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 ## Requirements
 * Python 3.4+
-* TensorFlow 1.3+
-* Keras 2.0.8+
-* Jupyter Notebook
-* Numpy, skimage, scipy, Pillow, cython, h5py
+
+```bash
+pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+```
 
 ### MS COCO Requirements:
 To train or test on MS COCO, you'll also need:
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+numpy
+scipy
+Pillow
+cython
+matplotlib
+scikit-image
+tensorflow>=1.3.0
+keras>=2.0.8
+opencv-python
+h5py
+imgaug
+IPython[all]
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diff --git a/samples/balloon/README.md b/samples/balloon/README.md
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 ## Train the Balloon model
 
 Train a new model starting from pre-trained COCO weights
-```
+```bash
 python3 balloon.py train --dataset=/path/to/balloon/dataset --weights=coco
 ```
 
 Resume training a model that you had trained earlier
-```
+```bash
 python3 balloon.py train --dataset=/path/to/balloon/dataset --weights=last
 ```
 
 Train a new model starting from ImageNet weights
-```
+```bash
 python3 balloon.py train --dataset=/path/to/balloon/dataset --weights=imagenet
 ```