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Unable to Download Yolo v3 Model Using the OpenVINO™ Toolkit Model Downloader

Content Type: Product Information & Documentation   |   Article ID: 000058012   |   Last Reviewed: 01/29/2025

Environment

Operating System

Windows® 10 family
Windows 10, OpenVINO 2021.1

Description

  • Executed command ./downloader.py --all from model downloader directory
  • Yolo v3 model not found in directory <INSTALL_DIR>\deployment_tools\tools\model_downloader\intel

Resolution

Run the Model Downloader followed by the Model Optimizer as shown below:

  1. Download the model
    • Open Command Prompt
    • Go to <INSTALL_DIR>\deployment_tools\open_model_zoo\tools\downloader
    • Execute ./downloader.py --name yolo-v3-tf
    • Find the file located in <INSTALL_DIR>\deployment_tools\tools\model_downloader\public directory
  2. Convert the model to Intermediate Representation
    • Go to <INSTALL_DIR>\deploment_tools\model_optimizer \public\yolo-v3-tf  directory 
    • Execute .\python3 mo_tf.py --input_model <INFERENCE_GRAPH>.pb 
    • Find the .xml and .bin files in <INSTALL_DIR>\deployment_tools\model_optimizer directory
Note

Ensure you initialize the OpenVINO™ environment before downloading the model.

Additional information

  • Yolo-v3-tf is a public model so you must specify the model name when downloading it.
  • Public Tensorflow (TF) models will download in .pn format.
  • Refer to the Tensorflow* Model Conversion Guide.

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