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Smartphones are a crucial aspect of routine life in the modern world, and viewing information graphics such as charts becomes common practice for many unassuming tasks. However, for the vision impaired, accessing graphical material presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ishan Amarkumar Joshi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities across various tasks, including visual question answering and chart comprehension, yet existing benchmarks for chart-related tasks fall short in capturing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zifeng Zhu , Mengzhao Jia , Zhihan Zhang , Lang Li , Meng Jiang

Charts are ubiquitous in scientific and financial literature for presenting structured data. However, chart reasoning remains challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to the lack of high-quality training data, as well as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Situo Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Zichen Zhu , Da Ma , Lei Pan , Danyang Zhang , Zihan Zhao , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

Recently, Vision Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly emphasized document visual grounding to achieve better human-computer interaction, accessibility, and detailed understanding. However, its application to visualizations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Alexander Vogel , Omar Moured , Yufan Chen , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Navigation presents a significant challenge for persons with visual impairments (PVI). While traditional aids such as white canes and guide dogs are invaluable, they fall short in delivering detailed spatial information and precise guidance…

Visualization dashboards are regularly used for data exploration and analysis, but their complex interactions and interlinked views often require time-consuming onboarding sessions from dashboard authors. Preparing these onboarding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Vaishali Dhanoa , Gabriela Molina León , Eve Hoggan , Eduard Gröller , Marc Streit , Niklas Elmqvist

Large language models (LLMs) can reshape information processing by handling data analysis, visualization, and interpretation in an interactive, context-aware dialogue with users, including voice interaction, while maintaining high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohammad Nour Al Awad , Sergey Ivanov , Olga Tikhonova , Ivan Khodnenko

Charts are widely used for data visualization across various fields, including education, research, and business. Chart Question Answering (CQA) is an emerging task focused on the automatic interpretation and reasoning of data presented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Muye Huang , Lingling Zhang , Lai Han , Wenjun Wu , Xinyu Zhang , Jun Liu

Flowcharts are typically presented as images, driving the trend of using vision-language models (VLMs) for end-to-end flowchart understanding. However, two key challenges arise: (i) Limited controllability--users have minimal influence over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Junyi Ye , Ankan Dash , Wenpeng Yin , Guiling Wang

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kanika Goswami , Puneet Mathur , Ryan Rossi , Franck Dernoncourt

Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with disabilities. However, it is difficult to evaluate the usefulness…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Alan Lundgard , Arvind Satyanarayan

Automated data visualization plays a crucial role in simplifying data interpretation, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating visualizations from natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mizanur Rahman , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Shafiq Joty , Enamul Hoque

Large language models (LLMs) have recently soared in popularity due to their ease of access and the unprecedented ability to synthesize text responses to diverse user questions. However, LLMs like ChatGPT present significant limitations in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Peiling Jiang , Jude Rayan , Steven P. Dow , Haijun Xia

Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs), while effective in natural image understanding, struggle with visualization understanding due to their inability to decode the data-to-visual mapping and extract structured information. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Can Liu , Chunlin Da , Xiaoxiao Long , Yuxiao Yang , Yu Zhang , Yong Wang

Insights in tabular data capture valuable patterns that help analysts understand critical information. Organizing related insights into visual data stories is crucial for in-depth analysis. However, constructing such stories is challenging…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gerile Aodeng , Guozheng Li , Yunshan Feng , Qiyang Chen , Yu Zhang , Chi Harold Liu

We introduce InterChart, a diagnostic benchmark that evaluates how well vision-language models (VLMs) reason across multiple related charts, a task central to real-world applications such as scientific reporting, financial analysis, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Anirudh Iyengar Kaniyar Narayana Iyengar , Srija Mukhopadhyay , Adnan Qidwai , Shubhankar Singh , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta

Advances in large language models (LLMs) and real-time speech recognition now make it possible to issue any graphical user interface (GUI) action through natural language and receive the corresponding system response directly through the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hans G. W. van Dam

Information Visualization has been utilized to gain insights from complex data. In recent times, Large Language models (LLMs) have performed very well in many tasks. In this paper, we showcase the capabilities of different popular LLMs to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Saadiq Rauf Khan , Vinit Chandak , Sougata Mukherjea

This paper explores the intersection of data visualization and Large Language Models (LLMs). Driven by the need to make a broader range of data visualization types accessible for novice users, we present a guided LLM-based pipeline designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Christopher J. Lee , Giorgio Tran , Roderick Tabalba , Jason Leigh , Ryan Longman

Visual representation of data like charts and tables can be challenging to understand for readers. Previous work showed that combining visualisations with text can improve the communication of insights in static contexts, but little is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Simone Balloccu , Ehud Reiter