Title
EasyXplorer: A Flexible Visual Exploration Approach for Multivariate Spatial Data
Abstract
Exploring multivariate spatial data attracts much attention in the visualization community. The main challenge lies in that automatic analysis techniques is insufficient in discovering complicated patterns with the perspective of human beings, while visualization techniques are incapable of accurately identifying the features of interest. This paper addresses this contradiction by enhancing automatic analysis techniques with human intelligence in an iterative visual exploration process. The integrated system, called EasyXplorer, provides a suite of intuitive clustering, dimension reduction, visual encoding and filtering widgets within 2D and 3D views, allowing an inexperienced user to visually explore and reason undiscovered features with several simple interactions. Case studies show the quality and scalability of our approach in quite challenging examples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1111/cgf.12755
Computer Graphics Forum
Field
DocType
Volume
Spatial analysis,Computer vision,Dimensionality reduction,Computer science,Visualization,Human intelligence,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Encoding (memory),Scalability,Creative visualization
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0167-7055
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
25
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fei-Ran Wu1553.50
Guoning Chen232023.72
Jin Huang356234.40
Yubo Tao410922.51
Wei Chen5119392.00