A Salience-based Quality Metric for Visualization

作者:Jaenicke H*; Chen M
来源:Computer Graphics Forum, 2010, 29(3): 1183-1192.
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01667.x

摘要

Salience detection is a principle mechanism to facilitate visual attention. A good visualization guides the observer's attention to the relevant aspects of the representation. Hence, the distribution of salience over a visualization image is an essential measure of the quality of the visualization. We describe a method for computing such a metric for a visualization image in the context of a given dataset. We show how this technique can be used to analyze a visualization's salience, improve an existing visualization, and choose the best representation from a set of alternatives. The usefulness of this proposed metric is illustrated using examples from information visualization, volume visualization and flow visualization.

  • 出版日期2010