papersSEP 12 04:00 UTC
New Benchmark Evaluates Scientific Figure Quality Using Full Manuscript Context
A new arXiv paper introduces SciFigQual-Bench, a benchmark designed to judge the quality of figures in scientific papers. Unlike earlier image quality assessment methods that look at images in isolation, it supplies the surrounding manuscript text as context. The authors argue this contextual approach better matches how readers and reviewers actually judge scientific visuals.