While performing custom detection getting unicodeDecode error

[santhusannthu8]

When i execute command python3 train_ssd.py --dataset-type=voc --data=data/test/ --model-dir=models/test --batch-size=2 --workers=1 --epochs=1
i am getting error
/home/xyz/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torchvision/io/image.py:11: UserWarning: Failed to load image Python extension:
warn(f"Failed to load image Python extension: {e}")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “train_ssd.py”, line 26, in
from vision.datasets.open_images import OpenImagesDataset
File “/home/xyz/jetson-inference/python/training/detection/ssd/vision/datasets/open_images.py”, line 4, in
import pandas as pd
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pandas/init.py”, line 58, in
from pandas.io.api import *
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pandas/io/api.py”, line 19, in
from pandas.io.packers import read_msgpack, to_msgpack
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pandas/io/packers.py”, line 68, in
from pandas.util._move import (
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xfd in position 0: invalid start byte

[AastaLLL]

Hi,

It looks like you met the same issue as the below link.
Please check the comments for the suggestions:

Crash on running the train_ssd.py

Thanks.

[santhusannthu8]

Yes exactly same error i am getting, But i don’t want to run my code inside docker container, and in that post there is no specif answer for the same

[AastaLLL]

Hi,

Sorry for the late update.

This error is related to the encoding format.
Is your data saved with utf-8?
If not, could you save it as utf-8 and try it again?

Thanks.