Office: Discipline building 146
Email: baoquan.chen@gmail.com cloudseawang@gmail.com
Lecture time: Thur 10:00~12:00 Thur 13:30~15:20(after National Day)
Course summary and description
Visualization has been established as a powerful means to help data owners from almost every discipline to make sense and present their diverse data, in order to verify or falsify hypotheses and discover new knowledge. The logic of visualization is to take advantages of our interpretation capability via visual perception channel and to encode information of the data into images and plots to improve our understanding of the data. Techniques from computer science, mathematics, cognitive and perception science, and physics are often adapted for various visualization problems. This introductory course covers topics from a number of sub-fields of visualization including information visualization and scientific visualization, and aims to show students how data visualization can help find solutions to a wide range of practical data interpretation problems occurring in many areas. Through this course, the students are expected to get familiar with a number of important techniques and methods for addressing the visualization of different basic types of data, and foster the ability to determine the proper visualization techniques when given a practical problem. This course serves as one of the core introductory level graduate courses, and helps build a complete course catalog in visual computing direction with the existing courses on imaging and computer graphics.
Tentative Schedule
| Date | Lecture | Date | Lecture | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-08 | Introduction to visualization | 2016-11-10 | Infovis Overview | |
| 2016-09-22 | Visualization Pipeline & Data Type | 2016-11-17 | Multivariate data visualization | |
| 2016-09-29 | VTK & Isosurface | 2016-11-24 | Hierarchies and Trees | |
| 2016-12-01 | Graph and Network | |||
| 2016-10-13 | Direct volumn rendering | 2016-12-08 | Text and Documents | |
| 2016-12-15 | Mapping and Cartography | |||
| 2016-10-20 | FlowVis in 2D(arrow and streamlines, texture) | 2016-12-22 | Presentation Assignment II | |
| 2016-10-27 | FlowVis in 3D / TensorVis | 2016-12-29 | Final project presentation | |
| 2016-11-03 | Presentation Assignment I | 2016-01-05 | Final project presentation |