Scientific Visualization

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Scientific visualization helps people inspect and understand data from settings such as simulations, imaging, climate science, and networks. Methods include volume rendering, flow and graph layouts, dimensionality reduction, visual analytics, and techniques for showing uncertainty. Current work also uses generative models and AI agents to create figures, interpret plots, and automate interactive analysis workflows, with benchmarks testing accuracy and task completion. A central challenge is making automation efficient without sacrificing data fidelity, provenance, uncertainty communication, or human oversight.

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  1. Appearance Compensation in Volume Rendering

    Oct 10, 2026Jianghong ZhouInverse RenderingScientific Visualization

    ByteDance

  2. One Figure, Every Canvas: Editable Flowchart Relayout via Agentic Pipeline

    Oct 5, 2026Shih-Chen Tseng, Chih-Hsuan Chen, Ryan Yang +3Scientific Visualization

    Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  3. 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

  4. Designing for Interpretation Uncertainty: Architecture and Principles for Topological Learning Analytics Dashboards

    Oct 1, 2026Hitoshi Inoue, Koichi YasutakeScientific VisualizationData Visualization

    Nakamura Gakuen University 5-7-1 Befu, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka City, 814-0198 JAPAN · Hiroshima University 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima City, 734-8524 JAPAN

  5. 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

  6. Interrelating Fruchterman-Reingold Graph Visualization and Agglomerative Clustering

    Sep 28, 2026Alexandre Benatti, Luciano da F. CostaScientific VisualizationHierarchical Clustering

    Institute of Mathematics and Statistics - DCC University of S˜ao Paulo Rua do Mat˜ao, 1010, S˜ao Paulo, SP 05508-090 Brazil · S˜ao Carlos Institute of Physics - DFCM University of S˜ao Paulo Av. Trabalhador S˜ao-Carlense, 400, S˜ao Carlos, SP 13566-590 Brazil

  7. ReFigBench: Benchmarking Scientific Figure Reconstruction as Editable PowerPoint Artifacts

    Sep 16, 2026Liyang Fan, Chi Wei, Yitai Li +8Scientific VisualizationAI Agent Benchmarks

    SZU · SIAT, CAS · SUAT +2

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

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

    Tsinghua University

  9. Figures as Programs: Recursive Generation of Editable Scientific Figures

    Sep 1, 2026Yepeng Liu, Dasen Dai, Chengzhi Liu +7Scientific VisualizationProgram Synthesis

    1UC Santa Barbara · 2CUHK · 3Show Lab, National University of Singapore +2

  10. PaperBanana-Interact: Scientific Diagram Refinement with Multi-Turn Human Feedback

    Aug 31, 2026Xueqing Wu, Ashwin Balasubramanian, Bingxuan Li +7Scientific VisualizationMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    University of California, Los Angeles · Google · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +1

  11. FigMirror: Ground It, Code It, Plot It

    Aug 28, 2026Xiaohan Zhao, Jiacheng Liu, Yaxin Luo +1Image Style TransferScientific Visualization

    VILA Lab, Department of Machine Learning, MBZUAI

  12. Multi-Agent Discovery and Resource-Aware Autonomous Exploration of Scientific Datasets

    Aug 22, 2026Aashish Panta, Hugo Lee, Giorgio Scorzelli +2AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryMulti-Agent Systems

    University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, USA · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech Pasadena, CA, USA

  13. Sounds Uncertain: Exploring the Affective Aspects of Sonification for Uncertainty Visualization

    Aug 19, 2026Marcel-Simon Dutt, Sita A. Vriend, Elias Elmquist +1SonificationScientific Visualization

    University of Stuttgart

  14. Visualizing Uncertainty-to-Action Composition for Human Oversight

    Aug 17, 2026Chisom Anyabolu, Akshat Dubey, Georges HattabHuman Oversight of AIVisual Analytics

    Robert Koch Institute · Robert Koch Institute Freie Universitat, Berlin

  15. Look Before You Lift: Visual and Quantitative Diagnostics for Topological Deep Learning

    Aug 15, 2026Mathilde Papillon, Guillermo Bernárdez, Álvaro Ballón Barreiro +4Topological Representation LearningTopological Data Analysis

    University of California Santa Barbara · Sapienza Universitá di Roma · Arlequin AI

  16. Fixed-Budget Gaussian Volume Encoding with Structure-Aware Allocation

    Aug 14, 2026Michael R. Martin, Joseph Insley, Victor A. Mateevitsi +2Scientific Visualization3DGS Compression

    Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis · Argonne National Laboratory

  17. Towards Physics-Faithful Generation of Scientific Diagrams

    Aug 13, 2026Minghui Zhang, Jinxin Shi, Yifan Chang +12Scientific VisualizationStructured CoT Reasoning

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  18. Inductive Graph Layout with Implicit Neural Fields

    Aug 9, 2026Berfin Inal, Daniel ProbstScientific VisualizationImplicit Neural Representations

    Wageningen Univeristy & Research

  19. Gaussian Volumetric Representation for Efficient Shear-Warp Visualization

    Jul 28, 2026Mayuri Mathur, Ojaswa SharmaScientific VisualizationMedical Image Representation Learning

    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi · Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

  20. ECoNGS: Efficient Compressive Neural Gaussian Splats for Volume Visualization

    Jul 20, 2026Kaiyuan Tang, Chaoli Wang3DGS CompressionScientific Visualization

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

  21. SciForma: Structure-Faithful Generation of Scientific Diagrams

    Jul 20, 2026Yuxuan Luo, Peng Zhang, Xinjie Zhang +3Scientific VisualizationDirect Preference Optimization

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, China · State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University, China · Microsoft Research Asia

  22. Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Scientific Visualization Literacy

    Jul 16, 2026Patrick Phuoc Do, Chau M. Ta, Chaoli WangScientific VisualizationData Visualization

    University of Notre Dame

  23. ImputeViz: A Visual Analytics Dashboard for Diagnosing Missing Data and Comparing Imputation Methods

    Jul 9, 2026Aitik Dandapat, Lalith Punepalle Raveendrareddy, Mithilesh Kumar Singh +1Scientific VisualizationData Visualization

    Stony Brook University

  24. VEIL: How Visual Encoding Hijacking Induces Bias In Vision Models

    Jul 6, 2026Suranjana Sooraj, Xuyang Chen, Madhumitha Venkatesan +1Scientific VisualizationData Visualization

    University of California, Davis

  25. Visualizing High-Dimensional Graph Embeddings via Informed Multi-View Projections

    Jun 30, 2026Ya Ji, Xuefeng Li, Timo Brand +4Scientific VisualizationData Visualization

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Seattle · School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany

  26. HiLSVA: Design and Evaluation of a Human-in-the-Loop Agentic System for Scientific Visualization

    Jun 25, 2026Kuangshi Ai, Patrick Phuoc Do, Chaoli WangScientific VisualizationData Visualization

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

  27. Can AI Draw Science? A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Figure Generation by Text-to-Image and Multimodal Models

    Jun 24, 2026Davie ChenScientific VisualizationMultimodal Model Evaluation

  28. AI Supply Chain Galaxy: 3D Visual Analytics for License Compliance

    Jun 15, 2026Weiru Han, Xuetao Shi, Wenyi He +3Scientific Visualization

    East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China · Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  29. Beyond NL2Code: A Structured Survey of Multimodal Code Intelligence

    Jun 14, 2026Xuanle Zhao, Qiushi Sun, Jingyu Xiao +16Scientific VisualizationCode Generation

    Meituan · The University of Hong Kong · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +7

  30. Quantum Cinema: An Interactive Cinematic Exploration of Quantum Computing Hardware via Generative World Models

    Jun 14, 2026Aoyu Zhang, Dongping Liu, Luyao ZhangScientific Visualization

    Amazon Web Services · Duke Kunshan University