Journal of the Optical Society of America A

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JOSA A News - New Tutorial: In this unique, open-access tutorial, two color scientists debate the topic of color opponency, from the viewpoints of color appearance (psychophysics) and measurement of nerve cell responses (physiology). (09 Jun 2017)

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Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging (2018) Submissions Open: 15 June 2017; Submission Deadline: 15 July 2017 Hoonjong Kang, Byoungho Lee, Tomasz Kozacki, Pascal Picart, and Guohai Situ
Synthetic Aperture Imaging in Astronomy and Aerospace (2017) Published David Buscher, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, Michael Shao
Single Molecule Image Formation, Reconstruction and Processing (2016) Published Amit Ashok, Rafael Piestun, Sjoerd Stallinga
Color Vision 2016 (2016) Published Steve Buck, Rigmor Baraas, Barry Lee, Del Lindsey, Mike Webster, John S. Werner, Keiji Uchikawa

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
Coherence and Statistical Optics (3)
Diffraction and Gratings (4)
Geometric Optics (2)
Image Processing (1)
Imaging Systems (3)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (1)
Interferometry (1)
Lasers and Laser Optics (1)
Machine Vision (1)
Microscopy (1)
Optoelectronics (1)
Remote Sensing and Sensors (1)
Vision and Visual Optics (3)

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Interaction of aberrations, diffraction, and quantal fluctuations determine the impact of pupil size on visual quality
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Based on simulations performed using an innovative model eye, Xu et al. detail interesting relationships between...

Multi-focus image fusion based on dictionary learning with rolling guidance filter
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I think we all have taken a blurry picture before. When we’re in a rush to pull out our camera or cell phone, or...

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2015 Impact Factor:: 1.457
Google Scholar h5-index:: 31
Time to Publication:: 113 days

ISSN:: 1084-7529 (print)
ISSN:: 1520-8532 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues

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Topic Scope: Topics representing classical optics, image science and vision, such as atmospheric optics, clinical vision, coherence and statistical optics, color, image processing, machine vision, scattering, and visual optics.