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Visualizing nD Point Clouds as Topological Landscape Profiles to Guide Local Data Analysis
March 2013 (vol. 19 no. 3)
pp. 514-526
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| Patrick Oesterling, Christian Heine, Gunther H. Weber, Gerik Scheuermann, "Visualizing nD Point Clouds as Topological Landscape Profiles to Guide Local Data Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 514-526, March, 2013. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2012.120, author = {Patrick Oesterling and Christian Heine and Gunther H. Weber and Gerik Scheuermann}, title = {Visualizing nD Point Clouds as Topological Landscape Profiles to Guide Local Data Analysis}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, volume = {19}, number = {3}, issn = {1077-2626}, year = {2013}, pages = {514-526}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2012.120}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics TI - Visualizing nD Point Clouds as Topological Landscape Profiles to Guide Local Data Analysis IS - 3 SN - 1077-2626 SP514 EP526 EPD - 514-526 A1 - Patrick Oesterling, A1 - Christian Heine, A1 - Gunther H. Weber, A1 - Gerik Scheuermann, PY - 2013 KW - Visualization KW - Vegetation KW - Data visualization KW - Shape KW - Density functional theory KW - Image color analysis KW - Topology KW - and visual metaphors KW - Point clouds KW - high-dimensional data KW - cluster analysis KW - dimension reduction KW - scalar topology VL - 19 JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ER - | |||
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Analyzing high-dimensional point clouds is a classical challenge in visual analytics. Traditional techniques, such as projections or axis-based techniques, suffer from projection artifacts, occlusion, and visual complexity. We propose to split data analysis into two parts to address these shortcomings. First, a structural overview phase abstracts data by its density distribution. This phase performs topological analysis to support accurate and nonoverlapping presentation of the high-dimensional cluster structure as a topological landscape profile. Utilizing a landscape metaphor, it presents clusters and their nesting as hills whose height, width, and shape reflect cluster coherence, size, and stability, respectively. A second local analysis phase utilizes this global structural knowledge to select individual clusters or point sets for further, localized data analysis. Focusing on structural entities significantly reduces visual clutter in established geometric visualizations and permits a clearer, more thorough data analysis. This analysis complements the global topological perspective and enables the user to study subspaces or geometric properties, such as shape.
Index Terms:
Visualization,Vegetation,Data visualization,Shape,Density functional theory,Image color analysis,Topology,and visual metaphors,Point clouds,high-dimensional data,cluster analysis,dimension reduction,scalar topology
Citation:
Patrick Oesterling, Christian Heine, Gunther H. Weber, Gerik Scheuermann, "Visualizing nD Point Clouds as Topological Landscape Profiles to Guide Local Data Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 514-526, March 2013, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2012.120
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