"decoding fail"

[hothHowler]

I am running the "kaggle_bowl" example and get an error "decoding fail" (full message appended below). I saw on the kaggle forum that this means opencv can't decode image in the binary file generated by im2bin. Does this mean im2bin is not producing the expected output??

$ ../../bin/cxxnet bowl.conf
Use CUDA Device 0: Tesla C1060
CXXNetTrainer, devCPU=0
ConvolutionLayer: nstep=256
ConvolutionLayer: nstep=256
ConvolutionLayer: nstep=128
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
node[0].shape: 256,3,48,48
node[1].shape: 256,96,12,12
node[2].shape: 256,96,12,12
node[3].shape: 256,96,6,6
node[4].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[5].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[6].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[7].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[8].shape: 256,128,4,4
node[9].shape: 1,1,256,2048
node[10].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[11].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[12].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[13].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[14].shape: 1,1,256,121
ThreadImagePageIterator:image_list=./train.lst, bin=./train.bin
cannot find models/image_mean.bin: create mean image, this will take some time...
Error:decoding fail

[antinucleon]

please check your opencv and whether you made other files in train.lst
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 23:17 hothHowler notifications@github.com wrote:

I am running the "kaggle_bowl" example and get an error "decoding fail". I
saw on the kaggle forum that this means opencv can't decode image in the
binary file generated by im2bin. Does this mean im2bin is not producing the
expected output??

Use CUDA Device 0: Tesla C1060
CXXNetTrainer, devCPU=0
ConvolutionLayer: nstep=256
ConvolutionLayer: nstep=256
ConvolutionLayer: nstep=128
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.010000, mom=0.900000
SGDUpdater: eta=0.020000, mom=0.900000
node[0].shape: 256,3,48,48
node[1].shape: 256,96,12,12
node[2].shape: 256,96,12,12
node[3].shape: 256,96,6,6
node[4].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[5].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[6].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[7].shape: 256,128,8,8
node[8].shape: 256,128,4,4
node[9].shape: 1,1,256,2048
node[10].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[11].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[12].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[13].shape: 1,1,256,512
node[14].shape: 1,1,256,121
ThreadImagePageIterator:image_list=./train.lst, bin=./train.bin
cannot find models/image_mean.bin: create mean image, this will take some
time...
Error:decoding fail

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[hothHowler]

I went through the data preparation steps again and this seems to have fixed my problem.
Thanks!