VOC Parsing error about 'utf-8'

[raggot]

I was trying to run your example.py, and gave all relevant arguments to it. This is what I get as an error:

VOC Parsing Result : False, msg : ERROR : 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte, moreInfo : <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> Format.py 232

Do you have any idea why this could be? Thanks.

[ssaru]

would you give some your sample to me? like label, image and your command line i will try check it

thanks!

[raggot]

This is the code I ran. I actually won't pursue this issue with more info because I ended up making my own script using darknet's script and already solved the problem.

python3 example.py --datasets VOC --img_path /folder --label /folder --convert_output_path /folder --img_type ".jpg" --cls_list_file /folder/classes.names

[ssaru]

it's nice! :+1:

this problem look like file read issue so if you give some label sample for me i can improve my code thanks!

[raggot]

My label was a 1 liner only. I was training with a single class, let's call it person for what it matters. Perhaps your 'search' assumed there were multiple lines? Another possible thing (I can't check because I'm on another PC at the moment) is that the .names file contained a '-' character. Something like my-classes.names.

Hope these help. Thanks for sharing your code.

[lionverve2015]

@raggot How did you fix this problem: python3 example.py --datasets KITTI --img_path /KITTI/images_new --label /KITTI/labels --convert_output_path ~/kitti --img_type ".jpg" --cls_list_file KITTI/my-classes.names KITTI Parsing Result : False, msg : ERROR : , moreInfo : <class 'StopIteration'> Format.py 484

Please share. Thank You

[raggot]

Hey sorry but it was too long ago. Good luck.

[7thstorm]

So, I'm a bit confused, I'm still getting this error: VOC Parsing Result : False, msg : ERROR : 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte, moreInfo : <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'> Format.py 234

I have 4 classes in my voc.names file

I'm using: python3 example.py --datasets VOC --img_path /home/rc/test_convert/ --label /home/rc/test_convert/ --convert_output_path /home/rc/yolo/converted/ --img_type ".jpg" --manipast_path /home/rc/test_convert/ --cls_list_file /home/rc/test_convert/voc.names