T10Parallel Coordinates in the 21st Century

Date: Tuesday, 5th September
Time: 9:00-12:30
Location: Tutorial Room 6 (HS 6)
Organizer
Alfred Inselberg, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Speakers
Alfred Inselberg, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Abstract
The desire to augment our 3-dimensional perception and the need to understand multivariate problems spawned several multidimensional visualization methodologies. Understanding the underlying geometry of a multivariate problem provides insight into what is possible and what is not. After a short overview, Parallel Coordinates are introduced and developed rigorously showing, using new didactic software, how multidimensional lines, hyperplanes, fats, curves and smooth hypersurfaces can be visualized unambiguously. The development is interlaced with applications including Visual Data Mining (EDA) on real datasets (i.e. Feature extraction, GIS, Financial, Process Control, and others with hundreds of variables). There follow collision avoidance algorithms for air traffc control and detection of coplanarity and near-coplanarity with numerous applications. A geometric automatic classifier is applied to challenging clustering and classification problems. It provides the classification rule explicity and visually. Nonlinear VISUAL models in terms of hypersurfaces are constructed from data and used interactively for Decision Support discovering Feasibilites, Interelations, Sensitivities, enabling Constraint and Trade-Off Analysis. Our goal has been to concentrate the relational information within a dataset into clear patterns eliminating the polygonal lines altogether. In view of recent results this prospect is becoming attainable as illustrated with a difficult problem central to many applications(Computer Vision, Geometric Modeling, Statistics).
Speakers' Background
Alfred Inselberg
received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Univ. of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) and held several academic positions in the USA (Univ. of Ill., UCLA, USC) and Israel (Tel Aviv University). He was Senior Technical Corporate Staff Member (rank just below Fellow) at IBM doing research for 30 years. In 1996 he was elected Senior Fellow at the San Diego SuperComputing Center. He founded a company, Multidimensional Graphs Ltd, and teaches at the School of Mathematical Sciences Tel Aviv University. He invented and developed Parallel Coordinates, holds several patents, has numerous journal papers, professional and academic awards, and is completing the textbook on Parallel Coordinates.
Eurographics 2006  is organized by  Vienna University of Technology logo  and  Austrian Academy of Sciences logo

and sponsored by

NVIDIA logo bmvit logo ATI logo
Nokia logo IBM logo AGEIA logo
WACOM logo AK Peters logo
SONY logo Digital Image logo
merl logo
Xerox logo Austrian Computer Society logo Red Bull logo
VRVIS logo Bene logo BA-CA logo
Kollwentz logo
Vienna University of Technology logo EG logo
If you are interested in sponsoring Eurographics 2006, please contact the Sponsorship-chairs.
If you have any comments regarding this webpage please send a message to the webmaster.