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Trevor Lynn

Trevor leads Marketing at Roboflow. He focuses on sharing insights from Roboflow customers to inspire the broader AI community and help advance visual AI.

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Launch: Verified Model Metrics

1 Aug 2025 • 4 min read

Launch: Verified Model Metrics

Selecting the right computer vision model for production starts with accurately measuring and comparing model performance. Evaluation metrics quantify a model’s capabilities, helping teams make informed decisions and choose models suited for real-world use. Among the many metrics available, Mean Average Precision (mAP) is a leading metric because it

Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution

20 Mar 2025 • 9 min read

What Is Industry 4.0? Smart Factories and The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Imagine a factory floor where machines think, see, and communicate. What you’re picturing is Industry 4.0 - and it’s arrived.

Computer vision applications

11 Mar 2025 • 11 min read

Computer Vision Applications

Computer vision applications are reshaping industries across the globe, enhancing efficiency, safety, and quality in ways that were previously unimaginable.

Computer vision platform

4 Mar 2025 • 11 min read

What Is A Computer Vision Platform?

Computer vision platforms play a crucial role in simplifying this process by offering tools and services that streamline the development pipeline.

Multimodal Benchmark Datasets

4 Mar 2025 • 4 min read

Multimodal Benchmark Datasets

When new multimodal models come out, they need to be tested on reliable benchmarks to see how well they perform across different tasks. Today we'll share some of the best multimodal benchmark datasets you can use to evaluate new models.

What Is edge AI and how does it work?

27 Feb 2025 • 5 min read

What Is Edge AI And How Does It Work?

By running models "at the edge," companies can benefit from high performance, fast decision making, reduced cloud costs, and enhanced security.

popular AI Models

21 Feb 2025 • 12 min read

Different Types of AI Models and How to Use Them

Discover an overview of AI models, highlighting how they are trained, deployed, and used across different domains. Understanding the core concepts and how to use these models is essential for leveraging AI's full potential.

Artificial intelligence and computer vision in farming and agriculture

17 Feb 2025 • 5 min read

AI in Farming: 5 Ways Computer Vision Is Transforming Agriculture

Every year, pests destroy about 40% of global agricultural productivity, costing the industry over $70 billion. But thanks to advancements in computer vision, farmers can now identify and eliminate these destructive pests with precision, boosting crop yields and protecting profits

Computer Vision Software

13 Feb 2025 • 5 min read

Computer Vision Software

Computer vision is the ability for a computer to see and understand the physical world. With computer vision, computers can learn to identify, recognize, and pinpoint the position of objects — driving real change in the real world.

Computer Vision Examples and Real-World Uses

13 Feb 2025 • 15 min read

50 Computer Vision Examples and Real-World Applications

In this guide, we break down 50 practical use cases where businesses are deploying computer vision today.

Office Supply Retailers AI

12 Feb 2025 • 4 min read

AI For Office Supply Retailers

Discover the ways AI can save time and drive revenue for office supply retailers.

Workplace Safety AI to detect hazards

11 Feb 2025 • 4 min read

Workplace Safety AI: Detect Hazards

By proactively identifying hazards, monitoring equipment health, and ensuring compliance with safety protocols, computer vision helps facilities reduce risks, prevent costly incidents, and optimize overall operational efficiency.

Best Free Research Datasets

11 Feb 2025 • 7 min read

Top Free Research Datasets

Successful research and data science projects begin with quality datasets. Here is a collection of the top free and open research datasets.

popular computer vision tools for developers and enterprises

5 Feb 2025 • 8 min read

Best Computer Vision Tools

Explore a variety of the best computer vision tools that meet a mix of needs within the space.

introduction to computer vision

29 Jan 2025 • 8 min read

What is Computer Vision? Comprehensive Guide [2025]

Learn about computer vision and how you can use it to solve problems.

computer vision for automotive manufacturing

6 Jan 2025 • 3 min read

Computer Vision for Automotive Manufacturing

Automotive manufacturing is a unique, competitive, and complex segment within the manufacturing industry which requires continually improving processes using the latest technology to gain market share. The industry is going through rapid changes and automotive manufacturers are undergoing modernization efforts to increase overall equipment effectiveness, reduce cost of quality, and

PaliGemma: An Open Multimodal Model by Google

15 May 2024 • 10 min read

PaliGemma: An Open Multimodal Model by Google

PaliGemma is a vision language model (VLM) developed and released by Google that has multimodal capabilities. Learn how to use it.

GPT-4o: The Comprehensive Guide and Explanation

14 May 2024 • 10 min read

GPT-4o: The Comprehensive Guide and Explanation

Learn what GPT-4o is, how it differs from previous models, evaluate its performance, and use cases for GPT-4o.

Using Computer Vision to Create AR Experiences

10 Apr 2024 • 3 min read

Using Computer Vision to Create AR Experiences

This blog post is contributed by Hart Woolery, Founder and CEO, 2020CV. Introduction I’ve always been fascinated by special effects in movies and video games. My career took an interesting turn in 2017 when I began experimenting with OpenCV to potentially land a job in the field of Computer

river

29 Jan 2024 • 9 min read

Blue Eco Line Reduces River Pollution with Roboflow and Intel Sapphire Rapids

Introduction Over 150 million tons of plastic lie in the planet's oceans, with studies finding that only 20% of plastic waste at sea is linked to maritime activities. The remaining 80% of waste reaches the sea through rivers. Blue Eco Line works with local government organizations to monitor

NeurIPS 2023 Papers Highlights

21 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

NeurIPS 2023 Papers Highlights

NeurIPS 2023, the conference and workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems, took place December 10th through 16th. The conference showcased the latest in machine learning and artificial intelligence. This year’s conference featured 3,584 papers that advance machine learning across many domains. NeurIPS announced the NeurIPS 2023 award-winning papers

Distilling GPT-4 for Classification with an API

7 Nov 2023 • 4 min read

Distilling GPT-4 for Classification with an API

In this guide, learn how to distill GPT-4V to train an image classification model.

Improving Vision Model Performance Using Roboflow & Tenyks

15 Sep 2023 • 11 min read

Improving Vision Model Performance Using Roboflow & Tenyks

This is a guest post with Jose Gabriel Islas Montero (ML Engineer and Evangelist at Tenyks), and Dmitry Kazhdan (CTO & Co-Founder at Tenyks) Introduction When improving an object detection model, many engineers focus solely on tweaking the model architecture and hyperparameters. However, the root cause of mediocre performance often

Roboflow Computer Vision Models on Intel® 4th Generation Xeon Processors

14 Sep 2023 • 7 min read

Roboflow Computer Vision Models on Intel® 4th Generation Xeon Processors

With the rise of large language models (LLM’s), people often forget about the vast, important world of computer vision. This world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by advancements in hardware and AI models, just as with LLM’s. In this three-part blog post, through the Intel Disruptor

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