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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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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

ViT

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.

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,

exam

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 AI

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

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

19 Jul 2023 • 9 min read

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. What is Pose Estimation? Pose estimation, also called keypoint detection, is a computer vision technique that pinpoints the key body joints of a human in images and videos to understand their pose. While pose estimation can also be applied

How to Use Generative AI to Augment Computer Vision Data

6 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Use Generative AI to Augment Computer Vision Data

Dive deep into Kopikat.co, a tool for generative data augmentation created by OpenCV.ai to improve the quality of datasets.

Vision Pro object detection

6 Jun 2023 • 6 min read

Using Apple Vision Pro and visionOS with Computer Vision

On June 5th, 2023, at WWDC, Apple announced their biggest combination of hardware and software in years. The “one more thing” announcement this year – wherein Apple announces a product toward the end of a keynote – was the Apple Vision Pro, a new spatial computing headset integrated with the Apple ecosystem.

robustness

17 May 2023 • 7 min read

Not All mAPs are Equal and How to Test Model Robustness

Learn how to stress-test the robustness of computer vision models.

Launch: Label Data with Segment Anything in Roboflow

13 Apr 2023 • 4 min read

Launch: Label Data with Segment Anything in Roboflow

Learn how to label data with Segment Anything Model (SAM) in Roboflow.

Synthetic Data Generation with NVIDIA and Roboflow

31 Mar 2023 • 4 min read

Synthetic Data Generation with NVIDIA and Roboflow

Learn how to build computer vision models that leverage synthetic data using NVIDIA Omniverse and Roboflow.

aws

28 Mar 2023 • 1 min read

Roboflow Becomes AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner

Roboflow has achieved the AWS Applied AI Machine Learning Competency. Learn more about the competency and how we are partnering with AWS in this blog post.

community

27 Mar 2023 • 4 min read

Roboflow Community Passes 200k Open Source Datasets

Roboflow’s mission is to democratize access to computer vision. We aim to actively help accelerate the world toward a future where everyone can build with computer vision. As a part of this mission, we invest in providing resources to the community in the form of free access to the

cvpr

27 Mar 2023 • 2 min read

Microsoft Research and Roboflow Partner for CVPR 2023 Workshop and Challenge

Roboflow will be partnering with Microsoft to run a challenge oriented around the Roboflow 100 benchmark and a workshop at CVPR.

intel

9 Jan 2023 • 3 min read

Roboflow Collaborates with Intel to Deliver Next Generation Computer Vision Pipeline for Enterprises

Roboflow joined the Intel Disruptor Initiative to push the limits of innovation in real-world computer vision applications. Roboflow and Intel are working together to democratize access to computer vision by optimizing computer vision software pipelines to operate at the highest level of performance with Intel hardware. Collaborative Engineering and Technology

Launch: Collaborative Annotation Updates

16 Dec 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Collaborative Annotation Updates

Roboflow’s Collaborative Annotation and Label Only User features have helped over 100,000 users annotate more than 100 million images and today we are excited to share new updates that will help teams speed up their annotation and data management efforts even more. The Collaborative Annotation workflow makes managing

sagemaker

15 Dec 2022 • 2 min read

Launch: Roboflow Notebooks Repo Integration with SageMaker Studio Labs

Learn how to use notebooks in the Roboflow Notebooks repository with AWS SageMaker Studio Lab.

Launch: Roboflow Integration with Ultralytics HUB

12 Dec 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Roboflow Integration with Ultralytics HUB

Ultralytics, the creators of YOLOv5, and Roboflow now support an integration making it easier to import YOLOv5 models from HUB to Roboflow, export datasets to Ultralytics HUB from Roboflow, and use custom trained model weights for model-assisted data labeling in Roboflow. This integration builds on the established relationship of Roboflow

bus

27 Oct 2022 • 7 min read

School Bus Detection Using YOLOv5 (Tutorial – Part 2)

Learn how to detect school buses using YOLOv5.

Launch: Semantic Segmentation for Labeling, Training, Deployment

26 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Semantic Segmentation for Labeling, Training, Deployment

Roboflow now supports semantic segmentation projects end-to-end allowing you to use Roboflow Annotate to label data, Roboflow Train to build models, and Roboflow Deploy for inference. This release, alongside support of instance segmentation, offers users an additional image segmentation project type to build computer vision pipelines with Roboflow. What is

Launch: Cloning Images from Open Source Datasets

14 Oct 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Cloning Images from Open Source Datasets

Since its launch in August 2021, Roboflow Universe has become the largest collection of open source datasets and pre-trained computer vision models. Our goal is to democratize access to computer vision and when it comes to building vision applications, gathering data for training vision models is extremely time consuming. Starting

aws

14 Oct 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Joins AWS Global Startup Program and Becomes AWS ISV Accelerate Partner

Roboflow is on a mission to democratize computer vision and Amazon Web Services (AWS) powers Roboflow’s model pipeline, which allows us to put computer vision into the hands of all developers. Roboflow is available in the AWS Marketplace and committed to serving enterprise customers alongside AWS to deliver best-in-class

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