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1 May 2026 • 8 min read

Using Computer Vision to Help Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities

How an object detection model reads the American Sign Language alphabet from a webcam, reaching 85% mAP on a small dataset built and augmented fast.

1 May 2026 • 20 min read

Glossary of Common Computer Vision Terms

Computer vision (and machine learning in general) is one of those fields that can seem hard to approach because there are so many industry-specific words (or common words used in novel ways) that it can feel a bit like you're trying to learn a new language when you're trying to get started.

30 Apr 2026 • 5 min read

What Is A Programmable Logic Controller?

Discover what a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is, how it works, and how to integrate computer vision models as smart sensors on the line.

29 Apr 2026 • 17 min read

Detecting Road Defects with Computer Vision

This tutorial shows how to build an automated road defect detection system using Roboflow with deployment strategies for UAV imagery and dashcam video, each generating structured inspection reports automatically.

28 Apr 2026 • 7 min read

Top Open-Source Object Tracking Tools

Compare the top open source object tracking tools: ByteTrack, BoT-SORT, OC-SORT, DeepSORT, and more, with how to choose and no-code options.

27 Apr 2026 • 5 min read

Neural Architecture Search: Train the best vision model for your data

Balancing inference speed and accuracy just got easier. Learn how Neural Architecture Search evaluates thousands of configurations simultaneously to deliver the highest-performing model for your target hardware.

27 Apr 2026 • 8 min read

How to Create Advanced Workflows in Roboflow

Learn how to create advanced workflows in Roboflow. Build a multi-branch security pipeline using Image Slicing, ByteTracker, and Florence-2.

27 Apr 2026 • 8 min read

AI Crop Analysis with Roboflow

Learn how to combine RF-DETR and Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Roboflow Workflows to detect plant diseases.

24 Apr 2026 • 7 min read

Real-Time Football Analytics: Building a Player Tracker with RF-DETR and ByteTrack

Learn how to build a real-time American football player tracking pipeline with Roboflow.

24 Apr 2026 • 11 min read

Medical Bill OCR

In this tutorial, we use Roboflow Workflows and Google Gemini to scan any medical bill image, extract structured data automatically, and build a personal medical expense record over time.

23 Apr 2026 • 8 min read

Computer Vision Model Training Platforms with GPU Support

Compare computer vision training platforms based on GPU access, model flexibility, and deployment needs.

22 Apr 2026 • 6 min read

What Is ERP in Manufacturing?

Learn what ERP means in manufacturing: the five core modules, and how Vision AI feeds real-time floor data in.

21 Apr 2026 • 2 min read

Generating Renaissance Art with Computer Vision

How two high schoolers built GAN art in 24 hours: a DCGAN trained on 300 Renaissance paintings, augmented in Roboflow to win their hackathon.

20 Apr 2026 • 3 min read

Vision Events: Turning Images into Insights

Transform raw model predictions into trackable insights. Vision Events provides a secure, searchable record of your model deployments alongside images and custom metadata.

20 Apr 2026 • 11 min read

Automate Camera Control with Computer Vision

Computer vision can be used to build camera systems that automatically track and frame a subject in real time. In this tutorial you will learn how to build a simple vision-guided camera using object detection and servo control.

20 Apr 2026 • 9 min read

Trading Card Inventory Management with AI

Learn how to build an automated TCG inventory pipeline using RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Flash to extract card details and market values.

16 Apr 2026 • 5 min read

Serverless GPU Inference Cost Comparison: Roboflow, GCP, AWS, Azure

SUMMARY Serving a custom RF-DETR XL model on serverless GPU infrastructure produces dramatically different monthly costs depending on the provider and traffic pattern, so this post benchmarks Roboflow Serverless, GCP Cloud Run, AWS SageMaker, and Azure Serverless GPU across three workloads: continuous inference at one request per 10 seconds,

15 Apr 2026 • 5 min read

What Is Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)?

Discover how SCADA centralizes observability and control for industrial automation. Learn about PLCs, telemetry pipelines, and using vision as a sensor.

15 Apr 2026 • 6 min read

Vision Language Models in Manufacturing

Learn how Vision-Language Models (VLMs) transform the factory floor.

15 Apr 2026 • 5 min read

How to Use Roboflow to Create Conditional Annotators

Learn how to use Roboflow Workflows and the Supervision library to build danger zone monitors.

14 Apr 2026 • 7 min read

How to Build Computer Vision Models with Apple CreateML

Train a no-code object detection model in Apple CreateML: label data in Roboflow, export CreateML JSON, train on your Mac, and deploy to iOS.

14 Apr 2026 • 14 min read

Real-Time Object Tracking with OC-SORT & Roboflow Workflows

Solve tracking failures caused by occlusion and erratic motion. Learn how to build a robust video tracking pipeline using OC-SORT and Roboflow Workflows.

14 Apr 2026 • 6 min read

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models for Robotics

Discover how Vision-Language-Action models combine visual reasoning with motor control to build robots that generalize.

14 Apr 2026 • 8 min read

CapEx vs OpEx: How to Structure a Computer Vision Investment

Learn when to buy your own GPU infrastructure and when to pay for cloud inference instead.