Usage

modify in 2024/08/21 tested on python3.10 with refcoco

Download coco2014 train datasets from :https://cocodataset.org/#download (about 13 GB) and extract into refer/data/images/mscoco/images/train2014
clone this repositories https://github.com/cocodataset/cocoapi and following instruction to compile Pythonapi.

Download refcoco here

https://web.archive.org/web/20220413011718/https://bvisionweb1.cs.unc.edu/licheng/referit/data/refcoco.zip

and extract into refer/data

install following package:
```
pip install scikit-image
```
Run make before using the code. It will generate _mask.c and _mask.so in external/ folder. If anything goes wrong , just use pip install xxx to install the missing package.
Modify refer.py line 336, change data_root into your absolute path.
Run python3 refer.py

mokby/refer_python3