**Shishi Xiao**

Suizi Huang

Yue Lin

Yinlin Ye

Wei Zeng

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. IEEE VIS), 2023

https://github.com/SerendipitysX/ChartSpark

🎞️Preview


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBHWU3zjW6c

🎯Background


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🟨In current work on pictorial visualization generation, the usual approach is to follow a retrieve and adapt pipeline. However, it is often difficult to find an image that perfectly aligns with the data trend.

🟨 Though current text-to-image models show promise for lay users to create a vivid picture, their training in natural images leads to suboptimal performance in generating visualizations.

🤖Method


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🟨 We distilled design knowledge from 869 real-world examples, achieving two modes(Background + Foreground) through iterative fine-tuning with a cross-attention mechanism.

2023-12-18 21-15-57 (online-video-cutter.com).mp4

🟨 Users can switch the mask to personalize the object they want to generate.

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🟨 A hybrid mode with conditional and unconditional, foreground and background can jointly contribute to a harmonious performance.

🐘Evaluation 1: Baseline Comparison


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