Article ID: 000059011 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 05/20/2022

Unable to Convert Caffe SSD300 Model to Intermediate Representation (IR)

Environment

Python 3.9

Ubuntu 16.04*, Windows® 10, 64-bit*

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Summary

Quick steps to convert SSD300 model to IR format

Description

Received error when converting SSD300 model to IR:

[ FRAMEWORK ERROR ] Model Optimizer is not able to parse <Some Dir>/OpenVINO/inference-engine/samples/hello_reshape_ssd/./public/ssd300/models/VGGNet/VOC0712Plus/SSD_300x300_ft/VGG_VOC0712Plus_SSD_300x300_ft_iter_160000.prototxt

Resolution

 

  1. Install Python* 3.8 on the system
  2. Run the mo_caffe.py command:

    python3 mo_caffee.py --input_model /<Download_Dir>/deployment_tools/open_model_zoo/tools/downloader/public/ssd300/models/VGGNet/VOC0712Plus/SSD_300x300_ft/VGG_VOC0712Plus_SSD_300x300_ft_iter_160000.caffemodel --input_proto /<Download_Dir>/deployment_tools/open_model_zoo/tools/downloader/public/ssd300/models/VGGNet/VOC0712Plus/deploy.prototxt/

Additional information
  • Operating Systems for OpenVINO 2021.3: Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04
  • Default Python version for Ubuntu 18.04 : Python 3.6.
  • Default Python version for Ubuntu 20.04 : Python 3.8.

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