What was going on at the EuroVis?

It is now two weeks since Joachim Staib and myself attended the EuroVis 2015 in Cagliari, Italy. I thought it is about time I write about what we did there. Actually, it was a very successful conference for our computer graphics and visualization group from the TU Dresden.

https://youtu.be/uWTJqPGxcHg?list=PLJVN8WCNMX6YibzvBL5NLVv1iner41FbH

First off, Joachim gave a talk on our work on particle visualization with transparency and ambient occlusion. I write “our work” but he did a wonderful job making this project fly. He really earned the fame to be first author.

• J. Staib, S. Grottel, and S. Gumhold, “Visualization of Particle-based Data with Transparency and Ambient Occlusion,” Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 34, iss. 3, pp. 151-160, 2015.
  [Bibtex]

  @article{2015staib_aowt,
    journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
    title = {{Visualization of Particle-based Data with Transparency and Ambient Occlusion}},
    author = {Joachim Staib and Sebastian Grottel and Stefan Gumhold},
    affiliations = {CGV},
    pages = {151--160},
    volume= {34},
    number= {3},
    year = {2015},
    DOI = {10.1111/cgf.12627},
  }

DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12627

https://youtu.be/ANxK6-Ed9e0?list=PLJVN8WCNMX6YibzvBL5NLVv1iner41FbH

Then, I was giving a talk on one of the smaller workshops co-located with the conference. I presented work on visualization of flood simulation data. The focus is realistic rendering for interactive “experiencing” the data. My goal is rightly set by current AAA games. I am ready for the next round.

• S. Grottel, J. Staib, T. Heyer, B. Vetter, and S. Gumhold, “Real-Time Visualization of Urban Flood Simulation Data for Non-Professionals,” in Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis), Cagliari, Italy, 2015, pp. 37-41.
  [Bibtex]

  @inproceedings{2015grottel_flood,
    title = {{Real-Time Visualization of Urban Flood Simulation Data for Non-Professionals}},
    author = {Sebastian Grottel and Joachim Staib and Torsten Heyer and Benjamin Vetter and Stefan Gumhold},
    pages = {037--041},
    year = {2015},
    DOI = {10.2312/envirvis.20151089},
    editor = {Ariane Middel and Gunther Weber and Karsten Rink},
    booktitle = {Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis)},
    address = {Cagliari, Italy},
    publisher = {Eurographics Association},
  }

DOI: 10.2312/envirvis.20151089

And, finally, my CGF journal publication on continuous-time parallel coordinates was invited to the conference as well. I already did write about that paper.

• S. Grottel, J. Heinrich, D. Weiskopf, and S. Gumhold, “Visual Analysis of Trajectories in Multi-Dimensional State Spaces,” Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 33, iss. 6, pp. 310-321, 2014.
  [Bibtex]

  @article {Grottel2014HDTraj,
    author = {Grottel, Sebastian and Heinrich, Julian and Weiskopf, Daniel and Gumhold, Stefan},
    title = {{Visual Analysis of Trajectories in Multi-Dimensional State Spaces}},
    year = {2014},
    journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume = {33},
  number = {6},
  pages = {310--321},
    doi = {10.1111/cgf.12352}
  }

DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12352

So, altogether, I am perfectly happy with the conference. Now, it is just about not getting worse.