Visual Information Communication

Visual Information Communication is based on VINCI'09, The Visual Information Communications International Conference, September 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Topics covered include The Arts of Visual Layout, Presentation & Exploration, The Design of Visual Attributes, Symbols & Languages, Methods for Visual Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, Systems, Interfaces and Applications of Visualization, Methods for Multimedia Data Recognition & Processing. This cutting-edge book addresses the issues of knowledge discovery, end-user programming, modeling, rapid systems prototyping, education, and design activities. Visual Information Communications is an edited volume whose contributors include well-established researchers worldwide, from diverse disciplines including architects, artists, engineers, and scientists. Visual Information Communication is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers working in the field of digital design and visual communications. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science. Front Matter....Pages i-vii The Physical Visualization of Information: Designing Data Sculptures in an Educational Context....Pages 1-23 Visual Analysis of History of World Cup: A Dynamic Network with Dynamic Hierarchy and Geographic Clustering....Pages 25-39 From Tree to Graph - Experiments with E-Spring Algorithm....Pages 41-63 Visual Navigation with Schematic Maps....Pages 65-84 DOI-Wave: A Focus+Context Interaction Technique for Networks Based on Attention-Reactive Interface....Pages 85-94 Multi-dimensional Data Visualization using Concentric Coordinates....Pages 95-118 Construct Connotation Dictionary of Visual Symbols....Pages 119-134 Constructing Confluent Context-sensitive Graph Grammars from Non-confluent Productions for Parsing Efficiency....Pages 135-147 Experimental Color in Computer Icons....Pages 149-158 Hidden Cluster Detection for Infectious Disease Control and Quarantine Management....Pages 159-172 Multi-scale Vortex Extraction of Ocean Flow....Pages 173-183 A Novel Visualization Method for Detecting DDoS Network Attacks....Pages 185-194 A Pool of Topics: Interactive Relational Topic Visualization for Information Discovery....Pages 195-207 DaisyViz: A Model-based User Interfaces Toolkit for Development of Interactive Information Visualization....Pages 209-229 A New Interactive Platform for Visual Analytics of Social Networks....Pages 231-244 Strategic paths and memory map: Exploring a building and memorizing knowledge....Pages 245-254 Information visualization Approach on the University Examination Timetabling Problem....Pages 255-264 Making Traffic Safety Personal: Visualization and Customization of National Traffic Fatalities....Pages 265-282 Visualizing Table Dependency Relations to Reveal Network Characters in Database Applications....Pages 283-297 Visualized Feature Modeling in Software Product Line....Pages 299-310 A Useful Visualization Technique: A Literature Review for Augmented Reality and its Application, limitation & future direction....Pages 311-337 Novel Blind Steganalysis for JPEG Images....Pages 339-353 A Polarization Restraint Based Fast Motion Estimation Approach to H.264 Stereoscopic Video Coding....Pages 355-364 Multi-core Parallel of Photon Mapping....Pages 365-374 Back Matter....Pages 1-2 Visual communication through graphical and sign languages has long been conducted among human beings of different backgrounds and cultures, and in recent decades between human and machine. In today's digital world, visual information is typically encoded with various metaphors commonly used in daily life to facilitate rapid comprehension and easy analysis during the communication process. Visual information communication generally encompasses information visualization, graphical user-interfaces, visual analytics, visual languages and multi-media processing. It has been successfully employed in knowledge discovery, end-user programming, modeling, rapid systems prototyping, education, and design activities by people of many disciplines including architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition, visual information is increasingly being used to facilitate human-human communication through the Internet and Web technology, and electronic mobile devices. This manuscript provides the cutting-edge techniques, approaches and the latest ongoing researches in the context of visual information communication. It is a collection of 24 chapters selected from more than 60 submissions to the VINCI'09 - 2009 Visual Information Communications International Conference, that is held in Sydney Australia, September 2009. These chapters were selected through a stringent review process to ensure their high standard in quality, significance and relevance. Each chapter was reviewed by at least two international Program Committee members of VINCI'09. The book covers a broad range of contents in five key sub-areas of visual information communication, including.