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11 Jul 2024 • 11 min read

How to Train RT-DETR on a Custom Dataset with Transformers

💡Looking for RF-DETR, the state-of-the-art real-time object detection model developed by Roboflow ? Check out the RF-DETR training guide. RF-DETR runs in real time, is the first model to achieve 60+ on COCO, and is state-of-the-art on the RF100-VL benchmark. RT-DETR, short for "Real-Time DEtection TRansformer", is a computer

10 Jul 2024 • 12 min read

Build Computer Vision Applications with Roboflow and Gradio

Learn how to build computer vision applications with Roboflow and Gradio.

10 Jul 2024 • 16 min read

What is Thresholding in Image Processing? A Guide.

Learn what image thresholding is and the thresholding strategies you can use in computer vision applications.

10 Jul 2024 • 6 min read

The Guide to AI OCR [2025]

Learn what AI OCR is and how it is used in computer vision.

10 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use Florence-2 for Optical Character Recognition

Learn how to use the Florence-2 model for Optical Character Recognition tasks.

10 Jul 2024 • 4 min read

What is Dense Image Captioning?

Learn what dense image captioning is and how to use the MIT-licensed Florence-2 model to generate dense image captions.

10 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

What is FPS? A Computer Vision Guide.

Learn what FPS is and what FPS considerations you should keep in mind when working on computer vision projects.

9 Jul 2024 • 7 min read

What is 4M? Apple's Massively Multimodal Masked Modeling

4M: Massively Multimodal Masked Modeling, released by Apple in 2024, is a leap forward in the field of multimodal machine learning. This model, building upon the growing capabilities of large language models, addresses critical challenges in vision models which have traditionally been highly specialized and limited to a single modality

9 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to use Florence-2 for Instance Segmentation

Florence-2 is a lightweight model licensed under the MIT license. Although it has significantly fewer parameters than competing models like LLaVA 1.5, Florence-2 remains state-of-the-art due to the high-quality data it was trained on. Florence-2 is capable of a variety of tasks, including visual question answering, captioning, image detection,

5 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use GPT-4 To Extract Handwritten Text from Images

This guide walks you through the process of building, training, and deploying a custom computer vision workflow using OpenAI and Roboflow. The process is broken down into three steps: * Building the model * Connecting the model to a Workflow * Writing code to get the outputs 0:00 /0:07 1× Through

28 Jun 2024 • 4 min read

Computer Vision Solutions for Steel Manufacturing with Roboflow

Learn how computer vision can be used in steel manufacturing facilities.

28 Jun 2024 • 19 min read

How to Monitor Productivity with Eye Tracking

Focusing is hard. In recent years, the amount of distractions available to us has been increasing, and we often lose track of how much we are distracted. To help myself stay engaged, I created a project that accurately tracks how many times I'm distracted in a certain period

28 Jun 2024 • 2 min read

Launch: Roboflow Project Folders

Learn how to use Roboflow's Project Folders to organize projects in your account workspaces.

27 Jun 2024 • 4 min read

How to Set Up a Basler Camera on a Jetson

Learn how to set up a Basler camera on an NVIDIA Jetson for use in running computer vision models.

27 Jun 2024 • 8 min read

What is F1 Score? A Computer Vision Guide.

Learn what F1 score is, for what it is used, and how to calculate F1 score.

25 Jun 2024 • 12 min read

How to Fine-tune Florence-2 for Object Detection Tasks

This tutorial will show you how to fine-tune Florence-2 on object detection datasets to improve model performance for your specific use case.

25 Jun 2024 • 7 min read

What is Non-Max Merging?

Learn what Non-Max Merging (NMM) is and how to use NMM with comptuer vision mmodel predictions.

21 Jun 2024 • 6 min read

Building a Vehicle Analytics Application with PaliGemma

Read how Nick created a vehicle analytics application using the PaliGemma multimodal model.

20 Jun 2024 • 5 min read

Florence-2: Vision-language Model

Florence-2 is a lightweight vision-language model open-sourced by Microsoft under the MIT license.

14 Jun 2024 • 11 min read

How to Detect Small Objects: A Guide

Learn how to detect small objects using SAHI with the Inference Slicer Python method, and using various pre-processing steps.

14 Jun 2024 • 5 min read

Launch: Deploy YOLOv10 Models with Roboflow

Learn how to deploy a YOLOv10 model on Roboflow.

14 Jun 2024 • 8 min read

How To Train and Deploy an ANPR System

Learn how to train and deploy a license plate detection model for use in building an ANPR system.

14 Jun 2024 • 18 min read

Edge Detection in Image Processing: An Introduction

Learn what edge detection is and how to apply common edge detection algorithms to ab image.

14 Jun 2024 • 7 min read

What is YOLOv10? An Architecture Deep Dive.

Learn about the main architectural components of YOLOv10 that contribute to the model's state-of-the-art speed and accuracy.