"yolov3_custom First section must be [net] or [network]: No such file or directory darknet: ./src/utils.c:256: error: Assertion `0' failed."

Question

YOLOv3 custom data training model having an error when training pre-trained weights on custom data Using Darknet framework with the darknet53.conv.74 pre-trained model and yolov3.cfg that i edited to suit my custom data: example of what my .txt file for the bounding box looks like: (0 0.336232 0.320863 0.052174 0.515108), i have only 1 class so it's 0. I have changed the classes number to 1, filters to 18((classes+5)*3), batches 4000(minimum), min/max batches(3800-4200) and of course changed all the 3 [Yolo] layers with their convolutional layers, Height = Width, etc.. I'm working on google.collab but i edit my files on my machine which is windows. I checked for the CR - LF, using windows and my files contain "\n" so i did not change them assuming it works fine with a windows machine. i have my test and train files filled, labelled_data.data, "!file" compiled correctly, checked the path !darknet/darknet detector train custom_data/labelled_data.data darknet/cfg/yolov3_custom.cfg custom_weight/darknet53.conv.74 -dont_show assuming i took care of all the details and everything will work fine. BUT,i keep getting this error when i try t o train the model:

yolov3_custom
First section must be [net] or [network]: No such file or directory
darknet: ./src/utils.c:256: error: Assertion `0' failed.

I don't know what could've gone wrong with this!

Answer 1

if you create your files in windows and try to run in linux machine, you should change your encode using dos2unix library

!sudo apt install dos2unix

and then :

!dos2unix ./data/train.txt
!dos2unix ./data/train.txt
!dos2unix ./data/yolo.data
!dos2unix ./data/yolo.names
!dos2unix ./cfg/yolo-obj.cfg

this worked for me