Reverse-Engineering Information Presentations: Recovering Hierarchical Grouping from Layouts of Visual Elements

Understand

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.