ACL2025

WinSpot: GUI Grounding Benchmark with Multimodal Large Language Models

Zheng Hui, Yinheng Li, Dan Zhao, Colby R. Banbury, Tianyi Chen, Kazuhito Koishida

Abstract

Graphical User Interface (GUI) automation relies on accurate GUI grounding. However, obtaining large-scale, high-quality labeled data remains a key challenge, particularly in desktop environments like Windows Operating System (OS). Existing datasets primarily focus on structured web-based elements, leaving a gap in real-world GUI interaction data for non-web applications. To address this, we introduce a new framework that leverages LLMs to generate large-scale GUI grounding data, enabling automated and scalable labeling across diverse interfaces. To ensure high accuracy and reliability, we manually validated and refined 5,000 GUI coordinate-instruction pairs, creating WinSpot-the first benchmark specifically designed for GUI grounding tasks in Windows environments. WinSpot provides a high-quality dataset for training and evaluating visual GUI agents, establishing a foundation for future research in GUI automation across diverse and unstructured desktop environments 1 .