Papers › Reverse-Engineering Information Presentations: Recovering Hierarchical Grouping from...
Reverse-Engineering Information Presentations: Recovering Hierarchical Grouping from Layouts of Visual Elements
Danqing Shi, Weiwei Cui, Danqing Huang, Haidong Zhang, Nan Cao
The archive published only this paper's code-link row. Authors, date and abstract are from arXiv's metadata (CC0), read from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12 where its title matched the archive's; the title is the archive's.
Visual elements in an information presentation are often spatially and semantically grouped hierarchically for effective message delivery. Studying the hierarchical grouping information can help researchers and designers better explore layout structures and understand design demographics. However, recovering hierarchical grouping is challenging due to a large number of possibilities for compositing visual elements into a single-page design. This paper introduces an automatic approach that takes the layout of visual elements as input and returns the hierarchical grouping as output. To understand information presentations, we first contribute a dataset of 23,072 information presentations with diverse layouts to the community. Next, we propose our technique with a Transformer-based model to predict relatedness between visual elements and a bottom-up algorithm to produce the hierarchical grouping. Finally, we evaluate our technique through a technical experiment and a user study with 30 designers. The results show that the proposed technique is promising.
In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.
Code
Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.
Code Syntology ran Syntology
Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.
Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.
Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections