TypeError('unsupported data type unicode',)

[Tianliang Zhang]

When I ran this demo, I ran 'python run_tracker.py' and then there are some wrong, could you give me some suggestion?
failed to execute LOT : (<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>, TypeError('unsupported data type unicode',), <traceback object at 0x7fd4c7c87f38>) Traceback (most recent call last): File "run_trackers.py", line 146, in <module> main(sys.argv[1:]) File "run_trackers.py", line 50, in main trackers, seqs, evalType, shiftTypeSet) File "run_trackers.py", line 138, in run_trackers butil.save_seq_result(seqResults) File "/home/hanzhj/ZTL_projects/Tracking/tracker_benchmark/scripts/butil/load_results.py", line 5, in save_seq_result tracker = result[0].tracker IndexError: list index out of range

[Li,Yang]

Same problem on CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core), Python 2.7.12 :: Continuum Analytics, Inc. and Matlab 2014b

Input Test name : test
Starting benchmark for 24 trackers, evalTypes : ['OPE', 'SRE', 'TRE']
1_ASLA, 1_Basketball:1/1 - OPE
Starting matlab engine...
failed to execute ASLA : (<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>, TypeError('unsupported data type unicode',), <traceback object at 0x7f225535a320>)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run_trackers.py", line 146, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "run_trackers.py", line 50, in main
trackers, seqs, evalType, shiftTypeSet)
File "run_trackers.py", line 138, in run_trackers
butil.save_seq_result(seqResults)
File "/home/ihpdep/codes/tracker_benchmark/scripts/butil/load_results.py", line 5, in save_seq_result
tracker = result[0].tracker
IndexError: list index out of range

[Li,Yang]

Works on Matlab 2015b and Matlab 2016a.

[Dhruv Mullick]

Facing the same issue. Matlab 2014b. Probably the matlab engines of pre 2015b aren't able to run the code.
@jwlim , can you suggest please a fix for this problem?

[wuzhao]

@dhruvmullick I met the same issue, matlab2016b,python2.7, have you solved this problem?