Academic collaboration has become one of the topics of large-scale social network analysis. The information extracted from academic collaboration also shows the contextual value in combination with other data. For academic collaborative social networks with intricate collaborative relationships, previous research methods mainly focused on network structure and community discovery, lacking in mining the characteristics of relationships in collaborative networks. There were some limitations in the research perspective. In this work, we propose a collaborative relationship representation method that is more suitable for academic collaborative social networks. It marks the attribute characteristics of nodes in collaborative relationships and highlights collaborative relationships in visualization. By adopting this new representation of collaborative relationships, we designed a visual analysis framework NcoVis, to visualize academic collaborative social networks. We further visually analyze the link relationship groups guided by nodes, and explore the potential representation of the structure and attribute characteristics of link relationships, so that analysts can explore the theme and structural change characteristics of link relationships, communities and the whole network in collaborative social networks. To prove the proposed framework, we conducted a case study on the academic collaboration literature data set, and analyzed the questionnaire with Likert scale through the user evaluation experiment, which verified the effectiveness of our method and the practicability of NcoVis.

Due to the increasing popularity of 3D sensors, it has become easier and easier to obtain point cloud data. In many fields such as autonomous driving, how to fully extract the features of point cloud to better understand and perceive 3D scenes requires further research. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel end-to-end deep learning network for the features of disorder and irregularity of 3D point cloud data. Our network uses an encoder-decoder network architecture, and a three-layer structure is used in both stages. Each encoder layer consists of graph attention convolution and graph attention pooling. Graph attention convolution reflects the spatial distribution relationship in the neighborhood area. And graph attention pooling merges the spatial distribution information in the neighborhood into the feature of the sampling point. The experimental results show that our method achieves the best results in shape classification and has competitive performance in other tasks.

The development of crowd intelligence makes the structure of social network more complex and changeable. Research on social network should be more in-depth and focus on the changes of structure. Ego-network, which represents the relationship between specific individual and the related people, is a hot issue among the research of dynamic social network. The evolution of ego-network is highly dynamic and pluralistic, it is hard to capture its evolutionary pattern over time. To help users analyze the individual characteristics and hidden patterns in multivariate ego-network, we present EgoVis, an interactive visual analysis system for exploring and analyzing complex structural relationships in dynamic network. Based on the task requirements of network evolution analysis, we propose a task taxonomy which is suitable for ego-network research and analysis, design novel visual fonts, and analyze the evolution of dynamic ego-network relations from the three dimensions: overview, subgroup, and detail-ego. Finally, the validity and practicability of EgoVis are verified on DBLP citation network dataset.

People face data-rich manufacturing environments in Industry 4.0. As an important technology for explaining and understanding complex data, visual analytics has been increasingly introduced into industrial data analysis scenarios. With the durability test of automotive starters as background, this study proposes a visual analysis approach for understanding large-scale and long-term durability test data. Guided by detailed scenario and requirement analyses, we first propose a migration-adapted clustering algorithm that utilizes a segmentation strategy and a group of matching-updating operations to achieve an efficient and accurate clustering analysis of the data for starting mode identification and abnormal test detection. We then design and implement a visual analysis system that provides a set of user-friendly visual designs and lightweight interactions to help people gain data insights into the test process overview, test data patterns, and durability performance dynamics. Finally, we conduct a quantitative algorithm evaluation, case study, and user interview by using real-world starter durability test datasets. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach and its possible inspiration for the durability test data analysis of other similar industrial products.