MatMMExtract is an open‑source pipeline that disassembles compound scientific figures into individual sub‑panels and generates structured, grounded image‑text pairs using a large language model guided by a materials science taxonomy. Applied to 14,810 open‑access articles, it produced 391,606 panel‑level pairs with sub‑captions, a two‑level visualisation category (19 classes, 100+ subtypes), and scientific summaries. The project also introduces MaterialScope, a 2,811‑figure detection dataset, and demonstrates that Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite yields high‑quality annotations with low hallucination, while a dual‑encoder baseline outperforms zero‑shot CLIP on the resulting MatSciFig dataset.
By Subham Ghosh, Shubham Tiwari, Mohammad Ibrahim, Abhishek Tewari
arXiv:2606. 29667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The materials science literature encodes decades of experimental knowledge in figures, yet this visual record remains locked away and inaccessible to AI at scale.
By Subham Ghosh, Shubham Tiwari, Mohammad Ibrahim, Abhishek Tewari
arXiv:2606. 28406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image and multimodal generative models are increasingly used to produce scientific figures such as mechanism diagrams, experimental-design schematics, conceptual frameworks, and graphical abstracts.
By Davie Chen
arXiv:2609.22210v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: SALSA (Semi-Autonomous Literature Summarization Assistant) is an open- source, human-in-the-loop platform for extracting structured scientific datasets...
By William Schertzer, Sonakshi Gupta, Rampi Ramprasad
Scientific images are the core elements of presenting experimental conclusions, elaborating system architecture, and supporting comparative arguments in scientific papers. However, existing image quality assessment (IQA) methods are predominantly designed for natural photographs or AI-generated content, which cannot be directly applied to scientific papers.
arXiv:2607. 27084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific images are the core elements of presenting experimental conclusions, elaborating system architecture, and supporting comparative arguments in scientific papers.
By Zihan Deng, Chuanzhi Xu, Huiqi Liang, Haoyang Li, Xiaozhen Zhong, Lequan Yu