Dr. Heike Jänicke, Dipl.-Inf., PhD (Leipzig)

→ Now juniorprofessor for "Computer Graphics and Visualization" at Heidelberg University, Germany


Now at Heidelberg University, Germany

In March 2010 I started a position as juniorprofessor for "Computer Graphics and Visualization" at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Research Interests

  • Information theory in visualisation
  • Complexity measures
  • Topology
  • Time-dependent and multivariate data
  • Large scale data
  • Flow, climate and video visualisation

Publications

Papers

  1. H. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
    Measuring Complexity in Lagrangian and Eulerian Flow Descriptions.
    Accepted for publication in Computer Graphics Forum, 2010.
  2. H. Jänicke, R. Borgo, J. Mason and M. Chen.
    SoundRiver: Semantically-Rich Sound Illustration.
    Accepted for EuroGraphics 2010.
  3. P. Oesterling, Ch. Heine, H. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
    Visual Analysis of High Dimensional Point Clouds using Topological Landscapes.
    Accepted for PacificVis 2010.
  4. H. Jänicke and Gerik Scheuermann.
    Visual Analysis of Flow Features Using Information Theory.
    Accepted for publication in Computer Graphics and Applications 2009.
  5. H. Jänicke.
    Information-theoretic Analysis of Time-dependent Data.
    Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization 2009.
  6. H. Jänicke, M. Böttinger, Uwe Mikolajewicz, and G. Scheuermann.
    Visual Exploration of Climate Variability Changes Using Wavelet Analysis.
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp.1375-1382, 2009.
  7. H. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
    Steady Visualization of the Dynamics in Fluids Using epsilon-Machines.
    Computers & Graphics, vol. 33 (Special Issue on Knowledge-assisted Visualization), pp. 597-606, 2009.
  8. H. Jänicke.
    Information Theoretic Methods for the Visual Analysis of Climate and Flow Data.
    PhD thesis, 2009
  9. H. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
    Towards Automatic Feature-based Visualization.
    Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization 2005 and 2007.
  10. H. Jänicke, M. Böttinger, and G. Scheuermann.
    Brushing of Attribute Clouds for the Visualization of Multivariate Data.
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 6 (Nov. 2008), pp. 1459-1466.
  11. H. Jänicke, M. Böttinger, X. Tricoche and G. Scheuermann.
    Automatic Detection and Visualization of Distinctive Structures in 3D Unsteady Multi-fields,
    Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 27, no. 3 (Sep. 2008), pp. 767 - 774.
  12. T. Salzbrunn, H. Jänicke, T. Wischgoll, and G. Scheuermann.
    The State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Partition-based Techniques.
    Simulation and Visualization 2008, pp. 75-92, SCS Publishing House, February 2008.
  13. H. Jänicke, A. Wiebel, G. Scheuermann, and W. Kollmann.
    Multifield Visualization Using Local Statistical Complexity,
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2007), pp. 1384-1391.
  14. A. Wiebel, X. Tricoche, D. Schneider, H. Jänicke, and G. Scheuermann.
    Generalized Streak Lines: Analysis and Visualization of Boundary Induced Vortices,
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2007), pp. 1735-1742.

Workshops and Tutorials

  1. E. Grundy, M. Hoferlin, R. Borgo, M. Chen, D. Weiskopf, W. Griffiths, and H. Jänicke. Making a Case for Visualization during Requirements Analysis, IEEE Visualization 2009, Revise workshop.
  2. J. Huang, C. Wang, H. Jänicke, and J. Woodring. Multivariate Temporal Features in Scientific Data, Tutorial at IEEE Visualization 2009.
    My part: Information Theory in Visualization
  3. Steady Visualization of Unsteady Data, Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization, 2009.
  4. Towards the Identification of Interesting Phenomena in Unsteady Multivariate Data Using epsilon-Machines, IEEE Visualization 2008, Knowledge-assisted Visualization Workshop.
  5. Principles of Information Theory Applied to Visualization, IEEE Visualization 2007, Knowledge-assisted Visualization Workshop.
  6. Towards Automatic Feature Based Visualization, Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization, 2007.

Education

  • since June 2009: PostDoc in the "Visual and Interactive Computing" group at Swansea University
  • 2006 October - 2009 May: Research assistant at the University Leipzig (Department of Image- and Signal-Processing)
  • 2007 October: Research visit to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh/USA) supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation)
  • 2006 September: Diplom (M.Sc.) in Computer Science (special focus on medical computer science) from the University of Leipzig
  • 2005 March-September: Research visit at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) supported by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
  • 2004 October - 2005 February: Computer Science at the Martin Luther University (Halle/Saale)
  • 2003 September: Vordiplom (B.Sc.) in Computer Science from the University of Leipzig
  • 2001 April: Abitur at the Gymnasium Pegnitz

Contact

  • Email: H.Jaenicke@swansea.ac.uk
  • Address: Computer Science Department, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP.