Infrared images or so-called thermal images are increasingly available. Usually the data is acquired and stored, but a thorough interpretation and presentation of the data is done insufficiently. Within ongoing research at the TUM/LfK we deal with the innovative representation of thermal building information.

These include coating steps, rectangular shapes or homogeneous network structures in a three-dimensional environment. Adapted methods concerning the cartographic representations are applied and modified to fit the specific requirements.

On a typical day, the international courier Fedex handles some 100 million individual transactions. Worldwide, VISA records 150 million purchases. Every 24 hours, more than 300 million long distance calls stream over ATT’s telephone network. Every one of these shipments, purchases or calls generates a file of data, and this staggering amount of data increasingly drives our information-dominated age.It is routinely archived away as a valuable storehouse of insights and value. Yet the sheer volume of data, and the increasing rate at which this is produced, also pose a problem — how to avoid drowning in it, and how to find useful ways to get meaningful insight out of it.

Exploring video data by simply watching does not scale for large databases.This problem arises in a wide variety of domains, such as scientificvideo analysis, digital life streams, and video surveillance.

Motivated by a mini challenge of the contest of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2009 (Detecting the encounter of persons in a provided video stream utilizing the techniques of visual analytics), we propose an approach for fast identification of relevant objects based on the properties of their trajectories.

Software maintenance is the most expensive part of the entire software lifecycle. Studies over 20 years in a variety of branches of the software industry indicate that maintenance costs over 80% of the effort invested in the entire lifecycle of a software product. From this, around 40% is dedicated to software understanding.

We have worked over several years in close contact with IT professionals in various branches: software developers, architects, consultants, and producers of software analysis tools.

Understanding the brain, its function and malfunction, is one of the most important and urgent targets of modern science.

Using the most sophisticated technologies neuroscientists now perform experiments ranging from studies on the genome to brain imaging under different conditions. This results in very large quantities of heterogeneous data, which are produced at ever increasing rates.

Of the machine components that are part of visual analytics, human-computer interaction, and visualization, the display has one of the largest effects.

The display determines the physical size of the viewport, the range of effective field-of-view and resolution that is possible, and the types of feasible interaction modalities. All other interactions must be placed in the context of the display. If you have ever seen a movie on a large screen TV, then you have been surely impressed with the captivating display that makes the viewing innately attractive.

Attached is the March 2010 edition of the Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community (iVAC) Newsletter. The Basic/Futures Research (BFR) Program believes that regular communication is one of the most effective ways to enable our Data and Visual Analytics enterprise to flourish.

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the BFR program, international university partners and other government agencies.

The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.

The large and ever-increasing amounts of time-varying and geospatial digital weather information related to emergency scenarios that must be accessible to the public represent a major research challenge.

A need to analyze and make decisions, often in time-critical situations, demand interactive web-enabled visualization tools that can aid the user to explore, communicate and publish visually large geo-information spaces. In this context, we introduce a web-enabled application for road weather visualization, a tool for analyzing and communicating information about road weather conditions particularly during the Swedish winter months.

Every day vast amounts of information flood into business databases. To achieve their corporate objectives, companies try to evaluate information relevant to their activities as effectively as possible.

In the day-to-day working environment they use business intelligence programs to collect, evaluate and present data.

But many of the current analytical methods can only display information statically, as lists or reports. Visualization techniques help to present the information in a form that can be more easily understood.

Attached is the February 2010 edition of the Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community (iVAC) Newsletter. The Basic/Futures Research (BFR) Program believes that regular communication is one of the most effective ways to enable our Data and Visual Analytics enterprise to flourish.

The iVAC Newsletter is envisioned as a coordinating function for the various activities coming out of the BFR program, international university partners and other government agencies.

The thought is to present and share knowledge of these initiatives, accomplishments in various areas (technology, publications, new funding, etc.), up-coming conferences and events, and other significant happenings to the entire community.