Publications

@inproceedings{ author_inter,
  title = { From Static to Interactive: Authoring Interactive Visualizations via Natural Language },
  author = { Can Liu and Jaeuk Lee and Tianhe Chen and Zhibang Jiang and Xiaolin Wen and Yong Wang },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference },
  year = { 2026 },
  doi = { https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.17736 },
  pages = { 113-123 }
}

@inproceedings{ proteus,
  title = { Proteus: Shapeshifting Desktop Visualizations for Mobile via Multi-level Intelligent Adaptation },
  author = { Can Liu and Sizhe Cheng and Feng Liang and Zhibang Jiang and Lingru Huang and Kavinda Athapaththu and Yong Wang },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems },
  year = { 2026 },
  pages = { 4874-4891 }
}

@misc{ revis,
  title = { ReVis: Towards Reusable Image-Based Visualizations with MLLMs },
  author = { Xiaolin Wen and Changlin Li and Manusha Karunathilaka and Can Liu and Fangzhuo Jin and Yong Wang },
  year = { 2026 },
  eprint = { 2604.15781 },
  archivePrefix = { arXiv },
  primaryClass = { cs.HC },
  url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15781 },
  doi = { https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.15781 }
}

@article{ spatial_audio,
  title = { Accessible Fine-grained Data Representation via Spatial Audio },
  author = { Can Liu and Wenjie Jiang and Shaolun Ruan and Kotaro Hara and Yong Wang },
  journal = { IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications },
  year = { 2026 },
  doi = { https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.08979 }
}

@inproceedings{ mindtrellis,
  title = { MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI through Interactive Visual Exploration },
  author = { Xiang Li and Cara Li and Emily Kuang and Can Liu and Jian Zhao },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) },
  year = { 2026 },
  doi = { 10.1145/3800645.3813045 },
  pages = { 4892-4912 }
}

@misc{ maniscope,
  title = { ManiScope: LLM-Assisted Visual Analytics of Cryptocurrency Manipulation Risk },
  author = { Xiaolin Wen and Feng Liang and Yuanye Ma and Qishuang Fu and Zhengyu Sun and Feng Zhu and Can Liu and Yong Wang },
  year = { 2026 },
  eprint = { 2607.11451 },
  archivePrefix = { arXiv },
  primaryClass = { cs.HC },
  url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11451 }
}

@misc{ vibe_coding,
  title = { Vibe Coding for Visualization Implementation: An Empirical Study of Practices and Challenges },
  author = { Zhengyu Sun and Xiaolin Wen and Fengjie Wang and Can Liu and Yi Lai and Christophe Hurter and Yong Wang },
  year = { 2026 },
  eprint = { 2606.19703 },
  archivePrefix = { arXiv },
  primaryClass = { cs.HC },
  url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19703 }
}

@article{ datawink,
  title = { DataWink: Reusing and Adapting SVG-based Visualization Examples with Large Multimodal Models },
  author = { Liwenhan Xie and Yanna Lin and Can Liu and Huamin Qu and Xinhuan Shu },
  journal = { IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics },
  year = { 2026 },
  doi = { 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3634635 },
  pages = { 824-834 },
  volume = { 32 },
  number = { 1 }
}

@inproceedings{ simvecvis,
  title = { SimVecVis: A Dataset for Enhancing MLLMs in Visualization Understanding },
  author = { Can Liu and Chunlin Da and Xiaoxiao Long and Yuxiao Yang and Yu Zhang and Yong Wang },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics },
  year = { 2025 },
  doi = { 10.1109/VIS60296.2025.00010 },
  pages = { 26-30 }
}

@article{ prompt,
  title = { PrompTHis: Visualizing the Process and Influence of Prompt Editing during Text-to-Image Creation },
  author = { Yuhan Guo and Hanning Shao and Can Liu and Kai Xu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics },
  year = { 2025 },
  doi = { 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3408255 },
  pages = { 4547-4559 },
  volume = { 31 },
  number = { 9 }
}

@article{ spatial_layout,
  title = { A Spatial-Constraint Model for Activating Static Visualizations },
  author = { Can Liu and Yu Zhang and Cong Wu and Chen Li and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems },
  year = { 2024 },
  doi = { 10.1145/3657642 },
  pages = { 1-29 },
  volume = { 14 },
  number = { 2 }
}

@misc{ autolegend,
  title = { AutoLegend: An Automatic Legend Generator for Visualization },
  author = { Can Liu and Xiyao Mei and Zhibang Jiang and Xiaoru Yuan },
  year = { 2024 },
  url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16331 }
}

@misc{ nlmanipulate,
  title = { In-Situ Visualization Manipulation with Natural Language Queries },
  author = { Can Liu and Jiacheng Yu and Yuhan Guo and Jiayi Zhuang and Yuchu Luo and Xiaoru Yuan },
  year = { 2024 },
  url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06039 }
}

@article{ autotitle,
  title = { AutoTitle: An Interactive Title Generator for Visualizations },
  author = { Can Liu and Yuhan Guo and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics },
  year = { 2024 },
  doi = { 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3290241 },
  pages = { 5276-5288 },
  volume = { 30 },
  number = { 8 }
}

@article{ oldvisonline,
  title = { OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations },
  author = { Yu Zhang and Ruike Jiang and Liwenhan Xie and Yuheng Zhao and Can Liu and Tianhong Ding and Siming Chen and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics },
  year = { 2024 },
  doi = { 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326908 },
  pages = { 551-561 },
  volume = { 30 },
  number = { 1 }
}

@article{ transition_bars,
  title = { Understanding Transitions in Animated Bar Charts },
  author = { Datong Wei and Can Liu and Xiaolong Zhang and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { Visual Intelligence },
  year = { 2023 },
  doi = { 10.1007/s44267-023-00015-w },
  pages = { 1-15 },
  volume = { 1 },
  number = { 12 }
}

@inproceedings{ wikiedit,
  title = { Edit-History Vis: An Interactive Visual Exploration and Analysis on Wikipedia Edit History },
  author = { Yuhan Guo and Qin Han and Yuke Lou and Yiming Wang and Can Liu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium },
  year = { 2023 },
  doi = { 10.1109/PacificVis56936.2023.00025 },
  pages = { 157-166 }
}

@article{ intelli_vis,
  title = { Intelligent Visualization and Visual Analytics },
  author = { Jun Tao and Yu Zhang and Qing Chen and Can Liu and Siming Chen and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { Journal of Image and Graphics (In Chinese) },
  year = { 2023 },
  doi = { 10.11834/jig.230034 },
  number = { 2 }
}

@article{ flow_survey,
  title = { Deep Learning Approaches in Flow Visualization​ },
  author = { Can Liu and Ruike Jiang and Datong Wei and Changhe Yang and Yanda Li and Fang Wang and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { Advances in Aerodynamics },
  year = { 2022 },
  doi = { 10.1186/s42774-022-00113-1 },
  pages = { 1-14 },
  volume = { 4 },
  number = { 17 }
}

@article{ vis_dh,
  title = { Visualization in Digital Humanities​ },
  author = { Yuchu Luo and Hao Wu and Yuhan Guo and Shaocong Tan and Can Liu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { Big Data Research (In Chinese) },
  year = { 2022 },
  doi = { 10.11959/j.issn.2096-0271.2022085 },
  pages = { 74-93 },
  volume = { 8 },
  number = { 6 }
}

@inproceedings{ DMvis,
  title = { Direct Manipulation of Static Visualizations },
  author = { Can Liu and Yu Zhang and Cong Wu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium },
  year = { 2022 }
}

@inproceedings{ advisor,
  title = { ADVISor: Automatic Visualization Answer for Natural-Language Question on Tabular Data },
  author = { Can Liu and Yun Han and Ruike Jiang and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium },
  year = { 2021 },
  doi = { 10.1109/PacificVis52677.2021.00010 },
  pages = { 6-15 }
}

@article{ smartcube,
  title = { SmartCube: An Adaptive Data Management Architecture for the Real-Time Visualization of Spatiotemporal Datasets },
  author = { Can Liu and Cong Wu and Hanning Shao and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics },
  year = { 2020 },
  doi = { 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934434 },
  pages = { 790-799 },
  volume = { 26 },
  number = { 1 }
}

@article{ eventbased,
  title = { Event-Based Exploration and Comparison on Time-Varying Ensembles },
  author = { Can Liu and Yanda Li and Changhe Yang and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { Journal of Visualization (ChinaVis’19) },
  year = { 2020 },
  doi = { 10.1007/s12650-019-00608-y },
  pages = { 111-123 },
  volume = { 23 },
  number = { 1 }
}

@inproceedings{ autocaption,
  title = { AutoCaption: An Approach to Generate Natural Language Description from Visualization Automatically },
  author = { Can Liu and Liwenhan Xie and Yun Han and Datong Wei and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium },
  year = { 2020 },
  doi = { 10.1109/PacificVis48177.2020.1043 },
  pages = { 191-195 }
}

@inproceedings{ autoannotation,
  title = { Automatic Annotation Synchronizing with Textual Description for Visualization },
  author = { Chufan Lai and Zhixian Lin and Ruike Jiang and Yun Han and Can Liu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) },
  year = { 2020 },
  doi = { 10.1145/3313831.3376443 }
}

@article{ dl4vis,
  title = { Visualization Driven by Deep Learning },
  author = { Can Liu and Chufan Lai and Ruike Jiang and Yanda Li and Changhe Yang and Zhixian Lin and Datong Wei and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (ChinaVis '20) (In Chinese) },
  year = { 2020 },
  doi = { 10.3724/SP.J.1089.2020.18492 },
  pages = { 1537-1548 },
  volume = { 32 },
  number = { 10 }
}

@inproceedings{ dnnvolvis,
  title = { DNN-VolVis: Interactive Volume Visualization Supported by Deep Neural Network },
  author = { Fan Hong and Can Liu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium },
  year = { 2019 },
  doi = { 10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00041 },
  pages = { 282-291 }
}

@article{ viewpoint,
  title = { Deep Learning-Based Viewpoint Recommendation in Volume Visualization },
  author = { Changhe Yang and Yanda Li and Can Liu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  journal = { Journal of Visualization },
  year = { 2019 },
  doi = { 10.1007/s12650-019-00583-4 },
  pages = { 991-1003 },
  volume = { 22 },
  number = { 5 }
}

@inproceedings{ AutoCap,
  title = { Automatic Caption Genertion for SVG Charts },
  author = { Can Liu and Liwenhan Xie and Yun Han and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium },
  year = { 2019 }
}

@inproceedings{ AutoAno,
  title = { Automatic Annotation of Visualizations },
  author = { Chufan Lai and Zhixian Lin and Can Liu and Yun Han and Ruike Jiang and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE VIS },
  year = { 2019 }
}

@inproceedings{ AutoAns,
  title = { Automatic Answer and Visualization Generation for Tabular Data },
  author = { Yun Han and Wentao Zhang and Sihang Li and Can Liu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium },
  year = { 2019 }
}

@inproceedings{ Asteroid,
  title = { Interactive Visual Exploration and Comparison on the Effect of Asteroid Impacts },
  author = { Can Liu and Yanda Li and Changhe Yang and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of IEEE SciVis (Best Visualization of Water in Atmosphere, SciVis Contest) },
  year = { 2018 }
}

@inproceedings{ Goal-Oriented,
  title = { Goal-Oriented Volume Visualization through Deep Neural Networks },
  author = { Fan Hong and Can Liu and Xiaoru Yuan },
  booktitle = { Proceedings of China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference },
  year = { 2018 }
}