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-FastReID is a research platform that implements state-of-the-art re-identification algorithms. It is a groud-up rewrite of the previous version, [reid strong baseline](https://github.com/michuanhaohao/reid-strong-baseline).
+FastReID is a research platform that implements state-of-the-art re-identification algorithms. It is a ground-up rewrite of the previous version, [reid strong baseline](https://github.com/michuanhaohao/reid-strong-baseline).
 
 ## What's New