VisGap 2020
The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software
Norrköping, Sweden May 25, 2020
Workshop Chairs
Christina Gillmann, Leipzig University, Germany
Michael Krone, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany Guido Reina, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Proceedings Production Editor
Dieter Fellner (TU Darmstadt & Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) Sponsored by EUROGRAPHICS Association
DOI: 10.2312/visgap.20202010 https://www.eg.org https://diglib.eg.org
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents . . . iii
International Programme Committee . . . iv
Author Index . . . v
Keynote and Capstone . . . vi
Introduction Visualization in Notebook-Style Interfaces . . . 1
Johanna Schmidt and Thomas Ortner Guidelines and General Considerations Selecting and Sharing Multidimensional Projection Algorithms: A Practical View . . . 9
Mateus Espadoto, Eduardo Faccin Vernier, and Alexandru C. Telea Framing the Challenges of Operational and Domain Usage of Volume Visualization Methods in Ocean Science . . . 17
Karen Bemis Towards Closing the Gap of Medical Visualization Research and Clinical Daily Routine . . . 25
Robin Georg Claus Maack, Dorothee Saur, Hans Hagen, Gerik Scheuermann, and Christina Gillman Participatory Visualization Design as an Approach to Minimize the Gap between Research and Application . . . 35
Stefan Jänicke, Pawandeep Kaur, Pawel Ku´zmicki, and Johanna Schmidt Application Retrospectives From Research Topic to Industrial Practice: An Experience Report . . . 43
Petra Gospodnetic, Markus Rauhut, and Hans Hagen Lessons Learnt from Developing Visual Analytics Applications for Adaptive Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy . . . 51
Renata Georgia Raidou, Katarína Furmanová, Nicolas Grossmann, Oscar Casares-Magaz, Vitali Moiseenko, John P. Einck, Eduard Gröller, and Ludvig P. Muren How the Deprecation of Java Applets Affected Online Visualization Frameworks - A Case Study . . . 59
Martin Skrodzki Tales from the Trenches: Developing sciview, a new 3D viewer for the ImageJ community . . . 69
Ulrik Günther and Kyle I. S. Harrington Closing Lessons Learned from Large Data Visualization Software Development for the K computer . . . 77 Jorji Nonaka and Naohisa Sakamoto
International Programme Committee Karen Bemis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Alexander Bock, Linköping University
Katja Bühler, VRVis Research Center Hank Childs, University of Oregon
Eduard Gröller, Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology Markus Hadwiger, KAUST
Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern Yun Jang, Sejong University
Chris R. Johnson, University of Utah
Stefan Jänicke, University of Southern Denmark Aaron Knoll, Intel Corporation
Barbora Kozlikova, Masaryk University David Laidlaw, Brown University Patric Ljung, Linköping University
Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center Kenneth Moreland, Sandia National Laboratories Paul Navratil, The University of Texas at Austin
Jorji Nonaka, RIKEN Center for Computational Science Daniela Oelke, Siemens Corporate Technology
Timo Ropinski, Ulm University Allen Sanderson, University of Utah Gerik Scheuermann, Leipzig University Falk Schreiber, University of Konstanz Claudio Silva, New York University Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen
Tom Vierjahn, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences Gunther Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Daniel Wiegreffe, Institute of Computer Science
Xiaoru Yuan, Peking University
Author Index
Bemis, Karen . . . 17
Casares-Magaz, Oscar . . . 51
Einck, John P. . . 51
Espadoto, Mateus . . . 9
Furmanová, Katarína . . . 51
Gillman, Christina . . . 25
Gospodnetic, Petra . . . 43
Gröller, Eduard . . . 51
Grossmann, Nicolas . . . 51
Günther, Ulrik . . . 69
Hagen, Hans . . . 25, 43 Harrington, Kyle I. S. . . 69
Jänicke, Stefan . . . 35
Kaur, Pawandeep . . . 35
Ku´zmicki, Pawel . . . 35
Maack, Robin Georg Claus . . . 25
Moiseenko, Vitali . . . 51
Muren, Ludvig P. . . 51
Nonaka, Jorji . . . 77
Ortner, Thomas . . . 1
Raidou, Renata Georgia . . . 51
Rauhut, Markus . . . 43
Sakamoto, Naohisa . . . 77
Saur, Dorothee . . . 25
Scheuermann, Gerik . . . 25
Schmidt, Johanna . . . 1, 35 Skrodzki, Martin . . . 59
Telea, Alexandru C. . . 9
Vernier, Eduardo Faccin . . . 9
Keynote The Topology ToolKit: Experience, Lessons and Messages Julien Tierny
CNRS - Sorbonne Université Abstract
The Topology ToolKit (TTK) is an open-source library for topological data analysis and visualization, which was initially released in 2017. In this talk, Julien Tierny will first give a brief introduction to Topological Data Analysis and will present the main features available in TTK. In the second part of the talk, Julien will review the history of the project, how it emerged and how it evolved and what lessons we can learn as a community to make our research more usable in concrete tools.
Short Biography
Julien Tierny received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Lille in 2008 and the Habilitation degree (HDR) from Sorbonne University in 2016. He is currently a CNRS permanent research scientist, affiliated with Sorbonne University (Paris, France). Prior to his CNRS tenure, he held a Fulbright fellowship (U.S. Department of State) and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. His research expertise lies in topological methods for data analysis and visualization. He co-authored two books on the topic and received several awards for his research, including best paper awards. He regularly serves as an international program committee member for the top venues in data visualization (IEEE VIS, EuroVis, etc.) and he is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Julien Tierny is also the founder and lead developer of the Topology ToolKit (TTK), an open source library for topological data analysis.
Capstone
Software Sizes and Intent in Academia and Industry, Two Case Studies Sebastian Grottel
Manager 3D Software Engineering at FARO Scanner Production GmbH Abstract
When we talk about visualization methods and tools, most times we talk about software. There are many different approaches to software development, e.g., depending on the size of the problem we try to solve or depending on the intent we follow in writing this software. Most interestingly, those concepts, at least from the presenter’s point of view, do not really differ at all between academia and industry. What does differ are the intent and the resulting size of the software we write. Using the two biggest projects in his past and present, Sebastian Grottel will present his view on differences in software development approaches in academia and industry, why this actually is not a problem at all, and what we could try to do to close the VisGap, i.e. the difficulty in transitioning a visualization research software into an industry software product.
Short Biography
Sebastian Grottel worked as researcher at the Institute of Visualization and Interactive Systems, and the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart. He received his PhD on Point-based Vi- sualization of Molecular Dynamics Data Sets. He worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Computer Graphics and Visualization at the Technical University of Dresden. His research focus was in interactive scientific visualization of large particle-based data sets and multi-dimensional data. Sebas- tian joined FARO Scanner Production GmbH as senior software developer, working on software for very large point-cloud data sets, resulting from many terrestrial LIDAR scans. He is now manager in Research and Development, and coordinates development of two large software packages for data processing and interactive visualization.
