diff --git a/data/scannet/README.md b/data/scannet/README.md
index d42a498ed2..aa1a762d8c 100644
--- a/data/scannet/README.md
+++ b/data/scannet/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ We follow the procedure in [votenet](https://github.com/facebookresearch/votenet
 4. Enter the project root directory, generate training data by running
 
 ```bash
-python tools/create_data.py scannet --root-path ./data/scannet --out-dir ./data/scannet --extra-tag scannet
+python tools/create_data.py --dataset scannet --root-path ./data/scannet --out-dir ./data/scannet --extra-tag scannet
 ```
 
 The overall process could be achieved through the following script