From Pixels to Insights: A Survey on Automatic Chart Understanding in the Era of Large Foundation Models

KH Huang, HP Chan, YR Fung, H Qiu, M Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Data visualization in the form of charts plays a pivotal role in data analysis, offering critical
insights and aiding in informed decision-making. Automatic chart understanding has …

Onechart: Purify the chart structural extraction via one auxiliary token

J Chen, L Kong, H Wei, C Liu, Z Ge, L Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Chart parsing poses a significant challenge due to the diversity of styles, values, texts, and
so forth. Even advanced large vision-language models (LVLMs) with billions of parameters …

From Detection to Application: Recent Advances in Understanding Scientific Tables and Figures

J Huang, H Chen, F Yu, W Lu - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Tables and figures are usually used to present information in a structured and visual way in
scientific documents. Understanding the tables and figures in scientific documents is …

AltChart: Enhancing VLM-based Chart Summarization Through Multi-Pretext Tasks

O Moured, J Zhang, MS Sarfraz… - … Conference on Document …, 2024 - Springer
Chart summarization is a crucial task for blind and visually impaired individuals as it is their
primary means of accessing and interpreting graphical data. Crafting high-quality …

Chart4blind: An intelligent interface for chart accessibility conversion

O Moured, M Baumgarten-Egemole, K Müller… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In a world driven by data visualization, ensuring the inclusive accessibility of charts for Blind
and Visually Impaired (BVI) individuals remains a significant challenge. Charts are usually …

When Refreshable Tactile Displays Meet Conversational Agents: Investigating Accessible Data Presentation and Analysis with Touch and Speech

S Reinders, M Butler, I Zukerman, B Lee… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the recent surge of research efforts to make data visualizations accessible to people
who are blind or have low vision (BLV), how to support BLV people's data analysis remains …

Flowlearn: Evaluating large vision-language models on flowchart understanding

H Pan, Q Zhang, C Caragea, E Dragut… - ECAI 2024, 2024 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Flowcharts are graphical tools for representing complex concepts in concise visual
representations. This paper introduces the FlowLearn dataset, a resource tailored to …

Transformers Utilization in Chart Understanding: A Review of Recent Advances & Future Trends

M Al-Shetairy, H Hindy, D Khattab, MM Aref - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In recent years, interest in vision-language tasks has grown, especially those involving chart
interactions. These tasks are inherently multimodal, requiring models to process chart …

Automatic statistical chart analysis based on deep learning method

C Liu, S Li, L Chen - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
In order to make full use of the decision support knowledge contained in the structured chart
data that matches the needs of the enterprise, we propose a deep learning approach for …

A systematic mapping study on accessibility in data visualizations for visually impaired users

LR Tlapa-Monge… - 2023 11th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data visualization is a computer technique that transforms information into visual
representations, with broad applications in areas such as data analysis, education …