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    • Key Time Steps Selection for Large-Scale Time-Varying Volume Datasets Using an Information-Theoretic Storyboard 

      Zhou, Bo; Chiang, Yi-Jen (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Key time steps selection is essential for effective and efficient scientific visualization of large-scale time-varying datasets. We present a novel approach that can decide the number of most representative time steps while ...
    • Landscaper: A Modeling System for 3D Printing Scale Models of Landscapes 

      Allahverdi, Kamyar; Djavaherpour, Hessam; Mahdavi-Amiri, Ali; Samavati, Faramarz (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Landscape models of geospatial regions provide an intuitive mechanism for exploring complex geospatial information. However, the methods currently used to create these scale models require a large amount of resources, which ...
    • Rendering and Extracting Extremal Features in 3D Fields 

      Kindlmann, Gordon L.; Chiw, Charisee; Huynh, Tri; Gyulassy, Attila; Reppy, John; Bremer, Peer-Timo (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Visualizing and extracting three-dimensional features is important for many computational science applications, each with their own feature definitions and data types. While some are simple to state and implement (e.g. ...
    • Visualizing the Phase Space of Heterogeneous Inertial Particles in 2D Flows 

      Rojo, Irene Baeza; Gross, Markus; Günther, Tobias (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In many scientific disciplines, the motion of finite-sized objects in fluid flows plays an important role, such as in brownout engineering, sediment transport, oceanology or meteorology. These finite-sized objects are ...
    • ChangeCatcher: Increasing Inter-author Awareness for Visualization Development 

      Loorak, Mona Hosseinkhani; Tory, Melanie; Carpendale, Sheelagh (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      We introduce an approach for explicitly revealing changes between versions of a visualization workbook to support version comparison tasks. Visualization authors may need to understand version changes for a variety of ...
    • Baseball Timeline: Summarizing Baseball Plays Into a Static Visualization 

      Ono, Jorge H. Piazentin; Dietrich, Carlos; Silva, Claudio T. (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In sports, Play Diagrams are the standard way to represent and convey information. They are widely used by coaches, managers, journalists and fans in general. There are situations where diagrams may be hard to understand, ...
    • Fast and Accurate CNN-based Brushing in Scatterplots 

      Fan, Chaoran; Hauser, Helwig (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Brushing plays a central role in most modern visual analytics solutions and effective and efficient techniques for data selection are key to establishing a successful human-computer dialogue. With this paper, we address ...
    • Explorative Blood Flow Visualization using Dynamic Line Filtering based on Surface Features 

      Behrendt, Benjamin; Berg, Philipp; Beuing, Oliver; Preim, Bernhard; Saalfeld, Sylvia (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Rupture risk assessment is a key to devise patient-specific treatment plans of cerebral aneurysms. To understand and predict the development of aneurysms and other vascular diseases over time, both hemodynamic flow patterns ...
    • Exploring High-Dimensional Structure via Axis-Aligned Decomposition of Linear Projections 

      Thiagarajan, Jayaraman J.; Liu, Shusen; Ramamurthy, Karthikeyan Natesan; Bremer, Peer-Timo (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Two-dimensional embeddings remain the dominant approach to visualize high dimensional data. The choice of embeddings ranges from highly non-linear ones, which can capture complex relationships but are difficult to interpret ...
    • ThreadReconstructor: Modeling Reply-Chains to Untangle Conversational Text through Visual Analytics 

      El-Assady, Mennatallah; Sevastjanova, Rita; Keim, Daniel; Collins, Christopher (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      We present ThreadReconstructor, a visual analytics approach for detecting and analyzing the implicit conversational structure of discussions, e.g., in political debates and forums. Our work is motivated by the need to ...
    • Visual and Quantitative Analysis of Great Arteries' Blood Flow Jets in Cardiac 4D PC-MRI Data 

      Köhler, Benjamin; Grothoff, Matthias; Gutberlet, Matthias; Preim, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Flow in the great arteries (aorta, pulmonary artery) is normally laminar with a parabolic velocity profile. Eccentric flow jets are linked to various diseases like aneurysms. Cardiac 4D PC-MRI data provide spatio-temporally ...
    • Exploring the Visualization Design Space with Repertory Grids 

      Kurzhals, Kuno; Weiskopf, Daniel (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      There is an ongoing discussion in the visualization community about the relevant factors that render a visualization effective, expressive, memorable, aesthetically pleasing, etc. These factors lead to a large design space ...
    • Representative Consensus from Limited-Size Ensembles 

      Mirzargar, Mahsa; Whitaker, Ross T. (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Characterizing the uncertainty and extracting reliable visual information from ensemble data have been persistent challenges in various disciplines, specifically in simulation sciences. Many ensemble analysis and visualization ...
    • Interactive Analysis of Word Vector Embeddings 

      Heimerl, Florian; Gleicher, Michael (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Word vector embeddings are an emerging tool for natural language processing. They have proven beneficial for a wide variety of language processing tasks. Their utility stems from the ability to encode word relationships ...
    • Chart Constellations: Effective Chart Summarization for Collaborative and Multi-User Analyses 

      Xu, Shenyu; Bryan, Chris; Li, Jianping Kelvin; Zhao, Jian; Ma, Kwan-Liu (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Many data problems in the real world are complex and require multiple analysts working together to uncover embedded insights by creating chart-driven data stories. How, as a subsequent analysis step, do we interpret and ...
    • Cosine-Weighted B-Spline Interpolation on the Face-Centered Cubic Lattice 

      Rácz, Gergely Ferenc; Csébfalvi, Balázs (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Cosine-Weighted B-spline (CWB) interpolation [Csé13] has been originally proposed for volumetric data sampled on the Body-Centered Cubic (BCC) lattice. The BCC lattice is well known to be optimal for sampling isotropically ...
    • Visualization of 4D Vector Field Topology 

      Hofmann, Lutz; Rieck, Bastian; Sadlo, Filip (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      In this paper, we present an approach to the topological analysis of four-dimensional vector fields. In analogy to traditional 2D and 3D vector field topology, we provide a classification and visual representation of ...
    • DimSUM: Dimension and Scale Unifying Map for Visual Abstraction of DNA Origami Structures 

      Miao, Haichao; Llano, Elisa De; Isenberg, Tobias; Gröller, Eduard; Barišic, Ivan; Viola, Ivan (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      We present a novel visualization concept for DNA origami structures that integrates a multitude of representations into a Dimension and Scale Unifying Map (DimSUM). This novel abstraction map provides means to analyze, ...
    • Towards Easy Comparison of Local Businesses Using Online Reviews 

      Wang, Yong; Haleem, Hammad; Shi, Conglei; Wu, Yanhong; Zhao, Xun; Fu, Siwei; Qu, Huamin (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      With the rapid development of e-commerce, there is an increasing number of online review websites, such as Yelp, to help customers make better purchase decisions. Viewing online reviews, including the rating score and text ...
    • Hierarchical Correlation Clustering in Multiple 2D Scalar Fields 

      Liebmann, Tom; Weber, Gunther H.; Scheuermann, Gerik (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2018)
      Sets of multiple scalar fields can be used to model many types of variation in data, such as uncertainty in measurements and simulations or time-dependent behavior of scalar quantities. Many structural properties of such ...