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Among the most impressive recent applications of neural decoding is the visual representation decoding, where the category of an object that a subject either sees or imagines is inferred by observing his/her brain activity. Even though…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Angeliki Papadimitriou , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

The rapidly developing AI systems and applications still require human involvement in practically all parts of the analytics process. Human decisions are largely based on visualizations, providing data scientists details of data properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Salomon Eisler , Joachim Meyer

Designers often create visualizations to achieve specific high-level analytical or communication goals. These goals require people to naturally extract complex, contextualized, and interconnected patterns in data. While limited prior work…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ghulam Jilani Quadri , Arran Zeyu Wang , Zhehao Wang , Jennifer Adorno , Paul Rosen , Danielle Albers Szafir

Task taxonomies for graph and network visualizations focus on tasks commonly encountered when analyzing graph connectivity and topology. However, in many application fields such as the social sciences (social networks), biology (protein…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Bahador Saket , Paolo Simonetto , Stephen Kobourov

Appropriate evaluation is a key component in visualization research. It is typically based on empirical studies that assess visualization components or complete systems. While such studies often include the user of the visualization,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Daniel Weiskopf

Yarbus' claim to decode the observer's task from eye movements has received mixed reactions. In this paper, we have supported the hypothesis that it is possible to decode the task. We conducted an exploratory analysis on the dataset by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Ayush Kumar , Anjul Tyagi , Michael Burch , Daniel Weiskopf , Klaus Mueller

A growing number of efforts aim to understand what people see when using a visualization. These efforts provide scientific grounding to complement design intuitions, leading to more effective visualization practice. However, published…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Madison Elliott , Christine Nothelfer , Cindy Xiong , Danielle Szafir

Despite decision-making being a vital goal of data visualization, little work has been done to differentiate decision-making tasks within the field. While visualization task taxonomies and typologies exist, they often focus on more granular…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Camelia D. Brumar , Sam Molnar , Gabriel Appleby , Kristi Potter , Remco Chang

Predicting human perceptual similarity is a challenging subject of ongoing research. The visual process underlying this aspect of human vision is thought to employ multiple different levels of visual analysis (shapes, objects, texture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Amir Rosenfeld , Richard Zemel , John K. Tsotsos

Machine learning has been extensively used in various applications related to eye-tracking research. Understanding eye movement is one of the most significant subsets of eye-tracking research that reveals the scanning pattern of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shanmuka Sadhu , Arca Baran , Preeti Pandey , Ayush Kumar

Research on human face processing using eye movements has provided evidence that we recognize face images successfully focusing our visual attention on a few inner facial regions, mainly on the eyes, nose and mouth. To understand how we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Carlos E. Thomaz , Vagner Amaral , Gilson A. Giraldi , Duncan F. Gillies , Daniel Rueckert

Eye-gaze tracking research offers significant promise in enhancing various healthcare-related tasks, above all in medical image analysis and interpretation. Eye tracking, a technology that monitors and records the movement of the eyes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Sahar Moradizeyveh , Mehnaz Tabassum , Sidong Liu , Robert Ahadizad Newport , Amin Beheshti , Antonio Di Ieva

Trust is an essential aspect of data visualization, as it plays a crucial role in the interpretation and decision-making processes of users. While research in social sciences outlines the multi-dimensional factors that can play a role in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Hamza Elhamdadi , Adam Stefkovics , Johanna Beyer , Eric Moerth , Cindy Xiong Bearfield , Carolina Nobre

A wide variety of use case templates supports different variants to link a use case with its associated requirements. Regardless of the linking, a reader must process the related information simultaneously to understand them. Linking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Oliver Karras , Alexandra Risch , Jil Klünder

Multi-task learning can leverage information learned by one task to benefit the training of other tasks. Despite this capacity, naively training all tasks together in one model often degrades performance, and exhaustively searching through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Christopher Fifty , Ehsan Amid , Zhe Zhao , Tianhe Yu , Rohan Anil , Chelsea Finn

We address the problem of learning a single model for person re-identification, attribute classification, body part segmentation, and pose estimation. With predictions for these tasks we gain a more holistic understanding of persons, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kilian Pfeiffer , Alexander Hermans , István Sárándi , Mark Weber , Bastian Leibe

Trust plays a critical role in visual data communication and decision-making, yet existing visualization research employs varied trust measures, making it challenging to compare and synthesize findings across studies. In this work, we first…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Huichen Will Wang , Kylie Lin , Andrew Cohen , Ryan Kennedy , Zach Zwald , Carolina Nobre , Cindy Xiong Bearfield

In this paper, we describe our study on how humans allocate their attention during visual crowd counting. Using an eye tracker, we collect gaze behavior of human participants who are tasked with counting the number of people in crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Raji Annadi , Yupei Chen , Viresh Ranjan , Dimitris Samaras , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai

When searching for an object in a scene, how does the brain decide where to look next? Theories of visual search suggest the existence of a global attentional map, computed by integrating bottom-up visual information with top-down,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-28 Thomas Miconi , Laura Groomes , Gabriel Kreiman

Eye-tracking has potential to provide rich behavioral data about human cognition in ecologically valid environments. However, analyzing this rich data is often challenging. Most automated analyses are specific to simplistic artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Karan Uppal , Jaeah Kim , Shashank Singh