Error in import function from deepforest

[mlamb-226]

Hi All,
I am trying to use the bird detector model and train on my own imagery but am having some issues at the start of the process. I am able to load deep forest in a cmd window using the conda environment. Is this the best way to do this or do you recommend using another platform? Once the model is loaded and I try to import, I get the following error:

OMP: Error #15: Initializing libiomp5md.dll, but found libiomp5md.dll already initialized.
OMP: Hint This means that multiple copies of the OpenMP runtime have been linked into the program. That is dangerous, since it can degrade performance or cause incorrect results. The best thing to do is to ensure that only a single OpenMP runtime is linked into the process, e.g. by avoiding static linking of the OpenMP runtime in any library. As an unsafe, unsupported, undocumented workaround you can set the environment variable KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK=TRUE to allow the program to continue to execute, but that may cause crashes or silently produce incorrect results. For more information, please see http://www.intel.com/software/products/support/.

I am not an experienced coder, so this may have a simple fix but I attempted this in the cmd window and in spyder and got the same error. Any suggestions on how to fix this or if I should be using a different environment to run the code?

[ethanwhite]

Hi @mlamb-226 - this is an issue in the conda environment that is upstream of deepforest. Likely a problem with the numpy installation. We use standard conda installs daily and everything works. If you can show us the exact commands you used to create the environment and tell us what operating system you are using we can try to help.

Here's a standard conda based setup for us:

conda create -n deepforest python=3.12
conda activate deepforest
pip install deepforest