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Result-driven exploration of simulation parameter spaces for visual effects design
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"... Abstract—Graphics artists commonly employ physically-based simulation for the generation of effects such as smoke, explosions, and similar phenomena. The task of finding the correct parameters for a desired result, however, is difficult and time-consuming as current tools provide little to no guidan ..."
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Abstract—Graphics artists commonly employ physically-based simulation for the generation of effects such as smoke, explosions, and similar phenomena. The task of finding the correct parameters for a desired result, however, is difficult and time-consuming as current tools provide little to no guidance. In this paper, we present a new approach for the visual exploration of such parameter spaces. Given a three-dimensional scene description, we utilize sampling and spatio-temporal clustering techniques to generate a concise overview of the achievable variations and their temporal evolution. Our visualization system then allows the user to explore the simulation space in a goal-oriented manner. Animation sequences with a set of desired characteristics can be composed using a novel search-by-example approach and interactive direct volume rendering is employed to provide instant visual feedback. A user study was performed to evaluate the applicability of our system in production use. Index Terms—Visual exploration, visual effects, clustering, time-dependent volume data. 1
Real-time motion estimation and visualization on graphics cards
- IN: PROC. IEEE VISUALIZATION
, 2004
"... We present a tool for real-time visualization of motion features in 2D image sequences. The motion is estimated through an eigenvector analysis of the spatio-temporal structure tensor at every pixel location. This approach is computationally demanding but allows reliable velocity estimates as well a ..."
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We present a tool for real-time visualization of motion features in 2D image sequences. The motion is estimated through an eigenvector analysis of the spatio-temporal structure tensor at every pixel location. This approach is computationally demanding but allows reliable velocity estimates as well as quality indicators for the obtained results. We use a 2D color map and a region of interest selector for the visualization of the velocities. On the selected velocities we apply a hierarchical smoothing scheme which allows the choice of the desired scale of the motion field. We demonstrate several examples of test sequences in which some persons are moving with different velocities than others. These persons are visually marked in the real-time display of the image sequence. The tool is also applied to angiography sequences to emphasize the blood flow and its distribution. An efficient processing of the data streams is achieved by mapping the operations onto the stream architecture of standard graphics cards. The card receives the images and performs both the motion estimation and visualization, taking advantage of the parallelism in the graphics processor and the superior memory bandwidth. The integration of data processing and visualization also saves on unnecessary data transfers and thus allows the real-time analysis of 320x240 images. We expect that on the newest generation of graphics hardware our tool could run in real time for the standard VGA format.
T.: Action-based multi-field video visualization
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"... Abstract — One challenge in video processing is to detect actions and events, known or unknown, in video streams dynamically. This paper proposes a visualization solution, where a video stream is depicted as a series of snapshots at a relatively sparse interval, and detected actions are highlighted ..."
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Abstract — One challenge in video processing is to detect actions and events, known or unknown, in video streams dynamically. This paper proposes a visualization solution, where a video stream is depicted as a series of snapshots at a relatively sparse interval, and detected actions are highlighted with continuous abstract illustrations. The combined imagery and illustrative visualization conveys multi-field information in a manner similar to electrocardiograms (ECG) and seismographs. We thus name this type of video visualization as VideoPerpetuoGram (VPG). In this paper, we describe a system that handles the raw and processed information of the video stream in a multi-field visualization pipeline. As examples, we consider the needs for highlighting several types of processed information, including detected actions in video streams, and estimated relationship between recognized objects. We examine the effective means for depicting multi-field information in VPG, and support our choice of visual mappings through a survey. Our GPU implementation facilitates the VPGspecific viewing specification through a sheared object space, as well as volume bricking and combinational rendering of volume data and glyphs. Index Terms — Video visualization, multi-field visualization, volume rendering, GPU rendering, video processing, actions and
A system for query-specific document summarization
- In 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM
, 2006
"... There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (query result snippets) has become an important problem, which has received little attention. We present a method to create q ..."
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There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (query result snippets) has become an important problem, which has received little attention. We present a method to create queryspecific summaries by identifying the most query-relevant fragments and combining them using the semantic associations within the document. In particular, we first add structure to the documents in the preprocessing stage and convert them to document graphs. Then, the best summaries are computed by calculating the top spanning trees on the document graphs. We present and experimentally evaluate efficient algorithms that support computing summaries in interactive time. Furthermore, the quality of our summarization method is compared to current approaches using a user survey.
An information-theoretic framework for visualization
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"... Abstract—In this paper, we examine whether or not information theory can be one of the theoretic frameworks for visualization. We formulate concepts and measurements for qualifying visual information. We illustrate these concepts with examples that manifest the intrinsic and implicit use of informat ..."
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Abstract—In this paper, we examine whether or not information theory can be one of the theoretic frameworks for visualization. We formulate concepts and measurements for qualifying visual information. We illustrate these concepts with examples that manifest the intrinsic and implicit use of information theory in many existing visualization techniques. We outline the broad correlation between visualization and the major applications of information theory, while pointing out the difference in emphasis and some technical gaps. Our study provides compelling evidence that information theory can explain a significant number of phenomena or events in visualization, while no example has been found which is fundamentally in conflict with information theory. We also notice that the emphasis of some traditional applications of information theory, such as data compression or data communication, may not always suit visualization, as the former typically focuses on the efficient throughput of a communication channel, whilst the latter focuses on the effectiveness in aiding the perceptual and cognitive process for data understanding and knowledge discovery. These findings suggest that further theoretic developments are necessary for adopting and adapting information theory for visualization. Index Terms—Information theory, theory of visualization, quantitative evaluation. 1
Illustrative Deformation for Data Exploration
, 2007
"... Much of the visualization research has focused on improving the rendering quality and speed, and enhancing the perceptibility of features in the data. Recently, significant emphasis has been placed on focus+context (F+C) techniques (e.g., fisheye views and magnification lens) for data exploration in ..."
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Much of the visualization research has focused on improving the rendering quality and speed, and enhancing the perceptibility of features in the data. Recently, significant emphasis has been placed on focus+context (F+C) techniques (e.g., fisheye views and magnification lens) for data exploration in addition to viewing transformation and hierarchical navigation. However, most of the existing data exploration techniques rely on the manipulation of viewing attributes of the rendering system or optical attributes of the data objects, with users being passive viewers. In this paper, we propose a more active approach to data exploration, which attempts to mimic how we would explore data if we were able to hold it and interact with it in our hands. This involves allowing the users to physically or actively manipulate the geometry of a data object. While this approach has been traditionally used in applications, such as surgical simulation, where the original geometry of the data objects is well understood by the users, there are several challenges when this approach is generalized for applications, such as flow and information visualization, where there is no common perception as to the normal or natural geometry of a data object. We introduce a taxonomy and a set of transformations especially for illustrative deformation of general data exploration. We present combined geometric or optical illustration operators for focus+context visualization, and examine the best means for preventing the deformed context from being misperceived. We demonstrated the feasibility of this generalization with examples of flow, information and video visualization.
Totalrecall: visualization and semi-automatic annotation of very large audio-visual corpora
- In ICMI ’07: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
, 2007
"... We introduce a system for visualizing, annotating, and ana-lyzing very large collections of longitudinal audio and video recordings. The system, TotalRecall, is designed to ad-dress the requirements of projects like the Human Spee-chome Project [18], for which more than 100,000 hours of multitrack a ..."
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We introduce a system for visualizing, annotating, and ana-lyzing very large collections of longitudinal audio and video recordings. The system, TotalRecall, is designed to ad-dress the requirements of projects like the Human Spee-chome Project [18], for which more than 100,000 hours of multitrack audio and video have been collected over a twenty-two month period. Our goal in this project is to transcribe speech in over 10,000 hours of audio recordings, and to an-notate the position and head orientation of multiple people in the 10,000 hours of corresponding video. Higher level be-havioral analysis of the corpus will be based on these and other annotations. To efficiently cope with this huge corpus, we are developing semi-automatic data coding methods that are integrated into TotalRecall. Ultimately, this system and the underlying methodology may enable new forms of mul-timodal behavioral analysis grounded in ultradense longitu-dinal data.
Visual signatures in video visualization
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
, 2006
"... Abstract — Video visualization is a computation process that extracts meaningful information from original video data sets and conveys the extracted information to users in appropriate visual representations. This paper presents a broad treatment of the subject, following a typical research pipeline ..."
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Abstract — Video visualization is a computation process that extracts meaningful information from original video data sets and conveys the extracted information to users in appropriate visual representations. This paper presents a broad treatment of the subject, following a typical research pipeline involving concept formulation, system development, a path-finding user study, and a field trial with real application data. In particular, we have conducted a fundamental study on the visualization of motion events in videos. We have, for the first time, deployed flow visualization techniques in video visualization. We have compared the effectiveness of different abstract visual representations of videos. We have conducted a user study to examine whether users are able to learn to recognize visual signatures of motions, and to assist in the evaluation of different visualization techniques. We have applied our understanding and the developed techniques to a set of application video clips. Our study has demonstrated that video visualization is both technically feasible and cost-effective. It has provided the first set of evidence confirming that ordinary users can be accustomed to the visual features depicted in video visualizations, and can learn to recognize visual signatures of a variety of motion events. Index Terms—Video visualization, volume visualization, flow visualization, human factors, user study, visual signatures, video processing, optical flow, GPU rendering. 1
DOTS: Support for Effective Video Surveillance
"... DOTS (Dynamic Object Tracking System) is an indoor, real-time, multi-camera surveillance system, deployed in a real office setting. DOTS combines video analysis and user interface components to enable security personnel to effectively monitor views of interest and to perform tasks such as tracking a ..."
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DOTS (Dynamic Object Tracking System) is an indoor, real-time, multi-camera surveillance system, deployed in a real office setting. DOTS combines video analysis and user interface components to enable security personnel to effectively monitor views of interest and to perform tasks such as tracking a person. The video analysis component performs feature-level foreground segmentation with reliable results even under complex conditions. It incorporates an efficient greedy-search approach for tracking multiple people through occlusion and combines results from individual cameras into multi-camera trajectories. The user interface draws the users’ attention to important events that are indexed for easy reference. Different views within the user interface provide spatial information for easier navigation. DOTS, with over twenty video cameras installed in hallways and other public spaces in our office building, has been in constant use for a year. Our experiences led to many changes that improved performance in all system components.
Interactive Visual Analysis of Heterogeneous Scientific Data across an Interface
"... Abstract—We present a systematic approach to the interactive visual analysis of heterogeneous scientific data. The data consist of two interrelated parts given on spatial grids over time (e.g., atmosphere and ocean part from a coupled climate model). By integrating both data parts in a framework of ..."
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Abstract—We present a systematic approach to the interactive visual analysis of heterogeneous scientific data. The data consist of two interrelated parts given on spatial grids over time (e.g., atmosphere and ocean part from a coupled climate model). By integrating both data parts in a framework of coordinated multiple views (with linking and brushing), the joint investigation of features across the data parts is enabled. An interface is constructed between the data parts that specifies 1) which grid cells in one part are related to grid cells in the other part, and vice versa, 2) how selections (in terms of feature extraction via brushing) are transferred between the two parts, and 3) how an update mechanism keeps the feature specification in both data parts consistent during the analysis. We also propose strategies for visual analysis that result in an iterative refinement of features specified across both data parts. Our approach is demonstrated in the context of a complex simulation of fluid-structure interaction and a multirun climate simulation. Index Terms—Interactive visual analysis, heterogeneous scientific data, coordinated multiple views. Ç
