- Instructor: Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich
- Teaching assistants
- Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Riehmann
- M.Sc. Carl-Feofan Matthes
- Lecture schedule
- Thursday, 13:30-15:00
- First lecture on April 6th 2017
- Location: SR 015, Bauhausstr. 11
- Lab class schedule
- Tuesday, 17:00 - 18:30 (Bachelor Students)
18:30 - 20:00 (International Masters) - First lab class: April 25th 2017
- All lab classes will take place in the LiNT-Pool, Bauhausstr. 11
- Tuesday, 17:00 - 18:30 (Bachelor Students)
- Target audience
- B.Sc. Medieninformatik/Mediensysteme, 6. Semester
- M.Sc. Medieninformatik/Mediensysteme
- M.Sc. Computer Science and Media (1. and 3. Semester)
- M.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction
- M.Sc. MediaArchitecture
- ECTS Credits
- 4.5 Credits (MI, CSM, HCI)
- 6 Credits (MediaArchitecture)
- Office hours by appointment only
Course Description
The first part of this course presents fundamental and advanced information visualization techniques for multi-dimensional and hierarchical data, graphs, time-series data, cartographic and categorical data. During the second half, algorithms and models for the scientific visualization of volumetric and vector-based data as well as corresponding out-of-core and level-of-detail techniques for handling very large datasets are introduced.
Various approaches presented in lectures will be studied, in part practically through labs and assignments, and with case studies. Lab classes focus on implementing, testing and evaluating the visualization approaches presented during the lectures. This course will be taught in English.
Lecture Notes
The documents from last year serve as a basis and will be further developed. The lectures were also recorded in 2016. The video material and the lecture pdfs (Adobe reader works best) are only available for your personal use! By downloading the material you agree that you do not further distribute it. The pdf files are only available from within the university network or through vpn.
- InfoVis Basics I (6. April 2017)
- InfoVis Basics II (20. April 2017)
- InfoVis Basics III (27. April 2017)
- Multi-Attribute Visualization (4. May 2017)
- Parallel Coordinates (11. May 2017)
- Categorical Data (18. May 2017)
- Time Series (18. May 2017)
- Introduction to Scientific Visualization (no lecture, watch videos from previous year for preparation of next lecture) (video1, video2, video3, video4)
- Color Maps, Contours and Iso-Surfaces (no lecture, watch videos from previous year if you are interested in the topic) (video1, video2, video3)
- Direct Volume Rendering (1. June 2017)
- Advanced Volume Rendering Techniques (8. June 2017)
- Multi-Resolution Volume Rendering (15. June 2017)
- Vectorfield Visualization (22.06.2017)
- Trees (29.06.2017)
- Graphs and Networks (29.06.2017)
- Maps (no lecture, pdf only, not part of the oral exam)
- Text and Document Visualization (06.07.2017)
Grading
- Grading Information
- 20 points can be achieved in the lab classes
- 30 points can be achieved in the final student project
- The following scheme lists the grades depending on the percentage of the achieved points:
- 1.0 >=95.0
- 1.1 [93.5-95.0)
- 1.2 [92.0-93.5)
- 1.3 [90.5-92.0)
- 1.4 [89.0-90.5)
- 1.5 [87.5-89.0)
- 1.6 [86.0-87.5)
- 1.7 [84.5-86.0)
- 1.8 [83.0-84.5)
- 1.9 [81.5-83.0)
- 2.0 [80.0-81.5)
- 2.1 [78.5-80.0)
- 2.2 [77.0-78.5)
- 2.3 [75.5-77.0)
- 2.4 [74.0-75.5)
- 2.5 [72.5-74.0)
- ...
- 3.0 [65.0-66.5)
- ...
- 4.0 [50.0-51.5)
- Less than 50% is insufficient for an admission to the oral exam.
- Contributions to the final grade
- assignments: 20%
- final project: 30%
- final exam: 50%