Wed, 15 Oct @ 3.30p: IS&T Colloquium - Salient Visualization

Fall 2008 IS&T Colloquium Series
Amitabh Varshney
Salient Visualization
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 @ 3:30 PM
(Refreshments at 3:00 PM)

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Recent advances in data acquisition and scientific simulations result
in visualization datasets that can easily overwhelm human
comprehension. To deal with the resulting glut of visual clutter one
turns to the human visual system for inspiration. The human visual
system deals with the natural complexity of the world around us by
focusing retinal hardware and attention on what is most important.

Indeed, the principles of visual saliency have long been used in art,
illustration, and photography to convey varying levels of importance
of the constituent elements. In this talk I shall overview examples of
how principles of visual saliency have been used over time leading up
to the present in visual communication and scientific discovery.

Amitabh Varshney is a Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Maryland. Varshney’s research has addressed challenges in
interactive 3D visualization for large datasets by reconciling realism
with interactivity through multiresolution techniques and high-
performance computing. He has served as the papers co-chair for IEEE
Visualization 2000 and 2001, program co-chair for IEEE Visualization
2005, and conference co-chair for IEEE Visualization 2006 and 2007. He
has served on program committees of several conferences. During
1999-2003 he served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics. Varshney received the NSF CAREER
award in 1995 and the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award
in 2004. Further details are at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~varshney

IS&T Colloquium Committee Host: Tony Gualtieri