ReVision: Automated classification, analysis and redesign of chart images

UIST'11 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 393-402

  Savva, Manolis ^a   Kong, Nicholas ^b   Chhajta, Arti ^a   Li, Fei Fei ^a   Agrawala, Maneesh ^b   Heer, Jeffrey ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chart understanding; Computer vision; Information extraction; Redesign; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; BAR CHART; BITMAP IMAGES; CHART UNDERSTANDING; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PIE CHART; REDESIGN; SCATTER PLOTS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER VISION; VISUALIZATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80755144018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2047196.2047247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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