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Understanding user interface (UI) functionality is a useful yet challenging task for both machines and people. In this paper, we investigate a machine learning approach for screen correspondence, which allows reasoning about UIs by mapping…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Jason Wu , Amanda Swearngin , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jeffrey Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Many accessibility features available on mobile platforms require applications (apps) to provide complete and accurate metadata describing user interface (UI) components. Unfortunately, many apps do not provide sufficient metadata for…

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

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

Extracting semantic representations from mobile user interfaces (UI) and using the representations for designers' decision-making processes have shown the potential to be effective computational design support tools. Current approaches rely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Seokhyeon Park , Wonjae Kim , Young-Ho Kim , Jinwook Seo

Screen user interfaces (UIs) and infographics, sharing similar visual language and design principles, play important roles in human communication and human-machine interaction. We introduce ScreenAI, a vision-language model that specializes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Gilles Baechler , Srinivas Sunkara , Maria Wang , Fedir Zubach , Hassan Mansoor , Vincent Etter , Victor Cărbune , Jason Lin , Jindong Chen , Abhanshu Sharma

An emerging family of language models (LMs), capable of processing both text and images within a single visual view, has the promise to unlock complex tasks such as chart understanding and UI navigation. We refer to these models as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Tianyu Gao , Zirui Wang , Adithya Bhaskar , Danqi Chen

User Interface (UI) understanding has been an increasingly popular topic over the last few years. So far, there has been a vast focus solely on web and mobile applications. In this paper, we introduce the harder task of computer UI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Andrés Muñoz , Daniel Borrajo

Enterprise software companies maintain thousands of user interface screens across products and versions, creating critical challenges for design consistency, pattern discovery, and compliance check. Existing approaches rely on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maroun Ayli , Youssef Bakouny , Tushar Sharma , Nader Jalloul , Hani Seifeddine , Rima Kilany

Humans can learn to operate the user interface (UI) of an application by reading an instruction manual or how-to guide. Along with text, these resources include visual content such as UI screenshots and images of application icons…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Pratyay Banerjee , Shweti Mahajan , Kushal Arora , Chitta Baral , Oriana Riva

We explore a new domain of learning to infer user interface attributes that helps developers automate the process of user interface implementation. Concretely, given an input image created by a designer, we learn to infer its implementation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Philippe Schlattner , Pavol Bielik , Martin Vechev

Modeling user interfaces (UIs) from visual information allows systems to make inferences about the functionality and semantics needed to support use cases in accessibility, app automation, and testing. Current datasets for training machine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jason Wu , Siyan Wang , Siman Shen , Yi-Hao Peng , Jeffrey Nichols , Jeffrey P. Bigham

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

Machine learning models have been trained to predict semantic information about user interfaces (UIs) to make apps more accessible, easier to test, and to automate. Currently, most models rely on datasets that are collected and labeled by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jason Wu , Rebecca Krosnick , Eldon Schoop , Amanda Swearngin , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jeffrey Nichols

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

We use a deep learning based approach to predict whether a selected element in a mobile UI screenshot will be perceived by users as tappable, based on pixels only instead of view hierarchies required by previous work. To help designers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Eldon Schoop , Xin Zhou , Gang Li , Zhourong Chen , Björn Hartmann , Yang Li

Humans recognize the visual world at multiple levels: we effortlessly categorize scenes and detect objects inside, while also identifying the textures and surfaces of the objects along with their different compositional parts. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Tete Xiao , Yingcheng Liu , Bolei Zhou , Yuning Jiang , Jian Sun

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

The availability of interaction devices has raised interest in techniques to support the user interface (UI). A UI specification describes the functions that a system provides to its users by capturing the interface details and includes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Modern computer-use agents (CUA) must perceive a screen as a structured state, what elements are visible, where they are, and what text they contain, before they can reliably ground instructions and act. Yet, most available grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 A. Said Gurbuz , Sunghwan Hong , Ahmed Nassar , Marc Pollefeys , Peter Staar
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