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    • Automating Transfer Function Design with Valley Cell-Based Clustering of 2D Density Plots 

      Wang, Yunhai; Zhang, Jian; Lehmann, Dirk J.; Theisel, Holger; Chi, Xuebin (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Two-dimensional transfer functions are an effective and well-accepted tool in volume classification. The design of them mostly depends on the user's experience and thus remains a challenge. Therefore, we present an approach ...
    • ConnectedCharts: Explicit Visualization of Relationships between Data Graphics 

      Viau, Christophe; McGuffin, Michael (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Multidimensional multivariate data can be visualized using many different well-known charts, such as bar charts, stacked bar charts, grouped bar charts, scatterplots, or pivot tables, or also using more advanced highdimensional ...
    • Scalable Detection of Spatiotemporal Encounters in Historical Movement Data 

      Bak, Peter; Marder, Mattias; Harary, Sivan; Yaeli, Avi; Ship, Harold J. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      The widespread adoption of location-aware devices is resulting in the generation of large amounts of spatiotemporal movement data, collected and stored in digital repositories. This forms a fertile ground for domain experts ...
    • Probabilistic Local Features in Uncertain Vector Fields with Spatial Correlation 

      Petz, Christoph; Pöthkow, Kai; Hege, Hans-Christian (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      In this paper methods for extraction of local features in crisp vector fields are extended to uncertain fields. While in a crisp field local features are either present or absent at some location, in an uncertain field ...
    • Travel-Route-Centered Metro Map Layout and Annotation 

      Wu, Hsiang-Yun; Takahashi, Shigeo; Lin, Chun-Cheng; Yen, Hsu-Chun (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      When providing travel guides for a specific route in a metro network, we often place the route around the center of the map and annotate stations on the route with thumbnail photographs. Nonetheless, existing methods do ...
    • Computing Voronoi Treemaps: Faster, Simpler, and Resolution-independent 

      Nocaj, Arlind; Brandes, Ulrik (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Voronoi treemaps represent hierarchies as nested polygons. We here show that, contrary to the apparent popular belief, utilization of an algorithm for weighted Voronoi diagrams is not only feasible, but also more efficient ...
    • Graph Bundling by Kernel Density Estimation 

      Hurter, Christophe; Ersoy, Ozan; Telea, Alex (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      We present a fast and simple method to compute bundled layouts of general graphs. For this, we first transform a given graph drawing into a density map using kernel density estimation. Next, we apply an image sharpening ...
    • Semi-Supervised Dimensionality Reduction based on Partial Least Squares for Visual Analysis of High Dimensional Data 

      Paiva, Jose Gustavo S.; Schwartz, William Robson; Pedrini, Helio; Minghim, Rosane (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Dimensionality reduction is employed for visual data analysis as a way to obtaining reduced spaces for high dimensional data or to mapping data directly into 2D or 3D spaces. Although techniques have evolved to improve ...
    • Tracing Tuples Across Dimensions: A Comparison of Scatterplots and Parallel Coordinate Plots 

      Kuang, Xiaole; Zhang, Haimo; Zhao, Shengdong; McGuffin, Michael J. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      One of the fundamental tasks for analytic activity is retrieving (i.e., reading) the value of a particular quantity in an information visualization. However, few previous studies have compared user performance in such value ...
    • Nearly Recurrent Components in 3D Piecewise Constant Vector Fields 

      Szymczak, Andrzej; Brunhart-Lupo, Nicholas (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      We present an algorithm for computing nearly recurrent components, that represent areas of close to circulating or stagnant flow, for 3D piecewise constant (PC) vector fields defined on regular grids. Using a number of ...
    • iVisClustering: An Interactive Visual Document Clustering via Topic Modeling 

      Lee, Hanseung; Kihm, Jaeyeon; Choo, Jaegul; Stasko, John; Park, Haesun (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Clustering plays an important role in many large-scale data analyses providing users with an overall understand- ing of their data. Nonetheless, clustering is not an easy task due to noisy features and outliers existing ...
    • Using Signposts for Navigation in Large Graphs 

      May, Thorsten; Steiger, Martin; Davey, James; Kohlhammer, Jörn (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      In this paper we present a new Focus & Context technique for the exploration of large, abstract graphs. Most Focus & Context techniques present context in a visual way. In contrast, our technique uses a symbolic representation: ...
    • Interactive Visualization of Generalized Virtual 3D City Models using Level-of-Abstraction Transitions 

      Semmo, Amir; Trapp, Matthias; Kyprianidis, Jan Eric; Döllner, Jürgen (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Virtual 3D city models play an important role in the communication of complex geospatial information in a growing number of applications, such as urban planning, navigation, tourist information, and disaster management. ...
    • Reliable Adaptive Modelling of Vascular Structures with Non-Circular Cross-Sections 

      Kretschmer, Jan; Beck, Thomas; Tietjen, Christian; Preim, Bernhard; Stamminger, Marc (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Accurate visualizations of complex vascular structures are essential for medical applications, such as diagnosis, therapy planning and medical education. Vascular trees are usually described using centerlines, since they ...
    • Kelp Diagrams: Point Set Membership Visualization 

      Dinkla, Kasper; Kreveld, Marc van; Speckmann, Bettina; Westenberg, Michel A. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      We present Kelp Diagrams, a novel method to depict set relations over points, i.e., elements with predefined positions. Our method creates schematic drawings and has been designed to take aesthetic quality, efficiency, and ...
    • A Qualitative Study on the Exploration of Temporal Changes in Flow Maps with Animation and Small-Multiples 

      Boyandin, Ilya; Bertini, Enrico; Lalanne, Denis (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      We present a qualitative user study analyzing findings made while exploring changes over time in spatial interactions. We analyzed findings made by the study participants with flow maps, one of the most popular representations ...
    • Document Thumbnails with Variable Text Scaling 

      Stoffel, Andreas; Strobelt, Hendrik; Deussen, Oliver; Keim, Daniel A. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Document reader applications usually offer an overview of the layout for each page as thumbnail views. Reading the text in these becomes impossible when the font size becomes very small. We improve the readability of these ...
    • Procedural Texture Synthesis for Zoom-Independent Visualization of Multivariate Data 

      Khlebnikov, Rostislav; Kainz, Bernhard; Steinberger, Markus; Streit, Marc; Schmalstieg, Dieter (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      Simultaneous visualization of multiple continuous data attributes in a single visualization is a task that is important for many application areas. Unsurprisingly, many methods have been proposed to solve this task. However, ...
    • A Design Study of Direct-Touch Interaction for Exploratory 3D Scientific Visualization 

      Klein, Tijmen; Guéniat, Florimond; Pastur, Luc; Vernier, Frédéric; Isenberg, Tobias (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      We present an interaction design study of several non-overlapping direct-touch interaction widgets, postures, and bi-manual techniques to support the needs of scientists who are exploring a dataset. The final interaction ...
    • Visualizing Motion Data in Virtual Reality: Understanding the Roles of Animation, Interaction, and Static Presentation 

      Coffey, Dane; Korsakov, Fedor; Ewert, Marcus; Hagh-Shenas, Heleh; Thorson, Lauren; Ellingson, Arin; Nuckley, David; Keefe, Daniel (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)
      We present a study of interactive virtual reality visualizations of scientific motions as found in biomechanics experiments. Our approach is threefold. First, we define a taxonomy of motion visualizations organized by the ...