1. On the Death of SciVis Han-Wei Shen
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University

2. SciVis is Dying? From the submission numbers From the market size
From the remaining challenges
From the topics/techniques

3. Submission Numbers Year Submissions Accepted 2010 (Vis) 185 49
194
2012
154 42
2013
126 34
2014
136 35
2015
134 33
2016 30
LDAV * 34 43 42 40

4. Scientific and Engineering Market
US science and engineering labor forces

5. Top 10 Visual Analytics Challenges
Pak Chung Wong, Han-Wei Shen, Christopher R. Johnson, Chaomei Chen, Robert B. Ross, Top 10 Challenges in Extreme Scale Visual Analytics,  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/August 2012

6. SciVis is Dying? From the submission numbers From the market size
From the challenges
From the topics/techniques

7. SciVis Topic Trends (

8. SciVis Topic Trends (

9. SciVis Topic Trends (

10. SciVis Topic Trends (

11. Three Decades of SciVis Journey
First decade ( )
Speeding up and enhance fundamental scivis algorithms (volume rendering, isosurface, flow vis)

12. The First Decade (1990-2000) Differential Volume Rendering
Sweeping Simplicies for isosurface extraction
ISSUE – Isosurface Extraction in Span Space
Minimum seed sets (Bajaj, Pascucci, Schikore)
Extrema Graphs (Takayoki)

13. The First Decade (1990-2000) Differential Volume Rendering
Sweeping Simplicies for isosurface extraction
ISSUE – Isosurface Extraction in Span Space
Minimum seed sets (Bajaj, Pascucci, Schikore)
Extrema Graphs (Takayuki)
Mostly data structure and algorithm research

14. The First Decade ( )
Time-varying hierarchical indexing for isosurfaces
Time-space partitioning tree (TSP) for volme rendering
Unsteady flow LIC (UFLIC)

15. The First Decade ( )
Time-varying hierarchical indexing for isosurfaces
Time-space partitioning tree (TSP) for volme rendering
Unsteady flow LIC (UFLIC)
Time-varying data visualization algorithms (date structures and rendering)

16. The Second Decade ( )
Chameleon: Flexible appearance control of LIC Textures
Chronovolume: high-dimensional volume rendering
Isosurface tracking in high-dimensional space
Visibility culling using plenoptic opacity function
Isosurfacing in transformed space

17. The Second Decade ( )
Chameleon: Flexible appearance control of LIC Textures
Chronovolume: high-dimensional volume rendering
Isosurface tracking in high-dimensional space
Visibility culling using plenoptic opacity function
Isosurfacing in transformed space
Added value to the basic scivis techniques

18. The Second Decade (2001-2010) Time-varying visibility culling
View selection using information theory
Time-varying volume view selection using information theory
Level of detail selection using information theory
Multivariate volume blending for using Porter and Duff operators

19. The Second Decade ( )
Time-varying visibility culling
View selection using information theory
Time-varying volume view selection using information theory
Level of detail selection using information theory
Multivariate volume blending for using Porter and Duff operators
Introduce new methods to solve unsolved problems

20. The Second Decade (2000-2009) Image space streamline seeding
Temporal trend analysis using DTW
Temporal bone surgical simulations
Temporal trend analysis with clustering and spreadsheet

21. The Second Decade ( )
Image space streamline seeding
Temporal trend analysis using DTW
Temporal bone surgical simulations
Temporal trend analysis with clustering and spreadsheet
Fundamental algorithm, data analysis and domain specific problems

22. The Third Decade ( )
Information theoretic framework for flow seed placement
Parallel load balanced streamline computation
Flow guided file layout for pathline computation
Information-aware multivariate data exploration

23. The Third Decade ( )
Information theoretic framework for flow seed placement
Information-aware multivariate data exploration
Parallel load balanced streamline computation
Flow guided file layout for pathline computation
Big data, parallel and out-of-core, I/O, multivariate data analysis

24. The Third Decade (2010-2016) Parallel FTLE computation (SC)
Parallel Streamsurface computation (SC)
Interval histogram compression with Wavelet
Distribution-based flowline analysis (Pacific Vis)
Distribution-based feature tracking

25. The Third Decade ( )
Parallel FTLE computation (SC)
Parallel Streamsurface computation (SC)
Interval histogram compression with Wavelet
Distribution-based flowline analysis (Pacific Vis)
Distribution-based feature tracking
Big data, and distribution-based data analysis

26. The Third Decade (2010-2016) Associate analysis for multivariate data
In Situ and offline analysis of rotation stall for Jet Engine
Time-Varying, Multiresolution Ensemble Weather Data Analysis
Interactive Glyph Visualization

27. The Third Decade ( )
Associate analysis for multivariate data
In Situ and offline analysis of rotation stall for Jet Engine
Time-Varying, Multiresolution Ensemble Weather Data Analysis
Interactive Glyph Visualization
In Situ,Multivariate, distribution, ensemble analysis for domain specific problem, emerging technology

28. Three Decades of IEEE SciVis Journey
High-Dimensional Rendering
Time-Varying Data
Feature tracking
Visibility Culling
Isosurface
Multivariate
Information Theory
Streamline Seeding
Temporal Trend Analysis
(7 Ph.D.s graduated)
Information Theory
Multivariate Data
Big Data
Parallel Load Balance
I/O and File Layout
Parallel FTLE
Uncertain FTLE
Paralell Streamsurface
Distributions
feature tracking
feature classification
Association Analysis
In Situ Analysis
Uncertainty and Ensemble
Interface and VR
(11 Ph.D.s graduated)
Volume Rendering
Isosurface
LIC

29. SciVis is no where near its death!!