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 ##### To get voc_sbd_merge_noduplicate.txt:
 + We first merge the original VOC (voc_original_train.txt) and SBD ([**sbd_data.txt**](http://home.bharathh.info/pubs/codes/SBD/train_noval.txt)) training data. 
-+ **sbd_data.txt** has no overlap with the PASCALVOC 2012 validation data.
++ **sbd_data.txt** does not overlap with the PASCALVOC 2012 validation data.
 + The merged list (voc_sbd_merge.txt) is then processed by the script (duplicate_removal.py) to remove the duplicate images and labels.
 
 ### Run Demo / Test with Pretrained Models