External Labeling Techniques: A Taxonomy and Survey
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2019
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
External labeling is frequently used for annotating features in graphical displays and visualizations, such as technical illustrations, anatomical drawings, or maps, with textual information. Such a labeling connects features within an illustration by thin leader lines with their labels, which are placed in the empty space surrounding the image. Over the last twenty years, a large body of literature in diverse areas of computer science has been published that investigates many different aspects, models, and algorithms for automatically placing external labels for a given set of features. This state-of-the-art report introduces a first unified taxonomy for categorizing the different results in the literature and then presents a comprehensive survey of the state of the art, a sketch of the most relevant algorithmic techniques for external labeling algorithms, as well as a list of open research challenges in this multidisciplinary research field.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.13729,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{External Labeling Techniques: A Taxonomy and Survey}},
author = {Bekos, Michael A. and Niedermann, Benjamin and Nöllenburg, Martin},
year = {2019},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.13729}
}