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7 Feb 2022 • 7 min read

How to Train Computer Vision Models on Aerial Imagery

Aerial imagery are images taken from aircrafts like drones, planes, and helicopters. With these images we can train a model to detect objects like fires, buildings, solar panels, rooftops, maritime search and rescue, and more. A good use case example is when maritime search and rescue (SAR) teams search for

4 Feb 2022 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: January 2022

It might be cold outside, but Roboflow is bringing the heat to kick off 2022! Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. If you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it here. Roboflow Organize * Major update to the Annotations

2 Feb 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Collaborative Annotations

Roboflow Annotate [https://roboflow.com/annotate] has become an essential tool used by tens of thousands of developers to label images of everything from planes [https://universe.roboflow.com/skybot-cam/overhead-plane-detector] to petri dishes [https://universe.roboflow.com/michael-shamash-f942a/onepetri]. Since its launch just over a year ago [https://blog.

18 Jan 2022 • 2 min read

Introducing the Roboflow Universe Dataset Research Internship

We are seeking an intern who would be interested in first-authoring the paper that introduces the Roboflow Universe Datasets.

6 Jan 2022 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: December 2021

Even though the year was coming to a close and holidays gave us the chance to spend time with family and friends, we kept our focus right up to the end in order to make Roboflow even better. Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates to

27 Dec 2021 • 5 min read

SageMaker Studio Lab vs Google Colab

Recently, AWS released SageMaker Studio Lab, its competitor service to Google Colab. I dove into comparing Google Colab to Studio Lab and here is what I found.

22 Dec 2021 • 1 min read

Introducing the Roboflow Inference Widget

Now, you can easily test any model that has been trained with Roboflow Train by dragging an image file onto your dataset version page.

9 Dec 2021 • 5 min read

Florence: A New Foundation for Computer Vision

Microsoft Research recently released the foundational Florence model, setting the state of the art across a wide array of computer vision tasks.

7 Dec 2021 • 7 min read

Remote, Not Distant

As Roboflow has grown, we have put a great deal of effort into creating an unparalleled remote-first workplace. To achieve our goal of empowering every developer to use computer vision, we need to assemble a world class team and put them in an environment where they can thrive. We'

7 Dec 2021 • 7 min read

Who cares about Nemo, let's find some Sexy Shrimp!

Creating a computer vision model with Roboflow to detect sexy shrimp.

3 Dec 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Play Dreidel

As a brand new employee at Roboflow, I was asked to do a computer vision project. So I thought, why not combine a holiday I love so much, Chanukah, with something brand new in my life, Roboflow.

1 Dec 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: November 2021

It's been a whirlwind of a month at Roboflow with lots of changes, updates, and expansion going on behind the scenes. Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. If you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it

28 Oct 2021 • 4 min read

ReefOS: Supercharging Coral Reef Restoration with AI

Corals lay the foundation for reefs that are home to nearly 25% of all marine life, but today they are vanishing at an alarming speed. Reefs around the world are degrading and without a concerted intervention, the Earth’s coral reefs as we know them could disappear before the next

28 Oct 2021 • 4 min read

What is YOLOS? What's New in the Model?

YOLOS - You Only Look At One Sequence is the newest, and potentially most impactful, iteration on the YOLO family of object detection models.

24 Oct 2021 • 4 min read

The Future of Football: AI-Assisted Coaches

Scott Bronkema is a former college football player turned software developer. As Scott started tinkering with computer vision, he discovered he can build every football coach's dream application: the automated playbook. Bronkema's product automatically identifies offensive and defensive player positions and formations and then tracks players&

20 Oct 2021 • 6 min read

Let's Talk About Company Culture

Company culture is a feeling in the air, the social norms of a group, the manifestation of collective goals and beliefs, and the one intangible thing that can make or break a growth stage company. For some, culture becomes a priority too late in the business. It starts to become

13 Oct 2021 • 3 min read

YOLOv5 v6.0 is here - new Nano model at 1666 FPS

With the v6.0 release, YOLOv5 further solidifies its position as the leading object detection model and repository.

8 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

New Feature: Isolate Objects

You can now export the bounding boxes from your object detection dataset as cropped images usable with classification models. This update will enable easily prototyping two-pass models for use-cases like OCR and object tracking [https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-object-tracking/]. Isolate Objects is now available as a preprocessing step.To try

7 Oct 2021 • 7 min read

Engineer's Guide to Figma

Your designer sent over a url that begins with figma.com and asks you to take a look at their latest work. What is Figma, you wonder as you click through a series of screens, and how can I learn more about it? Wonder no more — you’ve come to

5 Oct 2021 • 2 min read

How to Safely Install OpenCV on the Mac M1

Installing OpenCV on the M1 safely is difficult because the M1 operates on an arm64 architecture and most of your python libraries are compiled for amd64. Open this guide to avoid your otherwise inevitable demise.

3 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: October 2021

Our emphasis this month was on "code tentacles," or improving the ways that Roboflow integrates with your codebase. Below is a recap of what we launched and improved. Rewind to last month's (September 2021) changelog for a recap of earlier releases. Roboflow Organize * Released our REST

30 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

Roboflow and Ultralytics Partner to Streamline YOLOv5 MLOps

We're proud to share that Roboflow has entered into a partnership agreement with Ultralytics, the creators of YOLOv5, and that Roboflow is now the official dataset management and annotation tool for YOLOv5 with a focus on enabling active learning. Over the past year, YOLOv5 has gained broad adoption

30 Sep 2021 • 4 min read

Making a Handheld Card Counter on the OAK-D-Lite

The portability of the OAK-D-Lite gives us the power to bring computer vision powered solutions anywhere on earth - including your local casino!

27 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Deploying Computer Vision Models as Mircroservices

Roboflow's philosophy around MLOps revolves around treating your computer vision model as a microservice. The reasons for this are myriad; in this post we highlight the benefits of this approach and how it works in practice. Why Microservices? Separation of Concerns The primary motivation behind deploying your model