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 The figure below illustrates the architecture of the appended "Semantics Aligner", which
-aligns the semantics of "encoded image features" and "object queries" by resampling features 
+aligns the semantics of "encoded image features" and "object queries" by re-sampling features 
 from multiple salient points as new object queries.
 
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