UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction
Shravan Nayak, Xiangru Jian, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Juan A. Rodríguez, Montek Kalsi, Nicolas Chapados, M. Tamer Özsu, Aishwarya Agrawal, David Vázquez, Christopher Pal, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar
Abstract
Autonomous agents that navigate Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to automate tasks like document editing and file management can greatly enhance computer workflows. While existing research focuses on online settings, desktop environments, critical for many professional and everyday tasks, remain underexplored due to data collection challenges and licensing issues. We introduce UI-Vision, the first comprehensive, licensepermissive benchmark for offline, fine-grained evaluation of computer use agents in real-world desktop environments. Unlike online benchmarks, UI-Vision provides: (i) dense, high-quality annotations of human demonstrations, including bounding boxes, UI labels, and action trajectories (clicks, drags, and keyboard inputs) across 83 software applications, and (ii) three fine-tocoarse grained tasks-Element Grounding, Layout Grounding, and Action Prediction-with well-defined metrics to rigorously evaluate agents' performance in desktop environments. Our evaluation reveals critical limitations in state-of-the-art models like UI-TARS-72B, including issues with understanding professional software, spatial reasoning, and complex actions like drag-and-drop. These findings highlight the challenges in developing fully autonomous computer-use agents. With UI-Vision, we aim to advance the development of more capable agents for real-world desktop tasks.
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