About Me
Yumeng Xue is a final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Visual Computing Group, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, expecting to graduate in March 2027. His supervisor is Prof. Dr. Oliver Deussen. In 2026 he was a visiting researcher at the VIDI Lab, University of California, Davis, hosted by Prof. Kwan-Liu Ma. He received his B.Eng. degree from Taishan College, Shandong University in 2020, and his M.Sc. degree (with distinction) from the University of Konstanz in 2022. His research interests fall in the field of Visualization, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, and AI-Assisted Interactive Systems.
News
- [August 2026] One paper, Structuring Line Ensembles with Path-Integrated Fidelity and Structural Inconsistency Fields, was accepted by IEEE TVCG (to appear in 2027).
- [August 2026] Finished the research visit at the VIDI Lab, UC Davis.
- [May 2026] Started a research visit at the VIDI Lab, UC Davis, hosted by Prof. Kwan-Liu Ma.
- [April 2026] One paper was published in IEEE TVCG and one in Information Visualization.
- [August 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE VIS 2025.
- [October 2024] One poster was presented at IEEE VIS 2024.
- [July 2023] One paper was accepted by IEEE VIS 2023.
- [March 2023] One paper was accepted by EuroVis 2023.
- [April 2022] Completed master's degree and started working on PhD.
- [August 2020] Our work has received Honorable Mention in VAST Challenge 2020.
- [August 2020] One paper was accepted by IEEE InfoVis 2020.
Publications
Structuring Line Ensembles with Path-Integrated Fidelity and Structural Inconsistency Fields
Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, Bin Chen, Yunhai Wang, Christophe Hurter, and Oliver Deussen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear, 2027. [arXiv] [Page]Enhancing Line Density Plots with Outlier Control and Bin-based Illumination
Yumeng Xue, Bin Chen, Patrick Paetzold, Yunhai Wang, Christophe Hurter, and Oliver Deussen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 4785-4795, 2026. [Paper] [Suppl] [arXiv] [Page]Demystifying UMAP Artifacts: An Interactive Study on Diagnosis and Steering Using 3D Probes
Bin Chen, Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, and Oliver Deussen
Information Visualization, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 358-372, 2026. [Paper]Neighborhood-Preserving Voronoi Treemaps
Patrick Paetzold, Rebecca Kehlbeck, Yumeng Xue, Bin Chen, Yunhai Wang, and Oliver Deussen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VIS 2025), vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 276-286, 2026. [Paper]Exploring Large-scale Trajectory Data through 2D Time-space View
Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, Yunhai Wang, and Oliver Deussen
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) Posters, 2024.Reducing Ambiguity in Line-based Density Plots by Image-space Colorization
Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, Rebecca Kehlbeck, Bin Chen, Kin Chung Kwan, Yunhai Wang, and Oliver Deussen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VIS 2023), vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 825-835, 2024. [Paper] [Suppl] [Page]RectEuler: Visualizing Intersecting Sets using Rectangles
Patrick Paetzold, Rebecca Kehlbeck, Hendrik Strobelt, Yumeng Xue, Sabine Storandt, and Oliver Deussen
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis 2023), vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 87-98, 2023. [Paper] [Page]Implicit Multidimensional Projection of Local Subspaces
Rongzheng Bian, Yumeng Xue, Liang Zhou, Jian Zhang, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Weiskopf, and Yunhai Wang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis 2020), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1558-1568, 2021. [Paper] [Page]CA2: Cyber Attacks Analytics
Luyu Cheng*, Bairui Su*, Yumeng Xue*, Xiaoyu Liu, and Yunhai Wang
VAST Challenge Workshop, VIS 2020, 2020. [Paper] [Solution] [Demo]
*: equal contributation
Manuscripts Under Review
Passage Index for Interactive Sketch Queries over Dense Line Ensembles
Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, Yunhai Wang, Christophe Hurter, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Oliver Deussen
Under review at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.ibUMAP: Coherent and Scalable Field Evaluation for UMAP Optimization
Bin Chen, Yumeng Xue, Patrick Paetzold, Yunhai Wang, and Oliver Deussen
Under review at ICLR 2027. [arXiv]
Awards
- 2020, Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mention: Streamlined Analysis Process, VAST Challenge, IEEE VIS 2020
- 2020, Honor Degree of Top-Notch Undergraduate Training Program, Shandong University
- 2019, Outstanding Academic Scholarship, Shandong University
Services
- Reviewer for IEEE VIS 2026
- Student Volunteer for IEEE VIS, 2023 - 2026
- Reviewer for PacificVis (Journal Track) 2024
- Reviewer for Computational Visual Media (CVM) 2021
Teaching
- 2024 & 2025 Summer, Teaching Assistant, Physical and Neural Methods for Realistic Image Generation, University of Konstanz
- 2023/24, 2024/25 & 2025/26 Winter, Teaching Assistant, Seminar Computer Graphics, University of Konstanz
- 2020 Fall, Teaching Assistant, Visualization (for undergraduate students in Shandong University)
- 2019 Fall, Teaching Assistant, Computer Graphics (for undergraduate students in Shandong University)
Education
- University of Konstanz, Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, April 2022 - Expected March 2027
- University of Konstanz, M.Sc. in Computer Science with distinction, April 2021 - March 2022
- Shandong University, B.Eng. in Computer Science, Taishan College, September 2016 - June 2020
Experiences
- Visiting Researcher, VIDI Lab, University of California, Davis, May 2026 - August 2026
- Research Assistant, University of Konstanz, October 2021 - March 2022
- Research Assistant, Shandong University, July 2019 - March 2021
- Summer Intern, National University of Singapore, July 2018 - August 2018