Automatic Classification of UML Class Diagrams Using Deep Learning Technique: Convolutional Neural Network

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2021

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Mıshra, Alok
Chowdhuri, Sripriya Roy
Singh, Jyoti
Gupta, Manjari
Mishra, Alok

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Unified Modeling Language (UML) includes various types of diagrams that help to study, analyze, document, design, or develop any software efficiently. Therefore, UML diagrams are of great advantage for researchers, software developers, and academicians. Class diagrams are the most widely used UML diagrams for this purpose. Despite its recognition as a standard modeling language for Object-Oriented software, it is difficult to learn. Although there exist repositories that aids the users with the collection of UML diagrams, there is still much more to explore and develop in this domain. The objective of our research was to develop a tool that can automatically classify the images as UML class diagrams and non-UML class diagrams. Earlier research used Machine Learning techniques for classifying class diagrams. Thus, they are required to identify image features and investigate the impact of these features on the UML class diagrams classification problem. We developed a new approach for automatically classifying class diagrams using the approach of Convolutional Neural Network under the domain of Deep Learning. We have applied the code on Convolutional Neural Networks with and without the Regularization technique. Our tool receives JPEG/PNG/GIF/TIFF images as input and predicts whether it is a UML class diagram image or not. There is no need to tag images of class diagrams as UML class diagrams in our dataset.

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Mishra, Alok/0000-0003-1275-2050; gupta, Manjari/0000-0003-1939-5383; Gosala, Bethany/0000-0001-6866-0062; Roy Chowdhuri, Sripriya/0000-0003-0063-4137

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Unified Modeling Language, Machine Learning (ML), Object-Oriented modeling, Deep Learning (DL), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

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