— Registration without contribution to the symposium open until capacity or deadline for organization is reached. —

The Systems Vision Science Symposium

The Systems Vision Science Symposium takes place in-person from Tuesday, August 22 to Thursday, August 24, 2023 in Tuebingen, Germany, at the end of the Systems Vision Science Summer School –before the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP, August 27 to August 31, 2023).

Invited speakers of the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium include: Assaf Breska, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer, Karl Gegenfurtner, Ziad Hafed, Tadashi Isa, Jan Koenderink, Kristine Krug, Hanspeter Mallot, Laurence Maloney, Pascal Mamassian, Antje Nuthmann, Daniel Osorio, Andrew Parker, Jenny Read, Alexander Schütz, Manuel Spitschan, Kristina Visscher, Li Zhaoping.

You will have the opportunity to present and discuss your research with them.



This year’s keynote speaker is Marty Sereno,

August 22, 2023

Program

Schedule of Events – SVS Symposium 2023

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

16:00 – 17:00 Welcome reception
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote:

Topological brain maps and the shape of thought

 Marty Sereno
18:00 – 21:00 Poster session and dinner (served at 18:00)

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Oral Session 1:
The power of two: New perspectives on binocular vision
08:45 – 09:30 Specialised cortical circuits for perceptual decisions about 3D stimuli Kristine Krug
09:30 – 10:15 The neural control of ocular accommodation and vergence Jenny Read
10:15 – 11:00 Changes in conjoint neural firing predictive of perceptual decisions about binocular depth Andrew Parker
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break including snacks
11:30 – 12:15 Stereo vision: perceived depth within and across objects Pascal Mamassian
12:15 – 13:00 Investigating feedforward and feedback processes along the visual pathway using random-dot stereograms Zhaoping Li
13:00 – 14:30 Poster session & lunch
 

Oral Session 2:
Topics in Systems Vision Science
14:30 – 15:15 Pattern Illusions Laurence Maloney
15:15 – 16:00 Color and objects Karl Gegenfurtner
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:15 Top-down and bottom-up neuromodulation of visual decoding Peter Dayan
17:15 – 21:00 Poster session
& dinner (served at 18:00)

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Oral Session 2:
Topics in Systems Vision Science
08:45 – 09:30 Cephalopod vision: Perception, cognition and action Daniel Osorio
09:30 – 10:15 Vision for spatial cognition Hanspeter Mallot
Oral Session 3:
Central vs. peripheral vision
10:15 – 11:00 The role of visual salience in peripheral vision for fixation selection during naturalistic scene viewing Antje Nuthmann
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break including snacks
11:30 – 12:15 Gaze in real and virtual worlds Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer
12:15 – 13:00 Connections and plasticity of cortical representations of central and peripheral vision Kristina Visscher
13:00 – 14:30 Poster session & lunch
14:30 – 15:15 Interactions of central and peripheral vision Alexander Schütz
15:15 – 16:00 A vision for orienting in primate oculomotor control circuitry Ziad Hafed
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:15 Pictorial space and the field of view Jan Koenderink &
Andrea van Doorn
17:15 – 21:00 Poster session
& closing event

Symposium poster contributions (to be continued)

  • Centanino, Valeria: Exploring the encoding of temporal information and its interplay with spatial information along the human cortical hierarchy
  • De Filippi, Federico: The visual memorability of unpalatable Lepidoptera: insights from humans and machines
  • Fernandez-Alonso, Maydel: Binocular retinal signal integration in non-image-forming vision
  • Gao, Shaobing: Double-opponent cells in V1 serve to predict rather than discount the illuminant in realizing color constancy: A computational study
  • Giese, Martin: Neurodynamical model for IT responses in anorthoscopic body perception
  • Gupta, Divyansh: Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields
  • Heller, Charles: State-dependent visual processing in the larval zebrafish
  • Liang, Junhao: Eye movement evidence for V1 saliency hypothesis and central-peripheral dichotomy in an anomalous visual search task
  • Morales-Gregorio, Aitor: Modulation of neural manifolds in V1 by top-down communication from V4
  • Pedziwiatr, Marek: Oculomotor exploration is modulated by the relevance of prior knowledge about the recent past
  • Ramanathan, Chockalingam: Context-dependent interareal synchronization across mouse visual cortex
  • Safavi, Shervin: A decision-theoretic approach to binocular rivalry
  • Sheynikhovich, Denis: Panoramic visual representation in the parietal-medial temporal pathway and its role in spatial and non-spatial behaviours
  • Stoll, Susanne: Tailoring Population Receptive Field Modeling to Other Sensory Systems – From Vision to Touch
  • Wang, Shuyao: Attentional Blur and Blink: Effects of Adaptive Attentional Scaling on Visual Awareness
  • Yörüten, Mehmet: Characterising The Temporal Dynamics of Visual Perceptual Grouping
  • Yu, Yue: Comparison of the visual discharge properties of primate superior colliculus and primary visual cortex neurons
  • Zulianello, Marica: The Honeycomb illusion: Peripheral vision of contours, unlike that of objects, is refractory to predictions, extrapolation and memory effects
  • Zhaoping, Li: Central-Peripheral Dichotomy: central vision is specialized for seeing, peripheral vision is specialized for looking

Participation in the symposium with or without contribution

Non-presenters are also invited to register and enjoy all benefits of the symposium until venue capacity of 100 people (including invited speakers and summer school participants) is reached. Priority will be given to people submitting a contribution.

Submitting a contribution will no longer be possible after April 30, 2023 May 15, 2023 (extended), but registration without contribution is open until capacity or deadline for organization is reached.

For registration without contribution please use this form and send it, saved as pdf and named “svs_symposium_Last Name_First Name”, to svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de. You will get a confirmation e-mail after receipt of your submission – if you don’t get a message of receipt within a day, please contact us.

Presentation guidelines

All posters should be presented on one page and in “portrait” orientation. To maximize exchanges during the symposium, the posters will be displayed throughout the symposium, which includes five poster sessions (two daytime sessions and three evening sessions), in a venue next to the lecture hall and coffee breaks to give enough time for discussions, networking and knowledge exchange.

Anyone who submits an abstract agrees to have the presentation in-person in Tuebingen, Germany.

Submission of contributions

We invite you to submit poster contributions for presentation on topics of Systems Vision Science. This discipline combines computational, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to discover functions and algorithms for vision in various brain regions and their implementations in neural circuits. Presentation topics by the invited speakers will be

   ⇒ Topics in Systems Vision Science

   ⇒ The power of two: New perspectives on binocular vision

   ⇒ Central versus peripheral vision

Contributions in form of posters to any of these topics will be encouraged. To contribute, submit an abstract until Sunday, April 30, 2023 Monday, May 15, 2023 (extended). Information regarding acceptance is expected to be communicated by us by May 25, 2023, latest.

In order to submit a contribution, please use this form and send it, saved as pdf and named “svs_symposium_Last Name_First Name”, to svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de. You will get a confirmation e-mail after receipt of your submission – if you don’t get a message of receipt within a day, please contact us.

Submissions will be considered on the basis of their fit with the symposium program and topics.

Registration and payment

Registration fee for all participants is 100 € covering costs including coffee breaks, lunch, dinner as well as the closing event (barbecue) and other symposium operations.

Registrations fees must be paid via bank transfer only and are not refundable.

Participants of the symposium need to arrange and pay for their own travel and accommodations. Recommendations for accommodation in Tuebingen can be found here.

 

Important dates

Submit your contribution until Sunday, April 30, 2023 Monday, May 15, 2023 (extended)

Notification of acceptance of your contribution latest by May 25, 2023 (extended) and please confirm your participation by May 31, 2023 by payment.

Tuesday, August 22 to Thursday, August 24, 2023 Systems Vision Science Symposium takes place

Registration for participation without contribution to the Systems Vision Science Symposium will be possible until capacity or deadline for organization is reached. You will get notice if we have a confirmed spot for you at our symposium latest 1 week after your registration, but earliest on May 31, 2023. Please secure your spot by payment within 1 week after our notification.

 

For questions please contact svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de