VISAR - VISUAL Analytics And Rendering

The overall goal of this project is to enable a seamless visual analysis of data involving 3D geometry, relational information and multivariate attributes. The key approach is to research new ways for achieving an unprecedented level of integration between realistic real-time rendering of 3D geometry and techniques from the field of information visualization and visual analytics. In a number of application scenarios, such as construction and inspection of large infrastructure, traffic visualization and archaeology, 3D models are used that capture the real world at a very high level of detail, and store a large number of additional properties for each represented object. In order to visually analyze such models it is necessary to provide a number of visualization tools that can deal with such heterogeneous data in a seamless and intuitive way. The project will research an integrated framework for visualization, navigation and interaction of both abstract and 3D geometric data. The research will be driven by a user-centered approach where successive prototypes will be evaluated in user studies. The tight integration of real-time rendering with state of the art information visualization will extend the applicability of visual analytics to problem classes that are tightly coupled to detailed realistic 3D models of the real world.

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