Best paper and honorable mention awards are selected per conference track by a dedicated committee of experienced community members. Both awards recognize outstanding work from the pool of accepted papers in each conference track. Best paper committees use a variety of criteria to select the best paper including potential impact to the community, the importance of any results obtained, technical challenges overcome, etc.
VAST
Best Paper Award
VATLD: A Visual Analytics System to Assess, Understand and Improve Traffic Light Detection
Authors: Liang Gou, Lincan Zou, Nanxiang Li, Michael Hofmann, Shekar Arvind Kumar, Axel Wendt, and Liu Ren
Best Paper Honorable Mention
In Search of Patient Zero: Visual Analytics of Pathogen Transmission Pathways in Hospitals
Authors: Tom Baumgartl, Markus Petzold_, Marcel Wunderlich, Markus Höhn, Daniel Archambault, Michael Lieser, Alexander Dalpke, Simone Scheithauer, Michael Marschollek, Vanessa M. Eichel, Nico T. Mutters, and Tatiana von Landesberger
Preserving Minority Structures in Graph Sampling
Authors: Ying Zhao, Haojin Jiang, Qi’an Chen, Yaqi Qin, Huixuan Xie, Yitao Wu, Shixia Liu, Zhiguang Zhou, Jiazhi Xia, and Fangfang Zhou
InfoVis
Best Paper Award
Visual Reasoning Strategies and Satisficing: How Uncertainty Visualization Design Impacts Effect Size Judgments and Decisions
Authors: Alex Kale, Matthew Kay, and Jessica Hullman
Best Paper Honorable Mention
A Design Space of Vision Science Methods for Visualization Research
Authors: Madison Elliott, Christine Nothelfer Nielsen, Cindy Xiong, and Danielle Albers Szafir
A Simple Pipeline for Coherent Grid Maps
Authors: Wouter Meulemans, Max Sondag, and Bettina Speckmann
A Generic Framework and Library for Exploration of Small Multiples through Interactive Piling
Authors: Fritz Lekschas, Xinyi Zhou, Wei Chen, Nils Gehlenborg, Benjamin Bach, and Hanspeter Pfister
Data Visceralization: Enabling Deeper Understanding of Data Using Virtual Reality
Authors: Benjamin Lee, David Brown, Bongshin Lee, Christophe Hurter, Steven Drucker, and Tim Dwyer
SciVis
Best Paper Award
Objective Observer-Relative Flow Visualization in Curved Spaces for Unsteady 2D Geophysical Flows
Authors: Peter Rautek, Matej Mlejnek, Johanna Beyer, Jakob Troidl, Hanspeter Pfister, Thomas Theussl, Markus Hadwiger
Best Paper Honorable Mention
Interactive Black Hole Visualization
Authors: Annemieke Verbraeck, Elmar Eisemann
Short Papers Awards
Best Paper Award
The Anatomical Edutainer
Authors: Marwin Schindler, Hsiang-Yun,
Renata Georgia Raidou
Best Paper Honorable Mention
Encodable: Configurable Grammar
for Visualization Components
Author: Krist Wongsuphasawat
PRAGMA: Interactively Constructing
Functional Brain Parcellations
Authors: Authors: Roza Gunes Bayrak, Nhung
Hoang, Colin Blake Hansen, Catie Chang, Matthew Berger