[Colloquium] Visual Salience: Insights and Explorations for Scientific Data

[Simon Jacobs]

Visual Salience: Insights and Explorations for Scientific Data
Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Crerar Library, Kathleen A. Zar Room

Amitabh Varshney
Director, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

Even as scientific datasets have been growing at an exponential rate, the
capabilities of the human visual system have remained unchanged. As a
result, we have now reached a stage where the current generation datasets
can easily overwhelm the limits of human comprehension. Visual scalability
is rapidly emerging as one of the grand challenges in scientific data
exploration. This has informed much of our recent research in developing
saliency-guided techniques for large data visualization and analysis. Most
of the time, most of the data is innocuous and unimportant and even
considering it wastes precious time and resources. However, current
visualization systems effectively assume a default, that every piece of
data is equally important. In this talk I shall highlight some of the
recent advances in building visualization systems for exploring
visualization datasets that leverage the principles of perception of visual
salience and machine learning to address the big data challenge.

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Show and Tell, Visualizing the Life of Mind is a new seminar series that
focuses on the practical application, art and science of visualization in
research and scholarship at The University of Chicago. The series is
presented in the John Crerar Library Kathleen A. Zar room,a joint venture
between the Research Computing Center and The University of Chicago Library
to bring cutting edge data visualization capabilities to the research
community.

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http://rcc.uchicago.edu/news/show_and_tell.html

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