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5 May 2022 • 3 min read

Cinco de Mayo, Beer and Taco Dataset with Multi-Label Classification

Happy Cinco de Mayo! In honor of the holiday, we created and trained a multi-label classification dataset to detect some favorite edibles used to celebrate the holiday here in the United States. Because we know it’s not just about tacos and beer, we also want to briefly share a

3 May 2022 • 3 min read

Machine vision applications with wearable devices

Using machine vision in industry XR Tech is a UK based solutions provider for extended reality (XR) technologies, digital transformation, and automation in industry. XR Tech uses devices such as RealWear, Hololens, Oculus, and others to assist and augment situational awareness, machine vision and industrial operational activities. XR Tech equips

20 Apr 2022 • 1 min read

Art Recognition with a Computer Vision Model

Learn how to use computer vision to classify art styles.

13 Apr 2022 • 6 min read

How to Train Detectron2 for Custom Instance Segmentation

A walk through on how to train Detectron2 to segment your custom objects from any image by providing our model with example training data.

4 Apr 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: March 2022

Spring is finally here and there is computer vision in the air. 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 and Annotate * Launched Polygonal Annotation tool * Launched Multi-label

3 Apr 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: End to End Multi-Label Classification

Roboflow has supported the entire process of creating object detection and single-label classification computer vision projects, from collecting and annotating images to training and deploying a model since our launch of end to end classification support [https://blog.roboflow.com/classification-end-to-end/] last summer. Now, we're adding support for

2 Apr 2022 • 10 min read

How to Deploy Computer Vision Models: Best Practices

In this guide, we walk through the fundamentals of deploying vision models and the questions you should evaluate when deciding how to deploy a model.

1 Apr 2022 • 2 min read

Computer Vision Saves 4.95 Billion Internet Users from Rickrolling

Roboflow releases new RICK model to end Rickrolling Newton-le-Willows, United Kingdom, 4/1/2022: — Roboflow, a software business that builds tools for developers to use computer vision, is releasing Real-time Intrusion Checker Kernel (RICK). The model is a breakthrough in machine learning model architecture with its first application being focused

24 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

How many images do you need to train a model?

At Roboflow, we talk to dozens of machine learning researchers, engineers, and software engineers, and get this question multiple times a day. The number of images you need to train a model Here’s the truth: a model can work with 100 images, 500 images, or with 10,000. It

24 Mar 2022 • 4 min read

Improving Computer Vision Datasets and Models

Common tips and tricks to improve your computer or machine vision dataset, including using Roboflow Train and the Dataset Health Check tools.

21 Mar 2022 • 7 min read

What is CVAT (Computer Vision Annotation Tool)?

Learn how to annotate images in CVAT, an open-source, web-based tool for labeling data for object detection, segmentation, classification, and other tasks.

16 Mar 2022 • 1 min read

Convert Annotation Formats EASY (26 available Formats 😱)

Computer vision datasets come in a wide variety of formats, and sometimes they’re less than ideal. Roboflow solves this problem by offering 26 annotations formats for dataset uploading and downloading. [https://roboflow.com/formats] In two steps you can: 1) upload your dataset to Roboflow and then, 2) download

9 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

Introducing New and Improved Roboflow Train

Over the last year, thousands of custom computer vision models have been trained with Roboflow Train [https://docs.roboflow.com/train] and millions of inferences have been made via Roboflow Deploy [https://roboflow.com/deploy]. Recently, we took a big step back to incorporate advancements in computer vision research and

8 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

What to Think About When Choosing Model Sizes

When training any machine learning model, you must trade off inference speed for accuracy. Larger models with more parameters are uniformly more accurate, and smaller models with fewer parameters are uniformly faster to infer.

8 Mar 2022 • 5 min read

Building a U.S. License Plate Detection Model And Sharing It On Roboflow Universe

The newest project featured on Roboflow Universe is a U.S. License Plate dataset and model with images collected from Google images and around Central Florida parks. This dataset and model can be used for cases like: 1. Police work 2. Toll roads 3. Bank drive-throughs 4. Fast food drive

7 Mar 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: February 2022

Even though it's the shortest month of the year, we accomplished a lot! 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 * Polished and improved the new

3 Mar 2022 • 5 min read

Precision and Recall in Machine Learning

Learn what precision and recall are and why they are important in computer vision.

23 Feb 2022 • 1 min read

Testing A Computer Vision Model In 10 Seconds Or Less

Learn how to test your computer vision model with Roboflow.

14 Feb 2022 • 5 min read

How To Avoid Bias In Computer Vision Models

There are two different ways to think about algorithmic bias, and they are complementary to one another. The first being the social and ethical side, and second being the more technical side, how we detect it, and mitigate it. Today we’re going to dive into the technical side of

9 Feb 2022 • 6 min read

Identifying Chocolates With Computer Vision

Learn how to identify chocoaltes using computer vision technology.

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.