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New dataset aids automated UML diagram generation from sketches

Researchers have introduced CAS2UML, a new dataset designed to facilitate the automated generation of Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams from handwritten sketches. The dataset comprises 557 hand-drawn UML diagrams, including class and activity diagrams, each paired with corresponding PlantUML code. This resource aims to improve the reproducibility of research in sketch-to-UML generation by providing executable groundtruth models and validation tools. AI

IMPACT This dataset could accelerate research and development in multimodal AI for software engineering tasks.

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New dataset aids automated UML diagram generation from sketches

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Simon Scholz, Mersedeh Sadeghi ·

    CAS2UML: A Handwritten Sketch-to-PlantUML Dataset for Class and Activity Diagrams

    arXiv:2608.07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated UML generation from sketches and images is gaining renewed attention with the rise of large language models and multimodal AI. However, reproducible evaluation remains difficult due to the lack of public datasets with ex…