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The use of applications on computers, smartphones, and tablets has been considerably simplied thanks to interactive and dynamic graphical interfaces coupled with the mouse and touch screens. It is no longer necessary to be a computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Michel Adam , Patrice Frison , Moncef Daoud , Sabine Letellier Zarshenas

Sketches are a natural and accessible medium for UI designers to conceptualize early-stage ideas. However, existing research on UI/UX automation often requires high-fidelity inputs like Figma designs or detailed screenshots, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ryan Li , Yanzhe Zhang , Diyi Yang

Researchers have explored various ways to generate realistic images from freehand sketches, e.g., for objects and human faces. However, how to generate realistic human body images from sketches is still a challenging problem. It is, first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xian Wu , Chen Wang , Hongbo Fu , Ariel Shamir , Song-Hai Zhang , Shi-Min Hu

In this paper, we present a review of the recent work in deep learning methods for user interface design. The survey encompasses well known deep learning techniques (deep neural networks, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Subtain Malik , Muhammad Tariq Saeed , Marya Jabeen Zia , Shahzad Rasool , Liaquat Ali Khan , Mian Ilyas Ahmed

Generative AI has made rapid advancements in recent years, achieving unprecedented capabilities in multimodal understanding and code generation. This can enable a new paradigm of front-end development in which multimodal large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chenglei Si , Yanzhe Zhang , Ryan Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Ruibo Liu , Diyi Yang

Automatic code generation has recently attracted large attention and is becoming more significant to the software development process. Solutions based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are being used to increase human and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Leon Chemnitz , David Reichenbach , Hani Aldebes , Mariam Naveed , Krishna Narasimhan , Mira Mezini

Code generation aims to automatically generate code snippets of specific programming language according to natural language descriptions. The continuous advancements in deep learning, particularly pre-trained models, have empowered the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

User interface (UI) design is a difficult yet important task for ensuring the usability, accessibility, and aesthetic qualities of applications. In our paper, we develop a machine-learned model, UIClip, for assessing the design quality and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jason Wu , Yi-Hao Peng , Amanda Li , Amanda Swearngin , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jeffrey Nichols

User interface (UI) development requires translating design mockups into functional code, a process that remains repetitive and labor-intensive. While recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) automate UI-to-Code generation, they generate only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mingde Xu , Zhen Yang , Wenyi Hong , Lihang Pan , Xinyue Fan , Yan Wang , Xiaotao Gu , Bin Xu , Jie Tang

A great part of software development involves conceptualizing or communicating the underlying procedures and logic that needs to be expressed in programs. One major difficulty of programming is turning concept into code, especially when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Frank F. Xu , Bogdan Vasilescu , Graham Neubig

Diagrams are widely used in teaching computer science courses. They are useful in subjects such as automata and formal languages, data structures, etc. These diagrams, often drawn by students during exams or assignments, vary in structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ethan Young , Zichun Wang , Aiden Taylor , Chance Jewell , Julian Myers , Satya Sri Rajiteswari Nimmagadda , Anthony White , Aniruddha Maiti , Ananya Jana

We introduce the concept of code shaping, an interaction paradigm for editing code using free-form sketch annotations directly on top of the code and console output. To evaluate this concept, we conducted a three-stage design study with 18…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ryan Yen , Jian Zhao , Daniel Vogel

Few-shot learning with large-scale, pre-trained language models is a powerful way to answer questions about code, e.g., how to complete a given code example, or even generate code snippets from scratch. The success of these models raises…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Patrick Bareiß , Beatriz Souza , Marcelo d'Amorim , Michael Pradel

UI automation is a useful technique for UI testing, bug reproduction, and robotic process automation. Recording user actions with an application assists rapid development of UI automation scripts, but existing recording techniques are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Dehai Zhao , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

When designing a program, both novice programmers and seasoned developers alike often sketch out -- or, perhaps more famously, whiteboard -- their ideas. Yet despite the introduction of natively multimodal Generative AI models, work on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-12 David H. Smith , S. Moonwara A. Monisha , Annapurna Vadaparty , Leo Porter , Daniel Zingaro

While makeup virtual-try-on is now widespread, parametrizing a computer graphics rendering engine for synthesizing images of a given cosmetics product remains a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce an inverse computer graphics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Robin Kips , Ruowei Jiang , Sileye Ba , Edmund Phung , Parham Aarabi , Pietro Gori , Matthieu Perrot , Isabelle Bloch

Deep learning-based sketch-to-clothing image generation provides the initial designs and inspiration in the fashion design processes. However, clothing generation from freehand drawing is challenging due to the sparse and ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Yongming Zhang , Tianyu Zhang , Haoran Xie

Pseudo code is one of the valuable artifacts to comprehending the complex program codes. Most of the source code still has no equivalent pseudo code, due to the time-consuming process of writing pseudo codes. In this work, we have developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Sawan Rai , Atul Gupta

Reconstructing 3D shape from 2D sketches has long been an open problem because the sketches only provide very sparse and ambiguous information. In this paper, we use an encoder/decoder architecture for the sketch to mesh translation. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Benoit Guillard , Edoardo Remelli , Pierre Yvernay , Pascal Fua

Graphical User Interface (GUI) is ubiquitous in almost all modern desktop software, mobile applications, and online websites. A good GUI design is crucial to the success of the software in the market, but designing a good GUI which requires…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Tianming Zhao , Chunyang Chen , Yuanning Liu , Xiaodong Zhu