{"title":"A Real-time Dynamic Simulation Scheme for Large-Scale Flood Hazard Using 3D Real World Data","authors":"Chen Wang, T. Wan, I. Palmer","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.15","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new dynamic simulation scheme for large-scale flood hazard modelling and prevention. The approach consists of a number of core parts: digital terrain modelling with GIS data, Nona-tree space partitions (NTSP), automatic river object recognition and registration, and a flood spreading model. The digital terrain modelling method allows the creation of a geometric real terrain model for augmented 3D environments with very large GIS data, and it can also use information gathered from aviation and satellite images with a ROAM algorithm. A spatial image segmentation scheme is described for river and flood identification and for a 3D terrain map of flooding region growth and visualisation. The region merging is then implemented by adopting flood region spreading algorithm (FRSA). Compared with the conventional methods, our approach has the advantages of being capable of realistically visualising the flooding in geometrically-real 3D environments, of handling dynamic flood behaviour in real-time and of dealing with very large-scale data modelling and visualisation.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128287549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew A. Hibbs, Grant Wallace, Maitreya J. Dunham, Kai Li, O. Troyanskaya
{"title":"Viewing the Larger Context of Genomic Data through Horizontal Integration","authors":"Matthew A. Hibbs, Grant Wallace, Maitreya J. Dunham, Kai Li, O. Troyanskaya","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.120","url":null,"abstract":"Genomics is an important emerging scientific field that relies on meaningful data visualization as a key step in analysis. Specifically, most investigation of gene expression microarray data is performed using visualization techniques. However, as microarrays become more ubiquitous, researchers must analyze their own data within the context of previously published work in order to gain a more complete understanding. No current method for microarray visualization and analysis enables biology researchers to observe the greater context of data that surrounds their own results, which severely limits the ability of researchers draw novel conclusions. Here we present a system, called HIDRA, that visually integrates the simultaneous display of multiple microarray datasets to identify important parallels and dissimilarities. We demonstrate the power of our approach through examples of real-world biological insights that can be observed using HIDRA that are not apparent using other techniques.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129535751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting the Open Plan: Ceilings and Furniture as Display Surfaces for Building Information","authors":"Mark Meagher, Jeffrey Huang, D. Gerber","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.98","url":null,"abstract":"First developed by the architectural avante-garde in the early 20th century, the idea of the open plan was the result of a desire for greater transparency and flexibility in the design of interior environments. Essential to the functioning of the open plan in these early projects is the subtle articulation of differences between one part of the open interior and another. Later co-opted as an efficient means of achieving maximum density in office environments, the open plan as commonly practiced in the latter half of the 20th century resulted in undifferentiated, homogeneous settings that failed to realize the original intentions of this architectural idea. Embedded information technology offers an opportunity to support the differentiation and legibility of the open plan by sensing and displaying aspects of the building's environmental conditions and patterns of use. We introduce two ongoing projects as examples of building interfaces that enhance the transparency of information in the building, using surfaces embedded in the building to reveal invisible attributes of the interior that can be used by inhabitants to better understand their environment.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129562297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracking and Organizing Visual Exploration Activities across Systems and Tools","authors":"D. Groth","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.115","url":null,"abstract":"Modern knowledge discovery activities occur in highly dynamic environments. Specific activities may involve multiple tools, techniques, systems, individuals, and locations. In addition to these complexities, the span of time involved with discovery may vary from short to long, as well as being contiguous or disjoint. This paper presents a framework for tracking the history, or provenance, of the discovery process across applications, systems, and users. The resulting capabilities provide fine-grained provenance information relative to the discovered information. Along with the provenance framework, a prototype system is used to demonstrate the main concepts of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128977382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Masahiko Itoh, J. Fujima, Makoto Ohigashi, Yuzuru Tanaka
{"title":"Spreadsheet-based Framework for Interactive 3D Visualization of Web Resources","authors":"Masahiko Itoh, J. Fujima, Makoto Ohigashi, Yuzuru Tanaka","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.106","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a spreadsheet-based visualization framework for end-users to generate and modify multiple 3D visualizations of data-sets from various Web resources. In this paper, first, we provide a 3D component-based access mechanism to Web resources. It allows users to access various Web resources using only 3D visual components interactively. Second, we provide an interactive 3D visualization mechanism. It enables users to construct multiple 3D visualizations of data-sets from various Web resources just by combining 3D visual components. Third, we provide 2D components for communicating between a spreadsheet and 3D components. Users can export necessary functions of 3D components and define synchronization between these components and cells on a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet environment allows us to define relationships among cells, and copy these relationships through a copy and paste manipulation. By using these mechanisms, users can create multiple visualizations in parallel in order to compare different visualization results simultaneously for different visualization parameters just through a user's direct manipulation.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126917618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Srinivasan, D. House, Mary Saslow, C. LaFayette
{"title":"Basic Training for Digital Artists in the Texas A&M Visualization Program","authors":"V. Srinivasan, D. House, Mary Saslow, C. LaFayette","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.31","url":null,"abstract":"We provide an overview of the master of science in visualization sciences program offered at Texas A&M University. Central to this program is the intermixing of concepts, students, and faculty from art, computer science, architecture, and engineering. We explain the structure of the curriculum, and then focus on a detailed analysis of foundation courses that have been designed to make it possible for students from such diverse backgrounds to share the same advanced coursework. Illustrations are drawn from a number of examples of student project work in these foundation courses. We present practical guidelines for those seeking to implement similar courses in their programs.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126055868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Data Forest: Multi-Dimensional Visualization","authors":"R. Jamieson, V. Alexandrov","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.9","url":null,"abstract":"As terabyte datasets become the norm, the focus has shifted away from our ability to produce and store ever larger amounts of data, onto its utilization. It is becoming increasingly difficult to gain meaningful insights into the data produced. Also many forms of the data we are currently producing cannot easily fit into traditional visualization methods. This paper presents a new and novel visualization technique based on the concept of a data forest. Our data forest has been designed to be used with virtual reality (VR) as its presentation method. VR is a natural medium for investigating large datasets. Our approach can easily be adapted to be used in a variety of different ways, from a stand alone single user environment to large multi-user collaborative environments. A test application is presented using multi-dimensional data to demonstrate the concepts involved.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114153380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linguistic Interpretations of Scuba Dive Computer Data","authors":"S. Sripada, Feng Gao","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.75","url":null,"abstract":"Exploratory visualizations of dive computer data are available to the scuba diving community to examine the safety of their recorded dives. In a study involving certified scuba divers on the usage of these visualizations we found that these are not used regularly which agrees well with the suspicions expressed by the medical staff who attend to patients with diving related illnesses. We built a prototype knowledge based system that interprets dive computer data to automatically generate their linguistic interpretations to supplement the existing visualizations. We hypothesized that linguistic interpretations by virtue of their structure communicate safety related messages directly to divers. Our evaluation showed that divers like the idea of integrating linguistic interpretations into existing visualizations. However, the study also showed that linguistic interpretations can be useful only if they are emotionally appropriate to individual divers.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125278301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive Web Visualisation of Proposals for Site Developments","authors":"R. Hetherington, B. Farrimond, P. Clynch","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.72","url":null,"abstract":"X3D (eXtensible 3 Dimensions), the international standard for Web 3D, offers opportunities for the dynamic display and interoperability of data over the World Wide Web. One potential application relates to the process of urban planning in which applications are required to be made readily available for public comment. Relevant information is typically presented in the form of site plans and a limited number of architectural drawings that can be difficult for the general public to fully comprehend. Web3D models of proposals in the context of the site and viewed from different directions have the potential to provide the general public and the planning authority with a better understanding of the visual impact of the proposals. This paper, through a case study of a proposed residential development, demonstrates the use of standard Web browser as a GUI (graphical user interface) to control the display of a 3D model. The interactive, client side, visualization is achieved using AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML).","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122840282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Teutsch, D. Berndt, E. Trostmann, B. Preim
{"title":"Adaptive Real-Time Grid Generation from 3D Line Scans for fast Visualization and Data Evaluation","authors":"Christian Teutsch, D. Berndt, E. Trostmann, B. Preim","doi":"10.1109/IV.2007.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2007.19","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method for the real-time generation of grids from 3D line scan data for in-line scan previews and the evaluation of large point clouds derived from different 3D-scanners. By exploiting the underlying measuring principles, we generate regular grids for each scan operation even if the sensor movement is non-linear. These grids are finally used for NURBS patch approximations, which enable the determination of higher order features, e.g. curvature and quality evaluations. Experimental results at the example of different point clouds illustrate the effectiveness of our methods in practice.","PeriodicalId":177429,"journal":{"name":"2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133461703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}