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ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science
Funding: $11m for five years commencing 2005
Centre Director: Prof TD Lamb
Administering Institution: The Australian National University
Collaborating or Contributing Organisations:
The University of Queensland
The University of Western Australia
The University of Sydney
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Emory University
Seeing Machines
CSIRO - ICT Centre
Centre for Information Science, Kokushikan University
University of L’Aquila
Helsinki University of Technology
ObjectiVision
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Royal Holloway University of London
Universitaet Bielefeld
Regenera
Vision is our most powerful sense, and blindness is a severe loss, yet increasingly common as the population ages. The ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science will explore three themes: the extraordinary sensitivity and adaptability of vision; how vision forms the basis for behaviour; and why vision fails, especially with age. One major outcome will be fundamental understanding of retinal mechanisms and brain algorithms of vision. A second will be the application of this knowledge to the design of autonomous visually guided robots (e.g. flying machines). A third outcome will be understanding of the stability and degeneration of the retina and eye, laying the scientific foundation for diagnosis and therapy in a range of age-related blinding diseases.
For further information about the Centre of Excellence in Vision Science visit their website.
