VisGap - The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software
held in conjunction with EuroVis 2021
Zurich, Switzerland
June 14, 2021
News
2020/03/08 Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline has been extended to March 17!
Scope
Over the years, many visualization methods and tools have been developed and published by the visualization research community. However, most of these are prototypes and never reach a state that can be reliably used by the target audience, e.g., domain scientists. Also, availability of these prototypes as source code or at least as executables is still the exception rather than the norm. The VisGap Symposium aims to shed a light on this gap between research and practical applicability, examine the obstacles every researcher faces, and propose solutions to overcome this problem as a community.
VisGap’21 aims at gathering experts from all over the visualization community in order to advance the way our field works with software, sustains software, and values the effort our members put into developing said software.
Workshop Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Requirements for successful visualization in applications in general
- Domain-specific requirements for visualizations
- Reflections on the research community and the visualization software ecosystem
- Incentives and funding for developing/maintaining visualization research software
- Legal requirements (e.g., licensing, certification) for visualizations in applications
- Case studies of (un)successful visualization solutions in applications
- Requirements for novel visualization libraries
Program
14:00 Session 1
Opening
Keynote
Timo Ropinski (45 min)
Lessons for Sustainable Visualization Systems Learned from the Inviwo Development
Abstract
To enable both basic and applied research in visualization, it is essential to have access to reliable visualization systems. Only with such systems, an easy comparison with the state of the art as well as the exploitation of reusable components becomes possible. As the development and maintenance of such visualization systems lead to several challenges, I will address these in my talk and discuss how we have tackled them during the development of Inviwo (www.inviwo.org). Inviwo is a flexible visualization framework that is targeted to scientific visualization. It has been used in several research projects and industry projects, whereby diverse applications were supported through carefully designed usage abstraction scenarios. In this context, I will talk about technical and organizational challenges and derive a few lessons we have learned during the development process.
Speaker Bio
Timo Ropinski is a Professor in Visual Computing at Ulm University, Germany, where he is heading the Visual Computing Research Group. Before moving to Ulm, he was Professor in Interactive Visualization at Linköping University, Sweden. Timo holds a PhD from the University of Münster, Germany, where he also finished his Habilitation. His research interests lie in data visualization and visual data analysis. Together with his research group, Timo works on biomedical visualization techniques, rendering algorithms and deep learning models for spatial data. Most of the visualization related research projects are realized through own software frameworks, most prominently through the Inviwo Interactive Visualization Workshop. Inviwo was initiated in 2012, and is now primarily developed at Linköping University, Ulm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Discussion (10 min)
Talk (15 + 5 min):
Isha Sharma, Dave DeMarle, Alok Hota, Bruce Cherniak, Johannes Günther: OSPRay Studio: Enabling Multi-workflow visualizations with OSPRay
Talk (15 + 5 min):
Michael Stegmaier, Dominik Engel, Jannik Olbrich, Timo Ropinski, Matthias Tichy: Property-Based Testing for Visualization Development
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Session 2
Talk (15 + 5 min):
Mark Bo Jensen, Egill Ingi Jacobsen, Jeppe Revall Frisvad, J. Andreas Bærentzen: Tools for Virtual Reality Visualization of Highly Detailed Meshes
Talk (15 + 5 min):
Tommy Dang, Ngan V. T. Nguyen: The Gap between Visualization Research and Visualization Software in High-Performance Computing Centers
Keynote
Benedikt Kämpgen (45 min)
Title: The role of visualization in decision support systems - Differences between academia and industry
Abstract
In this presentation, Benedikt will look back at working on decision support systems for over 10 years, half of which in academia, the other in industry. He will specifically try to answer the question of what it takes to have visualization approaches applied in either work environment, and what are the differences thereof.
Speaker Bio
Benedikt Kämpgen is working as a team lead for Healthcare Analytics and Natural Language Processing at Empolis Information Management GmbH. He is interested in assistant systems helping knowledge workers to become more efficient and confident in their decisions. For that, together with his team and with partners Benedikt applies and extends the knowledge management and data analysis products of Empolis. His methods and technologies of choice include Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs and Cloud Computing. Before joining Empolis in 2017 he worked for FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, did his PhD in data integration at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and his Computer Science diploma at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Discussion (10 min)
Closing
Call for Papers
We solicit papers with 4-8 pages in the VisGap 2021 latex style (see above for the scope of the workshop), with an additional page allowed for references. All submissions must be original works that have not been published previously in any conference proceedings, magazine, journal, or edited book or must present a substantial extension of previous work (at least 30%). Papers are to be submitted via PCS.
All submissions will undergo a single-blind, single-stage peer review process. Accepted papers will be published by the Eurographics Association, and be stored in the Eurographics Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the VisGap 2021 workshop to present the accepted work.
All papers must be submitted through PCS (https://new.precisionconference.com/). (Society: Eurographics; Conference/Journal: VisGap 2021)
Important Dates
March 10, 2021March 17,2021 extended Submission deadline- April 10, 2021 Notification
- April 24, 2021 Camera ready version
- June 14, 2021 Workshop
Workshop Chairs
Christina Gillmann, Leipzig University, Germany
Michael Krone, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
Guido Reina, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Contact: visgap@googlegroups.com
Program Committee
Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christian Heine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Robin Maack, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jorji Nonaka, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan
Felix Raith, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Allen Sanderson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Johanna Schmidt, VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH, Vienna, Austria