This page lists upcoming conferences, courses, talks, jobs, and funding opportunities for the color & vision research community. Send additions or corrections to davidpeterzell@mac.com and mtedesco12@gmail.com. Additional opportunities can be found in the CVNet Archive and the VisionList Archive.

Conferences

Name Frequency Dates Location Website Submission Deadlines
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) Biennial September 3-5, 2025 Sheffield, UK https://www.escop2025.com/ CLOSED
EuroGraphics 3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR) Annual September 4-5, 2025 London, UK https://3dor.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ CLOSED
Gruppo del Colore (Associazione Italiana Colore) Annual September 4–5, 2025 Naples, Italy https://www.gruppodelcolore.org/?lang=en CLOSED
Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD) Annual September 12, 2025 International House, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA https://vision.berkeley.edu/events/bavrd Registration September 5, 2025 • Abstract/poster applications closed
Kanizsa Lecture / Trieste Symposium Annual Fall 2025 Trieste, Italy N/A TBD
Optica Fall Vision Meeting Annual October 2-5, 2025 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota https://www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/ CLOSED
7th Instance-Level Recognition and Generation Workshop (ILR) @ ICCV Biennial (with ICCV) October 19–20, 2025 Honolulu, Hawaii https://ilr-workshop.github.io/ICCVW2025/ CLOSED
Fechner Day 2025 (41st meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics) Annual October 20–22, 2025 Enotel, Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco (PE), Brazil fechner.fonae.org Abstracts closed • Registration closed • Late registration October 1, 2025 • Queries: maria.simas@ufpe.br, jadsilva@ffclrp.usp.br
Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual October 21-23, 2025 Virtual https://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/annual Early-bird September 17, 2025 • Registration October 23, 2025
Brain Conference: Principles of the Adaptive Mind Periodic October 27-30, 2025 Crete, Greece https://www.fens.org/news-activities/fens-and-societies-calendar/meeting-event/principles-of-the-adaptive-mind CLOSED
Color and Imaging Conference (CIC 33) Annual October 27-31, 2025 Innocenter at Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong https://www.imaging.org/IST/IST/Conferences/CIC/CIC2025/CIC_Home.aspx CLOSED
Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR) Biennial November 10-13, 2025 Gold Coast, Australia https://www.mva-org.jp/acpr2025/ CLOSED
International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) Annual November 17–19, 2025 Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada https://www.isvc.net/ Paper closed • Acceptance notification September 22, 2025 • Final camera-ready papers October 20, 2025
Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Annual November 20, 2025 Denver, CO https://www.opamconference.com/ CLOSED
Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting Annual November 20-23, 2025 Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, Colorado https://www.psychonomic.org/ CLOSED
Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI) Annual March 1-5, 2026 Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, California https://www.imaging.org/IST/IST/Conferences/EI/EI2026_STD/EI2026.aspx?hkey=98ddea62-ed6e-4cf2-bc9e-a313f42a41ab TBD
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Annual March 6–10, 2026 JW Marriott Starr Pass, Tucson, Arizona https://wacv.thecvf.com/ Round 1: Paper registration closed • Paper & supplementary submission closed • Round 1 reviews issued September 3, 2025 • Camera-ready (accepted Round 1) September 18, 2025 • Round 2: New paper registration September 12, 2025 • Submission September 19, 2025 • Final decisions released November 5, 2025
German Conference on Medical Image Computing (BVM) Annual March 15–17, 2026 Lübeck, Germany https://www.bvm-conf.org/ Long papers and abstracts October 24, 2025 • Author notifications November 28, 2025 • Camera-ready January 4, 2026 • BVM Award applications January 31, 2026
European Sensory Science Society (E3S) Annual March 26-27, 2026 Zurich, Switzerland https://e3sensory.eu/events/ March 13, 2026
Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual April 17-19, 2026 Barcelona, Spain https://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/annual Symposiums November 15, 2025 • Poster and paper abstracts December 5, 2025
Models in Vision Science (MODVIS) Conference Annual May 2026 - TBD St. Pete Beach, Florida https://www.purdue.edu/conferences/events/modvis/ TBD 2026
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting (ARVO) Annual May 3–7, 2026 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado https://www.arvo.org/annual-meeting/ Abstract December 5, 2025
Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting Annual May 15-19, 2026 TradeWinds Islands Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida https://www.visionsciences.org/ Abstract: Opens October 22, 2025 • Due December 5, 2025 • Symposium Proposals: Due November 15, 2025 • Notification by November 25, 2025 • UJIT Posters: Opens March 3, 2026 • Due March 31, 2026 • Notification by April 10, 2026
IEEE FG 2026 – International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Biennial May 25–29, 2026 Kyoto, Japan https://fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org/
Submission portal
Round 1: Abstract Sept 25, 2025 • Full Paper Oct 2, 2025 • Notification Dec 11, 2025
Round 2: Abstract Jan 9, 2026 • Full Paper Jan 15, 2026 • Notification Apr 2, 2026 • Camera-ready Apr 21, 2026
Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) Annual June 18, 2026 Auckland, New Zealand https://sites.google.com/view/apcv-portal TBD
AREADNE 2026 (Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles) Biennial June 23–27, 2026 Eliopoulos Conference Center, Milos, Greece https://areadne.org TBD
American Psychological Association (APA) Annual August 6–8, 2026 Washington, DC https://convention.apa.org/attend/future-conventions TBD
European Working Memory Symposium (EWOMS) Biennial August 26-28, 2026 Lyon, France https://www.escop.eu/news/news/conference-news/ewoms-european-working-memory-symposium Abstract March 13, 2026 • Registration June 20, 2026
European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM) Biennial August 30 – September 3, 2026 Ulm, Germany https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/ecem2026/ TBD
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Biennial December 8-12, 2026 TBD https://accv2022.org/ TBD
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) Annual TBD 2026 TBD https://sap.acm.org/ TBD
Applied Vision Association (AVA) Various TBD 2026 TBD https://www.theava.net/meetings.php TBD
International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) bi-annual Conference Biennial TBD 2026 Brighton, UK https://www.icvs.info/ TBD
International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF) Annual TBD 2026 TBD https://imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/ TBD
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual TBD 2026 TBD https://www.sfn.org/meetings TBD
16th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium Biennial TBD 2026 TBD https://www.pangbornsymposium.com/ TBD
Visual Science Art Conference (VSAC) Annual TBD 2026 TBD https://2025.vsac.eu/ TBD
European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) Annual August 2026 Bournemouth, UK http://ecvp.org/future.html TBD

Courses

Summer Schools

Name Dates Location Website Notes
MSc in Research Methods in Experimental Psychology August 2026, Start Date TBD Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain https://www.uam.es/uam/inicio TBD
Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium August 2026 (dates TBA) Tübingen, Germany https://summerschool.lizhaoping.org/ TBD 2026
International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) Summer School August 14-18, 2026 Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom https://www.icvs.info/ TBD
Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School TBD 2026 TBD https://www.eeml.eu/application TBD

Classes

Name Dates Location Website Notes
Understanding Consumers 2025 (Italian Sensory Science Society and RLab) September 10-12, 2025 Via delle Pandette 32, Novoli Campus, University of Florence, Florence, Italy https://scienzesensoriali.it/en/event/understanding-consumers-2025/ Early-bird registration CLOSED
PhD Course: Sensory Evaluation and Food Preferences (Classic and Digital Approaches) September 15-19, 2025 University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark https://phdcourses.ku.dk/DetailKursus.aspx?id=112590&sitepath=NAT CLOSED
A Practical Introduction to Eye Tracking November 26-28, 2025 Lund, Sweden https://www.humlab.lu.se/education/commissioned-education/ TBD

Talks

Journal Clubs

Name Dates Location Website Notes
Intermural Colour Club Ongoing in 2025 Online Intermural Journal Club Schedule 2025 For information or to join, email
Christoph Witzel witzel@daad-alumni.de
Ilgin Cebioglu I.Cebioglu@newcastle.ac.uk

Seminar Series and Online Talks

Name Dates Location Website Notes
Current Topics in Visual and Circadian Neuroscience Ongoing in 2025 and beyond Online https://www.spitschanlab.com/events/seminar-series Hosted by Prof. Dr. Manuel Spitschan; graduate-level, free; 45-min talk + 15-min Q&A via Zoom
Optica Color TG Webinar — Prof. Yuhao Zhu: Color Discrimination and Chromatic Adaptation September 29, 2025, 13:00–14:00 EDT (10:00–11:00 PDT) Online https://www.optica.org/events/webinar/2025/09_september/color_discrimination_and_chromatic_adaptation_measuring_modeling_and_exploiting_them_for_energy-e/ Energy-efficient XR displays; psychophysical paradigms

Jobs

Jobs and Student Positions

Name Dates Location Website Notes
Placeholder Position TBD Placeholder University Posting coming soon This is a placeholder for a brief job description

Postdoctoral Career Opportunities

Name Dates Location Website Notes
Postdoctoral Position in Visual Perception and Radiology TBD University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/20089 PI: Dr. Corey McMillan
Postdoctoral Fellow – Neuroimaging of Visual System TBD Stanford University, Spencer Center for Vision Research https://www.nivs-lab.org/open-positions Contact: kevinchan@stanford.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher – Visual Systems and Deep Neural Networks TBD Institut de la Vision, Paris, France https://www.institut-vision.org/index.php/en/job-offers/post-doc-position-visual-system-neuroscience-and-high-density-recording-throughout-large Two-year role studying high-density neural recording
PhD or Postdoctoral Position – Vision Science TBD University of Iceland, Reykjavik https://visionscience.com/pipermail/visionlist_visionscience.com/2025/009473.html Icelandic Vision Lab

Funding

Name Dates Location Website Notes
Females of Vision et al. Travel and Networking Award Deadline TBD (typically March) Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting http://www.foveavision.org/awards/accepting-applications $1,000 each, up to 8 awards. Open to women, transgender, intersex, or non-binary graduate students, postdocs, or early-career vision scientists. Contact: fovea.award@gmail.com

Calls for Papers & Special Issues

Name Dates Location Website Notes
Responsible Imaging @ ICCV 2025 — Workshop CfP CLOSED (ICCV workshops) Honolulu, Hawaii Website TBD Added for visibility per CVNet; CfP closed
BMC Biology Special Issue: Integrative and Translational Serial Dependence Submission deadline October 11, 2025 Online — BMC Biology https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/itsd Guest editors: Sabrina Hansmann-Roth, Árni Kristjánsson, David Pascucci, David Whitney
APAH@ICCV 2025 – Workshop on Advanced Perception for Autonomous Healthcare Workshop October 20, 2025 • Submission deadline CLOSED (July 3, 2025) Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (with ICCV 2025) https://apahws.github.io Topics: vision-guided surgical robotics, medical imaging, embodied AI, privacy-preserving models
Visual Cognition Special Issue: The Control of Visual Attention Submission deadline November 1, 2025 Online — Visual Cognition (Taylor & Francis) https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/the-control-of-visual-attention-in-honor-of-charles-folk-roger-remington/ In honor of Charles Folk & Roger Remington • Full Research, Brief, and Review articles considered
IEEE FG 2026 – International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference May 25–29, 2026 • Deadlines: Round 1 Abstract Sept 25, 2025 • Paper Oct 2, 2025 • Round 2 Jan 9–15, 2026 Kyoto, Japan https://fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org/ Premier forum for face, gesture, and body recognition research; accepted papers in IEEE Xplore

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