Call for Papers: Special Issue

Optics in Vision

Optics has always been a source of innovation in vision research, providing technology that has advanced our understanding of the visual system. Moreover, because the eye’s optics set the first limit on visual performance, ocular optics has traditionally been a focus in vision research. Study of the eye's optics slowed somewhat in the 70's and 80's, but more recently, Visual Optics has begun a renaissance caused by the introduction of new optical technologies such as wavefront sensing and adaptive optics. These technologies are opening doors to research on vision that were impossible before.

To disseminate recent advances in Visual Optics within the vision research community and to foster the use of new optical technology in vision research, we invite researchers to contribute to a special issue of the Journal of Vision. This issue will address a wide range of topics in Visual Optics, including but not limited to:

• Nature and statistics of aberrations.
• Novel wavefront sensing techniques.
• Sources of the aberrations within the eye.
• Chromatic aberration.
• Scattered light.
• Development and age effects.
• Models of the ocular optics
• Predicting and modelling vision using optical data.
• Defining quality of vision metrics based on wave aberration data.
• Retinal imaging techniques using adaptive optics.
• Visual psychophysics with adaptive optics.

Guest Editors:

David R. Williams
University of Rochester, NY
david@cvs.rochester.edu

Pablo Artal
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
pablo@um.es

Deadline for submissions:

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