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Everything about Visual language
System of communication using visual elements
A visual language is a system of communication using visual elements. Speech as a means of communication cannot strictly be separated from the whole of human communicative activity which includes the visual and the term 'language' in relation to vision is an extension of its use to describe the perception, comprehension and production of visible signs. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Visual languageA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A visual-language foundation model for computational pathologyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Strangers On a TrainThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image AnnotationsCited 3,814 times
- Go sideways: Gestalt psychologyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Rudolf ArnheimA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, etc.
Noun VPL (visual programming language); a programming language that allows software developers to generate code by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations
Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy
Language Efficiency and Visual Technology
A visual language compiler
The JOpera visual composition language
Interactive Visual Data Abstraction in a Declarative Visual Programming Language
Automating visual language generation
Language, literacy and visual texts
🆕 Influential since 2022
A visual-language foundation model for computational pathology
A visual–language foundation model for pathology image analysis using medical Twitter
Visual cognition in multimodal large language models
Progressive Language-Customized Visual Feature Learning for One-Stage Visual Grounding
Active Perception for Visual-Language Navigation
📚 Books worth reading
Strangers On a TrainPatricia Highsmith · 1950
The new Cambridge English courseMichael Swan, Michael Swan · 1990
Starting out with C++Tony Gaddis · 2000
Excel VBA Programming For DummiesJohn Walkenbach · 2004
Problem solving and program design in CJeri R. Hanly, Elliot B. Koffman · 1993- 📕Multi-sensory Learning Structured Literacy ProgrammeKaren Robinson · 1995
Problem Solving with C++Walter Savitch · 1995
Programming in Visual Basic.NetJulia Case Bradley, Anita C Millspaugh · 2002
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