Submission Information

Both paper and poster submissions will be peer reviewed. All VDA papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process. Authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other's identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript. The average paper acceptance rate of VDA 2012 was 48%. Papers presented at this conference will be published in a bound proceedings published by IS&T/SPIE.

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission Deadline: July 23, 2012 Extended to August 10, 2012
  • Notification: September 28, 2012
  • Final Manuscripts: November 26, 2012

Submitting a Paper
If you would like to submit a paper for consideration, visit the SPIE VDA home page and click "Submit an abstract".

Papers and posters are solicited on all topics of data visualization, including:

  • Internet imaging, medical imaging, image processing
  • Biomedical visualization and applications
  • Internet, web, and security visualizations
  • Analysis techniques and data mining
  • Data exploration using classical and novel approaches
  • Databases and visualization
  • High-performance computing and parallel rendering
  • Tools and applications exemplified by case studies
  • Virtual environments and data visualization
  • Information and scientific visualization
  • Volume and flow visualization
  • Interaction paradigms and human factors
  • Big data visualization and analytics

Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and extend their work for publication in a special issue of the journal Information Visualization.

For the best papers that are led by a student author, the conference will offer a modest monetary award sponsored by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC).