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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

Transforming a graphical user interface screenshot created by a designer into computer code is a typical task conducted by a developer in order to build customized software, websites, and mobile applications. In this paper, we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Tony Beltramelli

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

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

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

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

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

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

Developing web-based GIS applications, commonly known as CyberGIS dashboards, for querying and visualizing GIS data in environmental research often demands repetitive and resource-intensive efforts. While Generative AI offers automation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Haowen Xu , Xiao-Ying Yu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have streamlined front-end interface development by automating code generation. However, these models also introduce challenges in ensuring code quality. Existing approaches struggle to maintain both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yunnong Chen , Shixian Ding , YingYing Zhang , Wenkai Chen , Jinzhou Du , Lingyun Sun , Liuqing Chen

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

Computer-aided design (CAD) is a way to digitally create 2D drawings and 3D models of real-world products. Traditional CAD typically relies on hand-drawing by experts or modifications of existing library files, which doesn't allow for rapid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Changqi He , Shuhan Zhang , Liguo Zhang , Jiajun Miao

Autonomous GUI agents interact with environments by perceiving interfaces and executing actions. As a virtual sandbox, the GUI World model empowers agents with human-like foresight by enabling action-conditioned prediction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yuhao Zheng , Li'an Zhong , Yi Wang , Rui Dai , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Linyuan Lv , Philip Torr , Kevin Qinghong Lin

Detecting Graphical User Interface (GUI) elements in GUI images is a domain-specific object detection task. It supports many software engineering tasks, such as GUI animation and testing, GUI search and code generation. Existing studies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jieshan Chen , Mulong Xie , Zhenchang Xing , Chunyang Chen , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu , Guoqiang Li

Program code serves as a bridge linking vision and logic, providing a feasible supervisory approach for enhancing the multimodal reasoning capability of large models through geometric operations such as auxiliary line construction and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhenyu Wu , Yanxi Long , Jian Li , Hua Huang

Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown remarkable progress in code generation. However, current agent methods mainly rely on text-output-based feedback (e.g. command-line outputs) for multi-round debugging and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhilin Liu , Ye Huang , Ting Xie , Ruizhi Zhang , Wen Li , Lixin Duan

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

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

The limitation of graphical user interface (GUI) data has been a significant barrier to the development of GUI agents today, especially for the desktop / computer use scenarios. To address this, we propose an automated GUI data generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yibin Xu , Liang Yang , Hao Chen , Hua Wang , Zhi Chen , Yaohua Tang

Automatically generating source code from natural language descriptions has been a growing field of research in recent years. However, current large-scale code generation models often encounter difficulties when selecting appropriate APIs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kechi Zhang , Huangzhao Zhang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Zhuo Li , Zhi Jin
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