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 ## Introduction
 
-OpenPose is a **library for real-time multi-person key-point detection and multi-threading written in C++** using OpenCV and Caffe*, authored by [Gines Hidalgo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gineshidalgo/), [Zhe Cao](http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/zhecao), [Tomas Simon](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tsimon/), [Shih-En Wei](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sFQD3k4AAAAJ&hl=en), [Hanbyul Joo](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hanbyulj/) and [Yaser Sheikh](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yaser/).
+OpenPose is a **library for real-time multi-person keypoint detection and multi-threading written in C++** using OpenCV and Caffe*, authored by [Gines Hidalgo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gineshidalgo/), [Zhe Cao](http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/zhecao), [Tomas Simon](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tsimon/), [Shih-En Wei](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sFQD3k4AAAAJ&hl=en), [Hanbyul Joo](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hanbyulj/) and [Yaser Sheikh](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yaser/).
 
 * It uses Caffe, but the code is ready to be ported to other frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow or Torch). If you implement any of those, please, make a pull request and we will add it!
 
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ OpenPose is freely available for free non-commercial use, and may be redistribut
 
 Library main functionality:
 
-* Multi-person 15 or **18-key-point body pose** estimation and rendering.
+* Multi-person 15 or **18-keypoint body pose** estimation and rendering.
 
-* Multi-person **2x21-key-point hand** estimation and rendering (coming soon in around 1-2 months!).
+* Multi-person **2x21-keypoint hand** estimation and rendering (coming soon in around 1-2 months!).
 
-* Multi-person **70-key-point face** estimation and rendering (coming soon in around 2-3 months!).
+* Multi-person **70-keypoint face** estimation and rendering (coming soon in around 2-3 months!).
 
 * Flexible and easy-to-configure **multi-threading** module.
 
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 2. The multi-threading module: `thread`.
 
-3. The multi-person key-point detection module: `pose`.
+3. The multi-person keypoint detection module: `pose`.
 
 
 ## Basic Module: `core`
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ In order to be initialized, `PoseExtractorCaffe` has the following constructor a
 
 2. `netOutputSize` is the resolution of the last layer of the deep net. I.e., the resulting heatmaps will have this size. Currently, it must be set to the same size as `netInputSize`.
 
-3. `outputSize` is the final desired resolution to be used. The human pose key-point locations will be scaled to this output size. However, the heat-maps will have the `netOutputSize` size due to performance.
+3. `outputSize` is the final desired resolution to be used. The human pose keypoint locations will be scaled to this output size. However, the heat-maps will have the `netOutputSize` size due to performance.
 
 4. `scaleNumber` and `scaleGap` specify the multi-scale parameters. Explained in the [README.md](../README.md), in the demo section.