Caffe: File not found: models/VGGNet/VGG_ILSVRC_16_layers_fc_reduced.caffemodel

[zhang11wu4]

when I run "python examples/ssd/ssd_pascal.py" return following error:

I1110 23:04:19.092402 20575 solver.cpp:63] Solver scaffolding done.
I1110 23:04:19.096092 20575 caffe.cpp:155] Finetuning from models/VGGNet/VGG_ILSVRC_16_layers_fc_reduced.caffemodel
F1110 23:04:19.096148 20575 io.cpp:63] Check failed: fd != -1 (-1 vs. -1) File not found: models/VGGNet/VGG_ILSVRC_16_layers_fc_reduced.caffemodel
* Check failure stack trace: *
@ 0x7f817e8c3daa (unknown)
@ 0x7f817e8c3ce4 (unknown)
@ 0x7f817e8c36e6 (unknown)
@ 0x7f817e8c6687 (unknown)
@ 0x7f817f1354a4 caffe::ReadProtoFromBinaryFile()
@ 0x7f817f17e986 caffe::ReadNetParamsFromBinaryFileOrDie()
@ 0x7f817f197de7 caffe::Net<>::CopyTrainedLayersFromBinaryProto()
@ 0x7f817f197e56 caffe::Net<>::CopyTrainedLayersFrom()
@ 0x409364 CopyLayers()
@ 0x40a6d8 train()
@ 0x406478 main
@ 0x7f817d8c0f45 (unknown)
@ 0x406c50 (unknown)
@ (nil) (unknown)
Aborted (core dumped)

[zhang11wu4]

I have put file "VGG_ILSVRC_16_layers_fc_reduced .caffemodel" in models/VGGNet folder, but the error is still exist, who can help me to fix the error? Thanks! @weiliu89

[zhenxing9968]

you can try again use absolute path

[zhang11wu4]

Maybe due to my poor network, I downloaded the file again with a good network and the error didn't happen again.

[zhang11wu4]

The file download link is http://cs.unc.edu/~wliu/projects/ParseNet/VGG_ILSVRC_16_layers_fc_reduced.caffemodel