krueger lab

Research

The krueger lab designs and develops scalable visual analytics approaches. Visual analytics is an emerging research field to tackle big data analysis challenges. It creates added value by combining the processing power and accuracy of machines with human capabilities to perceive information visually. Automatic means (machine learning and KDD) are used to aggregate and classify data and to detect hidden patterns. Interactive visualizations allow to explore and query the data and to steer automatic processes with domain knowledge. This increases trust in data, models, and results, which is especially important when critical decisions need to be made. The strengths of visual analytics have been shown to be particularly advantageous when problems and goals are underspecified and exploratory means are needed to discover yet unknown patterns. The krueger lab especially focuses on visualization and analytics of large imaging data as it appears in biological, biomedical, and geographical contexts.

Below is a list of former publications in the field which will be updated with lab publications once the lab has officially started.

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2022

Visinity: Visual Spatial Neighborhood Analysis for Multiplexed Tissue Imaging Data
Visinity: Visual Spatial Neighborhood Analysis for Multiplexed Tissue Imaging Data
Simon Warchol, Robert Krueger, Ajit Johnson Nirmal, Giorgio Gaglia, Jared Jessup, ..., Megan L. Burger, Tyler Jacks, Sandro Santagata, Peter K. Sorger, Hanspeter Pfister
IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics   ·   09 May 2022   ·   doi:10.1101/2022.05.09.490039

2020

Minerva: a light-weight, narrative image browser for multiplexed tissue images
Minerva: a light-weight, narrative image browser for multiplexed tissue images
John Hoffer, Rumana Rashid, Jeremy Muhlich, Yu-An Chen, Douglas Russell, Juha Ruokonen, Robert Krueger, Hanspeter Pfister, Sandro Santagata, Peter Sorger
Journal of Open Source Software   ·   15 Oct 2020   ·   doi:10.21105/joss.02579
Online narrative guides for illuminating tissue atlas data and digital pathology images
Online narrative guides for illuminating tissue atlas data and digital pathology images
Rumana Rashid, Yu-An Chen, John Hoffer, Jeremy L. Muhlich, Jia-Ren Lin, Robert Krueger, Hanspeter Pfister, Richard Mitchell, Sandro Santagata, Peter K. Sorger
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory   ·   30 Mar 2020   ·   doi:10.1101/2020.03.27.001834
Facetto: Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Learning for Hierarchical Phenotype Analysis in Multi-Channel Image Data
Facetto: Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Learning for Hierarchical Phenotype Analysis in Multi-Channel Image Data
Robert Krueger, Johanna Beyer, Won-Dong Jang, Nam Wook Kim, Artem Sokolov, Peter K. Sorger, Hanspeter Pfister
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics   ·   01 Jan 2020   ·   doi:10.1109/tvcg.2019.2934547

2019

Bird's‐Eye ‐ Large‐Scale Visual Analytics of City Dynamics using Social Location Data
Bird's‐Eye ‐ Large‐Scale Visual Analytics of City Dynamics using Social Location Data
Robert Krueger, Qi Han, Nikolay Ivanov, Sanae Mahtal, Dennis Thom, Hanspeter Pfister, Thomas Ertl
Computer Graphics Forum   ·   01 Jun 2019   ·   doi:10.1111/cgf.13713
Visual Interaction with Deep Learning Models through Collaborative Semantic Inference
Visual Interaction with Deep Learning Models through Collaborative Semantic Inference
Sebastian Gehrmann, Hendrik Strobelt, Robert Kruger, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander M. Rush
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics   ·   01 Jan 2019   ·   doi:10.1109/tvcg.2019.2934595

2018

Visual Pattern-Driven Exploration of Big Data
Visual Pattern-Driven Exploration of Big Data
Michael Behrisch, Robert Krueger, Fritz Lekschas, Tobias Schreck, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister
2018 International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA)   ·   01 Oct 2018   ·   doi:10.1109/bdva.2018.8534028
Visual Interactive Map Matching
Visual Interactive Map Matching
Robert Kruger, Georgi Simeonov, Fabian Beck, Thomas Ertl
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics   ·   01 Jun 2018   ·   doi:10.1109/tvcg.2018.2816219
Immersive Modular Factory Layout Planning using Augmented Reality
Immersive Modular Factory Layout Planning using Augmented Reality
Dominik Herr, Jan Reinhardt, Guido Reina, Robert Krüger, Rafael V. Ferrari, Thomas Ertl
Procedia CIRP   ·   01 Jan 2018   ·   doi:10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.200

2017

VESPa 2.0: Data-Driven Behavior Models for Visual Analytics of Movement Sequences
VESPa 2.0: Data-Driven Behavior Models for Visual Analytics of Movement Sequences
Robert Krueger, Tina Tremel, Dennis Thom
2017 International Symposium on Big Data Visual Analytics (BDVA)   ·   01 Nov 2017   ·   doi:10.1109/bdva.2017.8114626
Towards Interaction Techniques for Social Media Data Exploration on Large High-Resolution Displays
Towards Interaction Techniques for Social Media Data Exploration on Large High-Resolution Displays
Lars Lischke, Jan Hoffmann, Robert Krüger, Patrick Bader, Paweł W. Wozniak, Albrecht Schmidt
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems   ·   06 May 2017   ·   doi:10.1145/3027063.3053229
Visual Querying of Semantically Enriched Movement Data
Visual Querying of Semantically Enriched Movement Data
Florian Haag, Robert Krüger, Thomas Ertl
Communications in Computer and Information Science   ·   01 Jan 2017   ·   doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64870-5_12

2016

Saccadelenses: interactive exploratory filtering of eye tracking trajectories
Saccadelenses: interactive exploratory filtering of eye tracking trajectories
Robert Krueger, Steffen Koch, Thomas Ertl
2016 IEEE Second Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS)   ·   23 Oct 2016   ·   doi:10.1109/etvis.2016.7851162
Engaging people to participate in data collection
Engaging people to participate in data collection
Patrick Tobien, Lars Lischke, Marco Hirsch, Robert Krüger, Paul Lukowicz, Albrecht Schmidt
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct   ·   12 Sep 2016   ·   doi:10.1145/2968219.2971420
Can Twitter Save Lives? A Broad-Scale Study on Visual Social Media Analytics for Public Safety
Can Twitter Save Lives? A Broad-Scale Study on Visual Social Media Analytics for Public Safety
Dennis Thom, Robert Kruger, Thomas Ertl
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics   ·   01 Jul 2016   ·   doi:10.1109/tvcg.2015.2511733
TravelDiff: Visual comparison analytics for massive movement patterns derived from Twitter
TravelDiff: Visual comparison analytics for massive movement patterns derived from Twitter
Robert Krueger, Guodao Sun, Fabian Beck, Ronghua Liang, Thomas Ertl
2016 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)   ·   01 Apr 2016   ·   doi:10.1109/pacificvis.2016.7465266
VESPa: A Pattern-based Visual Query Language for Event Sequences
VESPa: A Pattern-based Visual Query Language for Event Sequences
Florian Haag, Robert Krüger, Thomas Ertl
Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications   ·   01 Jan 2016   ·   doi:10.5220/0005716900480059

2015

Semantic Enrichment of Movement Behavior with Foursquare–A Visual Analytics Approach
Semantic Enrichment of Movement Behavior with Foursquare–A Visual Analytics Approach
Robert Krueger, Dennis Thom, Thomas Ertl
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics   ·   01 Aug 2015   ·   doi:10.1109/tvcg.2014.2371856
Can twitter really save your life? A case study of visual social media analytics for situation awareness
Can twitter really save your life? A case study of visual social media analytics for situation awareness
Dennis Thom, Robert Kruger, Thomas Ertl, Ulrike Bechstedt, Axel Platz, Julia Zisgen, Bernd Volland
2015 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)   ·   01 Apr 2015   ·   doi:10.1109/pacificvis.2015.7156376
Data-Driven Exploration of Real-Time Geospatial Text Streams
Data-Driven Exploration of Real-Time Geospatial Text Streams
Harald Bosch, Robert Krüger, Dennis Thom
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases   ·   01 Jan 2015   ·   doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23461-8_14

2014

Integrating predictive analytics and social media
Integrating predictive analytics and social media
Yafeng Lu, Robert Kruger, Dennis Thom, Feng Wang, Steffen Koch, Thomas Ertl, Ross Maciejewski
2014 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)   ·   01 Oct 2014   ·   doi:10.1109/vast.2014.7042495
Visual Analysis of Movement Behavior Using Web Data for Context Enrichment
Visual Analysis of Movement Behavior Using Web Data for Context Enrichment
Robert Krueger, Dennis Thom, Thomas Ertl
2014 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium   ·   01 Mar 2014   ·   doi:10.1109/pacificvis.2014.57

2013

ScatterBlogs2: Real-Time Monitoring of Microblog Messages through User-Guided Filtering
ScatterBlogs2: Real-Time Monitoring of Microblog Messages through User-Guided Filtering
Harald Bosch, Dennis Thom, Florian Heimerl, Edwin Puttmann, Steffen Koch, Robert Kruger, Michael Worner, Thomas Ertl
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics   ·   01 Dec 2013   ·   doi:10.1109/tvcg.2013.186
TrajectoryLenses - A Set-based Filtering and Exploration Technique for Long-term Trajectory Data
TrajectoryLenses - A Set-based Filtering and Exploration Technique for Long-term Trajectory Data
Robert Krüger, Dennis Thom, Michael Wörner, Harald Bosch, Thomas Ertl
Computer Graphics Forum   ·   01 Jun 2013   ·   doi:10.1111/cgf.12132