Community-wide events marking major contributions, milestones, and notable moments in vision science.
Ian P. Howard Memorial Lecture — Dr. Marlene Behrmann
Celebrating Professor Dennis Levi — Retirement Festschrift
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).
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026)
Physical Retail AI Workshop (PRAW) @ WACV 2026
COSYNE — Computational & Systems Neuroscience 2026
German Conference on Medical Image Computing (BVM 2026)
European Sensory Science Society (E3S) 2026
Scottish Vision Group Meeting (SVG 2026)
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2026
SAND Challenge @ IEEE ICASSP 2026
17th Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects (CAOs 2026)
IECMA 2026 — International Electronic Conference on Machines & Applications
MODVIS 2026: Models in Vision Science
VSS 2026 — Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting
VSS 2026 — Undergraduate Just-In-Time Poster Sessions
Applied Vision Science (AVS) 2026
Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV 2026)
IEEE FG 2026 — International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
20th Annual International Conference on Psychology (ATINER 2026)
IASAS 2026 — Synesthesia: Interdisciplinary Research in a Multisensory World
APS Annual Convention (Association for Psychological Science)
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2026)
AIGENS Workshop — AI for Content Generation, Quality Enhancement & Streaming (CVPR 2026)
ReLearn Workshop — Rediscovering Intelligence: Can AI Still Learn from Humans? (CVPR 2026)
Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond (CVPR 2026 Workshop)
AI4Space Workshop @ CVPR 2026
Third Joint Egocentric Vision (EgoVis) Workshop @ CVPR 2026
MAI 2026 — 6th Mobile AI Workshop & Challenges (CVPR 2026)
NTIRE 2026 — New Trends in Image Restoration & Enhancement (CVPR Workshop)
MAD’26 — Multimedia AI against Disinformation (ICMR 2026 Workshop)
AIPHEA Workshop — AI in Predictive HEAlth @ IEEE WCCI 2026
AREADNE 2026 — Research in Encoding & Decoding of Neural Ensembles
Braitenberg 100: Computational Neuroscience
Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV)
35th International Pupil Colloquium (IPC 2026)
American Psychological Association (APA) 2026
International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) Conference 2026
Human-Centred AI – Special Track @ IJCAI-ECAI 2026
SMILE: Silent Motion Interpretation and Lip-based Evaluation
XXVIth Imaging & Perimetry Society (IPS) International Visual Field & Imaging Symposium
VSAC 2026 – Visual Science of Art Conference
European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2026)
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2026
AI in Healthcare (AIiH) 2026 — Call for Special Sessions
European Working Memory Symposium (EWOMS) 2026
ECEM 2026 — European Conference on Eye Movements
IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2026)
IRCA 2026 — Aphantasia Conference
Gruppo del Colore — Associazione Italiana Colore (Annual Meeting)
AIC 2026 — International Colour Association
Progress in Colour Studies (PICS 2026)
12th International Artificial Intelligence Symposium (AIS 2026)
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
OPAM 2026 — Object Perception, Attention, and Memory
Psychonomic Society 67th Annual Meeting
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2026
Trieste Spring Congressino
Optica Fall Vision Meeting
Applied Vision Association (AVA)
International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF)
EuroGraphics 3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR)
Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD)
ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI)
Fechner Day — International Society for Psychophysics
Color and Imaging Conference (CIC)
Southern California AI & Robotics Symposium (SCAIR)
CVMP — ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production
Innovations in Neuroimaging Methods — NYU Abu Dhabi 2026
Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR)
Instance-Level Recognition & Generation Workshop (ILR) @ ICCV
Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP)
Annual Forum of the French Vision Group 2027
Electronic Imaging Symposium
Human Vision and Electronic Imaging
IRCDL 2027 — Conference on Information & Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science
Online Seminars/Clubs
Recurring journal clubs and seminar series open to the community, plus selected online webinars and workshops.
LEGO — Localisation and Extrapolation Group Online
Frontier Series 2026 — Translational Neurocognitive Technologies
Optica Color Technical Group Webinar Series
Frontier Series 2026 — Translational Neurocognitive Technologies
BIU Vision Science Seminar
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.
Vision Research — Special Issue Honoring Dennis Levi
Vision Research — Special Issue Honoring Dennis Levi
New Technologies in Ophthalmology
Information Storage, Compression & Prediction in Deep Neural Networks
Call for Chapters: Center-Based Clustering
Visual Cognition — Special Issue: The Control of Visual Attention
Journal of Vision — Interface Between Vision and Language
Rhythmic Cognition — Cross-Journal Collection (CLOSED)
BMC Biology — Integrative and Translational Serial Dependence
Optics Express — 3D Image Acquisition and Display (2025)
COSI 2025 — Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (Feature Issue)
JOSA A / JOSA B — Feature Issues
Color Research & Application — Facial Appearance Measurement & Perception
IOVS — Nystagmus Special Issue (Closed)
Education
Workshops, classes, and summer schools to build skills in perception, imaging, analysis, and research methods.
Summer Schools
ACDL 2026 — Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning
Systems Vision Science Virtual Summer School & Symposium
BAMB! 2026 — Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Third Summer School on Vision Restoration
The Brain Prize Course — Computational & Theoretical Neuroscience 2026
Primate Cognitive Neuroscience (PCN) Summer School
Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2026
Transatlantic Behavioural Neuroscience School (TBNSS)
CVR Vision Science Summer School (CVRSS)
Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC) 2026
Systems Vision Science Virtual Summer School
Visual Neuroscience: From Spikes to Awareness — Summer School
Summer School: Visual Neuroscience — From Spikes to Awareness
European Summer School in Visual Neuroscience (ESSVN)
Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium
Workshops
Behavioural Setup Design with Bonsai and Arduino
Concepts, Actions and Objects (CAOs) Workshop 2026
Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience — What is a Neuron?
Workshop on Perceptual Inferences: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
Mathematics of 3D Reconstruction
CAOs 2026: Concepts, Actions and Objects (Rovereto Workshop)
Allen Institute Modeling Software Workshop
AAAI 2026 Workshop — Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence
Classes
Practical Introduction to Eye-Tracking Methodology
Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ACDL 2026)
ACDL 2026: Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning
FEBS Advanced Lecture Course 2026 — Retina in a Dish
ACDL 2026 — Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning
A Practical Introduction to Eye Tracking
LightLogR: Open & Reproducible Analysis of Light Exposure Data
MSc in Research Methods in Experimental Psychology
Grad Programs
Doctoral and Masters opportunities. Includes dedicated PhD and MSc programs submitted by members.
MSc Mind, Brain & Behavior
Doctoral Studies in Visual Sciences
PhD in Developmental & Brain Sciences
Graduate Program in Physiological Optics & Vision Science
Jobs
PhD, postdoc, RA, and faculty positions in vision, perception, neuroscience, imaging, and allied areas.
Jobs and Student Positions
2026 Summer Intern — Discovery Immunology and Ophthalmology
OPAM 2026 — Conference Organizer Positions
VSS 2026 — Student Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPC)
Research Assistant (Lab Manager) — Visual Attention Lab
PhD & Graduate Positions
4-Year Funded PhD — Motion Perception
PhD Position — Sensorimotor Control & Learning
PhD Position in Visual Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
PhD Studentship — Home Monitoring of Vision in Multiple Sclerosis
10 PhD Positions — PIMON Research Training Group
Predoctoral Position — EXPLORA-SSL (Universitat Jaume I)
PhD Positions — AI & Computer Vision for Healthcare (CAMMA, Strasbourg)
Postdoctoral Career Opportunities
PhD or Postdoc — Neural Correlates of Trust in Human–AI Interaction
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Human Category Learning
Postdoctoral Researcher — EXPLORA-SSL (Universitat Jaume I)
Postdoctoral Associate — MRI & Processing Speed (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow — Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (Barnard College)
Postdoctoral Fellow — Vision & Neurodevelopment (University of Waterloo)
Postdoctoral Fellow — Low Vision & Machine Vision (Johns Hopkins University)
Postdoctoral Fellow — Visual Attention (Brigham & Women’s / Harvard)
Postdoctoral Position — fMRI & Cross-Modal Plasticity (University of Coimbra)
Postdoctoral Position — Object Vision (CIMeC, University of Trento)
Postdoctoral Positions — Centre for Eye & Vision Research (CEVR)
Postdoctoral Researcher — Denison Lab (Boston University)
Postdoctoral Fellow — Computer Vision & Generative AI
Postdoctoral Research Fellow — Computational Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Position — Human Psychophysics & Vision
Faculty Positions
Optometry Faculty — University of Detroit Mercy
Lecturer — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Funding
Travel awards, fellowships, and research support opportunities with typical timelines and eligibility notes.
FoVea Travel & Networking Award (VSS 2026)
Rank Prize Undergrad Vacation Grant 2026
AVA Geoffrey Burton Travel Award 2026/7
AVA / ECVP Tom Troscianko Travel Award
Competitions and Prizes
Community contests and prizes highlighting creativity and achievement (e.g., Illusion of the Year).
Awards & Prizes
VSS Davida Teller Award (Mid-Career)
VSS Graphics / T-Shirt Design Competition
NTIRE — New Trends in Image Restoration & Enhancement
VSS Awards — Ken Nakayama, Davida Teller, Young Investigator Award
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