From this year 2014, we started a two-stage review process for the symposium formally, to guarantee the publication of high-quality papers. This will allow us to invite an increased number of accepted paper authors to submit a revised version to the journal IEEE TVCG.

Full papers deadline: Sep. 02, 2013, 11:59pm (PDT)

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Visualization application areas such as but not limited to:

    statistical graphics and mathematics
    financial, security and business visualization
    physical sciences and engineering
    earth, space, and environmental sciences
    geographic/geospatial/ terrain visualization
    molecular, biomedical, bioinformatics and medical visualization
    text, documents and software visualization
    social, ambient and information sciences
    education and everyday visualization
    multimedia (image/video/music) visualization
    any other non-spatial data or spatial data that is visualized with a new spatial mapping 

Data focused visualization research:

    high-dimensional data and dimensionality reduction and data compression
    multidimensional multi-field, multi-modal, multi-resolution and multi-variate data
    causality and uncertainty data
    time series, time varying, streaming and flow data
    scalar, vector and tensor fields
    regular and unstructured grids
    point-based data
    large scale data (petabytes, ...) 

Technique focused visualization research:

    volume modeling and rendering
    extraction of surfaces
    topology-based and geometry-based techniques
    glyph-based techniques
    integrating spatial and non-spatial data visualization
    machine-learning approaches 

Graph and network visualization research:

    design and experimentation of graph drawing algorithms
    techniques, interfaces and interaction methods for graphs, trees, and other relational data
    visualization of graphs and networks in application areas (e.g., social sciences, biology, geography, software engineering, circuit design, business intelligence)
    interfaces and interaction techniques for graph and network visualizations
    Benchmarks and experimental analysis for graph visualization systems and user interfaces 

Interaction focused visualization research:

    icon- and glyph-based
    focus + context
    animation
    zooming and navigation
    linking + brushing
    coordinated multiple views
    view-dependent visualization
    data labeling, editing and annotation
    collaborative, co-located and distributed
    manipulation and deformation
    visual data mining and visual knowledge discovery 

Empirical and comprehension focused visualization research

    visual design and aesthetics
    cognition and perception issues
    cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction
    presentation, dissemination and storytelling
    design studies, case studies and focus groups
    task and requirements analysis
    metrics and benchmarks
    evaluations of all types: qualitative, quantitative, laboratory, field, and usability studies
    validation and verification
    perception theory including such factors as color texture, scene, motion perception, perceptual cognition 

System focused visualization research

    novel algorithms and mathematics
    mobile and ubiquitous
    taxonomies and models
    methodologies, discussions and frameworks
    visual design, visualization system and toolkit design
    illustrative visualization
    data warehousing, database visualization and data mining
    collaborative and distributed visualization
    mathematical theories for visualization 
CALL FOR PAPERS

Hardware, Display and Interaction Technology

    large and high-res displays
    stereo displays
    mobile and ubiquitous environments
    immersive and virtual environments
    multimodal input (touch, haptics, voice, etc. )
    hardware acceleration
    GPUs and multi-core architectures
    CPU and GPU clusters
    distributed systems, grid and cloud environments
    volume graphics hardware