Best Paper: Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data
Maarten H. Everts, Henk Bekker, Jos B.T.M. Roerdink, Tobias Isenberg

Honorable Mention: Perception-Based Transparency Optimization for Direct Volume Rendering
Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Wai-Ho Mak, Wei Chen, Huamin Qu

Honorable Mention: Markerless View-Independent Registration of Multiple Distorted Projectors on Extruded Surfaces Using an Uncalibrated Camera
Behzad Sajadi, Aditi Majumder

Honorable Mention: Interactive Visualization of Molecular Surface Dynamics
Michael Krone, Katrin Bidmon, Thomas Ertl

Chair: Hamish Carr

Loop Surgery for Volumetric Meshes: Reeb Graphs Reduced to Contour Trees
Julien Tierny, Attila Gyulassy, Eddie Simon, Valerio Pascucci

Applying Manifold Learning to Plotting Approximate Contour Trees
Shigeo Takahashi, Issei Fujishiro, Masato Okada

Intrinsic Geometric Scale Space by Shape Diffusion
Guangyu Zou, Jing Hua, Zhaoqiang Lai, Xianfeng Gu, Ming Dong

Multi-Scale Surface Descriptors
Gregory Cipriano, George N. Phillips Jr., Michael Gleicher

Chair: Penny Rheingans

A User Study to Compare Four Uncertainty Visualization Methods for 1D and 2D Datasets
Jibonananda Sanyal, Song Zhang, Gargi Bhattacharya, Phil Amburn, Robert J. Moorhead

Comparing 3D Vector Field Visualization Methods: A User Study
Andrew S. Forsberg, Jian Chen, David H. Laidlaw

Verifiable Visualization for Isosurface Extraction
Tiago Etiene, Carlos Scheidegger, L. Gustavo Nonato, Robert M. Kirby, Cláudio T. Silva

Curve-Centric Volume Reformation for Comparative Visualization
Ove Daae Lampe, Carlos Correa, Kwan-Liu Ma, Helwig Hauser

Chair: Eugene Zhang

Predictor-Corrector Schemes for Visualization of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Data
Benjamin Schindler, Raphael Fuchs, John Biddiscombe, Ronald Peikert

Exploring the Millennium Run - Scalable Rendering of Large-Scale Cosmological Datasets
Roland Fraedrich, Jens Schneider, Rüdiger Westermann

Interactive Streak Surface Visualization on the GPU
Kai Bürger, Florian Ferstl, Holger Theisel, Rüdiger Westermann

Time and Streak Surfaces for Flow Visualization in Large Time-Varying Data Sets
Hari Krishnan, Christoph Garth, Kenneth I. Joy

Chair: Amitabh Varshney

Hue-Preserving Color Blending
Johnson Chuang, Daniel Weiskopf, Torsten Möller

Perception-Based Transparency Optimization for Direct Volume Rendering
Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Wai-Ho Mak, Wei Chen, Huamin Qu

A Physiologically-based Model for Simulation of Color Vision Deficiency
Gustavo M. Machado, Manuel M. Oliveira, Leandro A. F. Fernandes

Depth-Dependent Halos: Illustrative Rendering of Dense Line Data
Maarten H. Everts, Henk Bekker, Jos B.T.M. Roerdink, Tobias Isenberg

Chair: Peter Lindstrom

Markerless View-Independent Registration of Multiple Distorted Projectors on Extruded Surfaces Using an Uncalibrated Camera
Behzad Sajadi, Aditi Majumder

Color Seamlessness in Multi-Projector Displays Using Constrained Gamut Morphing
Behzad Sajadi, Maxim Lazarov, Aditi Majumder, M. Gopi

Chair: TJ Jankun-Kelly

Visual Human+Machine Learning
Raphael Fuchs, Jürgen Waser, Meister Eduard Gröller

Interactive Visual Optimization and Analysis for RFID Benchmarking
Yingcai Wu, Ka-Kei Chung, Huamin Qu, Xiaoru Yuan, S.C. Cheung

A Visual Approach to Efficient Analysis and Quantification of Ductile Iron and Reinforced Sprayed Concrete
Laura Fritz, Markus Hadwiger, Georg Geier, Gerhard Pittino, M. Eduard Gröller

Interactive Visual Analysis of Complex Scientific Data as Families of Data Surfaces
Kresimir Matkovic, Denis Gracanin, Borislav Klarin, Helwig Hauser

Chair: Han-Wei Shen

Visualization and Exploration of Temporal Trend Relationships in Multivariate Time-Varying Data
Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen

Isosurface Extraction and View-Dependent Filtering from Time-Varying Fields Using Persistent Time-Octree (PTOT)
Cong Wang, Yi-Jen Chiang

Visual Exploration of Climate Variability Changes Using Wavelet Analysis
Heike Jänicke, Michael Böttinger, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Gerik Scheuermann

Interactive Coordinated Multiple-View Visualization of Biomechanical Motion Data
Daniel F. Keefe, Marcus Ewert, William Ribarsky, Remco Chang

Chair: James Stewart

Interactive Visualization of Molecular Surface Dynamics
Michael Krone, Katrin Bidmon, Thomas Ertl

Stress Tensor Field Visualization for Implant Planning in Orthopedics
Christian Dick, Joachim Georgii, Rainer Burgkart, Rüdiger Westermann

Visual Exploration of Nasal Airflow
Stefan Zachow, Philipp Muigg, Thomas Hildebrandt, Helmut Doleisch, Hans-Christian Hege

Sampling and Visualizing Creases with Scale-Space Particles
Gordon L. Kindlmann, Raál San José Estépar, Stephen M. Smith, Carl-Fredrik Westin

Chair: Gordon Kindlmann

Volume Illustration of Muscle from Diffusion Tensor Images
Wei Chen, Zhicheng Yan, Song Zhang, John Allen Crow, David S. Ebert, Ronald M. McLaughlin, Katie B. Mullins, Robert Cooper, Zi'ang Ding, Jun Liao

A Novel Interface for Interactive Exploration of DTI Fibers
Wei Chen, Zi'ang Ding, Song Zhang, Anna MacKay-Brandt, Stephen Correia, Huamin Qu, John Allen Crow, David F. Tate, Zhicheng Yan, Qunsheng Peng

Parameter Sensitivity Visualization in DTI Fiber Tracking
Ralph Brecheisen, Bram Platel, Anna Vilanova, Bart ter Haar Romeny

Exploring 3D DTI Fiber Tracts with Linked 2D Representations
Radu Jianu, Çağatay Demiralp, David H. Laidlaw

Chair: Huamin Qu

Coloring 3D Line Fields using Boy's Real Projective Plane Immersion
Çağatay Demiralp, John F. Hughes, David H. Laidlaw

The Occlusion Spectrum for Volume Classification and Visualization
Carlos D. Correa, Kwan-Liu Ma

Structuring Feature Space: A Non-Parametric Method for Volumetric Transfer Function Generation
Ross Maciejewski, Insoo Woo, Wei Chen, David S. Ebert

Automatic Transfer Function Generation Using Contour Tree Controlled Residue Flow Model and Color Harmonics
Jianlong Zhou, Masahiro Takatsuka

Chair: Raghu Machiraju

An Interactive Visualization Tool for Multi-channel Confocal Microscopy Data in Neurobiology Research
Yong Wan, Hideo Otsuna, Chi-Bin Chien, Charles Hansen

BrainGazer - Visual Queries for Neurobiology Research
Stefan Bruckner, Veronika Šoltészová, M. Eduard Gröller, Jiří Hladůvka, Katja Bühler, Jai Y. Yu, Barry J. Dickson

Scalable and Interactive Segmentation and Visualization of Neural Processes in EM Datasets
Won-Ki Jeong, Johanna Beyer, Markus Hadwiger, Amelio Vazquez, Hanspeter Pfister, Ross T. Whitaker

Multimodal Vessel Visualization of Mouse Aorta PET/CT Scans
Timo Ropinski, Sven Hermann, Rainer Reich, Michael Schäfers, Klaus Hinrichs

Chair: Tobias Isenberg

Quantitative Texton Sequences for Legible Bivariate Maps
Colin Ware

Continuous Parallel Coordinates
Julian Heinrich, Daniel Weiskopf

VisMashup: Streamlining the Creation of Custom Visualization Applications
Emanuele Santos, Lauro Lins, James P. Ahrens, Juliana Freire, Cláudio T. Silva

Focus+Context Route Zooming and Information Overlay in 3D Urban Environments
Huamin Qu, Haomian Wang, Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan

Chair: Markus Hadwiger

Kd-Jump: a Path-Preserving Stackless Traversal for Faster Isosurface Raytracing on GPUs
David M. Hughes, Ik Soo Lim

Mapping High-Fidelity Volume Rendering for Medical Imaging to CPU, GPU and Many-Core Architectures
Mikhail Smelyanskiy, David Holmes, Jatin Chhugani, Alan Larson, Douglas M. Carmean, Dennis Hanson, Pradeep Dubey, Kurt Augustine, Daehyun Kim, Alan Kyker, Victor W. Lee, Anthony D. Nguyen, Larry Seiler, Richard Robb

Volume Ray Casting with Peak Finding and Differential Sampling
Aaron Knoll, Younis Hijazi, Rolf Westerteiger, Mathias Schott, Charles Hansen, Hans Hagen

Interactive Volume Rendering of Functional Representations in Quantum Chemistry
Yun Jang, Ugo Varetto

Chair: Ivan Viola

GL4D: A GPU-based Architecture for Interactive 4D Visualization
Alan Chu, Chi-Wing Fu, Andrew J. Hanson, Pheng-Ann Heng

Decoupling Illumination from Isosurface Generation Using 4D Light Transport
David C. Banks, Kevin M. Beason

Supercubes: A High-Level Primitive for Diamond Hierarchies
Kenneth Weiss, Leila De Floriani

High-Quality, Semi-Analytical Volume Rendering for AMR Data
Stéphane Marchesin, Guillaume Colin de Verdière