%0 Journal Article %A Lin Cheng and Zijiang Yang %D 2020 %J International Journal of Cognitive and Language Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 162, 2020 %T GRCNN: Graph Recognition Convolutional Neural Network for Synthesizing Programs from Flow Charts %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10011284 %V 162 %X Program synthesis is the task to automatically generate programs based on user specification. In this paper, we present a framework that synthesizes programs from flow charts that serve as accurate and intuitive specification. In order doing so, we propose a deep neural network called GRCNN that recognizes graph structure from its image. GRCNN is trained end-to-end, which can predict edge and node information of the flow chart simultaneously. Experiments show that the accuracy rate to synthesize a program is 66.4%, and the accuracy rates to recognize edge and node are 94.1% and 67.9%, respectively. On average, it takes about 60 milliseconds to synthesize a program. %P 230 - 235