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YOLO vs. VLMs: When to Use Each

5 Jun 2026 • 12 min read

YOLO vs. VLMs: When to Use Each

YOLO and VLMs are not competing technologies. YOLO is good for speed, edge deployment, and fixed-class precision. VLMs good on reasoning, flexibility, and open-vocabulary tasks. Learn which one fits your use case and how to use it in Roboflow Workflows.

YOLO for Anomaly Detection with Roboflow

1 Jun 2026 • 10 min read

YOLO for Anomaly Detection

Learn how to build a YOLO based supervised anomaly detection system with Roboflow. This tutorial shows how to collect normal and defective alloy wheel images, label defects with bounding boxes, train a YOLO11 model, and deploy it to detect scratches, and paint damage.

YOLO Knnowledge Distillation with Roboflow

28 May 2026 • 14 min read

YOLO Distillation

Learn how to use large VLMs or foundation models to label images, review annotations in Roboflow, and train a smaller YOLO model. This tutorial covers YOLO distillation with Autodistill and Roboflow Workflows.

YOLO Re-ID in Roboflow

26 May 2026 • 8 min read

YOLO Re-ID

Object detection with YOLO can find objects in each video frame quickly. But detection alone does not remember anything. Re-ID and object tracking solve this. Learn how they work and how to build a tracking pipeline in Roboflow Workflows without writing custom code.

How to Transition from Ultralytics HUB to Ultralytics Platform or Roboflow

26 May 2026 • 15 min read

How to Transition from Ultralytics HUB to Ultralytics Platform: Ultralytics Dataset Export

Ultralytics HUB is shutting down, and this guide shows how to migrate datasets and trained YOLO models to Roboflow or Ultralytics Platform. Learn how to export HUB assets, convert datasets, upload annotations and weights, retrain models, build Workflows, and deploy to edge or offline environments.

Gemini Computer Vision

26 May 2026 • 15 min read

Gemini Computer Vision

Google's Gemini models bring computer vision capabilities and enables understanding images and video without fine-tuning. In this guide you will learn how to use latest Gemini models in Roboflow Playground and Workflows for computer vision tasks.

OpenAI Computer Vision

26 May 2026 • 19 min read

OpenAI Computer Vision

OpenAI models can classify images, extract text, detect objects, and answer visual questions without any training data. This guide covers the latest OpenAI models with vision capabilities, how to test them in Roboflow Playground, and how to build vision pipelines using Roboflow.

Computer Vision MCP

18 May 2026 • 11 min read

Computer Vision MCP: How to use Roboflow MCP

Learn how to use the Roboflow MCP server with Claude Code to build a bird species monitoring app, from uploading images and and generating dataset version to training an RF-DETR model and deploying a Workflow, all from your terminal.

Download Pretrained YOLO Weights

18 May 2026 • 8 min read

Download Pretrained YOLO Weights

Pretrained YOLO weights give your model a head start by initializing from COCO, a benchmark dataset of 80 real-world object categories. This guide covers what pretrained weights are, how Roboflow uses them for custom training, and how to get started.

YOLO Platform Autotrain with Roboflow

14 May 2026 • 11 min read

YOLO Platform Autotrain

Learn how to auto-train YOLO models in Roboflow: upload images, use AI-assisted labeling, generate dataset versions, train YOLO26, YOLO11, or RF-DETR, deploy your model, and improve performance over time with active learning and Neural Architecture Search.

automating food prep, PPE, plating, and delivery with Roboflow vision AI

12 May 2026 • 27 min read

Automate Food Service with AI

Two tutorials for automating food quality with computer vision: end-line plating QA with Gemini 3, and a packaging line monitor with RF-DETR and ByteTrack.

Pick and Place Robot Model & Prototyping

5 May 2026 • 29 min read

Pick and Place Robot Model & Prototyping

Learn to quickly prototype a vision-guided pick-and-place robot using synthetic data, Roboflow RF-DETR, and PyBullet, then move it to real hardware.

automated pothole and road defect detection with AI

29 Apr 2026 • 17 min read

Detecting Road Defects with Computer Vision

This tutorial shows how to build an automated road defect detection system using Roboflow with deployment strategies for UAV imagery and dashcam video, each generating structured inspection reports automatically.

Medical Bill OCR

24 Apr 2026 • 11 min read

Medical Bill OCR

In this tutorial, we use Roboflow Workflows and Google Gemini to scan any medical bill image, extract structured data automatically, and build a personal medical expense record over time.

How to Automate Camera Control with Computer Vision

20 Apr 2026 • 11 min read

Automate Camera Control with Computer Vision

Computer vision can be used to build camera systems that automatically track and frame a subject in real time. In this tutorial you will learn how to build a simple vision-guided camera using object detection and servo control.

Inspecting Telecom Towers with Computer Vision

13 Apr 2026 • 12 min read

Inspecting Telecom Towers with Computer Vision

Learn how to use computer vision and drone imagery to detect corrosion, measure its area in pixels, and automatically document the findings.

Automate Surgical Instrument Tracking with Roboflo

6 Apr 2026 • 11 min read

Automate Surgical Instrument Tracking with Computer Vision

See how to build a surgical instrument closing-count assistant with Roboflow.

Best Practices for Training YOLO

1 Apr 2026 • 10 min read

Best Practices for Training YOLO

Maximize your YOLO model's real-world performance with Roboflow. Learn best practices for data quality, annotation, preprocessing and active learning.

Run SAM 3 Weights Locally

26 Mar 2026 • 11 min read

Run SAM 3 Weights Locally

Use SAM 3 model weights through Roboflow Inference to run segmentation on your local device without setup complexity.

How to use DeepSeek vision-language models with Roboflow

20 Mar 2026 • 16 min read

DeepSeek Vision Models

Learn about DeepSeek’s vision-capable models, and how to use DeepSeek-VL2 with Roboflow Supervision to build advanced vision-language applications.

Visual Anomaly Detection

12 Mar 2026 • 19 min read

Visual Anomaly Detection

Learn what anomaly detection is, the main methods used in visual anomaly detection, and how to build supervised, and unsupervised anomaly pipelines in Roboflow Workflows for real-time deployment on the edge.

Deep Learning vs. Traditional Computer Vision

9 Mar 2026 • 13 min read

Deep Learning vs. Traditional Computer Vision

This blog compares traditional computer vision and deep learning, with practical examples using Roboflow Workflows.

How to Build Automated Pallet Accounting at End-of-Line with Roboflow

4 Mar 2026 • 21 min read

How to Build Automated Pallet Accounting at End-of-Line with Roboflow

Automate pallet accounting at end-of-line with Roboflow Workflows and RF-DETR. Track every pallet from conveyor arrival to forklift pickup using zone-based monitoring and real-time event logging.

How to Increase Inference Speed (FPS) for Computer Vision Models

27 Feb 2026 • 14 min read

How to Increase Inference Speed for Computer Vision Models

Struggling with low FPS in your computer vision model? This guide explains how to move from single-digit performance to real-time deployment using smarter preprocessing, Nano-scale models like RF-DETR, GPU acceleration, TensorRT optimization, and Roboflow Inference pipelines for maximum throughput.

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