Describing Abstraction in Rendered Images through Figure Captions

Knut Hartmann - Bernhard Preim - Thomas Strothotte

Abstract:

We analyze illustration and abstraction techniques used in rendered images. We argue that it is important to convey these techniques to viewers of such images to enhance the process of image understanding. This leads us to derive methods for automatically generating figure captions for rendered images which describe the abstraction carried out. We apply this concept to computer generated anatomic illustrations.

Strategies for the content selection for figure captions, for setting user preferences and for updating figure captions are described. Several approaches to the realization of figure captions are discussed. The paper also describes a prototypical implementation.

Postscript

• Introduction
• Abstraction in Illustrations
• Classification of Figure Captions
• Figures and their Captions in Anatomy
• Interactive Abstraction and Dynamic Figure Captions
  • Updating Figure Captions
  • Adaptable Figure Captions
  • Interactive Figure Captions
• Representation and Architecture
• Realization of Figure Captions
  • Tasks within the Generation Process
  • Template-Based Generation
  • Realization of Anatomic Figure Captions
  • Linguistically Motivated Generation
• Related Work
• Discussion
• Summary
• References
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