WVIS 2015 - accepted papers available here

WVIS Schedule:

14:00-15:00 Poster Session

 Towards visual analysis techniques for monitoring students of distance education courses
  Augusto Weiand, PUCRS; Isabel Manssour, PUCRS

 Some Operators from Mathematical Morphology for the Visual Analysis of Georeferenced Data
  Fábio Dias, USP; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP

 Similarity Graph: Visual Exploration of Song Collections
  Jorge Piazentin Ono, USP; Débora Corrêa, USP; Martha Ferreira, USP; Rodrigo Mello, USP; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP

 BerlinViz - Semantic visualization of governmental data over time
  Wladimir Silantiy Leuschner, UFRGS; Joao Comba, UFRGS

 OD Flows - A Visual Representation of Origin-Destination Matrix in Urban Traffic Scenario
  Halley Wesley Gondim*, UFG; Hugo Alexandre do Nascimento, UFG; Derek Reilly, Dalhousie University

 Using Phylogenetic Trees to Generate Semantic Meaningful Edge Bundles
  Fabio Sikansi, USP; Fernando Paulovich, USP

 VizLattes: a tool for relevance analysis from scientific co-authorship networks
  Markus Diego Dias, USP; Moussa Mansour, USP; Luzia de Menezes Romanetto, USP; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP; Maria Ferreira, USP

 An Initial Study on High-Dimensional Data Visualization Through Subspace Clustering
  Adriano Barbosa, USP; Filip Sadlo, Heidelberg University; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP

 Understanding Large Legal Datasets through Visual Analytics
  Erick Gomez-Nieto, USP; Wallace Casaca, USP; Ivar Hartmann, FGV; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP

 On the effectiveness of user manipulation in multidimensional projections
  Samuel Fadel, USP; Fernando Paulovich, USP

15:00-15:05 WVIS Opening Session

15:05-15:25 Honorable Mention 1

 An Initial Study on High-Dimensional Data Visualization Through Subspace Clustering
  Adriano Barbosa, ICMC; Filip Sadlo, Heidelberg University; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP

15:25-15:45 Honorable Mention 2

 Similarity Graph: Visual Exploration of Song Collections
  Jorge Piazentin Ono, USP; Débora Corrêa, USP; Martha Ferreira, USP; Rodrigo Mello, USP; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP

15:45-16:15 Break

16:15-16:35 Best Paper

 Some Operators from Mathematical Morphology for the Visual Analysis of Georeferenced Data
  Fábio Dias, USP; Luis Gustavo Nonato, USP

16:35-18:00 WVIS invited speaker: Filip Sadlo, Heidelberg University

Title: Visualization in Scientific Computing

Abstract: Scientific computing and visualization are an interdependent pair. Computing requires visualization to oversee, analyze, and reason the data it produces, in particular to improve simulation approaches. Conversely, visualization requires simulation results to conceive, develop, and evaluate new analysis techniques. Whereas during the early decades both disciplines were closely related physically and technically, they have grown apart to some extent during their progression. While part of this distance stems from differentiation and has its advantages, other parts hinder the overall progress in scientific computing and visualization. In this talk, we will look at recent examples from simulation-related visualization research, as a means to bring computing and visualization closer together, toward an integrative computing discipline.

Short Bio: Filip Sadlo received a MSc degree in computer science from ETH Zurich in 2003, where he also did his PhD. From 2008 to 2014, he has been a research associate at the Visualization Research Center at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2015, he is a full professor in computer science at Heidelberg University, Germany, and the head of the Visual Computing Group. His research interests include visualization, computer graphics, and computational photography, with focus on flow visualization, volume rendering and proximity to physics and simulation. Filip Sadlo is coauthor of more than 70 scientific publications and has been a member of numerous program committees.​



Call for WVIS 2015 - 6th Workshop on Visual Analytics, Information Visualization and Scientific Visualization

Motivated by the increasing attention worldwide on visualization techniques, WVIS reaches its 6th edition, bringing a forum to discuss information or scientific visualization techniques, as well as visual analytics tools. As WVIS is becoming a mature workshop, in this edition we are looking for original and unpublished work in the area. We expect that WVIS will serve as a a forum for the dissemination of current work in the field, while fostering new research and collaborations. The workshop will be comprised of a poster session to promote discussions with the authors, and one invited talk by a well-known researcher in the field.

A list of suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

  • Visual representations and interaction techniques: focus+context, brushing and linking, coordinate multiple views, zooming, navigation, etc.
  • Time-series analysis and visualization, streaming techniques for visualization, time-varying data analysis and visualization.
  • Visual Data Mining techniques
  • Machine Learning for Visual Analytics
  • High-dimensional data and dimensionality reduction applied to visualization problems.
  • Mathematical foundations and algorithms for data transformations to allow interactive visual analysis.
  • Layout arrangement: graph drawing, overlap removal methods, and small multiples visualization.
  • Big data visualization: urban data, environmental data, etc.
  • Visualization, rendering and manipulation of spatial data: scalar, vector and tensor fields, flow fields, regular and unstructured grids, etc.

Invited talks:

WVIS 2015 will have a well-known researcher as invited speaker, which will be announced soon.

Important Dates:

  • Paper submission: June 21th, 2015
  • Notification of acceptance: July 9, 2015
  • Final title and abstract due: July 19, 2015

Submission guidelines:

All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE standard (the same of the main conference). The papers should be submitted through the CMT system. We welcome short papers of 3-4 pages. We are looking forward to original and unpublished work in the field.

Paper submission will be handled via the CMT System.

Reviewing process:

All paper reviews will be coordinated by the chairs of WVIS 2015. Accepted work will be included in the electronic proceedings of the conference. In addition, papers of exceptional quality will receive a second round of reviews by the international program committee. The additional reviews will contain a list of suggestions on how to extend the paper for a journal submission.

The authors of accepted papers will present their work in a fast forward session (1-2 mins), and a poster presentation session (1 hour). Instructions for the fast-forward session, as well as poster guidelines, will be given upon the notification of accepted papers.

Preliminary Agenda:

To be defined.

Organizers:

Program Committee

  • Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Asla Sá, FGV, Brazil
  • Carla Freitas, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Carlos Scheidegger, University of Arizona, USA
  • Claudio Silva, New York University, USA
  • Daniel Weiskopf, Stuttgart University, Germany
  • Fernando Paulovich, USP ICMC, Brazil
  • Filip Sadlo, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • Haim Levkowitz, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
  • Maria Cristina Oliveira, USP ICMC, Brazil
  • Rosane Minghim, USP ICMC, Brazil
  • Thomas Ertl, Stuttgart University, Germany