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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.

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computer vision microservices

27 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Deploying Computer Vision Models as Mircroservices

Roboflow's philosophy around MLOps revolves around treating your computer vision model as a microservice. The reasons for this are myriad; in this post we highlight the benefits of this approach and how it works in practice. Why Microservices? Separation of Concerns The primary motivation behind deploying your model

Introducing the Roboflow pip package

15 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

Introducing the Roboflow pip package

We're ecstatic to announce the launch of our newest pip package, a way for you to natively interface with your Roboflow workspace through your Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks! Read the full package documentation here [https://docs.roboflow.com/python]. Your API Key If you've ever

Our New REST API

2 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Our New REST API

Today we're excited to announce the launch of our new REST API, a way for your code to interface with the information stored in your Roboflow workspace. Read the full API documentation here [https://docs.roboflow.com/rest-api]. We're launching with five read-only API routes (to

Roboflow Changelog: September 2021

2 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: September 2021

Welcome to another installment of the Roboflow Changelog where we summarize the improvements to Roboflow's product suite over the preceding month. You can find the last changelog (for August 2021) here. The biggest highlights from last month were celebrating the release of Roboflow Universe, our community space for

Live Coding: Blackjack Basic Strategy

29 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

Live Coding: Blackjack Basic Strategy

Follow along as I use a playing cards object detection model [https://universe.roboflow.com/augmented-startups/playing-cards-ow27d] from Roboflow Universe [https://universe.roboflow.com/] to build a computer-vision powered Blackjack basic strategy web-app. In just two hours, we go from the boilerplate sample code to a working app you can

ImageNet contains naturally occurring NeuralHash collisions

19 Aug 2021 • 5 min read

ImageNet contains naturally occurring NeuralHash collisions

NeuralHash is the perceptual hashing model that back's Apple's new CSAM (child sexual abuse material) reporting mechanism. It's an algorithm that takes an image as input and returns a 96-bit unique identifier (a hash) that should match for two images that are "the

Mitigating the Collision of Apple's CSAM NeuralHash

18 Aug 2021 • 3 min read

Mitigating the Collision of Apple's CSAM NeuralHash

This morning, Hacker News was ablaze with several stories about vulnerabilities in Apple's CSAM NeuralHash algorithm [https://www.apple.com/child-safety/]. Researchers had found a way to convert the NeuralHash model to ONNX format [https://blog.roboflow.com/what-is-onnx/] and reverse engineer a hash collision [https://github.com/

Roboflow Universe: the Computer Vision Community

11 Aug 2021 • 3 min read

Roboflow Universe: the Computer Vision Community

We’re excited to introduce Roboflow Universe, the new hub for computer vision datasets and pre-trained models.

Roboflow Changelog: August 2021

7 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: August 2021

Each month we share a recap of our monthly updates and releases in the Roboflow Changelog. The previous Changelog is available here. In July, the product team's major emphasis was on a new product we'll be releasing at our Launch Party on Wednesday, August 11 -

Experimenting with CLIP and VQGAN to Create AI Generated Art

25 Jul 2021 • 9 min read

Experimenting with CLIP and VQGAN to Create AI Generated Art

Earlier this year, OpenAI announced a powerful art-creation model called DALL-E. Their model hasn't yet been released but it has captured the imagination of a generation of hackers, artists, and AI-enthusiasts who have been experimenting with using the ideas behind it to replicate the results on their own.

Announcing On-Prem and Offline Mode for Roboflow Deploy

21 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Announcing On-Prem and Offline Mode for Roboflow Deploy

With Roboflow, you can train a custom computer vision model in one click [https://docs.roboflow.com/train] and get an infinitely scalable API to receive predictions [https://docs.roboflow.com/inference/hosted-api] and you can also deploy [https://roboflow.com/deploy] directly to devices like the NVIDIA Jetson [https:

Roboflow Changelog: July 2021

4 Jul 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: July 2021

Welcome to this month's installment of the Roboflow Changelog highlighting all the updates we've pushed in the past month. The update for last month can be found here. In June we pushed our major revamp of the backend that supports collaboration between team members ("Workspaces&

Announcing Classification Support for Roboflow Annotate

27 Jun 2021 • 1 min read

Announcing Classification Support for Roboflow Annotate

When it launched in early 2020, Roboflow was primarily a tool for converting object detection datasets. As the months have gone on we have expanded its capabilities to include collaboration [https://blog.roboflow.com/teams-for-all/], training [https://docs.roboflow.com/train], deployment [https://roboflow.com/deploy], and annotation [https://roboflow.

Roboflow Changelog: June 2021

2 Jun 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: June 2021

Each month, we publish a list of recent features and additions to the Roboflow suite of products. The previous month's update is here. In May there has been a bevy of backend changes to support a huge user-facing release coming next month. The most noticeable updates this month

Roboflow Competitors and Alternatives

25 May 2021 • 7 min read

Roboflow Competitors and Alternatives

We think it's important for users to make a fully informed decision, so we're committed to maintaining a comparison between our software and our competitors' so you can make the best purchasing decision for your business. Where does Roboflow fit in? Roboflow is an end-to-end

Roboflow Changelog: May 2021

4 May 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: May 2021

The changelog is our compendium of monthly updates. If you want to take a walk down memory lane, you can being your trip back in time with last month's edition. In April, our major product efforts centered around launching our brand new user interface. This redesign of our

Using videos as training data

27 Apr 2021 • 2 min read

Using videos as training data

Oftentimes, the visual data you'll want to analyze will come in the form of video. It may be security camera footage [https://roboflow.com/industries/safety-and-security], YouTube videos [https://blog.roboflow.com/using-computer-vision-to-find-brands-in-youtube-videos/], or webcam recordings [https://blog.roboflow.com/python-webcam/]. We know how to use Roboflow with

Computer Vision is Shaking Up Brick-and-Mortar Retail

21 Apr 2021 • 3 min read

Computer Vision is Shaking Up Brick-and-Mortar Retail

Computer vision is changing the landscape of retail storefronts. While it’s most often experienced in places like self-checkout lines, innovative retailers have realized the potential that computer vision can offer them by rolling it out to other functions within their stores. The largest retail companies on the bleeding edge

Roboflow's new User Interface

18 Apr 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow's new User Interface

When you log into your Roboflow account you'll notice a fresh look, but the features you know and love are all still just a click away. We've reorganized the app to make things easier to find, simpler to navigate, and primed for future enhancement. Video overview

Top 5 Ways Computer Vision Can Improve Online Shopping and Boost Revenue

18 Apr 2021 • 3 min read

Top 5 Ways Computer Vision Can Improve Online Shopping and Boost Revenue

Few things are as natural a fit as ecommerce and computer vision. With the bulk of online retail experiences being built on quality image data uploaded by both storefronts and customers, computer vision has the power to use all of that data to elevate the online shopping experience. Ecommerce marketplaces

How important is subject similarity for transfer learning?

11 Apr 2021 • 4 min read

How important is subject similarity for transfer learning?

Using transfer learning [https://blog.roboflow.com/a-primer-on-transfer-learning/] to initialize your computer vision model from pre-trained weights rather than starting from scratch (initializing randomly) has been shown to increase performance and decrease training time. It makes sense, by giving your model prior knowledge about basic concepts like lines, curves, textures,

Top 5 Ways Manufacturers Are Already Using Computer Vision

2 Apr 2021 • 3 min read

Top 5 Ways Manufacturers Are Already Using Computer Vision

Computer vision has become essential to building strong and stable manufacturing processes for operations of all sizes, and manufacturers across every industry are using the technology to boost the productivity and quality of their production lines. What was once reserved for only the largest manufacturers to invest time and money

Roboflow Changelog: April 2021

1 Apr 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: April 2021

Each month we bring you the high level bullet-points of improvements and additions to Roboflow. If you missed it, last month's changelog is here. In March we were focused on expanding Roboflow's inference capabilities with the release of on-device NVIDIA Jetson support, our open source video

How to Use Your Webcam with Roboflow Models

30 Mar 2021 • 4 min read

How to Use Your Webcam with Roboflow Models

Learn how to use your webcam with Roboflow computer vision models.

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