The Bay Area Vision Research Day (BAVRD) is a one-day research conference devoted to bringing the vision research community of the Bay Area together in order to present and to discuss new and exciting findings in the fields of ophthalmology, optometry, biology, neuroscience, visual psychophysics, and computer vision. BAVRD is primarily organized and run by graduate students from the Vision Science Graduate Group at the University of California, Berkeley. This year marks the 28th annual BAVRD.