IEEE Visualization
| IEEE Visualization | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | VIS |
| Discipline | Visualization |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| History | 1990-present |
| Frequency | Annual |
The IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) is an annual conference on scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics administrated by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics. As ranked by Google Scholar's h-index metric in 2016, VIS is the highest rated venue for visualization research and the second-highest rated conference for computer graphics over all.[1] It has an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences[2] and an 'A' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education. The conference is highly selective with generally < 25% acceptance rates for all papers.[3][4]
History
The first IEEE Visualization Conference was held in 1990, and in 1995 the name was changed to the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis). The symposium was later renamed into the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization but kept the acronym InfoVis (not to be confused with the other IEEE Conference on Information Visualization that uses the acronym IV). In 2006 the Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) joined and was later renamed to the VAST Conference. The original IEEE Visualization track ran under used the acronym VIS for several years but was later renamed to the IEEE Conference on Scientific Visualization using the acronym SciVis in 2013. For a number of years the three conferences ran together under the umbrella name VisWeek until 2013 when VIS was chosen as the joint acronym for all three conferences.[5]
Location
The conference is held in October and rotates around the US generally West, Central and East.
Past conferences:
2016: Baltimore, Maryland- 2015: Chicago, Illinois,
2014: Paris, France- 2013: Atlanta, Georgia
- 2012: Seattle, Washington
- 2011: Providence, Rhode Island
- 2010: Salt Lake City, Utah
- 2009: Atlantic City, New Jersey
- 2008: Columbus, Ohio
- 2007: Sacramento, California
- 2006: Baltimore, Maryland
- 2005: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 2004: Austin, Texas
- 2003: Seattle, Washington
- 2002: Boston, Massachusetts
- 2001: San Diego, California
- 2000: Salt Lake City, Utah
- 1999: San Francisco, California
- 1998: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- 1997: Phoenix, Arizona
- 1996: San Francisco, California
Future conferences:
- 2017: Phoenix, Arizona
2018: Berlin, Germany
Awards
VIS Best Paper Award
2016:
- VAST
- An Analysis of Machine- and Human-Analytics in Classification, Gary K.L. Tam, Vivek Kothari, Min Chen
- InfoVis
- Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics, Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, and Jeffrey Heer
- SciVis
- Jacobi Fiber Surfaces for Bivariate Reeb Space Computation, Julien Tierny and Hamish Carr
2015
- VAST
- Reducing Snapshots to Points: A Visual Analytics Approach to Dynamic Network Exploration, Stef van den Elzen, Danny Holten, Jorik Blaas, Jarke van Wijk
- InfoVis
- HOLA: Human-like Orthogonal Network Layout, Steve Kieffer, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Michael Wybrow
- SciVis
- Visualization-by-Sketching: An Artist’s Interface for Creating Multivariate Time-Varying Data, David Schroeder, Daniel Keefe
2014
- VAST
- Supporting Communication and Coordination in Collaborative Sensemaking, Narges Mahyar, Melanie Tory
- InfoVis
- Multivariate Network Exploration and Presentation: From Detail to Overview via Selections and Aggregations, Stef van den Elzen, Jarke van Wijk
- SciVis
- Visualization of Brain Microstructure through Spherical Harmonics Illumination of High Fidelity Spatio-Angular Fields, Sujal Bista, Jiachen Zhou, Rao Gullapalli, Amitabh Varshney
2013
- VAST
- A Partition-Based Framework for Building and Validating Regression Models, Thomas Muhlbacher, Harald Piringer
- InfoVis
- LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings, Samuel Gratzl, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister, Marc Streit
- SciVis
- Comparative Visual Analysis of Lagrangian Transport in CFD Ensembles, Mathias Hummel, Harald Obermaier, Christoph Garth, Kenneth I. Joy
Technical Achievement Award
- 2015 - Tamara Munzner
- 2014 - Claudio T. Silva
- 2013 - Kwan-Liu Ma
- 2012 - John Stasko
- 2011 - Daniel A. Keim
- 2010 - Hanspeter Pfister
- 2009 - Jock D. Mackinlay
- 2008 - David Laidlaw
- 2007 - Jarke van Wijk
- 2006 - Thomas Ertl
- 2005 - Charles Hansen
- 2004 - Amitabh Varshney
Career Award
- 2015 - Markus Gross
- 2014 - Ken Joy
- 2013 - Gregory M. Nielson
- 2012 - Ben Shneiderman
- 2011 - Frits Post
- 2010 - Christopher R. Johnson
- 2009 - Hans Hagen
- 2008 - Lawrence J. Rosenblum
- 2007 - Stuart Card
- 2006 - Pat Hanrahan
- 2005 - Arie Kaufman
- 2004 - Bill Lorensen
References
- ^ Kosara, Robert (11 November 2013). "A Guide to the Quality of Different Visualization Venues". eagereyes. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences
- ^ Elmqvist, Niklas. "Top Scientific Conferences and Journals in InfoVis". UMIACS. University of Maryland. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ http://www.conferenceranks.com/index.html?searchall=VIS
- ^ vispubdata.org: A Metadata Collection about IEEE Visualization (VIS) Publications Petra Isenberg, Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Tobias Isenberg, Panpan Xu, Charles Stolper, Michael Sedlmair, Jian Chen, Torsten Möller, John Stasko IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017, 23.