Community-wide events marking major contributions, milestones, and notable moments in vision science.
ICVS Smith-Pokorny Award 2026 — Dr. Takuma Morimoto
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).
European Sensory Science Society (E3S) 2026
Scottish Vision Group Meeting (SVG 2026)
Applied Vision Association (AVA) Spring Meeting 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
Facial Micro-Expression Workshop (FME) 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
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2026)
ReLearn Workshop — Rediscovering Intelligence: Can AI Still Learn from Humans? (CVPR 2026)
AIGENS Workshop — AI for Content Generation, Quality Enhancement & Streaming (CVPR 2026)
Image Matching: Local Features & 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)
Braitenberg 100: Computational Neuroscience
Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV)
35th International Pupil Colloquium (IPC 2026)
American Psychological Association (APA) 2026
IEEE MIPR 2026 — International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing & Retrieval
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 and 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
ESCoP–CoPM 2026 Joint Meeting
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)
ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2026)
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
OPAM 2026 — Object Perception, Attention, and Memory
Psychonomic Society 67th Annual Meeting
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2026
EWIC 2026 — European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition
ACM Multimedia 2026 (ACM MM 2026)
Trieste Spring Congressino
Optica Fall Vision Meeting
International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF)
EuroGraphics 3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR)
Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD)
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
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026)
Physical Retail AI Workshop (PRAW) @ WACV 2026
COSYNE — Computational & Systems Neuroscience
German Conference on Medical Image Computing
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
JIVP Webinar — Recent Advances in Neuromorphic Visual Systems
Frontier Series 2026 — Translational Neurocognitive Technologies
Developing Minds Lecture — Lisa Oakes
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
ACDL 2026 — Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning
Systems Vision Science Virtual Summer School & Symposium
International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS) 2026
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 2026)
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
CAOs 2026: Concepts, Actions and Objects (Rovereto Workshop)
Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Workshop (MAR) — CVPR 2026
Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience — What is a Neuron?
Workshop on Perceptual Inferences: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
Consciousness Commons (ASSC 2026 Satellite Workshop)
Mathematics of 3D Reconstruction
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
Vision Health Scientist/Engineer — Apple
Research Assistant — Neuroscience of Attention & Perception Lab
PhD & Graduate Positions
PhD Position — The Adaptive Mind (TU Darmstadt)
PhD Studentship — Home Monitoring of Vision in Multiple Sclerosis
10 PhD Positions — Object & Material Perception (PIMON)
Predoctoral Position — EXPLORA-SSL (Universitat Jaume I)
PhD Positions — AI & Computer Vision for Healthcare (CAMMA, Strasbourg)
Postdoctoral Career Opportunities
Neuro-AI Positions — University of Cambridge (Postdoc & Research Assistant)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Human Category Learning
Postdoctoral Researcher — Visual Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
Postdoc — Visual & Computational Neuroscience (University of Cambridge)
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
Visiting Assistant Professor — Psychology & Cognitive Science (Lehigh University)
Optometry Faculty — University of Detroit Mercy
Lecturer — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Funding
Travel awards, fellowships, and research support opportunities with typical timelines and eligibility notes.
Global Light Commons Micro-Grant Programme
AVA Geoffrey Burton Travel Award 2026/7
KJCF Fellowship — Brain Health & Multimorbidity (UCL)
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
SYNS Dataset — Stereo Images with Depth (Range) Data
MEGC 2026 — Micro-Expression Grand Challenge
Latent Fingerprint Recognition Competition — IJCB 2026
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
Passings
Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Dear CVNet colleagues,
Two years ago, during a discussion on CVNet about which deceased vision scientists should be remembered and documented, Lothar Spillmann undertook the ambitious task of compiling a near-comprehensive list. Over the intervening period, he and several colleagues have worked extensively to assemble a remarkable resource: a list of deceased vision scientists accompanied by brief biographical notes.
We are very pleased to make this work available to the community. The document is now available on the CVNet website as a PDF, exactly as submitted to us. The PDF can be downloaded here.
Soon, we will also release an online version of the list. This version will allow entries to be indexed and browsed in multiple ways—for example, by alphabetical order, year of birth, year of death, and other useful categories, in addition to the chapters included in Lothar’s original list—making it easier to explore the history of our field.
If you notice errors or omissions, or have suggestions for additions or corrections, please feel free to send them to Christopher Tyler and David Peterzell, who are coordinating CVNet updates for this project. This is intended to be a living document that will be refined and expanded over time.
We are grateful to Lothar and his collaborators for the considerable effort that went into assembling this valuable historical resource.
Best regards,
David Peterzell
(for CVNet)
CVNet is supported by the
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute