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Joseph Nelson

Roboflow cofounder and CEO. On a mission to transform every industry by democratizing computer vision. Previously founded and sold a machine learning company.

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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 Active Learning? The Ultimate Guide.

1 Sep 2024 • 11 min read

What is Active Learning? The Ultimate Guide.

In this guide, we discuss what active learning is, types of active learning, and walk through an example of active learning in practice.

Roboflow and OpenCV Partner to Advance Computer Vision Capabilities for All Developers

27 Aug 2024 • 2 min read

Roboflow and OpenCV Partner to Advance Computer Vision Capabilities for All Developers

As a part of our joint partnership, Roboflow and OpenCV create educational blogs, webinars, and courses together.

What is YOLO? The Ultimate Guide [2024]

17 Jul 2024 • 8 min read

What is YOLO? The Ultimate Guide [2024]

Learn about the history of the YOLO family of objec tdetection models, extensively used across a wide range of object detection tasks.

How to Label Image Data for Computer Vision Models

5 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

How to Label Image Data for Computer Vision Models

This guide discusses what image labeling is and how to effectively label images for use in training computer vision models.

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.

How We Work Together at Roboflow

11 Aug 2023 • 7 min read

How We Work Together at Roboflow

Roboflow is pioneering distributed work as a way of working together remotely. In this post, we discuss what distributed work is and how it helps our team collaborate.

How to Build a Semantic Image Search Engine with Supabase and OpenAI CLIP

17 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Build a Semantic Image Search Engine with Supabase and OpenAI CLIP

Historically, building a robust search engine for images was difficult. One could search by features such as file name and image metadata, and use any context around an image (i.e. alt text or surrounding text if an image appears in a passage of text) to provide richer searching feature.

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?

📸 Roboflow 100: A Multi-Domain Object Detection Benchmark

28 Nov 2022 • 5 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.

How to Train a YOLOv6 Model on a Custom Dataset

1 Jul 2022 • 16 min read

How to Train a YOLOv6 Model on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv6 object detection model on a custom dataset.

How to Deploy Computer Vision Models: Best Practices

2 Apr 2022 • 10 min read

How to Deploy Computer Vision Models: Best Practices

In this guide, we walk through the fundamentals of deploying vision models and the questions you should evaluate when deciding how to deploy a model.

Let's Talk About Company Culture

20 Oct 2021 • 6 min read

Let's Talk About Company Culture

Company culture is a feeling in the air, the social norms of a group, the manifestation of collective goals and beliefs, and the one intangible thing that can make or break a growth stage company. For some, culture becomes a priority too late in the business. It starts to become

What is PaddlePaddle?

22 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

What is PaddlePaddle?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . What is PaddlePaddle (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)? You likely ended up on this

What is PyTorch?

20 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

What is PyTorch?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . What is PyTorch (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)? PyTorch is Facebook's open

We Raised a $20M Series A to Continue Democratizing Computer Vision

16 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

We Raised a $20M Series A to Continue Democratizing Computer Vision

Today, Roboflow is excited to announce our $20 million Series A led by Craft Ventures to expand on our mission to give software the sense of sight. Lachy Groom, who co-led the seed with Craft, also participated in the round. Additionally, we welcomed new investment from leaders like Jack Altman,

What is TensorRT?

9 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

What is TensorRT?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . What is TensorRT (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)? TensorRT [https://developer.nvidia.com/tensorrt]

What is Amazon Rekognition?

30 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

What is Amazon Rekognition?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . What is Amazon Rekognition (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)? Amazon's Rekognition is

What is AutoML?

23 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

What is AutoML?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . What is AutoML (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)? AutoML, "automated machine learning,"

What is CoreML?

16 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

What is CoreML?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . Be sure to subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/rf-yt-subWhat is CoreML (in

What is OpenVINO?

9 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

What is OpenVINO?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . What is OpenVINO (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)? OpenVINO is a machine learning framework

What is ONNX?

1 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

What is ONNX?

Learn what ONNX is and when it i sused in computer vision.

Roboflow for Students and Universities

30 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Roboflow for Students and Universities

We've seen tremendous interest in Roboflow from the research community. Faculty and students from institutions ranging from California to Malta to Taiwan have been using Roboflow to accelerate their computer vision work.

What is CUDA?

27 Jul 2021 • 1 min read

What is CUDA?

"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2] . What is CUDA (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)? CUDA is NVIDIA's framework

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