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Brad Dwyer

Roboflow cofounder and CTO. Building the computer vision infrastructure for developers. Previously founded Hatchlings and created Product Hunt's AR App of the Year.

Latest Posts by Brad Dwyer

NYCerebro: Winning a GPU Signed by Jensen Huang

22 Jan 2025 • 2 min read

NYCerebro: Winning a GPU Signed by Jensen Huang

I have a new most coveted possession: an NVIDIA RTX 4080 signed by Jensen Huang; the grand prize of Vercel+NVIDIA's World's Shortest Hackathon. The winner of the @nvidiaai × @vercel world's shortest hackathon #2… A NYC live webcam directory with vector search, built in

Launch: Embeddings in Workflows

23 Dec 2024 • 5 min read

Launch: Embeddings in Workflows

Learn how to calculate and compare CLIP embeddings and find outlier images using those embeddings in Roboflow Workflows.

We Raised $40M to Invest In Enterprise and Open Source Vision AI

19 Nov 2024 • 4 min read

We Raised $40M to Invest In Enterprise and Open Source Vision AI

At Roboflow, our mission is to make the world programmable. We’ve raised an additional $40 million to continue building the open source tools, platform, and community so developers and enterprises can deploy computer vision applications to production.

What is CLIP? Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Processing Explained.

1 Sep 2024 • 15 min read

What is CLIP? Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Processing Explained.

CLIP is an open source, multimodal computer vision model developed by OpenAI. Learn what CLIP is in this guide.

Open Source Computer Vision Deployment with Roboflow Inference

16 Aug 2023 • 5 min read

Open Source Computer Vision Deployment with Roboflow Inference

We are open sourcing the Roboflow Inference Server: our battle-hardened solution for using and deploying computer vision models in production. Learn more in this guide.

The Roboflow Ecosystem

31 Mar 2023 • 3 min read

The Roboflow Ecosystem

In this article, we review the ways in which you can integrate your project and business with the Roboflow computer vision platform.

Vector Analysis with Scikit-learn and Bokeh

29 Mar 2023 • 3 min read

Vector Analysis with Scikit-learn and Bokeh

In this guide, you'll learn how to load embeddings for a dataset from Roboflow and visualize them using t-SNE and Bokeh.

Preview: Roboflow + GPT-4

29 Mar 2023 • 4 min read

Preview: Roboflow + GPT-4

Roboflow and GPT-4 will be even more powerful when used in conjunction. In this post we preview some of the new features that will be coming to Roboflow in the coming weeks.

Announcement: Roboflow On-Prem

28 Mar 2023 • 3 min read

Announcement: Roboflow On-Prem

Learn about our plans to support on-prem hosting for enterprise customers as well as our new Supashim open source project to support Roboflow on-prem.

Getting Started with Roboflow

16 Mar 2023 • 17 min read

Getting Started with Roboflow

Roboflow eliminates boilerplate code when building object detection models. Get started with an example.

Sharing Your Computer Vision Project on Roboflow Universe

13 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Sharing Your Computer Vision Project on Roboflow Universe

In this guide, learn how to launch your computer vision project on Roboflow Universe.

Launch: Test Computer Vision Models Locally

20 Sep 2022 • 2 min read

Launch: Test Computer Vision Models Locally

Roboflow has extensive deployment options [https://roboflow.com/deploy] for getting your model into production. But, sometimes, you just want to get something simple running on your development machine. If you don't want to futz with installing CUDA [https://blog.roboflow.com/what-is-cuda/] and Docker, we've

Using Computer Vision with Drones for Georeferencing

14 Sep 2022 • 8 min read

Using Computer Vision with Drones for Georeferencing

You can extract information about objects of interest from satellite and drone imagery using a computer vision model, but a machine learning model will only tell you where an object is in an image, not where it is on the globe. To get the objects' GPS position, you need

Launch: Deploy Computer Vision Models to a Raspberry Pi

4 Aug 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Deploy Computer Vision Models to a Raspberry Pi

Learn how to deploy computer vision models to a Raspberry Pi.

Using Polygon Annotations for Object Detection in Computer Vision

14 Jul 2022 • 4 min read

Using Polygon Annotations for Object Detection in Computer Vision

Benefits to Existing Models Polygons have traditionally been used for training image segmentation models [https://blog.roboflow.com/instance-segmentation-training-roboflow/], but polygons can also improve the training of object detection models [https://blog.roboflow.com/object-detection/] (which predict bounding boxes). Object detection models are typically much faster and more widely supported,

How to Train a YOLOv7 Model on a Custom Dataset

13 Jul 2022 • 5 min read

How to Train a YOLOv7 Model on a Custom Dataset

Hot on the heels of MT-YOLOv6, a new YOLO dropped this week (and this one is a doozy). YOLOv7 was created by WongKinYiu and AlexeyAB, the creators of YOLOv4 Darknet (and the official canonical maintainers of the YOLO lineage according to pjreddie, the original inventor and maintainer of the YOLO

Launch: End to End Multi-Label Classification

3 Apr 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: End to End Multi-Label Classification

Roboflow has supported the entire process of creating object detection and single-label classification computer vision projects, from collecting and annotating images to training and deploying a model since our launch of end to end classification support [https://blog.roboflow.com/classification-end-to-end/] last summer. Now, we're adding support for

Computer Vision Saves 4.95 Billion Internet Users from Rickrolling

1 Apr 2022 • 2 min read

Computer Vision Saves 4.95 Billion Internet Users from Rickrolling

Roboflow releases new RICK model to end Rickrolling Newton-le-Willows, United Kingdom, 4/1/2022: — Roboflow, a software business that builds tools for developers to use computer vision, is releasing Real-time Intrusion Checker Kernel (RICK). The model is a breakthrough in machine learning model architecture with its first application being focused

Launch: Collaborative Annotations

2 Feb 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Collaborative Annotations

Roboflow Annotate [https://roboflow.com/annotate] has become an essential tool used by tens of thousands of developers to label images of everything from planes [https://universe.roboflow.com/skybot-cam/overhead-plane-detector] to petri dishes [https://universe.roboflow.com/michael-shamash-f942a/onepetri]. Since its launch just over a year ago [https://blog.

Remote, Not Distant

7 Dec 2021 • 7 min read

Remote, Not Distant

As Roboflow has grown, we have put a great deal of effort into creating an unparalleled remote-first workplace. To achieve our goal of empowering every developer to use computer vision, we need to assemble a world class team and put them in an environment where they can thrive. We'

Roboflow Changelog: November 2021

1 Dec 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: November 2021

It's been a whirlwind of a month at Roboflow with lots of changes, updates, and expansion going on behind the scenes. Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. If you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it

New Feature: Isolate Objects

8 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

New Feature: Isolate Objects

You can now export the bounding boxes from your object detection dataset as cropped images usable with classification models. This update will enable easily prototyping two-pass models for use-cases like OCR and object tracking [https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-object-tracking/]. Isolate Objects is now available as a preprocessing step.To try

Roboflow Changelog: October 2021

3 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: October 2021

Our emphasis this month was on "code tentacles," or improving the ways that Roboflow integrates with your codebase. Below is a recap of what we launched and improved. Rewind to last month's (September 2021) changelog for a recap of earlier releases. Roboflow Organize * Released our REST

Roboflow and Ultralytics Partner to Streamline YOLOv5 MLOps

30 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

Roboflow and Ultralytics Partner to Streamline YOLOv5 MLOps

We're proud to share that Roboflow has entered into a partnership agreement with Ultralytics, the creators of YOLOv5, and that Roboflow is now the official dataset management and annotation tool for YOLOv5 with a focus on enabling active learning. Over the past year, YOLOv5 has gained broad adoption

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