Community-wide events marking major contributions, milestones, and notable moments in vision science.
2026 Kurt Koffka Medal — Pascal Mamassian
2026 Smith-Pokorny Award — Takuma Morimoto
2026 Boynton Award — Karl Gegenfurtner
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).
Seeing and Acting Workshop (SAW 2026)
Optica Fall Vision Meeting
EUVIP 2026 — European Visual Information Processing Conference
HCAI4IDS Workshop @ NordiCHI 2026 — Human-Centered AI Support for Immersive Data Sensemaking
Fechner Day — International Society for Psychophysics
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2026)
ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2026)
EVER 2026 — European Association for Vision and Eye Research Congress
The Eye, The Brain, and The Auto (TETBTA) 2026
ACM Multimedia 2026 (ACM MM 2026)
IS&T CIC34 — Color and Imaging Conference 2026
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
VISION 2026 — Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ)
OPAM 2026 — Object Perception, Attention, and Memory
Psychonomic Society 67th Annual Meeting
WILD VISION — Reliable and Responsible Computer Vision in the Wild
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2026
Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP 2026)
CVMP — ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production
VisionDocs @ WACV 2027 — 4th Workshop on Computer Vision Systems for Document Analysis and Recognition
WasteVision 2027 — International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring
Physical Retail AI Workshop (PRAW 2027) @ WACV
Electronic Imaging Symposium (EI 2027)
Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI 2027)
CALReCo 2027 — CIE Australia Lighting Research Conference
COSYNE — Computational & Systems Neuroscience
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2027)
Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2027)
Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium
European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)
2026 / 2027 / 2028 TBD Conferences
Trieste Spring Congressino
Innovations in Neuroimaging Methods — NYU Abu Dhabi 2027
Annual Forum of the French Vision Group 2027
IRCDL 2027 — Conference on Information & Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026)
Gruppo del Colore Annual Conference 2027
German Conference on Medical Image Computing
European Sensory Science Society (E3S)
Scottish Vision Group Meeting (SVG 2026)
Applied Vision Association (AVA) Spring Meeting 2026
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
17th Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects
MODVIS: Models in Vision Science
VSS — Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting
Applied Vision Science (AVS)
Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV 2026)
21st Annual International Conference on Psychology (ATINER)
London Imaging Meeting (LIM) — Imaging for Science
International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF)
Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV)
American Psychological Association (APA) 2026
IEEE MIPR 2026 — International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing & Retrieval
VSAC 2027 – Visual Science of Art Conference
European Conference on Visual Perception
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2027
AIiH 2026 — International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD)
International Society of Presbyopia (ISOP) Conference
AIS - 12th International Artificial Intelligence Symposium
XXVIth Imaging and Perimetry Society (IPS) International Visual Field & Imaging Symposium
European Working Memory Symposium (EWOMS)
ECEM 2028 — European Conference on Eye Movements
IECMA — International Electronic Conference on Machines & Applications
IEEE FG 2026 — International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
35th International Pupil Colloquium
International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) Conference
IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics
AIC 2028 — International Colour Association Midterm Meeting
European Conference on Computer Vision
Progress in Colour Studies (PICS)
Online Seminars/Clubs
Recurring journal clubs and seminar series open to the community, plus selected online webinars and workshops.
Webinars / Talks
Recurring Series / Clubs
Animal Training Methods Across Species — From Experimental Design to Naturalistic Behavior
Frontier Series 2026 — Translational Neurocognitive Technologies
Optica Color Technical Group Webinar Series
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.
Active Calls for Papers
Emerging Trends in Smart Waste Monitoring and Environmental Surveillance
Honoring Dennis Levi: Binocular Vision, Development, Adaptation, and Plasticity
Eye Movements in Natural Tasks: A Tribute to Bob Steinman
Extreme Super-Resolution: Pushing the Boundaries of Image and Video Enhancement
Visual Perception enabling Autonomous Navigation (VP-NAV)
Image Quality and Visual Perception
Perceptual Image and Video Quality Assessment
Cortical Plasticity in Retinal Disease: Mechanisms of Reorganization following Vision Loss
New Directions in Perceptual Learning
3D Mesh Processing and Generation in the Age of Deep Learning
Collections & Archived Issues
The Role of Hippocampal Predictions in Cognition: Bridging Perception and Memory
Amblyopia — Advances in Amblyopia Research
Integrative and Translational Serial Dependence
Facial Appearance Measurement & Perception
Information Storage, Compression & Prediction in Deep Neural Networks
New Technologies in Ophthalmology
Journal of Perceptual Imaging (JPI)
Interface Between Vision and Language
JOSA A / JOSA B — Feature Issues
3D Image Acquisition and Display
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)
The Control of Visual Attention
Education
Workshops, classes, and summer schools to build skills in perception, imaging, analysis, and research methods.
Classes
Bonsai Module I Workshops
Neural Data Analysis with Open-Source Tools — From Raw Signals to Behavior-Linked Activity
A Practical Introduction to Eye Tracking
ACDL 2027: 10th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning
Summer Schools 2026-2027
Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium 2027
Summer Schools 2027-2028
International Artificial Intelligence Summer School (IAISS 2027)
Summer School: Visual Neuroscience — From Spikes to Awareness (2028)
CVR Vision Science Summer School (CVRSS)
Primate Cognitive Neuroscience (PCN) Summer School 2028
Workshops
Human-Centered AI Support for Immersive Data Sensemaking (HCAI4IDS)
Population Receptive Field Modeling Workshop — Coimbra 2026
Grad Programs
Doctoral and Masters opportunities. Includes dedicated PhD and MSc programs submitted by members.
Doctoral Program in Neural Science
Developmental & Brain Sciences PhD
Graduate Program in Physiological Optics/Vision Science
MSc Mind, Brain & Behavior
Jobs
PhD, postdoc, RA, and faculty positions in vision, perception, neuroscience, imaging, and allied areas.
Jobs and Student Positions
Research Specialist (Postbac) — Aguirre Lab
Research Assistant / Lab Manager — Vision & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
PhD & Graduate Positions
PhD Research Position — Neural Correlates of Trust in Human–AI Interaction
Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation & Post-MFA Fellowship 2027
PhD Positions — Computer Vision & AI for Healthcare
Postdoctoral Career Opportunities
Postdoctoral Research Position — Pediatric Myopia & Vision Science
Postdoctoral & Research Scientist Positions — Stanford Digital Brain Project
Postdoctoral Position — Generative Models of Full-Body CT Volumes
Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience — Memory and Perception Lab
Postdoctoral Position — Visually Guided Behavior in Low Vision
Postdoctoral Position — Cortical Representations in Low Vision
Postdoctoral Researcher — Developmental Visual Crowding
Postdoctoral Associate — M-EASE Wayfinding Project
Postdoctoral Position — High-Resolution Retinal Imaging, Eyetracking & Visual Psychophysics
Postdoctoral Position — Visual Perception, Medical Imaging & AI
Postdoctoral Position — Visual Perceptual Restoration (Huxlin Lab)
Postdoctoral Fellowship — Visual Systems Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Associate — MRI & Processing Speed
Postdoctoral Fellow — Vision & Neurodevelopment
Postdoctoral Researcher — Denison Lab
Postdoctoral Fellow — Center for Generative AI
Faculty Positions
Assistant Professor — Cognitive Psychology (Language and/or Memory)
Assistant/Associate Professors — Cognitive Neuroscience (2 Positions)
Assistant Professor — Experimental Psychology
Assistant Professor — Neuroscience
Assistant Professor — Human Neuroscience, Developmental Science & Computational Approaches
Assistant Professor – Behavioral Neuroscience (Memory & Dementia)
Assistant Professor — Computational Approaches to Perception and/or Cognition
Assistant Professor — Cognitive and/or Computational Neuroscience
Associate or Full Professor — Cognitive and Psychological Sciences
Tenure-Track Faculty Position — Human Translational Neuroscience & Neurorehabilitation
Assistant/Associate Professor — Visual Analytics
Assistant Professor — Neuroscience & Behavior
Teaching Assistant Professor — Neuroscience
Assistant Professor — Cognitive Neuroscience
Collaborative Research Opportunities
Funding
Travel awards, fellowships, and research support opportunities with typical timelines and eligibility notes.
Marshall Sherfield Fellowship 2027
Competitions and Prizes
Community contests and prizes highlighting creativity and achievement (e.g., Illusion of the Year).
IWDD Contest 2027 — Illegal Waste Dumping Detection
Passings
A Letter From David Peterzell
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)
Recent Passings
Prof. Dr. Casper Erkelens (1950–2026)
Manfred MacKeben (1940–2026)
Robert (Bob) M. Steinman (1927–2026)
Ariane Lévy-Schoen (1927–2026)