Artifact-Based Rendering: Harnessing Natural and Traditional Visual Media for More Expressive and Engaging 3D Visualizations

V-Mail: 3D-Enabled Correspondence About Spatial Data on (Almost) All Your Devices

We present V-Mail, a framework of cross-platform applications, interactive techniques, and communication protocols for improved multi-person correspondence about spatial 3D datasets. Inspired by the daily use of e-mail, V-Mail seeks to enable a similar style of rapid, multi-person communication accessible on any device; however, it aims to do this in the new context of spatial 3D communication, where limited access to 3D graphics hardware typically prevents such communication. The approach integrates visual data storytelling with data exploration, spatial annotations, and animated transitions. V-Mail "data stories" are exported in a standard video file format to establish a common baseline level of access on (almost) any device. The V-Mail framework also includes a series of complementary client applications and plugins that enable different degrees of story co-authoring and data exploration, adjusted automatically to match the capabilities of various devices. A lightweight, phone-based V-Mail app makes it possible to annotate data by adding captions to the video. These spatial annotations are then immediately accessible to team members running high-end 3D graphics visualization systems that also include a V-Mail client, implemented as a plugin. Results and evaluation from applying V-Mail to assist communication within an interdisciplinary science team studying Antarctic ice sheets confirm the utility of the asynchronous, cross-platform collaborative framework while also highlighting some current limitations and opportunities for future work.

Applying Lightweight Deep Learning-Based Virtual Vision Sensing Technology to Realize and Develop New Media Interactive Art Installation

The work intends to optimize the situation that interactive art devices and remote control based on traditional technology cannot meet people’s actual needs to a certain extent. With the assistance of Lightweight Deep Learning (LDL) models, Interactive Artistic Installation (IAI) shows excellent creative potential in terms of dimension, space, and sense. Virtual Vision Sensing Technology (VST) explores the emotional semantics in the human-machine environment with the help of interactive art, finds the emotional interaction elements between human and machine, and promotes Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). From the perspective of the media elements of interactive art, this paper reviews the virtual VST that subverts the expression of interactive art. Then, from the perspective of artistic creation, the impact of virtual VST on IAI thinking, methods, and artistic experience is analyzed. Thereupon, a scene construction method is designed where the physical equipment is premodeled. The model is loaded in real time with visual information. The proposed method does not require complex vision and laser scanning equipment or high-configured computer systems. The proposed new media IAI model realizes the real-time loading of the scene model. According to the physical equipment dynamic information obtained by the visual data acquisition system, the proposed method can keep the virtual scene and physical models in motion synchronization. Finally, experiment results corroborate that the environment will significantly interfere with the experimental results. The training data set with boundary occlusion will be more suitable for model training and better test results (about 97% accuracy). Hence, the research content can make the Virtual Reality works have better performance, especially the sense of experience from the perspective of aesthetics. Meanwhile, it also enriches the research theory in the field of new media art installation technology.

Study on the Application of Visual Communication Design in APP Interface Design in the Context of Deep Learning

Visual communication concepts enable linguistics or semiotics to the teaching of visual communication designs, creating graphic designs into an innovative and scientific discipline. The use of storyline techniques in visual communication not only inspires the imagination of designer but also arouses the visual memory of the audience. Besides, improving cultural heritage such as historical images is important to protect cultural diversity. Recently, the developments of deep learning (DL) and computer vision (CV) approaches make it possible for the automatic colorization of grayscale images into color images. Also, the usage of visual communication design in APP interface design has increased. With this motivation, this work introduces the enhanced deep learning-based automated historical image colorization (EDL-AHIC) technique for wireless network-enabled visual communication. The proposed EDL-AHIC technique intends to effectually convert the grayscale images into color images. The presented EDL-AHIC technique extracts the local as well as global features. For global feature extraction, the enhanced capsule network (ECN) model is applied. Finally, the fusion layer and decoding unit are employed to determine the output, i.e., chrominance component of the input image. A comprehensive experimental validation process is performed to ensure the betterment of the EDL-AHIC technique. The comparison study reported the supremacy of the EDL-AHIC technique over the other recent methods.

E-Commerce Fraud Detection Model by Computer Artificial Intelligence Data Mining

This study aims to identify e-commerce fraud, solve the financial risks of e-commerce enterprises through big data mining (BDM), further explore more effective solutions through Information fusion technology (IFT), and create an e-commerce fraud detection model (FDM) based on IFT (namely, computer technology (CT), artificial intelligence (AI), and data mining (DM). Meanwhile, BDM technology, support vector machine (SVM), logistic regression model (LRM), and the proposed IFT-based FDM are comparatively employed to study e-commerce fraud risks deeply. Specifically, the LRM can effectively solve data classification problems. The proposed IFT-based FDM fuses different information sources. The experimental findings corroborate that the proposed Business-to-Business (B2B) e-commerce enterprises-oriented IFT-based FDM presents significantly higher fraud identification accuracy than SVM and LRM. Therefore, the IFT-based FDM is superior to SVM and LRM; it can process and calculate e-commerce enterprises' financial risk data from different sources and obtain higher accuracy. BDM technology provides an important research method for e-commerce fraud identification. The proposed e-commerce enterprise-oriented FDM based on IFT can correctly analyze enterprises' financial status and credit status, obtaining the probability of fraudulent behaviors. The results are of great significance to B2B e-commerce fraud identification and provide good technical support for promoting the healthy development of e-commerce.

Generative Design Inspiration for Glyphs with Diatoms

We introduce Diatoms, a technique that generates design inspiration for glyphs by sampling from palettes of mark shapes, encoding channels, and glyph scaffold shapes. Diatoms allows for a degree of randomness while respecting constraints imposed by columns in a data table: their data types and domains as well as semantic associations between columns as specified by the designer. We pair this generative design process with two forms of interactive design externalization that enable comparison and critique of the design alternatives. First, we incorporate a familiar small multiples configuration in which every data point is drawn according to a single glyph design, coupled with the ability to page between alternative glyph designs. Second, we propose a small permutables design gallery, in which a single data point is drawn according to each alternative glyph design, coupled with the ability to page between data points. We demonstrate an implementation of our technique as an extension to Tableau featuring three example palettes, and to better understand how Diatoms could fit into existing design workflows, we conducted interviews and chauffeured demos with 12 designers. Finally, we reflect on our process and the designers' reactions, discussing the potential of our technique in the context of visualization authoring systems. Ultimately, our approach to glyph design and comparison can kickstart and inspire visualization design, allowing for the serendipitous discovery of shape and channel combinations that would have otherwise been overlooked.