Visualizing Time-Specific Hurricane Predictions, with Uncertainty, from Storm Path Ensembles

The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) issues advisories every six hours during the life of a hurricane. These advisories describe the current state of the storm, and its predicted path, size, and... Read more »

Efficient Contrast Effect Compensation with Personalized Perception Models

Color is one of the most effective visual variables and is frequently used to encode metric quantities. Contrast effects are considered harmful in data visualizations since they significantly bias our perception of... Read more »

Guided Volume Editing based on Histogram Dissimilarity

Segmentation of volumetric data is an important part of many analysis pipelines, but frequently requires manual inspection and correction. While plenty of volume editing techniques exist, it remains cumbersome and errorprone for... Read more »

A Multi-task Comparative Study on Scatter Plots and Parallel Coordinates Plots

Previous empirical studies for comparing parallel coordinates plots and scatter plots showed some uncertainty about their relative merits. Some of these studies focused on the task of value retrieval, where visualization usually... Read more »

Visual Analytics for Correlation-Based Comparison of Time Series Ensembles

An established approach to studying interrelations between two non-stationary time series is to compute the ‘windowed’ cross-correlation (WCC). The time series are divided into intervals and the cross-correlation between corresponding intervals is... Read more »

Compressive Volume Rendering

Compressive rendering refers to the process of reconstructing a full image from a small subset of the rendered pixels, thereby expediting the rendering task. In this paper, we empirically investigate three image... Read more »

GraphUnit: Evaluating Interactive Graph Visualizations Using Crowdsourcing

We present GraphUnit, a framework and online service that automates the process of designing, running and analyzing results of controlled user studies of graph visualizations by leveraging crowdsourcing and a set of... Read more »

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Fiber Surfaces: Generalizing Isosurfaces to Bivariate Data

Scientific visualization has many effective methods for examining and exploring scalar and vector fields, but rather fewer for bivariate fields. We report the first general purpose approach for the interactive extraction of... Read more »

Photoelasticity Raycasting

We present a novel physically-based method to visualize stress tensor fields. By incorporating photoelasticity into traditional raycasting and extending it with reflection and refraction, taking into account polarization, we obtain the virtual... Read more »