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RF-DETR: A SOTA Real-Time Object Detection Model
Today we are releasing RF-DETR, a state-of-the-art real-time object detection model. Learn more about how RF-DETR works and how to use the model.
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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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What is YOLO? The Ultimate Guide [2025]
Learn about the history of the YOLO family of objec tdetection models, extensively used across a wide range of object detection tasks.
• 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.
• 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.
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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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?
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📸 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
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What is PaddlePaddle (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
You likely ended up on this
• 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]
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What is PyTorch (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
PyTorch is Facebook's open
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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,
• 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]
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What is TensorRT (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
TensorRT [https://developer.nvidia.com/tensorrt]
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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]
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What is Amazon Rekognition (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
Amazon's Rekognition is
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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]
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What is AutoML (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
AutoML, "automated machine learning,"
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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]
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Be sure to subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/rf-yt-subWhat is CoreML (in
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What is ONNX?
Learn what ONNX is and when it i sused in computer vision.
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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.
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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]
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What is CUDA (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
CUDA is NVIDIA's framework
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