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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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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.

AI For Office Supply Retailers

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 • 6 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

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

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

Launch: Roboflow Video Inference API

21 Nov 2023 • 7 min read

Launch: Roboflow Video Inference API

In this post, we introduce the Roboflow Video Inference API, a hosted solution for running fine-tuned and foundation models on videos.

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

Scaling up ViT Image Classification on Gaudi2 HPUs

14 Sep 2023 • 9 min read

Scaling up ViT Image Classification on Gaudi2 HPUs

Training large image transformers comes with heavy compute requirements - enter the Gaudi2 from Habana Labs, an Intel company.

Using Computer Vision to Clean Up San Francisco Streets

14 Sep 2023 • 5 min read

Using Computer Vision to Clean Up San Francisco Streets

“Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.” - Mark Twain Introduction 4.5 trillion cigarettes are at risk of entering our waterways and polluting up to 50 trillion liters of water, according to the WHO. Every year,

Using Computer Vision for Online Exam Proctoring

23 Aug 2023 • 7 min read

Using Computer Vision for Online Exam Proctoring

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. Introduction Digital transformation is a common practice in various fields, including education. There has been a significant shift towards online learning and tests, offering advantages like increased access and flexibility for learners worldwide. However, this shift has also raised

Floor Plan Analysis with Computer Vision

16 Aug 2023 • 7 min read

Floor Plan Analysis with Computer Vision

Learn how to analyze floor plans with computer vision.

How to Use Computer Vision for Environment Monitoring

28 Jul 2023 • 10 min read

How to Use Computer Vision for Environment Monitoring

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. Measuring changes to our environment is an important part of understanding progress made toward a more sustainable world. Historically, measuring the world around us required time-intensive human monitoring and measurement by a small number of expert scientists. Thanks to

Build a Chess Game Recorder with Computer Vision

24 Jul 2023 • 6 min read

Build a Chess Game Recorder with Computer Vision

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by the team at A1H1. Introduction The project of making an automated chess game recorder started after finding out that a chess set with sensors costs ~$500 USD! This price tag is not very accessible for everyday chess players or local chess

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