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28 Jun 2022 • 4 min read

Open source datasets and pre-trained models for computer vision

90,000 Datasets and 7,000 Pre-trained Models Available Roboflow Universe launched in August 2021 with 50 open source datasets and opened our computer vision infrastructure products for free with a Public plan. Universe now has 90,000+ datasets with 66+ million images available for building computer vision models and

24 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

CVPR 2022 - Best Papers and Highlights

In this post, we take the opportunity to reflect on the computer vision research landscape at CVPR 2022 and highlight our favorite research papers and themes.

24 Jun 2022 • 1 min read

What is cuDNN?

NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network (cuDNN) is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks. cuDNN [https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn] is built on top of the CUDA [https://blog.roboflow.com/what-is-cuda/] framework which is how you use NVIDIA GPUs for general purpose computing tasks. High performance GPU

22 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Label Only Role-based Access Control

Roboflow Annotate [https://roboflow.com/annotate] has been used to label over 66 million images and teams have been able to label more images with our recent release of collaborative workflows [https://blog.roboflow.com/annotation-workflow/] for managing labeling in real-time across distributed teams. Market researchers believe that by 2028,

15 Jun 2022 • 9 min read

Train and Deploy YOLOS Transformer On a Custom Dataset

In this post, we showcase training and deploying YOLOS end to end, from labeling your data, to training your model, to deploying your model on AWS for inference.

8 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Roboflow Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide can now gain access to Roboflow to take advantage of the end-to-end computer vision platform to give their software the sense of sight. We’re pleased to share that Roboflow is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for

6 Jun 2022 • 7 min read

Food Manufacturing Defect Detection with Lucky Charms

The marshmallows found in a box of Lucky Charms cereal - marbits as they were originally named by their creators Edward S. Olney and Howard S. Thurmon - are undoubtedly the best part of the classic breakfast cereal. In August of 2020, General Mills began selling pouches of "Just

6 Jun 2022 • 6 min read

Autonomous Vehicle Object Detection

Ampera Racing is a team formed by students from UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina) with the objective of developing an electric vehicle every year and promoting the mobility of the future. Now we're building an autonomous vehicle with object detection. In 2021 we realized that we could

19 May 2022 • 1 min read

Launch: Instance Segmentation Project Training and Inference

What Is Instance Segmentation? Instance segmentation [https://blog.roboflow.com/instance-segmentation-roboflow/], also known as image segmentation, is the computer vision task of recognizing objects in images along with their associated shape. In other words, it is the outline of a given object. It also includes a bounding box surrounding the

19 May 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Roboflow OAK pip package

roboflowoak pip package lets you natively interface with your Roboflow workspace through Python scripts and deploy to an OAK device.

17 May 2022 • 4 min read

Boxing Punch Detection Using Computer Vision

One of the best parts about joining Roboflow [https://roboflow.com/careers] is doing a computer vision project in your first 2 weeks. As someone who loves to workout, I wanted to focus my project on a fitness related use case. I often mix boxing workouts into my routine, and

16 May 2022 • 9 min read

Recipe for a Company On-site

Creating a magnetic environment for exceptional talent is one of Roboflow’s top priorities. We want our remote-first [https://blog.roboflow.com/remote-not-distant/] culture to be the best option for our team, not a necessity because of the pandemic or anything else. We choose to be remote. It works better

11 May 2022 • 3 min read

How to Train a YOLOv5 Oriented Bounding Box Model

Learn how to train a YOLOv5 Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) object detection model.

11 May 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow’s Python Pip Package For Computer Vision

Regardless of whether your project is a new product line, a new industrial production system, a research project, or a personal one to help you learn what computer vision is all about, you'll want to add "pip install roboflow" to your code - and here's why.

6 May 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: April 2022

April showers brings May flowers, and here's a bouquet of flower datasets from Roboflow Universe you can use today!

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