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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.
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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.
Latest Posts by Trevor Lynn
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Roboflow Collaborates with Intel to Deliver Next Generation Computer Vision Pipeline for Enterprises
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Roboflow joined the Intel Disruptor Initiative to jointly optimize computer vision software pipelines for Intel hardware, aiming to make production computer vision deployable to more locations and use cases. The collaboration produced RF100, an open-source object detection benchmark spanning 100 projects, 7 imagery domains, 224,714 images, and
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Launch: Collaborative Annotation Updates
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Roboflow's Collaborative Annotation platform has reached over 100,000 users and 100 million annotated images, and this launch adds several features that reduce manual overhead for large teams. New capabilities include API endpoints for uploading batches and assigning annotation jobs programmatically, aggregate batch metrics in the Board
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Launch: Roboflow Notebooks Repo Integration with SageMaker Studio Labs
Learn how to use notebooks in the Roboflow Notebooks repository with AWS SageMaker Studio Lab.
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Launch: Roboflow Integration with Ultralytics HUB
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Roboflow and Ultralytics HUB now support a direct integration that connects dataset management with model training and model-assisted labeling. Users can export any Roboflow dataset to Ultralytics HUB for custom YOLOv5 training, then bring the trained model weights back into Roboflow to power Label Assist for annotating under-
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School Bus Detection Using YOLOv5 (Tutorial – Part 2)
Learn how to detect school buses using YOLOv5.
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Launch: Semantic Segmentation for Labeling, Training, Deployment
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Semantic segmentation assigns a class label to every pixel in an image, making it useful for tasks where per-pixel precision matters: road and sidewalk mapping from aerial imagery, crack detection in infrastructure, defect identification in manufacturing, and medical image analysis. Roboflow now supports semantic segmentation end-to-end,
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Launch: Cloning Images from Open Source Datasets
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Roboflow Universe now lets you clone any of its 100+ million open source images directly into your own Roboflow project, with or without their existing annotations. This removes one of the biggest time sinks in computer vision development: sourcing labeled training data from scratch. You can filter by object
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Roboflow Joins AWS Global Startup Program and Becomes AWS ISV Accelerate Partner
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Roboflow has joined the AWS Global Startup Program and become an AWS ISV Accelerate Partner, deepening its integration with the cloud infrastructure that already powers Roboflow's model pipeline. The ISV Accelerate designation puts Roboflow alongside companies like Databricks and Auth0 in a co-sell program for enterprise
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Launch: Use YouTube Videos for Training Data and Inference Testing
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Roboflow now accepts YouTube video URLs directly as an upload source, letting you sample frames from any of YouTube's 800+ million videos to build or expand a computer vision training dataset without downloading files manually. The same feature works in reverse: you can paste a YouTube URL
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Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling
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Roboflow Annotate's Smart Polygon tool uses a machine learning model behind the scenes to generate a polygon label with a single click on an object, reducing what previously required many manual point placements to a near-instant operation. Precise polygon annotations are required for training instance segmentation
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How to Train YOLOv5 Instance Segmentation on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv5 instance segmentation model on a custom dataset.
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Roboflow now available in the AWS Marketplace
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Roboflow is now available through the AWS Marketplace, letting AWS customers purchase the platform under consolidated billing and apply spend toward AWS Enterprise Development Program commitments. Available tiers include Roboflow Growth (25k source images, 100k generated images, 1,000 monthly API calls) and custom enterprise orders with added usage
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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.
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How to Train YOLOv5-Classification on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv5 classification model on a custom dataset.
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Launch: Dataset Search
Learn how to search image datasets using Roboflow.
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What is TensorFlow Lite?
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TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) is an open source library from Google for converting and deploying TensorFlow models on edge devices, including mobile (iOS and Android), embedded hardware, and Raspberry Pi. It converts a standard TensorFlow model to a compact .tflite format optimized for lower latency and smaller memory footprint, enabling
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Launch: Search Datasets and Assign Jobs
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Roboflow Annotate now includes a semantic image search that lets teams find unlabeled images by describing their contents in plain text, without any prior labeling or categorization of those images. The search uses natural language processing and computer vision models to index image contents from pixel data, so queries
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What is TensorFlow?
Learn what TensorFlow is and how it can be used for computer vision.
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Open source datasets and pre-trained models for computer vision
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Roboflow Universe grew from 50 open-source datasets at launch in August 2021 to over 90,000 datasets with 66 million labeled images and more than 7,000 pre-trained models available via API, covering object detection, segmentation, and image recognition across industries. Pre-trained models on Universe can
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What is cuDNN?
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cuDNN (CUDA Deep Neural Network library) is NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated library of low-level primitives, such as convolution and pooling, that frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow call internally to run deep learning workloads on NVIDIA GPUs. It sits on top of CUDA, which handles general-purpose GPU
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Launch: Label Only Role-based Access Control
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Roboflow Annotate now supports role-based access control with a dedicated Labeler role, letting teams scale annotation work outside their organization without exposing project data. Labelers see only the images assigned to them in a Job, while Reviewers approve or reject submitted annotations and return failed batches for edits.
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