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Perceptual Evaluation of Common Line Variables for Displaying Uncertainty on Molecular Surfaces
(2022)
Data are often subject to some degree of uncertainty, whether aleatory or epistemic. This applies both to experimental data acquired with sensors as well as to simulation data. Displaying these data and their uncertainty faithfully is crucial for gaining knowledge. Specifically, the effective communication of the uncertainty can influence the interpretation of the data and the users' trust in the visualization. However, uncertainty-aware visualization has gotten little attention in molecular visualization. When using the established molecular representations, the physicochemical attributes of the molecular data usually already occupy the common visual channels like shape, size, and color. Consequently, to encode uncertainty information, we need to open up another channel by using feature lines. Even though various line variables have been proposed for uncertainty visualizations, they have so far been primarily used for two-dimensional data and there has been little perceptual evaluation. Therefore, we conducted a perceptual study to determine the suitability of the line variables sketchiness, dashing, grayscale, and width for distinguishing several uncertainty values on molecular surfaces.
Erosion as a novel Approach for removing Semantics and Comparison of different State-of-Art-Methods
(2022)
Through language, people convey not only pure semantics, but also information about themselves, such as age, gender, state of mind or health. The supralingual features that carry this information have been a subject of research for a long time. Various procedures have been proposed to remove unneeded semantics from speech recordings, in order to study supralingual information in natural speech. In this paper, we propose a new method for removing sematics, based on erosion, a morphological operator. We compare its effectiveness to different state-of-the-art methods. As established methods we consider two low pass filters with cut off frequencies of 450Hz and 1150Hz and Brownian noise. As a newer method we investigate a filter for spectro-temporal frequencies. To evaluate each method, appropriately processed recordings were presented to a group of participants in a perceptual experiment. The intelligibility was measured by means of the Levenshtein distance. Our results show that erosion itself performs similarly to the established methods, while a combination of erosion and low-pass filter outperforms all other methods.
The human voice is one of our most important tools for communicating with other people. Besides pure semantic meaning it also conveys syntactical information such as emphasis as well as personal information such as emotional state, gender, and age. While the physical changes that occur to a person’s voice are well studied, there is surprisingly little work on the perception of those changes. To hold the range of subtleties present in a given utterance constant and thus focus on the changes caused by age, this paper takes adult recordings (three males, and three females) and artificially resynthesizes them (using values from measurements of real children’s voices) to create a childlike versions of the utterance at different target ages. In particular, we focus on a systematic, factorial combination pitch shifting and formant shifting. To get an insight about the influence of these factors on the estimated age, we performed a perceptual experiment. Since the resynthesis method we used can produce a wide range of voices, not all of which are physically consistent, we also asked the participants to rate how natural the voices sounded. Furthermore, since former studies suggest that people are not able to distinguish between males and females of young ages, participants were also asked to rate how male or female the voices sounded. Overall, we found that although the synthesis method produced physically plausible signals (compared average values for real children), the degree of signal manipulation was correlated with perceived unnaturalness. We also found that pitch shift had only a small affect on perceived age, that formant shift had a strong affect on perceived age, and that these effects depended on the original gender of the recording. As expected, people had difficulty guessing the gender of younger sounding voices.