arXiv AI

Figures as Programs: Recursive Generation of Editable Scientific Figures

The paper introduces “FigTree”, a multi-agent system that automatically converts a scientific paper into a structured vector figure by recursively constructing SVG programs. It decomposes figures into hierarchical regions, generates each region as a short SVG program, and assembles them, using a render‑critic refinement loop to trace and repair visual defects. Evaluations show that “FigTree” produces high‑quality figures and allows more effective editing than raster‑based methods.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Chart2SVG: Editable SVG Generation from Raster Chart Images

Chart2SVG is a multimodal large language model that transforms static raster chart images into editable SVGs enriched with semantic structure. By embedding chart‑specific semantic tokens into a vision‑language framework and training on the Beagle+ dataset of 33K distilled chart samples, the model captures both geometric primitives and their functional roles. The resulting SVGs are visually accurate and structurally consistent, and the accompanying Chart Structure Graph (CSG) exposes visual dependencies for interactive exploration, chart repurposing, and layout reuse.

By Jinning Cui, Lu Chen, Haoyan Shi, Yue He, Chenglong Wang, Mengyu Zhou, Weidong Huang, Yunhai Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images

arXiv:2606. 01213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite tremendous recent progress, current text-guided image editing methods still struggle with many aspects of editing involving instruction following, minimally editing the source image, and ensuring high visual quality.

By Aishwarya Agrawal, Roy Hirsch, Yasumasa Onoe, Sherry Ben, Jason Baldridge
arXiv AI
3d ago

FigMirror: Ground It, Code It, Plot It

FigMirror is a new framework that converts scientific figures into executable code, enabling the creation of new plots that preserve the visual style of a reference figure. It achieves this by using Grounded Measurement to locate visual elements via coordinates and measure their properties through code, overcoming limitations of pixel‑level optimization used by prior methods. The authors also introduce PlotTwin‑Bench, a benchmark with fine‑grained code and image‑level style metrics, and demonstrate that FigMirror consistently outperforms existing style‑transfer approaches.

By Xiaohan Zhao, Jiacheng Liu, Yaxin Luo, Zhiqiang Shen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

S1-Omni-Image: A Unified Model for Scientific Image Understanding, Generation, and Editing

We present S1-Omni-Image, an open-weight unified multimodal model for scientific image understanding, generation, and editing. Unlike general-purpose image generation models, scientific image tasks require not only high-fidelity synthesis, but also robust understanding of scientific semantics, structural relations, domain knowledge, and task intent.