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+[![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/monocongo/cvdata.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/monocongo/cvdata)
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 # cvdata
 Tools for creating and manipulating computer vision datasets
 
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 $ cvdata_visualize --format pascal --images_dir /data/weapons/images --annotations_dir /data/weapons/pascal
 ```
 
+### For developers
+##### Testing
+Tests are based on `pytest` and are launched in stand-alone virtual environments 
+via [tox](https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/): 
+```bash
+$ tox
+```
+
 ## Citation
 ```
 @misc {cvdata,