There are many interface schemes that allow users to work at, and move between, focused
and contextual views of a dataset. We review and categorize these schemes according to …

Visualization can provide valuable assistance for data analysis and decision making tasks.
However, how people perceive and interact with a visualization tool can strongly influence …

Effectively evaluating visualization techniques is a difficult task often assessed through
feedback from user studies and expert evaluations. This work presents an alternative …

Diminished reality (DR) refers to the concept of removing content from a user's visual
environment. While its implementation is becoming feasible, it is still unclear how users …

Queries over large scale (petabyte) data bases often mean waiting overnight for a result to
come back. Scale costs time. Such time also means that potential avenues of exploration are …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

Structural properties of molecules are of primary concern in many fields. This report provides
a comprehensive overview on techniques that have been developed in the fields of …

We present a probabilistic model of how viewers may use defocus blur in conjunction with
other pictorial cues to estimate the absolute distances to objects in a scene. Our model …

This paper introduces a concept for automatic focusing on features within a volumetric data
set. The user selects a focus, ie, object of interest, from a set of pre-defined features. Our …

This article presents a novel technique that combines eye-tracking with subtle image-space
modulation to direct a viewer's gaze about a digital image. We call this paradigm subtle gaze …