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
Major academic and industry meetings in vision science, neuroscience, imaging, color, and related fields. Includes key dates for abstracts, registration, and workshops. Conferences are listed in chronological order by event date (not by submission deadlines).
7th Instance-Level Recognition and Generation Workshop (ILR) @ ICCV
Daniel Vogel (University of Waterloo) — Everything is Spatial Interaction: Considering Materiality of Space as Position, Time, and Relation
Mayra Barrera Machuca (University of Calgary) — Designing User Interfaces that Support Spatial Thinking in 3D Virtual Spaces
Notes
Annual ACM symposium exploring spatial interaction, immersive interfaces, and 3D user experience design.
Fechner Day 2025 (41st meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics)
Frequency
Annual
Dates
October 20–22, 2025
Location
Enotel, Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco (PE), Brazil
Abstract submission deadline: October 16, 2025 (11:59 PM PST)
Author notifications: December 2025
Workshop proposals due: October 23, 2025 (11:59 PM PST)
Undergraduate travel grant deadline: November 12, 2025 (11:59 PM PST)
Travel grants: at least €500 (larger possible); priority for first-time attendees, under-represented groups, mentor–student pairs, undergrads, and authors of submitted abstracts
How preregistration & registered reports improve credibility and reproducibility
Part of the OPAM33 program (main event Nov 20, Denver)
Special/Feature Issues
Click here for a comprehensive list of relevant journals,
complete with website information, type of journal, open access status, and more.
For special or feature issues, we try to keep up to date with the following journals:
Attention, Perception & Performance; Color Research and Application; IOVS; JOSA A/B; JOV;
Multisensory Perception; Perception; and Vision Research. We also provide permanent links for
some journals’ special or feature issues. If you have suggestions for journals or calls we
should track, or would like to share information about a special issue, please contact us.
Peer-reviewed journal published electronically via OJS, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Explores colour across eight thematic areas: context, mind, nature, technology, communication, art & media, culture & society, and reviews.
Latest issue: Vol. 1 No. 1 (June 17 2025).
Related Event
Colour Research Colloquium (CRC) — recurring online symposium organised by Colour Turn.
Next sessions: Feb 20 2025 · May 15 2025 · Oct 23 2025 (abstracts due Oct 9).
Short-talk format (~15 min); interdisciplinary and early-career friendly.
The program offers interdisciplinary training across basic, clinical, and translational vision sciences.
Research ranges from molecular and cellular mechanisms to behavioral and optical studies.
Students work with collaborative faculty in the University of Houston College of Optometry.
New York University — Doctoral Studies in Visual Sciences
Frequency
Annual Admissions
Deadlines
Center for Neural Science: Dec 1 • Psychology (Cognition & Perception): Dec 1 •
Data Science: Dec 4 • Computer Science: Dec 12 • Mathematics: Dec 18 • Biology: Dec 1 • Philosophy: Jan 7
NYU hosts a large interdisciplinary community in visual sciences. Programs span computational neuroscience,
psychology, biology, data science, and philosophy of mind. Faculty include Eero Simoncelli, David Heeger,
Marisa Carrasco, Yann LeCun, and others. Students can pursue cross-department research.
Research on large-scale multimedia content indexing and retrieval (images, text, 3D point clouds) for geospatial data; integrating multimodal large language models and Apache Spark™ for efficient, flexible search and geolocation across heterogeneous datasets.
Keywords
Information retrieval, indexing, multimodal learning, 3D point clouds, geolocation, big data, Apache Spark
PhD — Early Stage Detection of Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Disease using Advanced Retinal Imaging Technology
Organization
University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, and Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Deadline
November 8, 2025
Summary
PhD project using advanced retinal imaging and machine learning to develop sensitive and specific diagnostic tools for early detection of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Email rademakerlab@gmail.com with a 1-page (double-spaced) research statement, recent CV incl. publications/competencies/GPA+scale, and 2 referees.
Notes
Topics span perception, working memory, spatial representations, cognition & action.
Please avoid AI-generated text; such submissions won’t be evaluated per the call.
Postdoctoral Position — Cross-Modal Perception & Attention (Störmer Lab, Dartmouth)
Organization
Dartmouth College — Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Location
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Start Date
January 2026 (flexible)
Funding
Fully funded through NIH grant
Summary
Research on how higher-level cognition shapes perception and how neural architecture constrains cognitive processes,
with emphases on cross-modal perception, attention, and working memory. Methods include psychophysics, EEG,
fMRI, and computational modeling.
Requirements
Strong background in experimental and computational approaches to human cognition; programming, data analysis, and modeling skills required.
EEG or fMRI experience preferred but not essential.
English-language instruction; interdisciplinary, department-free structure; competitive salary and support (research fund, health insurance, housing/stipend).
University of Chicago — Instructional Professor (Assistant/Associate/Full), Psychology
Rank
Instructional Professor (Assistant/Associate/Full)
Start
On or after July 1, 2026
Teaching
6 quarter-long undergraduate courses per year
Areas
Broad coverage in perception, action, cognition; advanced research methods; experience conducting psychological research.
Full-time, career-track teaching position (3–5 year renewable term; promotion within IP track). Union-covered role; benefits per University policy.
University of California, Irvine — Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences
Rank
Tenure-track Assistant Professor
Start
July 1, 2026
Areas
Empirical human cognition (perception, memory, decision-making) combined with computational modeling,
cognitive modeling, or data science. Interest in AI approaches and human–AI interaction encouraged.
Research may bridge cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and AI.
UCI offers strong interdisciplinary collaborations across cognitive science, engineering, and statistics.
Assistant Professor in Cognitive & Psychological Sciences (AI & the Mind)
Dates
Start July 1, 2026
Location
Brown University — Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences (CoPsy), Providence, RI