Graph signal processing for visual analysis and data exploration

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Valdivia, Paola Tatiana Llerena
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Análise visual; Filtragem espectral em grafos; Graph signal processing; Information visualization; Processamento de sinais em gratos; Spectral graph filtering; Spectral graph wavelets transform; Transformada espectral wavelets em grafos; Visual analytics; Visualização de informação
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-15102018-165426/

Signal processing is used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from digital image processing to biomedicine. Recently, some tools from signal processing have been extended to the context of graphs, allowing its use on irregular domains. Among others, the Fourier Transform and the Wavelet Transform have been adapted to such context. Graph signal processing (GSP) is a new field with many potential applications on data exploration. In this dissertation we show how tools from graph signal processing can be used for visual analysis. Specifically, we proposed a data filtering method, based on spectral graph filtering, that led to high quality visualizations which were attested qualitatively and quantitatively. On the other hand, we relied on the graph wavelet transform to enable the visual analysis of massive time-varying data revealing interesting phenomena and events. The proposed applications of GSP to visually analyze data are a first step towards incorporating the use of this theory into information visualization methods. Many possibilities from GSP can be explored by improving the understanding of static and time-varying phenomena that are yet to be uncovered.