act the way they do. The knowledge and skills gained in the Master?s course will provide a foundation for advanced scientific research, with professional applications in the fields of education, consumer and economic decision making, psychology and clinical research. The Master?s course in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Trento provides research-focused training with a diverse, international group of faculty and researchers. The two year program combines courses in neuroscience, cognition, statistics, advanced signal and data analysis with hands-on training in cutting-edge research techniques. These include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), magnetic encephalography (MEG), computational modelling, comparative cognition (animal models), EEG, eye tracking, cinematic motion tracking and psychophysics. 2. LANGUAGE AND MULTIMODAL INTERACTION TRACK- CSLMI Communication via language and other modalities is a fundamental component of human activity. It is therefore not at all surprising that the technologies originated from the scientific study of these activities are having a major impact on modern society - it is sufficient to think about the role played by Google in everyday life, or the crucial importance of interface design in the success of technologies such as the iPhone. The Language and Multimodal Interaction track provides students with the interdisciplinary training necessary to operate in this area, whether in an academic environment or in an industrial setting. The two-year program combines a solid foundation in scientific and cognitive methods - modules in mathematics, language science, neuroscience, and psychology, including an introduction to advanced methods such as eye tracking, EEG, and fMRI ? with an extensive training in computational methods for the statistical analysis of large amounts of language and perceptual data, and in interface design. Theoretical knowledge will be supplemented by the experience acquired in substantial practical projects carried out in research and industry labs. Minimum requirements In order to be considered for admission, a Bachelor?s degree and a certified English knowledge (e.g. TOEFL, IELTS, CPE) is required. In the absence of a document certifying the level of English language, the candidate is encouraged to submit alternative proof of English proficiency (i.e. an official letter from the University stating that the candidate completed university courses taught entirely in English). The evaluation of this alternative document will be entirely at discretion of the admission committee. Selection criteria A CV, two letters of reference and a letter of motivation are required. The application form, which also allows students to apply for scholarships, is available online at http://international.unitn.it/mcs/application-form. Tuition fees and scholarships The fees vary from a maximum of about 3,000 euros/academic year to a total exemption (for yearly incomes up to 30,000 euros and 3 family members). The amount of the tuition and the scholarship, based on merit and income, will be defined on the basis of the following documentation: family certificate, income, property possessions, to be submitted within the deadlines for enrolment to the University of Trento. Language All courses are taught in English. For students wishing to familiarize with the Italian culture, Italian language courses will be offered by the Faculty of Cognitive Science. Number of students The program is intended for a small number of top level students. In the academic year 2009-2010, the program will admit at most 40 students. Final degree After successful completion of the curriculum and fulfilment of the Master?s requirements, students will be awarded a Master of Science degree (laurea magistrale) in Cognitive Science. Please note that, thanks to an agreement with the University of Osnabr?ck, students will be awarded a double Master?s degree (Italian and German), valid in both countries. Deadline The deadline to complete the on-line application is 31st July, 2009. Please note that this call is for EU citizens only, or non-EU applicants who already have a valid visa to study in the EU. We regret to inform that at this time the deadline for applications from non-EU students has already passed. For more details about the opening of the next call please visit the web site www.cogsci.unitn.it The University advantage The University of Trento has focused on excellence since its inception in 1962, and it now enjoys a strong global reputation, with its 7 Faculties, 14 Research Departments, more than 500 professors and 15,000 students. The University of Trento has been recently ranked among the 500 top universities in the Times Higher QS World University Ranking 2007, which is an excellent result given its medium size. The Faculty advantage The Faculty of Cognitive Science is specialized in mind and brain studies, psychology and human-computer interaction, and offers a wide range of programs at Master and Doctorate level. The city advantage With its vibrant cultural life and museums, the region Trentino exemplifies Italy?s unique concentration of artistic treasures. In addition to its many castles, cathedrals and theatres, Rovereto also offers many sporting opportunities, being just minutes away from ski slopes, water sports (including Garda Lake) and hiking in the Alps. Or one can simply enjoy the Italian weather and culture sitting outside in a caf?, enjoying a cappuccino or a refreshing drink. Contacts Master in Cognitive Science Faculty of Cognitive Science University of Trento Corso Bettini, 84 - 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy fax + 39 0464 808415 www.cogsci.unitn.it mcs@unitn.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090814/ad9f87c6/attachment-0001.htm From christopher.taylor at gmail.com Mon Aug 17 16:01:31 2009 From: christopher.taylor at gmail.com (Christopher Taylor) Date: Tue Aug 18 02:31:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral research associate vacancies, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Message-ID: Postdoctoral Research Associate / Senior Research Associate (2 posts) UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London Applications are invited from suitably qualified, enthusiastic and motivated individuals for the above posts. Successful candidates will join a research group, headed by Professor Adam Sillito, using a variety of techniques to explore the mechanisms of visual perception and attention in the mammalian visual system and the application of this expertise to clinical issues. The successful applicants will have a strong interest in visual processing and the neurobiology of vision. They will join a friendly and enthusiastic team and will be expected to play an active role in all areas of the group's work and to be prepared and able to take responsibility for effective organization and day to day running of designated aspects of the experimental program. One of the new posts will be particularly involved in innovative research on the interplay between feed forward and feedback systems in visual processing and the way attentional mechanisms are integrated at thalamic level (post 1). The other (post 2) will be particularly involved in a clinical study run in collaboration with Mr Robert MacLaren, (Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital), exploring changes in vision following from novel surgical procedures shown to have great promise in treating patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration. The research, funded by the BBSRC and MRC, brings together a range of multi-disciplinary techniques including visual stimulation, in vivo electrophysiology, multiple electrode recordings, neuropharmacological manipulation, retinal transplantation surgery, neurohistology, programming and electronics together with a variety of data analytical approaches. Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant subject area (or equivalent relevant experience) and proven relevant experience of in vivo electrophysiological recording techniques and/or running behavioural experiments. Whilst experience in some or all of the other techniques would be highly advantageous, some training can be provided where necessary thus candidates with the necessary background knowledge and skill sets, technical aptitude and a commitment to learn are also encouraged to apply. The posts are available from 1st October 2009, for a period of up to four years (post 1, BBSRC funded) and up to 1 year (post 2, MRC funded) respectively in the first instance, with the possibility of further extension. Starting date is negotiable. For full details of the posts and how to apply see UCL's website: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTExMDQ4MyZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjYmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZwb3N0aW5nX2NvZGU9MjI0 Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Adam Sillito (via email: a.sillito@ucl.ac.uk ) Professor Adam M Sillito FMedSci Professor of Visual Science UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Bath Street London EC1V 9EL UK _______________________________________________ visionlist mailing list visionlist@visionscience.com http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist From sharpee at salk.edu Mon Aug 17 09:35:16 2009 From: sharpee at salk.edu (Tatyana Sharpee) Date: Tue Aug 18 02:36:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position in Systems/Computational Neuroscience Message-ID: <4A8986C4.6060900@salk.edu> A full-time postdoctoral position is available on a collaborative project in the Systems and Computational Neuroscience Laboratories of Drs. John Reynolds and Tatyana Sharpee at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The goal of the project is to use natural stimuli to understand high-level visual processing, and how it is modulated by attention. The ideal candidate would have a strong background in computational neuroscience and either experience in neurophysiological recording techniques or a strong interest in learning and then applying these techniques. Working knowledge of Matlab, C++, as well as parallel computing would be a plus. Completion of the PhD degree in computational neuroscience, physics, or a related field is required before the start date. The initial appointment will be for 1 year, and is renewable. The starting date can be as early as October 1, 2009. The Salk Institute, together with nearby University of California at San Diego, offers a highly collaborative first-class training and research environment in computational and systems neuroscience. At the Salk Institute, 14 laboratories conduct research on the visual system ranging from the work to understand its development and plasticity, the neural mechanisms of processing visual stimuli, and the link between visual perception and behavior. To apply, please send a cv, brief statement of research interests by email to sharpee@salk.edu in PDF or text format. Please also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. From t.andrews at psych.york.ac.uk Tue Aug 18 07:32:55 2009 From: t.andrews at psych.york.ac.uk (Tim Andrews) Date: Thu Aug 20 05:25:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc - Neural Basis of Face Perception In-Reply-To: <883A144B-4D2F-4692-8979-FB511E6AD11C@vanderbilt.edu> References: <883A144B-4D2F-4692-8979-FB511E6AD11C@vanderbilt.edu> Message-ID: <4A8ABB97.9040208@psych.york.ac.uk> A postdoctoral position is available on a Wellcome Trust grant to study the neural basis of familiar face perception. The project involves using modern neuroimaging techniques to understand how different regions of the brain interact to enable us to recognize individual faces. You will work under the direction of Dr Tim Andrews and Professor Andy Young. You should have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, or a related discipline, experience of neuroimaging techniques and excellent research potential. https://www22.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_YorkUni01.asp?newms=jj&id=28172 for the job description and person specification General information about the Department is available at http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/ This appointment is available from 1 November 2009 for a period of 36 months. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Tim Andrews (Tel: 01904 434356; Email: t.andrews@psych.york.ac.uk). Closing date: Tuesday 15 September 2009. -- Dr Tim Andrews Department of Psychology University of York York, YO10 5DD UK Tel: 44-1904-434356 Fax: 44-1904-433181 http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/ From axon at cortex.rutgers.edu Tue Aug 18 09:06:29 2009 From: axon at cortex.rutgers.edu (Ralph Mitchell Siegel) Date: Thu Aug 20 05:25:50 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience and Two-photon Scanning Microscopy Message-ID: A full-time postdoctoral position is to work on a collaborative project at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience with Dr. Ralph Siegel at Rutgers University. The goal of the project is to use voltage scanning imaging and two-photon scanning microscopy to understand high-level visual processing and its modulation by spatial attention. The inferior parietal lobule, in particular area 7a and DP, are studied for constancy and variability. The ideal candidate would have a strong background in neuroscience and experience in neurophysiological/optical recording techniques. Completion of the PhD degree in neuroscience, physics, or a related field is required before the start date. The initial appointment will be for 1 year, and is renewable. The starting date can be as early as September , 2009. The applicant must have a US Citizenship or a Green Card for this particular application. Rutgers University offers a highly collaborative first-class training and research environment in computational and systems neuroscience. To apply, please send a cv, brief statement of research interests by email to axon@cortex.rutgers.edu. Please also arrange for two to three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. From mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie Fri Aug 21 14:41:03 2009 From: mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie (Elliott, Mark) Date: Sat Aug 22 00:29:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] FECHNER DAY 2009: Programme In-Reply-To: <5822C383-B484-4B88-A311-95AFBC5F83FC@mimectl> References: <26f46c7c739ddf21e0f2a5f2327720f0@www.ispsychophysics.org> <5822C383-B484-4B88-A311-95AFBC5F83FC@mimectl> Message-ID: <47C2E007B3E98F4E8BBC7997F007CE1307BFF21A@EVS1.ac.nuigalway.ie> Fechner Day 2009: Galway Ireland 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics L? Fechner 2009: Gaillimh, ?ire An 25? Cruinni? de Chumann Idirn?isi?nta na S?cifisice. Dear friends and colleagues, The conference programme takes shape under www.fechnerday.com/schedule.html which will be regularly updated. Late registrants are advised to book hotel accommodation now as our reserve bookings are being quickly snapped up. on behalf of my co organisers, Stanislava Antonijevic, Catriona Martyn, Heike Schmidt, Robert Gormally, Brian Bargary and Paul Mulcahy T?im ag s?il go m?r bualadh libh i nGaillimh ar l? Fechner 2009 Dr. Mark A. Elliott CSci BA, MSc PhD Senior Lecturer Room 201, Cois Abhann School of 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090821/b12f28d1/attachment.htm From ocarter at unimelb.edu.au Fri Aug 21 03:23:32 2009 From: ocarter at unimelb.edu.au (Olivia Carter) Date: Sat Aug 22 00:29:13 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2 Lecturing/Research jobs @ the University of Melbourne Message-ID: <4A8E75A4.4080008@unimelb.edu.au> LECTURER / SENIOR LECTURER - PSYCHOLOGY (2 POSITIONS) Note: the due date is the end of this month, 31st of August The School of Behavioural Science is one of the leading schools of Psychology in Australia, with active research programs in Behavioural Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Quantitative and Mathematical Psychology, and Social Psychology. The School has a large undergraduate and fourth-year teaching program and an extensive postgraduate program providing research and professional training. The School is seeking to appoint two outstanding individuals who can complement and extend its research strengths and contribute to its teaching program. The area of research specialisation is open, but an ability to contribute to undergraduate teaching in Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, or Social Psychology is desirable. Successful applicants will show evidence of the ability to develop an international reputation in one of the School?s areas of research strength. Successful applicants for appointment at Level B will show potential to develop an international reputation, as evidenced by an ability to publish in leading international journals. Successful applicants for appointment at Level C will have an established track record of publication in leading international journals and competitive grant success. For appointment at either level, a commitment to innovative, high-quality teaching, and an ability to provide research supervision for fourth-year and postgraduate research students, is essential. The successful applicants will be expected to participate actively in all aspects of the School?s activities, including teaching, research, research supervision, administration, and knowledge transfer. Position no.: 0021794 Employment type: Full-time Continuing School of Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences Salary: AUD$73,863 - AUD$87,710 p.a. (Level B) OR AUD$90,480 - AUD$104,329 p.a. (Level C) plus employer superannuation contributions of 17% More information can be found at http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=564304&lCategoryID=1799&lWorkTypeID=1081&lLocationID=5047&lPayScaleID=&stp=AW&sLanguage=en Date advertised: 30 Jul 2009 Aus. Eastern Standard Time Closing date: 31 Aug 2009 11:55pm Aus. Eastern Standard Time From tshipley at temple.edu Fri Aug 21 18:04:25 2009 From: tshipley at temple.edu (Thomas Shipley) Date: Sat Aug 22 00:29:30 2009 Subject: [visionlist] AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium "Cognitive Shape Processing": Call for Contributions Message-ID: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium "Cognitive Shape Processing" March 22-24, 2010, Stanford University, CA http://www.spatial-cognition.de/CSP/ Important Dates Submission of contributions: October 2, 2009 Notification of acceptance: November 6, 2009 Camera-ready copies of contributions: January 16, 2010 Organizing Committee Thomas Barkowsky, University of Bremen, barkowsky@informatik.uni-bremen.de Sven Bertel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bertel@illinois.edu Christoph Hoelscher, University of Freiburg, hoelsch@cognition.uni-freiburg.de Thomas F. Shipley, Temple University, tshipley@temple.edu Program Committee B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Georgia Tech Ron Ferguson, Atlanta, GA Kenneth D. Forbus, Northwestern University Christian Freksa, University of Bremen Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbilt University Gabriela Goldschmidt, Technion, Haifa Mark D. Gross, Carnegie Mellon University Mary Hegarty, UC Santa Barbara Stephen C. Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh Madeleine Keehner, University of Dundee Philip J. Kellman, UC Los Angeles Jan J. Koenderink, Universiteit Utrecht Richard Lowe, Curtin University of Technology Fred Mast, University of Bern Ennio Mingolla, Boston University Luis A. Pineda Cort?s, Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico Kerstin Schill, University of Bremen Michael Tarr, Brown University James T. Todd, Ohio State University Description Real-world spatial problems typically deal with diverse types of spatial knowledge at the same time and involve complex objects with meaningful and specific shapes. Understanding mental processing of knowledge about shapes thus seems essential for under?standing mental processing of spatial knowledge in real world scenarios. With the term Cognitive Shape Processing we refer to all forms of knowledge processing in?volving shape information that are related to, inspired by, or derived from principles found in natural cognitive systems. The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers from artificial intelligence and cognitive science to promote the understanding ? from a cognitive point of view ? of how shape information can be acquired, represented, retrieved, (re-)constructed, and integrated with other types of spatial information. Sample questions of interest in cognitive shape processing are: - How is shape knowledge represented in and retrieved from long-term mental storage and from technical knowledge bases? - Is shape knowledge compositional (i.e., constructed from elementary shapes) or are specific shapes uniquely represented? - Is shape knowledge contour-based or area-based? Or neither? - How do prototypical (categorical) shapes relate to specific shapes? - How does partial shape matching work, i.e. when only parts of a specific shape are known or visible? - How can varying levels of granularity be modeled in shape processing? - Given that visual and spatial aspects are involved in spatial knowledge processing, how does shape information interact with these modes? - Is shape information dealt with in 2D, 2?D, 3D, ? and how does dimensionality scale up/down? - What is the role of attention-related processes in cognitive shape processing? How does shape knowledge guide (visual) attention? - What is the relation between control processes in visual perception and knowledge about shapes? - How can brain-imaging, eye movement, and behavioral studies contribute to the understanding of cognitive shape processing? - How do different modes of shape perception interact (e.g. visual and haptic)? The symposium will be scheduled to provide extensive discussion time and group inter?actions. Submission Information Please email submissions of 4-6 pages (preferably in AAAI format as PDF) to barkowsky@sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de. Submissions can be position statements, work in progress, or completed work. For more information please see www.spatial-cognition.de/CSP and www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss10.php . From J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk Sat Aug 22 04:06:05 2009 From: J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk (Solomon, Joshua) Date: Sat Aug 22 06:50:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Final Call for Papers: Commemorating Fechner (1860) Message-ID: This is the final call for contributions to the special issue on Fechner, to be published by Brill, both in their newly re-annointed journal Seeing & Perceiving and as part of their book series, which is still known as Spatial Vision Perspectives. I am willing to consider late submissions, but only if you warn me before the official deadline of 01 September 2009. Contributions should be uploaded to Seeing & Perceiving's Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/sp Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to): -psychophysical methodology -the limits of perception -thresholds and -scaling Informal enquiries are also welcome. js -- Joshua A. Solomon http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~solomon From wucl at ustc.edu.cn Sun Aug 23 21:40:54 2009 From: wucl at ustc.edu.cn (Chunlin Wu) Date: Mon Aug 24 02:14:32 2009 Subject: [visionlist] conference announcement Message-ID: <451088854.20051@ustc.edu.cn> Call for Participation International workshop on: Sparse Representation of Multiscale Data and Images Dec 14-17 2009, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This conference is trying to bring international leading experts from areas related to sparse representation and applications to NTU to exchange ideas and identify new research opportunities for emerging research problems. We expect to have a very high quality of scientific program. The conference website is at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ias/upcomingevents/Pages/WorkshopMultiscaleDataAndImages.aspx. A list of distinguished invited speakers us available in the webpage. Speakers are by invitation only. Participations are welcome. Registration is free through the conference webpage. It is planned that a proceeding will be published from the invited talks after the conference. Tom Hou and Xuecheng Tai Conference organizers From unay at sabanciuniv.edu Mon Aug 24 23:24:50 2009 From: unay at sabanciuniv.edu (Devrim Unay) Date: Mon Aug 24 23:31:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ICPR 2010 - Call for Contests (deadline approaching) Message-ID: <4A9383B2.2070903@sabanciuniv.edu> The ICPR-2010 Contest Chairs invite contest proposals for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2010 (www.icpr2010.org). The ICPR-2010 contests will provide a setting where participants will have the opportunity to evaluate their algorithms using publicly available datasets and standard performance assessment methodologies, publish their results in the proceedings of an internationally acclaimed conference, and discuss technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters active exchange of ideas. Members from all segments of the pattern recognition community are invited to submit contest proposals for review. Each proposal will be assessed for its scientific content, proposed structure and overall relevance. Contest organizers will be responsible for the infrastructure of the contest (including provision of data and evaluation of results), inviting participants and ensuring their participation, and preparing an overview paper of the results. Furthermore, individual results of the contests can be presented at separate workshops at ICPR-2010 provided that these workshops do not divert papers from the main conference. /Submission Requirements/ Researchers interested in organizing a contest as part of the ICPR-2010 Conference are kindly invited to send the following information to the Contest Chairs by Friday, August 28 at the latest: * Names and contact informationof organizers * Title of the contest * Short description of the contest explaining its necessity, potential, relevance and timeliness * Short description of the data and the performance evaluation methodology that will be used in the contest * Short biographies of the organizers depicting their expertise in the field of the contest * Expected number of participation in the proposed contest * Any special request concerning practical arrangements, such as infrastructure, equipment, connectivity, etc. (Contest Chairs cannot guarantee satisfaction of these requests) /Important Dates/ August 28, 2009 Deadline for submission of proposals September 28, 2009 Acceptance notification April 30, 2010 Deadline for the overview paper of the contest August 3, 2010 ICPR 2010 at Istanbul /Contest Chairs/ Asst. Prof. Selim Aksoy Department of Computer Engineering Bilkent University E-mail: saksoy AT cs.bilkent.edu.tr Assoc. Prof. Zehra Cataltepe Department of Computer Engineering Istanbul Technical University E-mail: cataltepe AT itu.edu.tr Dr. Devrim Unay Department of Electronics Engineering Sabanci University E-mail: unay AT sabanciuniv.edu -- Devrim Unay, PhD Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Sabanci University phone: +90 216 4832117 fax: +90 216 4839550 http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/unay/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The research scientist would be responsible for high-level technical support and research management. This support would include pulse sequence development and modification, hardware implementation, fMRI paradigm programming, post processing development, and data management, working alongside BCS members of the System & Behavioral Neuroscience Group and the Clinical Neuroscience & Computational Neuroanatomy Group. It's anticipated that the research scientist will have about 30% to 50% time free for independent research and also be engaged in his/her own research projects to develop novel and improved MRI sequences for functional and morphological neuroimaging, including the following possible projects: High-resolution functional and anatomical imaging; Reducing susceptibility artifacts in fMRI; Motion-insensitive MRI sequences and online/offline motion correction methods; Parallel imaging; Applicants should have, or be close to obtaining, a PhD in physics or biomedical engineering, or have equivalent research experience, with a strong background in MR sequence development. Desired skills and interests include: pulse programming, fast imaging techniques, high resolution fMRI techniques, image reconstruction, quantitative functional imaging, MRI hardware development, and multi-modal integration. The applicant must be highly independent, able to work with a large team, and highly motivated to develop novel methods for fMRI. This position is available immediately and will be given the title of Research Professor in BCS pending approval by Seoul National University. The position will be funded until August 2013 and is renewable. Applicants should send via email a curriculum vitae, and two letters of recommendation to Sang-Hun Lee (Acting Chair of BCS and the leader of System & Behavioral Neuroscience Unit), Ph.D., Room 504, Building 152-1, Lotte International Education Hall, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, 599, Gwank-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea, +82-2-880-9129, visionsl@snu.ac.kr, by Oct 1, 2009. Sang-Hun Lee Associate Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Seoul National University phone: +82-2-880-9129 fax +82-2-880-6428 e-mail: visionsl@snu.ac.kr web: http://vni.snu.ac.kr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090826/7d44e66c/attachment.htm From g.rousselet at psy.gla.ac.uk Thu Aug 27 03:28:21 2009 From: g.rousselet at psy.gla.ac.uk (Guillaume Rousselet) Date: Thu Aug 27 08:53:44 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader posts Message-ID: UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Psychology ?38757 - ?52086 REF #52-5 The University intends to make a new appointment in Psychology, tenable from April 2010. Candidates from all areas of psychology will be considered, though the department is particularly interested to encourage candidates with expertise in ageing, social neuroscience or robotics. All applicants must have a PhD in Psychology or a related field and a strong track record of research, including proven ability to attract research funding. The level of appointment (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader) will depend on the extent of the appointees? track-record. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader Ref: 00052-5 The Department has an outstanding record of success in both teaching and research. It was rated in the top 10 UK psychology departments in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and achieved the highest rating available in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Mike Burton (Head of Department), mike@psy.gla.ac.uk , tel. 00 44 (0)141 330 4060. For further information on each post and an application pack please visit www.glasgow.ac.uk/vacancies UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Psychology (CCNi) ?38757 - ?53086 REF #53-3 The University intends to make a new appointment in Psychology and the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) tenable from April 2010. We would like to encourage candidates with expertise in sophisticated analyses of fMRI data (e.g. Statistical Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning) who will contribute to develop a University initiative in functional Brain Imaging and the further expansion of research within the Departments of Computer Science, Statistics, Psychology and CCNi. We will also consider candidates with an exceptional research track record in fMRI. All applicants must have a PhD in Psychology or a related field and a strong track record of research, including proven ability to attract research funding. The level of appointment (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader) will depend on the extent of the appointees? track-record. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader Ref: 00053-3 The Department has an outstanding record of success in both teaching and research. It was rated in the top 10 UK psychology departments in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and achieved the highest rating available in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Mike Burton (Head of Department), mike@psy.gla.ac.uk , tel. 00 44 (0)141 330 4060, or Professor Philippe G. Schyns (Director of CCNi) philippe@psy.gla.ac.uk , tel. 00 44 (0)141 330 4937. For further information on each post and an application pack please visit www.glasgow.ac.uk/vacancies ************************************************************************************ Guillaume A. Rousselet, Ph.D. Lecturer Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) Department of Psychology Faculty of Information & Mathematical Sciences (FIMS) University of Glasgow 58 Hillhead Street Glasgow, UK G12 8QB The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 http://web.me.com/rousseg/GARs_website/ Email: g.rousselet@psy.gla.ac.uk Fax. +44 (0)141 330 4606 Tel. +44 (0)141 330 6652 Cell +44 (0)791 779 7833 ?Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.? Popular Mechanics, 1949 ************************************************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090827/29e1d13b/attachment-0001.htm From owsley at uab.edu Thu Aug 27 07:06:23 2009 From: owsley at uab.edu (Cynthia Owsley) Date: Thu Aug 27 08:54:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Final Announcement: Registration Info for The Eye and The Auto International Conference Message-ID: This is the final announcement for registration to attend The Eye and the Auto. All pertinent information is below including an exciting list of speakers and presentations. Hope to see you there. International Conference on the Relationship Between Vision and the Safe Operation of a Motorized Vehicle September 16-18, 2009 Conference Site: General Motors? Research and Development Auditorium GM Technical Center Campus, Warren, MI 48090 The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, is an international research meeting dedicated to improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of motorized vehicles. Sessions will be devoted to a variety of topics including: visual processing, visual attention, and driving tasks, human factors and design issues relevant to the driver, roadway, and/or vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions, and driver safety; policies that address vision and driving; driver assessment and rehabilitation strategies for the visually impaired driver. This meeting will be of keen interest to many types of professionals from the fields of vision science, driver safety and/or performance including scientists, engineers, clinicians, designers, and policy specialists. A highlight of the meeting will be a tour of the GM Driving Simulation and Human/Machine Interface Laboratory. The conference will take place in the Detroit area at the GM Technical Center Campus. Conference speakers and topics listed below. All conference web site information is at the end of this email. Keynote Speakers: Lawrence Burns, PhD, Vice President Research & Development, General Motors, Warren, MI "The Eye, The Brain and The Auto Industry" Alan Taub, PhD, Incoming Vice President Research & Development, General Motors, Warren, MI "Collaborative Research and Development with the New GM" Michael Merzenich, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Posit Science Corporation, San Francisco, CA "The Driver?s Brain" Conference Presenters (in alphabetical order): Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL- Cognitive Training: Impact on Driving & Everyday Function Timothy Brown, PhD, National Advanced Driving Simulator, Iowa City, IA - Driving Simulator Advances for Vision Testing of Contact Lenses John D. Bullough, PhD, FIES, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY - Methods of Predicting Visual Performance in Driving Situations James Davis, MS, Human Factors Specialist, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD - A Paradigm for Assessing Threat Detection & Local Area Awareness for Vehicle Research and Design Peter DeGraef, PhD, University of Leuven, Valaams-Brabant, Belgium - Virtual Navigation Training and Gaze Guidance Peter Delahunt, PhD, Posit Science, San Francisco, CA - Reducing Crash Risk in a Population of Older Automobile Insurance Policyholders Using a Computer-based Visual Training Program Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA - The Issue of Older Drivers From a Public Health Perspective: Injury Burden, Risk, and Prevention Strategies Jamie Dow, MBA, MD, SSAQ, Quebec, Canada ? Visual Field Defects May Not Affect Safe Driving Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation Institute, Ann Arbor, MI - New Light Sources, Automotive Lighting, and the Purkinje Shift Rob Gray, PhD, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ ? Multisensory Rear- End Collision Warnings During Cell Phone Use Jonathan Hankey, PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Blacksburg, VA ? Improving Transportation Safety ? The Role of Naturalistic Driving Data Shirin E. Hassan, PhD, BAppSc, Indiana University School of Optometry, Bloomington, IN ? Can Pedestrians Make Correct Street-Crossing Decisions with Impaired Vision? Lisa Keay, PhD, Dana Centre for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, Sydney, Australia ? Urban and Rural Differences in Older Drivers ? Failure to Stop at Stop-signs Dean McConnell, BS, MBA, Continental Automotive Systems, Auburn Hills, MI ? ContiGuard-How Blind Spot Elimination and Crash Avoidance Can Be Realized with Sensors and Sensor Fusion Gerald McGwin Jr. MS, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL ? Visual Field Impairment in Glaucoma and Motor Vehicle Collision Risk Thomas M. Meuser, PhD, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO ? Vision Data in Drivers Reported as Unfit: The Missouri Experience James B. Nolan, PhD, Envision, Wichita, KS ? Current Perspectives on Bioptic Driving: A Review of State Licensure Regulations Cynthia Owsley PhD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL ? Older Adults and Dashboard Design: A Qualitative Assessment Eleni Papageorgiou, MD, Institute of Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Baden-Wuertemmberg, Germany ? Visual Exploration in Patients with Homonymous Visual Fields Defects Eli Peli, M.Sc., OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA ? Simulator Studies of Driving with Impaired Vision Bryan Reimer PhD, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA ? Aging Drivers: A Need for Developing Advanced Driver Workload Measurements? Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA ? In-Car Technology to Alert Attention Impaired Drivers Kathy J. Sifrit, PhD, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, DC ? Driving with Peripheral Visual Field Loss Janet Szlyk, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL ? Evidence- based Vision Requirements for Safe Driving and Solutions for Deficit Compensation Todd Horowitz, PhD, Brigham & Women?s Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ? Where is Basic Attention Research Driving Us Next? Joanne Wood, PhD, MCOptom, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia ? Effects of Vision and Age on Night-time Driving Visibility Conference web site: www.eyeson.org To register, go to: www.acteva.com/go/eyeson $350/three days, $150/individual day Includes conference sessions, materials, breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks. Please feel free to direct any questions to Carolyn Barth, Ph.D. clbarth@dioeyes.org Phone 313-824-4710 Travel Arrangements can be made thru AAA at 800-854-5044. Or email negc@aaane.com Hotel Reservations: Please contact hotel directly. Somerset Inn 2601 Big Beaver Road Troy MI 48084 Phone: 248-643-7800 or 800-228-8769 Fax: 248-643-2220 Conference Code for Reservations: TEATA Room Rate: $109/night + Hotel Fee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our approach is to use fMRI to localize regions of interested, for example face-selective patches of cortex, and then target those regions for detailed investigations using electrophysiology and other high-resolution techniques. The ideal candidate would have a background in systems or cognitive neuroscience, expertise in in-vivo imaging or electrophysiological techniques and share our enthusiasm for face recognition and attention. Applications should be addressed to winrich.freiwald@googlemail.com. Winrich Freiwald, PhD Laboratory for Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York From Campos.Jennifer at TorontoRehab.on.ca Mon Aug 31 07:30:36 2009 From: Campos.Jennifer at TorontoRehab.on.ca (Campos, Jennifer) Date: Mon Aug 31 07:47:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Announcing the Challenging Environment Assessment Laboratory at Toronto Rehab Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, North America's second largest rehab facility, invites you to become part of a pioneering research initiative. The Challenging Environment Assessment Laboratory (CEAL) will be one of the most advanced rehabilitation research labs in the world and will serve to unite first-class scientists and innovators. CEAL consists of a large (6m x 6m), 6-degree-of-freedom motion platform that can be configured with various, interchangeable payloads (portable, self-contained laboratory spaces). Currently, three unique payloads are being constructed, including: (1) General Purpose Payload that can be outfitted with interchangeable features such as an instrumented staircase and a force plate floor. (2) Winter Payload that can simulate different atmospheric conditions such as wind and snow and will actually contain a real ice floor. (3) Visual Dome Payload that contains a high resolution, large field-of-view, visual projection system that can be coupled with auditory inputs and various movement interfaces including a linear treadmill and wheelchair simulator. CEAL will provide exciting opportunities for researchers interested in visual perception, perception-action coupling, locomotion, multisensory integration (visual, auditory, proprioceptive, vestibular), virtual reality, biomechanics, development of assistive devices, etc. Further, as it will be located within a rehabilitation hospital, there will be unique opportunities to work with many different patient populations and aging populations. You can read more about CEAL at www.cealidapt.com and there is a detailed Partner Information Package that can be downloaded at http://www.cealidapt.com/downloads.html With a completion date of February 2011 on the horizon, now is the time to start planning your research projects using CEAL's one-of-a-kind capabilities! We look forward to embarking upon this exciting research endeavour with you and greatly anticipate a future of outstanding scientific achievements and inspired technological innovations that will contribute to improving lives. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any additional information on how to plan your experiments using CEAL. Sincerely, Jennifer Campos Jennifer Campos, PhD Research Scientist iDAPT Toronto Rehabilitation Institute 180 Elm Street Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M4 Tel: 416-849-4340 x206 Fax: 647-438-7150 E-mail: campos.jennifer@torontorehab.on.ca Website: http://www.torontorehab.com/research/campos.html CEAL Website: www.cealidapt.com At Toronto Rehab, we're doing Everything Humanly Possible to advance rehabilitation and enhance quality of life. Visit us today at www.torontorehab.com IMPORTANT: The information in this e-mail belongs to Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the contents of this e-mail is prohibited. 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Accepted symposium speakers will be provided free accommodation at the conference hotel and their registration and banquet fees will be waived. http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_14/symposia Tutorials will be held in parallel sessions on the morning and afternoon of June 24th 2010. Tutorial presenters will receive an honorarium of $500 and their registration fee for the conference will be waived. http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_14/tutorials Please send all proposals along with submission requirements to Mel Goodale (mgoodale@uwo.ca) by October 30th. Please note that the Program Committee will begin making decisions regarding the acceptance of symposia and tutorials very shortly after the deadline date, so that late proposals will be at a serious disadvantage. From mpotter at MIT.EDU Tue Sep 1 06:54:46 2009 From: mpotter at MIT.EDU (Mary C Potter) Date: Tue Sep 1 10:23:36 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc at MIT in Visual Cognition Message-ID: POSTDOC OPENING AT MIT IN VISUAL COGNITION Mary C. Potter (Molly) invites applicants for a one-year, possibly renewable postdoctoral appointment in visual cognition, in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, beginning in October, 2009. Research experience and an interest in scene perception, attention, sentence comprehension, short term memory, and/or conceptual processing would be desirable. Programming experience, preferably in Matlab, is essential. To find out about the work of the lab, check out: http://mollylab-1.mit.edu/lab/ The environment in the department is an excellent one for a young investigator, with many talks and seminars and opportunities for presenting one's work. To apply, please email, fax, or write me, enclosing a CV and the names and telephone numbers/email addresses of at least two people as references. I'll be happy to answer any questions about the position. Mary C. Potter (Molly) Professor of Psychology 46-4125 Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences 77 Massachusetts Ave. MIT Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-5526 email: mpotter@mit.edu From announcements at journalofvision.org Tue Sep 1 12:59:11 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Tue Sep 1 13:10:14 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 9 Message-ID: <1880F35E962A4A09B45FA6429F540F54@jov> Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 9 http://journalofvision.org/9/9/ Article Looking ahead: The perceived direction of gaze shifts before the eyes move Amelia R. Hunt Patrick Cavanagh http://journalofvision.org/9/9/1/ Ventral extra-striate cortical areas are required for human visual texture segmentation Harriet A. Allen Glyn W. Humphreys Jessica Colin Heiko Neumann http://journalofvision.org/9/9/2/ Congruency effects in the remote distractor paradigm: Evidence for top-down modulation Sabine Born Dirk Kerzel http://journalofvision.org/9/9/3/ Scale dependence and channel switching in letter identification Ipek Oru? Michael S. Landy http://journalofvision.org/9/9/4/ Demonstration of an eye-movement-induced visual motion illusion (Filehne illusion) in Rhesus monkeys Suryadeep Dash Peter W. Dicke Subhojit Chakraborty Thomas Haarmeier Peter Thier http://journalofvision.org/9/9/5/ Different masking effects on "hole" and "no-hole" figures Junjun Zhang Weina Zhu Xiaojun Ding Changle Zhou Xintian Hu Yuanye Ma http://journalofvision.org/9/9/6/ On the nature of the stimulus information necessary for estimating mean size of visual arrays Sung Jun Joo Kilho Shin Sang Chul Chong Randolph Blake http://journalofvision.org/9/9/7/ Probabilistic combination of slant information: Weighted averaging and robustness as optimal percepts Ahna R. Girshick Martin S. Banks http://journalofvision.org/9/9/8/ Visual motion aftereffects arise from a cascade of two isomorphic adaptation mechanisms Alan A. Stocker Eero P. Simoncelli http://journalofvision.org/9/9/9/ Maybe they are all circles: Clues and cues Chris M. P. Muller Eli Brenner Jeroen B. J. Smeets http://journalofvision.org/9/9/10/ The discrimination of chromatic textures Martin Giesel Thorsten Hansen Karl R. Gegenfurtner http://journalofvision.org/9/9/11/ The linearity and selectivity of neuronal responses in awake visual cortex Yao Chen Sanjiv Anand Susana Martinez-Conde Stephen L. Macknik Yulia Bereshpolova Harvey A. Swadlow Jose-Manuel Alonso http://journalofvision.org/9/9/12/ Anchoring of lightness values by relative luminance and relative area Alan L. Gilchrist Ana Radonjic http://journalofvision.org/9/9/13/ Different hue coding underlying figure segregation and region detection tasks Takehiro Nagai Keiji Uchikawa http://journalofvision.org/9/9/14/ Perceptual learning of global pattern motion occurs on the basis of local motion Shigeaki Nishina Mitsuo Kawato Takeo Watanabe http://journalofvision.org/9/9/15/ Spatial-frequency and contrast properties of reading in central and peripheral vision Susana T. L. Chung Bosco S. Tjan http://journalofvision.org/9/9/16/ Temporal dynamics of saccadic distraction Aline Bompas Petroc Sumner http://journalofvision.org/9/9/17/ Temporal constraints on conscious vision: On the ubiquitous nature of the attentional blink Mark Nieuwenstein Erik Van der Burg Jan Theeuwes Brad Wyble Mary Potter http://journalofvision.org/9/9/18/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Recently there has been rapid and parallel progress in understanding both of these areas, particularly due to the application of economic and decision-theoretic principles. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the fields of motor control and economic decision making, together with neurobiologists and computational neuroscientists to discuss the neural computations underlying decision-making and adaptive behavior. The meeting will focus particularly on similarities and differences between studies of movement vs. traditional economic decision making, aiming to develop ties and synergies between these two similar, but separate fields. The ultimate goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas between these two scientific communities and to begin to build a community of researchers with a deeper u nderstanding of the neural computations underlying the acquisition of highly skilled behavior. Selected participants will be able to present and discuss their work. Confirmed Speakers include Roshan Cools (Radboud University Nijmegen), Peter Dayan (University College London), Nathaniel Daw (New York University), Ralf Engbert (University of Potsdam), Paul Glimcher (New York University), Eric Johnson (Columbia University), Daeyeol Lee (Yale University), Konrad K?rding (Northwestern University), Yael Niv (Princeton University), Antonio Rangel (California Institute of Technology), Philip Sabes (University of California San Francisco), Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University), Julia Trommersh?user (New York University), Preeti Verghese (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute), Elke Weber (Columbia University), Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge) . 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. Selected participants will need to register and pay a registration fee of 500 EUR. This registration fee of 500 EUR covers room and board expenses at the castle. Participants wishing to attend should apply by submitting a poster abstract (250 words max.), either by email or in hard copy by fax to: "Computational Workshop 2010" Dr. Julia Trommersh?user Dept. of Psychology and Center for Neural Science 4 Washington Place, Room 809 New York, NY 10003 fax: +1-212-995-4011 email: julia.trommershaeuser@nyu.edu Selected abstracts will be published in citable form in frontiers in Neuroscience. Application deadline for workshop participation is January 15, 2010. We look forward to seeing you in Rauischholzhausen, Nathaniel Daw and Julia Trommersh?user From nderoost at vub.ac.be Mon Sep 7 03:20:47 2009 From: nderoost at vub.ac.be (Natacha Deroost) Date: Mon Sep 7 09:13:36 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Fw: [baps] 3 full-time Tenure Track position(s) with a focus on scientific research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Message-ID: <0E665F4B2B1B42EBB1727B8289CFC1DA@pe.hw.ad.vub.ac.be> ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Van Overwalle To: pe-mailinglist ; BAPS Mailing List ; phd: psych-phd mailinglist Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:01 AM Subject: [baps] 3 full-time Tenure Track position(s) with a focus on scientific research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 3 full-time Tenure Track position(s) with a focus on scientific research in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Three full-time position(s), with a starting rank of lecturer, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (University of Brussels), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, are vacant as Tenure Track positions, effective as from January 1st 2010. During the first five years this temporary appointment will have to focus primarily on research, with a teaching assignment limited to no more than 15 ECTS. However, if after that period, the university board positively evaluates the output and performance of the person involved, the position will lead to a permanent position as senior lecturer, at which point the teaching load may be revised. Each of the tenure track positions should make prove of high expertise and focus on one (or more) of the following focal research areas, as mentioned by each of the three departments: . Educational Sciences o Conditions, processes and effects of educational change and innovation Relevant topics in this domain include innovation-processes in learning and instruction, interventions effecting professional learning of educators, organization-initiated change or large-scale reform. o Community development: an inclusive, relational sense of citizenship Focusing on the interaction between individual and community from a quality of life perspective. The conditions, meanings, opportunities and constraints of living together in diversity are subjects of inquiry. o Culture education: from "interaction manners" (the social of cultural) to "art" (the artistic of cultural) Including a wide scope of topics in the field of culture and art education. . Experimental and Applied Psychology o Cognitive or social neuroscience Expertise is preferably build in one of the following areas:executive functioning, implicit processes, selective attention, social cognition or affect regulation o Signal processing in clinically significant information transfer in somatic and autonomic nervous system Expertise is focusing on either the clinical application of psycho-physiologic methods or in the analysis and processing of biological data o (Social) exchange processes during work and careers. Interpersonal and organizational interactions (e.g. psychological contract, psychological rewards) related to work behavior (e.g. work effort, work motivation) and careers in traditional as well as non-traditional work settings. . Clinical and Life Span Psychology o Development of personality traits, personality disorders and psychopathology across the lifespan. Investigating developmental pathways - based on biological and psychosocial factors - towards vulnerability or protection for psychopathology and considers the evolution of personality characteristics across the life phases. o Infant development and parenting. Studying different aspects of infant development and parenting, such as parent-infant interactional synchronasition, intersubjectivity, communication development, attachment processes, parenting behavior, parenting styles, motherhood and infanthood representations. o Bio-physiological markers of the clinical manifestations of learning disabilities and the implications for interventions. Revealing the underlying bio-physiological correlates of the cognitive and behavioral manifestations of learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia) and its subtypes. In order to make applications acceptable it is essential that . candidates must satisfy the degree requirements i.e. PhD based on a doctoral thesis or an equivalent diploma; this degree should have been obtained after January 1st 2003; . candidates must make prove of outstanding scientific research in one of the research areas through research output in peer-reviewed international publications (journals and/or books); . strong communicative organisational and teaching skills; Moreover, it is recommended to have . experience in acquiring external financial means, settting up research projects and/or coaching PhD students; . international academic experience; The governing language at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is Dutch. However, persons who do not have Dutch as a native language can certainly apply, since a number of courses may be taught in English. Applications must be sent in duplicate by registered letter to the Rector, Prof. Dr. P. De Knop, of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, using the required application forms (see http://www.vub.ac.be/DP/vacature/kan_AP.pdf) together with an overview of the main research activities planned during the Tenure Track assignment. This "research plan" should comprise at least three and no more than five pages in English, together with an English summary of one page. Proofs of competence (e.g. copies of the applicant's diplomas) should also be sent at this stage. The deadline for application is October 14th 2009. The date of posting is accepted as the date of receipt. Further information concerning these vacancies can be requested from the Dean (Prof. Dr. R. Pepermans) of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Previous priming experiments of the partners in the network have demonstrated various effects of subliminal perception that altogether suggest unconscious stimulus processing to a significant degree, even when stimuli are masked. In previous computational work we have established a framework of attentive visual perception by means of reentrant processing (Hamker, 2005; Hamker, 2007), which has been used as a theoretical basis for the design of experimental studies of the partner groups in the network. We intend to extend this framework to include mechanisms of visual masking with a particular focus on reentrant processing based on previous work of learning receptive fields (Wiltschut & Hamker, 2009). This computational work complements the experimental studies of the Haynes, Ansorge and Mattler groups and also relates to the work of other partner projects. We will provide a description of the neural stimulus trace of masked stimuli that will be important for the interpretation of the experimental results obtained in other groups of the network. See http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/veroe.php for references. The canditate should have prior experience in developing neurocomputational systems, particularly with respect to data in the neurosciences and psychology. Experience in interdisciplinary projects or own experimental studies is welcome. Good programming experience is essential. The salary is according to German standards (E 13 TV-L). The university is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants will receive priority in case they have equal qualifications. Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the state of Saxony and close to scenic mountains. Major cities nearby are Leipzig and Dresden with a rich tradition of music and culture. Applications should be sent by email (preferebly in PDF format) to (fred.hamker@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de ) as soon as possible. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. -------------------- Prof. Dr. Fred H Hamker Artificial Intelligence Department of Computer Science Technical University Chemnitz Strasse der Nationen 62 D - 09107 Chemnitz Germany Tel: +49 (0)371 531-37875 Fax: +49 (0)371 531-25739 email: fred.hamker@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de www: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/ From martybanks at berkeley.edu Tue Sep 8 16:24:08 2009 From: martybanks at berkeley.edu (Martin Banks) Date: Tue Sep 8 16:27:55 2009 Subject: [visionlist] postdoc position available at UC Berkeley Vision Science Message-ID: <79317175-F58D-4678-909C-88DF92D18F36@berkeley.edu> Postdoc Position (3D Vision at UC Berkeley) A postdoctoral position is available to conduct psychophysical and computational studies of 3D vision in Martin Banks? lab in the Vision Science program at UC Berkeley. The project will investigate several aspects of visual space perception including the information content provided by various sources of information (e.g., disparity, blur, perspective, and cues based on natural-scene statistics) and how information from those various sources is combined. We are particularly interested in understanding these information sources in natural viewing. Dr. Banks? lab has developed special apparatus that allows unique opportunities to understand how the visual system estimates the 3D structure of the environment. One allows the study of 3D vision with all cues controllable including blur and accommodation. Another allows the study of 3D vision with optical higher-order aberrations corrected in both eyes. Candidates should have a strong research background in biological or computer vision. Strong programming skills are required. Though not essential, expertise in Matlab and OpenGL are preferred. Expertise in computational methods is also preferred. Applicants should send their CV, research statement, and names of three references to martybanks[at]berkeley.edu. Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience. Start date is flexible. More information can be found at http://bankslab.berkeley.edu. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Martin S. Banks martybanks@berkeley.edu, 510-642-9341 360 Minor Hall, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Responsibilities: Fellows will participate in a variety of clinical- research activities related to several large-scale projects examining: 1) the impact of psychoeducational and health promotion-based interventions on patient and family adjustment to vision impairment and eye injury, 2) the adjustment process related to living with a vision impairment and other chronic health conditions, 3) social problem-solving assessment and process, 4) factors related to resilience in patients and families living with a vision impairment, 5) adjustment to driving cessation, & 6) development of health promotion-based interventions aimed at minimizing health disparities in persons with vision impairment. The fellow will also be able to attend grand rounds and lectures/seminars, and develop their own research applications. Via didactics, mentoring, and research team collaboration, fellows will receive intensive training in project design, knowledge synthesis and translation, intervention design, grant writing, data collection, and data analysis. UAB has a well established, integrated network of federally funded clinical research programs on vision impairment including adjustment to vision impairment and the development of empirically-supported cognitive behavioral therapeutic approaches designed to enhance quality of life, health behaviors, and health outcomes in this population. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary setting. Qualifications: Qualified candidates will have completed the requirements for a Doctoral degree in clinical psychology or equivalent (health professions field), have an interest in clinical- research, and be a US citizen or Permanent Resident. Preference is given to those trained in an American Psychological Association accredited doctoral program. Research and/or clinical experience with empirically-supported treatments to enhance quality of life and health behaviors for those with chronic disease and impairments is desirable. Inquiries: Interested applicants are encouraged to email any inquiries including a letter of interest, CV, and three letters of support to Dr. Laura E. Dreer at dreer@uab.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately with a hire expected as soon as a well-qualified candidate is identified. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and includes benefits. UAB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Laura E. 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The research in the PLUS lab is focused on the analysis and understanding of images and patterns in general, and is devoted to study and to develop intelligent systems for real applications, especially related, but not limited, to surveillance & security, biomedical imaging, and bioinformatics. The research activity will be focused on specific topics related to Computer Vision, statistical Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Image Processing, Multimedia, with special emphasis on video surveillance applications and related areas (e.g., biometrics, multimodal data and sensor fusion, sensors networks, and embedded computer vision). See the description in Annex A4 for the details of this Call (link below). The positions are for three years full time officially starting in Jan. 2010; however, an earlier date could possibly be agreed upon request. * * *Applications* *Official applications should be sent according to the guidelines indicated in the administrative documentation *("bando di concorso", link below). Further information and details can be found in the same documentation. The firm deadline is September 25, 2009. Additional information, clarifications, informal enquires can be made by email to Prof. V. Murino (PLUSLab iit.it) and Manuela Salvatori (manuela.salvatori iit.it). Expression of interest can still be made by email to Prof. V. Murino (PLUSLab iit.it): your EoI may include the CV and other pertinent information and material like a motivation letter, publications, etc.. * * * * *Important documentation* Call e bando di concorso (in Italiano): http://www.iit.it/it/call.html http://www.iit.it/media/call/Bando-IIT-1-colonna-DEF-30-7-09.pdf Call and official guideline document (in English): http://www.iit.it/en/call.html http://www.iit.it/media/call/ciclo25_iit_bando_en.doc Annex A4 (Nanosciences), look at Sect. 4 Computer Vision http://www.iit.it/media/call/Annex-A4-DEF.pdf * * * * *The deadline is **September 25, 2009.* ===================================================================== The IIT is a non-profit institution based in Genova, situated in north-west part of Italy close to both the Italian Riviera and the Alps, established jointly by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance to promote excellence in basic and applied research and to contribute to the economic development of Italy. The primary goals of the IIT are the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge as well as the strengthening of Italy's technological competitiveness. The IIT intends to become an international leading centre in scientific research and advanced technology, able to attract researchers from around the world, and cooperating with both academic institutions and private organizations. For more info, please visit www.iit.it ===================================================================== **************************** Prof. Vittorio Murino, Ph.D. IIT Italian Institute of Technology Via Morego 30 16163 Genova, Italy Mobile: +39 329 6508554 E-mail: vittorio.murino@iit.it http://www.iit.it/it/nanobiotech-facility/computer-imaging.html **************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090909/4f5fd0dd/attachment-0001.htm From hecht at uni-mainz.de Thu Sep 10 03:44:44 2009 From: hecht at uni-mainz.de (Heiko Hecht) Date: Thu Sep 10 07:13:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc-position at Mainz Message-ID: <6339DC44-ED3E-44E6-B014-FCAEDFFE17DF@uni-mainz.de> Post-doc Position Experimental Psychology at Mainz University The Experimental Psychology unit at Mainz University (Germany) has an opening for a post-doctoral fellow (2-year appointment starting Nov. 1st 2009). We accept applications until the position is filled. The candidate should have a PhD in Experimental Psychology or a related discipline. Excellent methods and English skills are required. Experience with fMRI is appreciated but not mandatory. You should be willing to join a team of several post-docs and doctoral students researching temporal and cognitive aspects of visual perception. One of our main topics is gaze perception (see Gamer, M. & Hecht, H. (2007). Are you looking at me? Measuring the cone of gaze. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 705-715). Lab facilities include a large VR-Lab, a Vicon motion tracking system, a stationary eye-tracker, a treadmill, and a portable stereo- projection system. Please submit a current CV, an outline of research interests, a publication list, and a selected reprint in electronic form to Dr. Heiko Hecht (hecht@uni-mainz.de). Mainz University is an equal opportunity employer located on the Rhine river at the edge of Germany's wine country (Rheingau). ****************************************************************************************** Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht Tel: +49 (0)6131-39-39266 Psychologisches Institut Fax: -39268 Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz E-mail: hecht@uni-mainz.de D-55099 Mainz Raum 06-335 ****************************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090910/d4facc7b/attachment.htm From meinharg at uni-mainz.de Thu Sep 10 11:57:31 2009 From: meinharg at uni-mainz.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?G=FCnter_Meinhardt?=) Date: Thu Sep 10 11:59:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] phd stipendium at Uni Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <4AA94C1B.9030100@uni-mainz.de> A phd scholarship (1000 eur/month) is offered by the Psychophysics Lab of G. Meinhardt, Mainz, Germany. In a two years project perception of tiny changes in facial expressions shall be explored and compared among normal and clinical groups. The sholarship is a good opportunity for a temporary stay in a german lab. Applicants should have a diploma or MSc in Cognitive Science, Physics, Biology, Psychology or ComputerScience. Technical expertise, some programming skills, and the ability to solve technical problems independently is required. Experience with Poser is a plus. Please sent an informative CV (details on scientific projects, collaborations and productivity), copies of common documents, and an (informal) application letter. Please, send also contact information for 2 references. (email with pdfs preferred) Address: Dr. G. Meinhardt Johannes Gutenberg Universit?t Mainz, Psychology, Methods Section Wallstr. 3 D-55122 Mainz meinharg@uni-mainz.de From Robert_Hardie at scee.net Fri Sep 11 04:42:51 2009 From: Robert_Hardie at scee.net (Robert_Hardie@scee.net) Date: Fri Sep 11 06:53:48 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Job Posting: Computer Vision Researcher ? S.L.A.M. Message-ID: Hi, I would like to post the below Computer vision related role for my company, I trust this is ok but if you require any additional information then please let me know. Kind Regards Robert Hardie Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited http://eu.playstation.com London Studio Agency Job Specification SONY Computer Entertainment Europe London Studio ? 15 Great Marlborough Street, London W1 7HR ? 0207 859 0000 Role: Computer Vision Researcher ? S.L.A.M. Grade: Senior Desired Start Date: October 2009 (ASAP) Product: London Studio Vision R&D Reporting To: Head of Vision R&D Direct Reports: None Term:Permanent / Full Time Role Overview (Basis for Job Advertisement): We require a computer vision researcher to investigate techniques and collaborate with other engineers to create a real-time SLAM system for the PlayStation platform. You will be working alongside Computer Vision experts as well as some of the most creative people in the computer games industry to develop cutting edge game experiences for the mass market. The job will be based in the Sony London Game Development Studio in the heart of Soho. The successful candidate will need to have a significant amount of experience developing SLAM systems already and is expected to have a PhD in this area (or equivalent experience). They will need to fully understand the mathematics behind such systems and have the software engineering skills to be able to implement them in a structured and modular way. They will need to be creative and analytical and also have the communication skills to be able to work with games designers, game programmers and other engineers to gather requirements, propose solutions and adapt the algorithms to the specific needs of the games. If you don?t know what SLAM is, you are not qualified. To apply please send your CV to Jobs@Scee.net and Quote "Vision Science". Please note we can only respond to successful candidates. Candidate Requirements: No. Requirement 1. PhD in Computer Vision - SLAM (or equivalent) 2. Excellent knowledge of the C++ programming language. 3. 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090911/d32aefb8/attachment.htm From nprins at olemiss.edu Sun Sep 13 07:37:54 2009 From: nprins at olemiss.edu (Nick Prins) Date: Sun Sep 13 08:28:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Introducing Palamedes: Matlab routines for analyzing psychophysical data Message-ID: <200909131438.n8DEc3Bd030027@visionscience.com> Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the launch of Palamedes, a free toolbox of Matlab routines for the analysis of psychophysical data. Features include: -Maximum Likelihood fitting of Psychometric Functions (PF), with the unique feature of simultaneous multi-condition fitting of PFs: Palamedes allows one to fit PFs to several data sets simultaneously while allowing flexible control over parameters to define custom models. Just to give one example (but many more possibilities exist): Palamedes can fit individual thresholds to multiple conditions of an experiment while constraining the lapse rate to be equal between conditions (giving the obvious advantage of obtaining more reliable lapse rate estimates). -Bayesian PF fitting. -Maximum Likelihood Difference Scaling (includes generation of stimulus sets, simulation of experimental data, data analysis) -Parametric and Non-parametric Bootstrapping -Signal Detection Measures (for a wide variety of tasks) -Goodness-of-fit tests (including Goodness-of-fit of multi-condition PF fits) -Statistical Model Comparisons (e.g., "do thresholds differ significantly between experimental conditions?" or even: "do thresholds vary as a linear function of, say, adaptation duration or is that accelerating/decelerating trend in the data 'real'?"). -Adaptive Methods (up/down, best PEST, QUEST, Psi Method). All user-end routines include elaborate help comments, including example code that will execute when typed into command window. Also provided is a set of heavily commented demonstration scripts which guide the user through all of the major analyses. The Palamedes toolbox requires basic Matlab only, no additional toolboxes are required. The toolbox is compatible with older versions of Matlab (going back to at least release 14 [2004], and likely much further). Palamedes can be downloaded at no cost here: www.palamedestoolbox.org Questions and comments may be sent to: palamedes@palamedestoolbox.org (but please visit our website first) Sincerely, Nick Prins and Fred Kingdom ______________________________________ Nicolaas Prins, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Mississippi University, MS 38677 Phone: 662-915-1207 Fax: 662-915-5398 e-mail: nprins@olemiss.edu ______________________________________ From Andrea.Li at qc.cuny.edu Mon Sep 14 18:49:21 2009 From: Andrea.Li at qc.cuny.edu (Andrea.Li@qc.cuny.edu) Date: Mon Sep 14 19:36:28 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology/Neuroscience Message-ID: Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology/Neuroscience: The Department of Psychology at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY) announces a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor (Salary range: $42,873-$74,133) beginning in the Fall of 2010. Candidates must have a Doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology or a related field, with specialization in Neuroscience. Preference will be given to candidates who have: (a) a record of strong empirical research productivity in Developmental Psychology/Neuroscience, (b) a record of or potential for attracting extramural research funding, (c) a record and/or commitment to teaching undergraduate, graduate and doctoral-level courses in the area of Developmental Psychology/Neuroscience and related courses. The candidate is expected to participate in the Neuropsychology and/or other related CUNY Doctoral Sub-Programs, and establish a program of empirical research. Candidates should email a letter of application stating their research and academic qualifications, training and goals; a curriculum vitae; and sample publications to QC_Dev_Psych_Search@qc.cuny.edu, preferably in PDF format. Candidates should also arrange to have at least three current letters of recommendation sent to the Developmental Neuroscience Search Committee, Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367-1567. Queens College/CUNY is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees. Closing date will be 10/26/09. Andrea Li, Ph.D. Chair, Search Committee Department of Psychology Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd Flushing, NY 11367 Office: 718-997-3058 Lab: 718-997-2991 FAX: 718-997-3257 Email: Andrea.Li@qc.cuny.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090914/94f37cdf/attachment.htm From a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk Wed Sep 16 08:19:53 2009 From: a.e.welchman at bham.ac.uk (Andrew Welchman) Date: Wed Sep 16 08:31:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doc position, University of Birmingham, UK Message-ID: Post-doc position (Marie Curie Experienced Researcher) School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK A post-doc position is available to work on brain imaging of depth perception. The project uses multivariate analysis methods and behavioural paradigms to study the link between fMRI responses and the perception of 3D structure. The appointed researcher will work as part of a Marie Curie Initial Training 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 about the network can be found at www.optimaldecisions.org The successful candidate will be based in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham that has a state-of-the-art Imaging Centre (3T MRI scanner), EEG systems, TMS systems nad access to screened neuropsychological patients. The School is a leading research department (ranked 3rd in UK, RAE 2008) and has strong groups in Behavioural Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Vision Science. Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a related field. Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, C) and experience with psychophysics, brain imaging and signal processing methods are desirable. Above all candidates should be enthusiastic to learn new techniques and to contribute to new experiments. The generous salary is set on the EC's Experienced Researcher scale. To be eligible under the funding rules a candidate must: i) have no more than 5 years research experience since obtaining their Masters degree and ii) have not lived in the UK for more than 12 months immediately prior to the appointment. Informal enquiries can be addressed to Dr Andrew Welchman. Formal applications should use the University of Birmingham's online application system: www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs/ Reference: 47137 Closing date: 30th September 2009 From VSS at visionsciences.org Wed Sep 16 14:09:37 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Wed Sep 16 15:42:45 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for Symposia Proposals VSS Annual Meeting 2010 Message-ID: <045101ca3712$0323d760$096b8620$@org> VSS seeks proposals for symposia to be held on Friday afternoon, May 7, at the start of the 2010 VSS Annual Meeting. Four to six symposia will be scheduled, each lasting two hours. VSS Symposia deal with contemporary research topics in vision research. Symposia can be organized by content area or by method, but talks within a symposium should focus on broader conceptual themes than a typical VSS presentation. There should be between 4 and 6 speakers in a symposium, and each talk should be scheduled for between 20 and 30 minutes, including time for discussion. Discussion time can be scheduled after individual talks and/or at the end of the session. The symposium organizer must be a current VSS member, but invited speakers need not be members. Complete submission instructions can be found at www.visionsciences.org/symposia_guidelines.html. Submissions should be made on-line. Symposia will be selected by the VSS Board of Directors on the basis of scientific merit, timeliness, theoretical innovation and/or breadth, methodological innovation and/or diversity, and overlap (less being better) with the regular program. Proposals from young investigators are particularly encouraged. The quality of the speakers is important to a symposium, so scheduled speakers may not be substituted, even by coauthors. Organizers must therefore provide evidence (e.g. a copy of email) with their proposal submission that all speakers are committed to participating in the symposium, and that speakers have not agreed to participate in more than one symposium. Deadline: November 6th, 2009 Decisions will be made by November 23, 2009. Please direct any questions to Shauney Wilson (shauneywilson@visionsciences.org). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20090916/56aeb8d9/attachment-0001.htm From giulio.sandini at iit.it Wed Sep 16 15:23:09 2009 From: giulio.sandini at iit.it (Giulio Sandini) Date: Wed Sep 16 15:43:08 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD positions at IIT - Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Science Message-ID: <001301ca371c$45c7bb90$d15732b0$@sandini@iit.it> PhD Course: Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Technologies ? XXV Cycle Research Themes Proposed by the Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Eight PhD positions are available at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department (RBCS) of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) within the Doctoral Course ?Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Technologies?. The Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Science department directed by Professor Giulio Sandini, is a multidisciplinary community of scientists sharing research interests and contributing jointly to the emerging field of human centered research and technologies with a focus on learning and development and, in general, on the dynamics of knowledge acquisition and update in the framework of goal directed actions. Among the Senior Scientists coordinating RBCS research activities are Franco Bertora (Brain Imaging), Luciano Fadiga (Brain Machine Interface), Giorgio Metta (Cognitive Robotics), Pietro Morasso (Motor Learning and Robot Rehabilitation), Concetta Morrone (Visuo-haptic Perception), Stefano Panzeri (Brain Signal Analysis), Thierry Pozzo (Physiology of Action and Perception),. Collaborations with international research centers and industries is carried out throught formalized projects and teaching-oriented international networks. RBCS is the home of the iCub humanoid robot (www.icub.org). More information about RBCS research: http://www.iit.it/en/robotics-brain-and-cognitive-sciences.html Within the department?s Research Agenda, proposals for PhD fellowships are accepted with reference to three main streams: 1. Humanoid Robotics and Cognition (themes 3.1 to 3.7): The themes under this heading group the research activities targeting the humanoid platforms of the lab among which iCub (the platform of the RobotCub project www.robotcub.org) and ?James? (a one-arm humanoid build to investigate manipulation and object affordance). The research themes proposed are examples of the planned activities in areas such as cognitive systems, sensorimotor coordination, advanced materials for actuation, sensing and scaffolding. - Theme 3.1: Composite materials design for biocompatible robotic structural elements. - Theme 3.2: Finite element analysis and CAD design of robotic components made from variable stiffness composite materials - Theme 3.3: Learning body dynamics in humans and robots - Theme 3.4: Manipulation and Learning in Humanoid Robots - Theme 3.5: Reaching and Moving in the Peripersonal Space for a Humanoid Robots - Theme 3.6: Neuromorphic sensors for humanoid robots - Theme 3.7: Event-driven vision for robot control 2. Human Behavior, Perception and Biomechanics (themes 3.8 to 3.12): The themes under this heading group the research activities targeting the study of how humans learn, perceive and act. This year?s focus is on multimodal sensory integration, the control of redundant degree of freedom and a new topic addressing the neural correlates of biological motion inference. - Theme 3.8: Measuring the human body - Theme 3.9: Action and task representation in human and robot learning - Theme 3.10: Action and Perception coupling - Theme 3.11: Modular control of natural motor behaviour - Theme 3.12: Psychophysical study of unimodal perception and multimodal integration 3. Brain Machine Interface, (themes 3.13 and 3.14): The themes under this heading will contribute to the multidisciplinary BMI project developed at IIT aiming at 'reading' the brain to understand and extract motor signals which may be used to the development of innovative prosthetic devices. - Theme 3.13: Information theoretic extraction of muscle synergies - Theme 3.14: Nano-scaffolds with on-design tunable properties for tissue engineering Short abstract and scientist in charge of the research themes proposed are included below and are to be considered as indications of this year?s priorities. Research projects within the same areas are welcome and will be also considered. Interested applicants should read the procedure described below and/or refer to the IIT?s website (www.iit.it) to download instructions for application and/or contact directly the scientists in charge for more information regarding the individual research plans. Submission procedure in short Application letters and the required accompanying documents as detailed in the call for applications (http://www.iit.it/media/call/ciclo25_iit_bando_en.doc) should be prepared following the outline of Annex B (application form) and be sent within September, 25th 2009 to Magnifico Rettore dell?Universit? degli Studi di Genova. Besides completing the application form (Annex B) you must provide the following documents: ? Curriculum vitae et studiorum dated and signed ? A photocopy of a valid identity document; ? Title and synthetic description of dissertation (also on cd-rom); ? A list of exams with the grades; ? At least one letter (and not more than three) of presentation of the candidate signed by a university lecturer or an expert in the subject; ? A signed research project concerning one or more of the research themes described above you intend to apply (maximum 10 pages); ? A statement of actual knowledge of the English language; foreign nationals may also state their knowledge of the Italian language; ? Any other qualifications relative to the subject areas of the research dealt with in the course, papers shall not be more than 10 pages long. On the envelope you should indicate the name of the course (Robotics, Cognition an Interaction Technologies) and the number of the research theme you are applying as described above. Application letters and the required documents can be delivered 1. by mail Applications can be sent using a registered letter. The envelope must include in the header the following wording: ?Concorso per ammissione al XXIV ciclo del Dottorato di Ricerca? Doctoral Course: Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Technologies and has to be addressed as follows: Magnifico Rettore dell?Universit? degli Studi di Genova Servizio Alta Formazione e Ordinamenti Didattici Via Balbi 5 16126 ? Genova Italy 2. by hand Letters can be handed personally to the following office (opening time: 9:00 ? 12:00, Monday to Friday; extra opening on Tuesday and Wednesday from 14:30 to 16:00): Universit? degli Studi di Genova Servizio Alta Formazione e Ordinamenti Didattici Via Bensa 1 - 2nd floor 16124 Genova Italy For any further information regarding the application procedure please contact: Ms Anastasia Bruzzone Doctoral School UNIGE-IIT Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Via Morego, 30 - 16163 Genova Tel. +39 010 71781472 Fax. +39 010 7170817 Email: anastasia.bruzzone@iit.it RESEARCH TOPICS PROPOSED BY RBCS Department STREAM 1: Humanoid Robotics and Cognition Theme 3.1: Composite materials design for biocompatible robotic structural elements. Tutors: Dr. Davide Ricci, Dr. Alberto Barone This Ph.D. thesis proposal originates from the collaboration of the IIT Robotic, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department with the IIT Nanobiotechnology Facility. An essential task that needs to be addressed in the realization of robotic prosthetic devices is the coupling of structural elements of artificial limbs with bone tissue. Many pre-clinical and also clinical reports demonstrate that poor scaffold design and inadequate tissue culture conditions are currently the major problems in bone tissue engineering that may prevent its successful applications. To overcome these limitations, novel structural biomaterials and better bio-reactor processes are needed, capable of sustaining and guiding bone tissue precursors generation and differentation. Within this project, we will pursue the integration of bio-hybrid synthetic techniques, nanotechnologies and advanced material processing technologies to obtain three-dimensional scaffolds able to guide and control tissue growth, differentiation and proliferation. Requirements: Potential candidates should have basic background in one or more of the following fields: materials science, polymer science, biomechanics For further details concerning the research project, please contact: davide.ricci@iit.it alberto.barone@iit.it Theme 3.2: Finite element analysis and CAD design of robotic components made from variable stiffness composite materials Tutor: Prof. Giorgio Metta A traditional robot is made of mechanical parts that are assembled with screws, bearings, levers, gears and other components to obtain the desired functionality. An emerging trend in robot design relies instead on deriving the required functionality directly from the materials properties. Two approaches can be envisaged: either by appropriately combining functional materials with different properties via methods similar to the "shape deposition manufacturing" (Kutkosky et al. 1989) or by locally modifying a composite material properties changing the density and nature of fillers. To this end, CAD and FE simulations are essential tools to choose the appropriate materials and shape for the robot components. The goal of this project is the design of a robot hand for the iCub ( http://www.robotcub.org) that includes variable stiffness mechanics, sensorization (proprioceptive and tactile), wiring and tendon driven actuation. Appropriate controllers are also required to match and exploit natural compliance but also to compensate for e.g. backlash. The reference task will be manipulation. The ideal candidate would have a background in mechanical engineering or related disciplines, and in particular, skills in finite element analysis/modelling, robotics, and more in general in the use of polymers in mechanical design. On the other hand, IIT will provide a fully equipped machine shop with CNC and rapid prototyping machines both on polymers and metal. The successful candidate is expected to work in a team and contribute substantially to the design of a future release of the iCub. Requirements: physics, mechanical or material engineering, For further details concerning the research project, please contact: giorgio.metta@iit.it Theme 3.3: Learning body dynamics in humans and robots Tutor: Dr. Francesco Nori Humans exhibit a broad repertoire of motor capabilities far beyond the capabilities of modern robots. Remarkably, there is strong evidence that these capabilities are strongly linked to human adaptability to novel dynamical contexts (J.R. Lackner and P. Dizio, 1994) (R. Shadmehr and F.A. Mussa-Ivaldi, 1994) (J. Konczak et al., 1995). Related neurophysiological experiments suggest that this adaptability can be the result of a modular organization of the central nervous system which forms forward and inverse dynamical representations by means of multiple modules. The final goal of this research project will be to enhance a ?state of the art? humanoid robot (http://www.icub.org) with a ?beyond the state of the art? adaptive dynamical controller. The project should focus on the robot ability to develop, learn and adapt a multisensory representation of its own body dynamics and of the surrounding dynamical environment, possibly exploiting the generalization potentialities behind a modular representation. Requirements: engineering background, confidence with dynamical system analysis, (optional) machine learning, adaptive control For further details concerning the research project, please contact: francesco.nori@iit.it and giorgio.metta@iit.it Theme 3.4: Manipulation and Learning in Humanoid Robots Tutor: Dr. Lorenzo Natale Object manipulation is a key ability for robots. However current robots are very poor at manipulating objects in dynamical or unmodeled environments. Unfortunately this situation is quite common in practical scenarios and seriously hampers the possibility to employ robots outside industries or research laboratories. In this project we will study the role of haptic information (touch, proprioception and force) for manipulation. The goals of the project are two: i) to implement control strategies for grasping and manipulating objects and ii) to investigate how to use the sensory information originating from the manipulation of objects (haptic but also visual or auditory) for learning about objects and the environment. The project will be carried out working on the robot iCub. The iCub is a 53 degree of freedom humanoid robot equipped with dexterous arms and hands (respectively 7 and 9 degrees of freedom). We have recently added torque sensing on the arm and realized tactile sensors to be mounted on the hand and the arm of the robot. We seek candidates with a strong background in computer science and engineering that are interested in studying perception and learning in artificial systems. Backgrounds of electronics and mechanics are not required, but the candidates should have a strong motivation to work on robotic systems. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: lorenzo.natale@iit.it and giorgio.metta@iit.it Theme 3.5: Reaching and Moving in the Peripersonal Space for a Humanoid Robots Tutor: Prof. Giorgio Metta, Prof. Luciano Fadiga Tantalizing evidence from neuroscience is showing that the control of reaching in humans and animals is correlated with the activation of several neural pathways, where touch, proprioception, and vision are intertwined with motor information in a multisensory representation of the space around the body (Fogassi, Gallese, di Pellegrino, Fadiga, et al. 1992). The goal of this PhD program is to model these multiple neural pathways in the form of a working controller for a humanoid robot. The robot in question is the iCub which is equipped with vision, proprioception and soon with a distributed sensorized skin. We will study how this multisensory representation can be acquired through learning and development during the interaction of the robot with the environment. We will formulate models that are in agreement with neuroscience (Rizzolatti, Fadiga, Fogassi, Gallese, 1997). We are seeking candidates with a strong motivation to implement biologically sound models in a humanoid robot, with a background in engineering or related disciplines, programming skills, and some machine learning or computer vision experience. The successful candidate is expected to work in a team and integrate with the existing development tools and methods. Requirements: engineering or computer science background, some experience in one of more of the following disciplines: machine learning, computer vision, control systems, neuroscience. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: giorgio.metta@iit.it or luciano.fadiga@iit.it Theme 3.6: Neuromorphic sensors for humanoid robots Tutor: Dr. Chiara Bartolozzi Biological sensory systems outperform conventional digital systems in almost all aspects of perception tasks, where the system must process noisy and ambiguous stimuli to produce appropriate behavioral responses. The goal of this project is to introduce in the field of robotic vision the principles of biological sensory systems design. Specifically we aim at combining the design of novel data-driven biologically inspired sensory devices with the development of new asynchronous event-driven computational paradigms, with structure and morphology that are matched to the requirements of the robots body and its application domain. The candidate shall work on testing of existing asynchronous vision sensors and on the design of new sensors, using analog real-time low-power VLSI neuromorphic circuits. The candidate will participate in the whole project development by also interacting with researchers developing supporting data-driven asynchronous computational paradigms for machine-vision methodologies, and participating to the testing of the developed vision system performance on advanced humanoid robotic platforms. Requirements: Applicants should have a strong interest in bio-inspired hardware engineering, fundamental notions of microelectronics and background in neuroscience. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: chiara.bartolozzi@iit.it Theme 3.7: Event-driven vision for robot control Tutor: Drs. Giorgio Metta, Chiara Bartolozzi, R. Benosman The goal of this project is to develop asynchronous event-driven computational paradigms for designing visual systems based on data-driven biologically inspired sensory devices providing spike-based outputs. Such sensors respond with spiking events to relative variations of contrast in their field of view. This approach reduces redundancies and produces a sparse image coding. The generated data are spatiotemporal volumes which size and information depend only on the dynamic content of observed scenes. The real-time asynchronous output nature of the sensors ensures precise timing information and low latency, yet requiring a much lower bandwidth used by frame-based image sensors of equivalent time resolution. The high temporal precision is crucial for real-time interaction with the environment and is especially suitable for tasks requiring fast evaluation of dynamic scenes, involving real time interaction with the environment. At the same time, the nature of the sensor's output requires a radically new framework of data-driven asynchronous computational paradigms for vision. The candidate will work on the development of event-driven algorithms for the visual system of a humanoid robot, the iCub, starting from stereo vision and binocular vergence control to end up with recognition and control of the robot?s own hands dynamics, with the final goal of objects dexterous manipulation. Requirements: Ideal candidates have a strong background in robotics or computer vision; candidates with background in neuroscience are also welcome. They should have potential for excellent research and the capability to collaborate within an interdisciplinary research group with people from all these disciplines. They should be highly motivated to use robotics for tackling fundamental issues in bio inspired perception. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: giorgio.metta@iit.it chiara.bartolozzi@iit.it STREAM 2: Human Behavior, Perception and Biomechanics Theme 3.8: Measuring the human body Tutor: Prof. Luciano Fadiga This ambitious project aims at overpass traditional limitations in precisely measure cinematic, physiological and neuro-vegetative parameters during the normal behavior in healthy subjects. Among the to-be-explored possibilities: occlusion-immune dynamic tracking of body parts, miniaturized eye-motion detectors, measurements of tactile stimulation by determining the modifications of epidermal-dermal electric impedance, multi-technique simultaneous determination of vegetative states (skin resistance, thermal imaging, pupil diameter, changes in prosodic tonality, etc.). The Ph.D. thesis work will be devoted to setup new techniques, to build specifically dedicated hardware and software, to build a normative database during different kind of motor activities, as well as inter-individual interaction and communication. Requirements: Background in electronics and computer science is a must. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: luciano.fadiga@iit.it Theme 3.9: Action and task representation in human and robot learning Tutor: Prof. Pietro Morasso, Dr. Lorenzo Masia In recent years it has become clear that purposive action, in humans and humanoid robots, requires the bi-directional interaction among the brain, the body, and the environment. This has important implications at the computational level, in the sense that task-critical computations must not necessarily be totally centralized in the ?brain? but can be distributed to the implicit dynamics of the body and the environment, thus implementing what is known as ?morphological computation?. However, most research in this area has been focused on robot locomotion (passive dynamic walking or running) or insect flying. The purpose of the thesis instead is to focus on motor learning, while interacting in a haptic and visual way with dynamical processes that emulate an artificial environment generated by means of robotic devices. A variety of robotic platforms will be used to create human robot interaction: monomanual and bimanual tasks involving proximal and distal arm will be implemented using different control scheme and robotic devices. Experiments on human learning will be analyzed in such a way to provide useful insight for the organization of robot learning paradigms. Requirements: Backgrounds in computer sciences, robotics, automatic control, behavioural neurosciences are required. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: pietro.morasso@iit.it, lorenzo.masia@iit.it Theme 3.10: Action and Perception coupling Tutor: Prof. Thierry Pozzo The idea that observation can activate motor representation that do not result from observer past executions (i.e., without sensory and motor signal resulting from actual execution, as in the case of new motor abilities), opens innovative learning methods for humans and robots. Ph.D. thesis work will involve students in the fields of motor control (3D kinematic analysis, optimization control) and robotic (machine learning ). The aim is twofold: 1) To study biological motion recognition using non invasive brain activity measurements (TMS, EEG,FMRi), EOG and psychophysics, making the hypothesis of online action simulation at observation. Moreover the loci of internal models of action will be investigated: TMS will be used to induce virtual lesions of different cortical areas (STS, superior parietal lobule ) during the motion display and the potential effect on the end point estimation in order a) to verify the true role of parietal cortex in the inverse model elaboration, b) to quantify the effect on estimation accuracy and, c) to detail the circuitry of the action to perception matching system. 2) to implement the experimental results performed on human in robot for learning by imitating human movements. For instance the perceived action of a teacher can be mapped onto a set of existing primitives inside the robot. Requirements: Backgrounds in computer sciences, robotic or behavioural neurosciences are required. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: thierry.pozzo@iit.it Theme 3.11: Modular control of natural motor behaviour Tutor: Dr. Thierry Pozzo The research project will be performed on the basis of previous results obtained during an original paradigm developed to study both equilibrium and spatial components of a complex multijoint goal oriented task (Pozzo et al. 2002, Berret et. Al 2009). A number of interesting questions arise when considering together the control of equilibrium and arm trajectory formation. For example: 1) What are the control laws governing a multijoint reaching movements (requiring a high degree of equilibrium control and numerous DoF)? 2) How are integrated equilibrium component with finger manipulating activities performed with distal body parts? 3) Is there a macroscopic representation (motor primitives) at spinal and/or supraspinal level of such components and can they be combined like building blocks to perform this task in different mechanical contexts and to adapt to task changes (velocity, postural stability, lack of gravity, initial sensory state..). These questions will be investigated by using EMG analysis, 3D motion capture and TMS in addition to computational approaches in line with the idea that invariant characteristics of motor behavior reflects optimality criteria used by the CNS to select of the best motor strategy among all possibilities. Requirements: Backgrounds in computer sciences, robotic or behavioural neurosciences are required. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: thierry.pozzo@iit.it Theme 3.12: Psychophysical study of unimodal perception and multimodal integration Tutor: Dr. Monica Gori As no single information-processing system can perceive optimally under all conditions, integration of multiple sources of sensory information makes perception more robust. Many recent studies have demonstrated the capacity of human observers to integrate information across various senses in a statistically optimal (sometimes termed ?Bayesian?) fashion, where greater weight is given to the sense carrying the more reliable information under any particular condition. Importantly, performance in the multimodal condition is always better than in either single modality. The work done in our research group is related to the study of unimodal perception and multimodal integration of different kinds of signals to understand the rules that govern and modulate sensory fusion. This knowledge is fundamental to deepen our understanding of brain processing and will be important to reproduce human abilities in artificial systems. One PhD student will be involved in psychophysical experiments related to this research theme with the goal of understanding the rules that govern multisensory fusion. He will be required to study human perception with psychophysical techniques. Within the many aspects that will be studied we can cite the analysis of dynamic signals (e.g. visual, tactile and haptic) and the development of multisensory fusion (e.g. visual-haptic, visual-audio, audio-haptic) in children of different ages (as in Gori et.al.2008). All these studies will be extended to people with different disabilities. Requirements: Backgrounds in experimental psychology, neuroscience and basic programming skills (in particular Matlab) are required. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: monica.gori@iit.it STREAM 3: Brain Machine Interface Theme 3.13: Information theoretic extraction of muscle synergies Tutor: Dr. Stefano Panzeri In this 4-year-long PhD project, we aim at determining the patterns of muscle activation that best describe, using the minimal number of variables, many different types of complex movements which underlie the execution of tasks involving both reaching objects and maintaining equilibrium [1]. The project will be jointly supervised by Prof. Stefano Panzeri and Prof. Thierry Pozzo. The student will analyze electromyographic recordings of large numbers of muscles spread throughout the subject?s body by using and adapting to this particular purpose advanced techniques arising from the theory of communication [2]. The student will also help with data collection and the refinement of the experiment design. Requirements: The ideal candidate will have a degree in a numerate discipline (engineering, physics or mathematics), a multidisciplinary attitude, and a very keen interest in applying mathematical concepts to understanding biological processes. A good understanding of information theory is a plus. For further details concerning the research project, please contact: stefano.panzeri@iit.it Theme 3.14: Nano-scaffolds with on-design tunable properties for tissue engineering Tutor: Dr. Davide Ricci In the past years, great progress has been made in understanding the essential requirements that have to be satisfied by synthetic materials to be used as scaffolds for tissue engineering. Presently, there is an ever increasing request for materials whose morphological, elastic and bioactive properties may be tuned on demand to investigate their effect on growth and differentiation of specific cell lines. The aim is to create highly efficient tree-dimensional interfaces between biological and artificial systems, allowing the development of innovative prosthetic devices. This ambitious goal may be pursued by a bottom-up approach in the design and assembly of appropriate nano-materials, such as carbon nanotubes and electrospun polymers, thus giving rise to a new generation of cellular scaffolds Requirements: Potential candidates should have basic background in one or more of the following fields: bioengineering, materials science, physics, chemistry For further details concerning the research project, please contact: davide.ricci@iit.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The candidate should have extensive experience with cell cultures and ideally also with electrophysiological recordings and their analysis. Knowledge on pharmacological testing would be a plus. Job offer: You would work in an interdisciplinary and international group interested in the properties of neuronal networks and their pathologies. The group is located at the IMTEK, an institute of the technical faculty, and is well embedded in the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and the Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology in Freiburg. The position is limited to 2 years. The salary is based on TV-L E13 (40.700-47.200 EUR depending on relevant work experience). Contact: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Egert Faculty of Engineering, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Biomicrotechnology , Department of Microsystems Engineering Georges-Koehler-Allee 102 79110 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 761 203 7524 Fax: +49 321210 34 429 E-mail -- Dr. Janina Kirsch -- Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email: kirsch @bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are interested in the mechanisms and structures underlying the activity dynamics in neuronal networks and the processing of neuronal activity within the network. In joint projects with computational neuroscientists we investigate how the biological neuronal networks process incoming stimuli, what determines intrinsic activity, how pathological dynamics arise and how to contain them. To address these questions we use acute brain slices, cell cultures and animal models with a variety of techniques. A central technology is extracellular recording the neuronal activity with microelectrode arrays to analyze the spatio-temporal structure of activity. Recordings with these arrays are combined with paired intracellular recordings, calcium imaging, microstimulation and advanced data analyses. New technical and analysis tools are developed as needed in collaborations with microsystems engineers. This work is embedded in the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg (BCCN Freiburg) and the new Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology - Freiburg/Tuebingen. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the teaching and training program of these iniatives. Candidates should have outstanding academic records and an interest in translational neuroscience and neurotechnology. The position is open immediately until filled. For further information, please contact Prof. Ulrich Egert (Head of laboratory) or Dr. Janina Kirsch (Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs). -- Dr. Janina Kirsch -- Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email: kirsch @bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The MAIN MEETING is organized in a single track, and consists of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations are invited (see below), while others are selected based on short submitted abstracts. Poster presentations are also selected from the submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS are held in 6-10 parallel sessions, allowing for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: - Keynote: Clay Reid (Harvard Medical School) - Tirin Moore (Stanford University) - Jackie Schiller (Technion) - Eve Marder (Brandeis University) - Michael Platt (Duke University) - Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester) - John Lisman (Brandeis University) - Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) - Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington) - Howard Berg (Harvard University) Cosyne 2010 will include a special symposium in honour of Horace Barlow, featuring talks by: - Honorary Lecturer: Horace Barlow (Cambridge University) - Geoff Hinton (University of Toronto) - Bill Geisler (University of Texas) - David Field (Cornell University) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: - Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - Alex Pouget (University of Rochester) - Zach Mainen (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - General Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London) - Program Chairs: Anne Churchland (University of Washington) and Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California) - Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Mark Laubach (Yale University) - Communications Chair: Byron Yu (Stanford University and CMU) ADVISORY BOARD: - Matteo Carandini (University College London) - Eero Simoncelli (New York University) - Peter Dayan (University College London) - Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco) - Karel Svoboda (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) From s.watt at bangor.ac.uk Mon Sep 21 10:08:21 2009 From: s.watt at bangor.ac.uk (Simon Watt) Date: Mon Sep 21 10:45:44 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Lecturer position available at School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales Message-ID: <6A2EF36F-FB42-4E92-A4A0-AFAF9037516F@bangor.ac.uk> BANGOR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH & BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY Lectureship (Assistant Professor equivalent) Grade 7: ?29,704 - ?35,469 p.a. We invite applications for a Lectureship (Assistant Professor equivalent) in the School of Psychology at Bangor University. The position carries a permanent contract, subject to a 3 year probationary review. With this appointment, we specifically aim to strengthen the School?s research programme in MRI neuroimaging. We encourage applications from researchers working with neuroimaging methods in any area of inquiry. The School has an outstanding record of teaching (ranked ?Excellent? for Teaching Quality) and research (7th of 76 UK Schools in the 2008 ?Research Power? table, a combined metric of research quality and quantity). Our academics benefit from an excellent research environment, which includes: low teaching loads; numerous journal clubs and technical groups; School-funded PhD studentships prioritised for new staff; ample space for laboratories; MRI-guided TMS; several EEG labs; close links with the local NHS Trust that support specialist neurological and psychiatric patient panels; an ESRC-funded Bilingualism Centre; and the ?5M Bangor-led Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience that links researchers in Cardiff and Swansea. The School also benefits from its place in the College of Health and Behavioural Sciences, which includes excellent international research in areas such as motivation, exercise physiology, perceptual/motor performance, and clinical trials methodology. Our neuroimaging capacity is centred on a research-dedicated 3T Philips MRI scanner, housed within the School of Psychology. This facility is supported by a School-funded MR physicist and image analyst. Our neuroimaging research group, comprising >20 staff, postdocs, and PhD students, meets weekly to review recent literature and to discuss proposed projects and results. The group includes specialists in: patient studies and lesion reconstruction; high-level vision; working memory; attention; ageing; eye movements; neuropsychiatry; and spectroscopy. The School operates a generous access policy for the scanner, aimed at facilitating new projects for the benefit of publications and grant applications. Bangor is located in scenic North Wales, featuring stunning mountain and coastal landscapes, a clean and peaceful environment, and ready access to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and London. 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 Please quote reference number 09-9/36 when applying. 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November 24-27, 2009 HOME PAGE: http://www.cvc.uab.es/wsetm2009 --------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce that the Winter School on Eye-Tracking Methodology (WSETM'2009) will be held at the Computer Vision Centre (CVC), Barcelona, Spain during November 24-27, 2009. WSETM'2009 is organized by the Computer Vision Center (CVC), in the Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona (UAB). AERFAI members will be able to apply for financial support for attending the School. The subject of the School is EYE-TRACKING METHODOLOGY and specifically the applications of eye-tracking for pattern recognition and computer vision research. This educational activity will be the first major course on eye-tracking in Spain. The course is devoted to provide the students with both theoretical background and a strong hands-on experience. In this sense the students will enjoy direct access to different eye-tracker hardware and software systems (head-mounted, remote and high-speed). By the end of the school the participants will have a thorough background on eye-tracking methodology and will be able to use eye-tracking in their own research. The programme is structured to appeal to researchers and industry participants alike regardless of their specific topic of research or application. PROGRAMME AND TIME TABLE: ========================= http://www.cvc.uab.es/wsetm2009/WSETM2009_program.pdf Highly esteemed academics in the field are invited to deliver the lectures on the state-of-the-art of eye-tracking methodology. The curriculum is planned to correspond to the real-life workflow of eye-tracking based research and will cover the following topics: 1. Eye movements and visual attention. 2. Setting up and testing a hypothesis. 3. Experimental design (stimuli preparation). 4. Recording data for different applications. 5. Data analysis. 6. Applications for computer vision. ENROLMENT AND FEES: ==================== Enrolment deadline: November 1st, 2009 Registration fees: 400Eu per student. (optional +35Eu Banquet Dinner on Wednesday 25) Discounts are available for AERFAI members. For further information visit the WSETM2009 Home Page: www.cvc.uab.es/wsetm2009 The WSETM2009 Organising Committee wsetm2009@cvc.uab.es Tfn:+34935813841 From juan.wachs at gmail.com Mon Sep 21 12:13:01 2009 From: juan.wachs at gmail.com (Juan P. Wachs) Date: Mon Sep 21 12:49:07 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Phd opening in machine vision and robotics at Purdue University, USA Message-ID: The Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University has an opening for one PhD student. Projects at the laboratory are affiliated with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering and offer a rich international environment. The Intelligent Systems and HCI group is interested in the use of human-machine interaction channels, such as vision, audio and physiological signals for healthcare purposes. Research Topics are: - Facial and body gestures for HCI handicapped populations. - Intelligent wheelchair navigation. - Smart environments for assisted living facilities. - Collaborative gesture sketching in the operating room The PhD student will work in a multi-disciplinary framework involving Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing disciplines. The final outcome is to develop real-time unencumbered non-invasive technologies for disabled populations relying mostly on physiological signals and body language to manage themselves, autonomously. Algorithm-wise this research includes object and body parts recognition and autonomous navigation novel approaches. Interested persons will find more details in this website: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jpwachs/ under research and publications. Candidates should have a master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering or a closely related field. They should have excellent programming skills, as well as communication skills in English. Good written and spoken knowledge of English is therefore mandatory. Knowledge of machine-vision, multi modal interaction and robotics will be an advantage. The PhD Student, will: - Implement a new real-time prototype. - Design and validate experiments. - Present results in international conferences; - Publish results in scientific journals; - Participate in activities of the group and of the department. Funding duration: 2 years guaranteed, up to 4 years contingent on funding. Starting date: January, 2010 Application: Applicants will need to apply for the Phd program at School of Engineering, at Purdue University. The Phd position and scholarship is contingent on acceptance to the graduate studies program. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and the names of two references. Please send detailed applications by e-mail only to: Dr. Juan P. Wachs jpwachs@purdue.edu Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Laboratory School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, USA. The screening process will begin immediately and finish by September 26. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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EXPERIENCING LIGHT 2009 is an exiting two-day scientific event for those interested in the effects of light and light design on human wellbeing. It approaches wellbeing in its broadest sense, including mood, emotions, subjective and objective health, comfort, atmosphere perception, productivity and performance. For registration and more information, including the conference program, keynote abstracts and featured papers and posters: www.experiencinglight.nl From g.rousselet at psy.gla.ac.uk Thu Sep 24 04:25:26 2009 From: g.rousselet at psy.gla.ac.uk (Guillaume Rousselet) Date: Thu Sep 24 06:36:12 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Associate - Glasgow University Message-ID: UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE 2 years fixed-term appointment, ?31, 513 - ?35, 469 per annum REF: 57-4 Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Dr. Sereno, Dr. Rousselet and Dr. Pernet in the newly established Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) within the Department of Psychology. CCNi is a research institute that houses up-to-date fMRI, MEG, EEG, and TMS systems and a large computing grid. You will contribute to a two-year project entitled, ?Fluent reading and the brain: Co-registration and statistical decomposition of eye fixations and anatomically-based electrophysiology.? Specifically, the job requires aid in developing the technical aspects of the paradigm, contributing to the design of the experiments, preparing and norming the experimental materials, recruiting and running the participants, assisting in analysing the results, and participating in the writing up of the results for publication. The successful candidate should hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in Cognitive Neuroscience (in the areas of language, vision, or both) or a closely related discipline, as well as advanced knowledge in signal processing and statistical procedures. Strong experimental and MatLab programming skills are essential. Eyetracking or EEG expertise (or both) is also required. If necessary, appropriate training will be provided. Candidates should have excellent knowledge of English and strong interests in pursuing a research career and in developing their own scientific program. The post is available from 1 January 2010 for a period of two years with a potential extension pending funding approval. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr. Sereno (s.sereno@psy.gla.ac.uk), Dr. Rousselet (g.rousselet@psy.gla.ac.uk), or Dr. Pernet (cyril.pernet@ed.ac.uk ). For further details on the Department of Psychology and CCNi, please see our websites athttp://www.psy.gla.ac.uk and http://www.ccni.gla.ac.uk . To apply please see our website at http://www.gla.ac.uk/jobs using the appropriate 57-4 reference number. Closing date: Monday 2nd November 2009 ************************************************************************************ Guillaume A. 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We expect expertise / interest in areas related to: Robot Learning with vision-based robots http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/learningrobots.html In particular, self-modeling robots: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/resilientmachines.html Artificial Curiosity & Creativity / Theory of Novelty & Surprise: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html Unsupervised Learning and Deep Nets: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ica.html Recurrent Neural Networks & Program Learning: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnn.html Reinforcement Learning & Evolution: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rl.html http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/evolution.html Theory of Universal Problem Solvers & Universal AI: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/unilearn.html http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html SALARY: Postdocs: SFR 72,000/year (~ US$ 70,000/year as of 25 Sept 2009). PhD students: SFR 38,000/year (~ US$ 37,000/year as of 25 Sept 2009). INTERVIEWS at IDSIA or at the Singularity Summit in NYC (3-4 Oct) http://www.singularitysummit.com/program or at the EUCogII meeting in Hamburg (10-11 Oct) http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=first-members-conference-program IDSIA is affiliated with the University of Lugano and SUPSI. It is one of the world's top AI labs, according to Business Week, located in Switzerland, the most competitive country, according to the World Economic Forum, and also the top science nation, according to per capita rankings based on citations, patents, Nobel Prizes, etc. Related jobs (not all of them filled yet): http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/eu2009.html http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/sinergia2008.html Juergen Schmidhuber Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. Lugano Professor SUPSI, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland Head of CogBotLab at TU Muenchen, Germany http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We offer a low teaching load, doctoral programs in Visual/Cognitive Neuroscience and Health/Social Psychology, and a supportive and dynamic research environment. The minimum qualifications for the position are: Ph.D. degree, evidence of research accomplishment, excellent potential for external funding, ability to teach courses in our curriculum, ability to interact effectively with colleagues and students, and effective oral and written communication skills. For more information see http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/psychology. To apply send a cover letter describing research and teaching interests, a CV, copies of representative publications, and available summaries of teaching evaluations. Also include the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three potential references. Submit materials electronically to http://jobs.ndsu.edu. Direct inquiries to Mark E. McCourt, Ph.D., Chair, Visual/Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, at mark.mccourt@ndsu.edu or (701) 231-8625. 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Typical cases may include the following: * Assess vehicle operator performance (perception of hazards, reaction time, signage effectiveness, appropriateness of response, effect of age, fatigue, alcohol or drug use) * Assess consumer product failures (intended versus actual use, ergonomics, instructions/warning labels) * Assess property & premises incidents (workplace safety, signage, perception of tripping hazards) Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential to clearly convey technical findings to a lay audience and promote MEA's services to prospective clients. Ideally, the candidate will locate in our Vancouver, British Columbia office though there is the possibility of alternate location in our Toronto, Ontario or Orange County, California offices. 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Technical areas: * Art in Colour Imaging - Colour in Printmaking - Colour in Electronic and Media Art - Digital Applications of Colour in Art * Colour Science - Colour Difference Equations - Colour Measurement - Colour Matching Functions - Indices of Colour Inconstancy and Metamerism - Uniform Colour Spaces - Colour Appearance Models * Computational Colour - Colour in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (industrial inspection, recognition of skin colours, biometric, medical, and microscopy applications) - Colour-Image Encoding and Compression - Colour for Image Retrieval, Database Browsing, and Video Processing - Colour Processing in Digital Cameras: Demosaicing, Stitching, Super Resolution and New Colour Imaging Technologies * Colour in Computer Graphics - High Dynamic Range Images Rendering - Appearance Modeling - Appearance Prediction - Perceptual Issues in Computer Graphics * Colour Reproduction - Colour Capture, Printing, Display, and Projection - Device Calibration, Characterization and Modeling - Gamut Mapping - Digital Cinema * Colour Image Quality - Standards, Colour Image Compression and Processing Quality Assessment - Colour Video Compression - Evaluation Methodologies for Assessment of Colour Imaging Equipment and Systems - New Metrics and Human Visual System Models for Colour Imaging - End-to-End Image Quality Assessment and Monitoring in Industrial Applications * Colour Vision/Psychophysics - Colour and Material Perception in Natural Images - Colour Discrimination and Spatio-chromatic Interactions - Colour Constancy - Colour Memory and Colour Cognition * Colour Image and Video Processing - Video Processing - Pre-processing (normalization, etc.) - Filtering (especially non-linear Filtering) and Enhancement - Segmentation (including performance evaluation of segmentation) - Image Sequence Processing (temporal colour Filters, tracking, etc.) - Colour in Medical Image Processing * Multispectral Colour Science MCS'10 - Spectral Image Capture, Processing, and Analysis - Spectral Image Quality - Spectral Image Visualization, Display, and Reproduction - Spectral Optimization of Light Sources and Displays - Spectral Image Applications More information: www.imaging.org/conferences/cgiv2010 From LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU Wed Sep 30 18:38:17 2009 From: LFrishman at OPTOMETRY.UH.EDU (Frishman, Laura) Date: Wed Sep 30 19:17:37 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Faculty position, University of Houston, Optometry Message-ID: TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY The University of Houston College of Optometry seeks an outstanding clinician scientist with a special emphasis in public health/epidemiology. This is a tenure-track position in the Department of Clinical Sciences. The successful candidate will have a Doctor of Optometry (OD) and additional advanced degrees (M/DrPH or PhD) in fields of or related to public health and/or epidemiology with excellent teaching skills, scholarly accomplishments including a record of publications, and current or potential for obtaining extramural research funding. The faculty member will join the College's internationally recognized clinical and research faculty (see http://www.opt.uh.edu/) and be expected to instruct optometry students in didactic, laboratory and/or clinical settings, instruct and mentor graduate students in our vision science program, and to conduct an independent research program. The candidate must be eligible for optometric licensure in the State of Texas. Salary and rank will be commensurate with the candidate's qualification. To apply, please send a Curriculum vita, representative reprints, a one- to two-page description of your clinical and research experience, current projects, and long-term goals, and the names and contact information for three references to: Earl L. Smith III, O.D., Ph.D. Dean University of Houston College of Optometry 505 J. Davis Armistead Building Houston, Texas 77204-2020 713-743-1899 esmith@uh.edu Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. The University of Houston is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In dealing with this topic, our aim is to bring together scientists from various fields of research (Psychology, the Arts, Physiology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Musicology, Architectonics, Information Science, and so on), and internationally promote researches on Kansei. Call for papers At first, each participant is required to submit an abstract with the following information via e-mail to kansei@hes.kyushu-u.ac.jp * Presentation title * Name(s) and affiliation(s) * Contact information?i.e. an e-mail address of corresponding author? * Preference for presentation style (spoken or poster presentation) * A short abstract less than 300 words Based on peer-review results, we will invite accepted presenters to write an extended abstract for the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Kansei. The format of the extended abstract is downloadable from the following URL: http://psycho.hes.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~lab_miura/Kansei/Workshop/Author_Instruction.doc Call for sessions In this workshop, we will accept a few proposals for a session focusing on specific research issues that are related to Kansei. A session will consist of approximately three research presentations that are recommended by the proposer of the session. The proposer serves as a chairperson for the session. The proposal is addressed to kansei@hes.kyushu-u.ac.jp. In each proposal, the following information must be provided: the name and affiliation of the proposer, the session title, and the names and affiliations of expected speakers. All of speakers are required to write an extended abstract by January 31, 2010. Programmes of previous workshops http://psycho.hes.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~lab_miura/Kansei/Workshop/programme.html http://psycho.hes.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~lab_miura/Kansei/ws2008/Time-Table_2ndWS.pdf Fees for participations - 4000 JPY for presentation - 2000 JPY for purchasing Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Kansei - 4000 JPY for banquet Important date - November 30, 2009: Deadline for the proposal for sessions - December 20, 2009: Deadline for the submission of the short abstract - January 31, 2010: Deadline for the submission of the extended abstract (accepted presenters only) - February 22 and 23, 2010: The Second International Workshop on Kansei *We will have a banquet on February 22, 2010. Contact us Organizer: Kayo Miura (Kyushu Univ. Japan) and Takahiro Kawabe (Kyushu Univ. Japan) Department of Psychology, Kyushu University 6-19-1, Hakozaki, Higashiku, Fukuoka, 8128581, Japan E-mail: kansei@hes.kyushu-u.ac.jp This workshop is sponsored by Group for Research and Communication on Kansei (the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology), and co-sponsored by The Ky ushu University Research Superstar Program, and also by JSPS grant ?Towards the synthesis of impression, perception, and consciousness around mental ti me? (no. 20330153). From karin.dedek at uni-oldenburg.de Thu Oct 1 06:19:07 2009 From: karin.dedek at uni-oldenburg.de (Karin Dedek) Date: Thu Oct 1 06:48:19 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position in Retinal Physiology, University of Oldenburg, Germany Message-ID: <4AC4AC4B.3070608@uni-oldenburg.de> A postdoc position in Neuroscience is available in the lab of Prof. Reto Weiler for the investigation of signal processing in the mouse retina (for details see http://www.fg-retina.uni-oldenburg.de/en/18948.html). We employ anatomical, optical, and electrophysiological techniques to investigate the functional properties of retinal neurons and their networks. We are an interdisciplinary team working (for details see also http://www.neurosensorik.uni-oldenburg.de/en/) on diverse aspects of retinal processing and offer well equipped research labs. If you are highly motivated and have a sound background in electrophysiology (e.g., patch-clamp recordings), you are encouraged to apply. Basic programming skills (e.g., Matlab) and/or experience with modern light microscopy techniques (confocal or two-photon microscopy) would be an asset. Funding of the position is available for at least three years within the DFG Research Unit "Dynamics and stability of retinal processing" (FOR 701, www.fg-retina.uni-oldenburg.de/en/), which also provides opportunities to meet with other retinal neuroscientists. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. 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The goal is to take a comprehensive look at this critical and complex class of neurons, examining their development and establishment of axonal and dendritic connections, their diverse functions in processing signals from the outer retina and detecting light directly, how they are affected in glaucoma, optic nerve damage, and other disease conditions, and how our understanding of these processes can lead to novel therapeutic approaches. Call for poster presentations deadline: 3 February 2010 Submit your abstract online at http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com/abstractsubmission.asp Sessions Session 1: Signal processing by retinal ganglion cells Session Chair: David Copenhagen, University of California at San Francisco, USA Session 2. Photosensitive ganglion cells Session Chair: David Berson, Brown University, USA Session 3: Ganglion cell development and axonal targeting Session Chair: Carol A. Mason, Columbia University, USA Session 4: Optic nerve damage and regeneration Session Chair: Thomas Reh, University of Washington, USA Session 5. Mechanisms of ganglion cell death/animal models Session Chair: Richard Masland, Harvard University, USA Session 6. Pathogenesis/neuro-protection for ganglion cells Session Chair: Robert Weinreb, University of California at San Deigo, USA Session 7: Gene defects associated with ganglion cell disease Session Chair: Janey L. Wiggs, Harvard University, USA Session 8: Novel therapeutic approaches in glaucoma Session Chair: Paul Kaufman, University of Wisconsin, USA All abstracts will be refereed and a criterion of rejection will be lack of originality. A condition of submission is that, if accepted, the paper will be presented at the Thirteenth Annual Vision Research Conference by one of the authors. Successfully submitted abstracts will be acknowledged with an electronic receipt including an abstract reference number, which should be quoted in all correspondence. Allow at least 2 hours for your receipt to be returned to you. Registration fees For registrations received prior to the conference: Academic Registration Fee- $355 Industrial Registration Fee- $520 Student* Registration Fee- $220 * Student registration fee applicable for undergraduate students or those studying towards a post-graduate qualification. Must be accompanied with a letter from your head of department attesting to your student status For registrations received onsite: Onsite Academic Registration Fee- $414 Onsite Industrial Registration Fee- $580 Onsite Student* Registration Fee- $250 * Student registration fee applicable for undergraduate students or those studying towards a post-graduate qualification. Must be accompanied with a letter from your head of department attesting to your student status Registration includes Access to all conference sessions Access to poster areas Abstract book available at the conference and conference documentation Mid-session refreshments as scheduled in the conference program A Special issue of Vision Research containing original papers by the invited speakers, to be mailed to all registered delegates after the conference Please note: The registration fee does not include lunch on either conference day. Lunch options will be available for delegates on a cash basis. 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091001/ea8c7896/attachment.htm From yoon at cvs.rochester.edu Fri Oct 2 08:18:32 2009 From: yoon at cvs.rochester.edu (Geunyoung Yoon) Date: Fri Oct 2 09:55:17 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CVNet-2 Postdoc Positions in Customized Vision Correction and Dry Eye Research at the University of Rochester Eye Institute Message-ID: <3337341561-665982662@cvs.rochester.edu> Two postdoc positions in customized vision correction and dry eye research Advanced Vision Correction Laboratory, University of Rochester Eye Institute Two postdoc positions are available to conduct customized vision correction study and dry eye research in Geunyoung Yoon's Lab in the University of Rochester Eye Institute. The first position is available to work on developing customized contact lenses. This project uses wavefront sensors, adaptive optics and lens design methods to optimize correction performance with the lenses in both normal and highly aberrated eyes. The project also involves various experiments evaluating optical quality and on-eye performance of the lenses. The second position is available to conduct dry eye research led by the multidisciplinary research team. The goal of the study is to objectively characterize the tear film by measuring tear parameters including the tear dynamics and its impact on visual quality, tear thickness and volume, and thickness and refractive index of the lipid layer. The project further investigates the relationship between these parameters and dry eye symptoms. The project uses the custom-built multimodal tear imaging system that consists of wavefront sensor, ocular surface optical coherence tomography and ellipsometer. Successful candidates for both positions must have significant background in Optics. Experience in physiological optics, especially, assessing optical quality of the eye and tear film imaging is desirable although it is not necessary. Applicants should submit a CV, a brief statement of research experience and interest, and names of three references to: Geunyoung Yoon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Center for Visual Science, Institute of Optics, Biomedical Engineering University of Rochester Eye Institute 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14624 Home Page: http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/yoonlab/ Email: yoon@cvs.rochester.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091002/4a339de7/attachment.htm From richard_born at hms.harvard.edu Fri Oct 2 11:02:48 2009 From: richard_born at hms.harvard.edu (Richard Born) Date: Fri Oct 2 11:09:48 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Research Technician Job Available Message-ID: Visual neurophysiology lab seeks research technician. The main responsibilities will involve working with rhesus monkeys that are taking part in behavioral and physiological experiments. This will range from daily training sessions to general oversight of animal care to the preparation for and assistance with surgical procedures. Other duties will include general lab organization and maintaining stocks of supplies. Strong organizational skills are essential; experience with nonhuman primates is a big plus. The position is available immediately. Interested parties should send a resume and two references to rborn@hms.harvard.edu. Richard Born Professor of Neurobiology Director, Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School 220 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115-5701 tel: (617) 432-1307 fax: (617) 734-7557 e-mail: rborn@hms.harvard.edu http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/bornlab From myron.braunstein at uci.edu Sat Oct 3 21:26:24 2009 From: myron.braunstein at uci.edu (Myron L. Braunstein) Date: Sun Oct 4 08:40:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] University of California, Irvine, Postdoctoral Position Message-ID: <200910040426.n944Qt68027728@smtp1.es.uci.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091003/00519d7d/attachment-0001.htm From ftorre at cs.cmu.edu Tue Oct 6 02:33:12 2009 From: ftorre at cs.cmu.edu (Fernando De la Torre) Date: Tue Oct 6 04:00:08 2009 Subject: [visionlist] One senior Staff and one Post Doctoral positions available in the Human Sensing Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Message-ID: <000001ca4668$063fad60$12bf0820$@cmu.edu> Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral or senior staff position in the Human Sensing Lab ( http://humansensing.cs.cmu.edu) at Carnegie Mellon University. Applicants should have an M.S. or Ph. D in computer science, engineering or related fields, and a strong background in computer vision and machine learning (classification theory). A proven record of publications in top vision and machine learning conferences and journal is required for the postdoctoral position. The candidate will be responsible for developing novel machine learning algorithms for temporal classification of facial expressions, in particular action units. The project will require proficiency in Matlab, but some parts will be developed in C/C++. Knowledge of OpenCV is a plus. The position will start in December 1st 2009. Salary is competitive. GREEN CARD or US CITIZENSHIP is required. Applications should be sent by email (ftorre@cs.cmu.edu) and should include a CV, a brief statement of research interests, the expected date of availability and the names of 3 references. Applications should be sent as soon as possible and preferably before November 1st, 2009, but later applications may be considered until the position is filled. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline for Early Meeting Registration is February 25, 2010. For more information, please visit www.visionsciences.org. If you have any questions, please contact us at vss@visionsciences.org or by phone at 415.883.3301. Follow Us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/VSSMtg. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091005/a1ae4118/attachment.htm From hnx at brain.riken.jp Tue Oct 6 22:03:31 2009 From: hnx at brain.riken.jp (hiroyuki nakahara) Date: Wed Oct 7 04:34:38 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical Neuroscience, at RIKEN BSI Message-ID: <20091007140209.6685.HNX@brain.riken.jp> Postdoctoral positions available Postdoctoral positions are available for studying neural valuation and associated decision making in the laboratory of Dr. Hiro Nakahara (the Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience) at RIKEN Brain Science Institute. A major focus of the research for these positions is to develop theoretical and/or computational models for a normative understanding (e.g. reinforcement learning framework and statistical inference) of neural valuation/decision systems, further linking to a mechanistic or circuit-level understanding, in consideration of the rich repertory of behavioral and neurophysiological data. For general information on our laboratory, see http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp. Applicants should have a Ph.D. We seek exceptionally talented candidates with a strong background in theoretical neuroscience. Solid experience in theoretical neuroscience research, with a strong analytical background and a ready ability to acquire new information in experimental literature (e.g. cognitive and behavioral neuroscience), is essential. Research experience in decision making and/or valuation, possibly including basal ganglia functions (and/or the frontal cortices), is a major plus. Proficiency in computer programming (e.g. Matlab or equivalent) is expected. Good communication and writing skills are essential. A good balance of independence and collegiality in research is required. The RIKEN Brain Science Institute (URL: www.brain.riken.jp) is located near Tokyo, Japan. It uses English as the working language, and provides an international, vigorous, and interactive environment not only for computational neuroscience but also for a broad range of disciplines in neuroscience. These positions can start immediately, but consideration will be also given to candidates who would prefer a later start date. Consideration of applications will start immediately, but all applications sent to us by November 10th will be equally considered. Appointment is on an annual basis, and starting salaries will be commensurate with relevant ability and experience. Subsequent contracts will be determined and renewed annually, upon review, for possibly up to five years. Interested candidates should apply to itninfo@brain.riken.jp with the following: a cover letter, CV, a statement of research skills and interests, contact details of three references with a brief description of your relationship to each reference, and (optional) any additional information you think might be useful (e.g. additional skills and background, general interests, and so on). Informal enquiries are also welcome. Hiro Nakahara Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience RIKEN Brain Science Institute 2-1 Hirosawa Wako Saitama, 351-0198 Japan http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp -- hiroyuki nakahara http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp From kirsch at bccn.uni-freiburg.de Wed Oct 7 01:26:36 2009 From: kirsch at bccn.uni-freiburg.de (Janina Kirsch) Date: Wed Oct 7 04:35:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD-Positions in Neuroinformatics, including Computational Neuroscience (Erasmus Mundus Program) Message-ID: The Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Program "EuroSPIN " (European Study Programme in Neuroinformatics) is inviting applications from students having a solid background in mathematics, physics, computer sciences, biochemistry or neuroscience (on a master level or equivalent), in all cases with computer science skills. Documented interest in research like activities (e.g. demonstrated in the form of master thesis work, or participation in research related activities) is of large importance. Also fluency in English is requested. Neuroinformatics combines neuroscience and informatics research to develop and apply computational tools and approaches that are essential for understanding the structure and function of the brain. Four partners participate in EuroSPIN: - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - University of Edinburg (UoE), UK - National Centre for Biological Science (NCBS), India - Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg (ALUF), Germany These four partners are all research leaders in the Neuroinformatics field, but they have complementary strengths. In addition, two associated partners, the Honda Research Institute and Nordita, participate. Each student will spend most of the time at two of the partner universities, and also receive a joint (or double) PhD degree following a successful completion of the studies. The mobility periods, as well as the courses a student will follow, are tailored individually based on: a) the PhD students background; b) which constellations of partners that are involved, as well as c) the specific research project. During the PhD period each student has one main supervisor from each of the two universities that grant the PhD degree. During the application process, the students are asked to indicate their preferences with regard to constellations of partners, and also preferred project ideas/areas can be indicated and motivated. There are excellent scholarship opportunities for students accepted to an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme. A stipend or employment contract will be given to all selected PhD students during the study time, which is between 3-4 years. If you are interested, go to our homepage: http://www.kth.se/studies/phd/eurospin?l=en_UK. Deadline for Application (non-EU students): December 15, 2009. Deadline for Application (EU students): about March 2009 (will be announced). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091007/3b574366/attachment-0001.htm From vittorio.murino at iit.it Wed Oct 7 06:34:58 2009 From: vittorio.murino at iit.it (Vittorio Murino) Date: Thu Oct 8 08:23:11 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions @ IIT Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy Message-ID: <4ACC9902.1030707@iit.it> Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions on Intelligent Video Surveillance IIT Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy The IIT wants to establish a laboratory on Intelligent Vision Systems, specifically focused on video surveillance and security aspects and is starting the recruitment of full-time researchers. The mission of the laboratory is to design and develop innovative video surveillance systems, characterized by the use of highly-functional smart sensors and advanced video analytics features. To this end, the laboratory is involved in activities concerning computer vision and pattern recognition, biometry, multimodal data analysis and sensor fusion, sensors networks, and embedded computer vision systems. The lab will pursue this goal by working collaboratively and in cooperation with external private and public partners. This first call aims at opening postdoc positions related to the above areas of expertise and specifically devoted to: + low-level video analytics: signal/image processing, tagging and tracking (individuals, groups, crowd, vehicles, etc.); + high-level video analytics: behaviour analysis, activity recognition, reasoning paradigms, graphical models. Applicants research experience and qualification on computer vision and pattern recognition/machine learning are clearly a must, and evidence of top quality research on the above specified areas in the form of published papers and/or patents are definitely required. The postdoctoral position is up to 4 years starting as soon as possible after the deadline indicated below. Candidates should have a PhD in computer vision and/or machine learning and related areas (or at least have submitted the thesis and awaiting the viva). The salary will be commensurate to qualification and experience and in line to that of the research institutes in the rest of Europe. Further details and informal enquires can be made by email to PLUSLab@iit.it. Completed application forms along with a curriculum listing all publications, a pdf of your most representative publications and a research statement describing your previous research experience and outlining its relevance to these topics should be sent electronically to PLUSLab@iit.it. Please, if possible, also indicate three independent references inside the CV or the email. The closing date for applications is 30th October 2009, but prompt applications are encouraged. We?ll contact the applicants for the follow-on of the procedure. ===================================================================== The IIT is a non-profit institution based in Genova, situated in north-west part of Italy close to both the Italian Riviera and the Alps, established jointly by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance to promote excellence in basic and applied research and to contribute to the economic development of Italy. The primary goals of the IIT are the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge as well as the strengthening of Italy?s technological competitiveness. The IIT intends to become an international leading centre in scientific research and advanced technology, able to attract researchers from around the world, and cooperating with both academic institutions and private organizations. For more info, please visit www.iit.it . ===================================================================== -- Vittorio Murino **************************** Prof. Vittorio Murino, Ph.D. IIT Italian Institute of Technology Via Morego 30 16163 Genova, Italy Phone: +39 010 71781504 Mobile: +39 329 6508554 E-mail: vittorio.murino@iit.it http://www.iit.it/it/nanobiotech-facility/computer-imaging.html **************************************************************** From jfeldman at sunyopt.edu Wed Oct 7 08:31:42 2009 From: jfeldman at sunyopt.edu (Jerry Feldman) Date: Thu Oct 8 08:23:33 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Ph.D Program in Vision Science at SUNY Optometry Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Ph.D_ad_2009.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 661799 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091007/a51ddf89/Ph.D_ad_2009-0001.pdf From announcements at journalofvision.org Thu Oct 8 15:48:20 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Thu Oct 8 15:52:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 10 Message-ID: <4AAB9B85ACC04B60A37C261B08DC4328@jov> Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 10 http://journalofvision.org/9/10/ Articles Contrast sensitivity in natural scenes depends on edge as well as spatial frequency structure Peter J. Bex Samuel G. Solomon Steven C. Dakin http://journalofvision.org/9/10/1/ Accumulation of visual information across multiple fixations Yoni Pertzov Galia Avidan Ehud Zohary http://journalofvision.org/9/10/2/ From disparity to depth: How to make a grating and a plaid appear in the same depth plane Yu-Chin Chai Bart Farell http://journalofvision.org/9/10/3/ Recovery of a crowded object by masking the flankers: Determining the locus of feature integration Ramakrishna Chakravarthi Patrick Cavanagh http://journalofvision.org/9/10/4/ The relationship between object spatial profile and accommodation microfluctuations in emmetropes and myopes Mhairi Day Lyle S. Gray Dirk Seidel Niall C. Strang http://journalofvision.org/9/10/5/ The contributions of central versus peripheral vision to scene gist recognition Adam M. Larson Lester C. Loschky http://journalofvision.org/9/10/6/ The precision of visual working memory is set by allocation of a shared resource Paul M. Bays Raquel F. G. Catalao Masud Husain http://journalofvision.org/9/10/7/ Globally inconsistent figure/ground relations induced by a negative part Sung-Ho Kim Jacob Feldman http://journalofvision.org/9/10/8/ Recruitment of a novel cue for active control depends on control dynamics Wang O. Li Jeffrey A. Saunders Li Li http://journalofvision.org/9/10/9/ The gender-specific face aftereffect is based in retinotopic not spatiotopic coordinates across several natural image transformations Arash Afraz Patrick Cavanagh http://journalofvision.org/9/10/10/ Perception of limited-lifetime biological motion from different viewpoints Simone Kuhlmann Marc H. E. de Lussanet Markus Lappe http://journalofvision.org/9/10/11/ Temporal whitening: Transient noise perceptually equalizes the 1/f temporal amplitude spectrum John Cass David Alais Branka Spehar Peter J. Bex http://journalofvision.org/9/10/12/ The aperture problem in contoured stimuli David Kane Peter J. Bex Steven C. Dakin http://journalofvision.org/9/10/13/ The role of orientation and position in shape perception Mhairi Day Gunter Loffler http://journalofvision.org/9/10/14/ Myopia and peripheral ocular aberrations Ankit Mathur David A. Atchison W. Neil Charman http://journalofvision.org/9/10/15/ Intermittent occlusion enhances the smoothness of sampled motion Tom R. Scherzer Vebj?rn Ekroll http://journalofvision.org/9/10/16/ Improved classification images with sparse priors in a smooth basis Patrick J. Mineault Simon Barthelm? Christopher C. Pack http://journalofvision.org/9/10/17/ Sensitivity and perceptual awareness increase with practice in metacontrast masking Caspar M. Schwiedrzik Wolf Singer Lucia Melloni http://journalofvision.org/9/10/18/ Effects of gestational length, gender, postnatal age, and birth order on visual contrast sensitivity in infants Karen R. Dobkins Rain G. Bosworth Joseph P. McCleery http://journalofvision.org/9/10/19/ Occlusion-related lateral connections stabilize kinetic depth stimuli through perceptual coupling P. Christiaan Klink Andr? J. Noest Vivian Holten Albert V. van den Berg Richard J. A. van Wezel http://journalofvision.org/9/10/20/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091008/c9b68b0e/attachment.htm From evul at mit.edu Fri Oct 9 16:49:16 2009 From: evul at mit.edu (Ed Vul) Date: Fri Oct 9 17:31:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CFP: NIPS workshop on Bounded rational analysis of human cognition Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS NIPS 2009 Workshop: Bounded-rational analyses of human cognition: Bayesian models, approximate inference, and the brain. http://www.mit.edu/~ndg/NIPS09Workshop.html Whistler, BC, Canada. Dec 12, 2009. ---------------------------------- We invite poster submissions for the NIPS 2009 workshop "Bounded- rational analyses of human cognition: Bayesian models, approximate inference, and the brain". Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): state-of-the-art algorithms for bounded and time-limited inference, process-level limitations on human Bayesian inference, inference algorithms in humans, and neural implementations of Bayesian inference algorithms. Abstracts, no longer than one page, may be submitted by email to: ndg@mit.edu , no later than October 31, 2009. Please include "NIPS Workshop Abstract" in the subject of your email. DESCRIPTION Bayesian, or "rational", accounts of human cognition have enjoyed much success in recent years: human behavior is well described by probabilistic inference in low-level perceptual and motor tasks as well as high level cognitive tasks like category and concept learning, language, and theory of mind. However, these models are typically defined at the abstract "computational" level: they successfully describe the computational task solved by human cognition without committing to the algorithm which carries it out. Bayesian models usually assume unbounded cognitive resources available for computation, yet traditional cognitive psychology has emphasized the severe limitations of human cognition. Thus, a key challenge for the Bayesian approach to cognition is to describe the algorithms used to cary out approximate probabilistic inference using the bounded computational resources of the human brain. Inspired by the success of Monte Carlo methods in machine learning, several different groups have suggested that humans make inferences not by manipulating whole distributions, but my drawing a small number of samples from the appropriate posterior distribution. Monte Carlo algorithms are attractive as algorithmic models of cognition both because of they have been used to do inference in a wide variety of structured probabilistic models, scaling to complex situations while minimizing the curse of dimensionality, and because they use resources efficiently, and degrade gracefully when time does not permit many samples to be generated. Indeed, given parsimonious assumptions about the cost of obtaining a sample for a bounded agent, it is often best to make decisions using just one sample. The claim that human cognition works by sampling identifies the broad class of Monte Carlo algorithms as candidate cognitive process models. Recent evidence from human behavior supports this coarse description of human inference: people seem to operate with a limited set of samples at a time. Further narrowing the class of algorithm makes additional predictions if the samples drawn by these algorithms are imperfect samples (not exact samples from the posterior distribution). That is, while most Monte Carlo algorithms yield unbiased estimators given unlimited resources, they all have characteristic biases and dynamics in practice -- it is these biases and dynamics which result in process-level predictions about human cognition. For instance, it has been argued that the characteristic order effects exhibited by sequential Monte Carlo algorithms (particle filters) when run with few particles can explain the primacy and recency effects observed in human category learning, and the "garden path" phenomena of human sentence processing. Similarly, others have argued that the temporal correlation of samples obtained from Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling can account for bistable percepts in visual processing. Ultimately the processes of human cognition must be implemented in the brain. Relatively little work has examined how probabilistic inference may be carried out by neural mechanisms, and even less of this work has been based on Monte Carlo algorithms. Several different neural implementations of probabilistic inference, both approximate and exact, have been proposed, but the relationship among these implementations and to algorithmic and behavioral constraints remains to be understood. Accordingly, this workshop will foster discussion of neural implementations in light of work on bounded-rational cognitive processes. The goal of this workshop is to explore the connections between Bayesian models of cognition, human cognitive processes, modern inference algorithms, and neural information processing. We believe that this will be an exciting opportunity to make progress on a set of interlocking questions: Can we derive precise predictions about the dynamics of human cognition from state-of-the-art inference algorithms? Can machine learning be improved by understanding the efficiency tradeoffs made by human cognition? Can descriptions of neural behavior be constrained by theories of human inference processes? ORGANIZERS: Noah Goodman Ed Vul Tom Griffiths Josh Tenenbaum INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed) Matt Botvinik Noah Goodman Tom Griffiths Stuart Russell Paul Schrater Ed Vul Jerry Zhu WORKSHOP FORMAT 8:00 introductory remarks 8:10 1st talk 8:40 2nd talk 9:10 break 9:30 3rd talk 10:00 4th talk 10:30 discussion 11:00 - 1:00 posters 4:00 5th talk 4:30 6th talk 5:00 7th talk 5:30 8th talk 6:00 discussion -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091009/22832cb8/attachment-0001.htm From sperling at uci.edu Mon Oct 12 22:27:40 2009 From: sperling at uci.edu (George Sperling) Date: Tue Oct 13 07:08:44 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 35th Annual AIC: Jackson WY 24-29jan2010 Message-ID: <4AD40FCC.6080401@uci.edu> THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE Teton Village, Jackson Hole , Wyoming January 24 -- 29, 2010 Organizer: George Sperling, University of California, Irvine http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS The THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE will meet in Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, January 24 - 29, 2010. Thanks to the current economic crisis, the new owners of The Inn at Jackson Hole, AIC's traditional venue, have postponed demolition and reconstruction. Therefore, AIC is able, once more, perhaps for the last time, to return to Teton Village in 2010. The Inn is right at the base of the ski slopes, a short walk from the tram and other ski lifts. The Conference has arranged a block of rooms at special room rates for registered participants. The special rates will only be available UNTIL THE CUT-OFF DATE of December 25, 2009. The hotel will continue to accept reservations after that date but on a space available basis at the published rack rates. See the conference web page for more details: As in previous years, the conference covers a wide range of topics in what has come to be called cognitive science and neuroscience, ranging from visual and auditory physiology and psychophysics to cognition, learning and memory, to computational approaches to these problems including neural networks, artificial intelligence, and, most recently, all varieties of brain imaging. In addition to general sessions, there will be two organized sessions: One on neural computation organized by John Reynolds and Tania Pasternak , and one on feature binding and related issues organized by Steve Shevell . Paper submissions are hereby invited. The deadline for submissions is Friday, October 30, 2009. Submissions must include a title, a brief abstract, and a completed registration form from http://www.socsci.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC/registration.html which may be sent electronically to sperling@uci.edu and lrhaines@uci.edu or as hardcopy to: AIC c/o Prof. George Sperling Department of Cognitive Sciences, SSPA-3 University of California Irvine, CA 92697-5100 If your paper is relevant for a special session, also send a copy of the title and abstract to the session organizer(s): Submissions are not finally accepted until registration is complete and the registration fee of $175 ($190 after January 1, 2010; $75 for students) is paid. Conference registration is payable by check made payable to "Annual Interdisciplinary Conference" (no credit cards) mailed to the address above. The registration fee includes daily snacks and refreshments. Applicants will be notified on or before November 13, 2009 of the acceptance of proposed presentations. Speakers' registration fees are nonrefundable after November 13; nonspeaking participants' registration is refundable at any time. AIC aims to provide overview talks that are comprehensible and interesting to a wide scientific audience--such as one might fantasize would occur (but in actuality rarely do occur) at a meeting of a National or Royal Academy of Science. The Conference begins with a reception on Sunday evening, January 24, at 5:00p followed by a half-session. Regular sessions meet from Monday through Friday at 4:00p to 8:00p; the rest of the day is free. After the last session on Friday, Jan 29, there is a banquet for participants and guests. To reserve lodging, telephone The Inn at 307-733-2311 or toll-free at 800-842-7666 and identify yourself as part of the AIC group. Be sure to discuss and understand the hotel's reservations policies at that time. A two-night advance deposit will be required which is nonrefundable unless your reservation is cancelled 30 days prior to your scheduled arrival. Also, 30 days prior to arrival, your credit card on file will be charged in full. This charge is nonrefundable except under extenuating circumstances such as a medical emergency or a death in the family. Other hotels, restaurants, ski rental facilities, shops, and cross-country ski trails are all within walking distance. There are daily flights directly to Jackson Hole AP from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, and Salt Lake City and occasional direct flights from Los Angeles, NYC (taxi or bus to the hotel). Alternatively, Jackson is a five-hour drive from Salt Lake City. Additional information about the conference, travel, and skiing opportunities is available at the AIC website. The 34 previous programs, photos, and hotel information are published on the AIC website; the 2010 program will be posted and updated as it becomes available. If you received this email, you will receive future electronic mailings automatically unless you opt out by writing a note to lrhaines@uci.edu (who maintains the AIC list). George Sperling ----------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. Four students graduated this year and two grants were funded, so there are openings for incoming students and for a postdoctoral fellow in my lab. Send applications to: sperling@uci.edu -gs ======================================================================= From pwilken at gmail.com Tue Oct 13 01:51:36 2009 From: pwilken at gmail.com (Patrick Wilken) Date: Tue Oct 13 07:08:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Women's Travel Awards: Berlin School of Mind and Brain Message-ID: <4AD43F98.9040101@googlemail.com> WOMEN'S TRAVEL AWARDS - BERLIN SCHOOL OF MIND AND BRAIN Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Berlin School of Mind and Brain Web: www.mind-and-brain.de Email: admissions@mind-and-brain.de The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is an international research school, which was founded in 2006 as part of Germany's Excellence Initiative. The School offers a unique three-year interdisciplinary doctoral program in English in the mind and brain sciences. As part of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain's commitment to supporting women in science and the humanities, the School is delighted to announce a limited number of travel awards for female students who are interested in exploring the possibility of doctoral studies at the School. Successful applicants will receive reimbursement for accommodation, travel costs, plus a per diem to cover living expenses during their visit. Candidates will be invited to visit the School during the week of the 7-12 December 2009, and will have ample opportunities to meet with faculty and students relevant to their research interests, as well as have a chance to view the School's facilities, and to get a better sense of city itself. In addition, they will be encouraged to participate in Berlin Brain Days (9-11 December 2009), an annual event that brings together more than 200 doctoral students from across the neurosciences to discuss and present their work with senior international faculty. In order to be eligible for this award you need to meet the basic eligibility criteria for applying to the School's doctoral program in 2010 or 2011 (in particular you need to have completed or be in the process of completing a Master's or equivalent degree in an area of study relevant to the School). Further details about eligibility criteria for study at the School can be found at: http://www.mind-and-brain.de/63.0.html. Applications (and questions) should be made to admissions@hu-berlin.de; please include a short 1-2 page letter of application (detailing your reasons for applying for the travel award, your background and research interests), your academic CV, as well as a letter of recommendation. The deadline for applications is 1 November 2009. Further details about the School and its program can be found below. We look forward to hearing from you soon! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Research within the School focuses on the interface between the humanities and the neurosciences. Of particular interest are research areas that fall on the borders between the mind sciences (e.g., philosophy, linguistics, behavioral and cognitive science, economics), and the brain sciences (e.g., neurophysiology, computational neuroscience, neurology, and neurobiology). Major topics of research within the program include: 'conscious and unconscious perception', 'decision-making', 'language', 'brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny', 'mental disorders and brain dysfunction', and the 'philosophy of mind'. However, research is not limited to these areas, and students are strongly encouraged to develop and work at their own initiative on any projects that are relevant to interdisciplinary questions relating to mind and brain. The School accepts eight-to-twelve doctoral candidates into its program each year. Here are some excellent reasons why students might wish to be considered for one of these highly sought after positions at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain: * The School has a faculty comprised of 60 distinguished researchers, including four Max Planck directors, which cover the gamut of research within the mind and brain sciences. * Research within the School is strongly embedded in the basic and clinical research conducted within the region allowing for strong synergistic research initiatives and opportunities. Hosted by the Humboldt University, the School's research program includes scientists from the Free University, the Technical University, the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin), the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig), and the nearby universities of Potsdam and Magdeburg. * Students acquire a strong foundation for interdisciplinary work by attending eight one-week classes during the first half of their doctoral program, which cover all fields relevant for mind/brain-related research, and allow students to explore research methods and topics that they have not been previously exposed to. Each doctoral candidate is assigned two professorial advisors - one from the brain sciences, one from the mind sciences - in order to maximize the interdisciplinary impact of their work. * Students meet with leading international researchers via the School's Distinguished Lecture Series, interactions with its senior visiting faculty, as well as by attending international workshops and meetings. As part of the School's commitment to maximizing students' research opportunities, the School also encourages and provides assistance for students to spend time studying and conducting research abroad during the course of their doctoral candidacy. * Extensive practical services to international doctoral candidates are available, including assistance with visa applications, matriculation, health insurance, local authorities, scientific soft skill courses, and language classes. Finally, there are good financial reasons for studying at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain: * There are no tuition fees associated with the program. * Administrative fees are very low. Administrative fees for attending the Humboldt University come to only approximately 250 Euros per semester. * The School offers generous scholarships to the best applicants. Students who were not successful in winning one of the school's own scholarships will receive support in obtaining alternative sources of funding (e.g. a research post within a university department or with one of the School's research groups, or help in finding alternative funding sources for a scholarship). Recent progress in the neurosciences has opened up new and exciting avenues for research that raise challenging conceptual and ethical questions calling for an interdisciplinary approach. The Berlin School of Mind and Brain offers a unique research and training environment for doctoral candidates to work at this exciting interface between the sciences and the humanities. From sabine.susstrunk at epfl.ch Tue Oct 13 12:38:29 2009 From: sabine.susstrunk at epfl.ch (Sabine Susstrunk) Date: Tue Oct 13 12:54:42 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics Message-ID: <4AD4D735.2070803@epfl.ch> Dear all Below you will find the call for nomination for the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. Highlights are: - the person being nominated does NOT have to be a computer scientist, but must have used computer science, technology, and/or informatics in the large (inclusive sense) to do good. But s/he of course can be a CS person. A group can also qualify, it does not have to be an individual. - the deadline is November 30th. _________________________________ The ACM is currently accepting nomination for the Lawler award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. Nominations will be accepted until November 30, 2009. For a list of previous award recipients visit www.acm.org/awards. Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics This award is to recognize an individual or a group who have made a significant contribution through the use of computing technology. The award is intentionally defined broadly. The professional credentials of the recipient(s) are not important. The recipient(s) need never to have earned a degree or published a paper, or even be considered to be a computer professional. The emphasis of the Award Committee will be on the significance of the contribution itself, within the prescribed areas of technology for humanitarian contributions in the field of computing. Some examples of the types of contributions that this award is created to recognize are: technology for social justice, access to education, economic empowerment, application of computer technology to aid the disabled; creative research concerning intellectual property issues; expansion of educational opportunities in Computer Science for women and underrepresented minorities; application of computers or computing techniques in the developing countries. This ACM award was established in honor of Eugene Lawler who was a professor at UC Berkeley. Eugene Lawler was a unique individual in computing who was concerned not just about technology but about social justice, improvement of humanity, and the questions of how technology influences and shapes society and social structures. Can technology be a force for good and fairness? Gene's interest in inclusion led him to pioneer the first women's re-entry program, which created an educational path for talented women to return to school and pursue a degree in computer science. His influence on the entire Berkeley curriculum was unusual as he created courses that dealt with technology?s ability to influence politics, government, and social institutions. In short, he was a role model for fairness and equity and asked all of us to ponder these issues and think about our roles as technologists in our evolving social, political, and economic world. Nominations will be accepted until November 30, 2009. They should be submitted to the chair, Nina Bhatti, at nina.bhatti@hp.com. The submission should include: 1) Name, email, mailing address, and phone number of person making the nomination. 2) Name, email and mailing address of candidate for whom an award is recommended. 3) A statement (between 200 and 500 words long) as to why the candidate deserves the particular award. 4) The name(s) and address(es) or telephone number(s) of others who agree with the recommendation and their supporting statements. From abwatson at journalofvision.org Tue Oct 13 14:12:12 2009 From: abwatson at journalofvision.org (Andrew Watson) Date: Tue Oct 13 14:21:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Journal of Vision - Call for Papers - Special Issue on Perception of surface color and material properties Message-ID: <7A9EB364-3926-4A52-8E57-7B324D1307CB@journalofvision.org> Journal of Vision ? Call for Papers ? Special Issue Perception of surface color and material properties Researchers have devoted much effort to understanding the perception of color and lightness for simple stimulus configurations, often consisting of flat matte surfaces rendered under diffuse illuminations, or simulations thereof. The objects we look at in daily viewing, on the other hand, are rarely flat, matte, or diffusely illuminated. There is now considerable interest in pushing our understanding into the realm of more complex, three-dimensional scenes, spurred in part by advances in computer graphics that allow physically accurate rendering of a variety of materials and thus permit exploration of interactions between object shape and orientation, object material, and illumination geometry. The Journal of Vision plans a Special Issue to bring together papers that describe recent advances in this area. The following list provides representative topics, but papers in closely related areas will also be considered. What is the effect of object material on color and lightness perception, particularly for objects viewed in complex three- dimensional scenes? How are object reflectance properties best measured and parameterized? What are good models of image formation for complex scenes? How do we perceive what materials an object is made of? What information that might allow separation of object and illuminant properties is available in the image, and is this information used by biological vision systems? This feature is intended to focus on progress since the publication of a similar special issue in Journal of Vision in 2004 (http://journalofvision.org/4/9/ ). Guest Editors: David Brainard University of Pennsylvania brainard@psych.upenn.edu Larry Maloney New York University laurence.maloney@nyu.edu Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2010 Target publication date: July, 2010 (papers are published as soon as ready) Online call for papers: http://journalofvision.org/specialissues/ Journal of Vision is an open-access online journal that encourages the use of images, color, movies, hyperlinks, demonstrations, original datasets, and other digital enhancements. To submit a paper to this special issue please follow the Instructions for Authors at http://www.journalofvision.org/info/info_for_authors.aspx . All papers will be subjected to full peer review. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We seek highly motivated Ph.D.'s with a sound background in electrophysiology and some experience with confocal or two-photon microscopy. Funding of the position is available for at least two years. Berkeley is a strong center for vision research. Contact werblin@berkeley.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091013/77024d27/attachment.htm From nwk at idmt.fraunhofer.de Wed Oct 14 03:43:26 2009 From: nwk at idmt.fraunhofer.de (Stefanie Nowak) Date: Wed Oct 14 07:23:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Working Notes of ImageCLEF 2009 available Message-ID: <4AD5AB4E.40909@idmt.fraunhofer.de> Working Notes of ImageCLEF 2009 available The CLEF 2009 workshop has just been completed successfully. ImageCLEF (www.imageclef.org) as part of CLEF posed 6 interesting tasks in 2009. 1) Medical Annotation 2) Medical Retrieval 3) Photo Annotation 4) Photo Retrieval 5) Robot Vision 6) Wikipedia MM The results of the participating groups and the overview papers of the tasks are now available as working notes at http://www.clef-campaign.org/2009/working_notes/CLEF2009WN-Contents.html We also had an interesting Theseus-ImageCLEF preworkshop on visual information retrieval evaluation. The slides are available here http://www.imageclef.org/2009/preCLEF. Kind regards, Stefanie Nowak -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Stefanie Nowak Multimedia Analysis Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT Ehrenbergstrasse 31 98693 Ilmenau, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- email: nwk@idmt.fraunhofer.de phone: +49 (0) 3677 - 467 113 fax: +49 (0) 3677 - 467 467 --------------------------------------------------------------------- From jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk Thu Oct 15 01:07:14 2009 From: jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Julie Harris) Date: Thu Oct 15 07:03:01 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Scottish Vision Group Conference 2010 Message-ID: ********************************************* Scottish Vision Group Conference 2010 ********************************************* The Royal Dunkeld Hotel Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland March 19th - 21st 2010 We will be meeting for our annual 3 day (Fri afternoon - Sun lunchtime) conference in March. This small meeting attracts vision scientists from Scotland, the UK, and beyond. Our aim is to provide an intimate setting for a small group to share scientific ideas and results. Please send expressions of interest to Julie Harris, as soon as possible. The submission deadline for formal contributions will be in January 2010. -- ========================================================= Julie M. Harris Prof. of Psychology St. Andrews Vision Lab School of Psychology University of St. Andrews St. Mary's Quad South St. St. Andrews KY16 9JP tel: 44-1334-462-061 fax: 44-1334-463-042 email: Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/vislab.html The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 ========================================================= From nicolle.ferchland at med.ovgu.de Thu Oct 15 07:40:57 2009 From: nicolle.ferchland at med.ovgu.de (Ferchland, Nicolle) Date: Thu Oct 15 08:18:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc: Research Scientist in Neuropsychology Message-ID: At the Institute of Medical Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (Director: Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Sabel) a position of Postdoc/ Research Scientist in Neuropsychology / Cognitive Neuroscientist is available. The candidate will carry out research in the fields of: * Neuroplasticity in normal Aging or age-associated disorders (such as stroke) * Development of new approaches for the treatment of patients with cognitive or vision impairments (including training and electrical stimulation using current stimulation). The position is available from 01.12.2009. Salary is according to German scale for research staff personnel (TVL-13). We are an interdisciplinary team (psychologist, biologists, medical scientists) and work in an exciting neuroscience environment with many collaboration opportunities on campus. We offer a pleasant and productive working environment and support our employees to achieve scientific progress in an internationally competitive environment. Your qualifications are: * Degree in Psychology or related fields (e.g. Neuroscience, Behav. Biology, Medicine). * Experience in carrying out competitive research * Team spirit and the burning desire to be successful Please send applications (application letter, CV, 3 representative reprints of published work) via email to nicolle.ferchland@med.ovgu.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091015/f66f9c2c/attachment.htm From baolshausen at berkeley.edu Thu Oct 15 12:55:21 2009 From: baolshausen at berkeley.edu (Bruno Olshausen) Date: Thu Oct 15 12:57:55 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in Visual Neuroscience Message-ID: <4397C01D-305A-49E7-A22C-1EA3486E10C6@berkeley.edu> Postdoctoral position - Visual Neuroscience A postdoctoral position is available immediately in the lab of Dr. Charles Gray in the Center for Computational Biology at Montana State University, Bozeman. The project is investigating the dynamics of population activity and inter-laminar neuronal interactions in the visual cortex during the processing of natural scenes. Electrophysiological studies are being done in both cats and monkeys and utilize state-of-the-art ensemble recording techniques to sample neuronal activity simultaneously from all cortical layers. The project is an NEI-funded collaboration with Dr. Bruno Olshausen at UC Berkeley and Dr. Chris Rozell at the Georgia Institute of Technology which will combine experimental and theoretical approaches to elucidate dynamics of visual cortical function. Candidates should have a strong background in electrophysiological methods and statistical analysis of time series data. Please send curriculum vitae and the names and contact information of three references to: Dr. Charles M. Gray Center for Computational Biology 1 Lewis Hall Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717 Email: cmgray@nervana.montana.edu Tel: 406-994-7338 Dr. Gray will be attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Potential candidates are encouraged to contact him (via email to the above address) to arrange a meeting. --------------------------------------- Bruno A. Olshausen Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute & School of Optometry, and Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley Mail address: 156 Stanley Hall MC 3220 Berkeley, CA 94720-3220 (510) 642-7250 / 2-7206 (fax) http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno From James.Brockmole at nd.edu Thu Oct 15 13:23:02 2009 From: James.Brockmole at nd.edu (James Brockmole) Date: Thu Oct 15 13:48:46 2009 Subject: [visionlist] postdoctoral fellowship in visual cognition Message-ID: <7083006A98B5314F86152D05FFB1B9981A578B3B@ICE-MBX-2.ice.nd.edu> Postdoctoral Fellowship in Visual Cognition University of Notre Dame Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Visual Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. The laboratory is directed by Prof. James Brockmole. The post will initially be for one year and can be renewed for a second year by mutual agreement. The successful applicant to this post will actively collaborate with lab members to design, conduct, and publish research projects which investigate how attention is controlled in visual environments (including real-world scenes), how the visual world is represented in short- and long-term memory, and/or how attention and memory interact to subserve various cognitive tasks such as visual search and spatial reasoning. Research involving both young and elderly adult populations is possible. Specific activities and research programs will be tailored to the interests of the fellow. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to either develop or enhance technical skills associated with the design and analysis of eyetracking- and real-world scene-based experiments. The successful applicant will also have the potential to collaborate with other members of a vibrant visual cognition community in one of the fastest growing departments in the country. It is essential that applicants have a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, or a related discipline and possess strong methodological skills related to the conduct of psychological research as evidenced through publications. Experience with eyetracking-based research is a plus, but not a requirement. The start date for the fellowship is flexible but should be no later than August 1, 2010. Salary will be commensurate with experience and full benefits (including health insurance) will be provided. To apply, please send your vita, a brief statement of research interests, representative publications, and the names and addresses (including email) of three references to Prof. James Brockmole. Applications can be made either by email to James.Brockmole@nd.edu or by postal mail to James Brockmole, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 118-C Haggar Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. The evaluation of applications will begin on December 15 and will continue until a suitable candidate is found. Informal inquiries regarding this fellowship can be addressed to Prof. James Brockmole at James.Brockmole@nd.edu. More information about the Visual Cognition Lab can be obtained from the lab's website: http://www.nd.edu/~jbrockm1. More information about the cognitive psychology program at Notre Dame can be found on the department's website: http://psychology.nd.edu. ____________________________________ James R. Brockmole, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Notre Dame 118-C Haggar Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: 574-631-7257 Email: James.Brockmole@nd.edu Web: http://www.nd.edu/~jbrockm1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091015/31727c4a/attachment-0001.htm From patrick at wjh.harvard.edu Fri Oct 16 11:41:11 2009 From: patrick at wjh.harvard.edu (Patrick Cavanagh) Date: Fri Oct 16 11:47:55 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc in Paris Message-ID: POSTDOCTORAL POSITION WITH PATRICK CAVANAGH, LPP, PARIS, FRANCE Starting date: March 2010 A postdoctoral position is available to work at the Centre for Attention and Vision (http://CAVlab.net) of the Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception ( http://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/), Paris, France where I am part of the vision group that includes Andrei Gorea, Pascal Mamassian, Kevin O?Regan, Th?rese Collins, Florian Waszak et Mark Wexler. The position can focus on any of several areas of interest in attention, action, and eye movement experiments in normals as well as attention experiments on ADHD (TDAH) and neurological (parietal and frontal damage) populations. Training in vision research and eye movement recording or patient testing are important as is programming ability in C or Python, or MatLab. French language is not a requirement but the opportunity to learn is certainly one of many charms of life in Paris. Net salary is minimum of 2,000 euros per month, according to French standards. The initial appointment is one year, renewable once. Applications should be sent by email (patrick.cavanagh@parisdescartes.fr ) and should include a CV, a brief statement of research interests, the expected date of availability and the names of 3 references. Applications should be sent preferably before December 1st, 2009, but later applications will be considered until the position is filled. --------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Cavanagh Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception Universit? Paris Descartes Centre Biom?dical des Saints P?res 45 rue des Sts P?res 75006 Paris France 33-(0)6-88-39-36-90 patrick.cavanagh@parisdescartes.fr http://cavlab.net/?language=fr ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091016/7a53278e/attachment.htm From chiestand at salk.edu Fri Oct 16 18:14:19 2009 From: chiestand at salk.edu (Chris Hiestand) Date: Fri Oct 16 19:00:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Registration for the 2009 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference Is Open Message-ID: <250C7BF2-073D-43EF-A1E0-9B8AA6AC8724@salk.edu> Registration: https://nips.cc/Register/ Conference Program: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/Program/ The last day for early registration pricing is November 6, 2009. Tutorials: December 7, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Main Conference: December 7 - 10, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Workshops: December 11-12, 2009 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada The tutorials will offer a choice of six two-hour tutorials by leading scientists. The topics span a wide range of subjects including Neuroscience, Learning Algorithms and Theory, Bioinformatics, Image Processing, and Data Mining. The NIPS Conference features a single track program, with contributions from a large number of intellectual communities. Presentation topics include: Algorithms and Architectures; Applications; Brain Imaging; Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence; Control and Reinforcement Learning; Emerging Technologies; Learning Theory; Neuroscience; Speech and Signal Processing; and Visual Processing. All papers are rigorously reviewed. The Poster Sessions will take place Monday through Wednesday evenings, December 7 ? 9, 2009, during the Conference. The sessions offer high- quality posters and an opportunity for researchers to share their work and exchange ideas in a collegial setting. The majority of contributions accepted at NIPS are presented as posters. The Demonstrations enable researchers to highlight scientific advances, systems, and technologies in ways that go beyond conventional poster presentations. It provides a unique forum for demonstrating advanced technologies ? both hardware and software ? and fostering the direct exchange of knowledge. Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, four mini-symposia will be held in parallel during the afternoon of Thursday, December 10, 2009, in the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada. The Post-Conference Workshop Program takes place in Whistler, B.C. at the Westin Resort and Spa and the Hilton Whistler Resort and Spa Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12, 2009. There will be 28 workshops covering a wide range of topics from Neuroscience to Machine Learning. The workshop program schedule allows time for informal discussions, skiing and other winter sports. http://nips.cc From locks_00 at yahoo.co.uk Sat Oct 17 00:32:31 2009 From: locks_00 at yahoo.co.uk (Kevin Brooks) Date: Sat Oct 17 08:01:52 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Scholarship in Motion Perception In-Reply-To: <629060.57913.qm@web26305.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <629060.57913.qm@web26305.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <888164.81883.qm@web26308.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> HSCI: Department of Psychology MQRES PhD Scholarships Closing Date: 30 November 2009 Visual Perception A Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (MQRES) is available in the Department of Psychology for a PhD investigating human visual motion perception in association with an Australian Research Council-funded research project. The successful candidate will join a research team investigating visual processing in beautiful Sydney, Australia: a city with a growing reputation as a centre for excellence in vision science. MQRES scholarships are available to domestic or international students. Candidates should have (or be about to attain) research qualifications equivalent to an Australian undergraduate degree with first class honours in Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or a similar discipline. Applications will also be considered from a discipline such as Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or similar if the applicant has a strong interest in the scientific study of human visual perception. The successful candidate will apply psychophysical methods using custom-written computer programs, for which training and support will be available. The scholarship pays a living allowance, (2010 stipend: $22,500 per annum, tax exempt), and the tenure is a maximum 3.5 years full time, subject to satisfactory progress. Tuition fees will be funded for the scholarship tenure. Additional support for projects and travel will be available from the Faculty/Department. For further information and discussion regarding the project, applicants are encouraged to contact the supervisor, Dr Kevin Brooks. email: kevin.brooks@mq.edu.au. Application forms and MQRES award conditions are available from the Higher Degree Research Office: Telephone +61-2- 9850 7987, e-mail: hdrschol@vc.mq.edu.au, or from our website: www.research.mq.edu.au/students/scholarships/pages/HSCI_PSY. Applications should be forwarded to: The Scholarship Officer The Research Hub Level 3, C5C East Macquarie University NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA From serre at mit.edu Sat Oct 17 14:22:44 2009 From: serre at mit.edu (Thomas R.G. Serre) Date: Sat Oct 17 15:06:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoc and research assistant positions, Department of Cognitive & Linguistics Science, Brown University (Providence, RI) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I will be joining the Department of Cognitive & Linguistics Science at Brown University (Providence, RI) as an Assistant Professor in January 2010 and will be recruiting a full-time research assistant and a postdoc to start immediately. I would be grateful if you could please forward the advertisement below along to anyone you think would be appropriate. Best regards, --Thomas Serre Post-doctorate Associate - MIT - Brain & Cognitive Sciences Tel: +1 617 253 0548 | GMT -5:00 | http://web.mit.edu/serre/www/ ***************************************** Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Cognitive & Linguistics Science, Brown University (Providence, RI). We seek a talented postdoc to work as part of an interdisciplinary team to study the brain mechanisms underlying the recognition of objects and complex visual scenes. The goal of the project is to study how categorical decisions are learned and how objects are represented in the human brain using a combination of behavioral, imaging and physiological techniques, which are supported by rigorous computational models. In particular, we will use detailed quantitative computational models of object recognition to derive quantitative receptive-fields to characterize the relationship between visual stimuli and fMRI activity in higher visual areas. Reliable ?mind reading? from fMRI data will be used to validate the underlying computational models. The successful candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or other related field and a strong research track record in cognitive neuroscience; prior experience with machine learning and/or computational neuroscience techniques as well as fluency in at least one programming language (e.g., Matlab, Python, C/C++) would be considered a plus. Expected start date: January 2010. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Interested applicants should apply electronically to Thomas Serre at tserre@gmail.com with a subject line containing ?Application for postdoc position | fMRI?. Applicants should include a list of publications, a Curriculum Vitae and the names of three references in their electronic application (no letters required at this stage). I will be attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Potential candidates are encouraged to contact me tserre@gmail.com to arrange a meeting. Our lab webpage is still under construction but general information about my research interests can be found at http://web.mit.edu/serre/www. The lab will be part of the newly formed Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences (?CLiPS?) dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the mind, brain, behavior, and language, which will be housed (together with the Brown Institute for Brain Science) in a new 40,000+ sq ft building. ************ Full-time Research Assistant, Department of Cognitive & Linguistics Science, Brown University (Providence, RI). We seek a talented research assistant to work as part of an interdisciplinary team to study the brain mechanisms underlying the recognition of objects and complex visual scenes. The lab typically uses a combination of behavioral, imaging and physiological techniques, which are supported by rigorous computational models. The successful candidate will assist with all aspects of our lab?s research and in particular: programming experiments and recruiting participants, collecting and analyzing experimental data (eye tracking, fMRI, iEEG and monkey electrophysiology) as well as providing miscellaneous research support. The successful candidate must hold a bachelor?s degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or other related field. The candidate is also expected to be proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Matlab, Python, C/C++). This position is ideal for candidates who are planning to attend graduate school and want additional research experience. Expected start date: January 2010. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Interested applicants should apply electronically to Thomas Serre at tserre@gmail.com with a subject line containing ?Application for research assistant position | fMRI?. Applicants should include a list of publications, a Curriculum Vitae and the names of two references in their electronic application (no letters required at this stage). I will be attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Potential candidates are encouraged to contact me tserre@gmail.com to arrange a meeting. Our lab webpage is still under construction but general information about my research interests can be found at http://web.mit.edu/serre/www. The lab will be part of the newly formed Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences (?CLiPS?) dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the mind, brain, behavior, and language, which will be housed (together with the Brown Institute for Brain Science) in a new 40,000+ sq ft building. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal of our work is to link the obtained electrophysiological data, in close collaboration with other groups at the BCCN and within FACETS, to new models of neocortical networks, aimed to better understand the mechanisms underlying network dynamics in the cortex. The phd position is available immediately for 3 years. We are looking for experimentalists with a solid background in electrophysiological recording techniques and interest in computational neuroscience. Please apply via the online application form: http://www.bccn2.uni-freiburg.de/p hd _applications/index.php (Project-ID: FACETS) -- Dr. Janina Kirsch -- Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email: kirsch @bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de _____ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal of our work is to link the obtained electrophysiological data, in close collaboration with other groups at the BCCN and within FACETS, to new models of neocortical networks, aimed to better understand the mechanisms underlying network dynamics in the cortex. The post-doc position is available immediately for 1 year with an optional one year extension. We are looking for experimentalists with a solid background in electrophysiological recording techniques and interest in computational neuroscience. Please apply via the online application form: http://www.bccn2.uni-freiburg.de/postdoc_applications/index.php (Project-ID: FACETS) -- Dr. Janina Kirsch -- Coordinator for the Teaching & Training Programs Bernstein Center Freiburg Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg Hansastr. 9a D - 79104 Freiburg Germany Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-9575 Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-9559 Email: kirsch @bcf.uni-freiburg.de Web: www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de _____ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Research in the Visual Cognition Lab centers on discovering how human observers create, store, and employ representations of objects and scenes. Specific interests include how attention is controlled in visual environments (including real-world scenes), how visual stimuli are represented in short- and long-term memory, how attention and memory interact to subserve various cognitive tasks such as visual search and spatial reasoning, and how all of these processes are affected by normal aging. The lab uses a variety of tasks and dependent measures to investigate these aspects of cognition, but a major methodology involves the recording and analysis of eye movements, which reveal what and how visual information is processed in real time. The Visual Cognition Lab therefore sits at the intersection of research on visual attention, visual memory, gaze control, spatial cognition, and cognitive ageing. Each of these interrelated issues is central to understanding how observers construct and use meaningful mental representations of visual environments despite their perceptual and cognitive limitations. Accepted students will join a vibrant and fast growing research community at Notre Dame. Students in the cognitive psychology program receive training in many areas of cognition including perception, attention, memory, psycholinguistics, spatial cognition, vision science, cognitive development and aging, and emotional cognition. All students receive extensive training in quantitative and experimental methods both in classroom and state-of-the-art laboratory settings. From this training, students are well prepared for research and teaching careers in the psychological and brain sciences. Additional information about the Visual Cognition Lab and the Department of Psychology at Notre Dame can be found at: http://www.nd.edu/~jbrockm1/index.html and http://psychology.nd.edu. Detailed information about the graduate program in cognitive psychology can be found at: http://psychology.nd.edu/graduate-studies/cognitive/. Detailed information about admission criteria and instructions on how to apply can be found at: http://psychology.nd.edu/graduate-studies/admission/. Applications are due January 2, 2010. ____________________________________ James R. Brockmole, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Notre Dame 118-C Haggar Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: 574-631-7257 Email: James.Brockmole@nd.edu Web: http://www.nd.edu/~jbrockm1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Discussion time can be scheduled after individual talks and/or at the end of the session. The symposium organizer must be a current VSS member, but invited speakers need not be members. Complete submission instructions can be found at www.visionsciences.org/symposia_guidelines.html. Submissions should be made on-line. Symposia will be selected by the VSS Board of Directors on the basis of scientific merit, timeliness, theoretical innovation and/or breadth, methodological innovation and/or diversity, and overlap (less being better) with the regular program. Proposals from young investigators are particularly encouraged. The quality of the speakers is important to a symposium, so scheduled speakers may not be substituted, even by coauthors. Organizers must therefore provide evidence (e.g. a copy of email) with their proposal submission that all speakers are committed to participating in the symposium, and that speakers have not agreed to participate in more than one symposium. Deadline: November 6th, 2009 Decisions will be made by November 23, 2009. Please direct any questions to Shauney Wilson (shauneywilson@visionsciences.org). Follow Us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/VSSMtg. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091020/f858f66d/attachment.htm From denis.pelli at nyu.edu Thu Oct 22 00:44:04 2009 From: denis.pelli at nyu.edu (Denis Pelli) Date: Thu Oct 22 04:58:50 2009 Subject: [visionlist] nearly universal authorship soon Message-ID: <54318184-8610-4E73-9ACE-3852C2933586@nyu.edu> 600 words on the history and future of authorship Pelli, D. G., and Bigelow, C. (2009) The writing revolution. Seed: Science is Culture http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/a_writing_revolution/ Denis Pelli Professor of Psychology and Neural Science New York University http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/ @denispelli -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From nwk at idmt.fraunhofer.de Thu Oct 22 08:17:18 2009 From: nwk at idmt.fraunhofer.de (Stefanie Nowak) Date: Thu Oct 22 15:40:10 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ImageCLEF@ICPR Contest Message-ID: <4AE0777E.1070005@idmt.fraunhofer.de> We are happy to announce the ImageCLEF@ICPR contest that will be organized as part of the ICPR 2010 contests. (http://www.icpr2010.org/contests.php) The ImageCLEF@ICPR challenge proposes four tasks. Three of them are run before the ICPR paper submission which enables the participants to publish their algorithms and the independently evaluated results in the main conference. The fourth task is an interactive retrieval session that will be held at the ICPR. The four proposed tasks are: * Visual concept detection task: automatically annotating a set of images with key words of an ontology in a multi-label classification scenario. * Robot vision task: classify images taken from a robot into a predefined set of rooms. * Information fusion task: release of the best four visual and textual runs of the medical image retrieval task; participants need to combine these runs to obtain the best overall performance (no training data). * Interactive retrieval task: interactive retrieval at the ICPR conference with ?bring your own laptop? Please have a look at http://www.imageclef.org/2010/ICPR to see the details of each task. Important dates: Here are the general dates that are refined per task. So please have a look on the dates for the task that you are interested in: 31.10.2009 Release of training data 30.11.2009 Release of test data, and of data for the multimodal fusion task 24.12.2009 Submission of results 7.1.2009 Release of results 15.1.2010 Paper submission of main conference 30.4.2010 Deadline for overview papers for contests 1.6.2010 Data for the interactive task is made available 23.8.-26.8.2010 Conference ? Interactive Retrieval Session Organizers and affiliations: * Barbara Caputo, IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland * Stefanie Nowak, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany * Jana Kludas, Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory, University of Geneva, Switzerland * Andrzej Pronobis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden * Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, and University of Geneva, Switzerland * Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, OHSU, Portland, OR, USA The registration procedure will start by the end of next week. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Stefanie Nowak Multimedia Analysis Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT Ehrenbergstrasse 31 98693 Ilmenau, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- email: nwk@idmt.fraunhofer.de phone: +49 (0) 3677 - 467 113 fax: +49 (0) 3677 - 467 467 --------------------------------------------------------------------- From t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk Thu Oct 22 05:44:58 2009 From: t.s.meese at aston.ac.uk (Meese, Timothy S) Date: Thu Oct 22 15:40:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] AVA (Bristol, UK) Christmas Meeting: Call for papers Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOURTEENTH AVA CHRISTMAS MEETING, FRIDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2009 ABSTRACT DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 9th ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fourteenth AVA Christmas Meeting will be at the University of Bristol on Friday 18th December 2009. Social Sciences Complex 12a Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU This year's invited talks will be given by: 1) Vilayanur Ramachandran (CRS guest lecture) (San Diego, USA) 2) Pascal Mamassian (Paris, France) 3) Zygmunt Pizlo (Purdue, USA) *** WE HAVE A NEW PROCEDURE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND SUBMISSIONS *** Abstract submissions, registrations and payments should all be made at the conference website: http://www.theava.net/conf/index.php?conference=Meeting&schedConf=X2009 Everyone wishing to attend this meeting should register at this conference site. Upon visiting the site for the first time you should create an account. To do this, click on 'account' in the menu bar at the top of the page. Abstracts should be submitted subject to the following instructions. Abstracts (max length: 250 words) should be submitted by November 9th. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and published in the journal Perception (so long as presenting authors attend the meeting) and should cover previously unreported research on any aspect of vision in humans, animals and machines. Abstracts must be in the standard format for ECVP/Perception, examples of which can be seen at: http://www.perceptionweb.com/P.html 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) PLEASE NOTE: 1) Abstracts should be appended with a statement of preference for a talk or a poster. 2) Unless otherwise stated (at the end of the abstract), it will be assumed that the first author will be the presenting author. Speakers should use their own laptop or bring a powerpoint presentation on a memory stick. The organizers will try to accommodate preferences for a talk or poster but the number of submissions that this meeting now attracts means that this is not always possible. With the exception of overseas visitors, attendees should pay in advance at the registration rate shown below. If needs be, payment will be accepted on the door though credit card facilities will not be available. Overseas visitors may pay on the door but, in any case, please make sure you have registered. R E G I S T R A T I O N F E E S Students Other Members 20 35 Pounds Sterling Non-members 30 45 Membership plus 40 55 registration As usual we will be accepting registration fees using Paypal, which is linked to the registration site (see above). This is our preferred method of payment. When you use Paypal for the first time it takes a little time to set things up, but thereafter it is quite quick. We do hope you will find this a convenient way of paying your registration fee. Alternatively, we still accept cheques (payable to 'Applied Vision Association') which should be sent to Gillian Porter at the address below. (If sending cheques please indicate the registration category and who is being registered.) For cheques and general enquiries: Gillian Porter Dept of Experimental Psychology University of Bristol 12a Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU For enquiries regarding the online submission process contact: Alexa Ruppertsberg (Please note, this is the first year we have used the online submission system. If you run into problems please bear with us and we will try our best to fix them.) Reviewer enquiries should be directed to Tim Meese Information on travel bursaries can be found at: http://www.theava.net/awards/bursary.html The deadline for requests for travel bursaries is 23rd November (two weeks after abstract submission). DIRECTIONS Travel information for getting to Bristol University is provided at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/maps/ The meeting will be in the Social Sciences Complex 12a Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU which is at location 68 on the map at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/maps/precinct.html It is at the corner of Woodland Road and Priory Road. Note that Bristol Airport is served by many airlines including EasyJet, and is located close to the city. We recommend the following hotel which is within walking distance http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-5547-ibis-bristol-centre/index.shtml We recommend booking this hotel on the web; there are some very good prices if you make a firm (non-refundable) booking. We look forward to seeing you on the 18th December. The organizing committee: Marco Bertamini Tim Meese Gillian Porter Alexa Ruppertsberg Tom Troscianko -------------------------------------------------------------- From VSS at visionsciences.org Thu Oct 22 11:35:41 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Thu Oct 22 15:40:33 2009 Subject: [visionlist] VSS 2010 Young Investigator Nominations Open Message-ID: <053601ca5346$7654b740$62fe25c0$@org> VSS is pleased to announce that nominations for the 2010 Young Investigator Award are now open. The prize, established in 2007, is awarded each year to an outstanding visual scientist who has received an advanced degree within the past 10 years. (The nominee's degree must be no earlier than the calendar year 10 years prior to receiving the award. For the upcoming 2010 award, the degree must be in 2000 or later). Nominations must be made by a VSS member and will be reviewed by the Young Investigator Award Committee, consisting of five established visual scientists selected from VSS membership. Members of the Award Committee cannot serve as nominators. The Award Committee will select the winner by March 16, and the prize, which includes an honorarium, will be presented at the 2010 VSS meeting in Naples. The nominations should include: * A letter of recommendation with a detailed description of the scientific contributions of the nominee. * A curriculum vitae of the nominee. Please note, while previously considered nominees may be re-nominated, a new nomination is required (assuming the nominee is still eligible). Nominations for the 2010 Young Investigator Award should be submitted by email to Shauney Wilson (shauneywilson@visionsciences.org). Deadline for receipt of nominations: Friday, January 15, 2010 Follow Us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/VSSMtg. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091022/02adbe20/attachment.htm From d.h.foster at manchester.ac.uk Fri Oct 23 02:31:57 2009 From: d.h.foster at manchester.ac.uk (David H. Foster) Date: Fri Oct 23 08:06:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CGIV 2010: Joensuu, Finland, 14-18 June 2010 Message-ID: <4AE1780D.4070608@manchester.ac.uk> The Fifth European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision will take place 14-18 June 2010 at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. CGIV2010 will cover a wide range of topics related to colour, visual information, and multispectral imaging. The single-track structure of the conference will bring together technical talks from academia and industry, and will provide a forum for research scientists and engineers to discuss new ideas, present results, exchange research findings, and establish future collaborations in a forum emphasizing high-quality content. Young researchers and PhD students are particularly welcome. Conference topics will include colour science, computational colour, colour in computer graphics, colour reproduction, colour vision and psychophysics, colour-image quality, colour-image processing, and multispectral colour science. The session on colour vision and psychophysics will include colour and material perception in natural images, colour discrimination and spatio-chromatic interactions, colour constancy, colour memory, and colour cognition. CGIV2010 will include oral and interactive presentations, technical workshops, and an industry exhibit. Submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review. All the papers presented at the meeting will be published in the conference proceedings, indexed with a range of services, filed with the US Library of Congress, and made available as PDFs through the IS&T on-line library. Authors may propose either a 20-minute oral or an interactive presentation format. Oral and interactive papers are considered of equal value and merit, and authors' presentation preferences will be honoured as far as possible. The conference language is English. The deadline for abstract submissions is November 15, 2009. Further details can be found at www.imaging.org/conferences/cgiv2010/. -- D. H. Foster, DSc, FInstP Professor of Vision Systems Head of Sensing, Imaging, and Signal Processing Group School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences The University of Manchester Sackville Street Building Manchester M60 1QD, UK. email: d.h.foster@manchester.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)161 306 3888 web: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/david.foster/ From byronyu at stanford.edu Sat Oct 24 01:37:04 2009 From: byronyu at stanford.edu (Byron Yu) Date: Sat Oct 24 08:10:03 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Cosyne 2010: Submission Now Open Message-ID: ================================================================= ***** SUBMISSION NOW OPEN ***** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20 Nov 2009 Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) MAIN MEETING 25 - 28 Feb, 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah WORKSHOPS 1 - 2 Mar, 2010 Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah http://cosyne.org ================================================================= Cosyne is an annual meeting providing an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. The meeting is expected to draw over 500 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. The MAIN MEETING is organized in a single track, and consists of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations are invited (see below), while others are selected based on short submitted abstracts. Poster presentations are also selected from the submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS are held in 4-8 parallel sessions per day, allowing for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: - Keynote: Clay Reid (Harvard Medical School) - Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester) - Howard Berg (Harvard University) - Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington) - John Lisman (Brandeis University) - Eve Marder (Brandeis University) - Tirin Moore (Stanford University) - Michael Platt (Duke University) - Nicholas Schiff (Cornell Medical School) - Jackie Schiller (Technion) - Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) Cosyne 2010 will include a special symposium in honour of Horace Barlow, featuring talks by: - Honorary Lecturer: Horace Barlow (Cambridge University) - David Field (Cornell University) - William Geisler (University of Texas) - Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) - Simon Laughlin (Cambridge University) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - General Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London) - Program Chairs: Anne Churchland (University of Washington) and Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California) - Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Mark Laubach (Yale University) - Communications Chair: Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: - Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - Alexandre Pouget (University of Rochester) - Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme) ADVISORY BOARD: - Matteo Carandini (University College London) - Eero Simoncelli (New York University and HHMI) - Peter Dayan (University College London) - Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco and HHMI) - Karel Svoboda (HHMI Janelia Farm) From ocarter at unimelb.edu.au Sun Oct 25 18:38:57 2009 From: ocarter at unimelb.edu.au (Olivia Carter) Date: Sun Oct 25 18:53:04 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CALL FOR ASSC14 SYMPOSIUM & TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Message-ID: <4AE4FDB1.6090905@unimelb.edu.au> CALL FOR ASSC14 SYMPOSIUM & TUTORIAL PROPOSALS !!!Final Days!!! Symposium and tutorial proposal deadline: October 30th, 2009. The 14th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held in Toronto, Canada from Thursday 24th - Sunday 27th, June 2010. The Program committee invites proposals for symposia and tutorials on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness. Accepted symposium speakers will be provided free accommodation at the conference hotel and their registration and banquet fees will be waived. http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_14/symposia Tutorials will be held in parallel sessions on the morning and afternoon of June 24th 2010. Tutorial presenters will receive an honorarium of $500 and their registration fee for the conference will be waived. http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_14/tutorials Please send all proposals along with submission requirements to Mel Goodale (mgoodale@uwo.ca) by October 30th. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Olivia Carter, PhD School of Behavioural Sciences Rm 811 Redmond Barry Building University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia Phone:+61 (0)3 83446372 email: ocarter@unimelb.edu.au http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/CarterO.html From larabi at sic.univ-poitiers.fr Sun Oct 25 18:45:49 2009 From: larabi at sic.univ-poitiers.fr (Chaker Larabi) Date: Sun Oct 25 18:53:38 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CFP- DEADLINE EXTENSION- ISSPA'2010 Message-ID: <3E591A34-38A0-4660-B8EE-BEB75CA4CBA2@sic.univ-poitiers.fr> Dear Colleague, (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) Call for Papers (See attached CfP) ISSPA 2010 is the tenth event in the series of conferences, which since 1985 has brought together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry engaged in research and development related to signal processing theory and applications. In 2007, ISSPA extended its coverage to include the complementary field of Information Sciences. ISSPA 2010 is co-organized by the Faculty of Biomedical & Health Science Engineering and Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM) in cooperation with University Malaya (UM), Universiti Malaysia Perlis(UniMAP), MIMOS Berhad and with the support of several other bodies and international universities around the world including the University of Queensland, Australia, University Paris tech(ENST), University of Paris 12&13, Qatar university and KFUPM, KSA. The regular technical program will run for three days along with an exhibition of signal processing products and research. In addition, a number of tutorial sessions will be scheduled one day before the conference starts. Prospective authors are invited to submit full length (four pages) papers via the conference website for presentation in any of the areas listed below. We also encourage the submission of proposals for tutorial sessions on the related topics. All submitted papers will be subjected to a blind peer-review process. 1. Theory & Methods 15. Signal Processing for Communications 2. Multirate Filtering & Wavelets 16. Image and Video Processing 3. Adaptive Signal Processing 17. Visual Signal Processing 4. Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Analysis 18. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing 5. Statistical Signal & Array Processing 19. Natural Language Processing 6. Radar & Sonar Processing 20. Nonlinear Signal Processing 7. Speech Processing & Recognition 21. Multimedia Signal Processing 8. Soft Computing & Pattern Recognition 22. Image Sequence Analysis & Processing 9. Machine Learning 23. Photonic & Optical Signal Processing 10. VLSI for Signal and Image Processing 24. Signal Processing in Networking 11. Signal Processing for Bioinformatics 25. Signal Processing for Geoinformatics 12. Biometrics Systems and Security 26. Sensor Networks and Sensor Fusion 13. Fractals and Chaos Signal Processing 27. Data Mining 14. Image & Multidimensional Signal Processing 28. Others All accepted papers will be included in the ISSPA 2010 Conference Proceedings. All papers accepted will be included in IEEE Xplore. For more details, please visit our website: www.isspa2010.com Important Deadlines: Full paper Submission: 20th November 2009 Tutorials and Special Sessions Submission: 25th November 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 15th February 2010 Camera Ready Paper: 1st March 2010 The call for paper is also attached to this e-mail -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/mixed From axon at cortex.rutgers.edu Mon Oct 26 13:33:41 2009 From: axon at cortex.rutgers.edu (Ralph Mitchell Siegel) Date: Mon Oct 26 14:02:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Predoctoral and Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience and Two-photon Scanning Microscopy Message-ID: A full-time predoctoral and/or postdoctoral position is to work on a collaborative project at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience with Dr. Ralph Siegel at Rutgers University. The goal of the project is to use voltage scanning imaging and two-photon scanning microscopy to understand high-level visual processing and its modulation by spatial attention. The inferior parietal lobule, in particular area 7a and DP, are studied for constancy and variability. The ideal postdoctoral candidate would have a strong background in neuroscience and experience in neurophysiological/optical recording techniques. Completion of the PhD degree in neuroscience, physics, or a related field is required before the start date. The initial appointment will be for 1 year, and is renewable. The starting date can be as early as January, 2010. The predoctoral fellowship starts lower. The applicant must have a US Citizenship or a Green Card for this particular application. Rutgers University combined with NJIT and UMDNJ offers a highly collaborative first-class training and research environment in computational and systems neuroscience. To apply, please send a cv, brief statement of research interests by email to axon@cortex.rutgers.edu. Please also arrange for two to three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. Ralph Mitchell Siegel, Ph.D. Professor Respond to axon@cortex.rutgers.edu voice: 973-353-3261 fax: 973-353-1272 cell: 973-801-6933 Rutgers University Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience 197 University Avenue Newark, NJ 07102 Web page: http://www.siegelweb.rutgers.edu Note: If you have not received a response to your email within 3 days, consider whether? it might have been accidentally deleted through spam and write/call me again. From deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au Mon Oct 26 18:51:37 2009 From: deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au (Deborah Apthorp) Date: Tue Oct 27 07:33:32 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> Message-ID: <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> Hi all, I'm currently looking into purchasing some high-end CRT monitors for our psychophysics lab. So far I am having a great deal of trouble finding anyone who is still manufacturing CRT monitors, and the refurbished Sony and Mitsubishi models we have are slowly dying. CRS only sells theirs as part of the Visage package. My only lead so far is for a refurbished Fimi MGD 403 grayscale monitor for $3200 (ex-medical, I think). Has anyone found a reliable supplier, or is there going to be a viable alternative to CRTs (for instance, OLEDs?) in the near future? Otherwise, what are old-school psychophysicists going to do? I would be very interested to hear opinions on this. Thanks, Deborah Apthorp From drjfxd at gmail.com Tue Oct 27 06:22:11 2009 From: drjfxd at gmail.com (Joseph DeSouza) Date: Tue Oct 27 07:34:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Fwd: Faculty Search at York University, Canada for MRI Scientist Message-ID: <2c8c15270910270622q501b9745h948fc7d32351abc6@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hugh Wilson Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM Subject: Faculty Search at York for MRI Scientist To: YORKVIS@yorku.ca Dear Colleagues: York University is currently searching for an MRI faculty member at either the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Please bring the advertisement below to the attention of any qualified individuals who might be interested. Thank you, Hugh ***** * MRI Scientist*. The Faculty of Science and Engineering at York University, Toronto, invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant or associate professor level for an MRI scientist to head our new MRI research centre to commence July 1, 2010. The primary departmental affiliation of the successful candidate will be with one of the units in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to teaching in undergraduate programs within the Faculty, must be eligible for appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and will have a PhD, postdoctoral experience, an outstanding research record and the ability to provide leadership to the new MRI facility. The facility is located in the Sherman Health Science Research Centre, which houses a new Siemens 3.0 Tesla scanner dedicated to research. The successful candidate will oversee this facility, provide technical support for MRI and fMRI, and oversee the work of staff members who schedule the day-to-day operation of the scanner. The fMRI centre in the Sherman Building is adjacent to visual, visuomotor, and virtual reality research facilities of the Centre for Vision Research, thus making this an enormously attractive environment for collaborative research. All York University appointments are subject to budgetary approval. York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative Action program can be found on York's website at*www.yorku.ca/acadjobs*, or a copy can be obtained by calling the Affirmative Action Office at 416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority. Applicants should forward a curriculum vitae, an outline (2-3 pages) of their research plans, and names of three references by 15 December 2009 to: Chair of the Search Committee (MRI Scientist), Department of Biology York University 4700 Keele St. 247 Farquharson Building Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 ***** Hugh R. Wilson, Ph.D. Director, Centre for Vision Research Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Professor of Biological & Computational Vision hrwilson@yorku.ca 416-736-2100 ext. 33140 -- Joseph DeSouza -- www.joeLAB.com/contact -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091027/ef96089e/attachment.htm From danreetz at gmail.com Tue Oct 27 10:44:02 2009 From: danreetz at gmail.com (Daniel Reetz) Date: Tue Oct 27 10:57:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> Message-ID: Hi Deborah, Visionlist, I have been actively researching future displays for the last three years, in part to get to the future of high dynamic range imaging (I work in a lab that studies Brightness, a high-frequency capable HDR display is one of our white whales). As you know, most LCDs are unsuitable for time-critical work. This is unlikely to change, as most technologies that accelerate the temporal response are aimed at gamers and perform in unpredictable ways, or use algorithms/techniques that are trade secrets and a PITA to reverse engineer. Additionally, most LCD panels (including, at this time, every Mac laptop panel) are Twisted Nematic (TN) panels, which are only capable of 6 bit color, or worse, do some kind of temporal dithering/screwing around to give the appearance of 8 bit color. In-Plane-Switching panels have usable color, and there are even ten-bit options (12 often claimed in medical grayscale LCDs) but the temporal performance on IPS panels is worse than TN. Both exhibit slight differences in the time to move from one "gray" to another "gray" versus moving from white to black. Recently, the CFL backlight tubes of LCDs are being replaced with LED arrays. These LED arrays illuminate the edge of a laser-engraved piece of acrylic which is supposed to make a homogeneous white field for the LCD to filter. LEDs do allow for more careful wavelength selection, to better match the bandpass characteristics of the front panel, and sometimes can extend the gamut beyond sRGB or NTSC, but they do nothing for the temporal properties of the front panel. There have been prototypes of LCD displays with AMOLED panels behind them for illumination. This has the advantage of being extremely high contrast, but the crossed-polarizers inherent to LCD technologies make the transmission rate extremely low; the luminance from these AMOLEDs would be reduced by almost 90%. To evaluate the temporal characteristics of monitors generally, I have used instruments ranging from homemade junktronics like a photodiode connected to a sound card, to a high-speed video camera. The high speed video camera provides very good diagnostic information when evaluating monitors. With the 1200hz sampling available on some Casio cameras, it is possible to see the backlight pulsing on and off, or to see the scanlines on a CRT. There are some issues with the "binning" that the camera is doing to obtain such high sampling rates, but it is good enough to see major problems with most monitors with nothing more than visual observation. As for extant technology: You can throw DLP projectors out for nearly any speed-critical task, as they do all kinds of weird processing. The problem here is that they have a monochrome MEMS imaging element, and they have to pass it through a color filter wheel to produce color temporally. This wheel also has a clear element, which is used to jack the brightness in some areas of the display, but it doesn't necessarily refresh the image over the entire imaging area every time. In our Dell 5100mp it is updated piecemeal. If you must use DLP, you should use a high-speed camera or other sensor to check that your stimuli are being presented as you think they are. LCD projectors are better, but not much better. Hit or miss. I've recently had some success with the 3-chip LCoS projector (a hybrid between LCD and reflective technologies) that came with our eLumens Visionstation. Although it is low-contrast and the luminance sucks (60cd/m^2 max), so far the temporal properties on gratings look good at lower frequencies like 30 hz. No artifacts or tearing. LCoS might be a good solution in the near term for slower stuff. Our projector is a JVC SX21. It may be that the new projectors are much better, but I would check to make sure that their claimed "15000/1" contrast ratios are not the result of using a variable aperture. Any contrast claim over a few hundred to one is probably some nasty trick like that. Ensure that you can disable it, in software or by yanking the cable internally. Getting to the point, the future of displays generally will likely be OLED, LCD (it's so cheap and established that it is not likely to go away), or TMOS. OLED does not (yet) offer much hope, in my opinion. OLED panels like in the small Sony display are typically driven in patches. By this I mean that the whole display is subdivided into smaller grids which are driven by individual processors, much like in commercial LED signage. The timing between these sections is not guaranteed, or may be sequential, left to right, top to bottom. If timing is not important to you, the contrast of an OLED display is rather good. This is because you can actually turn off the little OLED at whatever location, and it's hard to get blacker than that. The brightness problem with these displays is a thermal issue. To get the LEDs as bright as they can go, you must dissipate tons of heat from a very, very small area. If you do not dissipate the heat, there is a thermal runaway condition where the OLEDs will destroy themselves. As a result, I do not see small-pixel OLED displays getting to be much brighter than a few hundred cd/m^2 until there are a few more breakthroughs in OLED efficiency, or active cooling. This held with the small Sony panel that I saw in person. It was clearly not very bright compared to the TN LCD panels around it, though admittedly the colors and contrast looked very usable. Additionally, the Sony XEL-1 was basically a little Linux computer (running BusyBox, I think) which is just another layer of crap to hack to get your stimuli onscreen (though admittedly, Linux is vastly more hackable than Windows or Mac). Now the other technology that I mentioned is called TMOS. It was just recently announced, it is a brand new type of display that relies on MEMS technology, like DLP. Personally, I am very excited about this technology. The first thing that it has going for it is that it needs no new fabrication facilities. It can be made in ordinary LCD fabrication plants. That means the time-to-market should be short relative to OLED, which is still not cheaply or widely available. TMOS means "Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter". Basically, it is a display scale DLP device. Each pixel is a little mirror, capable of 2 microsecond on/off times. They are situated above a backlight/FTIR light pipe which is being lit with LEDs that are modulated extremely quickly. Color is generated by flashing the mirrored element on and off over this blinking backlight as it transitions from R to G to B. Early claims from engineering/marketing people are 300hz refresh rates. If they meet 20% of that, we won't be doing too badly. And for those of us who study vision without color, that backlight can be comprised of only white LEDs, allowing for very, very good temporal resolution. In addition, the time-critical nature of this display (meaning, that the backlight must be refreshed exactly with the mirrored pixels, unlike LCD or LCoS, but like DLP) should presumably mean that timing is taken seriously with respect to input as well, though, since I have seen/analyzed no prototypes, this is just wishful thinking/speculation. I think LCoS may be a good interim solution (especially because JVC is trying to work with the high-end market, see , and TMOS may be the best future solution. Perhaps the vision community could get in touch with UniPixel or Samsung (the TMOS people) and play with prototypes/help guide development. It seems that all of us could use a standard display with good luminance, 200:1contrast, and fast temporal response (reliable 60hz, 8bit per primary), but furthermore, we could all use purpose-built displays. Because the TMOS technology is simply on-off at its core, there is no reason not to support, for example, more than three primaries, infrared plus RGB, or two whole different color sets defined by two different sets of primaries. (A photopic and scotopic display in one!). People interested in color could select their primaries of interest, and people interested in time could select fewer primaries to optimize temporal properties. Furthermore, since TMOS is completely digital, maybe we can get rid of all those nasty analog processors and drive the things ourselves, directly over DVI, or some other digital interface. Removing the analog-digital conversion step (with all the associated hardware voodoo/signal processing) would be a boon to vision researchers everywhere. In my mind, this is a technology that has the potential to be a magic bullet for vision research.They're talking about releases in Q1 2010. If you are at all interested, I hope you'll consider making the desires of the vision community known to them so we don't lose another interesting display down the "cheaper faster crappier" consumer-tech plug hole. Regards, Daniel Reetz PS. Their approach to color-breakup problems is interesting: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2007016511 On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Deborah Apthorp wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently looking into purchasing some high-end CRT monitors for our > psychophysics lab. So far I am having a great deal of trouble finding anyone > who is still manufacturing CRT monitors, and the refurbished Sony and > Mitsubishi models we have are slowly dying. CRS only sells theirs as part of > the Visage package. My only lead so far is for a refurbished Fimi MGD 403 > grayscale monitor for $3200 (ex-medical, I think). Has anyone found a > reliable supplier, or is there going to be a viable alternative to CRTs (for > instance, OLEDs?) in the near future? Otherwise, what are old-school > psychophysicists going to do? I would be very interested to hear opinions on > this. > > Thanks, > > Deborah Apthorp > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist > From Vincent.Nourrit at manchester.ac.uk Tue Oct 27 10:41:08 2009 From: Vincent.Nourrit at manchester.ac.uk (Vincent Nourrit) Date: Tue Oct 27 10:57:46 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Position in visual optics - University of Manchester Message-ID: <4AE730B4.6030805@manchester.ac.uk> Funded Ph.D. positions in visual optics Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester * Closing date: 01 Dec. 09 The project will focus on the measurement and modelling of intra-ocular light scattering. This position is an opportunity to join a multidisciplinary environment and gain experience in several aspects of vision science, optics and ophthalmic research. The ideal candidate would combine good hands-on and numerical skills, as well as some basic training in optics / computing / vision science. This studentship is available to UK and other EU nationals (due to funding criteria) and provides fees and stipend subject to eligibility. To apply for this studentship please see: http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/ukoreu/research/researchdegrees/studentships/project/?id=530 -- Vincent Nourrit The University of Manchester Faculty of Life Sciences Moffat Building, Sackville Street PO Box 88 Manchester, M60 1QD Tel.: (+44)(0)161 306 42 17 Fax.: (+44)(0)161 306 38 87 From a.stockman at ucl.ac.uk Wed Oct 28 05:54:36 2009 From: a.stockman at ucl.ac.uk (Andrew Stockman) Date: Wed Oct 28 07:14:01 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CVRL database update Message-ID: <000001ca57cd$ce3b1090$6ab131b0$@stockman@ucl.ac.uk> The CVRL website at: http://www.cvrl.org has (at last) been extensively updated. The database now includes the Stiles & Burch individual 2 and 10 deg color matching data, and the new CIE "physiologically-relevant" colorimetric and photometric functions tabulated at 0.1, 1 and 5 nm steps. The principal data sets can now be downloaded either as ascii csv files (comma separated values) or ascii xml files (extensible markup language), or they can be viewed as html tables or as a dynamic graphical plots. Other data sets can be downloaded as csv files, or in most cases viewed as plots. Other new features include information about CVRL, links to our publications, a new image gallery, expandable equations, and a search feature. Please take a look! We welcome corrections, comments, suggestions and contributions. We would be especially grateful for updates to the pages under the menu items "Miscellaneous" and "Background information", some of which have not been updated for several years. Updates and new contributions will be gratefully and lavishly acknowledged! 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Bill Simpson ====================================================== Chair/Professor and Two Lecturers Institution/Organization: University of Plymouth Job Location: United Kingdom Job Type: Tenure-Track Contact Person: Prof Simon Handley, Head of School, simon.handley@plymouth.ac.uk Closing Date: November 30th, 2009 Web Site: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/vacancies The School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth is looking to fill the following roles in order to complement and build upon its existing research strengths. In the recent RAE the School was ranked in the top third of psychology departments in the UK, with 85% of its research activity judged to be of international standard. Chair in Psychology Salary negotiable on Senior Managers Scale (Ref: A1413) Lecturers in Psychology (2 posts) ?30,594 to ?35,469 pa (Ref: A1411) Currently the School has established expertise in several fields, with research organised around the recently recognised University Research Centre in Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. The centre encompasses research excellence in Thinking and Reasoning, Memory, Vision, Behavioural Neuroscience, Language Development, Social Psychology, Health and Well Being and Human Factors. We will consider applications from outstanding applicants in any area of Psychology, but would particularly welcome candidates in the areas of Cognitive, Social, Clinical or Developmental Neuroscience. You should have an excellent research track record as demonstrated through world leading research activity. For an informal discussion, please contact by email Professor Simon Handley, Head of School at simon.handley@plymouth.ac.uk although applications must be made in accordance with the details shown below. A Final Salary Pension Scheme is available. To apply, please visit: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/vacancies Email: jobs@plymouth.ac.uk Tel: 01752 588199 (24 hour answerphone) Closing date: 12 noon, Monday 30 November 2009 Promoting Equality and Diversity. From bremen at liralab.it Wed Oct 28 14:10:32 2009 From: bremen at liralab.it (bremen@liralab.it) Date: Wed Oct 28 14:45:20 2009 Subject: [visionlist] NIPS 2009 workshop on Learning from Multiple Sources - FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - EXTENDED DEADLINE Message-ID: <54224.81.13.248.97.1256764232.squirrel@webmail.liralab.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------ FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - EXTENDED DEADLINE NIPS 2009 workshop on Learning from Multiple Sources with Applications to Robotics Whistler, BC, Canada, December 12, 2009 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~srogers/lms09/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: ---------------- Submission of extended abstracts: November 2, 2009 (extended deadline) Notification of acceptance: November 10, 2009 Workshop Description: --------------------- Learning from multiple sources denotes the problem of jointly learning from a set of (partially) related learning problems / views / tasks. This general concept underlies several subfields receiving increasing interest from the machine learning community, which differ in terms of the assumptions made about the dependency structure between learning problems. In particular, the concept includes topics such as data fusion, transfer learning, multitask learning, multiview learning, and learning under covariate shift. Several approaches for inferring and exploiting complex relationships between data sources have been presented, including both generative and discriminative approaches. The workshop will provide a unified forum for cutting edge research on learning from multiple sources; the workshop will examine the general concept, theory and methods, and will also examine robotics as a natural application domain for learning from multiple sources. The workshop will address methodological challenges in the different subtopics and further interaction between them. The intended audience is researchers working in fields of multi-modal learning, data fusion, and robotics. (More detailed background information is available at the workshop website.) The workshop includes a morning session focused on theory/methods, and an afternoon session focused on the robotics application. The workshop is a core event of the PASCAL2 Network of Excellence. PASCAL2 Invited Speakers: ------------------------- Morning Session: Chris Williams - University of Edinburgh Afternoon Session: Ingmar Posner - University of Oxford Submission Instructions: ------------------------ We invite submission of extended abstracts to the workshop. Extended abstracts should be 2-4 pages, formatted in the NIPS style: http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/StyleFiles Unlike the main NIPS conference, identities of authors do not need to be removed from the extended abstracts. Extended abstracts should be sent in .PDF or .PS file format by email, to either D.Hardoon@cs.ucl.ac.uk or gleen@cis.hut.fi. Acceptance to the workshop will be determined based on peer review of each extended abstract. Submissions are expected to represent high-quality, novel contributions in theory/methods of learning from multiple sources, or high-quality, novel contributions in application of learning from multiple sources to robotics (see below). To encourage participants from the machine learning community to test their algorithms in the domain of robotics, we provide a dataset, with computed features, representative of open research issues in robotics; see the workshop webpage for details. Robotics-oriented papers submitted to the workshop are strongly encouraged to contain an experimental evaluation on the database. The obtained results will be presented by the organizers during the workshop. Submitted extended abstracts may be accepted either as an oral presentation or as a poster presentation; there will be only a limited number of oral presentations in the morning and afternoon sessions. Accepted extended abstracts will be made available online at the workshop website. Depending on the quality of submissions, we will consider preparing a special issue of a journal or a collected volume on the topic of the workshop. A separate call for papers will then be issued after the workshop for the special issue/collected volume. Last year's "Learning from Multiple Sources" workshop led to a special issue in Machine Learning (currently in progress). Organisers ---------- * Barbara Caputo - Idiap Research Institute. * Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi - Universita�degli Studi di Milan. * David Hardoon - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). * Gayle Leen - Helsinki University of Technology. * Francesco Orabona - Idiap Research Institure. * Jaakko Peltonen - Helsinki University of Technology. * Simon Rogers - University of Glasgow. Programme Committee ------------------- * Cedric Archambeau - Xerox Research. * Andreas Argyriou - Toyota Technological Institute. * Claudio Gentile - Universita�dell'Insubria. * Mark Girolami - University of Glasgow. * Samuel Kaski - Helsinki University of Technology. * Arto Klami - Helsinki University of Technology. * John Shawe-Taylor - University College London. * Giorgio Valentini - Universita�degli Studi di Milan. Contact Persons --------------- For questions about the workshop, contact David R. Hardoon at D.Hardoon AT cs.ucl.ac.uk. From VSS at visionsciences.org Wed Oct 28 22:26:35 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Thu Oct 29 07:19:24 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for Symposium Proposals VSS Annual Meeting 2010 Message-ID: <005c01ca5858$665b8280$33128780$@org> VSS seeks proposals for symposia to be held on Friday afternoon, May 7, at the start of the 2010 VSS Annual Meeting. Four to six symposia will be scheduled, each lasting two hours. VSS Symposia deal with contemporary research topics in vision research. Symposia can be organized by content area or by method, but talks within a symposium should focus on broader conceptual themes than a typical VSS presentation. There should be between 4 and 6 speakers in a symposium, and each talk should be scheduled for between 20 and 30 minutes, including time for discussion. Discussion time can be scheduled after individual talks and/or at the end of the session. The symposium organizer must be a current VSS member, but invited speakers need not be members. Complete submission instructions can be found at www.visionsciences.org/symposia_guidelines.html. Submissions should be made on-line. Symposia will be selected by the VSS Board of Directors on the basis of scientific merit, timeliness, theoretical innovation and/or breadth, methodological innovation and/or diversity, and overlap (less being better) with the regular program. Proposals from young investigators are particularly encouraged. The quality of the speakers is important to a symposium, so scheduled speakers may not be substituted, even by coauthors. Organizers must therefore provide evidence (e.g. a copy of email) with their proposal submission that all speakers are committed to participating in the symposium, and that speakers have not agreed to participate in more than one symposium. Deadline: November 6th, 2009 Decisions will be made by November 23, 2009. Please direct any questions to Shauney Wilson (shauneywilson@visionsciences.org). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091028/a89a12b7/attachment-0001.htm From a.sillito at ucl.ac.uk Thu Oct 29 05:08:05 2009 From: a.sillito at ucl.ac.uk (Adam Sillito) Date: Thu Oct 29 07:19:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Post-doctoral vacancies, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20091029115354.03086528@pop.oneandone.co.uk> Postdoctoral vacancies, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London Applications are invited from suitably qualified, enthusiastic and motivated individuals. Successful candidates will join a research group, headed by Professor Adam Sillito, using a variety of techniques to explore the mechanisms of visual perception and attention in the mammalian visual system and the application of this expertise to clinical issues. The successful applicants will have a strong interest in visual processing and the neurobiology of vision. They will join a friendly and enthusiastic team and will be expected to play an active role in all areas of the group's work and to be prepared and able to take responsibility for effective organization and day to day running of designated aspects of the experimental program. One of the new posts will be particularly involved in innovative research on the interplay between feed forward and feedback systems in visual processing and the way attentional mechanisms are integrated at thalamic level (post 1). The other (post 2) will be particularly involved in a clinical study run in collaboration with Mr Robert MacLaren, (Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital), exploring changes in vision following from novel surgical procedures shown to have great promise in treating patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration. The research is funded by the BBSRC and MRC and brings together a range of multi-disciplinary techniques including visual stimulation, in vivo electrophysiology, multiple electrode recordings, neuropharmacological manipulation, retinal transplantation surgery, neurohistology, programming and electronics together with a variety of data analytical approaches. Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant subject area and proven relevant experience of in vivo electrophysiological recording techniques and/or running behavioural experiments. Whilst experience in some or all of the other techniques would be highly advantageous, some training can be provided where necessary thus candidates with the necessary background knowledge and skill sets, technical aptitude and a commitment to learn are also encouraged to apply. Funding for the posts is for up to 4 years (post 1) and up to 1 year (post 2) respectively in the first instance, with the possibility of further extension. Starting date is negotiable, but ideally candidates should be able to take up a position within three months. Closing date November 2nd. For further details of the posts and how to apply see UCL's website: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTExOTA0MCZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjYmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQ= Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Adam Sillito (via email: a.sillito@ucl.ac.uk) Professor Adam M Sillito FMedSci Professor of Visual Science UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Bath Street London EC1V 9EL UK From william.simpson at plymouth.ac.uk Sat Oct 31 09:14:41 2009 From: william.simpson at plymouth.ac.uk (William Simpson) Date: Sat Oct 31 09:19:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Spikerbox Message-ID: I thought people on visionlist would be interested in the SpikerBox www.backyardbrains.com It is a $100 box that allows anybody to do electrophysiology expts. I think it would be ideal for student labs. They plan to offer classroom kits with instructional materials. Yes, you read it right: real single cell recording for $100!! In their words: "We are developing, using off-the-shelf components, low cost amplifiers and manipulators for experimenting with the nervous system of insects. Our goal is to increase the public's understanding of nervous system function through the development of low-cost tools. Currently, students need only a laptop with a line-in input [i.e. microphone jack] to record the neural activity. We are developing our device to work with the XO to demonstrate extremely low-cost high-accessibility science." Once the data are in the computer, they view and signal process the data using the open source programme Audacity. The Spikerbox is in final development stages. they hope to have production units in Dec. Cheers Bill From vcut at bu.edu Mon Nov 2 05:25:18 2009 From: vcut at bu.edu (Vassilis Cutsuridis) Date: Mon Nov 2 07:03:01 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CfP for the special Issue on "Saliency, attention, active visual search and picture scanning" Message-ID: ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS ======================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of the Cognitive Computation Journal (Springer) on "Saliency, attention, active visual search and picture scanning" ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors John G. Taylor, King's College, London, U.K. (john.g.taylor@kcl.ac.uk) Vassilis Cutsuridis, Boston University, USA (vcut@bu.edu) -------- Scope -------- How is a complex visual scene processed? How is the selection of one particular location in a visual scene accomplished? Does it involve bottom-up, sensory driven cues or top-down world knowledge expectations or both? How is the decision made when to terminate a fixation and move the gaze? How is the decision made where to direct the gaze in order to take the next sample? The goal of the special issue is to advance our understanding of the state-of-the-art on bottom-up and top-down approaches to active visual search and picture scanning. Neurocomputational, computer vision and experimental review papers on perceptual saliency, attention, learning and memory, decision making and gaze control are welcome. The manner in which attention is involved is considered a highly relevant topic to the special issue. ----------------- Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: April 1, 2010 Review deadline: July 1, 2010 Author notification: July 2, 2010 Author?s response: August 1, 2010 Publication by journal: ~November/December, 2010 ----------- Submission ----------- Electronic submissions for the Cognitive Computation journal can be found under http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559 Please indicate in your cover letter that your article is for the special issue "Computational models of saliency, attention, active visual search and picture scanning". ------------- Contact ------------- Dr. Vassilis Cutsuridis Center for Memory and Brain Psychology Department Boston University Boston, MA USA Email: vcut@bu.edu Web: http://people.bu.edu/vcut/ From jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk Mon Nov 2 07:25:18 2009 From: jh81 at st-andrews.ac.uk (Julie Harris) Date: Mon Nov 2 08:08:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Vision PhD: St. Andrews Message-ID: PhD study at the St. Andrews Vision Lab The Vision Lab at the University of St. Andrews is an interdisciplinary group of scientists, who work on human vision, with a particular focus on the perception of our 3-D world. Current areas of interest include: motion and depth perception computational modelling of binocular vision depth and layout in pictures and natural images the effects of lighting, pattern and colour on depth perception distance perception For details of our research see: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/vislab.html For specific opportunities with individual investigators see: http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/jharris.shtml http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/pbh2.shtml http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/dv10.shtml The Vision Lab is located in one of the UK's top Psychology Departments, which has a vibrant postgraduate community of around 40 research postgraduates. The School of Psychology will be offering a number of funded PhD studentships to be taken up in September 2010. In the Vision Lab, we specifically encourage applications from candidates who are willing and able to embrace our interdisciplinary approach. You will have a good first degree in computer science, a physical science, engineering, mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, or a related discipline. Good quantitative skills are essential. Full application procedures can be found here: http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/admissions/phd.shtml Deadlines: For non-EU overseas applicants: 18th January 2010 For EU and UK applicants: 8th March 2010 -- ========================================================= Julie M. Harris Prof. of Psychology St. Andrews Vision Lab School of Psychology University of St. Andrews St. Mary's Quad South St. St. Andrews KY16 9JP tel: 44-1334-462-061 fax: 44-1334-463-042 email: Julie.Harris@st-andrews.ac.uk http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ejh81/vislab.html The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 ========================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091102/0323f5c1/attachment.htm From andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov Mon Nov 2 16:03:02 2009 From: andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov (Andrew Watson) Date: Mon Nov 2 16:05:55 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> Message-ID: <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> Debora, Daniel, VisionList, I asked around about the TMOS technology, and got the following cautionary reply: > TMOS display technology is being developed by a company called > UniPixel > Displays in Texas. It is an interesting concept, but as far as I > know no > one has ever actually seen one of these devices in operation. It is > similar > to another MEMs device by a company called Pixtronix. The Pixtronix > display > is much further along, and it was demonstrated at SID last year. I > was > impressed with the Pixtronix prototype and the potential of the > technology. > Both of these concepts are similar to the DLP, but while the DLP > chip is > very small and the image is projected up, the TMOS and Pixtronix > displays > required a MEMs chip the size of the image. Given the difficulty > that TI > had achieving reliable manufacturing of even a very small MEMs chip, > it > remains to be seen whether much larger MEMs arrays can be reliably and > cost-effectively manufactured. On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Daniel Reetz wrote: > Hi Deborah, Visionlist, > > I have been actively researching future displays for the last three > years, in part to get to the future of high dynamic range imaging (I > work in a lab that studies Brightness, a high-frequency capable HDR > display is one of our white whales). > ...portions deleted > > Now the other technology that I mentioned is called TMOS. It was just > recently announced, it is a brand new type of display that relies on > MEMS technology, like DLP. Personally, I am very excited about this > technology. The first thing that it has going for it is that it needs > no new fabrication facilities. It can be made in ordinary LCD > fabrication plants. That means the time-to-market should be short > relative to OLED, which is still not cheaply or widely available. TMOS > means "Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter". Basically, it is a display > scale DLP device. Each pixel is a little mirror, capable of 2 > microsecond on/off times. They are situated above a backlight/FTIR > light pipe which is being lit with LEDs that are modulated extremely > quickly. Color is generated by flashing the mirrored element on and > off over this blinking backlight as it transitions from R to G to B. > Early claims from engineering/marketing people are 300hz refresh > rates. If they meet 20% of that, we won't be doing too badly. And for > those of us who study vision without color, that backlight can be > comprised of only white LEDs, allowing for very, very good temporal > resolution. In addition, the time-critical nature of this display > (meaning, that the backlight must be refreshed exactly with the > mirrored pixels, unlike LCD or LCoS, but like DLP) should presumably > mean that timing is taken seriously with respect to input as well, > though, since I have seen/analyzed no prototypes, this is just wishful > thinking/speculation. > > I think LCoS may be a good interim solution (especially because JVC is > trying to work with the high-end market, see , and TMOS may be the > best future solution. Perhaps the vision community could get in touch > with UniPixel or Samsung (the TMOS people) and play with > prototypes/help guide development. It seems that all of us could use a > standard display with good luminance, 200:1contrast, and fast temporal > response (reliable 60hz, 8bit per primary), but furthermore, we could > all use purpose-built displays. Because the TMOS technology is simply > on-off at its core, there is no reason not to support, for example, > more than three primaries, infrared plus RGB, or two whole different > color sets defined by two different sets of primaries. (A photopic and > scotopic display in one!). People interested in color could select > their primaries of interest, and people interested in time could > select fewer primaries to optimize temporal properties. Furthermore, > since TMOS is completely digital, maybe we can get rid of all those > nasty analog processors and drive the things ourselves, directly over > DVI, or some other digital interface. Removing the analog-digital > conversion step (with all the associated hardware voodoo/signal > processing) would be a boon to vision researchers everywhere. > > In my mind, this is a technology that has the potential to be a magic > bullet for vision research.They're talking about releases in Q1 2010. > If you are at all interested, I hope you'll consider making the > desires of the vision community known to them so we don't lose another > interesting display down the "cheaper faster crappier" consumer-tech > plug hole. > > Regards, > Daniel Reetz > > PS. Their approach to color-breakup problems is interesting: > http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2007016511 > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Deborah Apthorp > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm currently looking into purchasing some high-end CRT monitors >> for our >> psychophysics lab. So far I am having a great deal of trouble >> finding anyone >> who is still manufacturing CRT monitors, and the refurbished Sony and >> Mitsubishi models we have are slowly dying. CRS only sells theirs >> as part of >> the Visage package. My only lead so far is for a refurbished Fimi >> MGD 403 >> grayscale monitor for $3200 (ex-medical, I think). Has anyone found a >> reliable supplier, or is there going to be a viable alternative to >> CRTs (for >> instance, OLEDs?) in the near future? Otherwise, what are old-school >> psychophysicists going to do? I would be very interested to hear >> opinions on >> this. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Deborah Apthorp >> _______________________________________________ >> visionlist mailing list >> visionlist@visionscience.com >> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist >> > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist From announcements at journalofvision.org Mon Nov 2 16:00:06 2009 From: announcements at journalofvision.org (Journal of Vision) Date: Mon Nov 2 16:06:07 2009 Subject: [visionlist] New Issue: Journal of Vision, Volume 9, Issue 11 Message-ID: Journal of Vision Volume 9, Number 11 http://journalofvision.org/9/11/ Articles Averaging facial expression over time Jason Haberman Tom Harp David Whitney http://journalofvision.org/9/11/1/ The spatial tuning of adaptation-based time compression Inci Ayhan Aurelio Bruno Shin'ya Nishida Alan Johnston http://journalofvision.org/9/11/2/ No capacity limit in attentional tracking: Evidence for probabilistic inference under a resource constraint Wei Ji Ma Wei Huang http://journalofvision.org/9/11/3/ Accommodative and vergence responses to conflicting blur and disparity stimuli during development Shrikant R. Bharadwaj T. Rowan Candy http://journalofvision.org/9/11/4/ An object-color space Alexander D. Logvinenko http://journalofvision.org/9/11/5/ Downhill slopes look shallower from the edge Zhi Li Frank H. Durgin http://journalofvision.org/9/11/6/ Smooth pursuit performance during target blanking does not influence the triggering of predictive saccades Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry Marcus Missal Philippe Lef?vre http://journalofvision.org/9/11/7/ The effects of target template specificity on visual search in real-world scenes: Evidence from eye movements George L. Malcolm John M. Henderson http://journalofvision.org/9/11/8/ Visual search without attentional displacement Alexandre Z?non Suliann Ben Hamed Jean-Ren? Duhamel Etienne Olivier http://journalofvision.org/9/11/9/ Image statistics do not explain the perception of gloss and lightness Barton L. Anderson Juno Kim http://journalofvision.org/9/11/10/ Motion-aftereffect-induced blindness Martin Lages Wendy J. Adams Erich W. Graf http://journalofvision.org/9/11/11/ Portraits made to measure: Manipulating social judgments about individuals with a statistical face model Mirella Walker Thomas Vetter http://journalofvision.org/9/11/12/ The effect of crowding on orientation-selective adaptation in human early visual cortex Taiyong Bi Peng Cai Tiangang Zhou Fang Fang http://journalofvision.org/9/11/13/ What is binocular vision for? A birds' eye view Graham R. Martin http://journalofvision.org/9/11/14/ Experience-dependent changes in the topography of visual crowding Kristin Williamson Miranda Scolari SuKeun Jeong Min-Shik Kim Edward Awh http://journalofvision.org/9/11/15/ Involuntary cueing effects on accuracy measures: Stimulus and task dependence Dirk Kerzel Leily Zarian David Souto http://journalofvision.org/9/11/16/ Orientation-tuned suppression in binocular rivalry reveals general and specific components of rivalry suppression Sjoerd M. Stuit John Cass Chris L. E. Paffen David Alais http://journalofvision.org/9/11/17/ Attentive and pre-attentive aspects of figural processing Lawrence G. Appelbaum Anthony M. Norcia http://journalofvision.org/9/11/18/ Tactile force perception depends on the visual speed of the collision object Kan Arai Katsunori Okajima http://journalofvision.org/9/11/19/ Relative contributions of 2D and 3D cues in a texture segmentation task, implications for the roles of striate and extrastriate cortex in attentional selection Li Zhaoping Nathalie Guyader Alex Lewis http://journalofvision.org/9/11/20/ Size tuning and contextual modulation of backward contrast masking Toni P. Saarela Michael H. Herzog http://journalofvision.org/9/11/21/ The roles of mask luminance and perceptual grouping in visual backward masking Isabel Dombrowe Frouke Hermens Gregory Francis Michael H. Herzog http://journalofvision.org/9/11/22/ A new theory of structure-from-motion perception Julian M. Fernandez Bart Farell http://journalofvision.org/9/11/23/ Mechanisms underlying perceptual learning of contrast detection in adults with anisometropic amblyopia Chang-Bing Huang Zhong-Lin Lu Yifeng Zhou http://journalofvision.org/9/11/24/ Everyone knows what is interesting: Salient locations which should be fixated Christopher Michael Masciocchi Stefan Mihalas Derrick Parkhurst Ernst Niebur http://journalofvision.org/9/11/25/ Different cue weights at the same place C. M. P. Muller E. Brenner J. B. J. Smeets http://journalofvision.org/9/11/26/ Separate motion-detecting mechanisms for first- and second-order patterns revealed by rapid forms of visual motion priming and motion aftereffect Andrea Pavan Gianluca Campana Michele Guerreschi Mauro Manassi Clara Casco http://journalofvision.org/9/11/27/ Dissociable effects of attention and crowding on orientation averaging Steven C. Dakin Peter J. Bex John R. Cass Roger J. Watt http://journalofvision.org/9/11/28/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091102/fea4c449/attachment-0001.htm From M.J.Naumer at med.uni-frankfurt.de Tue Nov 3 05:37:35 2009 From: M.J.Naumer at med.uni-frankfurt.de (Marcus J. Naumer) Date: Tue Nov 3 06:41:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Job offer: PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience Message-ID: <006601ca5c8a$cda58720$68f09560$@J.Naumer@med.uni-frankfurt.de> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 3067 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091103/ed34c5db/attachment-0004.jpeg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I don't think anyone has mentioned the so-called "Laser display": Mitsubishi LaserVue TV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_video_display "Laser-pulses with about 10 kHz repetition rate and various lengths are sent to a Digital Micromirror Device [a DLP I guess] where each mirror directs the pulse either onto screen or into the dump. Because the wavelengths are known all coatings can be optimized to reduce reflections and therefore speckle" It has incredible colour gamut and contrast. Zero persistence I guess. I would be interested to hear if anyone has used these or knows more. As for what to do while waiting for new display technologies: I bought a lot of good CRTs when I knew they were on the way out. I think I'm all set for the next 15 years. Bill From william.simpson at plymouth.ac.uk Tue Nov 3 01:35:27 2009 From: william.simpson at plymouth.ac.uk (William Simpson) Date: Tue Nov 3 06:42:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] LaserVue (possible CRT replacement) Message-ID: I found this on LaserVue: http://www.laservuetv.com/pdf/L65A90_specsheet.pdf Accepts conventional computer inputs (VGA etc -- see back panel) but there's no VGA connector -- how does that work?? Bill From vpf3 at columbia.edu Tue Nov 3 09:06:10 2009 From: vpf3 at columbia.edu (vincent ferrera) Date: Tue Nov 3 09:08:09 2009 Subject: [visionlist] LaserVue (possible CRT replacement) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8AE41C44-9786-4EEA-9A60-233E6D20A700@columbia.edu> I think in this case "VGA" refers to the pixel resolution (640x480 non-interlaced) rather than the type of connector. But it's possible to convert VGA to HDMI: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2091075,00.asp although it's anyone's guess what this does to the signal. It's also possible to convert VGA to RGBHV, so it should be possible to also convert VGA to YPbPr. VGA to RGBHV is just a matter of making a cable that splits the appropriate pins from the DE15 connector onto co-axial cables. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector v On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:35 AM, William Simpson wrote: > > > Accepts conventional computer inputs (VGA etc -- see back panel) > but there's no VGA connector -- how does that work?? > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the days of the CRT, the beam followed the timing of the video lines. You knew when it started at the top by monitoring the retrace signal, or vertical blanking signal, whatever you'd call it. With any technology that has its own frame store, like nearly all LCDs (to my knowlege), it just begs for temporal aliasing: the screen is typically updated at 60 Hz from the frame store. Independent from this, the incoming video signal (be it analog, e.g. VGA, or digital, e.g. DVI) updates the frame store at a range of possible frame rates. So when you monitor timing in the computer, you are, unfortunately, decoupled from the appearance on the screen by up to 17 ms. So far I have only briefly looked into this myself with a photodiode picking up screen luminance and found such drift. What is the general wisdom on this? Thanks for your time and your thoughts, best, Michael. -- Prof. Michael Bach PhD, Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg, Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. President of ISCEV Visual illusions: From jess.cardin at yale.edu Tue Nov 3 06:46:44 2009 From: jess.cardin at yale.edu (Jess Cardin) Date: Tue Nov 3 09:09:57 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2 Postdoctoral Positions at Yale Message-ID: <1B36583E-064B-4DA4-ACF1-EB46275A2797@yale.edu> Two postdoctoral positions are available in the lab of Dr. Jess Cardin in the department of Neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven CT. Current projects are focused on local network dynamics in rodent primary visual cortex and the roles of specific subpopulations of inhibitory and excitatory neurons in visual processing. The lab uses intra- and extracellular recordings in vivo in combination with optogenetics, as well as chronic recordings and optical techniques in awake behaving animals. One postdoctoral project will focus on optogenetics and electrophysiology in head-posted animals and the second project will focus on recordings in freely moving animals performing visual tasks. The ideal postdoctoral candidate for either position would have a strong background in neuroscience and will have completed a PhD prior to starting. Experience with behavioral tasks, electrophysiology, or optical techniques is preferred, but not required. Start dates are flexible. The Yale neuroscience community supports substantial collaborative research efforts and offers a wide range of resources, as well as excellent training and career development opportunities. To apply, please send a CV and a brief statement of research interests to jess.cardin@yale.edu. Jess Cardin, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Neurobiology Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT 267-235-0462 jess.cardin@yale.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091103/c4a6212e/attachment.htm From danreetz at gmail.com Tue Nov 3 08:22:16 2009 From: danreetz at gmail.com (Daniel Reetz) Date: Tue Nov 3 09:10:35 2009 Subject: [visionlist] LaserVue (possible CRT replacement) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:35 AM, William Simpson wrote: > I found this on LaserVue: > http://www.laservuetv.com/pdf/L65A90_specsheet.pdf > > Accepts conventional computer inputs (VGA etc -- see back panel) but there's no VGA connector -- how does that work?? When the back panel says "VGA" they are referring to the input resolution(s) that the display is compatible with, not the connector. You can send DVI over an HDMI cable, so it's actually digitally addressable. That's pretty nice. Check page 20 of the user manual here: http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/pdf/LaserVue_OG.pdf The timing information on that page is not promising. Quote: "Your Mitsubishi TV can display resolutions from standard VGA (640 x 480) through 1920 x 1080 signals at a refresh rate of 60 Hz." I'm sure that's not a native limitation of the technology, but it sounds like a hard limit of this particular display to me. It's not a limitation of the HDMI specification (CEA-861-D ) either, there are 100hz refresh rates in there. I'm calling the local home theater places to see if anyone has one that I can record with my high-speed camera. Regards, nice find... Daniel Reetz > Bill > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist > From btjan at usc.edu Tue Nov 3 10:56:27 2009 From: btjan at usc.edu (Bosco Tjan) Date: Tue Nov 3 11:59:09 2009 Subject: [visionlist] LaserVue (possible CRT replacement) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <59B32642-519B-4D72-A0D8-55762BEEAACB@usc.edu> I guess the real problem for us who do vision research is not the type of display technology, but that all modern displays are "smart". There are considerable amount of input processing built in to the circuitry to compensate for the specific deficits of a particular display technology (e.g. the various tricks to reduce the latency of an LCD display) and to "optimize" the image for the targeted markets (which do not include us). The algorithm defined in the firmware can be changed for every revision at minimal cost. Manufacturers guard these algorithms as their trade secret nor do they provide a "dump" display mode. It is practically impossible to infer the algorithm of a given display with sufficient details and to keep track of the changes for each revision. Bosco Tjan ---- On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Daniel Reetz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:35 AM, William Simpson > wrote: >> I found this on LaserVue: >> http://www.laservuetv.com/pdf/L65A90_specsheet.pdf >> >> Accepts conventional computer inputs (VGA etc -- see back panel) >> but there's no VGA connector -- how does that work?? > > When the back panel says "VGA" they are referring to the input > resolution(s) that the display is compatible with, not the connector. > You can send DVI over an HDMI cable, so it's actually digitally > addressable. That's pretty nice. Check page 20 of the user manual > here: > > http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/pdf/LaserVue_OG.pdf > > The timing information on that page is not promising. Quote: "Your > Mitsubishi TV can display resolutions from standard VGA (640 x 480) > through 1920 x 1080 signals at a refresh rate of 60 Hz." I'm sure > that's not a native limitation of the technology, but it sounds like a > hard limit of this particular display to me. It's not a limitation of > the HDMI specification (CEA-861-D ) either, there are 100hz refresh > rates in there. > > I'm calling the local home theater places to see if anyone has one > that I can record with my high-speed camera. > > Regards, nice find... > Daniel Reetz > >> Bill >> _______________________________________________ >> visionlist mailing list >> visionlist@visionscience.com >> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist >> > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist From duje at cvs.rochester.edu Wed Nov 4 07:20:52 2009 From: duje at cvs.rochester.edu (Duje Tadin) Date: Wed Nov 4 08:07:47 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions: 3-chip DLPs In-Reply-To: References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> Message-ID: Dear visionlist, While DPL projectors with a color wheel (i.e., single chip DLPs) are clearly not a good solution for psychophysics, 3-chip DLPs are worth considering - especially models that are designed for active stereo. These models have a 120Hz frame rate and due to their active stereo use, have reliable frame timing. The cost, however, runs around $40,000. I'm in a process of buying one from Digital Projection for our fMRI set-up -- and should have more updates after we do some initial testing. Duje Tadin On Oct 27, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Daniel Reetz wrote: > Hi Deborah, Visionlist, > > I have been actively researching future displays for the last three > years, in part to get to the future of high dynamic range imaging (I > work in a lab that studies Brightness, a high-frequency capable HDR > display is one of our white whales). > > As you know, most LCDs are unsuitable for time-critical work. This is > unlikely to change, as most technologies that accelerate the temporal > response are aimed at gamers and perform in unpredictable ways, or use > algorithms/techniques that are trade secrets and a PITA to reverse > engineer. Additionally, most LCD panels (including, at this time, > every Mac laptop panel) are Twisted Nematic (TN) panels, which are > only capable of 6 bit color, or worse, do some kind of temporal > dithering/screwing around to give the appearance of 8 bit color. > In-Plane-Switching panels have usable color, and there are even > ten-bit options (12 often claimed in medical grayscale LCDs) but the > temporal performance on IPS panels is worse than TN. Both exhibit > slight differences in the time to move from one "gray" to another > "gray" versus moving from white to black. Recently, the CFL backlight > tubes of LCDs are being replaced with LED arrays. These LED arrays > illuminate the edge of a laser-engraved piece of acrylic which is > supposed to make a homogeneous white field for the LCD to filter. LEDs > do allow for more careful wavelength selection, to better match the > bandpass characteristics of the front panel, and sometimes can extend > the gamut beyond sRGB or NTSC, but they do nothing for the temporal > properties of the front panel. There have been prototypes of LCD > displays with AMOLED panels behind them for illumination. This has the > advantage of being extremely high contrast, but the crossed-polarizers > inherent to LCD technologies make the transmission rate extremely low; > the luminance from these AMOLEDs would be reduced by almost 90%. > > To evaluate the temporal characteristics of monitors generally, I have > used instruments ranging from homemade junktronics like a photodiode > connected to a sound card, to a high-speed video camera. The high > speed video camera provides very good diagnostic information when > evaluating monitors. With the 1200hz sampling available on some Casio > cameras, it is possible to see the backlight pulsing on and off, or to > see the scanlines on a CRT. There are some issues with the "binning" > that the camera is doing to obtain such high sampling rates, but it is > good enough to see major problems with most monitors with nothing more > than visual observation. > > As for extant technology: > > You can throw DLP projectors out for nearly any speed-critical task, > as they do all kinds of weird processing. The problem here is that > they have a monochrome MEMS imaging element, and they have to pass it > through a color filter wheel to produce color temporally. This wheel > also has a clear element, which is used to jack the brightness in some > areas of the display, but it doesn't necessarily refresh the image > over the entire imaging area every time. In our Dell 5100mp it is > updated piecemeal. If you must use DLP, you should use a high-speed > camera or other sensor to check that your stimuli are being presented > as you think they are. > > LCD projectors are better, but not much better. Hit or miss. > > I've recently had some success with the 3-chip LCoS projector (a > hybrid between LCD and reflective technologies) that came with our > eLumens Visionstation. Although it is low-contrast and the luminance > sucks (60cd/m^2 max), so far the temporal properties on gratings look > good at lower frequencies like 30 hz. No artifacts or tearing. LCoS > might be a good solution in the near term for slower stuff. Our > projector is a JVC SX21. It may be that the new projectors are much > better, but I would check to make sure that their claimed "15000/1" > contrast ratios are not the result of using a variable aperture. Any > contrast claim over a few hundred to one is probably some nasty trick > like that. Ensure that you can disable it, in software or by yanking > the cable internally. > > Getting to the point, the future of displays generally will likely be > OLED, LCD (it's so cheap and established that it is not likely to go > away), or TMOS. > > OLED does not (yet) offer much hope, in my opinion. OLED panels like > in the small Sony display are typically driven in patches. By this I > mean that the whole display is subdivided into smaller grids which are > driven by individual processors, much like in commercial LED signage. > The timing between these sections is not guaranteed, or may be > sequential, left to right, top to bottom. If timing is not important > to you, the contrast of an OLED display is rather good. This is > because you can actually turn off the little OLED at whatever > location, and it's hard to get blacker than that. The brightness > problem with these displays is a thermal issue. To get the LEDs as > bright as they can go, you must dissipate tons of heat from a very, > very small area. If you do not dissipate the heat, there is a thermal > runaway condition where the OLEDs will destroy themselves. As a > result, I do not see small-pixel OLED displays getting to be much > brighter than a few hundred cd/m^2 until there are a few more > breakthroughs in OLED efficiency, or active cooling. This held with > the small Sony panel that I saw in person. It was clearly not very > bright compared to the TN LCD panels around it, though admittedly the > colors and contrast looked very usable. Additionally, the Sony XEL-1 > was basically a little Linux computer (running BusyBox, I think) which > is just another layer of crap to hack to get your stimuli onscreen > (though admittedly, Linux is vastly more hackable than Windows or > Mac). > > Now the other technology that I mentioned is called TMOS. It was just > recently announced, it is a brand new type of display that relies on > MEMS technology, like DLP. Personally, I am very excited about this > technology. The first thing that it has going for it is that it needs > no new fabrication facilities. It can be made in ordinary LCD > fabrication plants. That means the time-to-market should be short > relative to OLED, which is still not cheaply or widely available. TMOS > means "Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter". Basically, it is a display > scale DLP device. Each pixel is a little mirror, capable of 2 > microsecond on/off times. They are situated above a backlight/FTIR > light pipe which is being lit with LEDs that are modulated extremely > quickly. Color is generated by flashing the mirrored element on and > off over this blinking backlight as it transitions from R to G to B. > Early claims from engineering/marketing people are 300hz refresh > rates. If they meet 20% of that, we won't be doing too badly. And for > those of us who study vision without color, that backlight can be > comprised of only white LEDs, allowing for very, very good temporal > resolution. In addition, the time-critical nature of this display > (meaning, that the backlight must be refreshed exactly with the > mirrored pixels, unlike LCD or LCoS, but like DLP) should presumably > mean that timing is taken seriously with respect to input as well, > though, since I have seen/analyzed no prototypes, this is just wishful > thinking/speculation. > > I think LCoS may be a good interim solution (especially because JVC is > trying to work with the high-end market, see , and TMOS may be the > best future solution. Perhaps the vision community could get in touch > with UniPixel or Samsung (the TMOS people) and play with > prototypes/help guide development. It seems that all of us could use a > standard display with good luminance, 200:1contrast, and fast temporal > response (reliable 60hz, 8bit per primary), but furthermore, we could > all use purpose-built displays. Because the TMOS technology is simply > on-off at its core, there is no reason not to support, for example, > more than three primaries, infrared plus RGB, or two whole different > color sets defined by two different sets of primaries. (A photopic and > scotopic display in one!). People interested in color could select > their primaries of interest, and people interested in time could > select fewer primaries to optimize temporal properties. Furthermore, > since TMOS is completely digital, maybe we can get rid of all those > nasty analog processors and drive the things ourselves, directly over > DVI, or some other digital interface. Removing the analog-digital > conversion step (with all the associated hardware voodoo/signal > processing) would be a boon to vision researchers everywhere. > > In my mind, this is a technology that has the potential to be a magic > bullet for vision research.They're talking about releases in Q1 2010. > If you are at all interested, I hope you'll consider making the > desires of the vision community known to them so we don't lose another > interesting display down the "cheaper faster crappier" consumer-tech > plug hole. > > Regards, > Daniel Reetz > > PS. Their approach to color-breakup problems is interesting: > http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2007016511 > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Deborah Apthorp > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm currently looking into purchasing some high-end CRT monitors >> for our >> psychophysics lab. So far I am having a great deal of trouble >> finding anyone >> who is still manufacturing CRT monitors, and the refurbished Sony and >> Mitsubishi models we have are slowly dying. CRS only sells theirs >> as part of >> the Visage package. My only lead so far is for a refurbished Fimi >> MGD 403 >> grayscale monitor for $3200 (ex-medical, I think). Has anyone found a >> reliable supplier, or is there going to be a viable alternative to >> CRTs (for >> instance, OLEDs?) in the near future? Otherwise, what are old-school >> psychophysicists going to do? 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With numerous Fortune 50 companies across major market categories as clients, and most of the major entertainment networks as clients, NeuroFocus leverages a rapidly growing body of research and insights into how the human brain processes stimuli like ads, messages, multimedia content and entertainment. NeuroFocus advisory board comprises of neuroscientists and marketing experts from Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, and the Hebrew University in Israel. NeuroFocus is a global strategic partner of the Nielsen Company, and has continuously expanding revenues each year of its 3-year operation. NeuroFocus has recently built a large state-of-the-art Electrophysiology facility at its Berkeley headquarters and is expanding globally with more national and international centers. We are looking for top EEG physiologists for these diversified operations. Summary of essential job functions: ? Responsible for all aspects of data collection including interacting with human subjects as well as continuously monitoring the incoming data. ? Collecting EEG & physiological data from human subjects viewing marketing material. ? Participate in experimental setup & validation, data validation and archival. Minimum requirements: ? Bachelor degree in Neuroscience, Bioengineering, Biology or Psychology. ? Familiarity with EEG, GSR and eye-tracking data collection is a plus ? Deep background in biological data collection with human subjects. ? Experience in any of the research methodologies employed by NeuroFocus is a plus, including electrophysiology (EEG), eye tracking, and peripheral biometrics. ? Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Location: Charlotte, NC ? this position will also require some travel. Salary: Salary + health insurance + performance bonus + generous stock options Immediate Hire Email resume to hrjobs@neurofocus.com. Principals only, no recruiters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091104/7c19c8ec/attachment.htm From darnold at psy.uq.edu.au Wed Nov 4 17:31:08 2009 From: darnold at psy.uq.edu.au (darnold) Date: Wed Nov 4 19:42:35 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Visual Perception Message-ID: <52B18B88-32F7-477C-819A-8CC8124AC7A1@psy.uq.edu.au> Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Visual Perception School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia Organisational Environment The School of Psychology is one of the most prestigious schools of psychology in Australia. Its strong reputation is built on research excellence. The School has a thriving and dynamic research profile in human perception and cognitive neuroscience. It possesses good links with research institutes within the University, such as the Queensland Brain Institute, thus creating opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative research. Details concerning Dr. Arnold?s research interests can be accessed on the school?s web site at http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~darnold/ Reference Number: 3017209 Type of Employment: 1 year fixed-term (1 February 2010 to 29 January 2011, negotiable). There will be an opportunity to apply for an additional 3 years funding Classification: Academic Research Level A Remuneration: Gross salary package from $73,484 to $78,881 per annum. A salary package consisting of: Salary range from $62,807 to $67,420 per annum, plus employer superannuation of up to 17%. Appointments on a short term contract basis may qualify for 9% of employer contribution. For staff entitled to 17% employer contributions, UniSuper does not mandate a level of member contribution to superannuation. However, in order to receive the full standard range of benefits under UniSuper, the member must pay 7% contribution from their salary (or a salary sacrifice equivalent contribution of 8.25%). It will be assumed that a 7% member contribution will apply unless the member formally notifies UniSuper of a decision of pay a lesser member contribution (or no member contribution). Other options for salary sacrifice include a motor vehicle, laptop computer, campus car parking and "in-house" benefits Closing Date: 11 December, 2009 Further Information: Dr. Derek Arnold on Ph: +61 7 3365 6203 or d.arnold@psy.uq.edu.au Information for Prospective Staff Information about the University, State of Queensland, living in Brisbane and employment at the University is at the University?s web site. (http://www.uq.edu.au/staff) The University of Queensland Enterprise Agreement (Academic Staff) outlines the position classification standards for Levels A to E. For a comprehensive guide to family friendly work practices and services visit the Work and Family web site at http://www.uq.edu.au/equity/index.html?page=11661 Further information about the Faculty and the School may be accessed on the Faculty?s web site at http://www.uq.edu.au/sbs/ DUTY STATEMENT Primary Purpose of Position: The appointee will be responsible for working with Dr. Derek Arnold and colleagues on a research program examining aspects of human time perception, or the determinants and consequences of human visual awareness. The appointee will be required to work for 100% of the appointment on the research program. The successful applicant is expected to have a PhD in Experimental Psychology, visual psychophysics or related field. The successful applicant will have a demonstrated ability to conduct psychophysical research, including programming, executing and writing-up experiments for publication . Experience in programming experiments in Matlab, is strongly desirable. Duties: Specific duties of the position include, but are not limited to: ? programming, conducting and analysing the results of experiments; ? preparation of research findings for publication; ? dissemination of research results through conferences and refereed journals; ? Comply with the University?s Code of Conduct (see the University?s web site at http://www.uq.edu.au/staff/employment/ ); ? Comply with requirements of Queensland occupational health and safety (OH&S) legislation and related OH&S responsibilities and procedures developed by the University or School. Reporting Relationships: The position reports to the project?s Chief Investigator. SELECTION CRITERIA Qualifications Essential 1. PhD (or nearing completion) in experimental psychology, visual psychophysics, or related field. Research Essential 2. Experience in conducting human visual psychophysics experiments. 3. Evidence of publication in high-quality academic outlets and presentation of conference papers in area of expertise. General Essential 4. Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team 5. Strong oral and written communication skills. APPLICATION Applications must consist of the following: 1. Covering Letter. The covering letter should include the vacancy reference number, your contact address and telephone number. It is an opportunity in not more than one page to introduce yourself and highlight the key reasons for your interest in the position. 2. Resume or Curriculum Vitae. A resume is a brief history of your employment and experience that covers the following areas: ? Educational qualifications and professional affiliations that detail the full title of the qualification, the year awarded and the title of the institution attended; ? Employment history in chronological order, starting with current position and specifying dates of employment, title of each position, name of employer, main duties or accountabilities and achievements; and ? The names and contact details (address, telephone, fax and e- mail) of three referees, including if possible a senior person (preferably your supervisor or the head of your organisational unit) closely associated with your current work. 3. Selection Criteria. A statement addressing how each of the selection criteria have been met is required to assist the Selection Committee determine whether you have the relevant qualifications, knowledge/skills, experience and personal qualities. An academic curriculum vitae should include research fields and current interests, publications (full list as attachment with three most significant marked with an asterisk), research grants awarded and, if applicable, details of teaching evaluation. Applications are to be sent to: Ms Dot Bathgate School of Psychology The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 Or email: d.bathgate@psy.uq.edu.au Please note: ? Applications should be typed; ? Do not send applications that are bound or enclosed in plastic or manilla folders; ? Simply staple the application at the top left hand corner; and ? Retain a copy for your reference because the University does not return copies to applicants. SELECTION PROCESS A Selection Committee will consider all applications and shortlist candidates for interview who appear to meet the selection criteria at the highest levels. They will be invited to interview and the remaining unsuccessful applicants will be notified accordingly. An invitation to attend an interview provides an opportunity to provide further information to the Selection Committee to substantiate your claims against the selection criteria or demonstrate your capabilities. Please note that interviews will be conducted by teleconference in the first instance. The Selection Committee will subsequently seek referee reports, if not sought prior to interview, before making a decision to make an offer of appointment to the preferred candidate. The purpose of referee checks is to obtain, in confidence, factual information about your past work history, as well as opinions regarding the quality of your work, behaviour in the work place and suitability for the position. Referee reports may be sought orally, or for academic staff, in writing by post or e-mail. Referees should normally include current supervisors or and/or managers. A referee must be able to comment on your work experience, skills and performance with respect to the selection criteria. Referee checks conducted after the interview process can sometimes delay notification of the successful candidate and other interviewees. If you are the preferred candidate, you will receive a written offer of appointment to the position. Do not take any action, such as resigning from your current position, before you receive a written offer of appointment. The University of Queensland is an equal opportunity employer. Smoking is prohibited in all University buildings. 20011019 Dr. Derek Arnold School of Psychology The University of Queensland, Australia http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~darnold/ Office : +61 7 3365 6203 Lab : +61 7 3346 7948 Fax : +61 7 3365 6385 Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of The University of Queensland. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These research positions are associated with a new project funded by the Spanish and the Catalan goverments which aims to develop new computer vision techniques in the Medical Imaging Field. In particular, the interest of the project is the segmentation of tissues and lesions in MRI Brain images. Research on characterization, segmentation and registration will be done. Further information on the research area of the project and informal queries can be directed to llado@eia.udg.edu Applicants for the PhD Studentships will need to have a good honours degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or another related area and be able to demonstrate a strong mathematical background. A Masters degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or another related area is also essential for this post. High levels of ability in computing and programming skills (Matlab and C++) are required. Research experience in image processing, computer vision, or machine learning, and a clear interest in vision are also desirable. All applicants must be fluent in spoken and written English. Applications must include the following: ? A full CV including, University degrees and dates, past and present posts, publications and the names and addresses of referees. ? A 1 page research statement should be provided indicating what you see are interesting research issues relating to the above post, why your expertise is relevant, and what your future research plans are. Applications should be sent via email to: Dr. Xavier Llad? VICOROB group University of Girona Email: llado@eia.udg.edu The closing date for the applications is: 25 November 2009 Valuing diversity and commitment to equality of opportunity -- ------------------------------------ Dr. Xavier Llad? Computer Vision and Robotics Group University of Girona Campus de Montilivi s/n 17071 Girona ------------------------------------ mail: llado@eia.udg.edu www: http://eia.udg.edu/~llado ------------------------------------ From susana at io.cfmac.csic.es Thu Nov 5 03:46:39 2009 From: susana at io.cfmac.csic.es (Susana Marcos) Date: Thu Nov 5 07:11:28 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Position at the Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.1.20091105124541.0733c508@io.cfmac.csic.es> POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT THE VISUAL OPTICS AND BIOPHOTONICS LAB (Institute of Optics, CSIC, Madrid) Application Deadline: December 2, 2009 Estimated starting date: May 2010 Two 3-year postdoctoral positions are available at the Institute of Optics (CSIC), Madrid, Spain through the JAE-CSIC Postdoctoral Program (JAE-DOC). The Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab (http://www.vision.csic.es) at the Institute of Optics seeks candidates with a Ph.D. in Visual Science or Applied Optics, willing to work on Ocular Imaging and Visual Optics. Candidates with strong motivation on experimental research, and ophthalmic and ocular biology applications are encouraged to apply. The selection committee will value scientific merits of the candidate as well as the opportunity of the proposed research. The appointment is for three years, with a salary of 28.902,96 euros per year (yearly revised), according to Spanish standards. The position also includes Social Security, family health Insurance and a program of social benefits provided by CSIC. The successful applicant will work on development and applications of high resolution imaging techniques in the anterior segment of the eye, in particular confocal microscopy and optical coherence tomography, as well as in dynamic wavefront sensing or adaptive optics. Applications range from understanding the basic mechanisms of accommodation and myopia development to evaluation and new designs of alternatives for correction of refractive errors and presbyopia. The Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab provides a young and dynamic research environment. The laboratory is funded primarily by national and european grants (including a European Young Investigator Award), and holds excellent collaborative programs with top international laboratories, clinical institutes and industry. The Lab is part of the Spanish Visual Optics Network. The Institute of Optics (CSIC) is the oldest research institute in Optics in Spain, and holds an excellent reputation of research in optics, particularly in Visual Optics. CSIC (www.csic.es) is the National Center for Research in Spain, and the most important multidisciplinary research facility in the country. The Institute is centrally located in downtown Madrid within easy public transportation to all city districts. Madrid is a very lively city, with great cultural and leisure attractions. Expressions of interest should be sent to Susana Marcos by email, including CV, research interests and names of three references. The institutional online application process closes on December 2 and requires submission of a CV, PhD certificate and copy of passport. More information on the program In Spanish: http://www.csic.es/vicyt/jaedoc2009.html And English: http://www.csic.es/vicyt/Documentos/jae_ingles.pdf Prof. Susana Marcos Instituto de Optica, CSIC Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain Tel: +34 915616800 x2313 Fax: +34 915645557 email: susana@io.cfmac.csic.es http://www.vision.csic.es From lmbett at lanl.gov Thu Nov 5 12:06:27 2009 From: lmbett at lanl.gov (Luis M Bettencourt) Date: Thu Nov 5 12:20:20 2009 Subject: [visionlist] postdoctoral fellowships in synthetic visual cognition at Los Alamos (Bettencourt) Message-ID: <96564B69-D265-4C9B-8960-6A5A47F1B8E6@lanl.gov> The Synthetic Cognition team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has several postdoctoral fellowship openings for research in developing models of the primate visual cortex towards the scale and speed of the biological system. Research on this project consists of theory, high performance computation, psychophysics and brain imaging of visual cognition towards improving the object recognition performance of a systems- level full-scale functional model of visual cortex. Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent research in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team with expertise in neuroscience, theory and high performance computing. Los Alamos National Laboratory currently possesses access to some of the world?s largest computational resources that make possible modeling of cortical visual processing at the scale (in terms of neurons and synapses) and speed of the human visual cortex. The ideal candidate should be poised to help take advantage of these resources and will have demonstrated knowledge of cortical visual processing, computation (ideally C, C++, python, open CL) and a working understanding of network and information theory. The ability to publish in quality peer reviewed journals is also essential. Los Alamos provides excellent working conditions and opportunities for advanced research and career development. A PhD completed within the last 5 years or soon to be completed is required. Annual starting salaries typically range from $69,800-$83,200, depending on experience, plus a generous and comprehensive benefit package. Exceptional candidates will be considered for the prestigious Director?s, Oppenheimer and Feynman fellowships, and for joint appointments with the Center for Non-Linear Studies: http:// cnls.lanl.gov More information about the Laboratory?s Postdoc Program can be found at http://www.lanl.gov/science/postdocs/ Interested candidates should contact Luis M. A. Bettencourt at lmbett@lanl.gov (+1 505 665 8453), with their CV and a short one-page research statement describing the candidate?s ideal objectives for a postdoctoral position in synthetic visual cognition. Letters of recommendation will be requested at a later stage from selected candidates. Luis M. A. Bettencourt T-5, Theoretical Division Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A. Ph: (505) 667 8453 Web: http://math.lanl.gov/~lmbett/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091105/746c343a/attachment.htm From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Nov 8 07:20:19 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Sun Nov 8 08:28:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] AIPR-10 Call for papers Message-ID: <33260.66940.qm@web45902.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> AIPR-10 Call for papers ? The 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. AIPR is an important event in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as Pattern Recognition (PR) and focuses on all areas of AI, PR and related topics. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). ?MULTICONF-10 (website: http://www.promoteresearch.org) will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) ?International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) International Conference on Computer Networks (CN-10) International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) ? We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.promoteresearch.org for more details. ? 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Watson Editor-in-Chief Journal of Vision http://journalofvision.org From sol at sr-research.com Tue Nov 10 03:23:49 2009 From: sol at sr-research.com (Sol Simpson) Date: Tue Nov 10 07:04:36 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> Message-ID: <007d01ca61f8$4d013970$e703ac50$@com> There are true 120 hz LCD monitors available now: Samsung 2233RZ ViewSonic VX2265wm We have tested these using the BBTK and found that as long as all appropriate drivers and cables are used: 1) They do run at a true 120 hz 2) They do not have any internal frame buffering etc. 3) The average delay between when the video card indicates the start of a retrace and when the light key fires is about 1/2 the response time of 3 msec with sub-msec sdev. 4) They seem to update the display in a scanning fashion like a CRT, i.e. a light key placed at the bottom of the monitor fires about 1 retrace after the light key at the top fires. We only looked at refresh rate timing and precision, not at things like color range etc, so it is likely that these LCDs are still not good for a lot of research, but they are at least getting better. ;) Sol -----Original Message----- From: visionlist-bounces@visionscience.com [mailto:visionlist-bounces@visionscience.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Watson Sent: November-02-09 7:03 PM To: visionlist@visionscience.com Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Debora, Daniel, VisionList, I asked around about the TMOS technology, and got the following cautionary reply: > TMOS display technology is being developed by a company called > UniPixel > Displays in Texas. It is an interesting concept, but as far as I > know no > one has ever actually seen one of these devices in operation. It is > similar > to another MEMs device by a company called Pixtronix. The Pixtronix > display > is much further along, and it was demonstrated at SID last year. I > was > impressed with the Pixtronix prototype and the potential of the > technology. > Both of these concepts are similar to the DLP, but while the DLP > chip is > very small and the image is projected up, the TMOS and Pixtronix > displays > required a MEMs chip the size of the image. Given the difficulty > that TI > had achieving reliable manufacturing of even a very small MEMs chip, > it > remains to be seen whether much larger MEMs arrays can be reliably and > cost-effectively manufactured. On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Daniel Reetz wrote: > Hi Deborah, Visionlist, > > I have been actively researching future displays for the last three > years, in part to get to the future of high dynamic range imaging (I > work in a lab that studies Brightness, a high-frequency capable HDR > display is one of our white whales). > ...portions deleted > > Now the other technology that I mentioned is called TMOS. It was just > recently announced, it is a brand new type of display that relies on > MEMS technology, like DLP. Personally, I am very excited about this > technology. The first thing that it has going for it is that it needs > no new fabrication facilities. It can be made in ordinary LCD > fabrication plants. That means the time-to-market should be short > relative to OLED, which is still not cheaply or widely available. TMOS > means "Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter". Basically, it is a display > scale DLP device. Each pixel is a little mirror, capable of 2 > microsecond on/off times. They are situated above a backlight/FTIR > light pipe which is being lit with LEDs that are modulated extremely > quickly. Color is generated by flashing the mirrored element on and > off over this blinking backlight as it transitions from R to G to B. > Early claims from engineering/marketing people are 300hz refresh > rates. If they meet 20% of that, we won't be doing too badly. And for > those of us who study vision without color, that backlight can be > comprised of only white LEDs, allowing for very, very good temporal > resolution. In addition, the time-critical nature of this display > (meaning, that the backlight must be refreshed exactly with the > mirrored pixels, unlike LCD or LCoS, but like DLP) should presumably > mean that timing is taken seriously with respect to input as well, > though, since I have seen/analyzed no prototypes, this is just wishful > thinking/speculation. > > I think LCoS may be a good interim solution (especially because JVC is > trying to work with the high-end market, see , and TMOS may be the > best future solution. Perhaps the vision community could get in touch > with UniPixel or Samsung (the TMOS people) and play with > prototypes/help guide development. It seems that all of us could use a > standard display with good luminance, 200:1contrast, and fast temporal > response (reliable 60hz, 8bit per primary), but furthermore, we could > all use purpose-built displays. Because the TMOS technology is simply > on-off at its core, there is no reason not to support, for example, > more than three primaries, infrared plus RGB, or two whole different > color sets defined by two different sets of primaries. (A photopic and > scotopic display in one!). People interested in color could select > their primaries of interest, and people interested in time could > select fewer primaries to optimize temporal properties. Furthermore, > since TMOS is completely digital, maybe we can get rid of all those > nasty analog processors and drive the things ourselves, directly over > DVI, or some other digital interface. Removing the analog-digital > conversion step (with all the associated hardware voodoo/signal > processing) would be a boon to vision researchers everywhere. > > In my mind, this is a technology that has the potential to be a magic > bullet for vision research.They're talking about releases in Q1 2010. > If you are at all interested, I hope you'll consider making the > desires of the vision community known to them so we don't lose another > interesting display down the "cheaper faster crappier" consumer-tech > plug hole. > > Regards, > Daniel Reetz > > PS. Their approach to color-breakup problems is interesting: > http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2007016511 > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Deborah Apthorp > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm currently looking into purchasing some high-end CRT monitors >> for our >> psychophysics lab. So far I am having a great deal of trouble >> finding anyone >> who is still manufacturing CRT monitors, and the refurbished Sony and >> Mitsubishi models we have are slowly dying. CRS only sells theirs >> as part of >> the Visage package. My only lead so far is for a refurbished Fimi >> MGD 403 >> grayscale monitor for $3200 (ex-medical, I think). Has anyone found a >> reliable supplier, or is there going to be a viable alternative to >> CRTs (for >> instance, OLEDs?) in the near future? Otherwise, what are old-school >> psychophysicists going to do? I would be very interested to hear >> opinions on >> this. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Deborah Apthorp >> _______________________________________________ >> visionlist mailing list >> visionlist@visionscience.com >> http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist >> > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist _______________________________________________ visionlist mailing list visionlist@visionscience.com http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist From tanner at vision.ee.ethz.ch Tue Nov 10 13:32:35 2009 From: tanner at vision.ee.ethz.ch (Christine Tanner) Date: Tue Nov 10 21:56:07 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD position available at ETH =?iso-8859-1?q?Z=FCrich?= Message-ID: <20091110223235.1221311v95cnyj1v@email.ee.ethz.ch> PhD position: Motion tacking using ultrasound images The Computer Vision Laboratory is looking for a PhD student for a SNF funded project on investigating the use of ultrasound for the management of organ motion in tumour therapy. The project aim is to improve the effectiveness of radiation and high intensity focused ultrasound therapy by taking account of the organ motion occurring during therapy. In particular, the PhD student will investigate methods for real-time ultrasound tracking and for registering pre-therapeutic magnetic resonance images to ultrasound images. Your profile: * Self-motivated and pro-active; * Solid programming skills; * Good background in general engineering mathematics; * Fluent in English, both written and spoken; * Good communication skills; * Prior knowledge in the area of image processing are a plus; We're convinced you will find our lab and ETH in general an exciting environment for research. We are a highly international team, with people from about 15 countries. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the University of Basel and the University Hospitals of Basel and Geneva. Duration: 3 years Start date: 1st January 2010 Application deadline: 30th November 2009 Contact: Dr. Christine Tanner, Prof. Gabor Szekely Please send motivation letter and complete CV with publications and references to Dr. Christine Tanner. More information can be found on the Computer Vision Laboratory webpage: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/research/projects_med.cgi?lang=en -- Dr. Christine Tanner ETH Z?rich Computer Vision Laboratory ETF C 108 Sternwartstrasse 7 8092 Z?rich Internal Line: +41 44 632 62 46 Fax-Nr. +41 44 632 11 99 Sekretariat +41 44 632 51 70 From sol at sr-research.com Wed Nov 11 03:17:55 2009 From: sol at sr-research.com (Sol Simpson) Date: Wed Nov 11 08:43:58 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <7EC1F96C-FBD1-46B9-A1AF-DC1FBDBFE971@uni-freiburg.de> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> <007d01ca61f8$4d013970$e703ac50$@com> <8A583C07-5378-4C23-83DD-2925A3F48CCF@uni-freiburg.de> <009001ca62be$2956c0a0$7c0441e0$@com> <7EC1F96C-FBD1-46B9-A1AF-DC1FBDBFE971@uni-freiburg.de> Message-ID: <009801ca62c0$a1d98330$e58c8990$@com> Hi Michael, Yes, I think we may have lucked out with these monitors. The only 'downside' in terms of updating time is that they seem to update the display in a scanning fashion like a CRT; it would have been nicer if they updated the display all at one time like some LCDs seem to (the same LCDS have buffering issues and long response times too though). >> Perhaps one can follow the rule: >> if they offer stereo, than it's an unbuffered display. I am not sure about this. For example, the Infocus DepthQ 120 Hz DLP projector (http://www.projectorcentral.com/pdf/projector_spec_2850.pdf) that has been around for years has a 1 frame internal buffer (we tested and confirmed this, and the spec sheets also reports it!). It is DLP though, not LCD. Thanks again, Sol -----Original Message----- From: Michael Bach [mailto:Michael.Bach@uni-freiburg.de] Sent: November-11-09 6:07 AM To: Sol Simpson Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Dear Sol: > We used the BBTK (http://www.blackboxtoolkit.co.uk/) yes, I had already looked that up, looks good, even runs on my preferred platform ;). > to test the timing using photo sensors and TTL outputs... That's a perfect way to test this. But this means that you were sort of lucky to find out that these monitors did have these desirable properties? And others presumably didn't? It would really be great if the manufacturers would mention this. Perhaps one can follow the rule: if they offer stereo, than it's an unbuffered display. Thanks & best, Michael. -- Prof. Michael Bach PhD, Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg, Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. Michael.Bach@uni-freiburg.de From sol at sr-research.com Wed Nov 11 03:00:14 2009 From: sol at sr-research.com (Sol Simpson) Date: Wed Nov 11 08:44:09 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <8A583C07-5378-4C23-83DD-2925A3F48CCF@uni-freiburg.de> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> <007d01ca61f8$4d013970$e703ac50$@com> <8A583C07-5378-4C23-83DD-2925A3F48CCF@uni-freiburg.de> Message-ID: <009001ca62be$2956c0a0$7c0441e0$@com> Hi Michael, We used the BBTK (http://www.blackboxtoolkit.co.uk/) to test the timing using photo sensors and TTL outputs from our Experiment Builder program to test both absolute timing ( i.e. is it really running at 120 Hz) and relative timing (i.e. does the start of a physical screen update match when Experiment Builder software says it is starting). It would be great if someone else could also do some empirical tests on these monitors to validate our findings. Thanks, Sol -----Original Message----- From: Michael Bach [mailto:Michael.Bach@uni-freiburg.de] Sent: November-11-09 5:50 AM To: Sol Simpson Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Dear Sol: > There are true 120 hz LCD monitors available now: > Samsung 2233RZ > ViewSonic VX2265wm > ... Thank you for this information, excellent! How were you able to unearth the information that they do not have internal frame buffering, is this advertised by the manufacturers? It doesn't say so on their sites, nor in the user manuals. Anyway, thank you very much! Best, Michael -- Prof. Michael Bach PhD, Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg, Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. President of ISCEV Visual illusions: From J.Jolij at rug.nl Wed Nov 11 05:22:32 2009 From: J.Jolij at rug.nl (Jacob Jolij) Date: Wed Nov 11 08:44:18 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Tenure-track assistant professorship available in Groningen Message-ID: <4AFABA98.4020806@rug.nl> An opening for an assistant professor in cognitive psychology/neuroscience has become available in our group. Details about the position can be found here: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/RUG/vacancy/1762/lang/en/ Best wishes, Jacob Jolij -- Dr Jacob Jolij Division of Experimental Psychology University of Groningen Grote Kruisstraat 2/1 9712 TS Groningen The Netherlands t +31 50 363 6348 f +31 50 363 6304 e j.joliJ@rug.nl w http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.jolij From bhanna at neuromatters.com Wed Nov 11 11:00:44 2009 From: bhanna at neuromatters.com (Barbara Hanna) Date: Wed Nov 11 12:25:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Job description Message-ID: <9FA55AE3-92F1-462A-B4F0-714EC0E97382@neuromatters.com> Hi, Please find attached two job descriptions for circulation on the mailing list. With thanks and best regards, -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From kerry.jordan at usu.edu Wed Nov 11 19:59:28 2009 From: kerry.jordan at usu.edu (Kerry Jordan) Date: Thu Nov 12 07:02:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] job announcement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We have an opening for a tenure-track position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in Statistics, Research Methodology, and Measurement in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University. Expertise in vision science is welcomed. Job Description POSITION TITLE: Assistant/Associate Professor of Psychology MINIMUM SALARY: Salary commensurate with qualification and experience. The Department of Psychology at Utah State University seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in Statistics, Research Methodology, and Measurement. Although it is expected that the position will be filled at the Assistant Professor level, Associate Professor is a possibility. RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: 1. Teach graduate courses in advanced research design, statistics, and measurement. Some of these courses may be taught via USU's distance education systems (satellite and web-based). 2. Conduct research and other scholarly activities, pursuing outside funding as appropriate. 3. Chair and serve on graduate student committees. 4. Provide consultation on statistical methodology, research design, and psychometrics to colleagues and students. This position is a 9-month academic year position (teaching 2 courses per semester), with the opportunity for summer employment dependent on availability of funds. Department faculty in 2009-2010 attracted over $5 million in external funding from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and the National Institute of Mental Health. DEPARTMENT: The Psychology Department (www.usu.edu/psychology/), housed in the College of Education and Human Services, supports 22 full-time faculty. The Department offers PhD degrees in Combined Psychology (Clinical, Counseling, and School) and Experimental and Applied Psychological Science. The unique Combined Program is one of only ten doctoral programs nationally that are APA accredited in more than one area of professional psychology, and is the oldest program in the nation to be continually accredited. Additionally, the Psychology Department houses the American Indian Support project, one of the most successful programs in the nation for training Native American Psychologists. The Psychology Department also shares many courses and faculty with the College of Education and Human Services interdepartmental doctoral program. JOB QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must present evidence of: 1. Earned doctorate by August 2010 in psychology or closely related area. 2. Evidence of advanced skills in research methods, statistics, and measurement. 3. Evidence of excellent teaching potential and ability to mentor students. 4. Effective oral, written, and interpersonal skills. 5. Productivity in research and scholarly activities. 6. Ability to develop and maintain cooperative collegial and consultative relationships. Preference will be given to candidates who have: 1. Teaching experience in research methods, statistics, and measurement. 2. Expertise in a substantive area of psychology related to existing departmental research activities, such as cognitive, educational, clinical, health, community, or experimental. 3. Current extramurally-funded research. Women and members of ethnic minorities are encouraged to apply. LOCATION: Utah State University, a Research I (Extensive Doctoral) land-grant institution with a student body of over 21,000, has 42 departments, 7 academic colleges, a school of Graduate Studies, and diverse research programs. USU is located in the city of Logan, 85 miles north of Salt Lake City, and is surrounded by the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains. The area offers wide cultural opportunities (e.g., ballet, theater, symphony, opera), premier outdoor recreational activities (e.g., skiing, horseback riding, hiking, boating), and spectacular scenic beauty. TIMELINE: Review of applications will begin January 1, 2010 and continue until the position is filled. Position beginning date is August 2010. APPLICATION: Applications must include: letter of application, detailed vita, names of three people who can be contacted for a reference, and transcripts of graduate work. Reprints/preprints of publications, teaching evaluations (if available), or other relevant materials are also desirable. Please direct questions and applications to: Karl R. White, Ph.D. Chair, Search Committee Department of Psychology Utah State University 2810 Old Main Hill Logan, Utah 84322-2810 UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. 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I found a very detailed review of the Samsung at the link below; he even did response time matrix tests based on color to color and shows that the 120 hz mode gives a nice even response time across colors: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/monitors/display/samsung-sm2233rz.html He also looked at how the monitor fills the color space but I do not know if it is better or worse than normal for an LCD. I could not find a detailed review of the Viewsonic model. Thanks, Sol SR Research Ltd. www.sr-research.com From: Peter April [mailto:papril@vpixx.com] Sent: November-11-09 6:15 PM To: Sol Simpson Cc: visionlist@visionscience.com Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Nice find Sol ! Do you have any info on the RGB resolution of the glass? Most I've seen are 8 bits; some only 6 bits, plus some temporal dithering to "fake" 8 bits. Peter April, CEO VPixx Technologies Inc. Tel: (450) 723-1021 Cel: (514) 295-1341 Fax: (514) 328-7499 Email: papril@vpixx.com Web: http://www.vpixx.com On 2009-11-11, at 6:17 AM, Sol Simpson wrote: Hi Michael, Yes, I think we may have lucked out with these monitors. The only 'downside' in terms of updating time is that they seem to update the display in a scanning fashion like a CRT; it would have been nicer if they updated the display all at one time like some LCDs seem to (the same LCDS have buffering issues and long response times too though). Perhaps one can follow the rule: if they offer stereo, than it's an unbuffered display. I am not sure about this. For example, the Infocus DepthQ 120 Hz DLP projector (http://www.projectorcentral.com/pdf/projector_spec_2850.pdf) that has been around for years has a 1 frame internal buffer (we tested and confirmed this, and the spec sheets also reports it!). It is DLP though, not LCD. Thanks again, Sol -----Original Message----- From: Michael Bach [mailto:Michael.Bach@uni-freiburg.de] Sent: November-11-09 6:07 AM To: Sol Simpson Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Dear Sol: We used the BBTK (http://www.blackboxtoolkit.co.uk/) yes, I had already looked that up, looks good, even runs on my preferred platform ;). to test the timing using photo sensors and TTL outputs... That's a perfect way to test this. But this means that you were sort of lucky to find out that these monitors did have these desirable properties? And others presumably didn't? It would really be great if the manufacturers would mention this. Perhaps one can follow the rule: if they offer stereo, than it's an unbuffered display. Thanks & best, Michael. -- Prof. Michael Bach PhD, Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg, Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. 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I'm not sure how, but the following review seems to look at things like how the response time varies based on what to and from color is used in both 60 Hz and 120 hz modes. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/monitors/display/samsung-sm2233rz.html As mentioned in my last post (maybe not actually posted yet mailing list) I do not know about their true bit depth. Thanks, Sol From: Jon Peirce [mailto:jonathan.peirce@nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: November-12-09 6:56 AM To: Sol Simpson Cc: 'Michael Bach' Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions to test the timing using photo sensors and TTL outputs... That's a perfect way to test this. But this means that you were sort of lucky to find out that these monitors did have these desirable properties? And others presumably didn't? It would really be great if the manufacturers would mention this. would you be able to connect the photodiode simply to a scope and show us the time the screen actually takes to go black to white and vice-versa? My testing with LCDs, even those that claim to be 'fast' is that it still takes 20ms or so to go fully from one extreme to the other, which means that a flickering grating is typically lower contrast than a static one etc. This is also something that manufacturers could easily provide, but never do. Also, I'm told that often for faster response times some manufacturers are actually using 6bit rather than 8bit displays and then, potentially, performing temporal dithering to make it look like 8bits. No sign from the two that you mention whether this is the case for them. Jon This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. 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URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091112/c314d1c1/attachment.htm From sol at sr-research.com Thu Nov 12 07:31:49 2009 From: sol at sr-research.com (Sol Simpson) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:48:32 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <459B3A4B-F709-4A0E-9ADB-E268498A0AFD@vpixx.com> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> <007d01ca61f8$4d013970$e703ac50$@com> <8A583C07-5378-4C23-83DD-2925A3F48CCF@uni-freiburg.de> <009001ca62be$2956c0a0$7c0441e0$@com> <7EC1F96C-FBD1-46B9-A1AF-DC1FBDBFE971@uni-freiburg.de> <009801ca62c0$a1d98330$e58c8990$@com> <6B8AAF75-99CA-4C0B-AC39-8C1852EA2E1C@vpixx.com> <00a401ca638b$e7e13320$b7a39960$@com> <459B3A4B-F709-4A0E-9ADB-E268498A0AFD@vpixx.com> Message-ID: <001401ca63ad$443f4690$ccbdd3b0$@com> Hi Peter, I am not sure. We are not LCD monitor experts and I'm just passing along info we have found during investigating things for our eye tracking technologies, hoping they may be useful to the general research community. Thanks again, Sol From: Peter April [mailto:papril@vpixx.com] Sent: November-12-09 9:57 AM To: Sol Simpson Cc: visionlist@visionscience.com Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Hi Sol, Thank you for the link. Very informative review. One specification that concerns me can be found on page 6 of the review: "The monitor regulates its brightness by means of backlight modulation at a frequency of 180Hz" So, the backlight is flickering at 180Hz, which then passes through the LCD filter which is modulating at 120Hz. Do you think this might cause a 60Hz beat pattern in the temporal luminance profile? Peter April, CEO VPixx Technologies Inc. Tel: (450) 723-1021 Cel: (514) 295-1341 Fax: (514) 328-7499 Email: papril@vpixx.com Web: http://www.vpixx.com On 2009-11-12, at 6:33 AM, Sol Simpson wrote: Hi Peter, I'm not sure. I found a very detailed review of the Samsung at the link below; he even did response time matrix tests based on color to color and shows that the 120 hz mode gives a nice even response time across colors: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/monitors/display/samsung-sm2233rz.html He also looked at how the monitor fills the color space but I do not know if it is better or worse than normal for an LCD. I could not find a detailed review of the Viewsonic model. Thanks, Sol SR Research Ltd. www.sr-research.com From: Peter April [mailto:papril@vpixx.com] Sent: November-11-09 6:15 PM To: Sol Simpson Cc: visionlist@visionscience.com Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Nice find Sol ! Do you have any info on the RGB resolution of the glass? Most I've seen are 8 bits; some only 6 bits, plus some temporal dithering to "fake" 8 bits. Peter April, CEO VPixx Technologies Inc. Tel: (450) 723-1021 Cel: (514) 295-1341 Fax: (514) 328-7499 Email: papril@vpixx.com Web: http://www.vpixx.com On 2009-11-11, at 6:17 AM, Sol Simpson wrote: Hi Michael, Yes, I think we may have lucked out with these monitors. The only 'downside' in terms of updating time is that they seem to update the display in a scanning fashion like a CRT; it would have been nicer if they updated the display all at one time like some LCDs seem to (the same LCDS have buffering issues and long response times too though). Perhaps one can follow the rule: if they offer stereo, than it's an unbuffered display. I am not sure about this. For example, the Infocus DepthQ 120 Hz DLP projector (http://www.projectorcentral.com/pdf/projector_spec_2850.pdf) that has been around for years has a 1 frame internal buffer (we tested and confirmed this, and the spec sheets also reports it!). It is DLP though, not LCD. Thanks again, Sol -----Original Message----- From: Michael Bach [mailto:Michael.Bach@uni-freiburg.de] Sent: November-11-09 6:07 AM To: Sol Simpson Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Dear Sol: We used the BBTK (http://www.blackboxtoolkit.co.uk/) yes, I had already looked that up, looks good, even runs on my preferred platform ;). to test the timing using photo sensors and TTL outputs... That's a perfect way to test this. But this means that you were sort of lucky to find out that these monitors did have these desirable properties? And others presumably didn't? It would really be great if the manufacturers would mention this. Perhaps one can follow the rule: if they offer stereo, than it's an unbuffered display. Thanks & best, Michael. -- Prof. Michael Bach PhD, Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg, Killianstr. 5, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. Michael.Bach@uni-freiburg.de _______________________________________________ visionlist mailing list visionlist@visionscience.com http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091112/c0c56a69/attachment-0001.htm From toddh at search.bwh.harvard.edu Thu Nov 12 08:43:39 2009 From: toddh at search.bwh.harvard.edu (Todd S. Horowitz) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:49:43 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <00b501ca6390$889d4890$99d7d9b0$@com> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> <007d01ca61f8$4d013970$e703ac50$@com> <8A583C07-5378-4C23-83DD-2925A3F48CCF@uni-freiburg.de> <009001ca62be$2956c0a0$7c0441e0$@com> <7EC1F96C-FBD1-46B9-A1AF-DC1FBDBFE971@uni-freiburg.de> <009801ca62c0$a1d98330$e58c8990$@com> <4AFBF7BE.1020507@nottingham.ac.uk> <00b501ca6390$889d4890$99d7d9b0$@com> Message-ID: <08893545-A993-4705-9CD6-88B5F5CE9A5E@search.bwh.harvard.edu> Hi Sol Have you tried Pelli's LCD grating test? http://psychtoolbox.org/PTB-2/tips/displaytest.html#test6 thanks Todd Todd S. Horowitz, PhD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Harvard Medical School Visual Attention Lab 64 Sidney Street, Suite 170 Cambridge, MA 02139 phone: (617) 768-8813 fax: (617) 768-8816 http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/ The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091112/1a93bc4f/attachment.htm From wbeaudot at kybervision.net Thu Nov 12 09:34:06 2009 From: wbeaudot at kybervision.net (Dr. William H.A. Beaudot) Date: Thu Nov 12 09:49:53 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <00a401ca638b$e7e13320$b7a39960$@com> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> <007d01ca61f8$4d013970$e703ac50$@com> <8A583C07-5378-4C23-83DD-2925A3F48CCF@uni-freiburg.de> <009001ca62be$2956c0a0$7c0441e0$@com> <7EC1F96C-FBD1-46B9-A1AF-DC1FBDBFE971@uni-freiburg.de> <009801ca62c0$a1d98330$e58c8990$@com> <6B8AAF75-99CA-4C0B-AC39-8C1852EA2E1C@vpixx.com> <00a401ca638b$e7e13320$b7a39960$@com> Message-ID: Hi Sol & Peter, Both Samsung 2233RZ and ViewSonic VX2265 are based on the NT ("Twisted Nematic") TFT-LCD display technology, which means unfortunately only 6 bits per color (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD). For a shorter and less technical review of the different LCD technologies, see http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/lcd-panel-types.php Hope this helps! William Beaudot KYBERVISION Consulting, R&D www.kybervision.com On 2009-11-12, at 6:33 AM, Sol Simpson wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I'm not sure. > > I found a very detailed review of the Samsung at the link below; he even did response time matrix tests based on color to color and shows that the 120 hz mode gives a nice even response time across colors: > > http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/monitors/display/samsung-sm2233rz.html > > He also looked at how the monitor fills the color space but I do not know if it is better or worse than normal for an LCD. > > I could not find a detailed review of the Viewsonic model. > > Thanks, > > Sol > SR Research Ltd. > www.sr-research.com > > From: > Peter April [mailto:papril@vpixx.com] > Sent: November-11-09 6:15 PM > To: Sol Simpson > Cc: visionlist@visionscience.com > Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions > > Nice find Sol ! > > Do you have any info on the RGB resolution of the glass? Most I've seen are 8 bits; some only 6 bits, plus some temporal dithering to "fake" 8 bits. > > Peter April, CEO > VPixx Technologies Inc. > Tel: (450) 723-1021 > Cel: (514) 295-1341 > Fax: (514) 328-7499 > Email: papril@vpixx.com > Web: http://www.vpixx.com > -- William H.A. BEAUDOT, Ph.D. E-mail: wbeaudot@kybervision.com KYBERVISION Consulting, R & D Web: http://www.kybervision.com 2150 Mackay, Suite 1908 http://wbeaudot.kybervision.com Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2M2 Phone: +1 514-245-0714 ___________________________________________________________________ Psykinematix: Visual Psychophysics Made Easy http://www.psykinematix.com iPhone / iPod touch Vision-related Apps http://iphone.kybervision.com Field Of View / Patterns / Visual Acuity / Math Graphing ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright ? 2009 KyberVision. All rights reserved. -- "J'aime mieux ?tre homme ? paradoxes qu'homme ? pr?jug?s" Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) From byronyu at stanford.edu Thu Nov 12 22:52:53 2009 From: byronyu at stanford.edu (Byron Yu) Date: Fri Nov 13 07:06:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Cosyne 2010: Submission Deadline Reminder Message-ID: ================================================================= ***** REMINDER ***** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20 Nov 2009 Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) MAIN MEETING 25 - 28 Feb, 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah WORKSHOPS 1 - 2 Mar, 2010 Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah http://cosyne.org ================================================================= Cosyne is an annual meeting providing an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. The meeting is expected to draw over 500 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. The MAIN MEETING is organized in a single track, and consists of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations are invited (see below), while others are selected based on short submitted abstracts. Poster presentations are also selected from the submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS are held in 4-8 parallel sessions per day, allowing for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: - Keynote: Clay Reid (Harvard Medical School) - Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester) - Howard Berg (Harvard University) - Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington) - John Lisman (Brandeis University) - Eve Marder (Brandeis University) - Tirin Moore (Stanford University) - Michael Platt (Duke University) - Nicholas Schiff (Cornell Medical School) - Jackie Schiller (Technion) - Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) Cosyne 2010 will include a special symposium in honour of Horace Barlow, featuring talks by: - Honorary Lecturer: Horace Barlow (Cambridge University) - David Field (Cornell University) - William Geisler (University of Texas) - Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) - Simon Laughlin (Cambridge University) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - General Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London) - Program Chairs: Anne Churchland (University of Washington) and Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California) - Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Mark Laubach (Yale University) - Communications Chair: Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: - Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - Alexandre Pouget (University of Rochester) - Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme) ADVISORY BOARD: - Matteo Carandini (University College London) - Eero Simoncelli (New York University and HHMI) - Peter Dayan (University College London) - Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco and HHMI) - Karel Svoboda (HHMI Janelia Farm) From jens.kowal at artorg.unibe.ch Fri Nov 13 01:34:40 2009 From: jens.kowal at artorg.unibe.ch (Kowal, Horst Jens) Date: Fri Nov 13 07:06:15 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD student position available... Message-ID: <2650DDD0-C9E7-4091-AF30-67CE1A0C3EBB@artorg.unibe.ch> PhD student position available... A very challenging topic in ophthalmology is the treatment of intraocular tumors by irradiation. Melanoma of the choroid and the ciliary body, i.e., posterior uveal melanoma, are the most common primary intraocular malignant tumor of the eye, and is a life-threatening disease if it is left untreated. Proton beam irradiation is an established treatment modality for intraocular tumors. To deliver the necessary radiation dose to the tumor tissue but sparing the surrounding tissue, precise planning and delivery of the charged particle beam are mandatory. Usually, different image modalities such as fundus photographs, ultrasound images, and computed tomography or magnetic resonance image data are combined to develop the treatment plan. To co-register the different image modalities and to position the patient eye for irradiation, often tantalum marker elements are sutured to the globe in a preceding surgery. The relative position of the tantalum markers and their distance to the limbus and to the tumor border are important parameters for the planning. They are manually assessed during the surgery. The objective of this thesis is twofold: First the development of a registration and navigation system to co-register reliably and precisely the different modalities involved into the treatment plan and subsequently to investigate the possibility of a proton beam treatment without the need of sutured reference tantalum marker and the additional surgery to attach the marker. For this project we are seeking for a highly motivated candidate willing to work in a multidisciplinary environment together with clinicians and scientists. The project will be conducted in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Villigen, Switzerland). This project will be supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation through the project ?Computer Aided and Image Guided Medical Interventions (CO- ME)? as part of the National Center of Competence in Research. The nature of the project demands computer vision background as well as strong programming skills in C++ and preferably in OpenGL / OpenInventor graphics. If you feel attracted by this project please submit a comprehensive application to the contact address listed below. Supervisor contact: Prof Jens Kowal: jens.kowal@artorg.unibe.ch -- University of Bern ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research Prof Jens Kowal, Ph.D. Ophthalmic Technologies Inselspital Bern Ophthalmology Department From sol at sr-research.com Thu Nov 12 10:31:36 2009 From: sol at sr-research.com (Sol Simpson) Date: Fri Nov 13 07:06:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions In-Reply-To: <08893545-A993-4705-9CD6-88B5F5CE9A5E@search.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <000101c87d34$162b0a70$0202fea9@psquirelaptop> <4AE65229.4060008@psych.usyd.edu.au> <11741147-E7D5-4B19-8C66-75C247820977@nasa.gov> <007d01ca61f8$4d013970$e703ac50$@com> <8A583C07-5378-4C23-83DD-2925A3F48CCF@uni-freiburg.de> <009001ca62be$2956c0a0$7c0441e0$@com> <7EC1F96C-FBD1-46B9-A1AF-DC1FBDBFE971@uni-freiburg.de> <009801ca62c0$a1d98330$e58c8990$@com> <4AFBF7BE.1020507@nottingham.ac.uk> <00b501ca6390$889d4890$99d7d9b0$@com> <08893545-A993-4705-9CD6-88B5F5CE9A5E@search.bwh.harvard.edu> Message-ID: <00d101ca63c6$64da6830$2e8f3890$@com> Hi Todd, No we have not. We only looked at retrace timing using the BBTK. Thanks, Sol From: visionlist-bounces@visionscience.com [mailto:visionlist-bounces@visionscience.com] On Behalf Of Todd S. Horowitz Sent: November-12-09 11:44 AM To: visionlist@visionscience.com Subject: Re: [visionlist] CRT monitor solutions Hi Sol Have you tried Pelli's LCD grating test? http://psychtoolbox.org/PTB-2/tips/displaytest.html#test6 thanks Todd Todd S. Horowitz, PhD Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Harvard Medical School Visual Attention Lab 64 Sidney Street, Suite 170 Cambridge, MA 02139 phone: (617) 768-8813 fax: (617) 768-8816 http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/ The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . 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The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne provides an interactive environment with ambitious students and a dynamic faculty pursuing multidisciplinary research. The Laboratory of Psychophysics investigates low and mid level vision processing including perceptual learning, visual masking, feature binding, and schizophrenia (http://lpsy.epfl.ch/people/herzog/index.php). Post-Docs send curriculum vitae, list of publications, the names of three referees, and a short description of research interests by e-mail to: michael.herzog@epfl.ch. PH.D. students apply online at http://phd.epfl.ch/page57502.html PH.D students' deadline: *1st of December.* Pre-inquiries are welcome. From c3chen at ntu.edu.tw Mon Nov 16 05:27:53 2009 From: c3chen at ntu.edu.tw (Chien-Chung Chen) Date: Mon Nov 16 07:37:03 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Call for abstracts: APCV2010 Message-ID: <00a801ca66c0$9a887ab0$cf997010$@edu.tw> Call for Papers Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) Location: Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Date: July 23 - 26, 2010. http://apcv2010.psy.ntu.edu.tw We are glad to announce that APCV 2010 will take place from Friday July 23rd through to Monday July 26th 2010 in Taipei. The conference will be held at the GIS Convention Center located on the campus of National Taiwan University. 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 Chong-Yu Wu (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan), Izumi Ohzawa (Osaka University, Japan) and Christopher W. Tyler (The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA). The contributed papers will be either 15 minute oral presentations in parallel sessions, or posters. Abstracts (max length 200 words) will be published on-line and in a special issue of Vision. The deadline for submitting an abstract is March 1st, 2010. Taipei is the home of Taipei 101, currently the tallest building in the world, and the National Palace Museum, with the world's most sophisticated collection of Chinese art/antiques. Within a short drive, the famous marble Taroko Gorge, sub-tropical forests covering towering mountains, and rising cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean are all within your reach. 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The conference will focus on experiments with well-defined models --- robot models, computer simulation models, mathematical models --- designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behavior in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats. Contributions treating any of the following topics from the perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis: The Animat approach Motor control Body and brain co-evolution Self-assembling and self-replication Sensory-motor coordination Action selection & behavioral sequencing Navigation and mapping Internal models and representation Evolution, development and learning Motivation and emotion Collective and social behavior Communication and language Emergent structures and behaviors Neural correlates of behavior Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches Autonomous, bio-inspired, and hybrid robotics Autonomous robotics Humanoid robotics Cgonitive developmental robotics Software agents and virtual creatures Applied adaptive behavior Animats in education Philosophical and psychological issues Authors should make every effort to suggest implications of their work for both natural and artificial animals, and to distinguish the portions of their work which use simulation from those using a physical agent. Papers that do not deal explicitly with adaptive behavior will be rejected. CONFERENCE FORMAT: Following the tradition of SAB conferences, the conference will be single track, with additional poster sessions. Each poster session will start with poster spotlights giving presenters the opportunity to orally present their main results. PUBLISHER: Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (To Be Confirmed) Both oral and poster presentations will be published in conference proceedings. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submitted papers must not exceed 10 pages (double columns). Detailed submission instructions will be available from the conference Web site. CONTACT US: Please contact us at sab2010@isab.org Jean-Arcady Meyer, Agn?s Guillot, John Hallam --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have noted topics from the robustness of visual memory, to alleged misuse of statistics in fMRI studies, to taste receptors for carbonation At the end of our first year, we have compiled all of the Notes From the Field into a single document that you can download at this location: http://www.psychonomic.org/PP/PPeditormessage.html We hope you enjoy it. Jeremy Wolfe ? editor wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu 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=9534 The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. 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This call is open-ended in that the images might relate to submitted scientific work, the meeting in Naples, Naples itself, or the 10 years of VSS. The images might be transformations or alterations of the VSS Logo (which can be downloaded from the VSS website at http://www.visionsciences.org/callforgraphics.html.) Deadline: Wednesday January 6, 2010 Email image (and brief explanation if appropriate) to both: Shawna Lampkin (shawnalampkin@visionsciences.org) and Zoe Kourtzi (z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk ) A small amount of award money is available for individuals or labs producing chosen images. Please submit moderate size mock-up images. (JPG or PDF format preferred). A larger, high-resolution image will be requested for chosen images. If your final image would be limited in size/resolution, please inform us. For more information or questions, contact Shawna Lampkin at shawnalampkin@visionsciences.org. 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Primary responsibilities will be the development and testing of hardware/software systems for multichannel optical stimulation in-vivo, helping to design new technological solutions to overcome experimental hurdles, and working to disseminate technology between laboratories. Applicants must meet the following requirements: bachelor?s degree in a relevant engineering or science discipline, with a PhD preferred; expertise in optical and/or electronic circuit design and hardware/software interfacing; strong programming skills; the communication skills to work effectively with lab members during design and implementation phases. Applicants with the following will be preferred: experience working in scientific lab environment; experience working with optical circuits. For more information please contact Dr. Philip Sabes, sabes@phy.ucsf.edu. To apply, please send a CV with a cover letter describing relevant experience to Ned Molyneaux, molyneau@phy.ucsf.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip N. Sabes Associate Professor Department of Physiology | office: HSE 816 513 Parnassus Ave., Room HSE-816 | phone: (415) 476-0364 University of California | fax: (415) 502-4848 San Francisco, CA 94143-0444 | email: sabes@phy.ucsf.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ From denis.pelli at nyu.edu Wed Nov 18 09:25:06 2009 From: denis.pelli at nyu.edu (Denis Pelli) Date: Wed Nov 18 09:32:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] response to comments on nearly universal authorship soon References: <54318184-8610-4E73-9ACE-3852C2933586@nyu.edu> Message-ID: Pelli, D. G., and Bigelow, C. (2009) The writing revolution. Seed: Science is Culture http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/a_writing_revolution/ After our posting on CVNet and visionscience, fifty people wrote to us about our article. We've condensed our response to seven issues, posted as two replies at the New York Times blog: Definitions, prediction, and reading: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/a-writing-revolution/#comment-28215 Quality, poverty, media, and choice: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/a-writing-revolution/#comment-28219 Thanks for your interest. Denis Pelli Professor of Psychology and Neural Science New York University http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/ @denispelli -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091118/c1736669/attachment.htm From jaf at cis.rit.edu Wed Nov 18 19:38:31 2009 From: jaf at cis.rit.edu (James Ferwerda) Date: Wed Nov 18 20:03:30 2009 Subject: [visionlist] faculty opening at the Rochester Institute of Technology Message-ID: <2C56C2D8-4E08-4726-839F-28F89B672F8A@cis.rit.edu> R?I?T FACULTY POSITION POSTING FORM Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Science, 54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623 BRIEF POSTING DESCRIPTION: JOB TITLE/RANK: Instructional Faculty/Assistant (preferred), Associate, or Full Professor PC # 9453 IRC#27118 Department: Center for Imaging Science Job Category: Faculty, Tenure Track Starting Date: Late August 2010 DETAILED DESCRIPTION: This is a tenure-track faculty position in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (CIS) in areas such as the computational modeling of material optical properties based on 3D object capture, realistic image synthesis, and/or computational photography. The preferred rank is at the Assistant Professor level, although other ranks will be considered. The Center has an established laboratory called the Munsell Color Science Laboratory (MCSL), recognized internationally for its leadership in color and imaging science education, research, and outreach. MCSL is expanding its research efforts in the areas of modeling, rendering, and imaging of surface and object appearance and it is seeking a new faculty member with strong computational skills who can complement its current expertise in color science, color appearance, physics-based color modeling, spectral and high-dynamic range imaging and display, computer graphics, and visual psychophysics. This is a unique opportunity as MCSL is the nexus between theory and practice locally, nationally, and internationally with close ties to industry, government, foundations, and major cultural heritage institutions. The person recruited for this position will be expected to work closely with other faculty and staff associated with MCSL as well as the faculty in CIS more generally, make a substantial contribution to the expanded MCSL research programs as described above, and develop new avenues of funded research that complements and expands all the activities in MCSL. Candidates should visit < www.cis.rit.edu > for more information and to view the detailed job posting and < www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl > to learn about MCSL. We are seeking individuals who are committed to contributing to RIT?s core values, honor code, and statement of diversity. THE COLLEGE/ THE CENTER: The Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, located in the College of Science, is a highly interdisciplinary university research and education center dedicated to pushing the frontiers of imaging in all its forms and uses. Major research thrusts within the Center include Color Science, Remote Sensing, Imaging Algorithms and Systems, Astronomy, Sensor Development, Vision, Biomedical Imaging, and Document Reconstruction. CIS offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Imaging Science, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Color Science, and a Ph.D. degree in Astrophysical Sciences and Technology. The Color Science curriculum spans topics such as colorimetry, spectrophotometry, spectroradiometry, visual perception, psychophysics, spectral modeling of material and imaging systems, and color reproduction including capture, display, and printing. The Color Science program has a unique resource, the Munsell Color Science Laboratory (MCSL) with significant research in spectral color reproduction, color and image appearance models, 3D imaging and archiving of cultural heritage, high-dynamic range imaging and display, and modeling material appearance. RIT attracts students from all 50 states and more than 90 countries. RIT has been recognized on The Chronicle of Higher Education's inaugural ?Great Colleges to Work For? list for two consecutive years. RIT was cited in six different categories: Professional/Career Development Program, Compensation and Benefits, Tuition Reimbursement, 403b or 401k (retirement plan), Disability Insurance and Life Insurance. 2 of 2 Rochester, located in Monroe County, is the 79th largest city in the United States and the third largest city in New York State. Five additional counties are included in the Greater Rochester Region: Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne. The Greater Rochester region is inhabited by a little more than one million people The Rochester area has a diverse population which includes African Americans (38% of the city and 14% of Monroe County) and Latin Americans (13% of the city and 5% of the county). In addition, more than 7% of the population is foreign born. Rochester is ranked 7th among the ?10 Best Cities to Raise a Family? by Child Magazine, Places Rated Almanac ranked Rochester http://placesrated.com as the 6th ?Best Places to Live in America? by out of 379 metropolitan areas. Expansion Management Magazine ranked Rochester as number one among metropolitan areas having the best Quality of Life in the Nation. Essence magazine ranked it among the ?Top 10 Cities for Black Families,? Rochester was twice named one of America?s Friendliest Cities by American Demographics magazine. QUALIFICATIONS: REQUIRED: Doctoral degree or equivalent and the ability to collaborate with faculty and staff in MCSL and CIS more generally. PREFERRED: Research and Scholarship: Applicants should 1) have scholarly attainment in areas such as the computational modeling of material appearance based on 3D imaging, realistic image synthesis, and/or computational photography; 2) have the potential to obtain externally funded research and 3) have the potential to work with industry and outside sponsors. Teaching and Learning: Applicants should 1) have the ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in CIS, 2) have the ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in area of research expertise, 3) have the potential to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in color science, and 4) be committed to the guidance of graduate and undergraduate students in matters related to their education and profession. Service and Diversity: Applicants should 1) demonstrate a willingness to be involved in RIT, the College of Science, CIS, and MCSL service committees; 2) demonstrate a willingness to support the mission of MCSL ? advancing the science, understanding, and technology of color and appearance through education, research, and outreach; 3) demonstrate a willingness to participate in technical organizations and other appropriate forms of outreach, and 4) demonstrate an ability and interest in contributing to a community committed to diversity. HOW TO APPLY: Apply online at https://mycareer.rit.edu. Search for IRC33970. Please submit application material as one PDF file includes 1) curriculum vitae with a summary of education and professional background, list of publications and research grants, and summary of teaching and research experience; 2) a list of three professional references; and 3) a personal statement on why you have applied, why you should be considered, and expected future research and teaching activities. Materials should be addressed to Search Committee Chair, Center for Imaging Science and electronic copies sent to berns@cis.rit.edu and cooper@cis.rit.edu . You can contact the search committee chair, Dr. Roy S. Berns with questions on the position at: berns@cis.rit.edu. Application deadline: Applications received before February 1, 2010 will be given fullest consideration. The position will remain open until filled. The Rochester Institute of Technology is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer. 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Be sure to submit on time!! ================================================================= Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) MAIN MEETING 25 - 28 Feb, 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah WORKSHOPS 1 - 2 Mar, 2010 Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah http://cosyne.org ================================================================= Cosyne is an annual meeting providing an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. The meeting is expected to draw over 500 researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. The MAIN MEETING is organized in a single track, and consists of both oral and poster sessions. Some oral presentations are invited (see below), while others are selected based on short submitted abstracts. Poster presentations are also selected from the submitted abstracts. The WORKSHOPS are held in 4-8 parallel sessions per day, allowing for more in-depth discussion of specialized topics. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: - Keynote: Clay Reid (Harvard Medical School) - Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester) - Howard Berg (Harvard University) - Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington) - John Lisman (Brandeis University) - Eve Marder (Brandeis University) - Tirin Moore (Stanford University) - Michael Platt (Duke University) - Nicholas Schiff (Cornell Medical School) - Jackie Schiller (Technion) - Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories) Cosyne 2010 will include a special symposium in honour of Horace Barlow, featuring talks by: - Honorary Lecturer: Horace Barlow (Cambridge University) - David Field (Cornell University) - William Geisler (University of Texas) - Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) - Simon Laughlin (Cambridge University) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - General Chair: Maneesh Sahani (University College London) - Program Chairs: Anne Churchland (University of Washington) and Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California) - Workshop Chairs: Adam Kohn (Yeshiva University) and Mark Laubach (Yale University) - Communications Chair: Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: - Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - Alexandre Pouget (University of Rochester) - Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme) ADVISORY BOARD: - Matteo Carandini (University College London) - Eero Simoncelli (New York University and HHMI) - Peter Dayan (University College London) - Steven Lisberger (UC San Francisco and HHMI) - Karel Svoboda (HHMI Janelia Farm) From fulvio.domini at iit.it Thu Nov 19 07:21:23 2009 From: fulvio.domini at iit.it (Domini Fulvio) Date: Thu Nov 19 08:31:10 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral position, IIT, Rovereto, Italy References: <5B2D6D6DDD42414A91B85B082D7C5FC419B660@EDEN-CLU.netexchange.int.netscalibur.it> Message-ID: <5B2D6D6DDD42414A91B85B082D7C5FC419B663@EDEN-CLU.netexchange.int.netscalibur.it> Postdoctoral Research Fellow position on Computational Models of 3D Processing for Visual Perception and Control of Action Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CNCS) Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) Active Vision Lab, Rovereto, Italy The new established Active Vision Lab of the Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems is seeking an applicant with a Ph.D.in Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics or related fields for a PostDoctoral position of 2 years renewable to 4 years. The applicant must have a strong background in computational modeling of visual processes. Applicants who also have a strong empirical background will receive special attention. The applicant will be involved in a research project aimed at developing computational models of 3D information processing. The problems that will be tackled at the Active Vision Lab will involve: 1) Perceptual processing of 3D structure from monocular and binocular signals. 2) Processing of 3D information by an active observer. 3) Processing of 3D information for reaching and grasping. The Active Vision Lab is equipped with a state of the art system for 3D visualization, a head tracking system and a multi-sensor OPTOTRAK system for monitoring grasping and reaching movements. The Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems is hosted at the facilities of the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (Cimec), an interdisciplinary center for teaching and research in cognitive neuroscience of the University of Trento in Rovereto, Italy. The postdoctoral position will start January 15th, 2010. The salary will be commensurate to qualification and experience and in line to that of top European research institutes. Completed application forms along with a curriculum listing all publications, a pdf of your most representative publications, a research statement describing your previous research experience and outlining its relevance to these topics, and the name of three possible referees should be sent electronically to fulvio.domini@iit.it, by December 15th, 2009. ===================================================================== The IIT is a non-profit institution based in Genova, established jointly by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance to promote excellence in basic and applied research and to contribute to the economic development of Italy. The primary goals of the IIT are the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge as well as the strengthening of Italy's technological competitiveness. The IIT intends to become an international leading centre in scientific research and advanced technology, able to attract researchers from around the world, and cooperating with both academic institutions and private organizations. For more info, please visit www.iit.it . ===================================================================== From rfm at yorku.ca Thu Nov 19 06:52:36 2009 From: rfm at yorku.ca (Richard Murray) Date: Thu Nov 19 08:31:34 2009 Subject: [visionlist] york-mitacs vision science summer school Message-ID: <5B028754-FE36-47B2-AD7B-F45C05867053@yorku.ca> York-MITACS Vision Science Summer School The Centre for Vision Research (CVR) at York University offers a one-week, all-expenses-paid undergraduate summer school on vision science. This year's program will be held May 17-21, 2010. The program includes talks by CVR faculty members on current research topics in vision science, as well as hands-on projects in CVR laboratories. The curriculum reflects the wide range of research areas at CVR, which includes basic research on vision in humans and animals, covering both neuroscience and behaviour, as well as applied topics such as computer vision, virtual reality, visual perception in low-gravity environments, and vision in clinical populations. For an idea of the topics to be covered, see last year's schedule at www.yorku.ca/cvrss/schedule2009.pdf. The program will accept 24 undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in scientific research. It is intended mainly for students who are planning to apply to graduate school in the fall of 2010 for admission in 2011, and who are interested in investigating vision science as a possible area of research. Both Canadian and international students are encouraged to apply. 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, 2010, and applicants will be notified of decisions by March 1, 2010. 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 MITACS, York University, and NSERC. Poster available at www.yorku.ca/cvrss/poster2010.pdf. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are particularly interested in people who can develop collaborations with the broad spectrum of basic and clinical neuroscientists at Edinburgh, and/or develop links with other related fields represented at Edinburgh such as bioinformatics, systems biology and machine learning. The appointee will join the existing computational neuroscience group, which includes five core academic staff and five postdoctoral researchers. The group has extensive research collaborations within the university, the UK and overseas, with considerable grant support. The appointee will have the opportunity to be involved with the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. The DTC offers 12 funded 4-year PhD studentships annually, and with over 50 PhD projects currently running in this area provides a lively community. See also http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/dtc/ To apply use http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk ref. 3011971 Informal enquiries can be directed to Prof David Willshaw (willshaw@inf.ed.ac.uk) or Dr Mark van Rossum (mvanross@inf.ed.ac.uk) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From jgrammer at arvo.org Fri Nov 20 09:38:12 2009 From: jgrammer at arvo.org (Jot Grammer) Date: Fri Nov 20 09:57:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Clinical Trials: 3-Day Course - Discounts through Monday References: <9C0D662A6499BB429AFCC3BBC94DEAA604438932@mail.arvo.org> Message-ID: <9C0D662A6499BB429AFCC3BBC94DEAA603FBD6E0@mail.arvo.org> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Research Topics are: - Facial and body gestures for HCI handicapped populations. - Intelligent wheelchair navigation. - Smart environments for assisted living facilities. - Collaborative gesture sketching in the operating room The PhD student will work in a multi-disciplinary framework involving Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing disciplines. The final outcome is to develop real-time unencumbered non-invasive technologies for disabled populations relying mostly on physiological signals and body language to manage themselves, autonomously. Algorithm-wise this research includes object and body parts recognition and autonomous navigation novel approaches. Interested persons will find more details in this website: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jpwachs/ See research and publications sections. Candidates should have a master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, industrial engineering or a closely related field *with thesis*. They should have excellent programming skills (MS VC++ and Matlab) as well as communication skills in English. Good written and spoken knowledge of English is therefore mandatory. Knowledge of machine-vision, multi modal interaction and robotics will be an advantage. The PhD Student, will: - Implement real-time prototypes. - Design and validate experiments. - Present results in international conferences; - Publish results in top scientific journals; - Participate in activities of the group and of the department. - Apply for local and external grants to support his funding. Funding duration: 1 year guaranteed, up to 3 more years contingent on funding. Deadline for Fall semester 2010: January 1, 2010. Application: Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae (listing all publications), a pdf of your most representative publications, and the names of two references. Please send all these material applications by *e-mail *only to Prof. Juan Wachs *before December 15*: Prof. Juan P. Wachs jpwachs (at) purdue (dot) edu Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Laboratory School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, USA. The screening process will begin *immediately* and finish when a suitable candidate is selected. After passing the first screening round, the candidates will need to apply for the Phd program at School of Engineering, at Purdue University before January 1, 2010. See the website guidelines to see all the documents required for this (including transcripts, GRE and TOEFL), http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/ *The Phd position and scholarship is contingent on acceptance to the graduate studies program at the School of Industrial Engineering. * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition to papers, posters sessions, symposia, tutorials, and workshops there will be invited presentations by leaders in the field. The plenary speakers include James L. McClelland (10th Rumelhart Prize Recipient), Stanford University, Marsha Lovett, Carnegie-Mellon University, Peter Gerjets, University of T?bingen, and Philip David Zelazo, University of Minnesota. This is the 10th year of the Rumelhart Prize, and the program will feature a celebration of this milestone. The meeting will be the 32nd in the Society?s history, and it will be held in beautiful Portland, Oregon, USA. We invite submissions in any area of the cognitive sciences, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, cognitive architectures, cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, education, epistemology, expertise and expert systems, linguistics, logic, machine learning, neural networks, philosophy of science, robotics and social network studies. Submissions are welcome in any of five categories: Papers, symposia, member abstracts, tutorials, and workshops. Submissions must be submitted electronically on the conference submissions web site. For additional information, go to the main conference web site at the above URL and follow the ?Submissions? link. Key dates: All submissions are due on February 6, 2010. Authors will be notified of decisions by April 12. Camera-ready copy for inclusion in the proceedings is due on May 15. From persci at rci.rutgers.edu Mon Nov 23 10:20:55 2009 From: persci at rci.rutgers.edu (perceptual science) Date: Mon Nov 23 10:22:40 2009 Subject: [visionlist] IGERT Traineeships in Perceptual Science Message-ID: <4B0AD287.50209@rci.rutgers.edu> *********************************************************************** *GRADUATE TRAINING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERCEPTUAL SCIENCE AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY* http://perceptualscience.rutgers.edu* ************************************************************************ Rutgers University is accepting applications for pre-doctoral traineeships in Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science. The program, funded by an NSF IGERT grant, integrates graduate training and research in computer modeling and human perception. The Core Curriculum in Perceptual Science includes bootstrapping course work in Computer Science and in Psychophysics to ensure accessibility to students from a variety of undergraduate majors. Students participate in cross-disciplinary collaborative research in topical areas such as: motion, multisensory integration, perception of shape and objects, eye movements, attention, search, visual communication, computational depiction, human and machine learning, and human-computer interaction. Students apply for admission to one of the participating academic departments: Psychology (New Brunswick or Newark), Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Anthropology, or related programs, and indicate their interest in the Perceptual Science program in their personal statement. IGERT traineeships are limited to students who are either U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Support for non-citizens/permanent residents is also available in the form of university fellowships, graduate assistantships, or teaching assistantships. All aspects of the Perceptual Science program are open to interested students, regardless of source of support. Please bring this information to the attention of students and colleagues. For program details, application, and contact information see: http://perceptualscience.rutgers.edu /Rutgers// University// and the NSF-IGERT program are committed to the goal of broadening participation of under-represented groups in the sciences and in academics. / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091123/0b547446/attachment-0001.htm From kerry.jordan at usu.edu Mon Nov 23 12:11:31 2009 From: kerry.jordan at usu.edu (Kerry Jordan) Date: Mon Nov 23 12:35:55 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD Studentships Message-ID: I am seeking Ph.D. students to collaborate on research investigating the development of humans? concepts of number and objects across different senses. Research in our Multisensory Cognition Lab currently addresses such questions as: 1) Do infants and young children represent abstract concepts such as number? 2) Do number and object representations in children and adults extend across different senses? 3) Can we enhance nonverbal attention, learning, and memory in domains such as numerical cognition by providing redundant information through multiple senses? In addition, I anticipate involving students in two newer lines of research that investigate effects of emotion on numerical processing and ask about representation of quantity related to food sources in coyotes (in collaboration with USU?s Predator Ecology Research Center) vs. domestic dogs. Students would be enrolled in the Experimental and Applied Psychological Science program through the Department of Psychology at Utah State University, located in a spectacular mountain setting. Students collaborating on these projects are typically supported by research and teaching assistantships. Our lab offers ample opportunities for ownership of projects, close collaboration with the P.I., conference presentations, and journal article authorship. Openings in my lab are available for Fall 2010. If you are interested, please contact me as soon as possible by e-mail at kerry.jordan@usu.edu. 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The goal is to take a comprehensive look at this critical and complex class of neurons, examining their development and establishment of axonal and dendritic connections, their diverse functions in processing signals from the outer retina and detecting light directly, how they are affected in glaucoma, optic nerve damage, and other disease conditions, and how our understanding of these processes can lead to novel therapeutic approaches. Call for Posters: Call for poster presentations deadline: 3 February 2010 Selected quality posters will be chosen to present a 10 minute oral presentation based on their poster and latest results. Submit your abstract online at http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com/abstractsubmission.asp Sessions Signal processing by retinal ganglion cells Session Chair: David Copenhagen, University of California at San Francisco, USA Photosensitive ganglion cells Session Chair: David Berson, Brown University, USA Ganglion cell development and axonal targeting Session Chair: Carol A. Mason, Columbia University, USA Optic nerve damage and regeneration Session Chair: Thomas Reh, University of Washington, USA Mechanisms of ganglion cell death/animal models Session Chair: Richard Masland, Harvard University, USA Pathogenesis/neuro-protection for ganglion cells Session Chair: Robert Weinreb, University of California at San Deigo, USA Gene defects associated with ganglion cell disease Session Chair: Janey L. Wiggs, Harvard University, USA Novel therapeutic approaches in glaucoma Session Chair: Paul Kaufman, University of Wisconsin, USA All abstracts will be refereed and a criterion of rejection will be lack of originality. A condition of submission is that, if accepted, the paper will be presented at the Thirteenth Annual Vision Research Conference by one of the authors. Successfully submitted abstracts will be acknowledged with an electronic receipt including an abstract reference number, which should be quoted in all correspondence. Allow at least 2 hours for your receipt to be returned to you. Registration fees For registrations received prior to the conference: Academic Registration Fee- $355 Industrial Registration Fee- $520 Student* Registration Fee- $220 * Student registration fee applicable for undergraduate students or those studying towards a post-graduate qualification. Must be accompanied with a letter from your head of department attesting to your student status For registrations received onsite: Onsite Academic Registration Fee- $414 Onsite Industrial Registration Fee- $580 Onsite Student* Registration Fee- $250 * Student registration fee applicable for undergraduate students or those studying towards a post-graduate qualification. Must be accompanied with a letter from your head of department attesting to your student status Registration includes Access to all conference sessions Access to poster areas Abstract book available at the conference and conference documentation Mid-session refreshments as scheduled in the conference program A Special issue of Vision Research containing original papers by the invited speakers, to be mailed to all registered delegates after the conference Please note: The registration fee does not include lunch on either conference day. Lunch options will be available for delegates on a cash basis. 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A group can also qualify, it does not have to be an individual. - the deadline is November 30th. _________________________________ The ACM is currently accepting nomination for the Lawler award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. Nominations will be accepted until November 30, 2009. For a list of previous award recipients visit www.acm.org/awards. Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics This award is to recognize an individual or a group who have made a significant contribution through the use of computing technology. The award is intentionally defined broadly. The professional credentials of the recipient(s) are not important. The recipient(s) need never to have earned a degree or published a paper, or even be considered to be a computer professional. The emphasis of the Award Committee will be on the significance of the contribution itself, within the prescribed areas of technology for humanitarian contributions in the field of computing. Some examples of the types of contributions that this award is created to recognize are: technology for social justice, access to education, economic empowerment, application of computer technology to aid the disabled; creative research concerning intellectual property issues; expansion of educational opportunities in Computer Science for women and underrepresented minorities; application of computers or computing techniques in the developing countries. This ACM award was established in honor of Eugene Lawler who was a professor at UC Berkeley. Eugene Lawler was a unique individual in computing who was concerned not just about technology but about social justice, improvement of humanity, and the questions of how technology influences and shapes society and social structures. Can technology be a force for good and fairness? Gene's interest in inclusion led him to pioneer the first women's re-entry program, which created an educational path for talented women to return to school and pursue a degree in computer science. His influence on the entire Berkeley curriculum was unusual as he created courses that dealt with technology?s ability to influence politics, government, and social institutions. In short, he was a role model for fairness and equity and asked all of us to ponder these issues and think about our roles as technologists in our evolving social, political, and economic world. Nominations will be accepted until November 30, 2009. They should be submitted to the chair, Nina Bhatti, at nina.bhatti@hp.com. The submission should include: 1) Name, email, mailing address, and phone number of person making the nomination. 2) Name, email and mailing address of candidate for whom an award is recommended. 3) A statement (between 200 and 500 words long) as to why the candidate deserves the particular award. 4) The name(s) and address(es) or telephone number(s) of others who agree with the recommendation and their supporting statements. From n8 at hp.com Tue Nov 24 12:09:08 2009 From: n8 at hp.com (Nathan Moroney) Date: Tue Nov 24 11:44:38 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Categorization Message-ID: <4B0C3D64.8030503@hp.com> The Print Production Automation Laboratory of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California is seeking candidates for an ASEE/NSF postdoctoral fellowship in computational categorization in the area of color imaging. The position will apply experience and interests in perceptual categorization, machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, and natural computation to a sizeable, diverse and growing collection of laboratory and web-derived ground truthing databases for color imaging. Join a team working on advanced optical feedback for commercial printing and provide knowledge of multi-variate clustering, to implement software to perform computational categorization. Additional details have been posted here: http://www.mostlycolor.ch/2009/11/postdoctoral-fellowship-in.html Thanks & best regards, Nathan Moroney Principal Scientist, HP Labs From VSS at visionsciences.org Wed Nov 25 01:01:09 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Wed Nov 25 07:36:59 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Satellite Events at VSS 2010 Message-ID: <000601ca6dad$dc78bb30$956a3190$@org> VSS welcomes applications for satellite events to be held at the 2010 meeting in Naples. Satellite events can be workshops, business meetings, social events or ancillary events of interest to VSS attendees, but which are not planned or sponsored directly by VSS. Admission to Satellite Events can either be by invitation to a subset of meeting attendees, or open to all. To request space for a satellite event at VSS 2010, complete the online VSS 2010 Satellite Events Request Form. Requests will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis as long as space is available. For complete satellite event information or to complete the online Request form, go to: http://www.visionsciences.org/satellite_guidelines.htm Follow Us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/VSSMtg. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091125/35751939/attachment.htm From eero.simoncelli at nyu.edu Wed Nov 25 10:46:30 2009 From: eero.simoncelli at nyu.edu (Eero Simoncelli) Date: Wed Nov 25 11:09:02 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Doctoral studies in Vision at NYU References: Message-ID: <043D0ACF-31B0-4672-9CC1-EA2D66F8E606@nyu.edu> New York University is home to a thriving interdisciplinary community of researchers in the visual sciences, spanning multiple departments. A listing of faculty, sorted by their primary departmental affiliation, is given below. Doctoral programs are flexible, allowing students to pursue research across departmental boundaries. Nevertheless, admissions are handled separately by each department, and students interested in pursuing graduate studies should submit an application to the program that best fits their goals and interests. Application deadlines vary per department, as indicated below. ** Center for Neural Science (CNS) (Deadline: 12 December) [http://www.cns.nyu.edu/doctoral/] [Neuroscience throughout NYU: http://neuroscience.nyu.edu] * Michael Hawken (also in Psychology) - Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception. * Lynne Kiorpes (also in Psychology) - Development of visual function. * Tony Movshon (also in Psychology) - Vision and visual development. * Bijan Pesaran - Neuronal dynamics, visuo-motor control, and decision making. * John Rinzel (also in Mathematics) - Biophysical mechanisms and theory of neural computation. * Nava Rubin (also in Psychology) - Visual perception and the neural basis of vision. * Robert Shapley (also in Psychology and Biology) - Visual physiology and perception. * Eero Simoncelli (also in Mathematics and Psychology) - Computational vision. ** Psychology, Cognition & Perception program (Deadline: 12 December) [http://www.psych.nyu.edu/programs/cp/] * Marisa Carrasco (also in CNS) - Visual perception and attention. * David Heeger (also in CNS) - fMRI, computational neuroscience, vision, attention. * Michael Landy (also in CNS) - Computational approaches to vision. * Laurence Maloney (also in CNS) - Mathematical approaches to psychology and neuroscience. * Denis Pelli (also in CNS) - Object recognition. ** Computer Science (Deadline: 4 January) [http://www.cs.nyu.edu/web/Research/Areas/graphicsvisionui.html] * Chris Bregler - human motion modeling, computer vision, machine learning. * Rob Fergus - computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics. * Davi Geiger (also in CNS) - Computational vision and learning. * Yann LeCun - machine learning, hierarchical visual processing, robotics. * Sam Roweis - machine learning, signal and image processing, analysis of large datasets. ** Mathematics (Recommended Deadline: 18 December ) [http://math.nyu.edu/degree/phd/] * David Cai - Nonlinear stochastic behavior in physical and biological systems. * David McLaughlin (also CNS) - Nonlinear wave equations, computational visual neuroscience. * Aaditya Rangan - computational neurobiology, numerical analysis. * Michael Shelley (also CNS) - Modeling and large-scale computation, computational visual neuroscience. ** Biology (Deadline: 12 December) [http://biology.as.nyu.edu/page/graduate.program] * Claude Desplan (also CNS) - Molecular/genetic basis for development, particularly color vision circuitry. * Daniel Tranchina (also Mathematics and CNS) - Information processing in the retina. ** Philosophy (Deadline: 4 January) [http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/page/graduate] * Ned Block (also psychology and CNS) - Foundations of consciousness. From VSS at visionsciences.org Wed Nov 25 16:45:47 2009 From: VSS at visionsciences.org (Vision Sciences Society) Date: Wed Nov 25 18:43:09 2009 Subject: [visionlist] VSS Abstract Submission Deadline Extended Message-ID: <008201ca6e31$cf376f50$6da64df0$@org> The deadline for submitting abstracts for the VSS 2010 Meeting has been extended to Wednesday, December 2nd (midnight latest time zone on earth). To access your online account, log in to the VSS Online Membership and Meeting System (http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/ ). You must renew your membership for 2010 to be eligible to submit an abstract. For more information or if you have questions, please contact vss@visionsciences.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091125/544716e1/attachment.htm From m.bauer at ucl.ac.uk Thu Nov 26 08:22:58 2009 From: m.bauer at ucl.ac.uk (Markus Bauer) Date: Thu Nov 26 12:01:54 2009 Subject: [visionlist] fast displays for vision research? Message-ID: <4B0EAB62.7010506@ucl.ac.uk> Hi I wonder what kind of displays are currently most recommended for vision research when fast and accurate timing is important? We want to do some studies using flicker stimuli where we want to manipulate the phase even at high frequencies around 50Hz and higher So 'refresh rates' above 100Hz and ideally above 150Hz as some CRT monitors offered would be great. Are there still (fast) CRT monitors sold? where? Any recommendations for fast (and temporally accurate) LCD devices? Are Plasma devices suitable? We are interested in both monitors/screens as well as Projectors - for MEG research Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated! Markus Bauer From mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie Thu Nov 26 13:09:39 2009 From: mark.elliott at nuigalway.ie (Elliott, Mark) Date: Thu Nov 26 13:26:55 2009 Subject: [visionlist] fast displays for vision research? References: <4B0EAB62.7010506@ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <47C2E007B3E98F4E8BBC7997F007CE1305C00736@EVS1.ac.nuigalway.ie> Really the only solution would be to use now antique point plotters with fast phosphors - P15 for example running on a Datacheck XY1050 (the next generation of the Tektronix 608) or perhaps to build a LED display using a timer card, it would depend on what it is you would like to time of course. Mark Dr. Mark A. Elliott CSci BA, MSc PhD Senior Lecturer Room 201, Cois Abhann School of 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: visionlist-bounces@visionscience.com on behalf of Markus Bauer Sent: Thu 26/11/2009 16:22 To: visionlist@visionscience.com Subject: [visionlist] fast displays for vision research? Hi I wonder what kind of displays are currently most recommended for vision research when fast and accurate timing is important? We want to do some studies using flicker stimuli where we want to manipulate the phase even at high frequencies around 50Hz and higher So 'refresh rates' above 100Hz and ideally above 150Hz as some CRT monitors offered would be great. Are there still (fast) CRT monitors sold? where? Any recommendations for fast (and temporally accurate) LCD devices? Are Plasma devices suitable? We are interested in both monitors/screens as well as Projectors - for MEG research Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated! Markus Bauer _______________________________________________ visionlist mailing list visionlist@visionscience.com http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist From pronobis at csc.kth.se Fri Nov 27 04:50:50 2009 From: pronobis at csc.kth.se (Andrzej Pronobis) Date: Fri Nov 27 09:38:16 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ICPR'10 Robot Vision Contest - Call for Participation Message-ID: <1011283c0911270450p36c663e2s3f53754f5fcc3a2c@mail.gmail.com> ============================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ImageCLEF@ICPR'10 Contest - RobotVision Task http://www.imageclef.org/2010/ICPR/RobotVision In conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'10) http://www.icpr2010.org/ ============================================== The RobotVision task is a part of the ImageCLEF contest organized in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). ICPR is a major event in the pattern recognition field and the contest provides great opportunity to evaluate and compare approaches on a challenging visual place classification dataset. Each participant receives data for training, validation and testing together with an experimental procedure. The schedule is designed to allow the participants to submit their approaches to the main conference together with the results obtained in the contest. Registration to the contest is free of charge. Information about the objectives, the task, the organization, and the subscription procedure follows; for more information and updates, please visit: http://www.imageclef.org/2010/ICPR/RobotVision The RobotVision task is a continuation of the successful RobotVision@ImageCLEF'09 contest: http://www.imageclef.org/2009/robot The previous contest attracted considerable attention with 7 groups participating and a total of 27 submitted runs. The second edition of the RobotVision task addresses the problem of visual place classification. Specifically, participants are asked to classify rooms and areas on the basis of image sequences, captured by a stereo camera mounted on a mobile robot within an office environment, under varying illumination conditions. Participants are given training data consisting of sequences of stereo images (use of stereo information is optional) recorded using a mobile robot that was manually driven through several rooms of a typical indoor office environment. The challenge is to build a system able to answer the question 'where are you?' (I'm in the kitchen, in the corridor, etc.) when presented with test sequences containing images acquired in the previously observed part of the environment (from different viewpoints and under different illumination conditions) or in additional rooms that were not imaged in the training sequences. The system should assign each test image to one of the rooms that were present in the training sequences or indicate that the image comes from a room that was not included during training. Moreover, the system can refrain from making a decision (e.g. in the case of lack of confidence). The competition starts with the release of annotated training and validation data. The test image sequences will be released later (see the schedule below). Schedule -------- 13.11.2009 - Training and validation data and task release 15.12.2009 - Test data release 05.01.2010 - Submission of runs 08.01.2010 - Release of results and ground truth (private communication with each of the participants) 15.01.2010 - Deadline for the main ICPR 2010 conference paper submission 30.03.2010 - Notification of acceptance of the ICPR 2010 papers 30.03.2010 - Official release of results and ground truth 30.04.2010 - Deadline for overview papers for contests 23.08. - 26.08.2010 - ICPR 2010 Conference The schedule should allow the contest participants to submit papers describing their approaches (optionally including the result obtained in the contest) to the main ICPR 2010 conference. Organizers ---------- - Andrzej Pronobis Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden pronobis@csc.kth.se - Barbara Caputo IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland bcaputo@idiap.ch - Henrik I. Christensen Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA hic@cc.gatech.edu -- Andrzej Pronobis, PhD Student CAS/CVAP/CSC Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: pronobis@csc.kth.se | URL: www.csc.kth.se/~pronobis Phone: +46 8 790 6725 | GSM: +46 768 874 374 From deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au Thu Nov 26 19:52:48 2009 From: deboraha at psych.usyd.edu.au (Deborah Apthorp) Date: Fri Nov 27 09:38:46 2009 Subject: [visionlist] fast displays for vision research? In-Reply-To: <4B0EAB62.7010506@ucl.ac.uk> References: <4B0EAB62.7010506@ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hi Markus, I posted on this topic a while ago & got a huge number of responses, which I'll try to summarise below. Briefly: Most high-end CRT monitors can be driven at higher refresh rates than advertised if you sacrifice pixel resolution. You should be able to get up to 200Hz on a good one. It is currently pretty hard to get new CRTs but there are a few suppliers in the US still selling them: Eureka Electronics: http://www.eurekaelectronics.com/ Widgets Inc: http://www.widgetsinc.com/shop/page199.html Accurate IT: http://www.accurateit.com/pricelist.asp Vision Research Graphics: http://www.vrg.com/ - these guys make a specialist high-speed monochrome CRT monitor. With regard to more recent technology, have a look at Daniel Reetz's post which goes into this in more detail, but briefly: There is nothing entirely adequate being sold just yet, but a few things look promising: OLED (organic light-emitting diode) monitors are supposed to start coming out next year, according to Samsung. These should theoretically have good temporal properties but they've been rather slow making it onto the market and may not be very durable. A lot of people are banking on this being the next big thing but they have not been extensively tested for vision research yet. There are some reports of timing problems due to the way the displays are driven. TMOS technology (time multiplexed optical shuttering) - http://www.unipixel.com/home.htm - this is promising, could be manufactured with existing LCD- manufacturing equipment, but is not yet on the market and may take some time (also some sources suggest there may be unforeseen technical difficulties in the manufacturing). Laser technology: http://www.laservuetv.com/products.php - this is pretty new and is more a TV than a monitor, but we're looking into it. LCD monitors: technology is improving for these, but the problem is that a lot of the technology that goes into improving the "refresh rate" is trade-protected and so we don't really know what is happening behind the scenes. Sol Simpson reports that the Samsung 2233RZ and the ViewSonic VX2265wm have been tested and do run at a "true" 120Hz, but I think further testing would be required on these models. Furthermore, these still rely on "twisted nematic" technology (as do all LCD displays) which means 6-bit rather than 8-bit colour. With projectors, your best bet is a 3-chip DLP, according to Duje Tadin, but they are very expensive. The ones designed for stereo have very fast refresh rates, apparently. Single-chip DLPs use a colour wheel and are not recommended as they produce quite a lot of artefacts. There is also a projector technology called LCoS which is apparently a hybrid between LCD and reflective technology: Daniel Reetz uses a JVC SX21 but I don't think he recommends driving it at fast refresh rates. Laser projectors are very new on the market and there are some reports that the timing on these will be very good. Commercial projectors: http://www.colorvision-lasers.com/default.aspx - these guys will custom build you one, but it looks very expensive. "Pico" laser projectors: http://www.microvision.com/ - these guys make the cutest little pocket laser projectors that will be commercially available very soon. I hope this information is of some use to you. Cheers Deborah Apthorp School of Psychology, University of Sydney On 27/11/2009, at 3:22 AM, Markus Bauer wrote: > Hi > > I wonder what kind of displays are currently most recommended for > vision research when fast and accurate timing is important? > > We want to do some studies using flicker stimuli where we want to > manipulate the phase even at high frequencies around 50Hz and higher > So 'refresh rates' above 100Hz and ideally above 150Hz as some CRT > monitors offered would be great. > > Are there still (fast) CRT monitors sold? where? > Any recommendations for fast (and temporally accurate) LCD devices? > Are Plasma devices suitable? > > We are interested in both monitors/screens as well as Projectors - > for MEG research > > Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated! > > Markus Bauer > > > _______________________________________________ > visionlist mailing list > visionlist@visionscience.com > http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091126/2346d860/attachment.htm From AndersonN26 at macewan.ca Fri Nov 27 08:14:10 2009 From: AndersonN26 at macewan.ca (Nicole Anderson) Date: Fri Nov 27 09:38:54 2009 Subject: [visionlist] 2 Faculty Positions: Grant MacEwan University Message-ID: <4B0F98640200005D0000FE19@macewan1.macewan.ca> Full-Time Faculty Positions - Psychology The Department of Psychology at Grant MacEwan University invites applications for two new faculty positions, commencing July 1, 2010. We are seeking applicants with specialization in (1) perception and (2) developmental, clinical, and/or social. However, strong applicants with expertise in other areas may be considered. The successful candidates must have a PhD (or solid indication of imminent completion), and must demonstrate excellence or clear promise of excellence in teaching. A commitment to research and to the supervision of undergraduate (including honours students) research projects is expected. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, recent teaching evaluations, a statement of teaching interests and experience, a statement of research interests, samples of research productivity, and graduate transcripts. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted under separate cover. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Salary Range: commensurate with education and experience Closing Date: Consideration of applications will commence December 15, 2009, and will continue until the positions are filled. Quote Competition No: 09.10.263 For further information, contact the department chair, Dr. Russ Powell, at powellr@macewan.ca or (780) 497-5321, or visit the department website at http://www.macewan.ca/psyc Phone: 780-497-5434 Fax: 780-497-5430 Grant MacEwan University thanks all applicants for their interest in employment, however; only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Apply to: Human Resources Department Grant MacEwan University City Centre Campus, 7-105, 10700 104 Ave Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 Phone: (780) 497-5434 Fax: (780) 497-5430 Resumes may be submitted electronically in either Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf) or Portable Document Format (PDF). Ensure that your resume includes the Competition Number and Position Title. Please do not password protect the document you submit. Mail to careers@macewan.ca From ecvp2010 at epfl.ch Fri Nov 27 00:20:00 2009 From: ecvp2010 at epfl.ch (ECVP 2010) Date: Fri Nov 27 09:41:56 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ECVP 2010 in Lausanne, Switzerland Message-ID: <4B0F8BB0.2050203@epfl.ch> The 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, *August 22-26, 2010.* For more information: http://ecvp2010.epfl.ch Abstract submission and early registration will start *January 11, 2010.* The abstract submission deadline is *March 31, 2010.* Travel fellowships will be granted competitively to a limited number of students from Eastern European, Asian, African, and South-American countries. ECVP 2010 will feature participant initiated talk sessions, which will address one important topic in vision research. For more information: http://ecvp2010.epfl.ch/index.php?page=symposia Looking forward to seeing you in Lausanne, The ECVP 2010 Organizing Committee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091127/37bdb700/attachment.htm From d.h.foster at manchester.ac.uk Sat Nov 28 02:04:42 2009 From: d.h.foster at manchester.ac.uk (David H. Foster) Date: Sat Nov 28 08:41:06 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ORDER OF AUTHORS IN VISION Message-ID: <4B10F5BA.1040202@manchester.ac.uk> ORDER OF AUTHORS IN VISION Conventions governing the order in which authors are listed on a journal paper vary with discipline. Some common rules are these: 1. Alphabetical order. 2. Descending order of contribution. 3. Descending order of contribution but "senior" (e.g. most experienced) author last. 4. Descending order of need (for employment, promotion, etc). 5. Random order. Some guidelines have been published on the necessary conditions for authorship (see e.g. http://www.icmje.org/) and some journals require authors to declare explicitly the nature of their contribution. In addition, some conferences require that the presenter be the first author in any conference abstracts or proceedings. Nevertheless, author ordering remains an important measure, not just to fellow scientists, but also to faculty administrators, grant-awarding agencies, and others. In 2004, I conducted a survey on the practice followed by researchers in vision (results at http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/david.foster/). I am interested in seeing whether practice has changed. Because some previous respondents used more than one rule, it would be helpful to have an indication of the relative frequency of each usage, e.g. "70% by rule 1 and 30% by rule 2". Please also indicate your current discipline (e.g. "psychology", "neuroscience"). Comments on personal experiences or more general observations are welcome, but please tell me whether you would prefer that they remain confidential. If there are enough replies (to me please at d.h.foster@manchester.ac.uk, not to the list), then I shall post a summary, with a link to respondents' comments. Thanks, David Foster -- D. H. Foster, DSc, FInstP Professor of Vision Systems Head of Sensing, Imaging, and Signal Processing Group School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences The University of Manchester Sackville Street Building Manchester M60 1QD, UK. email: d.h.foster@manchester.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)161 306 3888 web: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/david.foster/ From ajyu at ucsd.edu Sat Nov 28 19:03:11 2009 From: ajyu at ucsd.edu (Angela Yu) Date: Sun Nov 29 09:40:32 2009 Subject: [visionlist] PhD studies in Computational Neuroscience in Dr. Yu's Lab at UCSD Message-ID: <62F372AB-FAFA-48C2-8F16-2E77BC66AB64@ucsd.edu> Applications are invited for doctoral study in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, led by Dr. Angela Yu, at University of California, San Diego. Prospective students can apply either through the PhD program in the Cognitive Science Department (http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduate-study/pros_grads/ ) or the inter-departmental Neuroscience PhD Program (http://neurograd.ucsd.edu/admissions/index.html ). Deadline is December 1, 2009 for both programs. Current research of Dr. Yu's lab currently uses a combination of theoretical and empirical tools to understand the basic principles underlying the inter-related problems of sequential decision-making, adaptation, sensori-motor integration, selective attention, visual search, and active sensory processing. Candidates should have a strong mathematical background and programming experienc. Depending on the candidates' interest and ability, the student will also design and conduct human behavioral experiments involving some combination of psychophysics and eye experiments, as well as the opportunity to conduct animal experiments in collaboration with other labs at UCSD. Dr. Yu's lab is situated within the Natural Computation Lab in the Cognitive Science department of UCSD. It is affiliated with the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center and the UCSD Neurosciences Graduate Program. It provides ample opportunities for communication and collaboration with related labs not only within the department of Cognitive Science, but also in Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Electric and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Institute for Neural Computation, and the Salk Institute. --------------------------------------------------------- Angela J. Yu Assistant Professor Department of Cognitive Science UCSD, Mail Code 0515 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 Email: ajyu@cogsci.ucsd.edu Phone: 858-822-3317 Fax: 858-534-1128 Website: www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~ajyu --------------------------------------------------------- From schirija at wfu.edu Sun Nov 29 10:00:01 2009 From: schirija at wfu.edu (Jim Schirillo) Date: Sun Nov 29 10:24:31 2009 Subject: [visionlist] ROC program Message-ID: <4B12B6A1.3080706@wfu.edu> Does anyone know of a (preferably free) program that will produce ROC curves that include both d' and beta computations? -- Jim Schirillo Professor 428 Greene Hall Dept. of Psychology Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27109 schirija@wfu.edu 336.758.4233 From suhyun84 at snu.ac.kr Sun Nov 29 19:06:17 2009 From: suhyun84 at snu.ac.kr (Soo Hyun Park) Date: Mon Nov 30 06:54:35 2009 Subject: [visionlist] monochrome monitor by Vision Research Graphics Message-ID: Hi, our lab purchased monochrome monitors in 2005 from Vision Research Graphics just in case and now I'm setting up those monitors in order to perform experiments required high temporal frequency (at least 200Hz). 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CIMET is a two-year Master course (120 ECTS) with an interdisciplinary approach on the field of color science and technology, it encompasses photonics, computer vision and imaging science, computer science and multimedia technology as a mix of relevant theoretical and practical knowledge. CIMET (www.master-erasmusmundus-color.eu) is part of the prestigious Erasmus Mundus programme (http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/doc72_en.htm), and has launched its campaign to recruit students and visiting scholars (Phd minimum) for the 2010-2012 programme. To study an international master on science and colour technology? To be a colour specialist in the field of photonics, computer vision, optics, image processing, multispectral science, multimedia technology? To be able to study in four European universities? To receive all courses in English? To receive a nice grant during two years? To do the master thesis in collaboration with a company in the field of colour? To study two years in a classroom with students from all over the world? To get a multiple diploma with the prestigious Erasmus Mundus label? You can make this dream real with the Master Erasmus Mundus CIMET The programme requests high mobility, but it is possible to mainly study in one host university and attend only one semester in another university. All courses are given inEnglish throughout the consortium. To qualify for admission, applicants must have a Bachelor degree (180 ECTS) in computer science, physics, mathematics or similar field. The CIMET consortium is also able to host academics specialized in the fields of optics, colour, image and media technology to conduct research. Scholars (PhD minimum) will be expected to contribute to the teaching of one compulsory course or one optional specialization course, under the direction of a permanent teacher at the host institution. Those Non-EUvisiting scholars, if selected, can benefit from an attractive fellowship. Below are the details of the various scholarships (student) and fellowship (scholars) available and the deadlines for application: ----- Erasmus Mundus Scholarship and Fellowship: Student category A, for International Students (Non-EU): 48,000? for the two-year course. Student category B, for EU Students or Non-EU students who have stayed more than 12 months in the EU: from 20,000? to 23,000? for the two-year course. Scholar fellowship: from 2400? for a two-week stay, as visiting professor, to a maximum of 14,800? for a 3 months stay. ----- CIMET tuition fees: EU student: 8,000? for the two-year course Non-EU students: 16,000? for the two-year course ----- CIMET Consortium scholarship: Certain selected students (EU/non-EU) obtain a 50% discount on the CIMET tuition fees. ----- Deadlines for application to the course and /or scholarships (students) and fellowship (visiting scholars) are: Non-European students/ visiting scholars : 8th of January 2010 European students (or students who have stayed or studied more than 12 months in the EU during the last five years): 9th of April 2010 ----- For further information about our CIMET Master course and about our application procedure for the course and/or the scholarships and fellowship, please consult: www.master-erasmusmundus-color.eu ----- Javier Hern?ndez Andr?s Academic coordinator at the University of Granada of the Master Erasmus Mundus CIMET "Color in Informatics and Media Technology" http://www.master-erasmusmundus-color.eu/ Address: Departamento de Optica. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Granada Campus Fuentenueva, Edificio Mecenas 18071-Granada (SPAIN) Phone: +34 958242929 Fax: +34 958248533 From i.s.pedraza at ncl.ac.uk Tue Dec 1 01:45:50 2009 From: i.s.pedraza at ncl.ac.uk (Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza) Date: Tue Dec 1 07:05:00 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Re: ROC program In-Reply-To: <200911290253.nAT2rOMA017311@lawton.ewind.com> References: <200911290253.nAT2rOMA017311@lawton.ewind.com> Message-ID: <194B2B2F4831478A9911A325A7578E5B@ispd820> Hi, This is the Excel spreadsheet that I sent directly to Jim but others here also might be interested in this program. Direct link: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/research/code/STD_SerranoPedraza.xls It can also be downloaded following this link: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/index.php?location=research&sub=code All the best, Ignacio __________________________________________________ Dr. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza Office: +44 191 222 5941 Research associate, Mobile: +44 784 785 8579 Institute of Neuroscience, Fax: +44 191 222 5227 Newcastle University, Henry Wellcome Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK mailto:i.s.pedraza@ncl.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Schirillo" Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:36 PM To: Subject: CVNet - ROC program > Does anyone know of a (preferably free) program that will produce ROC > curves that include both d' and beta computations? > > -- > Jim Schirillo > Professor > > 428 Greene Hall > Dept. of Psychology > Wake Forest University > Winston-Salem, NC 27109 > > schirija@wfu.edu > 336.758.4233 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > To get information on using CVNet, send a note to: majordomo@mail.ewind.com > In the body of the message, enter: info cvnet > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Experience using and programming the EyeLink eye tracking systems. . Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux programming experience. . Experience programming for real-time/embedded applications. . C/C++ and CPython excellence. . Experience developing device drivers, OpenGL, DirectX, JNI, CPython are definite assets. The position would be located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Please contact Sol Simpson, sol@sr-research.com, if you believe you have the necessary skill set and are interested in this position. Sincerely, Sol Simpson SR Research Ltd 613-826-2958 ext. 222 (fax) 613-482-4866 www.sr-research.com Complete Eye Tracking Solutions -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Current retinal imaging technology falls either in the inexpensive but low resolution category, or in the complex, high resolution and expensive one. This project seeks to fill the gap by developing a technique based on a simple optical architecture that still has the possibility to obtain high-resolution retinal images useful for high-end disease diagnosis. The student will work on developing both theoretical and practical aspects of the technique and should have a background in physics, optics, engineering or related topic. A first class or upper second degree, MSc or equivalent is required. The position is available to start October 2010 (or earlier) The studentship covers tuition fees (UK/EU students) and a stipend of ?15,290 per annum. For more information please contact Dr Steve Gruppetta on steve.gruppetta@city.ac.uk . Prospective applicants please also send a CV. http://staff.city.ac.uk/steve.gruppetta/ ________ Steve Gruppetta RCUK Academic Fellow Department of Optometry and Visual Science City University London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB UK tel: +44 (0)207 040 8336 steve.gruppetta@city.ac.uk http://staff.city.ac.uk/steve.gruppetta -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist/attachments/20091201/db61126d/attachment-0001.htm From R.H.Cuijpers at tue.nl Tue Dec 1 08:34:11 2009 From: R.H.Cuijpers at tue.nl (Cuijpers, R.H.) Date: Tue Dec 1 10:37:22 2009 Subject: [visionlist] Two PhD positions on social and cognitive robotics Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Miles http://journalofvision.org/9/12/2/ Orientation tuning of curvature adaptation reveals both curvature-polarity-selective and non-selective mechanisms Jason Bell Elena Gheorghiu Frederick A. A. Kingdom http://journalofvision.org/9/12/3/ The sliding window of audio-visual simultaneity Warrick Roseboom Shin'ya Nishida Derek H. Arnold http://journalofvision.org/9/12/4/ Latency characteristics of the short-wavelength-sensitive cones and their associated pathways R. J. Lee J. D. Mollon Q. Zaidi H. E. Smithson http://journalofvision.org/9/12/5/ Categorical color constancy for simulated surfaces Maria Olkkonen Thorsten Hansen Karl R. Gegenfurtner http://journalofvision.org/9/12/6/ Recalibration of multisensory simultaneity: Cross-modal transfer coincides with a change in perceptual latency Massimiliano Di Luca Tonja-Katrin Machulla Marc O. Ernst http://journalofvision.org/9/12/7/ Stereoscopic discrimination of the layout of ground surfaces Robert S. Allison Barbara J. Gillam Stephen A. Palmisano http://journalofvision.org/9/12/8/ Origin of the fast negative ERG component from isolated aspartate-treated mouse retina Frans J. Vinberg Satu Strandman Ari Koskelainen http://journalofvision.org/9/12/9/ Faces and text attract gaze independent of the task: Experimental data and computer model Moran Cerf E. Paxon Frady Christof Koch http://journalofvision.org/9/12/10/ The role of vertical mirror symmetry in visual shape detection Bart Machilsen Maarten Pauwels Johan Wagemans http://journalofvision.org/9/12/11/ The fate of task-irrelevant visual motion: Perceptual load versus feature-based attention Shuichiro Taya Wendy J. Adams Erich W. Graf Nilli Lavie http://journalofvision.org/9/12/12/ A summary-statistic representation in peripheral vision explains visual crowding Benjamin Balas Lisa Nakano Ruth Rosenholtz http://journalofvision.org/9/12/13/ Monocular signals in human lateral geniculate nucleus reflect the Craik-Cornsweet-O'Brien effect Elaine J. Anderson Steven C. Dakin Geraint Rees http://journalofvision.org/9/12/14/ Static and space-time visual saliency detection by self-resemblance Hae Jong Seo Peyman Milanfar http://journalofvision.org/9/12/15/ Why are you angry with me? Facial expressions of threat influence perception of gaze direction Michael P. Ewbank Caroline Jennings Andrew J. Calder http://journalofvision.org/9/12/16/ Orientation bandwidths are invariant across spatiotemporal frequency after isotropic components are removed John Cass Sjoerd Stuit Peter Bex David Alais http://journalofvision.org/9/12/17/ Preservation of shape discrimination in aging Claudine Habak Frances Wilkinson Hugh R. Wilson http://journalofvision.org/9/12/18/ Face gender and emotion expression: Are angry women more like men? Ursula Hess Reginald B. Adams Jr. Karl Grammer Robert E. Kleck http://journalofvision.org/9/12/19/ Effect of accommodation on peripheral ocular aberrations Ankit Mathur David A. Atchison W. Neil Charman http://journalofvision.org/9/12/20/ Oculomotor responses and visuospatial perceptual judgments compete for common limited resources Marc S. Tibber Simon Grant Michael J. Morgan http://journalofvision.org/9/12/21/ A masking analysis of glass pattern perception Chien-Chung Chen http://journalofvision.org/9/12/22/ Effect of distance upon horizontal and vertical look and stare OKN Christopher M. Knapp Irene Gott