EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Kai Michael Blum
dblp:374/8807
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-7802-005XORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visualization and visual analytics · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Visualization and visual analytics
dimensionality reduction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Interactive Composition Operators An Alternative Approach for Selecting Linear Embedding Parameters · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2026 |
Visualization and visual analytics
interactive data exploration |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Interactive Composition Operators An Alternative Approach for Selecting Linear Embedding Parameters · IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
star coordinates · 1.0composition operators · 1.0closed-form solution · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Interactive Composition Operators An Alternative Approach for Selecting Linear Embedding ParametersabstractLinear embeddings support interactive visual exploration by mapping high-dimensional (nD) data into a two-dimensional space. Despite their popularity, selecting meaningful projection parameters remains a key challenge due to the infinite 2$n$-dimensional parameter space. Once an informative projection is found, users often seek similar ones that emphasize specific items differently while preserving global structure. For instance: Do clusters become outliers under slight changes? Can grouped items separate-or merge-through parameter adjustments? Which changes to the embedding parameters lead to such projections - and do they exist at all? Answering these questions efficiently is critical for effective visual search. Yet, current methods-such as projection tours or manual parameter tuning-are time-consuming and risk overlooking important views, including those of specific interest. We propose Composition Operators, a mathematical foundation for a novel set-of-point manipulation concept for linear embeddings-such as Star Coordinates-as an alternative approach to selecting informative embedding parameters in a more controllable manner with respect to the desired outcome. Users specify item-based constraints on the projection result; the corresponding 2n parameters are then derived automatically, eliminating the need to exhaustively search the entire parameter space to get a similar outcome. Neither the embedding space nor the set of parameters is altered - only the mechanism for navigating and selecting parameters is redefined. We provide closed-form solutions for this and demonstrate our interactive prototype on nD datasets from the UCI repository. Dirk J. Lehmann, Kai Michael Blum, Manuel Rubio-Sánchez, Konrad Simon |
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. | 2 |