Reading List

Week 1 : Organization and Introduction to Visual Analytics

• A Visual Analytics Agenda
• Illuminating the Path : Chapter 1 - 3
• An Insight-Based Longitudinal Study of Visual Analytics

Week 2 : Introduction to Visualization

• Many Eyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale
• Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations
• Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis

Week 3: Introduction to linking analysis and visualization - visual analytics

• Hetzler, E.; Turner, A., Analysis experiences using information visualization, CG&A, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2004
• Keim, D.A.; Panse, C.; Sips, M.; North, S.C., Visual data mining in large geospatial point sets, CG&A, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2004
• Nesbitt, K.V.; Barrass, S., Finding trading patterns in stock market data, CG&A, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2004

Week 4 : Basics of Graphics Review

• The Visualization Handbook: Chapter 1: Overview of Visualization (found on blackboard)
• The Visualization Handbook: Chapter 7: Overview of Volume Rendering (found on blackboard)
• The OpenGL Programming Guide - The Redbook : Chapter 1

Week 5: Volume Rendering

• R. Moorhead and Z. Zhu, "Signal Processing Aspects of Scientific Visualization", vol. 12, no. 5, September 1995.
• Lorensen, W. and Cline, H., "Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Reconstruction Algorithm", ACM Computer Graphics, Volume 21, Number 4, 1987

Week 6: Volume Visualization

• Elvins, T. Todd, A Survey of Algorithms for Volume Visualization, ACM Computer Graphics, August 1992.
• Kaufman, Arie, "Volume Visualization", International Spring School on Visualization, Bonn 2000.
• Klaus Engel and Thomas Ertl, "Interactive High-Quality Volume Rendering with Flexible Consumer Graphics Hardware", EG2002 State of the Art Report.
• Joe Kniss, Gordon Kindlmann, Charles Hansen, "Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions for Interactive Volume Rendering", Transcations on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2002.
• Laurent Castanie, Chirstophe Mion, Xavier Cavin and Bruno Levy, "Distributed Shared Memory for Roaming Large Volumes", IEEE Transcations on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization '06), 2006.
• Steven Bergner, Torsten Moller, Daniel Weiskopf, and David Muraki, "A Spectral Analysis of Function Composition and its Implications for Sampling in Direct Volume Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization '02), 2006.

Week 7 : Volume Rendering

• Stegmaier, S., Stengert, M., Kelin, T. and Ertl, T. A simple and flexible volume rendering framework for graphics-hardware-based raycasting Fourth International Workshop on Volume Graphics, 2005.
• Kindlmann, G., Whitaker, R., Tasdizen, T., and Moller, T. "Curvature-based transfer functions for direct volume rendering: methods and applications" Proc. Visualization 2003 Oct, 2003, pp. 513-520.
• Philippe Lacroute and Marc Levoy, "Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation," Proc. SIGGRAPH '94, July, 1994, pp. 451-458.
• Matthias Zwicker, Hanspeter Pfister, Jeroen van Baar, and Marcus Gross, "EWA Volume Splatting," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 29-36.

Week 8 : Volume Visualization

• Lujin Wang, Ye Zhao, Klaus Mueller, and Arie Kaufman, "The Magic Volume Lens: An Interactive Focus+Context Technique for Volume Rendering", Proceeding of IEEE Visualization '05), 2005
• Alireza Entezari and Torsten Moller, "Extensions of the Zwart-Powell Box Spline for Volumetric Data Reconstruction on the Cartesian Lattice", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization '06), 2006
• Lu, A., Morris, C., Ebert, D., Rheingans, P., Hansen, C., "Non-Photorealistic Volume Rendering Using Stippling Techniques", IEEE Visualization 2002
• Nelson Max, "Optical Models for Direct Volume Rendering", IEEE TVCG, Vol.1, No 2, pp. 99-108, June 1995.

Week 9 : Perception

• M. Livingstone and D. Hubel (1988), Segregation of Form, Color, Movement, and Depth: Anatomy, Physiology, and Perception, Science, vol. 240, May 6, 1988, pp. 740-749.
• Daniel Weiskopf On the Role of Color in the Perception of Motion in Animated Visualizations", Procceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, pages 305-312, 2004
• L. D. Bergman, B. E. Rogowitz, L. A. Treinish, A rule-based tool for assisting colormap selection, Procceedings of IEEE Visualization 1995, 1995
• Kowalski, M. A., Hughes, J. F., Rubin, C. B., and Ohya, J., User-Guided Composition Effects For Art-Based Rendering In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Mar 2001), pp. 99-102.
• Reddy, M., Perceptually optimized 3D graphics, Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Volume 21, Issue 5, July-Aug. 2001 Page(s):68 - 75

Week 10 : Medical Visualization & Illustration

• Youwei Zhang, Robert Rohling, Dinesh K. Pai "Direct surface extraction from 3D freehand ultrasound images" IEEE Visualization 2002
• Armin Kanitsar Rainer Wegenkittl Dominik Fleischmann Meister Eduard Groller "Advanced Curved Planar Reformation: Flattening of Vascular Structures" IEEE Visualization 2003
• Aidong Lu and David Ebert, Example-based Volume Illustrations IEEE Visualization 2005
• Stefan Bruckner, Meister Eduard Groller VolumeShop: An Interactive System for Direct Volume Illustration IEEE Visualization 2005

Week 11 : Medical Visualization

• Sato, Yoshinobu, et al., 2000, "Tissue Classification Based on 3D Local Intensity Structures for Volume Rendering" , IEEE TVCG 6(2) April- June 2000.
• Carlos D. Correa, Deborah Silver, Min Chen, Feature Aligned Volume Manipulation for Illustration and Visualization IEEE Visualization 2006
• Ivan Viola, Miquel Feixas, Mateu Sbert, Meister Eduard Groller, Importance-Driven Focus of Attention IEEE Visualization 2006
• Henning Scharsach, Markus Hadwiger, Andre Neubauer, Stefan Wolfsberger, and Katja Buhler, Perspective Isosurface and Direct Volume Rendering for Virtual Endoscopy Applications Proceedings of Eurovis/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2006

Week 12 : Human Computer Interaction

• Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala "Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations" , IEEE TVCG 13(6): 1129-1136, Nov-Dec 2007.
• Jock Mackinlay, Pat Hanrahan, Chris Stolte, Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis IEEE TVCG 13(6): 1137-1144, Nov-Dec 2007.
• Ji Soo Yi, Youn ah Kang, John T. Stasko, Julie A. Jacko Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization IEEE TVCG 13(6): 1077-2626 , Nov-Dec 2007.
• Yuri A. Ivanov, Christopher R. Wren, Alexander Sorkin, Ishwinder Kaur Visualizing the History of Living Spaces IEEE TVCG 13(6): 1153-1160, Nov-Dec 2007.

Week 13 : Thanksgiving Break

Week 14 : Geospatial Visualization & Flow Visualization

• Yarden Livnat, Jim Agutter, Shaun Moon, Stefano Foresti, Visual Correlation for Situational Awareness, IEEE Visualization 2005
• Ming Jiang, Raghu Machiraju and David Thompson, "Geometric Verification of Swirling Features in Flow Fields" IEEE Visualization 2002
• Holger Theisel, Tino Weinkauf, Hans-Christian Hege and Hans-Peter Seidel, "Saddle Connectors - An Approach to Visualizing the Topological Skeleton of Complex 3D Vector Fields" IEEE Visualization 2003
• Jarke J. van Wijk, "Image Based Flow Visualization for Curved Surfaces" IEEE Visualization 2003
• Daniel Weiskopf, Gordon Erlebacher, Thomas Ertl, "A Texture-Based Framework for Spacetime-Coherent Visualization of Time-Dependent Vector Fields" IEEE Visualization 2003

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