Challenge: Existing models for REG and REC have distinct inputs and connections between them . a new model for REg and reprehension is needed to solve these problems .
Approach: They propose a unified model for REG and REC that fuses image, region and text . they propose Vision-conditioned Masked Language Modeling and Text-Conditioned Region Prediction .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing models on REG and REC tasks.

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