tao-generate-referring-expressions SKILL.md skillA
tao-generate-referring-expressions from nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-generate-referring-expressions@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank
- Path
skills/data/tao-generate-referring-expressions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 3, 2026
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- 10,415 bytes
- Repository stars
- 95
- License
- Apache-2.0
"Four-step image referring-expression pipeline: turns images plus KITTI bounding-box labels into region.
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What the file says
# Image Referring Expression Pipeline
> **Standalone install?** If this session was not initialized by the TAO skill bank plugin, run the `tao-setup` skill first (host preflight, credentials, cross-skill discovery).
Generate referring-expression and grounding annotations from images with KITTI-format bounding box labels. A single VLM (Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) runs four steps: per-object region descriptions, holistic image captions, grouped grounding expressions tied to bboxes, and an optional double-check verification pass.
## Purpose
Transform `(image, KITTI labels)` pairs into a unified `annotations.jsonl` containing rich, grounded referring expressions. The VLM acts as a "teacher" annotator: Steps 0-1 see the image; Step 2 groups Step 0 outputs into grouping phrases with bbox lists; Step 3 (optional) re-examines those bboxes against the image and corrects mismatches.
## Pipeline Architecture
```
Step 0: Region expression ──┐
├──▶ Step 2: Grounding expression ──▶ [Step 3: Double check]
Step 1: Image caption ──────┘ (optional)
```
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How to install
mdr add nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-generate-referring-expressions@sha256:c166a294b1e30d37The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 3, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 27 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-15 | f1e6f8d | 10,415 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-28 | ae022a9 | 10,434 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-03 | 03f2daa | 10,415 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-08 | 0ccd383 | 10,191 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1 | 2026-06-03 | 94ef697 | 10,189 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1 | 2026-06-03 | 2fd0a48 | 10,175 B | A | view |
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Source
nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank · 95 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_whqhgjtf4lp646ep GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nvidia-tao/tao-skill-bank/tao-generate-referring-expressions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c166a294b1e30d372f0ca1a86b591dc0563a58a74959155ccf92afe1122e0774
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