Do you know of any graduate students that would like to be a team member writing up an article on constancy phenomena. If so forward this message to them. Ron Blue http://turn.to/ai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Schirillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:14 PM > Call for Papers > > Perception Special Issue > > "Scene Articulation: Color and Lightness Constancy" > > 'Articulation of the visual field' has become recognized as an essential > condition for the appearance of 'constancy' phenomena, though this rather > vague term is badly in need of clearer definition and explanation. > > -- R. Henneman. > > The degree of lightness and color constancy that we experience can be very > different in different scenes. The term 'articulation' is, historically, > associated with the aspects of a scene that affect the stability of > perceived color and lightness across changes in illumination. These might > include the number of distinct surfaces present in the scene or, > alternatively, the degree of depth variation (three-dimensionality). There > is little agreement as to what the term 'articulation' could or should > refer to or even whether it is a useful tool to organize our thinking about > human color vision. > > Jim Schirillo and Larry Maloney invite submission of theoretical and > experimental papers that bear on any aspect of lightness or color constancy > performance across a range of scenes. Those papers accepted following peer > review will be published together as a special issue of the journal > PERCEPTION. > > Interested contributors should submit four copies of their manuscript, > formatted as for submission to the journal PERCEPTION, to the following > address: > > Perception Special Issue > Attn: Debbie Ruvo > Psychology (Mail Stop 1051) > 6 Washington Place, 8th Floor > New York NY 10003 > USA > > The schedule for the special issue is as follows: > > Feb 15 Final date for paper submission > May 15 Notice of review results > Jul 15 Accepted manuscripts due in final form > > If you would like further information, please feel free to contact either > of the Feature Editors, Larry Maloney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Jim Schirillo > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > Jim Schirillo > > Wake Forest University > Department of Psychology > Box 7778 Reynolda Station > Winston-Salem, NC 27109 > (336) 758-4233 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:24 AM Subject: color constancy > Jim, > > I received your message regarding submitting an article regarding the > theoretical reasons why color constancy exist. I have not spent anytime > thinking about this but the answer is rather simple if you have the correct > model. That model is Correlational Opponent Processing at http://turn.to/ai . > The basic idea is that the brain use associational reciprocal inhibition, > correlational opponent processing, wavelets, interference, opponent wavelets, > and oscillon like structures stored in gaussian areas. > > Gaussian oscillon analysis would automatically force color constancy over a wide > range of stimuli, because the goal is to maintain a relative neutral balance in > the nervous system. This balancing act occurs over real time and is dynamic. > The balancing act is relative to ones learning history, neuro organization and > the current stimulus. > > I have not written an article on this approach. I noticed that your deadline > is Feb 15, 2001 do you have any graduate students that would like to have their > name on such an article? > > Ron Blue > (Kannapolis, NC is my home town) > http://turn.to/ai > >
