  Infographics are an aesthetic visual representation of information following
specific design principles of human perception. Designing infographics can be a
tedious process for non-experts and time-consuming, even for professional
designers. With the help of designers, we propose a semi-automated infographic
framework for general structured and flow-based infographic design generation.
For novice designers, our framework automatically creates and ranks infographic
designs for a user-provided text with no requirement for design input. However,
expert designers can still provide custom design inputs to customize the
infographics. We will also contribute an individual visual group (VG) designs
dataset (in SVG), along with a 1k complete infographic image dataset with
segmented VGs in this work. Evaluation results confirm that by using our
framework, designers from all expertise levels can generate generic infographic
designs faster than existing methods while maintaining the same quality as
hand-designed infographics templates.
