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 - **Modular Design**
 
-  One can easily construct a customized object detection framework by combining different components. 
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+  One can easily construct a customized object detection framework by combining different components.
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 - **Support of multiple frameworks out of box**
 
   The toolbox directly supports popular detection frameworks, *e.g.* Faster RCNN, Mask RCNN, RetinaNet, etc.
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   All basic bbox and mask operations run on GPUs now.
   The training speed is about 5% ~ 20% faster than Detectron for different models.
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 - **State of the art**
 
-  This was the codebase of the *MMDet* team, who won the [COCO Detection 2018 challenge](http://cocodataset.org/#detection-leaderboard). 
+  This was the codebase of the *MMDet* team, who won the [COCO Detection 2018 challenge](http://cocodataset.org/#detection-leaderboard).
 
 Apart from mmdetection, we also released a library [mmcv](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmcv) for computer vision research,
 which is heavily depended on by this toolbox.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ popular detection projects. Results and models are available in the [Model zoo](
 
 a. Install PyTorch 0.4.1 and torchvision following the [official instructions](https://pytorch.org/).
 
-b. Clone the Detectron repository.
+b. Clone the mmdetection repository.
 
 ```shell
 git clone https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection.git
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 ## Technical details
 
-Some implementation details and project structures are described in the [technical details](TECHNICAL_DETAILS.md).
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+Some implementation details and project structures are described in the [technical details](TECHNICAL_DETAILS.md).