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Updates

Paper "Visualizing Flow of Uncertainty through Analytical Processes" was accepted by IEEE Information Visualization 2012.
Paper "Breaking News on Twitter" was accepted by ACM SIGCHI 2012. This work was reported by MSNBC; Washington Times; ReadWriteWeb; LA Times; Poynter; GT news
Paper "ViSizer - A Visualization Resizing Framework" was accepted by IEEE TVCG and was selected for presentation in VisWeek 2012.
Paper "Perceptually Based Depth-Ordering Enhancement for Direct Volume Rendering" was accepted by IEEE TVCG.

Short Bio

Yingcai Wu is an associate researcher at the Internet Graphics group in Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, China in 2009, under the supervision of Dr. Huamin Qu, and obtained his B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 2004. Prior to his current position, Dr. Wu was a postdoctoral researcher at the Visualization research group in HKUST from January to May 2010, and at the Visualization and interface Design Innovation (VIDi) research group in the University of California, Davis from June 2010 to March 2012.

Awards and Honors

Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award at IEEE Visualization 2009
Best Poster Award Candidate, IEEE Visualization 2007
Best Poster Award Candidate, IEEE Visualization 2006

Research Interests

Visual Analytics of Social Media Data, Visual Analytics of Search Log Data
Information Visualization - Uncertainty Visualization, Text Visualization, Graph Visualization, Parallel Coordinates, Perception-Based Vsiualization
Scientific Visualization - Direct Volume Rendering, Transfer Function Design, Viewpoint Selection, Geographical Data Visualization
Intelligent User Interface

Professional Activities

Program Committee: Visual Information Communication - International Symposium (VINCI) 2012
Program Committee: Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2011, 2012
Program Committee: IEEE Pacific Visualization 2011, 2012, 2013
Poster Chair: Visual Information Communication - International Symposium (VINCI) 2011
Reviewer of Pacific Graphics 2011, 2012
Reviewer of EuroVis 2011, 2012
Reviewer of IEEE Visualization 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
Reviewer of IEEE Information Visualization 2011, 2012
Reviewer of IEEE VAST 2011, 2012
Reviewer of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2008, 2009, 2010
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Reviewer of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Reviewer of Information Visualization Journal

Selected Publications

Visualizing Flow of Uncertainty through Analytical Processes
Yingcai Wu, Guo-Xun Yuan, Kwan-Liu Ma.
Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis 2012)

Perceptually Based Depth-Ordering Enhancement for Direct Volume Rendering
Lin Zheng, Yingcai Wu, Kwan-Liu Ma
Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2012)

ViSizer - A Visualization Resizing Framework.
Yingcai Wu, Xiaotong Liu, Shixia Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma
Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
(Selected for presentation in VisWeek 2012)

Breaking News on Twitter?
Mengdie Hu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Yingcai Wu, John Stasko, Kwan-Liu Ma.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI 2012.

Semantic-Preserving Word Cloud Generation by Seam Carving.
Yingcai Wu, Thomas Provan, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2011).

Visual Recommendations for Network Navigation.
Tarik Crnovrsanin, Isaac Liao, Yingcai Wu, Kwan-Liu Ma.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2011).

Visibility-Aware Direct Volume Rendering.
Wai-Ho Mak, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan, and Huamin Qu.
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 26(2): 217-228, 2011.

Context-preserving Dynamic Word Cloud Visualization.
Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Michelle X. Zhou, and Huamin Qu.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 30(6):42–53, 2010.

OpinionSeer: Interactive Visualization of Online Hotel Customer Feedback.
Yingcai Wu, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu, Norman Au, Weiwei Zhou, Hong Zhou, and Huamin Qu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis 2010)

Context preserving dynamic word cloud visualization.
Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Furu Wei, Michelle X. Zhou, and Huamin Qu.
In IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010.

Quantitative effectiveness measures for direct volume rendered images.
Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, and Ming-Yuen Chan.
In IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010.

Perception-based transparency optimization for direct volume rendering.
Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Wai-Ho Mak, Wei Chen, and Huamin Qu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2009)
Honorable Mention Award, Best Paper Candidate.

Focus+context route zooming and information overlay in 3d urban environments.
Huamin Qu, Haomian Wang, Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, and Ming-Yuen Chan.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2009)
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Interactive visual optimization and analysis for RFID benchmarking.
Yingcai Wu, Ka-Kei Chung, Huamin Qu, Xiaoru Yuan, and S.C. Cheung.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2009)

Splatting the lines in parallel coordinates.
Hong Zhou, Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu, Xiaoru Yuan, and Wei Zhuo.
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2009)

Relation-aware volume exploration pipeline.
Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, and Yingcai Wu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2008)

Interactive transfer function design based on editing direct volume rendered images.
Yingcai Wu and Huamin Qu.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics (TVCG), 13(5):1027–1040, 2007.

Quality enhancement of direct volume rendered images.
Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, and Huamin Qu.
In IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics, pages 25–32. 2007.
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Palette-style volume visualization.
Yingcai Wu, Anbang Xu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, and Ping Guo.
In IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics, pages 33 –40. 2007.

Mip-guided image visualization with multi-dimensional transfer function.
Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Albert C.S. Chung, and Wilbur C. K. Wong.
In Computer Graphics International Conference, pages 372–384. 2006.

Controllable and progressive edge clustering for large networks.
Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, and Yingcai Wu.
In International Symposium on Graph Drawing, pages 399–404. 2006.

Quantitative effectiveness metrics for direct volume rendering.
Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, and Anbang Xu.
In IEEE Visualization 2007. 2007. Poster
Best Poster Candidate.

Transfer function fusing.
Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, and Ming-Yuen Chan.
In IEEE Visualization. 2006. Poster
Best Poster Candidate.