Visual analysis of time series data is an important, yet challenging task
with many application examples in fields such as financial or news stream
data analysis. Many visual time series analysis approaches consider a global
perspective on the time series. Fewer approaches consider visual analysis of
local patterns in time series, and often rely on interactive specification of
the local area of interest. We present initial results of an approach that is
based on automatic detection of local interest points. We follow an
overview-first approach to find useful parameters for the interest point
detection, and details-on-demand to relate the found patterns. We present
initial results and detail possible extensions of the approach.