Trying another method for image loading

utils/caption_utils.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from PIL import Image
+import io
 import torch
 from transformers import BlipProcessor, BlipForConditionalGeneration
 from utils.image_utils import load_image
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ class ImageCaptioning:
     def get_caption(self, image):
 
         # Preprocessing the Image
-        img = Image.open(image)
+        img = Image.open(io.ByteIO(image))
         img = self.processor(img, return_tensors="pt").to(device)
 
         # Generating captions