DATAREEL: Automated Data-Driven Video Story Generation with Animations
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arXiv:2604.25220v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data videos combine animated visualizations with synchronized narration to communicate quantitative information and are widely used in journalism, education, and public communication. Automatically generating them requires deciding what story to tell, designing effective visualizations, and producing executable animations synchronized with narration. Despite rapid progress in vision-language models (VLMs), it remains unclear how well they can perform this task from a high-level communicative intent, largely because no standardized benchmark e
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- arXiv:2604.25220v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data videos combine animated visualizations with synchronized narration to communicate quantitative information and are widely used in journalism, education, and public communication.
- Automatically generating them requires deciding what story to tell, designing effective visualizations, and producing executable animations synchronized with narration.
- Despite rapid progress in vision-language models (VLMs), it remains unclear how well they can perform this task from a high-level communicative intent, largely because no standardized benchmark e
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