PSDoodle: Searching for App Screens via Interactive Sketching
This addresses the limitations of keyword-based and complete visual search methods for mobile app users, offering a more efficient and accessible tool.
The paper tackled the problem of mobile screen search by introducing PSDoodle, which uses interactive partial sketching to retrieve relevant app screens in real-time, achieving instant recognition and supporting various drawing styles.
Keyword-based mobile screen search does not account for screen content and fails to operate as a universal tool for all levels of users. Visual searching (e.g., image, sketch) is structured and easy to adopt. Current visual search approaches count on a complete screen and are therefore slow and tedious. PSDoodle employs a deep neural network to recognize partial screen element drawings instantly on a digital drawing interface and shows results in real-time. PSDoodle is the first tool that utilizes partial sketches and searches for screens in an interactive iterative way. PSDoodle supports different drawing styles and retrieves search results that are relevant to the user's sketch query. A short video demonstration is available online at: https://youtu.be/3cVLHFm5pY4