diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e0e8c99..04f3aec 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,24 @@
 __pycache__
 .DS_Store
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+
+
+# PyCharm
+.idea/*
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e4be26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Depth2HHA-python
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ec04cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from setuptools import find_packages, setup
+
+BASE_PATH = Path(__file__).absolute().parent
+
+requirementPath = BASE_PATH / 'requirements.txt'
+install_requires = []
+
+if requirementPath.is_file():
+    with open(requirementPath) as f:
+        install_requires = f.read().splitlines()
+        
+setup(
+    name='Depth2HHA-python',
+    version='0',
+    url='https://github.com/skimit/Depth2HHA-python',
+    license='MIT License ',
+    author='Chen XiaoKang ',
+    author_email='pkucxk@pku.edu.cn',
+    description='This repo implements HHA-encoding algorithm in python3. HHA image is an encoding '
+                'algorithm to make better use of depth images, which was proposed by s-gupta in '
+                'this paper: Learning Rich Features from RGB-D Images for Object Detection and '
+                'Segmentation.',
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    install_requires=install_requires,
+    )
diff --git a/utils/__init__.py b/utils/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29