Siman Shen

Siman Shen

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Siman Shen

Grinnell College, United States

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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

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19 April 2023
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Conference Paper
Open access
JWJason Wu
Jason Wu
SWSiyan Wang
Siyan Wang
SSSiman Shen
Siman Shen
YPYi-Hao Peng
Yi-Hao Peng
JNJeffrey Nichols
Jeffrey Nichols
JBJeffrey P Bigham
Jeffrey P Bigham
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 learning models are limited in size due to the costly and time-consuming process of manually collecting and annotating UIs. We crawled the web to construct WebUI, a large dataset of 400,000 rendered web pages associated with automatically extracted metadata. We analyze the composition of WebUI and show that while automatically extracted data is noisy, most examples meet basic criteria for visual UI modeling. We applied several strategies for incorporating semantics found in web pages to increase the performance of visual UI understanding models in the mobile domain, where less labeled data is available: (i) element detection, (ii) screen classification and (iii) screen similarity.