"Process the video" error: 'log_dir' defined twice (absl.logging & src.config)

[andywise]

I'm hoping this is user error, but I'm getting this error during processing:

absl.flags._exceptions.DuplicateFlagError: The flag 'log_dir' is defined twice. First from absl.logging, Second from src.config.

Any ideas? Thanks for making this, and thanks in advance for your help!

[Dene33]

Provide more information please. Step, video, etc.

[andywise]

Sure thing!

This happens on the "Process the video" step immediately after PNGs and JSON files are created for each frame:

Here's the video file I'm using.

[Dene33]

I've checked and everything seems fine. Check Runtime > Change runtime type. That should be Python 3 with GPU.

[andywise]

Huh. That's what I've been using.

I'll keep trying. Thanks anyway.

[andywise]

I started with a fresh notebook, followed all the readme instructions, and still got the same result, unfortunately. :/

Video uploads fine into the sample_videos folder.
Images are created fine in the sample_images folder.
JSONs are created successfully in the sample_jsons folder.

But once CSV conversion begins, it seems like it's not able to create individual CSV files or a final joined CSV (nothing shows up in csv or csv_joined folders). According to the error log, it's because the log_dir flag is defined twice: once in absl.logging, and again in src.config.

This is all the same as the original error I posted:

absl.flags._exceptions.DuplicateFlagError: The flag 'log_dir' is defined twice. First from absl.logging, Second from src.config.

Glad it worked for you, @Dene33. Hopefully I'm just missing something minor. I'm out of my depth for how to address this myself, but posting here in case it's helpful for someone else.

[Dene33]

Video upload is finished, right? Do you run next cell after the video is uploaded completely?

[andywise]

Right. Yep.

[muenchmark]

I'm seeing the exact same error. It uploads the video correctly, converts it to images, and processes a ton of images correctly...and then starts giving the log_dir error on every frame and eventually causes Blender to terminate because it can't find the csv_joined.csv file.

[Dene33]

I think the error may appear because of the wrong tensorflow version. 1.3.0 is needed. I'll look into this.

[muenchmark]

I think if you change 'log_dir' in line 59 of https://github.com/Dene33/hmr/blob/master/src/config.py to 'logging_dir' it will fix the problem. Also, hmr says that it should be run with Python 2.7 and you specify to set the runtime to Python 3...is that correct? Thanks for posting this and thanks for your help!

[Dene33]

There are two versions of Python used here, that's not the problem I guess. Please, try changing config.py and let me know about the results. Thanks.

[muenchmark]

Today I tested the change I mentioned above, replacing the three occurrences of 'log_dir' with 'logging_dir' in config.py and that fixed the problem with duplicate definitions. In order to get everything to run without errors, I also had to fold in the changes from Issue#69 on the original HMR project: akanazawa/hmr#69. Thanks!

[Dene33]

Today I tested the change I mentioned above, replacing the three occurrences of 'log_dir' with 'logging_dir' in config.py and that fixed the problem with duplicate definitions. In order to get everything to run without errors, I also had to fold in the changes from Issue#69 on the original HMR project: akanazawa/hmr#69. Thanks!

It would be nice if you make pull requests with changes. :)

[maartenjv]

Hello, I'm having the same issue with the duplicate definitions. How can I make the changes that muenchmark suggested in the colab notebook? There seems to be no way to edit the source files?

Thanks.

[anjoeaj]

Hello, I'm having the same issue with the duplicate definitions. How can I make the changes that muenchmark suggested in the colab notebook? There seems to be no way to edit the source files?

Thanks.

Open the file on Google Drive - config.py (Either you can download it, edit and re-upload, or connect to some drive text editor to edit it online). Replace all instances of log_dir to log_dir1 or any other unique name. Run the script again.

[anjoeaj]

If you did not mount your Google Drive before running the notebook, the run the following code with the correct path to video_to_bvh. This way, it would be easier for you to organize and edit any files if needed.

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

import os, sys
os.chdir('/content/drive/My Drive/{path}/video_to_bvh')
sys.path.append('/content/drive/My Drive/{path}/video_to_bvh')
ROOT_DIR = os.path.abspath(".")

[timtensor]

i tried to delete the file and upload the changed file , but i cant seem to move it to src directory. I am not used to google colab , Is there a easy work around ?

[danielajisafe]

i tried to delete the file and upload the changed file , but i cant seem to move it to src directory. I am not used to google colab , Is there a easy work around ?

You can simply drag and drop the file in src folder.

Once you are done, add the ffg code in a new cell to update, as Colab (from my experience) still use the old version of the file.

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2