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Visualizing Uncertainty with Simulated Chromatic Aberration
  DOI :  10.2352/J.Percept.Imaging.2024.7.000403  Published Online :  September 2024
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The area of uncertainty visualization attempts to determine the impact of alternative representations and evaluate their effectiveness in decision-making. Uncertainties are often an integral part of data, and model predictions often contain a significant amount of uncertain information. In this study, we explore a novel idea for a visualization to present data uncertainty using simulated chromatic aberration (CA). To produce uncertain data to visualize, we first utilized existing machine learning models to generate predictive results using public health data. We then visualize the data itself and the associated uncertainties with artificially spatially separated color channels, and the user perception of this CA representation is evaluated in a comparative user study. From quantitative analysis, it is observed that users are able to identify targets with the CA method more accurately than the comparator state-of-the-art approach. In addition, the speed of target identification was significantly faster in CA as compared to the alternative, but the subjective preferences of users do not vary significantly between the two.

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Rashidul Islam, Stephen Brooks, "Visualizing Uncertainty with Simulated Chromatic Aberration"  in Color and Imaging Conference,  2024,  pp 1 - 16,  https://doi.org/10.2352/J.Percept.Imaging.2024.7.000403

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  • received May 2024
  • accepted August 2024
  • PublishedSeptember 2024

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