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Best Paper Awards

VAST

Best Paper Award

TPFlow: Progressive Partition and Multidimensional Pattern Extraction for Large-Scale Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis
Authors: Dongyu Liu, Panpan Xu, Liu Ren

Best Paper Honorable Mention

A Visual Analytics Framework for the Detection of Anomalous Call Stack Trees in High Performance Computing Applications
Authors: Cong Xie, Wei Xu, Klaus Mueller

DQNViz: A Visual Analytics Approach to Understand Deep Q-Networks
Authors: Junpeng Wang, Liang Gou, Han-Wei Shen, Hao Yang

Seq2Seq-Vis: A Visual Debugging Tool for Sequence to Sequence Models
Authors: Hendrik Strobelt, Sebastian Gehrmann, Michael Behrisch, Adam Perer, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander M. Rush

InfoVis

Best Paper Award

Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco
Authors: Dominik Moritz, Chenglong Wang, Greg L. Nelson, Halden Lin, Adam M. Smith, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Charticulator: Interactive Construction of Bespoke Chart Layouts
Authors: Donghao Ren, Bongshin Lee, Matthew Brehmer

Mapping Color to Meaning in Colormap Data Visualizations
Authors: Karen B. Schloss, Connor C. Gramazio, Allison T. Silverman, Madeline L. Parker, Audrey S. Wang

Design Exposition with Literate Visualization
Authors: Jo Wood, Alexander Kachkaev, Jason Dykes

SciVis

Best Paper Award

Deadeye: A Novel Preattentive Visualization Technique Based on Dichoptic Presentation
Authors: Andrey Krekhov, Jens Krüger

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Labels on Levels: Labeling of Multi-Scale Multi-Instance and Crowded 3D Biological Environments
Authors: David Kouřil, Ladislav Čmolík, Barbora Kozlíková, Hsiang-Yun Wu, Graham Johnson, David S. Goodsell, Arthur Olson, Eduard Gröller, Ivan Viola

Firefly: Illumination Drones for Interactive Visualization
Authors: Sergej Stoppel, Magnus Paulson Erga, Stefan Bruckner