Guest Editors' Introduction

This special issue contains a selection of papers that discuss successful applications of visualization methodology to real-world problems.

Virtual and augmented reality technologies have entered a new near-commodity era, accompanied by massive commercial investments, but…

Modeling virtual humans has been an important and active research field in computer graphics for many years.

Data science methods and approaches address all stages of transition from data to knowledge and action.

Virtual characters can be a powerful tool for a range of applications, from storytelling and games to tutoring, training, and general interfaces.

Computer graphics research is increasingly interested in the high-level analysis and processing of geometric objects.

National security continues to push many advancements in our field, and this CG&A special issue explores the implementation of computer graphics…

For every major sport, analysts can and often do extract large amounts of data, which can be leveraged by media and fans, athletes, and organizations.

The computer graphics community has successfully exploited our knowledge about the human visual system and its limitations for years.

In many cases, countries' successes can be attributed to technological advancements, and these advancements often in turn rely on informatics that…

In the big data era, we are witnessing an unprecedented amount of information emerging from every aspect of society and daily life--from information…

This special issue is dedicated to highlighting recent advances in VR software and technology.

The articles in this theme issue focus on the unique challenges of designing visualization and visual analytic tools for use in a…

The increasing popularity of robotics in modern society makes interacting and communicating with them of critical importance.

Data visualization is ubiquitous in today's society.

The revolution in Industrie 4.0 is being accelerated by the wide adoption of networking and Internet technology into traditional…

This special issue features four new areas of expansion in computer graphics.

This special issue turns the spotlight on business intelligence BI as an area of inquiry and explores beyond the current standard practices.

Advances in sensing technology are poised to spark the next shift in human-computer interaction, liberating users from the 2D plane of interaction currently…

The preeminence of a systems approach in the biological and other life sciences creates enormous challenges for computational visualization…

3D printing is considered a disruptive technology with a potentially tremendous socioeconomic impact.

This special issue features three articles on interactive 3D developments for the Web.

Almost all fields of study and practice sooner or later will confront the big-data problem.

Over the past few years, the landscape of volumetric-scattering techniques has evolved rapidly.

Public-display installations can range from large-scale media facades that are embedded in architectural structures and that people can interact with…

The articles in this special sectionJust as calculus helps physicists understand and model the mechanical world, computational models can help us model…

Extreme-scale visual analytics VA is about applying VA to extreme-scale data.

This issue features four articles on material appearance, which is important in many computer graphics applications.

This article introduces the articles in the special issue on visualization applications and design studies.

This special issue presents recent advances in digital-content-creation techniques, ranging from 3D modeling to behavior authoring and image…

A new generation of physics-based animation approaches are beginning to emerge that are robust and maintain a standard of visual quality as high as…

This special issue explores recent advances in the acquisition and use of camera images in conjunction with computer graphics techniques.

This article looks briefly at four articles based on papers from the 2010 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium.

A workshop at IEEE VisWeek 09 attempted to bring together the visual-analytics and video analysis communities to determine how much synergy there was…

This special issue presents five articles covering a variety of computer graphics and embodied-conversational-agent applications related to digital…

This special issue highlights five articles covering several topics in ultrascale data visualization, including extreme-scale production…

This special issue presents four articles demonstrating a first step from traditional interactive visualization to knowledge-assisted…

The articles in this special issue present recent developments in research on 3D user interfaces.

This article introduces a special issue on collaborative visualization.

Only in the ruins of post-apocalyptic cities would the absence of living entities be appropriate, whereas real environments are filled with characters,…

Visual analytics VA is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces.

This special issue showcases developments in serious games that can have an impact on future research, development, and application of computer…

This special issue contains an introductory survey on 3D user interfaces by leading VR authorities and significantly expanded versions of the four best short…

Visualization has become an increasingly active area of research because of its usefulness in a wide range of applications.

Mobile phones form a ubiquitous graphics platform; over half of the world population uses them.

Simulation of our man-made environment, especially cities, is becoming an increasingly important research problem in computer graphics.

Guest Editors Bruce Gooch and Brian Wyvill discuss computational aesthetics and the articles that comprise their special issue.