Magic Layouts: Structural Prior for Component Detection in User Interface Designs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07615v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:20:36 GMT
• Title: Magic Layouts: Structural Prior for Component Detection in User Interface Designs
• Authors: Dipu Manandhar, Hailin Jin, John Collomosse
• Abstract summary: We present Magic Layouts; a method for parsing screenshots or hand-drawn sketches of user interface (UI) layouts. Our core contribution is to extend existing detectors to exploit a learned structural prior for UI designs. We demonstrate within the context an interactive application for rapidly acquiring digital prototypes of user experience (UX) designs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present Magic Layouts; a method for parsing screenshots or hand-drawn sketches of user interface (UI) layouts. Our core contribution is to extend existing detectors to exploit a learned structural prior for UI designs, enabling robust detection of UI components; buttons, text boxes and similar. Specifically we learn a prior over mobile UI layouts, encoding common spatial co-occurrence relationships between different UI components. Conditioning region proposals using this prior leads to performance gains on UI layout parsing for both hand-drawn UIs and app screenshots, which we demonstrate within the context an interactive application for rapidly acquiring digital prototypes of user experience (UX) designs.

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