Porto, Portugal June 3 – 7, 2019
Organized by
EUROGRAPHICS THEEUROPEANASSOCIATION
FORCOMPUTERGRAPHICS IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee
State of the Art Reports
STARs Chairs
Robert S. Laramee – Swansea University
Steffen Oeltze – Dept. of Neurology, University of Magdeburg Michael Sedlmair – Jacobs University
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13733 https://www.eg.org https://diglib.eg.org
Foreword
The State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) track for the EuroVis conference was introduced in Swansea, Wales in 2014 and is now in its sixth year. STARs are intended to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to the visualization research community. Therefore, in the STAR call for participation this year, we have encouraged the submission of STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent previous STARs or other survey. These reports should contain new taxonomies and novel organization of the visualization research.
Furthermore, a STAR would be considered valuable if it serves as an entry point into a particular research direction for an unexperienced researcher. As last year, we organized an International Program Committee (IPC) specifically for the STAR track, by inviting experts who covered the various relevant research areas of Visualization.
All accepted EuroVis 2019 STARs are published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal. As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs undergo a multi-stage review process. First, authors were asked to submit an initial sketch. A STAR sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance for the visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the authors. The length of the main text of the STAR sketch was limited to two pages. The content was reviewed by two assigned IPC members per sketch. The sketch authors received one out of three possible indications: strongly encouraged submission, encouraged submission, or discouraged submission.
Independent of these indications, all STAR authors were able to prepare and submit a full STAR submission, which would then undergo a single blind, double cycle review process, similar to the one for the EuroVis papers track. For all full STAR submissions, we have assigned two IPC members, one as primary and one as secondary. We preserved reviewer continuity, wherever possible, with respect to the IPC members that reviewed the sketch. Each of the two IPC members invited then one external expert to review the paper. The primary, the secondary, and the two external reviewers then conducted a single blind review for each STAR submission. IPC members who submitted STARs to the program were recused from the review process at both the sketch phase and the full submission phase.
The STAR program this year received 28 STAR sketches, 15 of which resulted in full STAR submissions. After the review process described above, 7 STARs were accepted to be published in the Computer Graphics Forum journal and to be presented at EuroVis 2019. Additionally, 2 STARs have been selected for a fast track submission to Computer Graphics Forum. The accepted STARS cover a variety of technical topics: medicine and biology, graphs and labels, guidance, as well as earth and surfaces. We are pleased with the high quality of all accepted reports, and feel that they reflect the growth and breadth of our area very well. We would like to encourage everybody to attend the STAR sessions at EuroVis 2019 in Porto.
We thank the authors of all submitted STARs for their interest in the EuroVis STAR track and for their excellent quality submissions. Moreover, we would like to give credit to all IPC members and reviewers, who have done an excellent job and have defined the quality of this track. The alphabetical IPC and external reviewer listings follow below. We hope that interested readers find these reports enjoyable, educational, and inspiring.
Robert S. Laramee, Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Michael Sedlmair EuroVis 2019 STAR Co-Chairs
International Programme Committee
Natalia Andrienko – Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, Germany Michaël Aupetit – HBKU, Qatar
Michael Behrisch – Harvard University, United States
Michael Burch – Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Jian Chen – The Ohio State University, United States
Aritra Dasgupta – Pacific Northwest National Lab, United States Alexandra Diehl – University of Konstanz, Germany
Christoph Garth – Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany Nils Gehlenborg – Harvard Medical School, United States
Helwig Hauser – University of Bergen, Norway Pedro Hermosilla Casajus – Ulm University, Germany Ingrid Hotz – Linköping University, Sweden
Christophe Hurter – Ecole National de l’Aviation Civile, France Stefan Jänicke – Leipzig University, Germany
Won-Ki Jeong – UNIST, Republic of Korea
Johannes Kehrer – Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany Michael Krone – University of Tübingen, Germany
Dirk Lehmann – University Magdeburg, Germany
Laura McNamara – Sandia National Laboratories, United States Luana Micallef – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Vijay Natarajan – Indian Institute of Science, India Jaakko Peltonen – University of Tampere, Finland Charles Perin – University of Victoria, Canada
Bernhard Preim – Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany Hans-Jörg Schulz – Aarhus University, Denmark
Han-Wei Shen – The Ohio State University, United States Christian Tominski – University of Rostock, Germany Thomas Torsney-Weir – University of Vienna, Austria
Cagatay Turkay – City, University of London, United Kingdom Manuela Waldner – TU Wien, Austria
Reviewers
Aerts, Jan
Afonso, Ana Paula Arendt, Dustin Bach, Benjamin Berres, Anne Beyer, Johanna
Blumenschein, Michael Bock, Alexander Borgo, Rita Böttinger, Michael Chevalier, Fanny Dutta, Soumya
Healey, Christopher G.
Heine, Christian Hlawatsch, Marcel Jusufi, Ilir
Linsen, Lars Machiraju, Raghu Matzen, Laura Monclus, Eva
Parambath, Shameem Tatzgern, Markus Telea, Alexandru Theussl, Thomas Wang, Yunhai Westenberg, Michel Wiebel, Alexander Wolff, Alexander Yang, Fumeng Zhang, Song
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Medicine and Biology
State-of-the-Art Report: Visual Computing in Radiation Therapy Planning
Matthias Schlachter, Renata Georgia Raidou, Ludvig P. Muren, Bernhard Preim, Paul Martin Putora, and Katja Bühler
753
Tasks, Techniques, and Tools for Genomic Data Visualization Sabrina Nusrat, Theresa Harbig, and Nils Gehlenborg
781
Graphs and Labels
The State of the Art in Visualizing Multivariate Networks Carolina Nobre, Miriah Meyer, Marc Streit, and Alexander Lex
807
External Labeling Techniques: A Taxonomy and Survey
Michael A. Bekos, Benjamin Niedermann, and Martin Nöllenburg
833
Guidance and Books
A Review of Guidance Approaches in Visual Data Analysis: A Multifocal Perspective Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, and Silvia Miksch
861
Earth and Surfaces
The State of the Art in Visual Analysis Approaches for Ocean and Atmospheric Datasets Shehzad Afzal, Mohamad Mazen Hittawe, Sohaib Ghani, Tahira Jamil, Omar Knio, Markus Hadwiger, and Ibrahim Hoteit
881
State-of-the-art in Multi-Light Image Collections for Surface Visualization and Analysis Ruggero Pintus, Tinsae Gebrechristos Dulecha, Irina Mihaela Ciortan, Enrico Gobbetti, and Andrea Giachetti
909
Author Index
Afzal, Shehzad . . . 881
Bekos, Michael A. . . 833
Bühler, Katja . . . 753
Ceneda, Davide . . . 861
Ciortan, Irina Mihaela . . . 909
Dulecha, Tinsae Gebrechristos . . . 909
Gehlenborg, Nils . . . 781
Ghani, Sohaib . . . 881
Giachetti, Andrea . . . 909
Gobbetti, Enrico . . . 909
Gschwandtner, Theresia . . . 861
Hadwiger, Markus . . . 881
Harbig, Theresa . . . 781
Hittawe, Mohamad Mazen . . . 881
Hoteit, Ibrahim . . . 881
Jamil, Tahira . . . 881
Knio, Omar . . . 881
Lex, Alexander . . . 807
Meyer, Miriah . . . 807
Miksch, Silvia . . . 861
Muren, Ludvig P. . . 753
Niedermann, Benjamin . . . 833
Nobre, Carolina . . . 807
Nöllenburg, Martin . . . 833
Nusrat, Sabrina . . . 781
Pintus, Ruggero . . . 909
Preim, Bernhard . . . 753
Putora, Paul Martin . . . 753
Raidou, Renata Georgia . . . 753
Schlachter, Matthias . . . 753
Streit, Marc . . . 807
