Perception-aware Sampling for Scatterplot Visualizations
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| author | Moumoulidou, Zafeiria Elhamdadi, Hamza Yang, Ke Mitra, Subrata Bearfield, Cindy Xiong Meliou, Alexandra |
| author_facet | Moumoulidou, Zafeiria Elhamdadi, Hamza Yang, Ke Mitra, Subrata Bearfield, Cindy Xiong Meliou, Alexandra |
| contents | Visualizing data is often a crucial first step in data analytics workflows, but growing data sizes pose challenges due to computational and visual perception limitations. As a result, data analysts commonly down-sample their data and work with subsets. Deriving representative samples, however, remains a challenge. This paper focuses on scatterplots, a widely-used visualization type, and introduces a novel sampling objective -- perception-awareness -- aiming to improve sample efficacy by targeting humans' perception of a visualization.
We make the following contributions: (1) We propose perception-augmented databases and design PAwS: a novel perception-aware sampling method for scatterplots that leverages saliency maps -- a computer vision tool for predicting areas of attention focus in visualizations -- and models perception-awareness via saliency, density, and coverage objectives. (2) We design ApproPAwS: a fast, perception-aware method for approximate visualizations, which exploits the fact that small visual perturbations are often imperceptible to humans. (3) We introduce the concept of perceptual similarity as a metric for sample quality, and present a novel method that compares saliency maps to measure it. (4) Our extensive experimental evaluation shows that our methods consistently outperform prior art in producing samples with high perceptual similarity, while ApproPAwS achieves up to 100x speed-ups with minimal loss in visual fidelity. Our user study shows that PAwS is often preferred by humans, validating our quantitative findings. |
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| spellingShingle | Perception-aware Sampling for Scatterplot Visualizations Moumoulidou, Zafeiria Elhamdadi, Hamza Yang, Ke Mitra, Subrata Bearfield, Cindy Xiong Meliou, Alexandra Human-Computer Interaction Databases Visualizing data is often a crucial first step in data analytics workflows, but growing data sizes pose challenges due to computational and visual perception limitations. As a result, data analysts commonly down-sample their data and work with subsets. Deriving representative samples, however, remains a challenge. This paper focuses on scatterplots, a widely-used visualization type, and introduces a novel sampling objective -- perception-awareness -- aiming to improve sample efficacy by targeting humans' perception of a visualization. We make the following contributions: (1) We propose perception-augmented databases and design PAwS: a novel perception-aware sampling method for scatterplots that leverages saliency maps -- a computer vision tool for predicting areas of attention focus in visualizations -- and models perception-awareness via saliency, density, and coverage objectives. (2) We design ApproPAwS: a fast, perception-aware method for approximate visualizations, which exploits the fact that small visual perturbations are often imperceptible to humans. (3) We introduce the concept of perceptual similarity as a metric for sample quality, and present a novel method that compares saliency maps to measure it. (4) Our extensive experimental evaluation shows that our methods consistently outperform prior art in producing samples with high perceptual similarity, while ApproPAwS achieves up to 100x speed-ups with minimal loss in visual fidelity. Our user study shows that PAwS is often preferred by humans, validating our quantitative findings. |
| title | Perception-aware Sampling for Scatterplot Visualizations |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Databases |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20369 |