Script crashes on the inferencing stage for TLT

We have been successful in training a model using this example (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/training-instance-segmentation-models-using-maskrcnn-on-the-transfer-learning-toolkit/). I have run into quite a few hiccups along the way since there are some differences in the official documentation and this example. I was able to get around all the issues with some trial and error but I have reached a blocker when I try to run the inference step.

No matter what I try, I can’t seem to get the label file parameter to work properly to capture the COCO Json output or the inference and then the script crashes due to a miss configuration. I have tried playing around with some of the settings in the configuration file but I always get the same error message. I have put the initial values back as to not break the default configuration provided with the examples.

Here is the command line I am using. I have placed 3 images in the input directory, I have set a value of 3 for the batch size, but no matter what value I put, I always get the same error.

tlt-infer mask_rcnn -i /data/testModel/input_dir -o /data/testModel/output_dir -e /workspace/examples/maskrcnn/specs/maskrcnn_train_resnet50.txt -m /data/tlt_instance_segmentation_vresnet50/model.step-5000.tlt -b 3 -l /data/testModel/label.txt --include_mask

Label file does not exist. Skipping…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/tlt-infer”, line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/home/vpraveen/.cache/dazel/_dazel_vpraveen/216c8b41e526c3295d3b802489ac2034/execroot/ai_infra/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/magnet/packages/iva/build_wheel.runfiles/ai_infra/iva/common/magnet_infer.py”, line 60, in main
File “/home/vpraveen/.cache/dazel/_dazel_vpraveen/216c8b41e526c3295d3b802489ac2034/execroot/ai_infra/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/magnet/packages/iva/build_wheel.runfiles/ai_infra/iva/mask_rcnn/scripts/inference.py”, line 351, in main
File “/home/vpraveen/.cache/dazel/_dazel_vpraveen/216c8b41e526c3295d3b802489ac2034/execroot/ai_infra/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/magnet/packages/iva/build_wheel.runfiles/ai_infra/iva/mask_rcnn/scripts/inference.py”, line 261, in infer
AssertionError: Batch size should not be greater than the number of samples.

Could you share your spec files?
More, could you place more images in the input directory?

More, currently, only jpg is supported or recommended. It’s stated in the user guide.
https://docs.nvidia.com/metropolis/TLT/tlt-user-guide/text/open_model_architectures.html#maskrcnn