Journal of the Optical Society of America A

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JOSA A has published a new editorial from Editor-in-Chief P. Scott Carney, in which he introduces the Journal’s newest Topical Editor, Yangjian Cai. (05 Oct 2018)

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Visual and Physiological Optics (2019) Submissions Open: 1 October 2018; Submission Deadline: 1 November 2018 Harilaos Ginis, Vasyl Molebny, Jos J. Rozema, Christina Schwarz, and Juan Tabernero
Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging 2018 (2019) In progress Tomasz Kozacki, Liangcai Cao, Pascal Picart, Ting-Chung Poon, and Guohai Situ
Color Vision 2018 (2018) Published Steven L. Buck, Rigmor Baraas, Jan Kremers, Delwin T. Lindsey, Sérgio Nascimento, Michael A. Webster, and John S. Werner
Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging (2018) Published Hoonjong Kang, Byoungho Lee, Tomasz Kozacki, Pascal Picart, and Guohai Situ

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Color, Spectroscopy, and Spectral Imaging (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (2)
Geometrical Optics (1)
Image Processing and Image Analysis (2)
Imaging Systems (1)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (1)
Numerical Methods and Simulation (1)
Physical Optics (2)
Scattering and Propagation (1)
Vision, Color Vision, and Psychophysics (3)

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Pixel-level alignment of facial images for high accuracy recognition using ensemble of patches
Summary by Iacopo Masi

Face alignment is an essential task in computer vision and is of vital importance in face recognition. In this work,...

Geometric optics of a refringent sphere illuminated by a point source: caustics, wavefronts, and zero phase-fronts for every rainbow “k” order
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Completing Descartes’ Rainbow
In the Middle Ages, it was known that the rainbow originates in...

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2017 Impact Factor:: 1.566
Google Scholar h5-index:: 32
Time to Publication:: 107 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.

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