1. VividGraph: Learning to Extract and Redesign Network Graphs From Visualization Images
- Author
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Sicheng Song, Chenhui Li, Yujing Sun, and Changbo Wang
- Subjects
Signal Processing ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design ,Software - Abstract
Network graphs are common visualization charts. They often appear in the form of bitmaps in papers, web pages, magazine prints, and designer sketches. People often want to modify network graphs because of their poor design, but it is difficult to obtain their underlying data. In this paper, we present VividGraph, a pipeline for automatically extracting and redesigning network graphs from static images. We propose using convolutional neural networks to solve the problem of network graph data extraction. Our method is robust to hand-drawn graphs, blurred graph images, and large graph images. We also present a network graph classification module to make it effective for directed graphs. We propose two evaluation methods to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. It can be used to quickly transform designer sketches, extract underlying data from existing network graphs, and interactively redesign poorly designed network graphs.
- Published
- 2023