Evaluating the readability of force directed graph layouts: A deep learning approach

• Main Authors: HALEEM, Hammad, WANG, Yong, PURI, Abishek, WADHWA, Sahil, QU, Huamin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5375; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6379/viewcontent/evaluating__PV.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Existing graph layout algorithms are usually not able to optimize all the aesthetic properties desired in a graph layout. To evaluate how well the desired visual features are reflected in a graph layout, many readability metrics have been proposed in the past decades. However, the calculation of the...