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  1. Do you "see" what I "see"? A Multi-panel Visual Question Answer Dataset for Large Language Model Chart Analysis

    Oct 9, 2026Daniel J. Evans, J. P. Naiman, JooYoung Seo +1Scientific Figure UnderstandingChart QA

    School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 61820, USA

  2. PlotGround: Grounding Plot Digitization in Real Scientific Figures and Their Source Data

    Oct 5, 2026Yaohui Zhang, Binxu Li, Haoyi Duan +7Scientific VisualizationChart QA

    Generative Expert Labs, Inc · Stanford University · Princeton University

  3. FigAct: Turning Scientific Figures into Active Canvases for Explanation

    Sep 28, 2026Shishi Xiao, Zichao Wang, Alexa Siu +2Scientific VisualizationVisually Grounded Reasoning

    Brown University · Adobe Research

  4. SciFigure2Code: An AI-Reconstructed Benchmark for Scientific Figure-to-Code

    Sep 8, 2026Wentao Li, Yibo Wu, Yizhe Chen +5Scientific VisualizationCode Generation Evaluation

    Tsinghua University

  5. Structure-Token Evidence-Anchored Reasoning for Scientific Chart Understanding

    Sep 7, 2026Alberlucia Rafael Soarez, Camila Ferreira, Daniel Kim +2Chart UnderstandingChart QA

    University of Brasilia

  6. From Terminology to Diagrams: Visual-Instruction Generation for Scientific Diagram Understanding

    Sep 1, 2026Raul Ortega, José Manuel Gómez-PérezVisual Question AnsweringScientific QA

    Language Technology Research Laboratory Expert.ai 17 Henri Dunant, 28036 Madrid, Spain

  7. A Pathway to General-Purpose Scientific AI: Multimodal Comprehension of Scientific Images

    Aug 14, 2026Jennifer D'Souza, Fahad Ahmed, Cecilia Andrea Bustamante Andrade +9Scientific Figure UnderstandingMultimodal Model Evaluation

    Data Science and Digital Libraries, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany · Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands · Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany +5

  8. How Do VLMs Behave When Blind or Misled? Behavioral Evaluation of VLMs on Scientific Figures

    Aug 13, 2026Paul Osemudiame Oamen, Owusu-Banahene Osei, Ananya Mukherjee +4VLM EvaluationVLM Robustness

    The Aberdeen NLP Research Group, University of Aberdeen, UK · International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India · University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany +1

  9. SciFigPlag-Bench: A Benchmark for Provenance-Aware Scientific Figure Plagiarism Detection

    Jul 31, 2026Zhiying Cui, Minghao Yang, Linlin Gao +2VLM EvaluationImage Forgery Detection

    1Ningbo University · 2Hokkaido University · 3IBM Research

  10. SciFigAlign: Scoring Scientific Figures by Fine-tuned Alignment of Visuals with Manuscript Evidence

    Jul 29, 2026Chuanzhi Xu, Zihan Deng, Huiqi Liang +4Scholarly Peer ReviewImage Quality Assessment

    The University of Sydney · The University of Hong Kong · Indiana University +2

  11. ICDAR 2026 Competition on Information Extraction from Atomic Layer Deposition/Etching (ALD/E) Scientific Figures

    Jul 29, 2026Fahad Ahmed, Sören Auer, Jennifer D'SouzaVisual Question AnsweringDocument Information Extraction

    TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany · L3S Research Center, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

  12. Unlocking the Visual Record of Materials Science: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset from Scientific Literature

    Jun 29, 2026Subham Ghosh, Shubham Tiwari, Mohammad Ibrahim +1LLM-Assisted AnnotationMaterials Science

    Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India-247667 · Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India-247667

  13. Helping Figures Tell their Story! Paper-Grounded Video Generation Explaining Complex Scientific Figures

    Jun 10, 2026Ishani Mondal, Javad Baghirov, Jordan Boyd-GraberImage-to-Video GenerationVideo Generation

    University of Maryland, College Park

  14. PlotPick: AI-powered batch extraction of numerical data from scientific figures

    May 7, 2026Tommy CarstensenData VisualizationVision-Language Models

    Copenhagen Research Centre for Biological and Precision Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

  15. Decoding Scientific Experimental Images: The SPUR Benchmark for Perception, Understanding, and Reasoning

    Apr 30, 2026Junpeng Ding, Zichen Tang, Haihong E +17AI for ScienceVLM Reasoning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications