# Tao Generate Referring Expressions

> Four-step image referring-expression pipeline: turns images plus KITTI bounding-box labels into region descriptions, scene captions, grounded referring expressions, and (optionally) verified expressions via VLM distillation. Use when the user wants to generate referring-expression annotations from images with KITTI labels, build region descriptions, produce grouped grounding phrases tied to bboxes, run a double-check verification pass on grounding expressions, auto-label traffic / scene images for referring datasets, or run the imagereferringexpression pipeline. Triggers include 'referring expression', 'region description', 'KITTI labels', 'spatial relationship annotation', 'auto-label image referring expression', 'imagereferringexpression'."

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-nvidia-tao-generate-referring-expressions
- tashan id: skill:NVIDIA/tao-generate-referring-expressions
- Source: https://github.com/NVIDIA/skills
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: Apache-2.0
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r tao-generate-referring-expressions ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-20 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.