Infographics are an aesthetic visual representation of information following specific design principles of human perception. Designing infographics can be a tedious process for non-experts and time-consuming, even for professional designers. With the help of designers, we propose a semi-automated infographic framework for general structured and flow-based infographic design generation. For novice designers, our framework automatically creates and ranks infographic designs for a user-provided text with no requirement for design input. However, expert designers can still provide custom design inputs to customize the infographics. We will also contribute an individual visual group (VG) designs dataset (in SVG), along with a 1k complete infographic image dataset with segmented VGs in this work. Evaluation results confirm that by using our framework, designers from all expertise levels can generate generic infographic designs faster than existing methods while maintaining the same quality as hand-designed infographics templates.

本文提出了一种半自动的信息图形框架，利用设计原则自动生成基于结构和流程的信息图形设计，并提供SVG格式的个人视觉组设计数据集和1k完整信息图像数据集。评估结果表明，使用我们的框架，各级别的设计师可以比现有方法更快地生成通用的信息图形设计，并保持与手工设计的信息图形模板相同的质量。

信息图表向导: 灵活的信息图表创作和设计探索