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21 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

Error Proofing AI in Manufacturing

SUMMARY Manufacturing defects left undetected can consume up to 20% of company revenue, and computer vision offers a more accurate and scalable alternative to manual inspection for catching them. Object detection and instance segmentation models can flag scratches, misalignments, and assembly errors in real time as products move along a

19 Aug 2024 • 13 min read

How to Map User Inputs in Video Games with Computer Vision

SUMMARY This tutorial uses computer vision to track player inputs in the mobile game Brawl Stars by detecting the positions of on-screen joystick and attack buttons frame by frame. A Roboflow object detection model is trained on 8 in-game button classes, a Workflow handles inference, and the Roboflow

15 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

Measure Fish Size using Computer Vision

Learn how to use computer vision to measure the size of fish.

14 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

How to Create a Workout Pose Correction Tool

SUMMARY This tutorial builds a real-time workout form checker using a custom Roboflow keypoint detection model trained to locate the left and right sides of a weight, combined with MediaPipe body tracking and deployed through Roboflow Workflows. The pipeline processes each video frame, extracts keypoints from both sources, and

14 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

How to Build a Reading Assistant with AI

SUMMARY This tutorial builds an interactive reading assistant that detects a finger pointing at a word on a page using an object detection model, reads the word using OCR, and then calls GPT-4 to pronounce it aloud, all wired together inside a Roboflow Workflow and run as a live

12 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

How to Deploy Hugging Face Models with Roboflow

SUMMARY Computer vision model weights hosted on Hugging Face, including YOLOv8 variants for detection, segmentation, classification, and keypoint tasks, can be downloaded with Git-LFS and uploaded directly to Roboflow for edge or private-cloud deployment via Roboflow Inference. This guide walks through each step, from cloning model weights to

8 Aug 2024 • 5 min read

Automatic Stop Sign Violation Detection

SUMMARY This community-contributed project determines whether a vehicle correctly stops at a stop sign by chaining RF-DETR vehicle detection, a fine-tuned front-wheel detection model, and Roboflow PolygonZone geometry checks across a stop zone and an out zone. Vehicles that fail to stop before the white line

8 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

What is Optical Character Verification? A Comprehensive Guide

SUMMARY Optical Character Verification (OCV) reads printed text on product packaging using OCR and then compares the result against known reference data to catch errors in expiration dates, batch numbers, barcodes, and lot codes before products leave the line. In consumer packaged goods manufacturing, OCV automates a check that would

8 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

Camera Calibration in Sports with Keypoints

SUMMARY Accurate player tracking in sports footage requires mapping pixel coordinates from a moving camera to real-world field positions, and this tutorial covers how to do that by training a YOLOv8 keypoint detection model to recognize characteristic landmarks on a soccer pitch, then using those detections to compute a

7 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

How to Extract Text From Images

SUMMARY Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts static image content in JPG, PNG, or PDF formats into machine-readable text, enabling automation of data entry, accessibility improvements, translation workflows, and document analysis. Roboflow's OCR API is one practical tool for this, offering a programmatic way to extract text at

7 Aug 2024 • 7 min read

How to Build a Computer Vision Active Learning Workflow

Learn how to build an active learning pipeline for computer vision projects with Roboflow Workflows.

6 Aug 2024 • 7 min read

Ball Tracking in Sports with Computer Vision

Ball tracking is crucial for AI systems to analyze sports effectively, but it's challenging due to factors like the ball's small size, high velocity, complex backgrounds, similar-looking objects, and varying lighting. This tutorial will teach you how to overcome these challenges.

2 Aug 2024 • 3 min read

How to Import Hugging Face Datasets to Roboflow

Learn how to import a Hugging Face dataset into Roboflow for labeling, training, and deployment.

2 Aug 2024 • 5 min read

Inspecting Solar Panels with Thermal Drones

Learn how to use computer vision to identify hot spots on solar panels.

1 Aug 2024 • 7 min read

How to Use SAM 2 for Video Segmentation

SUMMARY Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) is a unified image and video segmentation model from Meta that achieves 3 times fewer required interactions than prior approaches and runs 6 times faster than the original SAM. This walkthrough covers how to load and configure SAM 2 (available in four sizes

31 Jul 2024 • 7 min read

How to Label Data with Grounded SAM 2

Learn how to use Grounded SAM 2 with Autodistill to auto-label data for image segmentation models.

30 Jul 2024 • 10 min read

Automating Water Meter Reading using Computer Vision

Learn how to read the digits on a water meter using computer vision.

30 Jul 2024 • 8 min read

What is Segment Anything 2 (SAM 2)?

Learn about Meta AI's new Segment Anything 2 model and how you can use it for image and grounded image segmentation.

25 Jul 2024 • 6 min read

Monitor and Increase Assembly Line Throughput with Computer Vision

Learn how to monitor assembly line throughput with computer vision.

25 Jul 2024 • 4 min read

Identify Solar Panel Locations with Computer Vision

Learn how to identify solar panel locations with computer vision.

25 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to Build a CPG Inventory Cataloging System

Learn how to build a Consumer Packaged Goods inventory management system with computer vision.

25 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to Build an Automated License Plate Reading Application

Learn how to build an automated license plate reading application with computer vision.

22 Jul 2024 • 4 min read

How to use MobileNetV4 for Classification

Learn how to use the MobileNetV4 architecture to classify images using pre-trained model weights.

22 Jul 2024 • 7 min read

How to OCR Hand-Written Notes with GPT-4

Learn how to OCR hand-written notes with GPT-4.