Topological Data Analysis Made Easy with the Topology ToolKit, What is New?

https://topology-tool-kit.github.io/ieeeVisTutorial.html

2020-10-26T14:00:00Z – 2020-10-26T17:30:00Z

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This tutorial presents topological methods for the analysis and visualization of scientific data from a user’s perspective, with the Topology ToolKit (TTK), an open-source library for topological data analysis. Topological methods have gained considerably in popularity and maturity over the last twenty years and success stories of established methods have been documented in a wide range of applications (combustion, chemistry, astrophysics, material sciences, etc.) with both acquired and simulated data, in both post-hoc and in-situ contexts. This tutorial aims to fill a gap by providing a beginner’s introduction to topological methods for practitioners, researchers, students, and lecturers. In particular, instead of focusing on theoretical aspects and algorithmic details, this tutorial focuses on how topological methods can be useful in practice for concrete data analysis tasks such as segmentation, feature extraction or tracking. The tutorial describes in detail how to achieve these tasks with TTK. In comparison to the last two iterations of this tutorial, this iteration emphasizes the features of TTK which now appear to be the most popular, as well as the latest additions to the library. First, we provide a general introduction to topological methods and their application in data analysis, and a brief overview of TTK’s main entry point for end users, namely ParaView, will be presented. Second, we will proceed to a hands-on session demoing the main features of TTK as well as its most recent additions. Third, we will present advanced usages of TTK, including the usage of TTK with Python, the development of a new module for TTK as well as the integration of TTK into a pre-existing system. Presenters of this tutorial include experts in topological methods, core authors of TTK as well as active users, coming from academia and industry. A large part of the tutorial will be dedicated to hands-on exercises and a rich material package will be provided to the participants. This tutorial mostly targets students, practitioners and researchers who are not necessarily experts in topological methods but who are interested in using them in their daily tasks. We also target researchers already familiar to topological methods and who are interested in using or contributing to TTK. We kindly ask potential attendees to optionally pre-register at the following address, in order for us to reach out to them ahead of the tutorial with information updates (for instance, last minute updates, instructions for the download of the tutorial material package, etc.): https://forms.gle/CvrY3oWZB9hWSQJb9 Tutorial web page (including all material, TTK pre-installs in virtual machines, code, data, demos, video tutorials, slides, etc): https://topology-tool-kit.github.io/ieeeVisTutorial.html