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This paper presents a complete explainable system that interprets a set of data, abstracts the underlying features and describes them in a natural language of choice. The system relies on two crucial stages: (i) identifying emerging…

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Pictorial visualization seamlessly integrates data and semantic context into visual representation, conveying complex information in a manner that is both engaging and informative. Extensive studies have been devoted to developing authoring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Shishi Xiao , Suizi Huang , Yue Lin , Yilin Ye , Wei Zeng

Complex chart understanding tasks demand advanced visual recognition and reasoning capabilities from multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, current research provides limited coverage of complex chart scenarios and…

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Chart visualizations, while essential for data interpretation and communication, are predominantly accessible only as images in PDFs, lacking source data tables and stylistic information. To enable effective editing of charts in PDFs or…

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Recent multimodal LLMs have shown promise in chart-based visual question answering, but their performance declines sharply on unannotated charts-those requiring precise visual interpretation rather than relying on textual shortcuts. To…

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Charts are very popular for analyzing data, visualizing key insights and answering complex reasoning questions about data. To facilitate chart-based data analysis using natural language, several downstream tasks have been introduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ahmed Masry , Parsa Kavehzadeh , Xuan Long Do , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code generation across various domains. However, their ability to replicate complex, multi-panel visualizations from real-world data remains largely unassessed. To…

In the era of large-scale visual data, understanding collections of images is a challenging yet important task. To this end, we introduce ImageSet2Text, a novel method to automatically generate natural language descriptions of image sets.…

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We introduce the task of text-to-diagram generation, which focuses on creating structured visual representations directly from textual descriptions. Existing approaches in text-to-image and text-to-code generation lack the logical…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jingxuan Wei , Cheng Tan , Qi Chen , Gaowei Wu , Siyuan Li , Zhangyang Gao , Linzhuang Sun , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across various language tasks, notably through instruction-tuning methods. However, LLMs face challenges in visualizing complex, real-world data through charts and plots.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Fatemeh Pesaran Zadeh , Juyeon Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Gunhee Kim

Vision Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with chart understanding tasks, particularly in accurate chart description and complex reasoning. Synthetic data generation is a promising solution, while usually facing the challenge of noise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Gongyao Jiang , Qiong Luo

Charts play a vital role in data visualization, understanding data patterns, and informed decision-making. However, their unique combination of graphical elements (e.g., bars, lines) and textual components (e.g., labels, legends) poses…

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Understanding charts requires models to jointly reason over geometric visual patterns, structured numerical data, and natural language -- a capability where current vision-language models (VLMs) remain limited. We introduce ChartNet, a…

Chart understanding tasks such as ChartQA and Chart-to-Text involve automatically extracting and interpreting key information from charts, enabling users to query or convert visual data into structured formats. State-of-the-art approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xudong Yang , Yifan Wu , Yizhang Zhu , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

In this work we propose a novel end-to-end multi-stage Knowledge Graph (KG) generation system from textual inputs, separating the overall process into two stages. The graph nodes are generated first using pretrained language model, followed…

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Generating high-quality and diverse human images is an important yet challenging task in vision and graphics. However, existing generative models often fall short under the high diversity of clothing shapes and textures. Furthermore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yuming Jiang , Shuai Yang , Haonan Qiu , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Large language models have significantly improved natural language interfaces to databases by translating user questions into executable queries. In particular, Text2Cypher focuses on generating Cypher queries for graph databases, enabling…

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Data visualization has emerged as an effective tool for getting insights from massive datasets. Due to the hardness of manipulating the programming languages of data visualization, automatic data visualization generation from natural…

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Statistical infographics are powerful tools that simplify complex data into visually engaging and easy-to-understand formats. Despite advancements in AI, particularly with LLMs, existing efforts have been limited to generating simple…

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