Connect With Industry

To reflect the range of interests and career goals of VSS attendees, we are pleased to offer our popular ‘Connect with Industry’ event at VSS 2023. This is an opportunity for our members to interact with representatives of industry and government agencies. Representatives from a range of organizations and industries will be present to discuss opportunities for vision scientists in their companies and to answer questions about collaborating with, and working within, their organizations. No advance sign-up is required.

Representatives from companies including Apple, Exponent, Magic Leap, and Meta, will be present to discuss opportunities for vision scientists in their companies and to answer questions about collaborating with and working within, their organizations.

All VSS attendees are welcome.

VSS Talks: Presentation Rules and Instructions

Presentation Rules

First authors are required to register and present their talk in their assigned session. VSS policy holds that if the first author is unable to attend the meeting, the abstract must be withdrawn. See Abstract Withdrawal for more information.

Presentation Instructions

All talk sessions at VSS 2023 will be recorded and made available to VSS attendees. The talk session recordings will be posted after the VSS meeting and available on the VSS website through August 31, 2023.

Each presenter will present their slides from their own laptop. As in the past, each speaker’s laptop will be connected to a switch box that controls sending the video feed to the projector. The switchbox is controlled by the AV Technician.

A video camera will be pointed at the lectern to capture video of you speaking. The video of you speaking will be inset into the upper right corner of the video from your laptop. This “picture-in-picture” video is what will be recorded and made available on the VSS website after VSS. It’s important that speakers remain at the lectern while presenting so they remain within the frame of the inset recording.

Important: You should leave some open space in the upper right corner of your slides so the video inset (picture-in-picture) does not overlap your slide content.

There will be a large (70 inch) comfort monitor on the floor in front of you as you present. This monitor will display the same content as is being displayed on the screen in the room. The purpose of this monitor is two-fold. First, this makes it easier for speakers to present while facing the audience (not looking at the projection screen), which will result in a better picture-in-picture recording. Second, for many presenters, moving your laptop to the lectern may not be necessary.

If you require ‘Presenter View’ on your laptop screen while you present, then you will need to move your laptop to the lectern. If not, you can leave your laptop on the table and control the advancing of your slides using an ‘air mouse’ connected to your laptop via a USB dongle. If you don’t have an air mouse, we can provide one.

Because we are recording the display from your laptop merged with the inset of you speaking, we discourage the use of using a physical laser pointer to point to locations on the projection screen as this will not be visible in the recording. Instead, you should use your on-screen mouse pointer. You may also wish to use words or slide animations to clarify where the viewer should focus their attention on your slides.

Prior to Your Talk

You must arrive at the talk room no less than 30 minutes before the start of your session to check in, receive final instructions, and test your presentation on the projector.

Presentations are made from your Mac or PC laptop. Laptops are connected to the projector through a switch box via a numbered HDMI cable, where the number on the cable corresponds to the presentation order.

The Setup Process

  1. The technician will connect your laptop to a HDMI switch box in the presentation order. If your laptop does not have a HDMI port, you will need an adapter. If you did not bring an adapter, check with the technician in the room. A limited number of adapters are available.
  2. If you are playing audio, plug the audio cable into your headphone jack and test it.
  3. Test the microphone at the lectern. Ensure that you can adjust the height correctly. A Lavaliere (wireless lapel microphone) is also available. See Tips for Using the Lavaliere below.
  4. The technician will control the switch box that sends your laptop’s video to the projector.
  5. Perform a quick test of your slides. Verify the following:
  • Slides project onto the screen correctly, fill the screen, and do not extend off the screen.
  • Slides are legible and not missing any text or graphics.
  • If color is important, verify how colors are projected.
  • Test embedded videos to verify that they play correctly.
  • Test audio. The technician in the room can make volume adjustments.
  • Test the remote control used for forwarding your slides.

Tips for Using the Lavaliere

If you cannot adjust the lectern microphone to your height, you may want to use the wireless lapel microphone (Lavaliere). Ask the technician in the room to help you with the Lavaliere. For best sound pickup, mount the Lavaliere as high as possible on your shirt/blouse, positioned to face your mouth. Turn the Lavaliere off when connecting/disconnecting as handling it while on makes a lot of noise.

Giving Your Talk

  1. Speakers typically sit in the front row while waiting for their turn to present. When the previous talk has ended, the technician will put your laptop screen live, displaying the title slide (first slide) of your presentation. The moderator will step to the lectern and announce your talk.
  2. Wait until the moderator has introduced you and started the talk timer, then step to the lectern to begin your presentation. It’s important that you remain at the lectern during your presentation so that you will be within the frame of the video camera.
  3. Use the ‘air mouse’ to advance your slides. The ‘air mouse’ can also be used to point at items on your slide.
  4. When your talk has ended, leave the lectern so the moderator can introduce the next speaker.

Talk Timing

Talk timing is the same as in previous years. Each talk is twelve minutes followed by a three-minute question and answer period. A timer is provided to help you keep time. There is no transition time allotted between talks, so it’s important that your talk start and end on time.

VSS has talk timers to help keep talks on schedule. The moderator is responsible for setting/starting/stopping the timers. The timer at the speaker podium has an LCD time display and colored lights. The talk timer counts UP from zero to 15. Here’s what the talk timing lights mean:

  1. Talk Time – From 0 to 10 minutes: The GREEN light is on during your talk time.
  2. Wrap Up – At 10 minutes: The YELLOW light displays and two-short beeps indicate that 2 minutes of talk time remains.
  3. Discussion – At 12 minutes: The RED light displays and two short beeps indicate that talk time has ended and the 3-minute question and answer period has started.
  4. Talk Ended – At 15 minutes: The FLASHING RED light and two long-beeps indicate that your presentation time has ended. You must stop immediately to allow the next speaker to start on time.

To facilitate the next speaker starting on time, we suggest that the next speaker go to the stage and prepare to set up during the previous speaker’s 3-minute question and answer period.

Slides Format

VSS 2023 is using widescreen projection (16:9 aspect ratio) in the main talk rooms. To take full advantage of the new larger screens, you should prepare your talk presentation using widescreen slides. The projection screens are 14 feet wide by 8 feet high.

You can still use standard (4:3 aspect ratio) slides. Your slides will fill the height of the screen, but there will be blank space on each side of your slides. We will not be able to make adjustments between speakers to accommodate differing slide aspect ratios; the projection screen will be set only for widescreen slides.

Only the screens in Talk Room 1 and Talk Room 2 are widescreen. If you are giving a presentation in another room where a pop-up screens is used,  the aspect ratio is 4:3. For the best quality display, set your video resolution to widescreen 1080p resolution (1920×1080). This is the native resolution of the video projector. Other resolutions will work, but the projector will need to adjust the resolution for projection. This can sometimes result in a lower quality image.

Meeting Room Equipment

Each of the main talk rooms is equipped with:

  • Data/video projector with eight-port video switch box.
  • Projection screen (widescreen, 16:9 aspect ratio).
  • Audio connection to the room speaker system.
  • Lectern and head table on a 12” riser platform.
  • Wireless Lavaliere (lapel microphone), lectern microphone, and audience microphones.
  • Talk timers (see Talk Timing above).

Recommendations

As a precaution, always bring two copies of your presentation with you to the meeting. Bring a copy of your presentation with you to the talk room on a USB flash drive. Should you encounter a problem using your own computer, this facilitates presenting on another computer. A spare PC laptop is available in each talk room and connected to the projector.

We recommend that no critical information be near the edge of your slide. Alignment of the video projector and screen can vary, which can cause the edge of the projected image to be cut off.

Your laptop must have a way to connect to a standard HDMI cable. If your laptop  requires a HDMI adapter, be sure to bring it and know how to use it; otherwise, connection to the projector may not be possible. VSS has a limited number of HDMI adapters, and we cannot guarantee that we will have the one you need.

Insure that you know how to activate the external video port of the laptop. Instructions should be in your operator’s manual. Generally on PCs, a Function Key (or Shift plus a Function Key) activates the external port.

If you use a Macintosh laptop, be sure you know how to keep the external port active. Macintosh computers automatically detect the presence of a video projector when the computer boots and the external port is activated. Unfortunately, if the projector is disconnected while the computer is awake, the port is deactivated and a time-consuming reboot is necessary. To avoid this problem, test your presentation before your session and, before disconnecting the projector from the computer, put the computer into Sleep mode. If you do not wake the computer before the projector is reattached, the external port will stay active.

Technical Assistance

A technician is in each talk room at all times during the talk sessions (and 30 minutes before). If you have a problem of any kind, let the technician and the session moderator know.

To reach the VSS Technical Manager, please call Jeff Wilson at 415-302-4107, or send someone to the Registration Desk. The Registration Desk can also be reached by calling 727.367.6461 extension 7814, or dialing 7814 from a house phone.

2023 Annual Business Meeting

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 12:30 – 1:00 pm, Talk Room 2

We encourage you to join the VSS Board of Directors for the Annual Business Meeting. During this meeting, the VSS leadership will provide an overview of the Society, including the outlook and priorities for next year’s meeting.

The Business Meeting is an opportunity for VSS members to ask questions of the VSS Board of Directors and bring up issues of concern to the general membership.

You may send questions before the start of the Business Meeting to .

Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events

Display  sessions

Search Abstracts | Symposia | Talk Sessions | Poster Sessions

Thursday, May 18, 2023

9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS)

Satellite

Horizons

Friday, May 19, 2023

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

9:00 - 11:30 am

What's (not) in a name: Guidelines for replicable projector-based vision experiments
Organized by VPixx Technologies

Satellite

Jasmine/Palm

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS)

Satellite

Horizons

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard

11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)
cash lunch available in Courtyard

Break

Garden Courtyard

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Critical Perspectives On Vision Science: Towards Unbiasing Our Methods and Role in Knowledge Production

Symposium

Talk Room 1

12:00 - 2:00 pm

How does the brain combine generative models and direct discriminative computations for visual inference?

Symposium

Talk Room 2

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard

2:30 - 4:30 pm

The Active Fovea

Symposium

Talk Room 1

2:30 - 4:30 pm

The development of categorical object representations: bridging visual neuroscience and deep learning

Symposium

Talk Room 2

4:30 - 5:00 pm

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Object representations in the parietal cortex

Symposium

Talk Room 1

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Continuous psychophysics

Symposium

Talk Room 2

7:00 - 9:30 pm

Opening Night Reception

Social

Beachside Decks

8:30 - 9:30 pm

Visibility: A Gathering of LGBTQ+ Vision Scientists and Friends

Satellite

Garden Courtyard

Saturday, May 20, 2023

7:30 am - 6:45 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

8:15 - 9:45 am

Face Perception: Disorders, individual differences, and social cognition

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

Perceptual Organization: Bistability, representation

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Saturday Morning Posters
Plasticity and Learning: Clinical applications
Binocular Vision: Clinical
Spatial Vision: Perceptual properties in health and disease
Attention: Temporal, divided
Attention: Endogenous, exogenous
Visual Search: Features, models, neural
Aging

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Saturday Morning Posters
Motion: Models, neural mechanisms
Temporal Processing: Duration, timing perception
Perception & Action: Reaching, aiming, interception
Perception and Action: Navigation and flow in virtual environments
Multisensory Processing: Visuo-haptic
Visual Memory: Long term memory

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Materials, Objects and Perception

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Eye Movements: Perception, cognition

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)
cash lunch available in Courtyard

Break

Garden Courtyard

12:45 - 2:15 pm

Virtual Reality + Eye Tracking for Research
Organized by WorldViz VR

Satellite

Blue Heron

12:45 - 2:15 pm

Diversity event

Networking

Jasmine/Palm

12:45 - 2:15 pm

VSS Workshop for PhD Students and Postdocs
Strategies for Funding your Research Ideas

Student

Sabal/Sawgrass

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Development: Infancy

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Artificial neural networks and vision

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Saturday Afternoon Posters
Color, Light and Materials: Lightness, brightness
Color, Light and Materials: Cognition
Attention: Top-down, reward
Face Perception: Individual differences
Face Perception: Emotion

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Saturday Afternoon Posters
Attention: Affect, threat
Eye Movements: Perception, remapping
Object Recognition: Reading
Binocular Vision: Disparity processing
3D: Cues and integration
Perception and Action
Spatial Vision: Crowding and eccentricity

Poster Session

Pavilion

5:15 - 6:45 pm

Intuitive Physics and Event Perception

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

5:15 - 6:45 pm

Temporal Processing

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

7:15 - 8:15 pm

Keynote Address given by Hany Farid
Creating, (Mis)using, and Detecting Deep Fakes

Keynote

Talk Room 1-2

Sunday, May 21, 2023

7:30 am - 6:45 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

8:15 - 9:45 am

Perceptual Organization: Motion, texture

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

Multisensory Processing

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Sunday Morning Posters
Attention: Spatial
Face Perception: Experience, learning, and expertise
Visual Search: Eye movements, attention, individual differences
Attention: Cueing, inattention
Attention: Objects

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Sunday Morning Posters
Perceptual Decision-Making
Color, Light and Materials: Surfaces, materials, constancy
Object Recognition: Neural organization and representations
Object Recognition: Visual preference, features and objects
Eye Movements: Saccades and pursuit
Spatial Vision: Neural mechanisms

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Plasticity and Learning 1

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Perception and Action: Reach, grasp, walk

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)
cash lunch available in Courtyard

Break

Garden Courtyard

12:30 - 2:30 pm

Canadian Vision Science Social
Sponsored by the York Centre for Vision Research and VISTA

Satellite

Sabal/Sawgrass

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Accessibility event: how to make accessible scientific presentations
Organized by the Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPC)

Workshop

Blue Heron

1:00 - 2:00 pm

US Funding Workshop

Workshop

Jasmine/Palm

1:00 - 2:00 pm

VSS Public Lecture given by T. Rowan Candy
Seeing through the eyes of a baby

Other

Offsite

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Object Recognition: Artificial neural networks, models

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Visual Search: Attention, memory

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Sunday Afternoon Posters
Development: Neural mechanisms and eye movements
Eye Movements: Visual Impairment
Motion: Local, in depth
Attention: Individual differences
Visual Working Memory: Interference
Visual Working Memory: Attention, load and capacity
Perceptual Decision-Making: Confidence

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Sunday Afternoon Posters
Plasticity and Learning: Statistical learning
Plasticity and Learning: Tasks, models
Binocular Vision: Integration and rivalry
3D: Shape
Perception and Action: Navigation and flow
Face Perception: Insights from artificial neural networks
Perceptual Organization: Shape, figure/ground, occlusion

Poster Session

Pavilion

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Attention: Mechanisms and models

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Color, Light and Materials: Cones to cognition

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

7:30 - 8:30 pm

Career Transitions Workshop, Part 1: Early Career Panel
Organized by the VSS Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPC)

Workshop

Horizons

8:45 - 9:45 pm

Career Transitions Workshop, Part 2: Where do I go from here? Round table Discussion
Organized by Females of Vision et al (FoVea)

Satellite

Beachside Decks

Monday, May 22, 2023

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

7:45 am - 1:30 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

8:15 - 9:45 am

Spatial Vision

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

Motion: Neural mechanisms, models, perception

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Monday Morning Posters
Object Recognition: Models
Scene Perception: Spatiotemporal factors
Attention: Temporal, templates, memory
Attention: Features
Image Preference, Statistics and Aesthetics

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Monday Morning Posters
Eye Movements: Individual differences, novel measurement
Visual Working Memory: Serial dependence
Visual Working Memory: Neural mechanisms
Visual Working Memory: Space, features, objects
Multisensory Processing: Audio-visual, visuo-vestibular

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Development: Disorders

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

3D: Disparity and shape

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)

Break

Grand Palm Colonnade

12:30 - 2:00 pm

VSS Awards Session

Award

Talk Room 1-2

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Pre-Data-Collection Poster Session

Satellite

Jasmine/Palm

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Undergraduate Meet and Greet

Networking

Pirate Island

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Meet the Professors

Student

Banyan Breezeway

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Demo Night BBQ

Social

Beachside Decks

7:00 - 10:00 pm

Demo Night

Social

Talk Room 1-2

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

7:45 am - 6:45 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

8:15 - 9:45 am

Plasticity and Learning 2

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

Binocular Vision

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tuesday Morning Posters
Color, Light, and Materials: Neural mechanisms, models
Perceptual Organization: Segmentation, grouping, similarity
Face Perception: Models
Face Perception: Neural mechanisms
Scene Perception: Categorization, memory, cognition
Scene Perception: Neural mechanisms
Visual Search: Scenes and other natural environments

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tuesday Morning Posters
Development: Perception and cognition
Spatial Vision: Models and image statistics
Motion: Higher-order
Attention: Bottom-up
Eye Movements: Complex tasks
Visual Memory: Buildup, imagery, ensembles

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Visual Memory: Space, time, features, objects

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Object Recognition: Categories, neural mechanisms

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)
cash lunch available in Courtyard

Break

Grand Palm Colonnade

12:30 - 1:00 pm

VSS Business Meeting

Business

Talk Room 2

12:30 - 2:00 pm

phiVis: Philosophy of Vision Science Workshop

Satellite

Jasmine/Palm

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Connect with Industry

Networking

Blue Heron

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Eye Movements: Neural processes and models

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Scene Perception

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Tuesday Afternoon Posters
Plasticity and Learning: Cortex
Plasticity and Learning: Sensorimotor
Perception & Action: Grasping
3D: Spatial layout and VR/AR
Eye Movements: Scenes, VR, 3D
Motion: Optic flow
Perceptual Organization: Contour integration, common fate

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Tuesday Afternoon Posters
Object Recognition: Categories
Object Recognition: Neural mechanisms
Face Perception: Wholes, parts, configurations, and features
Face Perception: Development and disorders
Face Perception: Social cognition

Poster Session

Pavilion

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Attention: Models, individual differences, reward, capture, shifting

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Visual Working Memory

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

10:00 pm - 2:00 am

Club Vision

Social

Talk Room 1-2

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

7:45 am - 12:45 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

8:15 - 10:00 am

Perceptual Decision-Making and Confidence

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 10:00 am

Visual Search

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Wednesday Morning Posters
Temporal Processing: Neural mechanisms and models
Object Recognition: Features and parts
Visual Memory: Capacity, encoding, retrieval
Spatial Vision: Texture
Visual Search: Attention
Visual Search: Strategies, efficiencies

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Wednesday Morning Posters
Perception and Action: Perception of Human Actions and Bodies
Eye Movements: Fixation
Eye Movements: Attention, cognition, neural processes
Perceptual Organization: Symmetry, preference, ensembles
Scene Perception: Natural image statistics
Scene Perception: Models
Scene Perception: Virtual environments

Poster Session

Pavilion

10:00 - 10:45 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Attention: Spatial, featural, temporal, divided

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Face Perception: Neural mechanisms and models

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

Publication Opportunity for VSS Members Announced by FABBS

A message from the Board of Directors of VSS:

VSS is one of the many member societies of FABBS, the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. VSS has been invited to contribute articles to an issue of the FABBS journal, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS). The issue will consist of 23 invited articles, selected from submitted abstracts, that summarize an area of vision research, along with its implications for public policy. Instructions for submitting abstracts for consideration, and other relevant details, are contained in this message.

What is the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS)?

FABBS is a coalition of scientific societies, including VSS, that share an interest in advancing the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior. FABBS communicates the importance and contributions of research in these areas to policy makers, research funding agencies, and the public. FABBS has advocated on behalf of vision science in relation to levels of funding and the interpretation of policies regarding clinical studies.

What is Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences?

PIBBS publishes brief, reader-friendly summaries of contemporary research findings that are relevant to efforts to promote new policies and/or new funding directions. Articles must contain brief statements describing or suggesting policy implications of the work. Articles are citable. 

Where can I find examples of PIBBS articles?

Check the PIBBS website. Each article contains a summary of the research and ends with a brief, general implication for policy.

What does “policy” refer to?

Policies may include advocacy for research or funding directions, industry-academic partnerships to accomplish shared goals, formal establishment of new international collaborations, or new practices or guidelines relevant to education, health, or the workplace.

What types of research in vision might have policy implications?

Many research directions in vision science have practical implications for policies. Some examples:

  • Application of perceptual research involving VR or other emerging visual technologies to benefit education, the workplace or health;
  • Applications of research on perceptual learning, visual memory or perceptual aspects of reading to education policies, practices or funding;
  • Use of research on perception to develop technologies or practices relevant to young, aging, or special populations;
  • Application of research on face perception to identify biases in judgments that may impact social policies;
  • Development of effective visual presentations of publicly-available data.

What is the value to vision science or to me in submitting an article to PIBBS?

FABBS circulates PIBBS to policy makers and funding agencies. A PIBBS article is also a citable publication that may be useful to you in disseminating the applications of your work to a wide audience.

Who can submit?

This opportunity is open to any 2022 or 2023 VSS member from any country, including student and postdoctoral members. Even though FABBS is a US-based organization, it is interested in policies that enhance international collaborations and cooperation.

What is the process?

Any VSS member (2022 or 2023) can submit an abstract (no more than 200 words) for consideration. Your abstract should summarize the previously-published research that will be reviewed in your article and include a description of the policy implications or applications. (Abstracts presenting new unpublished findings will not be considered.) Include title, authors, authors’ affiliations, authors’ contact information, and a brief bibliography.  Indicate which author(s) are VSS members (one or more must be a 2022 or 2023 VSS member). Send your abstract as a PDF file attachment to  by January 17, 2023. From the submitted abstracts, 23 will be invited to prepare and submit a manuscript.

Are there costs?

There is no cost to authors.  

What is the timeline?

Abstracts are due January 17, 2023. Invitations to prepare an article will be sent to those selected by the end of January. Articles will be due May 1, 2023. The submitted articles will then be reviewed with an eye to acceptance. FABBS manages the process in collaboration with the VSS Board.

What if I have questions?

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Annual Meeting General

The 2023 Annual Meeting will be held at the TradeWinds Island Resorts in St. Pete Beach, Florida, May 19 – 24, 2023.
No, but members receive a discounted rate.
No, you must wear a badge to get into all meeting events. You may go to the Registration Desk for a replacement badge.
If you require a letter of invitation, please send your request to VSS.

The meeting registration includes an Opening Night Reception on Friday evening, which features a full buffet dinner, as well as a Demo Night Dinner on Monday evening. There will also be continental breakfasts, mid-morning coffee breaks, and afternoon coffee breaks with a light snack (popcorn, granola bar, etc.) for attendees.

If an attendee wishes to bring a guest to the social events and meals, a VSS Friends and Family Pass can be purchased at the VSS Registration Desk. Passes are $60.00 for adult guests and $20.00 for children ages 6 through 12. Children under the age of 6 are free. Passes are required for all social events and meals.

Yes, VSS provides free wired and wireless internet access in the VSS Social Lounge. A limited number of laptop computers will also be available for those who did not bring their own computers. Free wireless internet access is provided in the meeting space, lobby and restaurant areas of the hotel.

The TradeWinds is a family-friendly hotel, and we hope that you will want to bring your family with you. The VSS guest policy is as follows:

Scientific Program: Guests are allowed complimentary entry into one VSS session (for the purposes of seeing the poster or talk of the person they are a guest of). For a guest pass to a scientific session, please inquire at the VSS Registration Desk onsite.

Social & Food Events: A VSS Friends and Family Pass can be purchased at the VSS Registration Desk. This pass will allow your family and friends to attend the Opening Night Reception, all coffee & snack breaks, and the daily continental breakfast. Passes are $60.00 for adult guests and $20.00 for children ages 6 through 12. Children under the age of 6 are free. Passes are required for entrance to all social events and meals.

Note: The VSS Family & Friends Social Pass does not cover entrance to the scientific sessions. For a guest pass to a scientific session, please inquire at the VSS Registration Desk onsite.

Abstract Submissions

The deadline for submitting your abstract is December 5, 2022, latest time zone on earth.
Yes, you must be a current member in good standing. Please see Membership. You may become a member at the same time that you submit your abstract. If you try to submit and you are not a member, you will be directed to the membership application.
No, only the first author must be a current member in good standing. Please see Membership.
Each individual may submit one abstract and may be the first author on only one abstract.
There is no longer a separate charge for submitting an abstract; the abstract submission is now rolled into the membership fee. This portion of the membership fee ($40) covers the administrative costs involved in receiving and reviewing the abstracts and the online abstract submission system. It also helps to cover the publishing of the abstracts in the Journal of Vision. Membership fees are not refundable.

Meeting Registration

Online registration opens on December 15, 2022 and is available through April 21, 2023. Early (discounted) registration runs through February 28, 2023. If you do not register online, registration is available onsite beginning Friday, May 19, 2023.
No. VSS does not offer a one-day registration rate.
Yes. All participants, including talk and symposium presenters, are required to register for the meeting.
Yes. The symposia are part of the VSS meeting, and therefore meeting registration is required to attend (and participate in) the symposia.

Hotel & Travel

Yes, complimentary self-parking is available at the TradeWinds.

2023 Graphics Competition


VSS is seeking outstanding creative visual images for the 2023 meeting. There are two separate graphics competitions: the Website Banner Competition and the T-Shirt Design Competition.

The winning image of the Website Banner Competition will also be used for the program covers, onsite signage, PowerPoint slides, bulk emails, printed materials, and other places where needed.

The winning image of the T-Shirt Design Competition will be used on the VSS 2023 T-shirt and may also be used for other purposes, such as tote bags, pens, hats, and mugs/water bottles.

You may submit more than one image for consideration and you are allowed to enter images in both competitions. You may submit the same image to both competitions as long as the file format requirements can be met.

Images may be related to scientific content, the Vision Sciences Society, or St. Pete Beach and the surrounding area. The image may include the VSS logo or be an alteration of the VSS logo.

The winner of each competition grants VSS unlimited rights to copy, publish, edit, print, and use the images for any purpose, including publishing images online and on other electronic and hard-copy media.

Winning images are chosen by a vote of the VSS Board of Directors. Winners will be notified by September 22, 2022.

Submissions for Website Banner Competition must be received no later than September 1, 2022.
Submissions for the T-Shirt Design Competition must be received no later than January 10, 2023.
You must be a current VSS member to submit an image for consideration.

Website Banner Competition

The Website Banner Competition is a contest to select an image that will serve as the brand, or theme, of the annual meeting by providing imagery that will be used throughout the VSS meeting. Although the winning image will be used for many purposes, to enter the competition you need to submit proposed images for the primary website banner and the secondary page website banner. Other items will be created using variations of the winning image.

Your proposed primary website banner design will replace the current banner on the VSS website home page. Your secondary page website banner will replace the banner shown at the top of this page. At a minimum, your proposed banner image should include the name of the society and the dates of the meeting.

To enter the Website Banner Competition, please submit two full-color raster image in .jpg or .png format.

The primary website banner image must be 3070 pixels by 534 pixels.
The secondary page website banner must be 3070 pixels by 178 pixels.

If your image is chosen as the winning design, in addition to the banner image, you will be asked to provide variations of your image for use on the printed program cover, signs, and other purposes.

The winner of the Website Banner Competition will be awarded $500 USD and will be recognized in the meeting program, on the meeting website, and at the Awards session at the VSS meeting.

Deadline to submit an image for the Website Banner Competition is September 1, 2022.
You must be a current member to submit an image.

View Previous Program Covers and Banners

T-Shirt Design Competition

The T-Shirt Design Competition is a contest to select an image for the VSS t-shirt. The image may also be used on other items that require line art.

Two images are needed for the t-shirt: one for the back and one for the breast. The maximum print area for the back image is approximately 11 inches square; the breast image print area is 3″ square. You can submit one image for both purposes or separate images. The images will be printed on black t-shirts and white t-shirts, so the image must be usable on both black an white backgrounds.

The images should include at least the name and year of the meeting (eg: VSS 2023), but may also include other information, such as the meeting dates and location.

T-shirts are printed using a silkscreen process, so the image must be line art that uses a maximum of four spot colors (solid colors, not composite colors). Large areas of solid colors are discouraged as these are more difficult to print and result in an image with a plastic feel that is not comfortable to wear.

To enter the T-Shirt Design Competition, please submit a PDF of your proposed design showing your images as they would appear on a white background and a black background.

If your image is chosen as the winning design, you will be asked to provide your artwork in a scalable vector graphic file, such as Adobe Illustrator or compatible.

The winner of the T-Shirt Design Competition will be awarded $500 USD and will be recognized in the meeting program, on the meeting website, and at the Awards session at the VSS meeting.

Deadline to submit an image for the T-shirt Design Competition is January 10, 2023.
You must be a current member to submit an image.

View Previous T-shirt Designs

How To Enter

Email your images to as an attachment. One email per submission, please. Specify which competition you are entering. You may optionally include a brief description of your image that the board will consider when reviewing the submitted images.

Schedule
Deadline to submit an image for Website Banner Competition: September 1, 2022
Website Banner Competition image chosen: by October 3, 2022
Deadline to submit an image for T-shirt Design Competition: January 10, 2023
T-shirt image chosen: by January 31, 2023

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