Abstracts of Scottish Vision Group 2023 Meeting

TL;DR

The 2023 Scottish Vision Group meeting in Dundee featured talks on visual science topics and a special whisky tasting event.

Contribution

This paper provides a summary of abstracts presented at the 2023 Scottish Vision Group meeting.

Findings

The conference included a roundtable discussion on the past, present, and future of visual search.

A keynote lecture was presented on sensory eye dominance and plasticity in adult binocular vision.

Talks covered diverse topics such as insect navigation, visual illusions, and facial recognition.

Abstract

Scottish Vision Group has become a yearly event for vision scientists based in Scotland since its inception in 2001. Each year, the conference is hosted at a different location and organised by a different team. The 2023 SVG meeting was hosted in the city of Dundee by Abertay University. Delegates travelled from the United Kingdom, Europe and beyond. The meeting started with a roundtable panel discussion sponsored by Meta Reality Labs. The roundtable, titled The Past, Present and Future of Visual Search, was organised and presented by Árni Kristjánsson (Iceland), Ioan Smart (Abertay) and Ian Thornton (Malta). The MDPI Keynote lecture was introduced by Professor Andrew Parker (Oxford University and Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany) and presented by Prof. Timothy Ledgeway (Nottingham) on sensory eye dominance and plasticity in adult binocular vision. The remaining two days of the conference hosted a wide range of talks on topics ranging from insect navigation to visual illusions, facial recognition and binocular coding. The Saturday evening saw a special event where delegates explored the sensory properties of a range of single-malt whiskies. Here, we present a selection of abstracts for the various talks and posters.