11.12.2025 IfI Colloquium:Visual Analytics of Industrial Data Sets
Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Tobias Schreck, TU Graz, Austria
Date: Thursday, 11 December 2025, 17:15
Location: room BIN 2.A.01 at the Department of Informatics (IfI), Binzmühlestrasse 14, 8050 Zürich
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Abstract
Visual Analytics approaches integrate interactive data visualization with automated data analysis, to support users in understanding large data sets. Visual Analytics approaches to data have been developed and evaluated in many different application domains, supporting tasks in data exploration, pattern discovery, confirmatory analysis, and presentation tasks. An important application domain are industrial production processes. Due to digitalization efforts, large amounts of potentially very valuable data arise from production and testing processes. However, large data volumes, high-frequent measurements, and multidimensional and multimodal data, and often lack of labelled data, make its analysis a challenge. We present approaches from our work in visual analysis of industrial data sets. We discuss approaches for exploration of process and simulation data, for anomaly detection in time series and signal data, and interactive labeling and rule generation in testing data. We discuss challenges and opportunities in industrial data analysis, including recent approaches in user guidance, and natural language interaction with visual analytics systems.
Bio
Tobias Schreck is a Professor with the Institute of Visual Computing (formerly Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization) at Graz University of Technology, where he leads a research group on Visual Analytics. Research questions are how large collections of data, e.g., high-dimensional, spatio-temporal, or 3D object data, can be visualized and interactively explored for data understanding and decision making. Application areas include visual analysis of engineering and industrial data, multimodal biomedical data, health information data, and cultural heritage 3D object data.
Tobias Schreck is a principal investigator in the Horizon Europe HEREDITARY project [https://hereditary-project.eu/] (2024-2027), the FFG Lead Project PRESENT (2023-2026) [https://www.tugraz.at/institute/cgv/research/projects/present], coordinator of the FWF research group A+CHIS (2021-2026) [https://apchis.cgv.tugraz.at/], and a key researcher in the Pro2Future competence center [https://www.pro2future.at/start-en/]. He has served as papers co-chair for the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (now IEEE VIS) in 2017 and 2018, and as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics in 2018-2021.