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-# openpose_ros 
-My ROS Wrapper for openpose https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose
-(see commit number `a1e0a5f4136e702b5731a268c2993fb75ca4753c`)
-
-![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenjj/openpose_ros/master/openpose_with_multisense.png)
-
-# Installing and Testing the Openpose ROS Wrapper
-1. Install openpose and its dependencies then enable the package by running
-````
-./install_openpose_and_enable_package.sh
-````
-2. If everything succeeds, run `catkin build`, source your workspace then:
-````
-roscd openpose_ros_pkg/../openpose
-rosrun openpose_ros_pkg openpose_ros --image_dir examples/media/
-````
-
-3. To test with your ROS sensor_msgs::Image topic, go to `src/openpose_ros_node_firephinx.cpp` and edit the lines:
-````
-// Camera Topic
-DEFINE_string(camera_topic,             "/multisense/left/image_rect_color_rotated_180",      "Image topic that OpenPose will process.");
-````
-Change the string accordingly. camera_topic should be the ros sensor_msgs::Image topic you subscribe to. For example `"/camera/image_raw"`
-
-Run `catkin build` and source your workspace again then run:
-````
-rosrun openpose_ros_pkg openpose_ros_node_firephinx
-````
-If this works, you should see an openCV visualization open up:
-![alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenjj/openpose_ros/master/example_output.png)
-
-4. You may change the image resolution output by going back to `src/openpose_ros_node_firephinx.cpp` and change the parameters
-````
-#define OUTPUT_RES_X 1280 // Display Resolution Output Width
-#define OUTPUT_RES_Y 720  // Display Resolution Output Height
-````
-## Example Service Code
-1. To start the ros service run:
-````
-rosrun openpose_ros_pkg openpose_ros_node 
-````
-2. To test if the service is working run:
-````
-rosrun openpose_ros_pkg test_openpose_ros_service_call 
-````
-and subscribe to `/openpose_ros/input_image` for the input image and `/openpose_ros/detected_poses_image` for the output image
-
-
-
-
-# Similar packages
-Naturally, `openpose` is quite popular and similar packages for ros can be found at
-* https://github.com/tue-robotics/openpose_ros
-* https://github.com/firephinx/openpose_ros
-
-# System
-* Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS 64-bit
-* NVIDIA Titan XP (Proprietary Driver 381.09)
-* CUDA 8.0 
-* cuDNN
-* ROS Indigo