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Unified GUI Element Detection Dataset (Rico + WebUI, YOLO format)

This dataset combines two publicly available GUI datasets — Rico (UIST 2017) and WebUI (CHI 2023) — into a unified cross-platform benchmark for GUI element detection, formatted for training YOLO-based object detection models. Dataset composition: <t

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CreatorMagalhães, Rodrigo Santos
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Published2026-03-23
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DOI10.5281/zenodo.19195885
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Downloads745
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Licensecc-by-4.0
File Size12.8 GB
Data TypeDataset
Published2026
Licensecc-by-4.0
Total Views1,077
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This dataset combines two publicly available GUI datasets — Rico (UIST 2017) and WebUI (CHI 2023) — into a unified cross-platform benchmark for GUI element detection, formatted for training YOLO-based object detection models.

Dataset composition:

SourcePlatformImagesAnnotations
RicoAndroid mobile63,1601,075,398
WebUIWeb (6 viewports)41,9702,242,576
CombinedCross-platform105,1303,317,974

Unified class taxonomy (12 classes): Button, Text, Image, Icon, Input, Link, Checkbox, Toggle, Toolbar, Navigation, Modal, Tab

Annotation format: YOLO (normalized class_id cx cy w h per line)

Dataset split: 80% train / 10% val / 10% test

Original sources:

  • Rico: Deka et al., “Rico: A Mobile App Dataset for Building Data-Driven Design Applications”, UIST 2017
  • WebUI: Wu et al., “WebUI: A Dataset for Enhancing Visual UI Understanding with Web Semantics”, CHI 2023 (Best Paper)

The pipeline used to produce this dataset (download, annotation conversion, class mapping, and merge scripts) is publicly available at: https://github.com/Rodrigomgs24/Dissertacao_GUI_Detection

Produced as part of: Master’s Dissertation — Detection of Graphical User Interface Elements Using Deep Learning, ISEP, 2026.

Please cite the original datasets:

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  author=Deka, Biplab and Huang, Zifeng and Franzen, Chad and Hibschman, Joshua and Afergan, Daniel and Li, Yang and Nichols, Jeffrey and Kumar, Ranjitha,
  booktitle=Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM symposium on user interface software and technology,
  pages=845–854,
  year=2017
}

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  author=Jason Wu and Siyan Wang and Siman Shen and Yi-Hao Peng and Jeffrey Nichols and Jeffrey Bigham,
  journal=ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI),
  year=2023
}

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Magalhães, Rodrigo Santos (2026). Unified GUI Element Detection Dataset (Rico + WebUI, YOLO format). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19195885