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We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the first Smith-Pokorny Award (2026) is Dr. Takuma Morimoto. The award, which was established by ICVS to recognise scientists at an early stage of their careers, was named in honour of the outstanding contributions of Vivianne C. Smith and Joel Pokorny to the field of colour vision.
The 2026 Verriest Medal will be awarded to Professor Keiji Uchikawa at the 28th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) to be held at the University of Sussex in Brighton in 2026. The award was established in 1991 in memory of the founder of the Society, Dr. Guy Verriest, and honours outstanding contributions in the field of colour vision.
Nov 5th. The latest issue of Daltoniana (#126) has just been emailed out to to all who requested it via your GDPR permissions. If you haven't received a copy, please send a message via the contact page. Daltoniana issues 1-125 are available from this website for download.
We are excited to let you know that the abstract call and registration for the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) 2026 conference are NOW OPEN!
The ICVS 2026 conference will take place between August 14th to 18th in Brighton, UK. We invite abstract applications for presentations on any aspect of human or animal colour vision. The submission deadline for abstracts is 17th April 2026. Please submit your abstract via our abstract submission form [icvs2026.org] on the conference website [icvs2026.org].
Karl Gegenfurtner
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Professor Gegenfurtner’s career in colour vision began with doctoral studies at New York University under the supervision of George Sperling and John Krauskopf, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at NYU with Anthony Movshon, and then by appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen and Otto-von- Guericke University, Magdeburg. He took up his present position as Professor of Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen in 2001. His research contributions have ranged from low-level chromatic adaptation and discrimination, through colour constancy and higherlevel cortical mechanisms, all the way to cognitive aspects such as colour memory, colour categorization, and colour in scene and object recognition. His work is centred on psychophysics, but he has embraced methodological innovations, using the power of deep neural networks and the immersive capabilities of virtual reality. His influential review articles have brought developments in colour vision to the larger community, and his laboratory in Giessen has provided a welcoming and productive environment for colour vision scientists from across the world. |
