Vision and Color Division

Division Overview

The Vision and Color Division of OSA provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of basic clinical and applied vision research. Topics of interest include: visual psychophysics, 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.

What’s Hot in Optics Today?

Find out more about the current activities of this division, as well as emerging topics in the field and current challenges by reading this presentation presented by Alex Wade, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, Division Chair.

Division Overview Presentation

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Technical Groups

Applications of Visual Science (VM)

Instrumentation and methods for fundus imaging, optical and surgical correction of refractive errors, perception with head-mounted displays, visual stimulators and virtual reality, visual ergonomics, image quality assessment, image processing, and compression algorithms.

Clinical Vision Sciences (VL)

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)

Photopigments, rod vision, color detection/discrimination, color theory and color modeling, color measurement/technology, color appearance, color constancy, higher order color perception.

Vision (VK)

Adaptation and sensitivity regulation, visual physiology, spatial vision, temporal vision, motion perception, binocular vision and stereopsis, space perception, eye movements, form and object recognition, quantitative modeling of vision.

Division Leadership

Alex Wade, Division Chair (9/07-10/09) Smith Kettlewell Ey Res. Inst Brain Imaging Facility 2318 Fillmore St. San Francisco, CA 94115-0000 Tel: +1 415.345.2083 Fax: +1 309.416.6533 E-mail: wade@ski.org

Applications of Visual Science

Joseph Carroll, Chair (10/06-10/08) University of Rochester Meliora Hall 252 Rochester, NY 14627-0270 Tel: +1 585.275.8443 Fax: +1 585.271.3043 E-mail: jcarroll@cvs.rochester.edu

Clinical Vision Sciences

Eli Peli, Chair (10/06-10/08) Schepens Eye Research Institute 20 Staniford Street Boston, MA 02114-2500 Tel: +1 617.912.2597 Fax: +1 617.912.0111 E-mail: eli@vision.eri.harvard.edu

John L. Barbur, Chair (9/07-10/08) City University Applied Vision Research Centre Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB UNITED KINGDOM Tel: +44.2070405060 Fax: +44.2070408355 E-mail: johnb@city.ac.uk

Color

Jay Neitz, Chair (9/07-10/09) Medical College of Wisconsin Cell. Biology and Anatomy Dept 8701 Watertown Plank Rd. Milwaukee WI 53226-3548 Tel: +1 414.456.8457 Fax: +1 414.456.6517 E-mail: jneitz@mcw.edu

Vision

Lawrence Gregory Applebaum, Chair (10/06-10/08) Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute 2318 Fillimore St San Francisco CA 94115 Tel: +1 415.345.2060 Fax: +1 415.345.8855 E-mail: greg@ski.org

Matteo Carandini, Vision, Vice-Chair (9/07-10/08) Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute 2318 Fillmore St. San Francisco CA 94115-0000 Tel: +1 415.345.2129 Fax: +1 415.345.8455 E-mail: matteo@ski.org