Title :
Treecube+3D-ViSOM: Combinational Visualization Tool for Browsing 3D Multimedia Data
Author :
Okajima, Seiji ; Okada, Yoshihiro
Author_Institution :
Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka
Abstract :
This paper proposes a new visualization tool for browsing 3D multimedia data. This is realized as a combinational visualization tool of Treecube and 3D- ViSOM which are both proposed by the same research group of the authors. Treecube is a visualization tool for hierarchical information developed as a 3D extension from a 2D visualization tool, Treemap proposed by Ben Shneiderman, et. al. in 1992. Treecube is useful for browsing 3D multimedia data stored in a file system because the file system has a hierarchical structure. However, if many data exist in one directory, it is not easy for the user to find his/her required data from it. On the other hand, 3D-ViSOM is a 3D-SOM (Self Organizing Map) based visualization tool for browsing 3D multimedia data. Using the 3D-SOM layout, similar feature data are located in the same area and it is easy for the user to find his/her required data by the browsing. Since 3D-ViSOM can solve the problem Treecube has, the authors propose a combinational visualization tool of Treecube and 3D- ViSOMin this paper.
Keywords :
data visualisation; multimedia systems; tree data structures; 3D multimedia data; 3D-ViSOM; Treecube; combinational visualization tool; data visualization tool; file system; hierarchical information; self organizing map based visualization tool; Character generation; Data visualization; File systems; Graphics; Information science; Layout; Multimedia systems; Organizing; Tree data structures; Tree graphs;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 2007. IV '07. 11th International Conference
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2900-3
DOI :
10.1109/IV.2007.117