Vis Application Spotlight — Make it Beautiful
Once again, I had fun.
Category: Research & Teaching
IEEE VIS Application Spotlight Presentation Upcoming
After my apparently successful presentation at the VisGap 2020 workshop, collocated to the EuroVis/Eurographics 2020, in May, I was now invited to give a short Application Spotlight presentation and the IEEE VIS 2020. I am honored. And, I am looking forward to this opportunity.
VisGap 2020
I had a nice opportunity to visit academia again. Colleagues from the old times at the university were organizing a workshop at this years EGEV 2020, the VisGap 2020 — The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software — and they invited me to give a cap stone presentation. I was honored by the invite, and luckily, my company agreed to my participation as well.
Now, with our current COVID-19 situation, the conference and the workshop did not take place in Norrköping in Sweden as planned. Instead the whole conference and all workshops were converted to virtual events. As a result attendance was free. And, all sessions are freely available on YouTube. So, if you like to see my talk, be my guest:
We won the IEEE SciVis Contest 2016
Each year at the renowned international conference for visualization, the IEEE VIS, the so called SciVis Contest takes place. This year, we, the staff of the Computer Graphics and Visualisation Group of the TU Dresden, together with colleagues from the Visualization Research Centre of the University of Stuttgart, have won the contest.
With the SciVis Contest the visualization community can confront themselves with challenging visual analysis tasks on real data scenarios. This year’s contest asked questions about large ensemble data sets of chemical processes of salt dissolution, namely the appearance and influence of viscous fingers. The entry by TU Dresden was deemed being the most wholesome and versatile solution, and thus gained the winning edge over its competitors.
Tutorial at IEEE VIS 2015 in Chicago
I have written about this before, but here is the official news reblogged from the SFB 716 website.
GPU-based interactive Visualization of Large Particle Data
At the end of October, the largest conference on scientific visualization – the IEEE VIS 2015 – took place in Chicago. This is an anual venue for experts from all over the world to present current research and discuss future challenges. With more than 1100 participants, the conference is considered the largest and most important international forum in this domain.
This year, Michael Krone and Guido Reina from the group of Prof. Ertl, together with Sebastian Grottel (TU Dresden) and Martin Falk (Linköping University, Sweden) organized a tutorial on interactive GPU-based Visualization of large particle data. They explained the technical aspects for ensuring high quality and interactivity of particle visualizaton, which are nowadays accepted as state of the art. Part of these techniques have been developed in the SFB716. Additionally, the presentation included details on abstractions required by continuosly growing data sets. Such abstractions were disucssed in the context of biomolecules and material surfaces as well as in the context of whole cell visualization.
The tutorial was very well received with over 50 participants. The course materials distributed there, including slides, source code and example data sets can be downloaded here.
Afterword to IEEE VIS 2015
The IEEE VIS 2015 reached its end. And she was great once again. Good papers, good ideas, and good people to meet. It really was worth it.
My own tutorial was a big success, too. We had a much bigger audience than anticipated, and we received a whole lot of very positive feedback. I am very pleased.
And tired. Such a conference is always exhausting. And I do not have the time to relax yet. The next projects are already waiting.
