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Program
Saturday, Sept 15th
6-8 pm: Registration desk opens
6-8 pm: poster set-up (Angel)
Sunday, Sept 16th
8:15 – 8:30 Opening Remarks: Austin Roorda, chair, local organizing committee
Color in the Cortex8:30 – 10:30
Moderator: Brian Wandell, Stanford University
Bob Shapley, New York University, Single Opponent and Double Opponent Cells in Macaque Striate Cortex
Sam Solomon, University of Sydney, Regulation of chromatic sensitivity in the primate visual system
Greg Horwitz, University of Washington, Analysis of non-linear cone signal combination in V1
Kathy Mullen, McGill University, Color processing in the human LGN and cortex measured with fMRI
10:00 – 10:30 coffee break
Contributed Color Talks11:00 – 12:30
Moderator: Barry Lee, State University of New York
Dennis Dacey, University of Washington, Blue-Yellow opponent receptive field structure of primate S-cones
Steven Buck, University of Washington, Testing color vision models that incorporate rod influence
Ian Murray, University of Manchester, What can peripheral colour vision tell us about the organisation of cone opponent pathways?
Keizo Shinomori, Kochi University, The impulse response functions and interactions for S-cone increments and decrements.
Lucinda Baker, Colorado State University, As Time Goes By: Peripheral Color Appearance Following
Photobleaching
Farran Briggs, UC Davis, How colorful is corticogeniculate feedback?
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
Contributed Vision Talks1:30 - 3:30
Moderator: Matteo Carandini, Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Damon Chandler, Oklahoma State University, How much information is carried by the power and phase spectra of natural scenes?
Michael Falconbridge, UC San Diego, Dynamics of adaptation to counterphasing gratings
Anthony Norcia, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, Imaging the time-course of Figure-Ground
segmentation
Thomas Lauritzen, UC Berkeley, fMRI coherency analysis reveals feed-forward progression of visual responses
in human early visual cortex
Katherine Mancuso, Medical College of Wisconsin, Gene therapy treatment of color blindness in adult primates
Jessica IW Morgan, University of Rochester, Light Exposures Cause In Vivo Changes in Retinal Autofluorescence
3:30 – 4:30 Business Meeting
4:30 – 5:30 Posters and refreshments
5:30 – 8:30 Welcome Reception and Lab tours at UC Berkeley School of Optometry
Monday, Sept 17th
Visual Perception Computer Graphics and Display Technology
8:30 – 10:30
Moderator: Marty Banks UC Berkeley
Louis Silverstein, VCD Sciences, Inc., Advances in Display Technology: From Pixels to Perception
Edward Adelson MIT, Brain & Cognitive Science, Image Statistics and Surface Perception
Jitendra Malik UC Berkeley, Computer Science Modeling object recognition
Marc Levoy, Stanford University, Synthetic Aperture Photography and Microscopy by Recording and
Processing the 4D Light Field
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Posters
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
Two Eyes, One Brain: The Machinery of Binocular Vision
1:00 – 3:00
Moderator: Suzanne McKee, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Prakash Kara, U South Carolina, A functional micro-architecture for binocular disparity and ocular
dominance in visual cortex.
Jonathan Horton, UC San Francisco, Complete Pattern of Ocular Dominance Columns in Human Striate
Cortex
Bruce Cumming, NEI, Solving the stereo correspondence problem with realistic neurons
Marty Banks, UC Berkeley, The perceptual consequences of estimating disparity via correlation
3:00 – 3:30 coffee break
Color Illusions: Implications for Visual Processes
3:30 – 5:30
Moderator: Donald MacLeod UCSD
Steve Shevell, University of Chicago, Color Lessons Taught by Form
Fred Kingdom, McGill University Illusions of colour and shadow
Bevil Conway, Wellesley College, MA, Specialized color cells in V1 and beyond
Alan Gilchrist, Rutgers University, What lightness illusions can tell us about lightness computation.
Tuesday, Sept 18th
Mechanisms of Retinal Development
8:30 – 10:30
Moderator: Marla Feller, UC Berkeley
Ben Reese, UC Santa Barbara, Determinants of Dendritic Morphology, Connectivity and Coverage in the Retina
Brian Link, Medical College of Wisconsin, Interkinetic nuclear migration, cell polarity, and retinal
neurogenesis
Jan Provis, Australian National University, Gene Expression in Central vs Peripheral Primate Retina -
Defining the Foveal Avascular Zone
Andrew Huberman, Stanford University, Development of eye-specific projections to the lateral geniculate
nucleus
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Posters
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired
1:00 – 3:00
Moderator: James Coughlan, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Eli Peli, Harvard University, Electro-Optical Vision Multiplexing Devices for Vision Impairments
Roberto Manduchi, UC Santa Cruz, Sensors and Sensibility: Is Computer Vision Appropriate for Assistive Technology?
Paul J. Beckmann, University of Minnesota. Behavioural Evaluation of the Digital Sign System (DSS)
Charles LaPierre, Sendero Group Current and future accessible wayfinding for the blind: From GPS systems to indoor navigation
Serge Belongie UC San Diego, Project GroZi: Assistive Navigational Technology for the Visually Impaired
3:00 – 3:30 coffee break
Vision Science and Computer Games
3:30 – 5:30
Moderator: Tony Bell, Redwood Center, UC Berkeley
Daphne Bavelier, University of Rochester, Action videogame playing improves Bayesian inference for
perceptual decision-making
Dan Kersten, University of Minnesota, Perception, computer graphics, and video games
Brendan Allison, University of Bremen, Video Game Background and Performance with Visual Brain
Computer Interface Systems
Wilbert McClay, LLNL, A Real-time Brain Computer Interface for 3-D Flight Simulation
5:30 - 5:45 Young Investigator Award
5:45 – 6:00 Honoring Al Ahumada, OSA Fellow
Boynton Lecture
6:00 – 7:00
Gerald Jacobs, UC Santa Barbara, The role of comparative studies in understanding primate color vision
Introduction by Jay Neitz, Medical College of Wisconsin
8:00 – 10:00 Conference Dinner Hong Kong East Ocean Seafood Restaurant
Wednesday, Sept 19th
Imaging the Cortex8:30 – 10:30
Moderator: Yang Dan, UC Berkeley
Sunil Gandhi, UC San Francisco, Imaging the functional plasticity of identified subtypes in visual cortex
Eyal Seidemann, UT Austin, Optimal decoding of neural population responses in the primate visual cortex
Niko Kreigeskorte, NIH, Exploiting hi-res fMRI and relating measurement modalities with representational
similarity analysis
Sri Nagarajan, UC San Francisco, High-fidelity electromagnetic imaging enabled by machine learning
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
Using AO as a Tool Beyond Conventional Imaging
11:00 – 1:00
Moderator: David Williams, University of Rochester
Austin Roorda, UC Berkeley, What psychophysical testing with Adaptive Optics can tell us about myopia.
Jack Werner, UC Davis, High-Resolution Imaging with Adaptive Optics and Optical Coherence Tomography,
and Functional Changes in Retinal Disease
John Flannery, UC Berkeley, Novel molecular techniques combined with adaptive optics and their functional implications
Melanie Campbell, University of Waterloo, Adaptive optics and the future for therapies – a short look to the future
Thursday, Sept 20th
OSA Annual Meeting, San Jose Convention Center
Seeing the Invisible: Strategies for Imaging Transparent Cell Types
10:30 AM -12:30PM
Johannes de Boer; Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. Visualizing Retinal
Layers Using Polarization Sensitive OCT and Scattering Contrast at 840 and 1050 nm
Juan Bueno; Univ. de Murcia, Spain., Mueller Matrix CSLO Polarimetry and Improved Imaging of Retinal Structures
Joseph Izatt; Duke Univ., USA., The Application of Molecular Contrast Optical Coherence Tomography to Image Cells in the Living Retina
Bill Merigan; Univ. of Rochester, USA., Making Ganglion Cells Visible in the Living Retina
Engineering the Eye: Advances in Retinal Prostheses
3:00 pm – 5:00pm
Matthew McMahon; Second Sight Medical Products, USA., Quantitative Assessment of Spatial Vision in Second Sight Retinal Prosthesis Subjects
Alan Horsager; Univ. of Southern California, USA., A Model of Temporal Integration during Electrical Stimulation of
the Human Retina
Ronald Schuchard (withdrawn)
Daniel Palanker; Stanford Univ., USA., High Resolution Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis
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