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Illusion news 17

since July 19, 2013

[APCV2014] 'Second Call' for Demo Night

Dear APCV2014 participants,

We want to thank all applicants to Demo Night at APCV2014.
Their requests on space and equipment are to be fully granted.

Yet, there is still some space. I would be even happier if we could
have more demos.

Demo Night is oriented to entertainment purposes and the relation
to poster/oral presentation is not necessary. Classic demonstrations
are OK.

Presenters can leave their demos for Banquet.

The new deadline for proposal is June 29, 2014.

We would highly appreciate your contribution.

Best regards,

Akiyoshi

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Akiyoshi KITAOKA
Department of Psychology
Ritsumeikan University
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
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APCV 2014 -- 'Second Call' for Demo Night

Demo Night will be organized by Dr. Akiyoshi Kitaoka (Ritsumeikan University)
and held during the official Banquet on July 21 (Mon) evening. The demonstration
can be a novel illusion, a variant of an old one, a fascinating visual effect, etc.

Applicants have to be responsible for the shipping and handling of instruments,
as well as put-up, put-down, and presentation of the demos.

The following information must be included in proposals:
- The title and a brief description of the demonstration
- Contact e-mail address
- Space required* (e.g.: 1m x 0.5m table, 2m x 2m floor space)
- Equipment request** (e.g. AC power extension cord, screen, projector, poster board, etc.)

* The basic floor size is 1.8m x 1.8m per presentation. All space will be provided with a table
(1.8m x 0.45m). Applicants can request additional space and/or tables.

** Note that not all equipment requests will be accepted because Takamatsu the venue city is
distant from any of the universities or institutes of the APCV organizing committee members.
Request for electric (AC) power supply must be sent upon application. The maximum usage is
limited to 200W / 100V, and don't forget to bring your own plug adapter.

---IMPORTANT DATES---

Deadline for proposals: June 29, 2014.
Notification of decisions: July 6, 2014.

Proposals should be sent to inquiry_apcv2014@googlegroups.com

For further information please contact APCV2014 organizing committee at
inquiry_apcv2014@googlegroups.com

<June 19, 2014>

APCV 2014 -- First Call for Demos ('Demo Night' and 'Poster Demo')

The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) will be held in Takamatsu, Japan between July 19 (Sat) - 22 (Tue), 2014.
Details of the conference can be found at
http://www.visionsociety.jp/apcv2014/

The conference will host *two types* of opportunities for participants to present a demonstration or exhibit something related to their research; one is called Demo Night, and the other is Poster Demo.
Please read the following information carefully before sending an application.

1. Demo Night
'Demo Night' will be organized by Dr. Akiyoshi Kitaoka (Ritsumeikan University) and held during the official Banquet on July 21 (Mon) evening. The demonstration can be a novel illusion, a variant of an old one, a fascinating visual effect, etc.

2. Poster Demo
'Poster Demo' can be a supplement of poster presentation that needs extra space for demonstrations. The space will be provided for two or three presentations on each day at the end of the poster-presentation hall. The demos must be related to the poster from the same author(s) and can be presented on the same day as the poster presentation.

Note that the Poster Demo is a part of technical presentations and is strictly limited to academic purpose. The demos must be related to the poster presentation at APCV2014. The Demo Night is rather oriented to entertainment purposes and the relation to poster/oral presentation is not necessary.

Also note that the applicants have to be responsible for the shipping and handling of instruments, as well as put-up, put-down, and presentation of the demos in both types.

Some Demo Night applications could be asked to present in Poster Demo instead of Demo Night, and vice versa.

Application or proposal is necessary.
The following information must be included in proposals:
- Preference: 'Demo Night' or 'Poster Demo'; 'only' or 'preferred'
- Title of related presentation at APCV2014 (for both types; if applicable)
- The title and a brief description of the demonstration (for Demo Night)
- Contact e-mail address
- Space required* (e.g.: 1m x 0.5m table, 2m x 2m floor space)
- Equipment request** (e.g. AC power extension cord, screen, projector, poster board, etc.)

* For both types, the basic floor size is 1.8m x 1.8m per presentation. All space will be provided with a table (1.8m x 0.45m for Demo Night; 1.8m x 0.6m for Poster Demo). Applicants may request additional space and/or tables, if necessary, upon application.
Please understand that requests are not always accepted because of the limitation of space and arrangement.

** Note that not all equipment requests will be accepted because Takamatsu the venue city is distant from any of the universities or institutes of the APCV organizing committee members.
Request for electric (AC) power supply must be sent upon application. The maximum usage is limited to 200W / 100V, and don't forget to bring your own plug adapter.

*** Applications may possibly be accepted on a first-come-first-serve basis because of the limited size of the room.

---IMPORTANT DATES---

Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2014.
Notification of decisions: June 29, 2014.

Proposals should be sent to inquiry_apcv2014@googlegroups.com

For further information please contact APCV2014 organizing committee at
inquiry_apcv2014@googlegroups.com

<May 30, 2014>

---APCV2014 regular presentation---

Guideline for presenters

1. Oral presentation

· For regular paper (neither symposium nor keynote) speakers: prepare your slide for 15 minutes slot, including 3 minutes for discussions.

· For symposium speakers: contact the organizer of each symposium for details.

· Bring your own PC for the slide presentation, or contact APCV2014 organizing committee (inquiry_apcv2014@googlegroups.com) in advance for the arrangement of PC for your presentation.

· Analog VGA (D-Sub 15 pin) connector is available. Bring your interface adapter, if necessary. Bring all of your backup files for the slide presentation, including movies, in a USB memory device or CD/DVD for just in case.

· Screen resolution depends on the PC. Please check the connection in each room between the sessions. We have no slide-preparation room.

· Remember that additional setup delays would cut into your presentation time. Two oral sessions are running in parallel, and strict time control will be required.

2. Poster presentation

· Poster-board size: 1,700mm (width) x 1,100mm (height) at the maximum.

· All posters of each day should be put up from morning (no later than 10:45AM JST) to evening (no earlier than 5:00PM JST), regardless of your assigned duty hours. Note that poster hall closes at 6:00PM.

· No AC power outlet is available at the poster board. Please full-charge your demo PC before duty hours. Chairs and tables are not available for each poster in the hall.

· Some chairs will be prepared for the convenience of aged attendees or those with disabilities. Please ask us for the help, when necessary.

For other questions contact APCV2014 organizing committee (inquiry_apcv 2014@googlegroups.com) for details.

<June 12, 2014>

The illusions shown in Lady Gaga's ARTPOP are explained in an academic article!

Kitaoka, A. (2014). Visual illusion in ARTPOP and pop art. Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science, 32(2), 232-234. PDF, PDF (scanned copy)

<May 30, 2014>

Shizuoka Science Museum Ru-Ku-Ru (photos April 20, 2014)

10th anniversary

<April 22, 2014>

Illusion notebook

<April 11, 2014>

"Multidisciplinary studies on visual illusion"

http://www.ritsumeihuman.com/en/projects/read/id/43

<March 29, 2014>

Illusion designs have been adopted on the covers of a book of cognitive psychology!

<March 13, 2014>

"Chisei-kansei spirals"

App to draw illusion images. It is fun.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.draw.drawllusion

<January 24, 2014>

ECVP 2014 -- First Call for Symposia

The 37th annual European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) will be held in Belgrade, Serbia between August 24-28, 2014. Details of the meeting can be found at http://ecvp2014.org/.

<January 24, 2014>

A possibly novel phenomenon of subjective color has been discovered and studied by four students in the Ikeda Senior High School, Kagoshima-City, Japan.

Makoto Takahashi, Aya Hagimoto, Kiichiro Kuwaki, and Takuma Kaminosono (2013). Research into the Fechner color and the discovery of the "Takahashi-Hagimoto-Kuwaki-Kaminosono phenomenon". Report of the Ikeda Senior High School, SSH Scientific Thought Research Team#1. PDF

<December 19, 2013>

Registered in Visiome Platform

Ritsumeikan PR journal UNIRTAS No. 450 November 2013

Fumito ITO, the painter, produced his self-portrait in the form of upside-down image! This category may be the first in the world*.

*It seems there were some instances hundreds of years ago, according to one of my friends.

<December 19, 2013>

Nunzia Monteleone, Italy made an ARTPOP birthday cake for herself!

<December 16, 2013>

One of Akiyoshi's illusion works "Hatpin urchin" has been adopted in Lady Gaga's ARTPOP CD designs!

<November 6, 2013>

"Hatpin urchin"

The image appears to knock in the radial direction.

http://www.neuroinf.jp/modules/news/index.php?page=article&storyid=58

Parreira Katy, Italy, has uploaded a movie on YouTube on October 10, 2013, which shows that her cat Molly (seven years old) appears to see the "Rotating snakes" illusion. I think this is the second piece of evidence that cats see motion illusion in a static image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KrboUI1hg8

References
<Illusion news 16, article on February 28>

Rasmus Bååth, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden, shows evidence that the cat sees the Rotating snakes illusion!
http://youtu.be/CcXXQ6GCUb8

<October 14, 2013>

YouTube "Amazing Animated Optical Illusions! #6"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7KswC9wCSY#t=84

This movie shows that a cat behaves as if he/she hunted the illusory motion produced as apparent movement. The cat appears 1 minutes after the beginning.

<January 6, 2014>

A movie "The Rotating Vase and Talking Faces v2" produced by Professor Hiromi Wake is terrific!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZC6bKDAxQ

<October 3, 2013>

According to Arai and Arai (2013), the Ponzo illusion was first mentioned by Holtz (1893) !

Hitoshi Arai and Shinobu Arai: Tracing the history of Ponzo illusions -A Ponzo illusion was discovered by W. Holtz already in 1893- Technical Reports of the Mathematical Vision Science Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, No. 5 (2013) Jul. 29, 2013.
http://researchmap.jp/mur8nkivl-1779138/#_1779138

Holtz, W. "Ueber den unmittelbaren Größeneindruck in seiner Beziehung zur Entfernung und zum Contrast." Nachrichten von der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der Georg-Augusts-Universität zu Göttingen 1893 (1893): 159-167. <http://eudml.org/doc/180391> PDF download site

<August 4, 2013>

According to Arai and Arai (2013), the Café Wall illusion was first reported in 1893, before Münsternberg (1894, 1897) or Lipps (1897) !

Hitoshi Arai and Shinobu Arai: From the Temple Wall Illusion to the Café Wall Illusion -A Café Wall type illusion was discovered already in 1893- Technical Reports of the Mathematical Vision Science Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, No. 4, Jul. 22, 2013.
http://researchmap.jp/mufxvact8-1779138/#_1779138

Plumandon, J. R. (1893) Une illusion d'optique de l'époque Gallo-Romaine au sommet du Puy-de-Dôme. La Nature, N° 1064 - 21 octobre 1893, 321-322.
http://sciences.gloubik.info/spip.php?article447
http://cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?4KY28.41/325/100/536/0/0

<July 26, 2013>

Homepage of APCV2014 has been opened! APCV2014 is held in July, 2014 in Takamatsu, Japan.

http://www.vision.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/APCV2014/saito/ASIA_PACIFIC_CONFERENCE_ON_VISION_2014.html

Date: July 19 (Sat) - 22 (Tue), 2014
Place: Kagawa International Conference Hall, Takamatsu, Japan

<July 19, 2013>

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