Perceptually driven visibility optimization for categorical data visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1746-1757

  Lee, Sungkil ^a   Sips, Mike ^b   Seidel, Hans Peter ^c  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color design; user interface; visibility; visualization

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL DATA VISUALIZATION; CATEGORICAL STRUCTURE; COLOR DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; ROBUST MEASURES; USER EXPERIMENTS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA VISUALIZATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; USER INTERFACES; VISIBILITY;

COLOR;

EID: 84883095678     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.315     Document Type: Article

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