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Dr. rer. nat. Michael Burch

Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Visualization Research Center (VISUS), Stuttgart, Germany. I am born on April, 5, 1976 in Merzig (Saarland, Germany).

If you are interested in my research please let me know and write an email:

michael.burch@visus.uni-stuttgart.de

If you are interested in more details about my publications you can also visit MY OWN HOMEPAGE. This page is still under construction.

 

 

In the winter semester 2011/12 I will give the lecture Information Visualization. To have an overview about how many students will participate, please write me an email. Thank you!

Research

My main research interests are in Information Visualization. I am looking for solutions to represent dynamic directed and weighted graphs with an additional hierarchical organization of the nodes in a static diagram supported by interactive features. Furthermore, I am working for visualizations of huge hierarchical data sets with the goal to have a good overview of the complete data set in a single image. In many cases, each hierarchical entity is attached to dynamic quantitative information. The challenge is to also encode this dynamic information in the hierarchy and to interactively navigate in it.

Some other research interests are in comparative user studies and evaluations by eye tracking techniques. I am also very interested in Visual Analytics and movement data (trajectories).

I started my research in visual data mining and software visualization at the University of Saarbruecken in 2005 and wrote my diploma thesis about 'Visualizing Large Rule Sets to Detect Patterns and Anomalies'. I received my PhD in 2010 from the University of Trier with the title 'Visualizing Static and Dynamic Relations in Information Hierarchies'.

Publications

Layered TimeRadarTrees for a dense dynamic graph containing 34 vertices and 1156 edges evolving over 6000 time steps resulting in more than 6,000,000 data points
A TimeEdgeTree representing dynamic water level data for the river Rhine and its confluents
An Indented Pixel Tree Plot containing more than 300,000 hierarchically organized species classified in the NCBI taxonomy
The Subversion Statistics Sifter GUI for exploring Subversion repositories
A TimeSpiderTrees representation showing soccer match results over a time period
The results of the evaluation comparing radial and Cartesian diagrams as a heatmap representation
A TimeArcTrees diagram showing a sequence of directed graphs for traffic jam situations during a day in the region of the Ruhrgebiet in Germany
A histogram showing the distribution of support and confidence of evolutionary couplings in an open source software system
A TimeRadarTrees diagram representing a sequence of 14 dynamic directed compound graphs expressing soccer match results of national soccer teams
Heatmap generated by the eye tracking study comparing radial TimeRadarTrees with Cartesian TimeLine Trees
A Timeline Trees representation for dynamic soccer data expressing the set of players involved in a common move

2011

Fabian Beck, Martin Puppe, Patrick Braun, Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl. Edge Bundling without Reducing the Source to Target Traceability. In Poster Abstracts of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 17(6). Providence (USA). 2011. (to appear).

Michael Burch, Corinna Vehlow, Natalia Konevtsova, Daniel Weiskopf. Evaluating Partially Drawn Links for Directed Graph Edges. In 19th International Symposium on Graph Drawing. Eindhoven (NET). Pages ...-.... 2011 (to appear).

Michael Burch, Julian Heinrich, Natalia Konevtsova, Markus Hoeferlin, Daniel Weiskopf. Evaluation of Traditional, Orthogonal, and Radial Tree Diagrams by an Eye Tracking Study. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 17(6). Providence (USA). Pages ...-.... 2011 (to appear).

Michael Burch, Corinna Vehlow, Fabian Beck, Stephan Diehl, Daniel Weiskopf. Parallel Edge Splatting for Scalable Dynamic Graph Visualization. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 17(6). Providence (USA). Pages ...-.... 2011 (to appear).

Julian Heinrich, Robert Seifert, Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf. BiCluster Viewer: A Visualization Tool for Analyzing Gene Expression Data. Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). Las Vegas (USA). Pages ...-.... 2011 (to appear).

Michael Burch, Hansjoerg Schmauder, Daniel Weiskopf. Indented Pixel Tree Browser for Exploring Huge Hierarchies. Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). Las Vegas (USA). Pages ...-.... 2011 (to appear).

Michael Burch, Markus Hoeferlin, Daniel Weiskopf. Layered TimeRadarTrees. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV). London (UK). Pages ??-??. 2011.

Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf. Visualizing Dynamic Quantitative Data in Hierarchies --- TimeEdgeTrees: Attaching Dynamic Weights to Tree Edges. Proceedings of International Conference on Visualization Theory and Applications. Vilamoura (Portugal). Pages 177-186. 2011.

 

2010

Michael Burch, Michael Raschke, Daniel Weiskopf. Indented Pixel Tree Plots. Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). Las Vegas (USA). Pages 338-349. 2010.

Christoph Mueller, Guido Reina, Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf. Subversion Statistics Sifter. Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). Las Vegas (USA). Pages 447-457. 2010.

Michael Burch, Michael Fritz, Fabian Beck, Stephan Diehl. TimeSpiderTrees: A Novel Visual Metaphor for Dynamic Compound Digraphs. Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. Madrid-Leganes (Spain). Pages 168-175. 2010.

Stephan Diehl, Fabian Beck, Michael Burch. Uncovering Strengths and Weaknesses of Radial Visualizations -- an Empirical Approach. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16 (6). Salt Lake City (USA). Pages 935-942. 2010.

Michael Burch. Visualizing Static and Dynamic Relations in Information Hierarchies. PhD Thesis. Trier (Germany). May 2010.

 

2009

Fabian Beck, Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl. Towards an Aesthetic Dimensions Framework for Dynamic Graph Visualizations. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Visualisation. Barcelona (Spain). Pages 592-597. 2009.

Martin Greilich, Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl. Visualizing the Evolution of Compound Digraphs with TimeArcTrees. In Computer Graphics Forum 28 (3). Berlin (Germany). Pages 975-982. 2009.

 

2008

Michael Burch, Fabian Beck, Stephan Diehl. Timeline Trees: Visualizing Sequences of Transactions in Information Hierarchies. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI). Naples (Italy). Pages 75-82. 2008.

Michael Burch, Felix Bott, Fabian Beck, Stephan Diehl. Cartesian vs. Radial --- A Comparative Evaluation of Two Visualization Tools. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). Las Vegas (USA). Pages 151-160. 2008.

Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl: TimeRadarTrees. Visualizing Dynamic Compound Digraphs. In Computer Graphics Forum 27 (3). Eindhoven (The Netherlands). Pages 823-830. 2008.

 

2007

Peter Weissgerber, Mathias Pohl, Michael Burch. Visual Data Mining in Software Archives to Detect How Developers Work Together. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). Minneapolis (USA). Page 9. 2007.

Mathias Pohl, Michael Burch, Peter Weissgerber. Ist Programmieren ein Mannschaftssport? In Proceedings of Conference on Software Engineering (SE). Hamburg (Germany). Pages 181-192. 2007.

 

2006

Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl: Trees in a Treemap. Visualizing Multiple Hierarchies. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA). San Jose (USA). 2006.

 

2005

Peter Weissgerber, Leo von Klenze, Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl. Exploring Evolutionary Coupling in Eclipse. In Proceedings of the OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology eXchange (ETX). San Diego (USA). Pages 31-34. 2005.

Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl, Peter Weissgerber. Visual Data Mining in Software Archives. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization. St. Louis (USA). Pages 37-46. 2005.

Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl, Peter Weissgerber. EPOSee --- A Tool for Visualizing Software Evolution. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VisSoft). Budapest (Hungary). Pages 127-128. 2005.

 

2004

Peter Weissgerber, Michael Burch, Stephan Diehl. Knowledge Discovery in Versionsarchiven. Lernen, Wissensentdeckung, Adaptivitaet (LWA). Berlin (Germany). Pages 92-99. 2004.