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Jacob Solawetz

Founding Engineer @ Roboflow - ascending the 1/loss

Latest Posts by Jacob Solawetz

What Is A Label Map on Roboflow Vision AI

25 May 2026 • 7 min read

What Is A Label Map?

In this post, we will demystify the label map by discussing the role that it plays in the computer vision annotation process. Then we will get hands on with some real life examples using a label map.

Getting Started with VGG Image Annotator for Object Detection Tutorial with Roboflow Vision AI

12 May 2026 • 5 min read

Getting Started with VGG Image Annotator for Object Detection Tutorial

Learn how to label images in VGG Image Annotator (VIA): draw boxes and polygons in your browser, export, and convert to 30+ formats free.

mean average precision in computer vision with Roboflow

1 May 2026 • 11 min read

What is Mean Average Precision (mAP) in Object Detection?

What is mean average precision? How do we calculate mAP?

Luxonis OAK-D: Deploy a Custom Object Detection Model with Depth

1 May 2026 • 12 min read

Luxonis OAK-D: Deploy a Custom Object Detection Model with Depth

Train a custom object detection model and deploy it to the Luxonis OAK-D: RF-DETR on the host, depth per detection, and on-device options.

train test validation split for machine learning with Roboflow Vision AI

7 Apr 2026 • 8 min read

Train, Validation, Test Split for Machine Learning

At Roboflow, we often get asked, what is the train, validation, test split and why do I need it? The motivation is quite simple: you should separate you data into train, validation, and test splits to prevent your model from overfitting and to accurately evaluate your model.

How to use Computer Vision Annotation Tool with Roboflow Vision AI

21 Mar 2026 • 7 min read

What Is CVAT (Computer Vision Annotation Tool)?

Learn how to annotate images in CVAT, an open-source, web-based tool for labeling data for object detection, segmentation, classification, and other tasks.

YOLOv8 in Roboflow Vision AI

2 Mar 2026 • 14 min read

What Is YOLOv8? Architecture, Accuracy, and How to Use It

YOLOv8 is a computer vision model architecture that you can use for object detection, segmentation, keypoint detection, and more.

how to pick the right computer vision model size, model size tradeoffs

1 Mar 2026 • 5 min read

What to Think About When Choosing Vision Model Sizes

When training any machine learning model, you must trade off inference speed for accuracy. Larger models with more parameters are uniformly more accurate, and smaller models with fewer parameters are uniformly faster to infer.

Liquid Neural Networks in Roboflow Computer Vision

12 Feb 2026 • 5 min read

Liquid Neural Networks in Computer Vision

Excitement is building in the artificial intelligence community around MIT's recent release of liquid neural networks. The breakthroughs that Hasani and team have made are incredible. In this post, we will discuss the new liquid neural networks and what they might mean for the vision field.

the COCO dataset on Roboflow Vision AI

4 Feb 2026 • 7 min read

An Introduction to the COCO Dataset

The COCO dataset has 330K+ images across 80 classes for detection, segmentation, and keypoints. See its format, class list, and how to use it.

YOLOv5 Architecture, Sizes, and How It Works in Roboflow

1 Feb 2026 • 13 min read

What Is YOLOv5? Architecture, Sizes, and How It Works

In this article, we discuss what is new in YOLOv5, how the model compares to YOLOv4, and the architecture of the new v5 model.

How to Use Your GPU in a Docker Container

22 Oct 2024 • 10 min read

How to Use Your GPU in a Docker Container

Learn how to use your GPU in a Docker container and measure upir application's performance.

What is YOLOv6? The Ultimate Guide.

4 Jan 2024 • 7 min read

What is YOLOv6? The Ultimate Guide.

In this guide, we discuss what YOLOv6 is, how the model works, and the architectural improvements made in YOLOv6 over its predecessors.

What is YOLOv4? A Detailed Breakdown

4 Jan 2024 • 11 min read

What is YOLOv4? A Detailed Breakdown

In this guide, we discuss what YOLOv4 is, the architecture of YOLOv4, and how the model performs.

What is YOLOv7? A Complete Guide.

4 Jan 2024 • 8 min read

What is YOLOv7? A Complete Guide.

In this guide, we discuss what YOLOv7 is, how the model works, and the novel model architecture changes in YOLOv7.

ViT

14 Sep 2023 • 9 min read

Scaling up ViT Image Classification on Gaudi2 HPUs

Training large image transformers comes with heavy compute requirements - enter the Gaudi2 from Habana Labs, an Intel company.

cvpr

23 Jun 2023 • 3 min read

CVPR 2023 Highlights

Three members of the Roboflow team attended CVPR this year. Read our highlights from the conference and what trends we noticed.

What is Segment Anything Model (SAM)? A Breakdown.

7 Apr 2023 • 6 min read

What is Segment Anything Model (SAM)? A Breakdown.

Learn how Meta Research's new Segment Anything Model works to achieve high performance on image segmentation tasks.

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.

Speculating on How GPT-4 Changes Computer Vision

16 Mar 2023 • 10 min read

Speculating on How GPT-4 Changes Computer Vision

OpenAI released GPT-4 showcasing strong multi-modal general AI capabilities in addition to impressive logical reasoning capability. Are general models going to obviate the need to label images and train models?

HPU vs GPU - Benchmarking the Frontier of AI Hardware

30 Dec 2022 • 6 min read

HPU vs GPU - Benchmarking the Frontier of AI Hardware

When you are training machine learning models, it is essential to pick hardware that optimizes your models performance relative to cost. In training, the name of the game is speed per epoch – how fast can your hardware run the calculations it needs to train your model on your data.

📸 Roboflow 100: A Multi-Domain Object Detection Benchmark

28 Nov 2022 • 6 min read

📸 Roboflow 100: A Multi-Domain Object Detection Benchmark

Roboflow 100 (RF100) is a crowdsourced object detection benchmark. The dataset consists of 100 datasets, 7 imagery domains, 224,714 images, and 829 class labels with over 11,170 labeling hours.

CVPR 2022 - Best Papers and Highlights

24 Jun 2022 • 4 min read

CVPR 2022 - Best Papers and Highlights

In this post, we take the opportunity to reflect on the computer vision research landscape at CVPR 2022 and highlight our favorite research papers and themes.

Train and Deploy YOLOS Transformer On a Custom Dataset

15 Jun 2022 • 9 min read

Train and Deploy YOLOS Transformer On a Custom Dataset

In this post, we showcase training and deploying YOLOS end to end, from labeling your data, to training your model, to deploying your model on AWS for inference.

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