RefCOCOg

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What is RefCOCOg?

RefCOCOg is a referring expression comprehension benchmark that evaluates spatial grounding in images. Given a natural language expression describing an object, the model must localize the correct region, evaluated by accuracy at a 0.5 IoU threshold. It features longer, more descriptive expressions than RefCOCO and RefCOCO+.

RefCOCOg is a multimodal benchmark evaluating models on multimodal, grounding, and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 1 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–1 scale. The current average is 0.9, with the leader at 0.9.

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Current leaders

Nova 2 Omni from Amazon currently leads the RefCOCOg leaderboard with a score of 0.863 across 1 evaluated AI models.

1Nova 2 OmniAmazon86.3%

Source paper

Title
Generation and Comprehension of Unambiguous Object Descriptions
Authors
Junhua Mao, Jonathan Huang, Alexander Toshev, Oana Camburu, and 2 others
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Abstract

We propose a method that can generate an unambiguous description (known as a referring expression) of a specific object or region in an image, and which can also comprehend or interpret such an expression to infer which object is being described. We show that our method outperforms previous methods that generate descriptions of objects without taking into account other potentially ambiguous objects in the scene. Our model is inspired by recent successes of deep learning methods for image captioning, but while image captioning is difficult to evaluate, our task allows for easy objective evaluation. We also present a new large-scale dataset for referring expressions, based on MS-COCO. We have released the dataset and a toolbox for visualization and evaluation, see https://github.com/mjhucla/Google_Refexp_toolbox

FAQ

Common questions about the RefCOCOg benchmark and leaderboard.

What is the RefCOCOg benchmark?

RefCOCOg is a referring expression comprehension benchmark that evaluates spatial grounding in images. Given a natural language expression describing an object, the model must localize the correct region, evaluated by accuracy at a 0.5 IoU threshold. It features longer, more descriptive expressions than RefCOCO and RefCOCO+.

What is the RefCOCOg leaderboard?

The RefCOCOg leaderboard ranks 1 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Nova 2 Omni by Amazon leads with a score of 0.863. The average score across all models is 0.863.

What is the highest RefCOCOg score?

The highest RefCOCOg score is 0.863, achieved by Nova 2 Omni from Amazon.

How many models are evaluated on RefCOCOg?

1 models have been evaluated on the RefCOCOg benchmark, with 0 verified results and 1 self-reported results.

Where can I find the RefCOCOg paper?

The RefCOCOg paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02283. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does RefCOCOg cover?

RefCOCOg is categorized under multimodal, grounding, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

How recent are the RefCOCOg leaderboard results?

The RefCOCOg leaderboard was last updated in July 2026 and currently includes 1 evaluated models.