2026

Proteus: Shapeshifting Desktop Visualizations for Mobile via Multi-level Intelligent Adaptation

Can Liu, Sizhe Cheng, Feng Liang, Zhibang Jiang, Lingru Huang, Kavinda Athapaththu, Yong Wang
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 2026.

From Static to Interactive: Authoring Interactive Visualizations via Natural Language Best Paper Award

Can Liu, Jaeuk Lee, Tianhe Chen, Zhibang Jiang, Xiaolin Wen, Yong Wang
In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference. 2026.

Accessible Fine-grained Data Representation via Spatial Audio

Can Liu, Wenjie Jiang, Shaolun Ruan, Kotaro Hara, Yong Wang
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 2026.

MindTrellis: Co-Creating Knowledge Structures with AI through Interactive Visual Exploration

Xiang Li, Cara Li, Emily Kuang, Can Liu, Jian Zhao
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). 2026.

DataWink: Reusing and Adapting SVG-based Visualization Examples with Large Multimodal Models

Liwenhan Xie, Yanna Lin, Can Liu, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 32(1):824-834, 2026.

2025

SimVecVis: A Dataset for Enhancing MLLMs in Visualization Understanding

Can Liu, Chunlin Da, Xiaoxiao Long, Yuxiao Yang, Yu Zhang, Yong Wang
In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics. 2025.

PrompTHis: Visualizing the Process and Influence of Prompt Editing during Text-to-Image Creation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(9):4547-4559, 2025.

2024

A Spatial-Constraint Model for Activating Static Visualizations

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems. 14(2):1-29, 2024.

AutoLegend: An Automatic Legend Generator for Visualization

In-Situ Visualization Manipulation with Natural Language Queries

Can Liu, Jiacheng Yu, Yuhan Guo, Jiayi Zhuang, Yuchu Luo, Xiaoru Yuan

AutoTitle: An Interactive Title Generator for Visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30(8):5276-5288, 2024.

OldVisOnline: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations

Yu Zhang, Ruike Jiang, Liwenhan Xie, Yuheng Zhao, Can Liu, Tianhong Ding, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30(1):551-561, 2024.

2023

Understanding Transitions in Animated Bar Charts

Datong Wei, Can Liu, Xiaolong Zhang, Xiaoru Yuan
Visual Intelligence. 1(12):1-15, 2023.

Edit-History Vis: An Interactive Visual Exploration and Analysis on Wikipedia Edit History

Yuhan Guo, Qin Han, Yuke Lou, Yiming Wang, Can Liu, Xiaoru Yuan
In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. pages 157-166, Seoul, South Korea, Apr. 18-21, 2023.

Intelligent Visualization and Visual Analytics

Jun Tao, Yu Zhang, Qing Chen, Can Liu, Siming Chen, Xiaoru Yuan
Journal of Image and Graphics (In Chinese). 2023.

2022

Deep Learning Approaches in Flow Visualization​

Advances in Aerodynamics. 4(17):1-14, 2022.

Visualization in Digital Humanities​

Yuchu Luo, Hao Wu, Yuhan Guo, Shaocong Tan, Can Liu, Xiaoru Yuan
Big Data Research (In Chinese). 8(6):74-93, 2022.

Direct Manipulation of Static Visualizations

In Poster Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. Online, Apr. 11-14, Poster, 2022.

2021

ADVISor: Automatic Visualization Answer for Natural-Language Question on Tabular Data

In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. pages 6-15, Tianjin, China, Apr. 19-22, 2021.

2020

SmartCube: An Adaptive Data Management Architecture for the Real-Time Visualization of Spatiotemporal Datasets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 26(1):790-799, 2020.

Event-Based Exploration and Comparison on Time-Varying Ensembles Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award

Journal of Visualization (ChinaVis’19). 23(1):111-123, 2020.

AutoCaption: An Approach to Generate Natural Language Description from Visualization Automatically

In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. pages 191-195, Tianjin, China, June 3-5, 2020.

Automatic Annotation Synchronizing with Textual Description for Visualization

In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020). Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, April 25-30, 2020.

Visualization Driven by Deep Learning Best Paper Award

Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (ChinaVis '20) (In Chinese). 32(10):1537-1548, 2020.

2019

DNN-VolVis: Interactive Volume Visualization Supported by Deep Neural Network

In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. pages 282-291, Bangkok, Thailand, Apr. 23-26, 2019.

Deep Learning-Based Viewpoint Recommendation in Volume Visualization

Journal of Visualization. 22(5):991-1003, 2019.

Automatic Caption Genertion for SVG Charts Honorable Mention for Best Poster Award

In Poster Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. Bangkok, Thailand, Apr. 23-26, Poster, 2019.

Automatic Annotation of Visualizations Honorable Mention for Best Poster Award

In Poster Proceedings of IEEE VIS. Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 20-25, Poster, 2019.

Automatic Answer and Visualization Generation for Tabular Data Best Poster Award

In Poster Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium. Bangkok, Thailand, Apr. 23-26, Poster, 2019.

2018

Interactive Visual Exploration and Comparison on the Effect of Asteroid Impacts

In Poster Proceedings of IEEE SciVis (Best Visualization of Water in Atmosphere, SciVis Contest). Berlin, German, Oct. 21-26, Poster, 2018.

Goal-Oriented Volume Visualization through Deep Neural Networks

In Poster Proceedings of China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference. Shanghai, China, June. 25-28, Poster, 2018.