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 # Image Segmentation
 
 ## Overview
-We recently developed a solution based on deep learning, i.e. Tiramisu, to segment the forground and remove the background in images. Our goal was to enable image retreival from a target catalogue image of a fashion retailer given a query mobile snapshot.  
+We recently developed a solution based on deep learning, i.e. Tiramisu, to segment the foreground and remove the background in images. Our goal was to enable image retrieval from a target catalogue image of a fashion retailer given a query mobile snapshot.  
  
 ## Contents 
 In this repository, you'll find:
 
-- the code to reproduce the image segmetnation described in the accompanying [code story](https://www.microsoft.com/developerblog/2018/04/18/deep-learning-image-segmentation-for-ecommerce-catalogue-visual-search/)
+- the code to reproduce the image segmentation described in the accompanying [code story](https://www.microsoft.com/developerblog/2018/04/18/deep-learning-image-segmentation-for-ecommerce-catalogue-visual-search/)
 
 - how to train your own specific image segmentation with your own data