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ChartReformer: Natural Language-Driven Chart Image Editing

  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

Chart visualizations are essential for data interpretation and communication; however, most charts are only accessible in image format and lack the corresponding data tables and supplementary information, making it difficult to alter their appearance for different scenarios of application. To eliminate the need for original underlying data and information to perform chart editing, we propose ChartReformer, a natural language-driven chart image editing solution that directly edits the charts from the input images with the given instruction prompts. Instead of predicting the plotting code, the key in this method is that we allow the model to comprehend the chart and reason over the prompt to generate the corresponding underlying data table and visual attributes for new charts, enabling a precise and stable editing result. To generalize ChartReformer, we define and standardize the chart editing category and generate the ChartCraft dataset, covering style, layout, format, and data-centric edits. The experiments show promising results for the natural language-driven chart image editing. Our datasets and model are available at: https://github.com/pengyu965/ChartReformer.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDocument Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2024 - 18th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsElisa H. Barney Smith, Marcus Liwicki, Liangrui Peng
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages453-469
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783031705328
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2024 - Athens, Greece
Duration: Aug 30 2024Sep 4 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14804 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2024
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period08/30/2409/4/24

Keywords

  • Chart Appearance Editing
  • Chart Data Extraction
  • Chart Editing
  • Chart Understanding
  • Visual Language Model

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