Color lens: Adaptive color scale optimization for visual exploration

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 795-807

  Elmqvist, Niklas ^a   Dragicevic, Pierre ^b   Fekete, Jean Daniel ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INRIA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Color scales; interaction technique; Magic Lens; visualization

Indexed keywords

COLOR SCALE; CONTRAST CONTROL; DATA SPACE; DISPLAY HARDWARE; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; IMAGE INSPECTION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTION TECHNIQUE; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; MAGIC LENS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ATTRIBUTES; USER STUDY; VISUAL EXPLORATION; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION;

DISPLAY DEVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

COLOR;

COLOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79954432039     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.94     Document Type: Article

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