Vis Papers

Session 1: Theoretical Foundations of Visualization
Chair: Daniel Weiskopf

On the Fractal Dimension of Isosurfaces
Marc Khoury, Rephael Wenger
VIDEO | AUDIO

An Information-theoretic Framework for Visualization
Min Chen, Heike Jänicke
VIDEO | AUDIO

An Information-Theoretic Framework for Flow Visualization
Lijie Xu, Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen

Streak Lines as Tangent Curves of a Derived Vector Field
Tino Weinkauf, Holger Theisel


Session 2: Cameras and Images
Chair: Shigeo Takahashi

A Curved Ray Camera for Handling Occlusions through Continuous Multiperspective Visualization
Jian Cui, Paul Rosen, Voicu Popescu, Christoph Hoffmann
VIDEO | AUDIO

Special Relativistic Visualization by Local Ray Tracing
Thomas Müller, Sebastian Grottel, Daniel Weiskopf
VIDEO | AUDIO

Computing Robustness and Persistence for Images
Paul Bendich, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Michael Kerber

Browsing Large Image Datasets through Voronoi Diagrams
Paolo Brivio, Marco Tarini, Paolo Cignoni


Session 3: Visual Mappings
Chair: Joachim Giesen

Visual Exploration of High Dimensional Scalar Functions
Samuel Gerber, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci, Ross Whitaker
VIDEO | AUDIO

Two-Phase Mapping for Projecting Massive Data Sets
Fernando V. Paulovich, Cláudio T. Silva, L. Gustavo Nonato
VIDEO | AUDIO

Discontinuities in Continuous Scatterplots
Dirk J. Lehmann, Holger Theisel

Spatial Conditioning of Transfer Functions Using Local Material Distributions
Stefan Lindholm, Patric Ljung, Claes Lundström, Anders Persson, Anders Ynnerman


Session 4: Illustrative Methods
Chair: Tobias Isenberg

Exploded View Diagrams of Mathematical Surfaces
Olga Karpenko, Wilmot Li, Niloy J. Mitra, Maneesh Agrawala
VIDEO | AUDIO

IRIS: Illustrative Rendering of Integral Surfaces
Mathias Hummel, Christoph Garth, Bernd Hamann, Hans Hagen, Kenneth I. Joy
VIDEO | AUDIO

Illustrative Stream Surfaces
Silvia Born, Alexander Wiebel, Jan Friedrich, Gerik Scheuermann, Dirk Bartz

Exploration of 4D MRI Blood-Flow Using Stylistic Visualization
Roy van Pelt, Javier Oliván Bescós, Marcel Breeuwer, Rachel E. Clough, M. Eduard Gröller, Bart ter Haar Romeny, Anna Vilanova


Session 5: Registration, Segmentation, and Denoising of Medical Data
Chair: Jos Roerdink

Supine and Prone Colon Registration Using Quasi-Conformal Mapping
Wei Zeng, Joseph Marino, Krishna Chaitanya Gurijala, Xianfeng Gu, Arie Kaufman

Uncertainty-Aware Guided Volume Segmentation
Jörg-Stefan Praßni, Timo Ropinski, Klaus Hinrichs

Exploration and Visualization of Segmentation Uncertainty Using Shape and Appearance Prior Information
Ahmed Saad, Ghassan Hamarneh, Torsten Möller

Edge Aware Anisotropic Diffusion for 3D Scalar Data
Zahid Hossain, Torsten Möller


Session 6: Visual Analysis and Design in Scientific Applications
Chair: Patricia Crossno

Scalable Multi-variate Analytics of Seismic and Satellite-based Observational Data
Xiaoru Yuan, He Xiao, Hanqi Guo, Peihong Guo, Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang, Yongxian Zhang
VIDEO | AUDIO

Noodles: A Tool for Visualization of Numerical Weather Model Ensemble Uncertainty
Jibonananda Sanyal, Song Zhang, Jamie Dyer, Andrew Mercer, Philip Amburn, Robert J. Moorhead

Analysis of Recurrent Patterns in Toroidal Magnetic Fields
Allen R. Sanderson, Guoning Chen, Xavier Tricoche, David Pugmire, Scott Kruger, Joshua Breslau

Interactive Visualization of Hyperspectral Images of Historical Documents
Seon Joo Kim, Shaojie Zhuo, Fanbo Deng, Chi-Wing Fu, Michael S. Brown


Session 7: Biomedical Visualization
Chair: Bernhard Preim

Interactive Histology of Large-Scale Biomedical Image Stacks
Won-Ki Jeong, Jens Schneider, Stephen G. Turney, Beverly E. Faulkner-Jones, Dominik Meyer, Rüdiger Westermann, R. Clay Reid, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister
VIDEO | AUDIO

Articulated Planar Reformation for Change Visualization in Small Animal Imaging
P. Kok, M. Baiker, E.A. Hendriks, F.H. Post, J. Dijkstra, C.W.G.M. Löwik, B.P.F. Lelieveldt, C.P. Botha

Volumetric Modeling in Laser BPH Therapy Simulation
Nan Zhang, Xiangmin Zhou, Yunhe Shen, Robert Sweet


Session 8: Accurate Volume Rendering
Chair: Jens Krüger

Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering with Non-Linear Gradient Interpolation
Amel Guetat, Alexandre Ancel, Stephane Marchesin, Jean-Michel Dischler

Gradient Estimation Revitalized
Usman Alim, Torsten Möller, Laurent Condat

Direct Interval Volume Visualization
Marco Ament, Daniel Weiskopf, Hamish Carr

VDVR: Verifiable Visualization of Projection-Based Data
Ziyi Zheng, Wei Xu, Klaus Mueller


Session 9: Navigating Parameter Spaces
Chair: Huamin Qu

Interactive Visual Analysis of Multiple Simulation Runs using the Simulation Model View: Understanding and Tuning of an Electronic Unit Injector
Kresimir Matkovic, Denis Gracanin, Mario Jelovic, Andreas Ammer, Alan Lež, Helwig Hauser

World Lines
Jürgen Waser, Raphael Fuchs, Hrvoje Ribicic, Benjamin Schindler, Günther Blöschl, M. Eduard Gröller

Result-Driven Exploration of Simulation Parameter Spaces for Visual Effects Design
Stefan Bruckner, Torsten Möller

Visual Optimality and Stability Analysis of 3DCT Scan Positions
Artem Amirkhanov, Christoph Heinzl, Michael Reiter, M. Eduard Gröller


Session 10: Fast Volume Rendering
Chair: Christof Rezk-Salama

Fast High-Quality Volume Ray-Casting with Virtual Samplings
Byeonghun Lee, Jihye Yun, Jinwook Seo, Byonghyo Shim, Yeong-Gil Shin, Bohyoung Kim

Efficient High-Quality Volume Rendering of SPH Data
Roland Fraedrich, Stefan Auer, Rüdiger Westermann

Fast, Memory-Efficient Cell Location in Unstructured Grids for Visualization
Christoph Garth, Kenneth I. Joy

Visualization by Proxy: A Novel Framework for Deferred Interaction with Volume Data
Anna Tikhonova, Carlos D. Correa, Kwan-Liu Ma


Session 11: Vector and Tensor Data
Chair: Ming Jiang

Interactive Vector Field Feature Identification
Joel Daniels II, Erik W. Anderson, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Cláudio T. Silva

Interactive Separating Streak Surfaces
Florian Ferstl, Kai Bürger, Holger Theisel, Rüdiger Westermann

View-Dependent Streamlines for 3D Vector Fields
Stéphane Marchesin, Cheng-Kai Chen, Chris Ho, Kwan-Liu Ma

Visualizing Flow Trajectories Using Locality-based Rendering and Warpes Curve Plots
Chad Jones, Kwan-Liu Ma

Superquadric Glyphs for Symmetric Second-Order Tensors
Thomas Schultz, Gordon L. Kindlmann


Session 12: (Multi-) User Interfaces and Projection Systems
Chair: Anders Ynnerman

TanGeoMS: Tangible Geospatial Modeling System
Laura G. Tateosian, Helena Mitasova, Brendan A. Harmon, Brent Fogleman, Katherine Weaver, Russel S. Harmon
VIDEO | AUDIO

FI3D: Direct-Touch Interaction for the Exploration of 3D Scientific Visualization Spaces
Lingyun Yu, Pjotr Svetachov, Petra Isenberg, Maarten H. Everts, Tobias Isenberg
VIDEO | AUDIO

A Scalable Distributed Paradigm for Multi-User Interaction with Tiled Rear Projection Display Walls
Pablo Roman, Maxim Lazarov, Aditi Majumder
VIDEO | AUDIO

Projector Projector Placement Planning for High Quality Visualizations on Real-World Colored Objects
Alvin J. Law, Daniel G. Aliaga, Aditi Majumder
VIDEO | AUDIO