CMSC 636 Reading List

Last Updated: Aug 1, 2005

Week 1 : Organization and Introduction to Visualization

• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr (1996), The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II. Keynote/Newell Award address at SIGGRAPH 94, Orlando, July 1994. Communications of the ACM, March, 39(3):61-68. Also Computer Graphics, 28(4) November 1994, 281-287, Orlando,
• McCormick, B.H., T.A. DeFanti, M.D. Brown (ed), Visualization in Scientific Computing, Computer Graphics Vol. 21, No. 6, November 1987.
• NVAC (2005), Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, 2005. (Executive summary).

Week 2 : Geo-spatial Visualization

• Alan M. MacEachren (2001), An evolving cognitive-semiotic approach to geographic visualization and knowledge construction, Information Design Journal, 10(1), 26-36, 2001.
• Colin Ware and William Knight (1995), Using visual texture for information display, Transactions on Graphics, vol. 14, no. 1, January '95, pp. 3-20.
• Christopher Healey and James Enns (1999), Large Datasets at a Glance: Combining Textures and Colors in Scientific Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 145-167.

Week 3 : Volume Visualization

• Lorensen, W., and Cline, H. "Marching Cubes: A high Resolution 3D Surface Reconstruction Algorithm", ACM Computer Graphics, Volume 21, Number 4, 1987.
• Westover, L., Footprint Evaluation for Volume Rendering, Computer Graphics, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 367-376, 1990.
• Joe Kniss, Gordon Kindleman, and Chuck Hansen (2001), "Interactive Volume Rendering Using Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions and Direct Manipulation Widgets," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 255-262.
• Penny Rheingans and David Ebert (2001), "Volume Illustration: Non-photorealistic Rendering of Volume Models," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol 7, no 3, July-Sept 2001, pp 253-264.
• Helwig Hauser, Lukas Mroz, Gian Italo Bischi, and Eduard Groller (2001). Two Level Volume Rendering, IEEE TVCG 7(3) July- September 2001, pp. 242-252.
• Michael Burns, Janek Klawe, Szymon Rusinkiewics, Adam Finkelstein, and Doug DiCarlo (2004), "Line Drawings from Volume Data," ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 512-518.

Week 4 : Vector Visualization

• R.M. Kirby, H. Marmanis, D.H. Laidlaw (1999), "Visualizing Multivalued Data from 2D Incompressible Flows Using Concepts from Painting,", Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '99, pp 333-340.
• Greg Turk and David Banks (1996), Image-Guided Streamline Placement, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series (SIGGRAPH '96), pp. 453-460.
• Zockler, Stalling, and Hege (1996), Fast display of illuminated field lines, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 3, no. 2, 1997, pp. 118-128.
• Brian Cabral and Leith Leedom (1993), Imaging Vector Fields Using Line Integral Convolution, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series (SIGGRAPH '93), pp. 263-270.

Week 5 : High-dimensional Visualization

• Daniel A. Keim and Hans-Peter Kriegel (1994), VisDB: Database Exploration using Multidimensional Visualization, IEEE CG&A, vol. 14, no. 5, 1994, pp. 40-49.
• YH Fua, MO Ward, and IA Rundensteiner (1999), "Hierarchical Parallel Coordinates for Exploration of Large Datasets," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '99, pp. 43-50.
• Alistair Morrison, Greg Ross, Matthew Chalmers (2003), Fast Multidimensional Scaling through Sampling, Springs and Interpolation Information Visualization 2(1) March 2003, pp. 68-77.
• Jing Wang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner (2003), Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration Of High Dimensional Datasets, Proc. InfoVis 2003.

Week 6 : Design

• Baker and Bushnell (1995), After the Storm: Considerations for Information Visualization, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 12-15.
• Bernice Rogowitz and Lloyd Treinish (1996), How Not to Lie with Visualization, Computers in Physics, vol. 10, no. 3, May/June 1996, pp. 263-273.

• Stuart Card and Jock Mackinley (1997), The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space, Proceedings of Information Visualization 97.
• Robert Amar and John Stasko (2004), "A Knowledge Task-Based Framework for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations," Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2004, pp. 143-149.
• J. Marks, B. Andalman, P.A. Beardsley, W. Freeman, S. Gibson, J. Hodgins, T. Kang, B. Mirtich, H. Pfister, W. Ruml, K. Ryall, J. Seims, and S. Shieber (1997), Design Galleries: A General Approach to Setting Parameters for Computer Graphics and Animation. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1997, August 1997, pp. 389-400.
• T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Kwan-Liu Ma, M. Gertz (2002), A Model for the Visualization Exploration Process, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '02, .

Week 8 : Tree/Graph Visualization

• Brian Johnson and Ben Shneiderman (1991), "Treemaps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '91, pp. 284-291.
• Frank van Ham and Jarke van Wijk (2002), "Beamtrees: Compact Visualization of Large Hierarchies," Proceedings of Information Visualization '02, pp. XX-XX.
• Ivan Herman, Guy Melancon, M. Scott Marshall (2000), Graph Visualization in Information Visualization: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 24-44.
• Nelson Wong, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Saul Greenberg (2003), EdgeLens: An Interactive Method for Managing Edge Congestion in Graphs, Proc. InfoVis03, pp 51-58.

Week 9 : Guest Lectures

Week 10 : Issues of Time

• Alan MacEachren, FP Boscoe, D Haug, and Linda Pickle (1998), Geographic visualization: designing manipulable maps for exploring temporally varying georeferenced statistics, Proceedings of Information Visualization 98, pp. 87-94.
• Jarke van Wijk and Edward van Selow, Cluster and Calender based Visualization of Time Series Data. Proceedings of Information Visualization 99, pp.
• H. Hochheiser and B. Schneiderman (2002) Visual Queries for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data, University of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Tech Report, #CS-TR-4365.
• S. Havre, E. Hetzler, P. Whitney, and L. Nowell (2002), ThemeRiver: Visualizing Thematic Changes in Large Document Collections. IEEE TVCG 8(1) Jan- Mar 2002.
• Eric Lum, Kwan-Liu Ma, and John Clyne. A hardware-assisted scalable solution for interactive volume rendering of time-varying data. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8(3):286-301, July-Sept 2002.

Week 11 : Issues of Scale

• YK Leung and MD Apperley (1994), "A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Orientation Presentation Techniques," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 1(2):126-160.
• Jarke van Wijk and Wim Nuij (2003), "Smooth and efficient zooming and panning," Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003, pp. 15-22.
• Tamara Munzner, Francois Guimbretiere, Serdar Tasiran, Li Zhang, and Yunhong Zhou (2003), TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility, SIGGRAPH 2003 , published as ACM Transactions on Graphics 22(3), pp. 453-462.
• Marting Wattenberg and Danyel Fisher, A Model of Multi-Scale Perceptual Organization in Information Graphics," Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003, pp. 23-30.

Week 12 : Issues of Pattern/Structure

• MacEachren, A.M., and J.H. Ganter. 1990. "A Pattern Identification Approach to Cartographic Visualization." Cartographica, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 64-81.
• Wim De Pauw, David Lorenz, John Vlissides, and Mark Wegman (1998). Execution Patterns in Object-Oriented Visualization, Proc. Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS '98).
• Sato, Yoshinobu, et al. 2000. Tissue Classification Based on 3D Local Intensity Structures for Volume Rendering. IEEE TVCG 6(2) April- June 2000.
• Sameep Mehta, Kaden Hazzard, Raghu Machiraju, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, and John Wilkins (2004), "Detection and Visualizaiton of Anomalous Structures in Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, pp. 465-472.
• Robert Laramee, Daniel Weiskopf, Jurgen Schneider, and Helwig Hauser (2004), "Investigating Swirl and Tumble Flow with a Comparison of Visualization Techniques," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, pp. 51-58.

Week 13 : Evaluation of Visualization

• Chris North and Ben Shneiderman (2000), Snap-Together Visualization: Can Users Construct and Operate Coordinated Views?, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Academic Press, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 715-739.
• David H. Laidlaw, Michael Kirby, Cullen Jackson, J. Scott Davidson, Timothy Miller, Marco DaSilva, William Warren, and Michael Tarr (2005). Comparing 2D vector field visualization methods: A user study. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11(1):59-70, January-February 2005.
• Catherine Plaisant (2004), The challenge of information visualization evaluation, Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004.
• Robert Kosara, Christopher Healey, Victoria Interrante, David Laidlaw, and Colin Ware (2003), User Studies: Why, how, and when?, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 23(4), pp. 20-25.
• Jarke van Wijk (2005), The Value of Visualization, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005.

• Chris Johnson (2004), Top Scientific Visualization Research Problems, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 13-17, July/August 2004.
• Hibbard, Bill. Top Ten Visualization Problems, VisFiles column, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 33(2) May 1999.
• NVAC (2005), Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, 2005. (Grand Challenges).
• Chaomei Chen(2005), Top 10 Unsolved Information Visualization Problems, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/Aug 2005, pp. 12-16.
• NIH-NSF Visualization Research Challenges Draft