IEEE Visualization Research Articles

Editorial: Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Section on IEEE PacificVis 2023

This special section of the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG)</i> presents the five most highly rated papers from the 2023 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (IEEE PacificVis), hosted in Seoul, Korea from April 18 to Apr 21, 2023. IEEE PacificVis, sponsored by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC), aims to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This forum has grown to be a truly international event, attracting submissions and attendees from many countries, not only in the Asia-Pacific but also in Europe, America, and beyond. Thus, IEEE PacificVis is serving the additional purpose of sharing the latest advances in the field of visualization with researchers and practitioners in the region and, also, introducing research developments from the region to the broader international visualization research community.

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC)

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC)

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on IEEE PacificVis 2022

This special section of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG) presents the five most highly rated papers from the 2022 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (IEEE PacificVis). This year, IEEE PacificVis was scheduled to be hosted by the University of Tsukuba and held in Tsukuba, Japan, from April 11 to 14, 2022. IEEE PacificVis, sponsored by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC), aims to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This forum has grown to be a truly international event, attracting submissions and attendees from many countries in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, America, and beyond. Thus, IEEE PacificVis is serving the additional purposes of sharing the latest advances in visualization with researchers and practitioners in the region and introducing research developments in the region to the broader international visualization research community.

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

Gender in 30 Years of IEEE Visualization.

We present an exploratory analysis of gender representation among the authors, committee members, and award winners at the IEEE Visualization (VIS) conference over the last 30 years. Our goal is to provide descriptive data on which diversity discussions and efforts in the community can build. We look in particular at the gender of VIS authors as a proxy for the community at large. We consider measures of overall gender representation among authors, differences in careers, positions in author lists, and collaborations. We found that the proportion of female authors has increased from 9% in the first five years to 22% in the last five years of the conference. Over the years, we found the same representation of women in program committees and slightly more women in organizing committees. Women are less likely to appear in the last author position, but more in the middle positions. In terms of collaboration patterns, female authors tend to collaborate more than expected with other women in the community. All non-gender related data is available on https://osf.io/ydfj4/ and the gender-author matching can be accessed through https://nyu.databrary.org/volume/1301.

Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to the January 2022 issue of the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).</i> This is traditionally the time of the year when we feature the IEEE VIS special issue and this year is no different. But there is one significant difference — IEEE VIS is now fully unified. There is no more IEEE VAST, IEEE InfoVis and IEEE SciVis; there is just IEEE VIS, tiled into six overarching areas: Applications (24 papers), Analytics & Decisions (19), Theoretical & Empirical (24), Representations & Interaction (19), Data Transformations (14) and Systems & Rendering (11). The conference was scheduled to take place in New Orleans (LA) but was moved to a virtual event due to the global coronavirus pandemic. This virtual conference took place from October 24-29, 2021. Contained in this special issue are the top 110 papers selected by the unified program committee from a total of 441 submissions. In addition, this issue also contains the Best Paper of the 2021 IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) Symposium and the Best Paper of the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec).

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on IEEE PacificVis 2021

This special section of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG) presents the five most highly rated papers from the 2021 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (IEEE PacificVis). This year, IEEE PacificVis was scheduled to be hosted by Tianjin University and held in Tianjin, China, from April 19 to 22, 2021. IEEE PacificVis, sponsored by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC), aims to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This forum has grown to be a truly international event, attracting submissions and attendees from many countries in the Asia-Pacific and Europe, America, and beyond. Thus, IEEE PacificVis is serving the additional purposes of sharing the latest advances in visualization with researchers and practitioners in the region and introducing research developments in the region to the broader international visualization research community.

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

IEEE Visualization and Graphics TechnicalCommittee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

IEEE Visualization and Graphics TechnicalCommittee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

VIS30K: A Collection of Figures and Tables From IEEE Visualization Conference Publications.

We present the VIS30K dataset, a collection of 29,689 images that represents 30 years of figures and tables from each track of the IEEE Visualization conference series (Vis, SciVis, InfoVis, VAST). VIS30K's comprehensive coverage of the scientific literature in visualization not only reflects the progress of the field but also enables researchers to study the evolution of the state-of-the-art and to find relevant work based on graphical content. We describe the dataset and our semi-automatic collection process, which couples convolutional neural networks (CNN) with curation. Extracting figures and tables semi-automatically allows us to verify that no images are overlooked or extracted erroneously. To improve quality further, we engaged in a peer-search process for high-quality figures from early IEEE Visualization papers. With the resulting data, we also contribute VISImageNavigator (VIN, visimagenavigator.github.io), a web-based tool that facilitates searching and exploring VIS30K by author names, paper keywords, title and abstract, and years.

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC): http://vgtc.org/

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on IEEE PacificVis 2019

The papers in this special issue were presented at the 2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (IEEE PacificVis 2019), which was held in Bangkok, Thailand from April 23 to 26, 2019 hosted by Chulalongkorn University. The IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, sponsored by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC), aims to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)

The 2018 Visualization Career Award

The 2018 Visualization Career Award goes to Sheelagh Carpendale for her work in interactive data exploration, in visualization in novel contexts such as wall and tabletop display, in rigorous qualitative evaluation methods, in bringing aesthetic considerations to the research community, and for her contributions in a wide range of application domains, including medicine, digital humanities, geography, the environment, personal data, and emergency management. The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is pleased to award Sheelagh Carpendale the 2018 Visualization Career Award.

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)

The 2018 Visualization Technical Achievement Award

The 2018 Visualization Technical Achievement Award goes to Anders Ynnerman for his contributions to medical visualization resulting in the development of virtual autopsies, which have had extraordinary impact in both in medicine and in communication of science to the public. The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is pleased to award Anders Ynnerman the 2018 Visualization Technical Achievement Award.

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)

The 2017 Visualization Technical Achievement Award

The 2017 Visualization Technical Achievement Award goes to Jeffrey Heer in recognition of his work on the design, development, dissemination, and popularization of languages for visualization. The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is pleased to award Jeffrey Heer the 2017 Visualization Technical Achievement Award.

The 2017 Visualization Career Award

The 2017 Visualization Career Award goes to Charles (Chuck) Hansen in recognition for his contributions to large scale data visualization, including advances in parallel and volume rendering, novel interaction techniques, and techniques for exploiting hardware; for his leadership in the community as an educator, program chair, and editor; and for providing vision for the development and support of the field. The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is pleased to award Charles Hansen the 2017 Visualization Career Award.