ml5 Error: pixels passed to tf.browser.fromPixels() can not be null

Question

I have created a very simple script with p5.js and ml5.js as per this tutorial.

In the setup function, upon clicking on a button, I am adding images to the classifier. However, when I click on the button, I get the pixels error. This is how my directory looks like

let pinkButton
console.log('ml5 version:', ml5.version);

function gotResults(error, results) {
  console.log("ERROR", error);
}

function setup() {
  mobileNet = ml5.featureExtractor('MobileNet')
  classifier = mobileNet.classification()
  pinkButton = createButton('add pink')
  pinkButton.mousePressed(function() {
    classifier.addImage('./images/pink/1.png', 'pink')
    classifier.addImage('./images/pink/2.png', 'pink')
    classifier.addImage('./images/pink/3.png', 'pink')
  })
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/0.9.0/p5.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/0.9.0/addons/p5.dom.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/0.9.0/addons/p5.sound.min.js"></script>
<!-- ml5 -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/ml5.min.js"></script>

Answer 1

addImage add an HTMl imageElement and not a url. Therefore to add an image either the image is already loaded in the page and it can be queried or a new image needs to be created.

Option 1: image already loaded

image = document.querySelector("use-css-selector")
classifier.addImage(image, label)

Option 2: create a new image

function load(url){
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const im = new Image()
        im.crossOrigin = 'anonymous'
        im.src = 'url'
        im.onload = () => {
          resolve(im)
        }
   })
}

image = await load(url)
classifier.addImage(image, label)