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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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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

Launch: Use YouTube Videos for Training Data and Inference Testing

13 Oct 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Use YouTube Videos for Training Data and Inference Testing

When building a computer vision application from scratch, two of the most time consuming parts of the process are finding data to train the model and quickly testing the performance of the model. As of today, Roboflow is making that easier for all users by supporting YouTube video links for

Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling

28 Sep 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling

Roboflow Annotate now offers automated polygon labeling for all users. With as few as one click, you can apply a polygon annotation to objects in your datasets. Polygon annotations are critical to prepare datasets for training instance segmentation or semantic segmentation models and can often improve model accuracy when used

How to Train YOLOv5 Instance Segmentation on a Custom Dataset

21 Sep 2022 • 9 min read

How to Train YOLOv5 Instance Segmentation on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv5 instance segmentation model on a custom dataset.

Roboflow now available in the AWS Marketplace

7 Sep 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow now available in the AWS Marketplace

Roboflow’s end-to-end computer vision platform is transforming the way businesses use computer vision and now you can get Roboflow through the AWS Marketplace, making it easier to purchase for AWS customers. With 100,000+ developers and over half the fortune 100 using Roboflow, many of our users rely on

WTF COCO - The Weird Images that Underpin Modern Computer Vision Models

30 Aug 2022 • 7 min read

WTF COCO - The Weird Images that Underpin Modern Computer Vision Models

COCO is an industry standard dataset for benchmarking the performance of object detection models. The dataset was created by "gathering images of complex everyday scenes containing common objects in their natural context" and contains image annotations in 91 categories, with over 1.5 million object instances. People have

How to Train YOLOv5-Classification on a Custom Dataset

19 Aug 2022 • 8 min read

How to Train YOLOv5-Classification on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv5 classification model on a custom dataset.

Launch: Dataset Search

17 Aug 2022 • 6 min read

Launch: Dataset Search

Learn how to search image datasets using Roboflow.

What is TensorFlow Lite?

13 Jul 2022 • 1 min read

What is TensorFlow Lite?

TensorFlow Lite, often referred to as TFLite, is an open source library developed by Google for deploying machine learning models to edge devices. Examples of edge deployments would be mobile (iOS/Android), embedded, and on-device. You can use TFLite for natural language processing, computer vision, or any machine learning model

Launch: Search Datasets and Assign Jobs

11 Jul 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Search Datasets and Assign Jobs

Roboflow Annotate has been used to label over 66 million images and as teams collaborate to manage large datasets, it’s important to find the right data for labeling and improving your model. Teams using active learning to bring real world data back into their training pipeline need a way

tensorflow

29 Jun 2022 • 1 min read

What is TensorFlow?

Learn what TensorFlow is and how it can be used for computer vision.

open

28 Jun 2022 • 4 min read

Open source datasets and pre-trained models for computer vision

90,000 Datasets and 7,000 Pre-trained Models Available Roboflow Universe launched in August 2021 with 50 open source datasets and opened our computer vision infrastructure products for free with a Public plan. Universe now has 90,000+ datasets with 66+ million images available for building computer vision models and

What is cuDNN?

24 Jun 2022 • 1 min read

What is cuDNN?

NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network (cuDNN) is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks. cuDNN is built on top of the CUDA framework which is how you use NVIDIA GPUs for general purpose computing tasks. High performance GPU acceleration is helpful for machine learning tasks because it it

Launch: Label Only Role-based Access Control

22 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Label Only Role-based Access Control

Roboflow Annotate has been used to label over 66 million images and teams have been able to label more images with our recent release of collaborative workflows for managing labeling in real-time across distributed teams. Market researchers believe that by 2028, $8 billion USD per year will be spent labeling

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