Treecube: Visualization tool for browsing 3D multimedia data

Yoichi Tanaka, Yoshihiro Okada, Koichi Niijima

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new 3D visualization tool for hierarchical information. A 2D visualization tool for hierarchical information called treemap [1] has already been proposed by Ben Shneiderman, et al. in 1992. In general, hierarchical information is represented as a tree structure. Treemap hierarchically lays out each node as a bounding box, whose size is the same as the specific weight or attribute value of the node. After the original treemap algorithm called slice-and-dice, some extensions to it have been proposed: squarified treemap [2], ordered treemap [3] and strip treemap [4]. Furthermore, quantum treemap [4] is a quantization version of these extensions. In this paper, the authors propose a new 3D visualization tool for hierarchical information called treecube that can be taken as a 3D extension of treemap. Especially, this paper shows its usefulness for browsing 3D multimedia data, i.e., 2D images, 3D shape models, motion data, etc., originally stored in a file system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 7th International Conference on Information Visualization
Subtitle of host publicationAn International Conference on Computer Visualization and Graphics Applications, IV 2003
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages427-432
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)0769519881
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Event7th International Conference on Information Visualization, IV 2003 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Jul 16 2003Jul 18 2003

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
Volume2003-January
ISSN (Print)1093-9547

Other

Other7th International Conference on Information Visualization, IV 2003
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period7/16/037/18/03

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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