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Publications (27)

cs.HC2014

Illustrating Polymerization using Three-level Model Fusion

Ivan Kolesar, Julius Parulek, Ivan Viola +3

Research in cell biology is steadily contributing new knowledge about many different aspects of physiological processes like polymerization, both with respect to the involved molec…

cs.GR2019

ScaleTrotter: Illustrative Visual Travels Across Negative Scales

Sarkis Halladjian, Haichao Miao, David Kouřil +3

We present ScaleTrotter, a conceptual framework for an interactive, multi-scale visualization of biological mesoscale data and, specifically, genome data. ScaleTrotter allows viewe…

cs.GR2020

Visual Abstraction

Ivan Viola, Min Chen, Tobias Isenberg

In this article we revisit the concept of abstraction as it is used in visualization and put it on a solid formal footing. While the term \emph{abstraction} is utilized in many sci…

cs.AI2026

Hybrid Advantage Estimation with Unified Critic for VLM Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Wenxuan Zhang, Yuhui Wang, Donggang Jia +5

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) now act as agents in interactive environments, where success requires coherent reasoning and decision-making across turns. Although end-to-end t…

cs.CV2026

EfficientMonoHair: Fast Strand-Level Reconstruction from Monocular Video via Multi-View Direction Fusion

Da Li, Dominik Engel, Deng Luo +1

Strand-level hair geometry reconstruction is a fundamental problem in virtual human modeling and the digitization of hairstyles. However, existing methods still suffer from a signi…

q-bio.QM2022

SynopSet: Multiscale Visual Abstraction Set for Explanatory Analysis of DNA Nanotechnology Simulations

Deng Luo, Alexandre Kouyoumdjian, Ondřej Strnad +3

We propose a new abstraction set (SynopSet) that has a continuum of visual representations for the explanatory analysis of molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) in the DNA nanotechn…