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+# mira
+
+mira provides tooling for simple object detection projects. The package spans three areas of focus.
+
+- **Core** object detection abstractions for images and annotations
+- Access to **datasets** from common formats (e.g., VOC, COCO) and image sets (e.g., VOC 2012)
+- A common API to for **well-known models** (e.g., RetinaNet and YOLO)
+
+##  Installation
+
+```shell
+pip install mira
+```
+
 
 .. toctree::
    tutorials/index