VAST 2009 Challenge Workshop presentation
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VAST 2009 Challenge Results
Solutions and materials submitted all the teams can be found (along with other benchmarks) in the Visual Analytics Benchmarks Repository. under the VAST 2009 Challenge Benchmarks
Team Name Award
Georgia Institute of Technology (student team)
Jaegul Choo, Emily Fujimoto, Hanseung Lee, Pedro R. Walteros
- Traffic Mini Challenge: Good Analytical Technique
LaBRI, INRIA Bordeaux (student team)
Paolo Simonetto, Pierre-Yves Koenig, Faraz Zaidi, Daniel Archambault, Frédéric Gilbert, Trung-Tien Phan-Quang, Morgan Mathiaut, Antoine Lambert, Jonathan Dubois, Ronan Sicre, Mathieu Brulin, Remy Vieux, Guy Melançon
- Traffic Mini Challenge: Innovative visualization & excellent description
- Flitter Mini Challenge: Representation of uncertainty in rules & in visualization
Palantir Technologies
Brandon Wright, Jason Payne, Matthew Steckman, Scott Stevson
- Traffic Mini Challenge: Intuitive traffic visualization and video description of the analysis process
- Grand Challenge: Analyst’s tool choice
SONIVIS - University of Stuttgart
Claudia Müller-Birn, Lukas Birn
- Traffic Mini Challenge: Good tool flexibility
University of Konstanz (student team)
Peter Bak, Christian Rohrdantz, Svenja Leifert, Christoph Granacher, Stefan Koch, Simon Butscher, Patrick Jungk, Daniel A. Keim
- Traffic Mini Challenge: Excellent analytical technique featuring integration of data mining and visual analytics
- Flitter Mini Challenge: Good analytic debrief
- Grand Challenge: Outstanding integration of mini-challenge results into debrief
HRL Laboratories
David Allen, Tsai-Ching Lu, Dave Huber
- Traffic Mini Challenge: Intuitive visual presentation of alibis; best “one-screen shot” of the solution
University of California, Davis (student team)
Chad Jones, Michael Ogawa, James Shearer, Anna Tikhonova, Kwan-Liu Ma
- Traffic Mini Challenge: Good clarity of analysis supported by visuals
- Video Mini Challenge: Good integration of open source tools for video analysis
University of Ulm & Derivo
Thorsten Liebig, Olaf Noppens, Friedrich von Henke
- Flitter Mini Challenge: Novel visualization of effect of rule application
giCentre, City University London
Jo Wood, Aidan Slingsby, Naz Khalili-Shavarini, Jason Dykes, David Mountain
- Flitter Mini Challenge: Good visualization of uncertainty & analysis of geographical data
University of Michigan (student team)
Hao Zhou, Anna A. Shaverdian, H.V. Jagadish, George Michailidis
- Flitter Mini Challenge: Good tool adaption
Lorne Leonard, The Pennsylvania State University
Lorne Leonard
- Flitter Mini Challenge: Good use of competing hypotheses
MTA SZTAKI
Dóra Erdős, Zsolt Fekete, András Lukács
- Flitter Mini Challenge:Good analytical debrief
Universität Stuttgart
Harald Bosch, Julian Heinrich, Benjamin Höferlin, Markus Höferlin, Steffen Koch, Christoph Müller, Guido Reina, Michael Wörner
- Flitter Mini Challenge: Innovative analytic tool
- Video Mini Challenge: Outstanding video analysis tool
- Grand Challenge: Excellent example of Analytic tradecraft
International Institute of Information Technology (student team)
Shraddha Agrawal, Kollukuduru Sravanthi, Soujanya Vadapalli, Kamalakar Karlapalem
- Traffic Mini challenge: Intuitive analytic information presentation
Virginia Tech
Alex Endert, Christopher Andrews, Glenn A. Fink, Chris North
- Traffic Mini challenge: Special contributions to the VAST Challenge Contest
Vision Systems & Technology, Inc.
Edward Swing
- Traffic Mini challenge: Excellent analysis facilitated by a customizable toolset