Vision and Color Division
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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.
Technical Groups
Applications of Visual Science (VM)
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 (VL)
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 interests of group members range from basic research to applied science in color vision, color-order systems, color measurement, color applications, and photometry.
Vision (VK)
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.
Division Leadership
| Name |
Affiliation |
Title |
Term Start/End |
| Joseph Carroll |
Medical College of Wisconsin, United States |
Chair, Vision and Color Division |
January 2011-December 2013 |
| Laura Walker-Renninger |
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, United States |
Chair, Applications of Visual Science Technical Group |
January 2012-December 2014 |
| Brian Vohnsen |
University College Dublin, Ireland |
Vice-Chair, Applications of Visual Science Technical Group |
January 2012-December 2014 |
| Jason Porter |
University of Houston, United States |
Chair, Clinical Vision Sciences Technical Group |
January 2011-December 2013 |
| Rowan Candy |
Indiana University, United States |
Vice Chair, Clinical Vision Sciences Technical Group |
January 2011-December 2013 |
| Kathy Mullen |
McGill University, Canada |
Chair, Color Technical Group |
January 2010-December 2012 |
| David Brainard |
University of Pennsylvania, United States |
Vice Chair, Color Technical Group |
January 2010-December 2012 |
| Alyssa Brewer |
University of California, Irvine, United States |
Chair, Vision Technical Group |
January 2011-December 2013 |
| Jeffrey B. Mulligan |
NASA Ames Research Center, United States |
Vice Chair, Vision Technical Group |
January 2011-December 2013 |
