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Matt Brems

Growth Manager @ Roboflow. Previously solved data science problems across finance, education, politics, and more. Passionate about teaching and empowering others to accomplish more.

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Handling unbalanced classes

3 Jan 2025 • 7 min read

5 Strategies for Handling Unbalanced Classes in Machine Learning

Dealing with unbalance classes is a common challenge that can significantly impact the performance of your models. When one class dominates the dataset algorithms become biased, leading to inaccurate predictions. Suppose you're trying to teach an alien – like one of the crew mates from the wildly popular game

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.

The power of image augmentation: an experiment

3 May 2021 • 8 min read

The power of image augmentation: an experiment

One of the amazing things about computer vision is using existing images plus random changes to increase your effective sample size. Suppose you have one photo containing a coffee mug. Then, copy that photo and rotate it 10 degrees clockwise. From your point of view, you haven’t done very

How We at Roboflow Do Remote Work

25 Apr 2021 • 6 min read

How We at Roboflow Do Remote Work

We'd like to think we've worked remotely pretty successfully: we raised a seed round [https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/12/roboflow-raises-2-1m-for-its-end-to-end-computer-vision-platform/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALHkxHU44NN7l8ao6JPMA1tPtxbqgUuaDArSLdQvJxehHTVzYkFUN7EouPCZqORG-VxhR7KHw4BfZSYWKF076uZxnzL2OunWuEAaA-w8oCOjbVGl2iQTmiQfYhD9fI8h6DzWwJtjexpNAJm4TezFrY0rI5YeMhcTOniUX4xZIPNA] , we've come in first place on the Pioneer leaderboard [htt

How to Use Computer Vision to Keep Stock of Inventory

18 Apr 2021 • 3 min read

How to Use Computer Vision to Keep Stock of Inventory

Learn how to use computer vision to track inventory in logistics facilities.

Using Computer Vision to Extract Document Structure

6 Apr 2021 • 2 min read

Using Computer Vision to Extract Document Structure

This is a guest post written by Frederik Brammer, a student in Germany. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, working from home has become more important than ever. Because of homeschooling, school servers have crashed due to the enormous amount of traffic – in some cases, multiple days go by without

Zero-Shot Content Moderation with OpenAI's New CLIP Model

28 Mar 2021 • 6 min read

Zero-Shot Content Moderation with OpenAI's New CLIP Model

Learn how to use the CLIP zero-shot model to moderate visual content.

paperspace gradient

24 Mar 2021 • 1 min read

Webinar: How to Build a Detectron2 Model with Roboflow and Paperspace Gradient

Missed the event or looking for the recording? Check out the Roboflow + Paperspace Detectron2 webinar recording here and notebook here! Tomorrow, Roboflow and Paperspace are co-hosting a webinar teaching you how to build a Detectron2 model with our tools. Roboflow gives you "everything you need to start building computer

Danger Monitoring for Cyclists using Raspberry Pi and Object Detection

21 Mar 2021 • 3 min read

Danger Monitoring for Cyclists using Raspberry Pi and Object Detection

This is a guest post authored by Herberto Warner [https://www.linkedin.com/in/h-werner-252876209/] and lightly edited by the Roboflow team. Herberto's Github [https://github.com/Hberto/dangerMonitoringAIObjectDetect] hosts all of the images used in his project. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Increasing numbers of dangers and accidents for cyclists Cyclists

Using Computer Vision to Detect Personal Protective Equipment

15 Mar 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Detect Personal Protective Equipment

This is a guest post by data scientist Jaco Lau [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaco-lau-499ab767/]; this has been lightly edited by the Roboflow team. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having worked in construction, I constantly found myself reminding subcontractors to wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Wearing the proper PPE can save

5 Emerging Trends in Computer Vision Applications from OpenCV's AI Competition

1 Mar 2021 • 3 min read

5 Emerging Trends in Computer Vision Applications from OpenCV's AI Competition

As part of Roboflow [https://roboflow.com/]'s new partnership with OpenCV [https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-opencv-partnership/], I had the opportunity to be involved with the first round of the 2021 OpenCV AI Competition [https://opencv.org/opencv-ai-competition-2021/]. If you haven't heard of the competition, it'

How to Use Roboflow and Streamlit to Visualize Object Detection Output

23 Feb 2021 • 9 min read

How to Use Roboflow and Streamlit to Visualize Object Detection Output

Building an app for blood cell count detection. The app in action.Most technology is designed to make your life, or your work, easier. If your work involves building computer vision into your applications, using the Roboflow [https://roboflow.com/] platform gives you everything you need. Streamlit [https://www.streamlit.

How to Use Google Earth Engine and Python API to Export Images to Roboflow

22 Feb 2021 • 4 min read

How to Use Google Earth Engine and Python API to Export Images to Roboflow

This is a guest post written by Ethan Arsht and Raluca Cîrju. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Google Earth Engine [https://earthengine.google.com/] is a powerful tool for analyzing and acquiring geographic data. Machine learning experts use Google Earth Engine to identify physical attributes and analyze patterns, in areas including forestry, farmland, ice

Using Computer Vision to Improve Disability Access in Music Education

15 Feb 2021 • 3 min read

Using Computer Vision to Improve Disability Access in Music Education

This is a guest post by Mehek Gosalia, a high school student from Sammamish, Washington. She plans to study computer science. Over the past 4 years, I've worked to develop a disability-accessible rhythm education tool called the Mehek Box. It started as a physical tool, a box representing

Using Computer Vision to Make Card Grading Faster and Cheaper

8 Feb 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Make Card Grading Faster and Cheaper

This blog post is a guest post by James Nitsch, a mobile developer (Android) with WillowTree Apps living in Charlottesville, VA. He's passionate about do-it-yourself hardware projects, 3D printing, and machine learning & computer vision. He's happily employed but always loves collaborating and tackling innovative or

Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt

31 Jan 2021 • 3 min read

Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt

Can we use object detection to automate identifying moving objects on a screen? Abhinav Mandava leverages Roboflow to create an aimbot (which automates aiming and firing for the player) for Duck Hunt.

Using Computer Vision to Detect Package Deliveries

19 Jan 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Detect Package Deliveries

This post is a guest post written by Brian Egge. Brian works in finance, though this is a personal project. Many households are getting more packages delivered than ever before. In my neighborhood the delivery drivers don’t ring the doorbell or announce they’ve dropped a package off. Many

computer vision to boost cities' efficiency

4 Jan 2021 • 5 min read

Using Computer Vision to Boost Cities' Efficiency by Reallocating Police Resources

The below post is a guest post written by data scientist Joseph Rosenblum. He is using computer vision to make cities more efficient and decrease the bias in traffic-related policing. (He is open to new opportunities!) Municipalities today are cash-strapped, with $360 billion in losses expected between 2020 and 2022

Football, Kaggle, Roboflow: Using Computer Vision to Tackle Helmet Safety

28 Dec 2020 • 5 min read

Football, Kaggle, Roboflow: Using Computer Vision to Tackle Helmet Safety

If you're searching for a dataset to use or are looking to improve your data science modeling skills, Kaggle [https://www.kaggle.com/] is a great resource for free data and for competitions. For example, there's currently an open Kaggle competition detecting American football helmet impacts

Tackling the Internet of Things with Roboflow: Object Detection Apps on Android

21 Dec 2020 • 4 min read

Tackling the Internet of Things with Roboflow: Object Detection Apps on Android

Joo chan Kim, PhD student, is developing an object detection application for Android devices that can identify specific IoT sensors by using a custom detection model.

Apple's M1 is up to 3.6x as fast at training machine learning models

15 Dec 2020 • 4 min read

Apple's M1 is up to 3.6x as fast at training machine learning models

We compared the Apple M1 chip to the Intel Core i5 chip on an object detection task using Create ML.

Scaled-YOLOv4 is Now the Best Model for Object Detection

3 Dec 2020 • 8 min read

Scaled-YOLOv4 is Now the Best Model for Object Detection

(based on Microsoft COCO benchmarks) The object detection space remains white hot with the recent publication of Scaled-YOLOv4 [https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08036], establishing a new state of the art in object detection [https://blog.roboflow.com/object-detection/]. Looking to train a Scaled-YOLOv4 model? Skip this post and jump

How to Run Jupyter Notebooks on an Apple M1 Mac

30 Nov 2020 • 5 min read

How to Run Jupyter Notebooks on an Apple M1 Mac

Learn how to run Jupyter Notebooks on Apple M1 Macbooks.

generating renaissance art with computer vision

30 Nov 2020 • 3 min read

Generating Renaissance Art with Computer Vision

The below post is a guest post written by Samay Lakhani and Sujay Sundar, two budding data scientists. Samay currently interns with a Silicon Valley tech company; Sujay currently does research under the mentorship of a CUNY Staten Island neuroscience professor. Both are sophomores at Jericho High School, showing that

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