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Sikuli: Using GUI screenshots for search and automation

Introduces screenshot-based GUI search and visual scripting, using image patterns to locate interface targets and direct mouse and keyboard events. It evaluates screenshot queries and demonstrates automation and interactive-help tasks.

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Topics
grounding, automation, screen-understanding
Record publication date
2009-10
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Authors

Tom Yeh, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Robert C. Miller

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Title
Sikuli: Using GUI screenshots for search and automation
Authors
Tom Yeh, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Robert C. Miller
Publication date (recorded precision)
2009-10
Venue
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09)
Pages
183-192
DOI
10.1145/1622176.1622213

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