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Vision and Color Division

Overview

Topics of interest in this division include the optics of the eye, their impact on vision, and their interaction with optical systems; basic mechanisms of transduction, transmission, coding, detection, and analysis of visual information; color measurement, mechanisms of color vision, and applications of color science, assessment, analysis and correction of visual dysfunction.

Pablo Artal, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, Chair

Technical Groups

Applications of Visual Science (VA)

This group is interested in encoding and display of visual information, new technologies for visual displays, the understanding and treatment of diseases affecting the visual system, and ophthalmic optics.

Clinical Vision Sciences (VS)

This group’s interests are in the investigation of vision function in disease and development (infancy through old age), including studies involving mechanisms, the development of new assessment techniques, the efficacy of treatment and prevention of vision function deficits, and including the study of visual performance in aging, disease and development.

Color (VC)

The Color Technical Group works on all aspects related to the physics, physiology, and psychology of color in biological and machine vision, including, but not limited to, color discrimination, color perception and color appearance; color rendering, color imaging, color in lighting and illumination engineering; standardization of the human cone and rod fundamentals; photometric quantities related to cones, rods, and melanopsin; and color properties of emerging display and lighting technologies.

Vision (VV)

The range of interest of this group includes optics of the eye and of ophthalmic lenses and devices, physiological optics, mechanisms of transduction, transmission, coding, detection, and analysis of visual information.