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LIVE: LaTex Interactive Visual Editing

Jinwei Lin

TL;DR

LaTeX-based papers are traditionally static, limiting the depth of interactive data presentation. The authors introduce LIVE, a framework that enables interactive LaTeX graphics through a taxonomy of components (Gitem, GAA interface, GPA components) and HVAM-driven analysis, demonstrated on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) case studies. Core contributions include eight data-processing and visualization interfaces (AnalyzeRefs, PDFRefs, CellMapping, ChipMap, FlowChart, FlowGraph, TexOverPic, TextOCR) and a practical open-source implementation that automates extraction from Bib/PDF files and renders interactive visuals such as ChipMaps and FlowGraphs. The work offers a scalable path to richer, navigable scholarly PDFs while maintaining the integrity of traditional printed publication, making it valuable for review papers and dynamic visualization in academia.

Abstract

LaTex coding is one of the main methods of writing an academic paper. When writing a paper, abundant proper visual or graphic components will represent more information volume than the textual data. However, most of the implementation of LaTex graphic items are designed as static items that have some weaknesses in representing more informative figures or tables with an interactive reading experience. To address this problem, we propose LIVE, a novel design methods idea to design interactive LaTex graphic items. To make a lucid representation of the main idea of LIVE, we designed several novels representing implementations that are interactive and enough explanation for the basic level principles. Using LIVE can design more graphic items, which we call the Gitems, and easily and automatically get the relationship of the mutual application of a specific range of papers, which will add more vitality and performance factors into writing of traditional papers especially the review papers. For vividly representing the functions of LIVE, we use the papers from NeRF as the example reference papers. The code of the implementation project is open source.

LIVE: LaTex Interactive Visual Editing

TL;DR

LaTeX-based papers are traditionally static, limiting the depth of interactive data presentation. The authors introduce LIVE, a framework that enables interactive LaTeX graphics through a taxonomy of components (Gitem, GAA interface, GPA components) and HVAM-driven analysis, demonstrated on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) case studies. Core contributions include eight data-processing and visualization interfaces (AnalyzeRefs, PDFRefs, CellMapping, ChipMap, FlowChart, FlowGraph, TexOverPic, TextOCR) and a practical open-source implementation that automates extraction from Bib/PDF files and renders interactive visuals such as ChipMaps and FlowGraphs. The work offers a scalable path to richer, navigable scholarly PDFs while maintaining the integrity of traditional printed publication, making it valuable for review papers and dynamic visualization in academia.

Abstract

LaTex coding is one of the main methods of writing an academic paper. When writing a paper, abundant proper visual or graphic components will represent more information volume than the textual data. However, most of the implementation of LaTex graphic items are designed as static items that have some weaknesses in representing more informative figures or tables with an interactive reading experience. To address this problem, we propose LIVE, a novel design methods idea to design interactive LaTex graphic items. To make a lucid representation of the main idea of LIVE, we designed several novels representing implementations that are interactive and enough explanation for the basic level principles. Using LIVE can design more graphic items, which we call the Gitems, and easily and automatically get the relationship of the mutual application of a specific range of papers, which will add more vitality and performance factors into writing of traditional papers especially the review papers. For vividly representing the functions of LIVE, we use the papers from NeRF as the example reference papers. The code of the implementation project is open source.
Paper Structure (15 sections, 1 equation, 11 figures, 2 tables)

This paper contains 15 sections, 1 equation, 11 figures, 2 tables.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Literature Review
  3. Interactive LaTex
  4. Interactive PDF
  5. Neural Radiance Fields
  6. Methodology and Analysis
  7. LIVE Architecture
  8. AnalyzeRefs GAA Interface
  9. PDFRefs GAA Interface
  10. CellMapping Gitem Interface
  11. ChipMap Gitem Interface
  12. FlowChart Gitem Interface
  13. Horizontal-vertical Analysis Method
  14. TexOverPic and TextOCR
  15. Evaluation and Conclusion

Figures (11)

  • Figure 1: Basic Architecture of LIVE.
  • Figure 2: AnalyzeRefs Component Design Principle.
  • Figure 3: PDFRefs Component Design Principle.
  • Figure 4: CellMapping Gitem Design Principle.
  • Figure 5: CellMapping Gitem Design Principle.
  • ...and 6 more figures