Methods for Compensating Contrast Effects in Information Visualization

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 231 - 240
• Main Authors: Mittelstädt, S., Stoffel, A., Keim, D. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Color; Data points; Data visualization; Distortion; I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation-Display algorithms; Information processing; Optical illusion; Perception; Perceptions; Physiology; Visual; Visualization

Color, as one of the most effective visual variables, is used in many techniques to encode and group data points according to different features. Relations between features and groups appear as visual patterns in the visualization. However, optical illusions may bias the perception at the first leve...