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Vis | 2,006 | Understanding the Structure of the Turbulent Mixing Layer in Hydrodynamic Instabilities | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.186 | When a heavy fluid is placed above a light fluid, tiny vertical perturbations in the interface create a characteristic structure of rising bubbles and falling spikes known as Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities have received much attention over the past half-century because of their importance in... | false | false | [
"David E. Laney",
"Peer-Timo Bremer",
"Ajith Mascarenhas",
"Paul L. Miller",
"Valerio Pascucci"
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Vis | 2,006 | Using Difference Intervals for Time-Varying Isosurface Visualization | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.188 | We present a novel approach to out-of-core time-varying isosurface visualization. We attempt to interactively visualize time-varying datasets which are too large to fit into main memory using a technique which is dramatically different from existing algorithms. Inspired by video encoding techniques, we examine the data... | false | false | [
"Kenneth W. Waters",
"Christopher S. Co",
"Kenneth I. Joy"
] | [] | [] | [] |
Vis | 2,006 | Using Visual Cues of Contact to Improve Interactive Manipulation of Virtual Objects in Industrial Assembly/Maintenance Simulations | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.189 | This paper describes a set of visual cues of contact designed to improve the interactive manipulation of virtual objects in industrial assembly/maintenance simulations. These visual cues display information of proximity, contact and effort between virtual objects when the user manipulates a part inside a digital mock-u... | false | false | [
"Jean Sreng",
"Anatole Lécuyer",
"Christine Mégard",
"Claude Andriot"
] | [] | [] | [] |
Vis | 2,006 | Visual Signatures in Video Visualization | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.194 | Video visualization is a computation process that extracts meaningful information from original video data sets and conveys the extracted information to users in appropriate visual representations. This paper presents a broad treatment of the subject, following a typical research pipeline involving concept formulation,... | false | false | [
"Min Chen 0001",
"Ralf P. Botchen",
"Rudy Hashim",
"Daniel Weiskopf",
"Thomas Ertl",
"Ian M. Thornton"
] | [] | [] | [] |
Vis | 2,006 | Visualization and Analysis of Large Data Collections: a Case Study Applied to Confocal Microscopy Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.195 | In this paper we propose an approach in which interactive visualization and analysis are combined with batch tools for the processing of large data collections. Large and heterogeneous data collections are difficult to analyze and pose specific problems to interactive visualization. Application of the traditional inter... | false | false | [
"Wim C. de Leeuw",
"Pernette J. Verschure",
"Robert van Liere"
] | [] | [] | [] |
Vis | 2,006 | Visualization of fibrous and Thread-like Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.197 | Thread-like structures are becoming more common in modern volumetric data sets as our ability to image vascular and neural tissue at higher resolutions improves. The thread-like structures of neurons and micro-vessels pose a unique problem in visualization since they tend to be densely packed in small volumes of tissue... | false | false | [
"Zeki Melek",
"David Mayerich",
"Cem Yuksel",
"John Keyser"
] | [] | [] | [] |
Vis | 2,006 | Visualization Tools for Vorticity Transport Analysis in Incompressible Flow | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.199 | Vortices are undesirable in many applications while indispensable in others. It is therefore of common interest to understand their mechanisms of creation. This paper aims at analyzing the transport of vorticity inside incompressible flow. The analysis is based on the vorticity equation and is performed along pathlines... | false | false | [
"Filip Sadlo",
"Ronald Peikert",
"Mirjam Sick"
] | [] | [] | [] |
Vis | 2,006 | Vortex Visualization for Practical Engineering Applications | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.201 | In order to understand complex vortical flows in large data sets, we must be able to detect and visualize vortices in an automated fashion. In this paper, we present a feature-based vortex detection and visualization technique that is appropriate for large computational fluid dynamics data sets computed on unstructured... | false | false | [
"Monika Jankun-Kelly",
"Ming Jiang 0005",
"David S. Thompson",
"Raghu Machiraju"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | A Visual Interface for Multivariate Temporal Data: Finding Patterns of Events across Multiple Histories | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261421 | Finding patterns of events over time is important in searching patient histories, Web logs, news stories, and criminal activities. This paper presents PatternFinder, an integrated interface for query and result-set visualization for search and discovery of temporal patterns within multivariate and categorical data sets... | false | false | [
"Jerry Alan Fails",
"Amy K. Karlson",
"Layla Shahamat",
"Ben Shneiderman"
] | [
"TT"
] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Accelerating Network Traffic Analytics Using Query-Driven Visualization | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261437 | Realizing operational analytics solutions where large and complex data must be analyzed in a time-critical fashion entails integrating many different types of technology. This paper focuses on an interdisciplinary combination of scientific data management and visualization/analysis technologies targeted at reducing the... | false | false | [
"E. Wes Bethel",
"Scott Campbell",
"Eli Dart",
"Kurt Stockinger",
"Kesheng Wu"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Avian Flu Case Study with nSpace and GeoTime | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261427 | GeoTime and nSpace are new analysis tools that provide innovative visual analytic capabilities. This paper uses an epidemiology analysis scenario to illustrate and discuss these new investigative methods and techniques. In addition, this case study is an exploration and demonstration of the analytical synergy achieved ... | false | false | [
"Pascale Proulx",
"Sumeet Tandon",
"Adam Bodnar",
"David Schroh",
"Robert Harper 0002",
"William Wright"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Beyond Usability: Evaluation Aspects of Visual Analytic Environments | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261416 | A new field of research, visual analytics, has been introduced. This has been defined as "the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces" (Thomas and Cook, 2005). Visual analytic environments, therefore, support analytical reasoning using visual representations and interactions, with d... | false | false | [
"Jean Scholtz"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Collaborative Visual Analytics: Inferring from the Spatial Organization and Collaborative Use of Information | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261415 | We introduce a visual analytics environment for the support of remote-collaborative sense-making activities. Team members use their individual graphical interfaces to collect, organize and comprehend task-relevant information relative to their areas of expertise. A system of computational agents infers possible relatio... | false | false | [
"Paul E. Keel"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | D-Dupe: An Interactive Tool for Entity Resolution in Social Networks | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261429 | Visualizing and analyzing social networks is a challenging problem that has been receiving growing attention. An important first step, before analysis can begin, is ensuring that the data is accurate. A common data quality problem is that the data may inadvertently contain several distinct references to the same underl... | false | false | [
"Mustafa Bilgic 0001",
"Louis Licamele",
"Lise Getoor",
"Ben Shneiderman"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Enhancing Visual Analysis of Network Traffic Using a Knowledge Representation | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261436 | This paper presents a network traffic analysis system that couples visual analysis with a declarative knowledge representation. The system supports multiple iterations of the sense-making loop of analytic reasoning by allowing users to save discoveries as they are found and to reuse them in future iterations. We show h... | false | false | [
"Ling Xiao",
"John Gerth",
"Pat Hanrahan"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Exploratory Visualization of Multivariate Data with Variable Quality | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261424 | Real-world data is known to be imperfect, suffering from various forms of defects such as sensor variability, estimation errors, uncertainty, human errors in data entry, and gaps in data gathering. Analysis conducted on variable quality data can lead to inaccurate or incorrect results. An effective visualization system... | false | false | [
"Zaixian Xie",
"Shiping Huang",
"Matthew O. Ward",
"Elke A. Rundensteiner"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Exploring Large-Scale Video News via Interactive Visualization | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261433 | In this paper, we have developed a novel visualization framework to enable more effective visual analysis of large-scale news videos, where keyframes and keywords are automatically extracted from news video clips and visually represented according to their interestingness measurement to help audiences rind news stories... | false | false | [
"Hangzai Luo",
"Jianping Fan 0001",
"Jing Yang 0001",
"William Ribarsky",
"Shin'ichi Satoh 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Have Green - A Visual Analytics Framework for Large Semantic Graphs | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261432 | A semantic graph is a network of heterogeneous nodes and links annotated with a domain ontology. In intelligence analysis, investigators use semantic graphs to organize concepts and relationships as graph nodes and links in hopes of discovering key trends, patterns, and insights. However, as new information continues t... | false | false | [
"Pak Chung Wong",
"George Chin",
"Harlan Foote",
"Patrick Mackey",
"James J. Thomas"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261430 | A visual investigation involves both the examination of existing information and the synthesis of new analytic knowledge. This is a progressive process in which newly synthesized knowledge becomes the foundation for future discovery. In this paper, we present a novel system supporting interactive, progressive synthesis... | false | false | [
"David Gotz",
"Michelle X. Zhou",
"Vikram Aggarwal"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Network and Sensor Data on Mobile Devices | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261434 | Mobile devices are rapidly gaining popularity due to their small size and their wide range of functionality. With the constant improvement in wireless network access, they are an attractive option not only for day to day use. but also for in-field analytics by first responders in widespread areas. However, their limite... | false | false | [
"Avin Pattath",
"Brian D. Bue",
"Yun Jang",
"David S. Ebert",
"Xuan Zhong",
"Aaron Ault",
"Edward J. Coyle"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Interactive Wormhole Detection in Large Scale Wireless Networks | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261435 | Wormhole attacks in wireless networks can severely deteriorate the network performance and compromise the security through spoiling the routing protocols and weakening the security enhancements. This paper develops an approach, interactive visualization of wormholes (IVoW), to monitor and detect such attacks in large s... | false | false | [
"Weichao Wang",
"Aidong Lu"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Monitoring Network Traffic with Radial Traffic Analyzer | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261438 | Extensive spread of malicious code on the Internet and also within intranets has risen the user's concern about what kind of data is transferred between her or his computer and other hosts on the network. Visual analysis of this kind of information is a challenging task, due to the complexity and volume of the data typ... | false | false | [
"Daniel A. Keim",
"Florian Mansmann",
"Jörn Schneidewind",
"Tobias Schreck"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261426 | Networks have remained a challenge for information retrieval and visualization because of the rich set of tasks that users want to accomplish. This paper offers an abstract content-actor network data model, a classification of tasks, and a tool to support them. The NetLens interface was designed around the abstract con... | false | false | [
"Hyunmo Kang",
"Catherine Plaisant",
"Bongshin Lee",
"Benjamin B. Bederson"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Pixnostics: Towards Measuring the Value of Visualization | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261423 | During the last two decades a wide variety of advanced methods for the visual exploration of large data sets have been proposed. For most of these techniques user interaction has become a crucial element, since there are many situations in which a user or an analyst has to select the right parameter settings from among... | false | false | [
"Jörn Schneidewind",
"Mike Sips",
"Daniel A. Keim"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Scentindex: Conceptually Reorganizing Subject Indexes for Reading | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261418 | A great deal of analytical work is done in the context of reading, in digesting the semantics of the material, the identification of important entities, and capturing the relationship between entities. Visual analytic environments, therefore, must encompass reading tools that enable the rapid digestion of large amount ... | false | false | [
"Ed H. Chi",
"Lichan Hong",
"Julie Heiser",
"Stuart K. Card"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Semantic Image Browser: Bridging Information Visualization with Automated Intelligent Image Analysis | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261425 | Browsing and retrieving images from large image collections are becoming common and important activities. Semantic image analysis techniques, which automatically detect high level semantic contents of images for annotation, are promising solutions toward this problem. However, few efforts have been made to convey the a... | false | false | [
"Jing Yang 0001",
"Jianping Fan 0001",
"Daniel Hubball",
"Yuli Gao",
"Hangzai Luo",
"William Ribarsky",
"Matthew O. Ward"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Time Tree: Exploring Time Changing Hierarchies | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261450 | Intelligence analysis often involves the task of gathering information about an organization. Knowledge about individuals in an organization and their relationships, often represented as a hierarchical organization chart, is crucial for understanding the organization. However, it is difficult for intelligence analysts ... | false | false | [
"Stuart K. Card",
"Bongwon Suh",
"Bryan A. Pendleton",
"Bryan Heer",
"John W. Bodnar"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Toward a Multi-Analyst, Collaborative Framework for Visual Analytics | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261439 | We describe a framework for the display of complex, multidimensional data, designed to facilitate exploration, analysis, and collaboration among multiple analysts. This framework aims to support human collaboration by making it easier to share representations, to translate from one point of view to another, to explain ... | false | false | [
"Susan Brennan",
"Klaus Mueller 0001",
"Gregory J. Zelinsky",
"I. V. Ramakrishnan",
"David Scott Warren",
"Arie E. Kaufman"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | User Interfaces for the Exploration of Hierarchical Multi-dimensional Data | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261422 | A variety of user interfaces have been developed to support the querying of hierarchical multi-dimensional data in an OLAP setting such as pivot tables and Polaris. They are used to regularly check portions of a dataset and to explore a new dataset for the first time. In this paper, we establish criteria for OLAP user ... | false | false | [
"Mark Sifer"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | VAST 2006 Contest - A Tale of Alderwood | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261420 | Visual analytics experts realize that one effective way to push the field forward and to develop metrics for measuring the performance of various visual analytics components is to hold an annual competition. The first visual analytics science and technology (VAST) contest was held in conjunction with the 2006 IEEE VAST... | false | false | [
"Georges G. Grinstein",
"Theresa A. O'Connell",
"Sharon J. Laskowski",
"Catherine Plaisant",
"Jean Scholtz",
"Mark A. Whiting"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Visual Analysis of Conflicting Opinions | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261431 | Understanding the nature and dynamics of conflicting opinions is a profound and challenging issue. In this paper we address several aspects of the issue through a study of more than 3,000 Amazon customer reviews of the controversial bestseller The Da Vinci Code, including 1,738 positive and 918 negative reviews. The st... | false | false | [
"Chaomei Chen",
"Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan",
"Eric SanJuan",
"Chris E. Weaver"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Visual Analysis of Historic Hotel Visitation Patterns | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261428 | Understanding the space and time characteristics of human interaction in complex social networks is a critical component of visual tools for intelligence analysis, consumer behavior analysis, and human geography. Visual identification and comparison of patterns of recurring events is an essential feature of such tools.... | false | false | [
"Chris E. Weaver",
"David Fyfe",
"Anthony C. Robinson",
"Deryck W. Holdsworth",
"Donna Peuquet",
"Alan M. MacEachren"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Visual Analytics of Paleoceanographic Conditions | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261452 | Decade scale oceanic phenomena like El Nino are correlated with weather anomalies all over the globe. Only by understanding the events that produced the climatic conditions in the past will it be possible to forecast abrupt climate changes and prevent disastrous consequences for human beings and their environment. Pale... | false | false | [
"Roberto Therón"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Visual Exploration of Spatio-temporal Relationships for Scientific Data | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261451 | Spatio-temporal relationships among features extracted from temporally-varying scientific datasets can provide useful information about the evolution of an individual feature and its interactions with other features. However, extracting such useful relationships without user guidance is cumbersome and often an error pr... | false | false | [
"Bryan Mehta",
"Srinivasan Parthasarathy 0001",
"Raghu Machiraju"
] | [] | [] | [] |
VAST | 2,006 | Visualizing the Performance of Computational Linguistics Algorithms | 10.1109/VAST.2006.261417 | We have built a visualization system and analysis portal for evaluating the performance of computational linguistics algorithms. Our system focuses on algorithms that classify and cluster documents by assigning weights to words and scoring each document against high dimensional reference concept vectors. The visualizat... | false | false | [
"Stephen G. Eick",
"Justin Mauger",
"Alan Ratner"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | ASK-graphView: a large scale graph visualization system | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.120 | We describe ASK-GraphView, a node-link-based graph visualization system that allows clustering and interactive navigation of large graphs, ranging in size up to 16 million edges. The system uses a scalable architecture and a series of increasingly sophisticated clustering algorithms to construct a hierarchy on an arbit... | false | false | [
"James Abello",
"Frank van Ham",
"Neeraj Krishnan"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.122 | Social network analysis (SNA) has emerged as a powerful method for understanding the importance of relationships in networks. However, interactive exploration of networks is currently challenging because: (1) it is difficult to find patterns and comprehend the structure of networks with many nodes and links, and (2) cu... | false | false | [
"Adam Perer",
"Ben Shneiderman"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Complex Logarithmic Views for Small Details in Large Contexts | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.126 | Commonly known detail in context techniques for the two-dimensional Euclidean space enlarge details and shrink their context using mapping functions that introduce geometrical compression. This makes it difficult or even impossible to recognize shapes for large differences in magnification factors. In this paper we pro... | false | false | [
"Joachim Böttger",
"Michael Balzer",
"Oliver Deussen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Dynamic Map Labeling | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.136 | We address the problem of filtering, selecting and placing labels on a dynamic map, which is characterized by continuous zooming and panning capabilities. This consists of two interrelated issues. The first is to avoid label popping and other artifacts that cause confusion and interrupt navigation, and the second is to... | false | false | [
"Ken Been",
"Eli Daiches",
"Chee-Keng Yap"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Enabling Automatic Clutter Reduction in Parallel Coordinate Plots | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.138 | We have previously shown that random sampling is an effective clutter reduction technique and that a sampling lens can facilitate focus+context viewing of particular regions. This demands an efficient method of estimating the overlap or occlusion of large numbers of intersecting lines in order to automatically adjust t... | false | false | [
"Geoffrey P. Ellis",
"Alan J. Dix"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.142 | The dominant paradigm for searching and browsing large data stores is text-based: presenting a scrollable list of search results in response to textual search term input. While this works well for the Web, there is opportunity for improvement in the domain of personal information stores, which tend to have more heterog... | false | false | [
"Greg Smith",
"Mary Czerwinski",
"Brian Meyers",
"Daniel C. Robbins",
"George G. Robertson",
"Desney S. Tan"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.147 | A compound graph is a frequently encountered type of data set. Relations are given between items, and a hierarchy is defined on the items as well. We present a new method for visualizing such compound graphs. Our approach is based on visually bundling the adjacency edges, i.e., non-hierarchical edges, together. We real... | false | false | [
"Danny Holten"
] | [
"TT",
"BP"
] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | IPSep-CoLa: An Incremental Procedure for Separation Constraint Layout of Graphs | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.156 | We extend the popular force-directed approach to network (or graph) layout to allow separation constraints, which enforce a minimum horizontal or vertical separation between selected pairs of nodes. This simple class of linear constraints is expressive enough to satisfy a wide variety of application-specific layout req... | false | false | [
"Tim Dwyer",
"Yehuda Koren",
"Kim Marriott"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | MatrixExplorer: a Dual-Representation System to Explore Social Networks | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.160 | MatrixExplorer is a network visualization system that uses two representations: node-link diagrams and matrices. Its design comes from a list of requirements formalized after several interviews and a participatory design session conducted with social science researchers. Although matrices are commonly used in social ne... | false | false | [
"Nathalie Henry Riche",
"Jean-Daniel Fekete"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Measuring Data Abstraction Quality in Multiresolution Visualizations | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.161 | Data abstraction techniques are widely used in multiresolution visualization systems to reduce visual clutter and facilitate analysis from overview to detail. However, analysts are usually unaware of how well the abstracted data represent the original dataset, which can impact the reliability of results gleaned from th... | false | false | [
"Qingguang Cui",
"Matthew O. Ward",
"Elke A. Rundensteiner",
"Jing Yang 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Multi-Scale Banking to 45 Degrees | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.163 | In his text Visualizing Data, William Cleveland demonstrates how the aspect ratio of a line chart can affect an analyst's perception of trends in the data. Cleveland proposes an optimization technique for computing the aspect ratio such that the average absolute orientation of line segments in the chart is equal to 45 ... | false | false | [
"Jeffrey Heer",
"Maneesh Agrawala"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.166 | Networks have remained a challenge for information visualization designers because of the complex issues of node and link layout coupled with the rich set of tasks that users present. This paper offers a strategy based on two principles: (1) layouts are based on user-defined semantic substrates, which are non-overlappi... | false | false | [
"Ben Shneiderman",
"Aleks Aris"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Smashing Peacocks Further: Drawing Quasi-Trees from Biconnected Components | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.177 | Quasi-trees, namely graphs with tree-like structure, appear in many application domains, including bioinformatics and computer networks. Our new SPF approach exploits the structure of these graphs with a two-level approach to drawing, where the graph is decomposed into a tree of biconnected components. The low-level bi... | false | false | [
"Daniel Archambault",
"Tamara Munzner",
"David Auber"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.178 | Despite a diversity of software architectures supporting information visualization, it is often difficult to identify, evaluate, and re-apply the design solutions implemented within such frameworks. One popular and effective approach for addressing such difficulties is to capture successful solutions in design patterns... | false | false | [
"Jeffrey Heer",
"Maneesh Agrawala"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Spatial Analysis of News Sources | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.179 | People in different places talk about different things. This interest distribution is reflected by the newspaper articles circulated in a particular area. We use data from our large-scale newspaper analysis system (Lydia) to make entity datamaps, a spatial visualization of the interest in a given named entity. Our goal... | false | false | [
"Andrew Mehler",
"Yunfan Bao",
"Xin Li 0003",
"Yue Wang",
"Steven Skiena"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | The Perceptual Scalability of Visualization | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.184 | Larger, higher resolution displays can be used to increase the scalability of information visualizations. But just how much can scalability increase using larger displays before hitting human perceptual or cognitive limits? Are the same visualization techniques that are good on a single monitor also the techniques that... | false | false | [
"Beth Yost",
"Chris North 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Topographic Visualization of Prefix Propagation in the Internet | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.185 | We propose a new metaphor for the visualization of prefixes propagation in the Internet. Such a metaphor is based on the concept of topographic map and allows to put in evidence the relative importance of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) involved in the routing of the prefix. Based on the new metaphor we propose a... | false | false | [
"Pier Francesco Cortese",
"Giuseppe Di Battista",
"Antonello Moneta",
"Maurizio Patrignani",
"Maurizio Pizzonia"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | User Interaction with Scatterplots on Small Screens - A Comparative Evaluation of Geometric-Semantic Zoom and Fisheye Distortion | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.187 | Existing information-visualization techniques that target small screens are usually limited to exploring a few hundred items. In this article we present a scatterplot tool for Personal Digital Assistants that allows the handling of many thousands of items. The application's scalability is achieved by incorporating two ... | false | false | [
"Thorsten Büring",
"Jens Gerken",
"Harald Reiterer"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Visual Analysis of Multivariate State Transition Graphs | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.192 | We present a new approach for the visual analysis of state transition graphs. We deal with multivariate graphs where a number of attributes are associated with every node. Our method provides an interactive attribute-based clustering facility. Clustering results in metric, hierarchical and relational data, represented ... | false | false | [
"A. Johannes Pretorius",
"Jarke J. van Wijk"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Visual Exploration of Complex Time-Varying Graphs | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.193 | Many graph drawing and visualization algorithms, such as force-directed layout and line-dot rendering, work very well on relatively small and sparse graphs. However, they often produce extremely tangled results and exhibit impractical running times for highly non-planar graphs with large edge density. And very few grap... | false | false | [
"Gautam Kumar",
"Michael Garland"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Visualization of Barrier Tree Sequences | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.196 | Dynamical models that explain the formation of spatial structures of RNA molecules have reached a complexity that requires novel visualization methods that help to analyze the validity of these models. We focus on the visualization of so-called folding landscapes of a growing RNA molecule. Folding landscapes describe t... | false | false | [
"Christian Heine 0002",
"Gerik Scheuermann",
"Christoph Flamm",
"Ivo L. Hofacker",
"Peter F. Stadler"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Visualization of Geo-spatial Point Sets via Global Shape Transformation and Local Pixel Placement | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.198 | In many applications, data is collected and indexed by geo-spatial location. Discovering interesting patterns through visualization is an important way of gaining insight about such data. A previously proposed approach is to apply local placement functions such as PixelMaps that transform the input data set into a solu... | false | false | [
"Christian Panse",
"Mike Sips",
"Daniel A. Keim",
"Stephen C. North"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Visualizing Business Data with Generalized Treemaps | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.200 | Business data is often presented using simple business graphics. These familiar visualizations are effective for providing overviews, but fall short for the presentation of large amounts of detailed information. Treemaps can provide such detail, but are often not easy to understand. We present how standard treemap algo... | false | false | [
"Roel Vliegen",
"Jarke J. van Wijk",
"Erik-Jan van der Linden"
] | [] | [] | [] |
InfoVis | 2,006 | Worldmapper: The World as You've Never Seen it Before | 10.1109/TVCG.2006.202 | This paper describes the Worldmapper project, which makes use of novel visualization techniques to represent a broad variety of social and economic data about the countries of the world. The goal of the project is to use the map projections known as cartograms to depict comparisons and relations between different terri... | false | false | [
"Danny Dorling",
"Anna Barford",
"Mark Newman"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | 3D Soft Segmentation and Visualization of Medical Data Based on Nonlinear Diffusion and Distance Functions | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/331-338 | Visualization of medical 3D data is a complex problem, since the raw data is often unsuitable for standard techniques like Direct Volume Rendering. Some kind of pre-treatment is necessary, usually segmentation of the structures of interest, which in turn is a difficult task. Most segmentation techniques yield a model w... | false | false | [
"Bernhard Petersch",
"O. Serrano-Serrano",
"Dieter Hönigmann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | A Case Study: Visualizing Material Point Method Data | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/299-306 | The Material Point Method is used for complex simulation of solid materials represented using many individual particles. Visualizing such data using existing polygonal or volumetric methods does not accurately encapsulate both the particle and macroscopic properties of the data. In this case study we present various me... | false | false | [
"James Bigler",
"James Guilkey",
"Christiaan P. Gribble",
"Charles D. Hansen",
"Steven G. Parker"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | A Granular Three Dimensional Multiresolution Transform | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/267-274 | We propose a three dimensional multi-resolution scheme to represent volumetric data in resolutions which are powers of two, resolving the rigidity of the commonly used separable Cartesian multi-resolution schemes in 3D that only allow for change of resolution by a power of eight. Through in-depth comparisons with the c... | false | false | [
"Alireza Entezari",
"Tai Meng",
"Steven Bergner",
"Torsten Möller"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | A Spectral Visualization System for Analyzing Financial Time Series Data | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/195-202 | Visual data analysis of time related data sets has attracted much research interest recently, and a number of sophisticated visualization methods have been proposed in the past. In financial analysis, however, the most important and most common visualization techniques for time series data is the traditional line- or b... | false | false | [
"Daniel A. Keim",
"Tilo Nietzschmann",
"Norman Schelwies",
"Jörn Schneidewind",
"Tobias Schreck",
"Hartmut Ziegler"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Affiliation Dynamics with an Application to Movie-Actor Biographies | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/179-186 | We propose a visualization approach for dynamic affiliation networks in which events are characterized by a set of descriptors. It uses a radial ripple metaphor to display the passing of time and conveys relations among the different constituents through appropriate layout. Our method is particularly suitable when assu... | false | false | [
"Ulrik Brandes",
"Martin Hoefer 0001",
"Christian Pich 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | An Interactive Visualization System for Quantifying Coral Structures | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/283-290 | Determining the shape of coral structures is an essential step for coral biologists to classify and compare corals. Currently, coral biologists analyze shape by performing manual measurements on photographs of coral colonies. In this paper we describe an interactive visualization system for measuring coral shapes in a ... | false | false | [
"Krzysztof Jakub Kruszynski",
"Robert van Liere",
"Jaap A. Kaandorp"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Application-Oriented Extensions of Profile Flags | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/339-346 | A glaucoma treating composition and method of treating glaucoma by administering the glaucoma treating composition to a patient are provided. The glaucoma treating composition comprises a carbostyril derivative, or acid addition salt thereof, having an intraocular pressure reducing activity in combination with an ophth... | false | false | [
"Matej Mlejnek",
"Pierre Ermes",
"Anna Vilanova",
"Rob van der Rijt",
"Harrie van den Bosch",
"Frans A. Gerritsen",
"M. Eduard Gröller"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Automating Transfer Function Design for Volume Rendering Using Hierarchical Clustering of Material Boundaries | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/243-250 | Transfer function design plays a crucial role in direct volume rendering. Furthermore, it has a major influence on the efficiency of the visualization process. We have developed a framework that facilitates the semi-automatic design of transfer functions. Similarly to other approaches we generate clusters in the transf... | false | false | [
"Petr Sereda",
"Anna Vilanova",
"Frans A. Gerritsen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Combining Extended Table Lens and Treemap Techniques for Visualizing Tabular Data | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/051-058 | We present a framework for visualizing large tabular data that combines two views: the table view and the treemap view. The table view extends the known table lens as follows: We cluster related elements to reduce subsampling artifacts and achieve table size independent rendering time; we use multiple-column sorting to... | false | false | [
"Alexandru C. Telea"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | CVSgrab: Mining the History of Large Software Projects | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/187-194 | Many software projects use Software Configuration Management systems to support their development process. Such systems accumulate in time large amounts of information useful for process accounting and auditing. We study how software developers can get insight in this information in order to understand the project cont... | false | false | [
"Lucian Voinea",
"Alexandru C. Telea"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | D2VR: High-Quality Volume Rendering of Projection-based Volumetric Data | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/211-218 | Volume rendering techniques are conventionally classified as either direct or indirect methods. Indirect methods require to transform the initial volumetric model into an intermediate geometrical model in order to efficiently visualize it. In contrast, direct volume rendering (DVR) methods can directly process the volu... | false | false | [
"Peter Rautek",
"Balázs Csébfalvi",
"Sören Grimm",
"Stefan Bruckner",
"M. Eduard Gröller"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Data Reconstruction and Visualization Techniques for Forensic Pathology | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/323-330 | Forensic pathology is largely concerned with the determination of the cause and manner of deaths after accidents, or other circumstances in criminal investigations. A major task in that process is the documentation of surface injuries, which is traditionally done by drawing sketches, photography, or more recently by ph... | false | false | [
"Alexander Ehlert",
"Zein Salah",
"Dirk Bartz"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Direct Isosurface Extraction from Scattered Volume Data | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/099-106 | Isosurface extraction is a standard visualization method for scalar volume data and has been subject to research for decades. Nevertheless, to our knowledge, no isosurface extraction method exists that directly extracts surfaces from scattered volume data without 3D mesh generation or reconstruction over a structured g... | false | false | [
"Paul Rosenthal",
"Lars Linsen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Efficient Surface Reconstruction from Noisy Data using Regularized Membrane Potentials | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/083-090 | We present a novel, physically-motivated method for surface reconstruction that can recover smooth surfaces from noisy and sparse data sets, without using orientation information. A new volumetric technique based on regularized-membrane potentials for aggregating the input sample points is introduced, which manages imp... | false | false | [
"Andrei C. Jalba",
"Jos B. T. M. Roerdink"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Enhanced Visualizations of Thermographic Data in Process Industry | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/307-314 | In this paper, we describe an improved method for visualization of thermographic data in the paper and pulp process industry. We present an application that allows process operators to freely choose how absolute temperatures and time varying changes of thermographic scans should be mapped to colors and/or 3D shapes. Of... | false | false | [
"Stefan Seipel",
"Ann-Kristin Forsberg",
"Daniel Wesslén"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Enhancing Slice-based Visualizations of Medical Volume Data | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/123-130 | Slice-based visualizations of CT and MRI data are frequently used for diagnosis, intervention planning and intraoperative navigation since they allow a precise analysis and localization. We present new techniques to enhance the visualization of cross sectional medical image data. Our work is focussed on intervention pl... | false | false | [
"Christian Tietjen",
"Björn Meyer",
"Stefan Schlechtweg",
"Bernhard Preim",
"Ilka Hertel",
"Gero Strauß"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Tree Visualization Systems for Knowledge Discovery | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/067-074 | User studies, evaluations, and comparisons of tree visualization systems have so far focused on questions that can readily be answered by simple, automated queries without needing visualization. Studies are lacking on the actual use of tree visualization in discovering intrinsic, hidden, non-trivial and potentially val... | false | false | [
"Yue Wang",
"Soon Tee Teoh",
"Kwan-Liu Ma"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Fast Ray Traversal of Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Meshes for Direct Volume Rendering | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/235-242 | The importance of high-performance rendering of unstructured or curvilinear data sets has increased significantly, mainly due to its use in scientific simulations such as computational fluid dynamics and finite element computations. However, the unstructured nature of these data sets lead to rather slow implementations... | false | false | [
"Gerd Marmitt",
"Philipp Slusallek"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | GPU-Accelerated Volume Splatting With Elliptical RBFs | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/013-020 | Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) have become a popular rendering primitive, both in surface and in volume rendering. This paper focuses on volume visualization, giving rise to 3D kernels. RBFs are especially convenient for the representation of scattered and irregularly distributed point samples, where the RBF kernel is u... | false | false | [
"Neophytos Neophytou",
"Klaus Mueller 0001",
"Kevin T. McDonnell",
"Wei Hong 0006",
"Xin Guan",
"Hong Qin",
"Arie E. Kaufman"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | GPU-Based Hyperstreamlines for Diffusion Tensor Imaging | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/035-042 | We propose a new approach for the visualization of hyperstreamlines, which offers potential for better scalability than the conventional polygon-based approach. Our method circumvents the bandwidth bottleneck between the CPU and GPU by transmitting a small set of parameters for each tube segment and generates the surfa... | false | false | [
"Guido Reina",
"Katrin Bidmon",
"Frank Enders",
"Peter Hastreiter",
"Thomas Ertl"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | GPUFLIC: Interactive and Accurate Dense Visualization of Unsteady Flows | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/029-034 | The paper presents an efficient and accurate implementation of Unsteady Flow LIC (UFLIC) on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). We obtain the same, high quality texture representation of unsteady two-dimensional flows as the original, time-consuming method but leverage the features of today's commodity hardware to achi... | false | false | [
"Guo-Shi Li",
"Xavier Tricoche",
"Charles D. Hansen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Hardware-accelerated Extraction and Rendering of Point Set Surfaces | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/021-028 | Point-based models are gaining lately considerable attention as an alternative to traditional surface meshes. In this context, Point Set Surfaces (PSS) were proposed as a modeling and rendering method with important topological and approximation properties. However, ray-tracing PSS is computationally expensive. Therefo... | false | false | [
"Eduardo Tejada",
"Joao Paulo Gois",
"Luis Gustavo Nonato",
"Antônio Castelo Filho",
"Thomas Ertl"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Improving the Quality of Multi-resolution Volume Rendering | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/251-258 | We propose a novel method to improve the quality of multi-resolution visualizations. We reduce aliasing artifacts by approximating the data distribution with a Gaussian basis function at each level of detail for more accurate rendering at coarser levels of detail. We then show an efficient implementation of our novel G... | false | false | [
"Hamid Younesy",
"Torsten Möller",
"Hamish A. Carr"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Integrated Visualization of Morphologic and Perfusion Data for the Analysis of Coronary Artery Disease | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/131-138 | We present static and dynamic techniques to visualize perfusion data and to relate perfusion data to morphologic image data. In particular, we describe the integrated analysis of MRI myocardial perfusion data with CT coronary angiographies depicting the morphology. We refined the Bull's-Eye Plot, a wide-spread and acce... | false | false | [
"Steffen Oeltze",
"Anja Kuß",
"Frank Grothues",
"Anja Hennemuth",
"Bernhard Preim"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Integrating Dynamic Deformations into Interactive Volume Visualization | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/219-226 | Non-linear geometric deformation (or warping) is a useful tool for working with volumes. Unfortunately, the computational expense of performing the resampling needed to implement volume deformation has precluded its use in interactive applications. In this paper, we show how non-linear deformations can be integrated in... | false | false | [
"Tom Brunet",
"K. Evan Nowak",
"Michael Gleicher"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Knowledge-Based Out-of-Core Algorithms for Data Management in Visualization | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/107-114 | Data management is the very first issue in handling very large datasets. Many existing out-of-core algorithms used in visualization are closely coupled with application-specific logic. This paper presents two knowledgebased out-of-core prefetching algorithms that do not use hard-coded rendering-related logic. They acqu... | false | false | [
"David Chisnall",
"Min Chen 0001",
"Charles D. Hansen"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Lossless Geometry Compression for Steady-State and Time-Varying Irregular Grids | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/275-282 | In this paper we investigate the problem of lossless geometry compression of irregular-grid volume data represented as a tetrahedral mesh. We propose a novel lossless compression technique that effectively predicts, models, and encodes geometry data for both steady-state (i.e., with only a single time step) and time-va... | false | false | [
"Dan Chen",
"Yi-Jen Chiang",
"Nasir D. Memon",
"Xiaolin Wu 0001"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Multiresolution Interblock Interpolation in Direct Volume Rendering | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/259-266 | We present a direct interblock interpolation technique that enables direct volume rendering of blocked, multiresolution volumes. The proposed method smoothly interpolates between blocks of arbitrary block-wise level-of-detail (LOD) without sample replication or padding. This permits extreme changes in resolution across... | false | false | [
"Patric Ljung",
"Claes Lundström",
"Anders Ynnerman"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Natural Visualizations | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/043-050 | This paper demonstrates the prevalence of a shared characteristic between visualizations and images of nature. We have analyzed visualization competitions and user studies of visualizations and found that the more preferred, better performing visualizations exhibit more natural characteristics. Due to our brain being w... | false | false | [
"Steve Haroz",
"Kwan-Liu Ma"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Path Line Oriented Topology for Periodic 2D Time-Dependent Vector Fields | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/139-146 | This paper presents an approach to extracting a path line oriented topological segmentation for periodic 2D timedependent vector fields. Topological methods aiming in capturing the asymptotic behavior of path lines rarely exist because path lines are usually only defined over a fixed time-interval, making statements ab... | false | false | [
"Kuangyu Shi",
"Holger Theisel",
"Tino Weinkauf",
"Helwig Hauser",
"Hans-Christian Hege",
"Hans-Peter Seidel"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Perspective Isosurface and Direct Volume Rendering for Virtual Endoscopy Applications | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/315-322 | Virtual endoscopy has proven to be a very powerful tool in endoscopic surgery. However, most virtual endoscopy systems are restricted to rendering isosurfaces or require segmentation in order to visualize additional objects behind occluding tissue. This paper presents a system for real-time perspective direct volume an... | false | false | [
"Henning Scharsach",
"Markus Hadwiger",
"André Neubauer 0002",
"Stefan Wolfsberger",
"Katja Bühler"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | PhylloTrees: Phyllotactic Patterns for Tree Layout | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/059-066 | Motivations for drawing hierarchical structures are probably as diverse as datasets to visualize. This ubiquity of tree structures has lead to a manifold of tree layout algorithms and tree visualization systems. While many tree layouts exist, increasingly massive data sets, expanding computational power, and still rela... | false | false | [
"Petra Neumann 0001",
"Sheelagh Carpendale",
"Anand Agarawala"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | PointCloudXplore: Visual Analysis of 3D Gene Expression Data Using Physical Views and Parallel Coordinates | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/203-210 | To allow a more rigorous understanding of animal gene regulatory networks, the Berkeley Drosophila Transcription Network Project (BDTNP) has developed a suite of methods that support quantitative, computational analysis of three-dimensional (3D) gene expression patterns with cellular resolution in early Drosophila embr... | false | false | [
"Oliver Rübel",
"Gunther H. Weber",
"Soile V. E. Keränen",
"Charless C. Fowlkes",
"Cris L. Luengo Hendriks",
"Lisa Simirenko",
"Nameeta Y. Shah",
"Michael B. Eisen",
"Mark D. Biggin",
"Hans Hagen",
"Damir Sudar",
"Jitendra Malik",
"David W. Knowles",
"Bernd Hamann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Real-Time Super Resolution Contextual Close-up of Clinical Volumetric Data | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/347-354 | We present an illustrative visualization system for real-time and high quality rendering of clinical volumetric medical data. Our technique is inspired by a medical illustration technique for depicting contextual close-up views of selected regions of interest where internal anatomical features are rendered in high deta... | false | false | [
"T. Taerum",
"Mario Costa Sousa",
"Faramarz F. Samavati",
"S. Chan",
"Joseph Ross Mitchell"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Robust Surface Detection for Variance Comparison and Dimensional Measurement | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/075-082 | This paper describes a robust method for creating surface models from volume datasets with distorted density values due to artefacts and noise. Application scenario for the presented work is variance comparison and dimensional measurement of homogeneous industrial components in industrial high resolution 3D computed to... | false | false | [
"Christoph Heinzl",
"R. Klingesberger",
"Johann Kastner",
"M. Eduard Gröller"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Segmentation of Flow Fields using Pattern Matching | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/147-154 | Due to the amount of data nowadays, automatic detection, classification and visualization of features is necessary for a thorough inspection of flow data sets. Pattern matching using vector valued templates has already been applied successfully for the detection of features. In this paper, the approach is extended to a... | false | false | [
"Julia Ebling",
"Gerik Scheuermann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Simultaneous Classification of Time-Varying Volume Data Based on the Time Histogram | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/171-178 | An important challenge in the application of direct volume rendering to time-varying data is the specification of transfer functions for all time steps. Very little research has been devoted to this problem, however. To address this issue we propose an approach which allows simultaneous classification of the entire tim... | false | false | [
"Hiroshi Akiba",
"Nathaniel Fout",
"Kwan-Liu Ma"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Structure-accentuating Dense Flow Visualization | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/163-170 | Vector field visualization approaches can broadly be categorized into approaches that directly visualize local or integrated flow and approaches that analyze the topological structure and visualize extracted features. Our goal was to come up with a method that falls into the first category, yet reveals structural infor... | false | false | [
"Sung W. Park",
"Hongfeng Yu 0001",
"Ingrid Hotz",
"Oliver Kreylos",
"Lars Linsen",
"Bernd Hamann"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Terrain Rendering using Spherical Clipmaps | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/091-098 | We describe a terrain rendering algorithm for spherical terrains based on clipmaps. It leverages the high geometry throughput of current GPU to render large static triangle sets. The vertices are displaced by a height map texture. Our main contribution is mapping of texture coordinates to calculate the height map sampl... | false | false | [
"Malte Clasen",
"Hans-Christian Hege"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | Texture Advection on Stream Surfaces: A Novel Hybrid Visualization Applied to CFD Simulation Results | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/155-162 | Stream surfaces are a classic flow visualization technique used to portray the characteristics of vector fields, and texture advection research has made rapid advances in recent years. We present a novel hybrid visualization of texture advection on stream surfaces. This approach conveys properties of the vector field t... | false | false | [
"Robert S. Laramee",
"Christoph Garth",
"Jürgen Schneider",
"Helwig Hauser"
] | [] | [] | [] |
EuroVis | 2,006 | The alpha -histogram: Using Spatial Coherence to Enhance Histograms and Transfer Function Design | 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/227-234 | The high complexity of Transfer Function (TF) design is a major obstacle to widespread routine use of Direct Volume Rendering, particularly in the case of medical imaging. Both manual and automatic TF design schemes would benefit greatly from a fast and simple method for detection of tissue value ranges. To this end, w... | false | false | [
"Claes Lundström",
"Anders Ynnerman",
"Patric Ljung",
"Anders Persson",
"Hans Knutsson"
] | [] | [] | [] |
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