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Using different methods for laying out a graph can lead to very different visual appearances, with which the viewer perceives different information. Selecting a "good" layout method is thus important for visualizing a graph. The selection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Oh-Hyun Kwon , Tarik Crnovrsanin , Kwan-Liu Ma

Drawing principles, or aesthetics, are important in graph drawing. They are used as criteria for algorithm design and for quality evaluation. Current aesthetics are described as visual properties that a drawing is required to have to be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Weidong Huang

Several techniques for visualization of dynamic graphs are based on different spatial arrangements of a temporal sequence of node-link diagrams. Many studies in the literature have investigated the importance of maintaining the user's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Paolo Federico , Silvia Miksch

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are increasingly used to represent and explore complex, interconnected data across diverse domains. However, existing KG visualization systems remain limited because they fail to provide the context of user questions.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rumali Perera , Xiaoqi Wang , Han-wei Shen

Many problems can be presented in an abstract form through a wide range of binary objects and relations which are defined over problem domain. In these problems, graphical demonstration of defined binary objects and solutions is the most…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Mohammadreza Ashouri , Ali Golshani , Dara Moazzmi , Mandana Ghasemi

Sketching out Graphical User Interface (GUI) layout is part of the pipeline of designing a GUI and a crucial task for the success of a software application. Arranging all components inside a GUI layout manually is a time-consuming task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Andrey Sobolevsky , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Jinghui Cheng , Jin L. C. Guo

Control flow graphs (CFGs) are essential tools for understanding program behavior, yet the size of real-world CFGs makes them difficult to interpret. With thousands of nodes and edges, sophisticated graph drawing algorithms are required to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Philipp Schaad , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler

Graph drawing with spring embedders employs a V x V computation phase over the graph's vertex set to compute repulsive forces. Here, the efficacy of forces diminishes with distance: a vertex can effectively only influence other vertices in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Stefan Zellmann , Martin Weier , Ingo Wald

The graph layouts used for complex network studies have been mainly been developed to improve visualization. If we interpret the layouts in metric spaces such as Euclidean ones, however, the embedded spatial information can be a valuable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-19 Sang Hoon Lee , Petter Holme

Different layouts can characterize different aspects of the same graph. Finding a "good" layout of a graph is thus an important task for graph visualization. In practice, users often visualize a graph in multiple layouts by using different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Oh-Hyun Kwon , Kwan-Liu Ma

Graph drawing addresses the problem of finding a layout of a graph that satisfies given aesthetic and understandability objectives. The most important objective in graph drawing is minimization of the number of crossings in the drawing, as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Mohamed A. El-Sayed , S. Abdel-Khalek , Hanan H. Amin

We present Magic Layouts; a method for parsing screenshots or hand-drawn sketches of user interface (UI) layouts. Our core contribution is to extend existing detectors to exploit a learned structural prior for UI designs, enabling robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Dipu Manandhar , Hailin Jin , John Collomosse

Graphs can be used to represent and reason about systems and a variety of metrics have been devised to quantify their global characteristics. However, little is currently known about how to construct a graph or improve an existing one given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

Designing user interfaces that align with user preferences is a time-consuming process, which requires iterative cycles of prototyping, user testing, and refinement. Recent advancements in LLM-based UI generation have enabled efficient UI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yimeng Liu , Misha Sra , Chang Xiao

It is difficult to design a visually appealing layout for common users, which takes time even for professional designers. In this paper, we present an interactive layout design system with shadow guidance and layout retrieval to help users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Jiahao Weng , Haoran Xie

Comprehending natural language instructions is a charming property for both 2D and 3D layout synthesis systems. Existing methods implicitly model object joint distributions and express object relations, hindering generation's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenguo Lin , Yuchen Lin , Panwang Pan , Xuanyang Zhang , Yadong Mu

In the process of product design and digital fabrication, the structural analysis of a designed prototype is a fundamental and essential step. However, such a step is usually invisible or inaccessible to designers at the early sketching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Deng Yu , Chufeng Xiao , Manfred Lau , Hongbo Fu

Hand-drawn sketches are a natural and efficient medium for capturing and conveying ideas. Despite significant advancements in controllable natural image generation, translating freehand sketches into structured, machine-readable diagrams…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Cheng Tan , Qi Chen , Jingxuan Wei , Gaowei Wu , Zhangyang Gao , Siyuan Li , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo , Stan Z. Li

In document classification, graph-based models effectively capture document structure, overcoming sequence length limitations and enhancing contextual understanding. However, most existing graph document representations rely on heuristics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Margarita Bugueño , Gerard de Melo

Computing professionals in areas like compilers, performance analysis, and security often analyze and manipulate control flow graphs (CFGs) in their work. CFGs are directed networks that describe possible orderings of instructions in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sabin Devkota , Matthew P. LeGendre , Adam Kunen , Pascal Aschwanden , Katherine E. Isaacs