A salience-based quality metric for visualization

  • Authors:
  • H. Jänicke;M. Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany;Swansea University, Great Britain

  • Venue:
  • EuroVis'10 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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.