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@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Use this bibtex to cite this repository:
 ```
 @misc{matterport_maskrcnn_2017,
   title={Mask R-CNN for object detection and instance segmentation on Keras and TensorFlow},
-  author={Abdulla, Waleed},
+  author={Waleed Abdulla},
   year={2017},
   publisher={Github},
   journal={GitHub repository},