diff --git a/lib/roi_data_layer/minibatch.py b/lib/roi_data_layer/minibatch.py
index 4fb44328d..361e1dff8 100644
--- a/lib/roi_data_layer/minibatch.py
+++ b/lib/roi_data_layer/minibatch.py
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import numpy.random as npr
-from scipy.misc import imread
+# from scipy.misc import imread
+# pip install imageio 
+from imageio import imread
 from model.utils.config import cfg
 from model.utils.blob import prep_im_for_blob, im_list_to_blob
 import pdb