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
arXiv:2601. 04390v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-quality methodology figures are central to scientific communication, yet they remain difficult and time-consuming to create.
By Siyuan Huang, Yifan Zhou, Yutong Gao, Zi Yin, Juyang Bai, Xinxin Liu, Rama Chellappa, Chun Pong Lau, Cheng Peng, Sayan Nag, Shraman Pramanick
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
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.
arXiv:2608. 14075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific figures and tables encode essential experimental evidence, yet remain difficult for digital libraries and multimodal AI systems to retrieve and interpret.
By Jennifer D'Souza, Fahad Ahmed, Cecilia Andrea Bustamante Andrade, Lina Frolova, Poorani Gnanasambandan, Dilshad Hussain, Muhammad Uzair Khan, Nkembeng Kevin Nkengfoa, Paul Praveen J., Fabio Priante, Sjoerd Franciscus van der Werf, Thomas Frederik Jan van Roeden