Dear Colleagues,
The deadline for submission to the special issue is 31st December 2016.
In the meantime you can already see seven papers published and online:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/special_issues/symmetry_vision
We also want to remind authors that open access fees can be waived for authors who have no funding (please contact the Guest Editors for details).
Symmetry | Special Issue: Symmetry in Vision
An international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.
Symmetry has a central role in the study of vision. The concept of symmetry has an ancient origin in considerations of visual appearance; in modern times, abstracted and formalized into Group Theory, it has found spectacular applications, far beyond the visible; but its importance for vision persists in many ways including:
- As a non-accidental feature of an image that cues affordances, 3D structure or the semantic categories of object present.
- As a redundant aspect of an image which many be exploited for simplicity and compactness of encoding.
- As a salient feature that draws attention, and evokes distinctive brain responses.
- As a constraint on priors on the distribution of structures to be found in the natural world.
- As an aesthetic principle.
- As a design principle for vision systems.
The original idea for a Special Issue came from a symposium at the European Conference in Visual Perception, in 2015, on the topic of brain responses to visual symmetry, but we have now extended the scope. This Special Issue is devoted to provide a shared place for cutting edge studies on how and why symmetry is processed and exploited by biological and artificial visual systems.
Guest Editors
Marco Bertamini
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool
<http://www.bertamini.org/lab>
Lewis Griffin
Department of Computer Science, University College London
<http://imageanalysis.cs.ucl.ac.uk/index.php>
Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering
<http://www.mdpi.com/user/register> and logging in to this website
<http://www.mdpi.com/user/login>. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form
<http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=symmetry>.
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors is available on the Instructions for Authors
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/instructions> page.
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