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SRplot: A free online platform for data visualization and graphing Open
Graphics are widely used to provide summarization of complex data in scientific publications. Although there are many tools available for drawing graphics, their use is limited by programming skills, costs, and platform specificities. Here…
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Differentiable vector graphics rasterization for editing and learning Open
We introduce a differentiable rasterizer that bridges the vector graphics and raster image domains, enabling powerful raster-based loss functions, optimization procedures, and machine learning techniques to edit and generate vector content…
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Fidelity vs. simplicity Open
Vector drawing is a popular representation in graphic design because of the precision, compactness and editability offered by parametric curves. However, prior work on line drawing vectorization focused solely on faithfully capturing input…
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Programmatic and direct manipulation, together at last Open
Direct manipulation interfaces and programmatic systems have distinct and\ncomplementary strengths. The former provide intuitive, immediate visual\nfeedback and enable rapid prototyping, whereas the latter enable complex,\nreusable abstrac…
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Design Galleries: A General Approach to Setting Parameters for Computer Graphics and Animation Open
Image rendering maps scene parameters to output pixel values; animation maps motion-control parameters to trajectory values. Because these mapping functions are usually multidimensional, nonlinear, and discontinuous, finding input paramete…
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GlycoGlyph: a glycan visualizing, drawing and naming application Open
Motivation Glycan structures are commonly represented using symbols or linear nomenclature such as that from the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (also known as modified IUPAC-condensed nomenclature). No current tool allows for writing …
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General virtual sketching framework for vector line art Open
Vector line art plays an important role in graphic design, however, it is tedious to manually create. We introduce a general framework to produce line drawings from a wide variety of images, by learning a mapping from raster image space to…
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Design Guidelines and Recommendations for Multimodal, Touchscreen-based Graphics Open
With content rapidly moving to the electronic space, access to graphics for individuals with visual impairments is a growing concern. Recent research has demonstrated the potential for representing basic graphical content on touchscreens u…
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The 1936 Italian Kingdom Forest Map reviewed: a dataset for landscape and ecological research. Open
The recovery of the 1936 Italian Kingdom Forest Map (IKFM) (276 sheets 1:100,000) is described. It is a unique document that describes the forest extent and species composition for the whole of Italy. The original document is available in …
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Performance Testing on Vector vs. Raster Map Tiles—Comparative Study on Load Metrics Open
Recent developments in web map applications have widely affected how background maps are rendered. Raster tiles are currently considered as a regular solution, while the use of vector tiles is becoming more widespread. This article describ…
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<i>Sketch-R2CNN</i>: An RNN-Rasterization-CNN Architecture for Vector Sketch Recognition Open
Sketches in existing large-scale datasets like the recent QuickDraw collection are often stored in a vector format, with strokes consisting of sequentially sampled points. However, most existing sketch recognition methods rasterize vector …
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DeepSVG: A Hierarchical Generative Network for Vector Graphics Animation Open
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are ubiquitous in modern 2D interfaces due to their ability to scale to different resolutions. However, despite the success of deep learning-based models applied to rasterized images, the problem of vector gr…
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ClipGen: A Deep Generative Model for Clipart Vectorization and Synthesis Open
This article presents a novel deep learning-based approach for automatically vectorizing and synthesizing the clipart of man-made objects. Given a raster clipart image and its corresponding object category (e.g., airplanes), the proposed m…
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Autodesk Sketchbook: An application that minimizes time and maximizes results of taxonomic drawing Open
Scientific illustration continues to remain a critical part of taxonomy. Illustrations often require lots of time and, in many cases, the results are not as expected. At present, taxonomy journals only accept high quality digital illustrat…
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Zero Watermarking Algorithm for Medical Image Based on Resnet50-DCT Open
Medical images are used as a diagnostic tool, so protecting their confidentiality has long been a topic of study. From this, we propose a Resnet50-DCT-based zero watermarking algorithm for use with medical images. To begin, we use Resnet50…
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Sketch-R2CNN: An Attentive Network for Vector Sketch Recognition Open
Freehand sketching is a dynamic process where points are sequentially sampled and grouped as strokes for sketch acquisition on electronic devices. To recognize a sketched object, most existing methods discard such important temporal orderi…
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A Survey of Smooth Vector Graphics: Recent Advances in Repr esentation, Creation, Rasterization, and Image Vectorization Open
The field of smooth vector graphics explores the representation, creation, rasterization, and automatic generation of light-weight image representations, frequently used for scalable image content. Over the past decades, several conceptual…
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CLIPVG: Text-Guided Image Manipulation Using Differentiable Vector Graphics Open
Considerable progress has recently been made in leveraging CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) models for text-guided image manipulation. However, all existing works rely on additional generative models to ensure the quality of …
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ANIMATED 3D GRAPHICS AS VISUAL BRAND COMMUNICATION ON UKRAINIAN TELEVISION Open
The research of the use of 3D computer graphics in commercials is conducted based on monitoring of the commercial breaks on TV channels «1+1», «Inter» and «Ukraine» in the years 2015-2017. The TV channels for the research were chosen accor…
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A multiple watermarking algorithm for vector geographic data based on coordinate mapping and domain subdivision Open
A lot of watermarking algorithms for vector geographic data are presented in the literature. Due to widely application of digital watermarking, more demands are required, such as multiple watermarking algorithm. However, vector geographic …
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pedigreejs: a web-based graphical pedigree editor Open
Motivation The collection, management and visualization of clinical pedigree (family history) data is a core activity in clinical genetics centres. However, clinical pedigree datasets can be difficult to manage, as they are time consuming …
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Expressive Authoring of Node-Link Diagrams With Graphies Open
Expressive design environments enable visualization designers not only to specify chart types and visual mappings, but also to customize individual graphical marks, as they would in a vector graphics drawing tool. Prior work has mainly inv…
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A Learned Representation for Scalable Vector Graphics Open
Dramatic advances in generative models have resulted in near photographic quality for artificially rendered faces, animals and other objects in the natural world. In spite of such advances, a higher level understanding of vision and imager…
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Tiled vector data model for the geographical features of symbolized maps Open
Electronic maps (E-maps) provide people with convenience in real-world space. Although web map services can display maps on screens, a more important function is their ability to access geographical features. An E-map that is based on rast…
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Chart4Blind: An Intelligent Interface for Chart Accessibility Conversion Open
In a world driven by data visualization, ensuring the inclusive accessibility\nof charts for Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) individuals remains a\nsignificant challenge. Charts are usually presented as raster graphics without\ntextual a…
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A Colour Interpolation Scheme for Topologically Unrestricted Gradient Meshes Open
Gradient meshes are a 2D vector graphics primitive where colour is interpolated between mesh vertices. The current implementations of gradient meshes are restricted to rectangular mesh topology. Our new interpolation method relaxes this re…
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Possibilities of using raster data in client‐side web maps Open
Companies and individual developers have recently put serious effort into improving web mapping libraries. A significant front in this development is hardware‐accelerated vector graphics. Owing to those efforts, and the continuously evolvi…
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IDEAL: a Vector-Raster Hybrid Model for Efficient Spatial Queries over Complex Polygons Open
Geometric computation can be heavy duty for spatial queries, in particular for complex geometries such as polygons with many edges based on a vector-based representation. While many techniques have been provided for spatial partitioning an…
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Image vectorization and editing via linear gradient layer decomposition Open
A key advantage of vector graphics over raster graphics is their editability. For example, linear gradients define a spatially varying color fill with a few intuitive parameters, which are ubiquitously supported in standard vector graphics…
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GDAL and PROJ Libraries Integrated with GRASS GIS for Terrain Modelling of the Georeferenced Raster Image Open
Libraries with pre-written codes optimize the workflow in cartography and reduce labour intensive data processing by iteratively applying scripts to implementing mapping tasks. Most existing Geographic Information System (GIS) approaches a…