VIS30K: A Collection of Figures and Tables from IEEE Visualization Conference Publications

Abstract

We present the VIS30K dataset, a collection of 29,689 images that represents 30 years of figures and tables from each track of the IEEE Visualization conference series (Vis, SciVis, InfoVis, VAST). VIS30K's comprehensive coverage of the scientific literature in visualization not only reflects the progress of the field but also enables researchers to study the evolution of the state-of-the-art and to find relevant work based on graphical content. We describe the dataset and our semi-automatic collection process, which couples convolutional neural networks (CNN) with curation. Extracting figures and tables semi-automatically allows us to verify that no images are overlooked or extracted erroneously. To improve quality further, we engaged in a peer-search process for high-quality figures from early IEEE Visualization papers. With the resulting data, we also contribute VISImageNavigator (VIN, visimagenavigator.github.io

Visualization Resources: A Starting Point

“…Kucher et al present another survey paper on the state-of-theart in sentiment visualization [42]. This is also an advanced image browser that features a valuable collection of meta-data Image Browser Name URL Treevis.net [59] https://treevis.net/ TimeViz Browser [4] https://vcg.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ ∼ ct/timeviz/timeviz.html Multiviz.net [37] https://multivis.net/ Text Visualization Browser [41] https://textvis.lnu.se/ BioVis Explorer [38] https://biovis.lnu.se/ SentimentVis Browser [42] https://sentimentvis.lnu.se/ TrustMLVis Browser [17] https://trustmlvis.lnu.se/ Finance Vis Browser [24] http://financevis.net/ Predictive Visual Analytics Browser [46] http://104.196.253.120/pva browser/ MVN Visualization Techniques [53] https://vdl.sci.utah.edu/mvnv/ UncertaintyViz Browser [36] https://amitjenaiitbm.github.io/uncertaintyVizBrowser/ VisImageNavigator [18] https://visimagenavigator.github.io/ [36] all of which are dedicated to the topic of uncertainty visualization.…”

“…There are too many visualization research papers (thousands) to list individually. However, there are resources that present and explore the large collection of visualization literature such as VisPubData [33], VisImageNavigator [18], and CiteVis [61]. Similarly, there are over 100 survey papers on the topic of visualization and visual analytics.…”

Visualization Resources: A Starting Point

“…Kucher et al present another survey paper on the state-of-theart in sentiment visualization [42]. This is also an advanced image browser that features a valuable collection of meta-data Image Browser Name URL Treevis.net [59] https://treevis.net/ TimeViz Browser [5] https://vcg.informatik.uni-rostock.de/ ∼ ct/timeviz/timeviz.html Multiviz.net [37] https://multivis.net/ Text Visualization Browser [41] https://textvis.lnu.se/ BioVis Explorer [38] https://biovis.lnu.se/ SentimentVis Browser [42] https://sentimentvis.lnu.se/ TrustMLVis Browser [18] https://trustmlvis.lnu.se/ Finance Vis Browser [25] http://financevis.net/ Predictive Visual Analytics Browser [46] http://104.196.253.120/pva browser/ MVN Visualization Techniques [53] https://vdl.sci.utah.edu/mvnv/ UncertaintyViz Browser [36] https://amitjenaiitbm.github.io/uncertaintyVizBrowser/ VisImageNavigator [19] https://visimagenavigator.github.io/ [36] all of which are dedicated to the topic of uncertainty visualization.…”

“…Chen et al [19] have the most complete collection of the image data (figures, tables, equations, and algorithms) of all three conference tracks of IEEE VIS in its 31 years of history. This dataset is also cross-linked to vispubdata [34] so one can find images by keyword search.…”

“…There are too many visualization research papers (thousands) to list individually. However, there are resources that present and explore the large collection of visualization literature such as VisPubData [33], VisImageNavigator [19], and CiteVis [61]. Similarly, there are over 100 survey papers on the topic of visualization and visual analytics.…”