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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # plenoptic
 
+[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://github.com/LabForComputationalVision/plenoptic/blob/master/LICENSE)
+![Python version](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.6%7C3.7-blue.svg)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/LabForComputationalVision/plenoptic.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/LabForComputationalVision/plenoptic)
+[![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/plenoptic/badge/?version=latest)](https://plenoptic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
+[![stability-alpha](https://img.shields.io/badge/stability-alpha-f4d03f.svg)](https://github.com/mkenney/software-guides/blob/master/STABILITY-BADGES.md#alpha)
+
 In recent years, [adversarial
 examples](https://openai.com/blog/adversarial-example-research/) have
 demonstrated how difficult it is to understand how complex models process
@@ -65,6 +71,11 @@ to the papers describing them):
 (where for all of these, "identical (resp. different) representation",
 stands for small (resp. large) l2-distance in a model's representation space)
 
+# Status
+
+This project is currently in alpha, under heavy development. Not all features
+have been implemented, and there will be breaking changes.
+
 # Roadmap
 
 See the [github
@@ -73,8 +84,7 @@ for a more detailed roadmap, but at the high level:
 
 - Short term:
   1. Finalize Portilla-Simoncelli texture statistics
-  2. Add MAD competition
-  3. Create `Synthesis` superclass
+  2. Recreate existing `MADCompetition` examples.
 - Medium term:
   1. Finalize geodesics
   2. Get eigendistortion and geodesics to use `Synthesis` superclass
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+.. |license-shield| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-yellow.svg
+			    :target: https://github.com/LabForComputationalVision/plenoptic/blob/master/LICENSE
+
+.. |python-version-shield| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.6%7C3.7-blue.svg
+
+.. |travis| image:: https://travis-ci.com/LabForComputationalVision/plenoptic.svg?branch=master
+		    :target: https://travis-ci.com/LabForComputationalVision/plenoptic
+
+
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