Best Papers

The best papers at VDA 2013 are:

  1. [8654-5] Visibility-difference entropy for automatic transfer function generation, Philipp C. Schlegel, Renato B. Pajarola, Univ. of Zürich (Switzerland)
  2. [8654-11] Three-dimensional volume analysis of vasculature in engineered tissues, Mohammed Yousefhussien, Rochester Institute of Technology (United States); Kelley Garvin, Diane Dalecki, Univ. of Rochester (United States); Eli Saber, María Helguera, Rochester Institute of Technology (United States)
  3. [8654-15] Visual analysis of situationally aware building evacuations, Jack Guest, Todd Eaglin, Kalpathi R. Subramanian, William Ribarsky, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte (United States)
  4. [8654-19] iMap: a stable layout for navigating large image collections with embedded search, Chaoli Wang, John P. Reese, Huan Zhang, Jun Tao, Robert J. Nemiroff, Michigan Technological Univ. (United States)
  5. [8654-24] Multi-focus and multi-window techniques for interactive network exploration, Priya Krishnan Sundarararajan, Ole J. Mengshoel, Ted Selker of Carnegie Mellon Univ. (United States)

The best paper authors will be recognized at VDA 2013 with a certificate issued by SPIE. The authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their VDA papers to Information Visualization (IVI). Lead student authors of papers 8654-2, 8654-5, 8654-11, and 8654-15 will also receive a monetary award from VDA conference sponsors. The lead student authors will receive their awards at the conference.