A Hierarchical Magnification Approach for Enhancing the Insight in Data Visualizations

Stavros Papadopoulos, Anastasios Drosou, Dimitrios Tzovaras

2017

Abstract

Non-linear deformations are useful for applications where users face highly cluttered visual displays, either due to large datasets, or visualizations on small screens, or a combination of both, that increases the density of the data and makes the perception of patterns difficult. Non-linear deformations have been used to magnify significant/cluttered regions in data visualization, for the purpose of reducing clutter and enhancing the perception of patterns. General deformation methods (e.g. logarithmic scaling and fish-eye views) suffer from several drawbacks, since they do not consider the prominent features that must be preserved in the visualization. This work introduces a hierarchical approach for non-linear deformation that aims to reduce visual clutter by magnifying significant regions, and lead to enhanced visualizations of two/three-dimensional datasets on highly cluttered displays. The proposed approach utilizes an energy function, which aims to determine the optimal deformation for every local region in the data, taking the information from multiple single-layer significance maps into account. The problem is subsequently transformed into an optimization problem for the minimization of the energy function under specific spatial constraints. The proposed hierarchical approach for the generation of the significance map, surpasses current methods, and manages to efficiently identify significant regions and achieve better results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Papadopoulos S., Drosou A. and Tzovaras D. (2017). A Hierarchical Magnification Approach for Enhancing the Insight in Data Visualizations . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-228-8, pages 29-39. DOI: 10.5220/0006073400290039

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp17,
author={Stavros Papadopoulos and Anastasios Drosou and Dimitrios Tzovaras},
title={A Hierarchical Magnification Approach for Enhancing the Insight in Data Visualizations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={29-39},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006073400290039},
isbn={978-989-758-228-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - A Hierarchical Magnification Approach for Enhancing the Insight in Data Visualizations
SN - 978-989-758-228-8
AU - Papadopoulos S.
AU - Drosou A.
AU - Tzovaras D.
PY - 2017
SP - 29
EP - 39
DO - 10.5220/0006073400290039