Visual Representation and Science: Editors' Introduction

Science as a Service [Guest editors' introduction]

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special issue on deep learning with applications to visual representation and analysis

The last decade has witnessed an exponential growth of visual information and an unprecedentedly broad range of applications of image and video. To efficiently access, utilize, and transmit visual information, visual representation and analysis have attracted intensive attention and become one of the most active research topics in the fields of signal processing, computer vision, and artificial...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)

VISUAL Analytics is a relatively new and evolving field that, at its core, is directed to the science of analytical reasoning supported by highly interactive visual interfaces. People use visual analytics tools, methods, and techniques in all aspects of science, engineering, business, and government to synthesize data into information and knowledge; derive insight from massive, dynamic, and oft...

Data Mining: From Serendipity to Science - Guest Editors' Introduction

34 Computer I n his novel, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, John Barth writes “you don’t reach Serendip by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.” This is perhaps an apt description of the discovery process carried out to query large-scale data repositories. Specifically, if we knew what to look for, the proce...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...