Cannot download mobilenet_v2 pretrained weights - 403 Forbidden error

[Spoorthy-Siddannaiah]

Hi,

I am using DeepLabCut 2.3 with mobilenet_v2_1.0 backbone on Windows 10
with TensorFlow 2.10.

When I try to train the network I get this error:
NOT_FOUND: NewRandomAccessFile failed - mobilenet_v2_1.0_224.ckpt.data-00000-of-00001
The system cannot find the file specified.

The file mobilenet_v2_1.0_224.ckpt.data-00000-of-00001 is missing
from my pretrained folder.

I tried downloading from:
https://storage.googleapis.com/mobilenet_v2/checkpoints/mobilenet_v2_1.0_224.tgz
But getting HTTP Error 403: Forbidden from multiple networks and also
from Google Colab.

I also tried generating the checkpoint using Keras MobileNetV2 with
imagenet weights in Colab and saving as .ckpt, but then I get:
NOT_FOUND: Key MobilenetV2/Conv/BatchNorm/beta not found in checkpoint

This means the Keras-saved weights have different variable names than
what DLC expects (TF1 slim format).

Running check_for_weights() and download.sh also give 403 error.

Could someone please share the correct mobilenet_v2_1.0_224 checkpoint
files in TF1 slim format, or provide a working alternative download link?

Thank you

[C-Achard]

Hello @Spoorthy-Siddannaiah,

As this issue seems to be related to DeepLabCut usage rather than DLC-Live, I have opened an issue here :
DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut#3243
so that it is answered through our usual channels.

If possible, please follow the new issue and comment there to help us help you!

Best,
Cyril