Yunhai Wang   

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Professor 

School of Information / DEKE Lab , Renmin University of China

No. 59 Zhongguancun St., Beijing 100872

Email: wang.yh@ruc.edu.cn


 

is a professor in the School of Information at Renmin University of China. He leads the Intelligent Data Exploration System (IDEAS) lab that aims to enhance people's ability to understand and communicate data through the design of automated visualization and visual analytics systems. His research focuses on the question of how can we automatically design an effective visualization that is best suited to pursue a given task on given input data.


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RECENT NEWS

  • Nov. 7, 2024 One paper was accepted by IEEE TVCG.
  • Oct. 28, 2024 One paper was accepted by IEEE TVCG.
  • Sept. 12, 2024 One paper was accepted by IEEE TVCG.
  • Jun. 14, 2024 invited to be an associate editor for TVCG.
  • Jun. 7, 2024 invited to be an Associate Chair for CHI 2025.
  • Jan. 19, 2024 One paper was accepted by ACM CHI 2024.
  • Dec. 25, 2023 I moved to Renmin University of China

  • SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    Visualization-Driven Illumination for Density Plots

    Xin Chen, Yunhai Wang, Huaiwei Bao, Kecheng Lu, Jaemin Jo, Chi-Wing Fu, Jean-Daniel Fekete

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear , 2024

    Authoring Data-Driven Chart Animations through Direct Manipulation

    Yuancheng Shen*, Yue Zhao*, Yunhai Wang, Tong Ge, Haoyan Shi, Bongshin Lee

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear , 2024

    Generalization of CNNs on Relational Reasoning with Bar Charts

    Zhenxing Cui, Lu Chen, Yunhai Wang, Daniel Haehn, Yong Wang, Hanspeter Pfister

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear , 2024

    Color Maker: a Mixed-Initiative Approach to Creating Accessible Color Maps

    Amey A Salv, Kecheng Lu, Michael E. Papka, Yunhai Wang, Khairi Reda

    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2024

    SmartSpring a Low-Cost Wearable Haptic VR Display with Controllable Passive Feedback

    Hongkun Zhang, Kehong Zhou, Ke Shi, Yunhai Wang, Aiguo Song, Lifeng Zhu

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. ISMAR 2023) , to appear , 2024

    Mystique Deconstructing SVG Charts for Layout Reuse

    Chen Chen, Bongshin Lee, Yunhai Wang, Yunjeong Chang, Zhicheng Liu

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2023) , to appear , 2024

    Reducing Ambiguities in Line-based Density Plots by Image-space Colorization

    Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, Rebecca Kehlbeck, Bin Chen, Kin Chung Kwan, Yunhai Wang, Oliver Deussen,

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2023) , to appear , 2024

    Optimally Ordered Orthogonal Neighbor Joining Trees for Hierarchical Cluster Analysis

    Tong Ge, Xu Luo, Yunhai Wang, Michael Sedlmair, Zhanglin Cheng, Ying Zhao, Xin Liu, Oliver Deussen, Baoquan Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , to appear , 2023

    OM3: An Ordered Multi-level Min-Max Representation for Interactive Progressive Visualization of Time Series

    Yunhai Wang, Yuchun Wang, Xin Chen, Yue Zhao, Fan Zhang, Eugene Wu, Chi-Wing Fu, Xiaohui Yu

    Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data , 2023

    Interactive Context-Preserving Color Highlighting for Multiclass Scatterplots

    Kecheng Lu, Khairi Reda, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang

    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2023

    Force-directed graph layouts revisited: a new force based on the t-Distribution

    Fahai Zhong, Mingliang Xue, Jian Zhang, Fan Zhang, Rui Ban, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , to appear

    Taurus: Towards A Unified Force Representation and Universal Solver for Graph Layout

    Mingliang Xue, Zhi Wang, Fahai Zhong, Yong Wang, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2022) , to appear

    SizePairs: Achieving Stable and Balanced Temporal Treemaps using Hierarchical Size-based Pairing

    Chang Han, Jaemin Jo, Anyi Li, Bongshin Lee, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2022) , to appear

    Target Netgrams: An Annulus-constrained Stress Model for Radial Graph Visualization

    Mingliang Xue, Yunhai Wang, Chang Han, Jian Zhang, Zheng Wang, Kaiyi Zhang, Christophe Hurter, Jian Zhao, and Oliver Deussen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , to appear

    Data-Driven Colormap Adjustment for Exploring Spatial Variations in Scalar Fields

    Qiong Zeng, Yongwei Zhao, Yinqiao Wang, Jian Zhang, Yi Cao, Changhe Tu, Ivan Viola, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , to appear

    Scribble-Supervised Semantic Segmentation by Uncertainty Reduction on Neural Representation and Self-Supervision on Neural Eigenspace

    Zhiyi Pan, Peng Jiang, Yunhai Wang, Changhe Tu and Anthony Cohn

    Proc. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2021

    F2-Bubbles: Faithful Bubble Set Construction and Flexible Editing

    Yunhai Wang, Da Cheng, Zhirui Wang, Jian Zhang, Liang Zhou, Gaoqi He, Oliver Deussen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2021) , 2022

    Joint t-SNE for Comparable Projections of Multiple High-Dimensional Datasets

    Yinqiao Wang, Lu Chen, Jaemin Jo, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2021) , 2022

    KD-Box: Line-segment-based KD-tree for Interactive Exploration of Large-scale Time-Series Data

    Yue Zhao, Jian Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu, Mingliang Xu, Dominik Moritz, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2021) , 2022

    Pyramid-based Scatterplots Sampling for Progressive and Streaming Data Visualization

    Xin Chen, Jian Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2021) , 2022

    spEuler: Semantics-preserving Euler Diagrams

    Rebecca Kehlbeck, Jochen Gortler, Yunhai Wang, Oliver Deussen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2021) , 2022 [Best Paper Honorable Mention Award]

    Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Approaches for Visual Cluster Analysis: An Empirical Study

    Jiazhi Xia, Yuchen Zhang, Jie Song, Yang Chen, Yunhai Wang, Shixia Liu

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2021) , 2022

    Mid-Air Finger Sketching for Tree Modelling

    Fanxing Zhang, Zhihao Liu, Zhanglin Cheng, Oliver Deussen, Baoquan Chen, Yunhai Wang

    Proceedings of IEEE VR , 2021

    Curve Complexity Heuristic KD-trees for Neighborhood-based Exploration of 3D Curves

    Yucheng Lu, Luyu Cheng, Tobias Isenberg, Chi-Wing Fu, Guoning Chen, Hui Liu, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang

    Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2021) , 2021

    CAST: Authoring Data-Driven Chart Animations

    Tong Ge, Bongshin Lee, Yunhai Wang

    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2021 [Best Paper Honorable Mention Award]

    Data-Driven Mark Orientation for Trend Estimation in Scatterplots

    Tingting Liu, Xiaotong Li, Chen Bao, Michael Correll, Changhe Tu, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang

    Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2021

    Implicit Multidimensional Projection of Local Subspaces

    Rongzheng Bian, Yumeng Xue, Liang Zhou, Jian Zhang, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Weiskopf, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2020) , 2021

    SineStream: Improving the Readability of Streamgraphs by Minimizing Sine Illusion Effects

    Chuan Bu, Quanjie Zhang, Qianwen Wang, Jian Zhang, Michael Sedlmair, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2020) , 2021

    Palettailor: Discriminable Colorization for Categorical Data

    Kecheng Lu, Mi Feng, Xin Chen, Michael Sedlmair, Oliver Deussen, Dani Lischinski, Zhanglin Cheng, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2020) , 2021

    Canis: A High-level Language for Data-Driven Chart Animations

    Tong Ge, Yue Zhao, Bongshin Lee, Donghao Ren, Baoquan Chen, Yunhai Wang

    Computer Graphics Forum ( Proc. of EuroVis 2020) , 2020

    Data-Driven Colormap Optimization for 2D Scalar Field Visualization

    Qiong Zeng, Yinqiao Wang, Jian Zhang, Wenting Zhang, Changhe Tu, Ivan Viola, Yunhai Wang

    IEEE VIS Short Papers , 2019

    Improving the Robustness of Scagnostics

    Yunhai Wang, Zeyu Wang, Tingting Liu, Michael Correll, Zhanglin Cheng, Oliver Deussen, Michael Sedlmair

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2019) , 2020

    A Recursive Subdivision Technique for Sampling Multi-class Scatterplots

    Xin Chen, Tong Ge, Jian Zhang, Baoquan Chen, Chi-Wing Fu, Oliver Deussen and Yunhai Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2019) , 2020

    Interactive Structure-aware Blending of Diverse Edge Bundling Visualizations

    Yunhai Wang, Mingliang Xue, Yanyan Wang, Xinyuan Yan, Baoquan Chen, Chi-Wing Fu, Christophe Hurter

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2019) , 2020

    ShapeWordle: Tailoring Wordles using Shape-aware Archimedean Spirals

    Yunhai Wang, Xiaowei Chu, Kaiyi Zhang, Chen Bao, Xiaotong Li, Jian Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu, Christophe Hurter, Oliver Deussen, and Bongshin Lee

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2019) , 2020

    Follow the Smoke: Immersive Display of Motion Data With Synthesized Smoke

    Zhu Lifeng, Wang Zian, Wang Yunhai, Song Aiguo

    IEEE computer graphics and applications , 2019

    Unsupervised Feature Selection via Adaptive Multi-Measure Fusion

    Rui Zhang, Feiping Nie, Yunhai Wang, Xuelong Li

    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems , 2018

    DifNet: Semantic Segmentation by Diffusion Networks

    Peng Jiang, Fanglin Gu, Yunhai Wang, Changhe Tu, and Baoquan Chen

    Proceedings of The 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Proc. NIPS 2018) , 2018

    Image-Based Aspect Ratio Selection

    Yunhai Wang, Zeyu Wang, Chi-Wing Fu, Hansjörg Schmauder, Oliver Deussen and Daniel Weiskopf

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2018) , 2019

    Optimizing Color Assignment for Perception of Class Separability in Multiclass Scatterplots.

    Yunhai Wang, Xin Chen, Tong Ge, Chen Bao, Michael Sedlmair, Chi-Wing Fu, Oliver Deussen and Baoquan Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2018) , 2019

    Structure-aware Fisheye Views for Efficient Large Graph Exploration.

    Yunhai Wang, Yanyan Wang, Haifeng Zhang, Yinqi Sun, Chi-Wing Fu, Michael Sedlmair, Oliver Deussen, and Baoquan Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2018) , 2019

    Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Visualizations for Understanding Fuzzy Clusters

    Ying Zhao, Feng Luo, Minghui Chen, Yingchao Wang, Jiazhi Xia, Fangfang Zhou, Yunhai Wang, Yi Chen and Wei Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST 2018) , 2019

    Is There a Robust Technique for Selecting Aspect Ratios in Line Charts?

    Yunhai Wang, Zeyu Wang, Lifeng Zhu, Jian Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu, Zhanglin Cheng, Changhe Tu and Baoquan Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, , 2018

    Laplace¨CBeltrami Operator on Point Clouds Based on Anisotropic Voronoi Diagram

    Hongxing Qin, Yi Chen, Yunhai Wang*, Xiaoyang Hong, Kangkang Yin and Hui Huang

    Computer Graphics Forum 2018

    Revisiting Stress Majorization as a Unified Framework for Interactive Constrained Graph Visualization

    Yunhai Wang, Yanyan Wang, Yinqi Sun, Lifeng Zhu, Kecheng Lu, Chi-Wing Fu, Michael Sedlmair, Oliver Deussen, and Baoquan Chen

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2017) , 2018

    EdWordle: Consistency-preserving Word Cloud Editing

    Yunhai Wang, Xiaowei Chu, Chen Bao, Lifeng Zhu, Oliver Deussen, Baoquan Chen and Michael Sedlmair.

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2017) , 2018

    A Perception-Driven Approach to Supervised Dimensionality Reduction for Visualization

    Yunhai Wang, Kang Feng, Xiaowei Chu, Jian Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu, Michael Sedlmair, Xiaohui Yu, and Baoquan Chen.

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , 2018

    Linear Discriminative Star Coordinates for Exploring Class and Cluster Separation of High Dimensional Data

    Yunhai Wang, Jingting Li, Feiping Nie, Holger Theisel, Minglun Gong, Dirk J. Lehmann.

    Computer Graphics Forum Volume 36, Number 3, 2017 ( Proc. of EuroVis 2017 )

    Line Graph or Scatter Plot? Automatic Selection of Methods for Visualizing Trends in Time Series

    Yunhai Wang, Fubo Han, Lifeng Zhu, Oliver Deussen, Baoquan Chen.

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , 2017

    Artificial Multi-Bee-Colony Algorithm for k-Nearest-Neighbor Fields Search

    Yunhai Wang, Yiming Qian, Yang Li, Minglun Gong, Wolfgang Banzhaf.

    Proceedings of The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) , 2016

    A Visual Voting Framework for Weather Forecast Calibration

    Hongsen Liao, Li Chen, Yingcai Wu, Yunhai Wang, Huizhang, Wei Chen.

    Accepted by IEEE Visualization (Conference Track for Scientific Visualization) , 2015

    Distilled Collections from Textual Image Queries

    Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Yunhai Wang*, Yiming Qian, Minglun Gong, Johannes Kopf, Hao Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or

    Computer Graphics Forum , 201 5 ( Proceedings of Eurographics 2015 )

    Forecast Verification and Visualization based on Gaussian Mixture Model Co-estimation

    Yunhai Wang, Chaoran Fan, Jian Zhang, Tao Niu, Song Zhang, Jinrong Jiang

    Accepted by Computer Graphics Forum, 2014

    Interactive shape co-segmentation via label propagation

    Zizhao Wu, Ruyang Shou, Yunhai Wang*, Xinguo Liu

    Computers & Graphics, Volume 3 8 , Number 2 , pp. 248- 2 54, 2014 ( Proceedings of CAD/Graphics 2013)

    Projective Analysis for 3D Shape Segmentation

    Yunhai Wang, Minglun Gong, Tianhua Wang, Daniel Cohen-Or , Hao Zhang, Baoquan Chen

    ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 3 2 , Number 6, 201 3 ( Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2013).

    Unsupervised Co-Segmentation of 3D Shapes via Affinity Aggregation Spectral Clustering

    Zizhao Wu, Yunhai Wang*, Ruyang Shou, Baoquan Chen, Xinguo Liu

    Computers & Graphics, Volume 3 7 , Number 6 , pp. 628- 6 37, 2013 ( Proceedings of SMI 2013)

    Active Co-Analysis of a Set of Shapes

    Yunhai Wang, Shmulik Asafi, Oliver van Kaick, Hao Zhang, Daniel Cohen-Or , Baoquan Chen

    ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 31, Number 6 , 2012 ( Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2012)

    Automating Transfer Function Design with Valley Cell-Based Clustering of 2D Density Plots

    Yunhai Wang, Jian Zhang, Dirk J. Lehmann, Holger Theisel , Xuebin Chi

    Computer Graphics Forum Volume 31, Number 3, 2012 ( Proc. of EuroVis 2012 )

    Efficient Opacity Specification Based on Feature Visibilities in Direct Volume Rendering

    Yunhai Wang, Jian Zhang, Wei Chen, Huai Zhang, Xuebin Chi

    Computer Graphics Forum Volume 30, Number 7, pp. 2117 - 2126, 2011 ( Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 201 1 )

    Efficient Volume Exploration Using the Gaussian Mixture Model

    Yunhai Wang, Wei Chen, Jian Zhang, Guihua Shan, Tingxing Dong , Xuebin Chi

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Volume 17, Number 11, pp. 1560-1573, 2011

     
     
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    PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

    • Reviewer, PacificVis 2010- 2012, EuroVis 2010- 2013, IEEE Vis 2010-2012
    • Reviewer, IEEE TVCG, TVC, CGF
    • Program committee, PacificVis 2014- 2015, IEEE Vis 2010-2014, CAD/Graphics 2015