VisAnatomy: An SVG Chart Corpus with Fine-Grained Semantic Labels

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Main Authors: Chen, Chen, Bako, Hannah K., Yu, Peihong, Hooker, John, Joyal, Jeffrey, Wang, Simon C., Kim, Samuel, Wu, Jessica, Ding, Aoxue, Sandeep, Lara, Chen, Alex, Sinha, Chayanika, Liu, Zhicheng
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author Chen, Chen
Bako, Hannah K.
Yu, Peihong
Hooker, John
Joyal, Jeffrey
Wang, Simon C.
Kim, Samuel
Wu, Jessica
Ding, Aoxue
Sandeep, Lara
Chen, Alex
Sinha, Chayanika
Liu, Zhicheng
author_facet Chen, Chen
Bako, Hannah K.
Yu, Peihong
Hooker, John
Joyal, Jeffrey
Wang, Simon C.
Kim, Samuel
Wu, Jessica
Ding, Aoxue
Sandeep, Lara
Chen, Alex
Sinha, Chayanika
Liu, Zhicheng
contents Chart corpora, which comprise data visualizations and their semantic labels, are crucial for advancing visualization research. However, the labels in most existing corpora are high-level (e.g., chart types), hindering their utility for broader applications in the era of AI. In this paper, we contribute VISANATOMY, a corpus containing 942 real-world SVG charts produced by over 50 tools, encompassing 40 chart types and featuring structural and stylistic design variations. Each chart is augmented with multi-level fine-grained labels on its semantic components, including each graphical element's type, role, and position, hierarchical groupings of elements, group layouts, and visual encodings. In total, VISANATOMY provides labels for more than 383k graphical elements. We demonstrate the richness of the semantic labels by comparing VISANATOMY with existing corpora. We illustrate its usefulness through four applications: semantic role inference for SVG elements, chart semantic decomposition, chart type classification, and content navigation for accessibility. Finally, we discuss research opportunities to further improve VISANATOMY.
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spellingShingle VisAnatomy: An SVG Chart Corpus with Fine-Grained Semantic Labels
Chen, Chen
Bako, Hannah K.
Yu, Peihong
Hooker, John
Joyal, Jeffrey
Wang, Simon C.
Kim, Samuel
Wu, Jessica
Ding, Aoxue
Sandeep, Lara
Chen, Alex
Sinha, Chayanika
Liu, Zhicheng
Human-Computer Interaction
Chart corpora, which comprise data visualizations and their semantic labels, are crucial for advancing visualization research. However, the labels in most existing corpora are high-level (e.g., chart types), hindering their utility for broader applications in the era of AI. In this paper, we contribute VISANATOMY, a corpus containing 942 real-world SVG charts produced by over 50 tools, encompassing 40 chart types and featuring structural and stylistic design variations. Each chart is augmented with multi-level fine-grained labels on its semantic components, including each graphical element's type, role, and position, hierarchical groupings of elements, group layouts, and visual encodings. In total, VISANATOMY provides labels for more than 383k graphical elements. We demonstrate the richness of the semantic labels by comparing VISANATOMY with existing corpora. We illustrate its usefulness through four applications: semantic role inference for SVG elements, chart semantic decomposition, chart type classification, and content navigation for accessibility. Finally, we discuss research opportunities to further improve VISANATOMY.
title VisAnatomy: An SVG Chart Corpus with Fine-Grained Semantic Labels
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12268