A Salience-based Quality Metric for Visualization
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2010
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Abstract
Salience detection is a principle mechanism to facilitate visual attention. A good visualization guides the observer s attention to the relevant aspects of the representation. Hence, the distribution of salience over a visualization image is an essential measure of the quality of the visualization. We describe a method for computing such a metric for a visualization image in the context of a given dataset. We show how this technique can be used to analyze a visualization s salience, improve an existing visualization, and choose the best representation from a set of alternatives. The usefulness of this proposed metric is illustrated using examples from information visualization, volume visualization and flow visualization.
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@article{:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01667.x,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{A Salience-based Quality Metric for Visualization}},
author = {Jänicke, Heike and Chen, Min},
year = {2010},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01667.x}
}