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During software front-end development, the work to convert Graphical User Interface(GUI) image to the corresponding front-end code is an inevitable tedious work. There have been some attempts to make this work to be automatic. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Xiaoling Huang , Feng Liao

A common need for mobile application development by end-users or in computing education is to transform a sketch of a user interface into wireframe code using App Inventor, a popular block-based programming environment. As this task is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Daniel Baulé , Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim , Aldo von Wangenheim , Jean C. R. Hauck , Edson C. Vargas Júnior

An early stage of developing user-facing applications is creating a wireframe to layout the interface. Once a wireframe has been created it is given to a developer to implement in code. Developing boiler plate user interface code is time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Alex Robinson

Screenshot-to-code generation aims to translate user interface screenshots into executable frontend code that faithfully reproduces the target layout and style. Existing multimodal large language models perform this mapping directly from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jie Deng , Kaichun Yao , Libo Zhang

User Interface (UI) prototyping is a necessary step in the early stages of application development. Transforming sketches of a Graphical User Interface (UI) into a coded UI application is an uninspired but time-consuming task performed by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Vanita Jain , Piyush Agrawal , Subham Banga , Rishabh Kapoor , Shashwat Gulyani

Websites are critical in today's digital world, with over 1.11 billion currently active and approximately 252,000 new sites launched daily. Converting website layout design into functional UI code is a time-consuming yet indispensable step…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yuxuan Wan , Chaozheng Wang , Yi Dong , Wenxuan Wang , Shuqing Li , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

Automated understanding of user interfaces (UIs) from their pixels can improve accessibility, enable task automation, and facilitate interface design without relying on developers to comprehensively provide metadata. A first step is to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jason Wu , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jeff Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham

For a full-stack web or app development, it requires a software firm or more specifically a team of experienced developers to contribute a large portion of their time and resources to design the website and then convert it to code. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Somoy Subandhu Barua , Imam Mohammad Zulkarnain , Abhishek Roy , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam , Md Zia Uddin

Approximately 50% of development resources are devoted to UI development tasks [9]. Occupying a large proportion of development resources, developing icons can be a time-consuming task, because developers need to consider not only effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Sidong Feng , Minmin Jiang , Tingting Zhou , Yankun Zhen , Chunyang Chen

Recent progress on deep learning has made it possible to automatically transform the screenshot of Graphic User Interface (GUI) into code by using the encoder-decoder framework. While the commonly adopted image encoder (e.g., CNN network),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Zhihao Zhu , Zhan Xue , Zejian Yuan

The design process of user interfaces (UIs) often begins with articulating high-level design goals. Translating these high-level design goals into concrete design mock-ups, however, requires extensive effort and UI design expertise. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Forrest Huang , Gang Li , Xin Zhou , John F. Canny , Yang Li

It is common practice for developers of user-facing software to transform a mock-up of a graphical user interface (GUI) into code. This process takes place both at an application's inception and in an evolutionary context as GUI changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Kevin Moran , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Michael Curcio , Richard Bonett , Denys Poshyvanyk

Recently, deep learning techniques have shown great success in automatic code generation. Inspired by the code reuse, some researchers propose copy-based approaches that can copy the content from similar code snippets to obtain better…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jia Li , Yongmin Li , Ge Li , Zhi Jin , Yiyang Hao , Xing Hu

Automating the conversion of user interface design into code (image-to-code or image-to-UI) is an active area of software engineering research. However, the state-of-the-art solutions do not achieve high fidelity to the original design, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zoltan Toth-Czifra

UI-to-code technology has streamlined the front-end development process, reducing repetitive tasks for engineers. prior research mainly use design prototypes as inputs, with the effectiveness of the generated code heavily dependent on these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Shuhong Xiao , Yunnong Chen , Jiazhi Li , Liuqing Chen , Lingyun Sun , Tingting Zhou

Automating the transformation of user interface (UI) designs into front-end code holds significant promise for accelerating software development and democratizing design workflows. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yilei Jiang , Yaozhi Zheng , Yuxuan Wan , Jiaming Han , Qunzhong Wang , Michael R. Lyu , Xiangyu Yue

Converting user interfaces into code (UI2Code) is a crucial step in website development, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. The automation of UI2Code is essential to streamline this task, beneficial for improving the development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Fan Wu , Cuiyun Gao , Shuqing Li , Xin-Cheng Wen , Qing Liao

Pseudo-code written by natural language is helpful for novice developers' program comprehension. However, writing such pseudo-code is time-consuming and laborious. Motivated by the research advancements of sequence-to-sequence learning and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Guang Yang , Yanlin Zhou , Xiang Chen , Chi Yu

The Design2Code problem, which involves converting digital designs into functional source code, is a significant challenge in software development due to its complexity and time-consuming nature. Traditional approaches often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Tung D. Vu , Chung Hoang , Truong-Son Hy

Design-to-code generation has emerged as a promising approach to bridge the gap between design prototypes and deployable frontend code. However, existing methods often suffer from structural inconsistencies, asset misalignment, and limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yongxi Chen , Lei Chen
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