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29 Nov 2023 • 6 min read

Computer Vision in Manufacturing: Three Applications From Field Experience

In this article, we explore three applications of computer vision in the manufacturing industry, written by an expert with field experience.

28 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

How to Load Image Embeddings into Pinecone

In this guide, learn how to calculate CLIP embeddings with Roboflow Inference and save the results in a Pinecone vector database.

27 Nov 2023 • 3 min read

Roboflow Video Inference with Custom Annotators

SUMMARY This tutorial builds a video inference pipeline for logistics monitoring by loading a pre-trained object detection model from Roboflow Universe and running it frame-by-frame on a warehouse video. Custom visual overlays including bounding boxes, class labels, and object tracking are applied to each frame using the

27 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

How to Load CLIP Image Embeddings into LanceDB

Learn how to calculate CLIP embeddings using Roboflow Inference and save them into LanceDB.

23 Nov 2023 • 7 min read

GPT-4 Vision Alternatives

Explore alternatives to GPT-4 Vision with Large Multimodal Models such as Qwen-VL and CogVLM, and fine-tuned detection models.

22 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

How to Search Video Frames with Roboflow

Build a search engine that lets you find frames in a video with text queries using Roboflow Inference.

21 Nov 2023 • 7 min read

What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?

Learn what Optical Character Recognition is, what problems can be solved with OCR, and explore the approaches used by OCR algorithms to identify characters.

16 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

What is Object Recognition?

In this guide, we discuss what object recognition is, how it works, and how to start using object recognition to solve problems.

16 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation?

Learn what Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is, how it works, and how RAG can be used in computer vision applications.

16 Nov 2023 • 6 min read

What is Zero-Shot Classification?

Learn what zero-shot classification is, what zero-shot classification is used for, and how to use zero-shot classification to solve computer vision problems.

16 Nov 2023 • 6 min read

What is an Image Embedding?

Learn what image embeddings are and explore four use cases for embeddings: classifying images and video, clustering images, and image search.

16 Nov 2023 • 4 min read

What is Zero-Shot Object Detection?

Learn what zero-shot object detection is, applications for zero-shot object detection, and how to get started with Grounding DINO, a zero-shot model.

15 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

How to Use Roboflow with GPT-4 Vision

Explore ways you can use Roboflow with GPT-4 Vision to solve computer vision problems.

7 Nov 2023 • 4 min read

Distilling GPT-4 for Classification with an API

In this guide, learn how to distill GPT-4V to train an image classification model.

7 Nov 2023 • 4 min read

DINO-GPT4-V: Use GPT-4V in a Two-Stage Detection Model

In this guide, we introduce DINO-GPT4V, a model that uses Grounding DINO to detect general objects and GPT-4V to refine labels.

7 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

How CLIP and GPT-4V Compare for Classification

In this post, we analyze how CLIP and GPT-4V compare for classification.

7 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

Experiments with GPT-4V for Object Detection

See our experiments that explore GPT-4V's object detection capabilities.

3 Nov 2023 • 6 min read

How to Use MetaCLIP

Learn what MetaCLIP is, how the model performs on benchmarks, and how to use MetaCLIP.

3 Nov 2023 • 4 min read

How to Provide Detailed Labeling Instructions to Outsourced Labelers

In this guide, we walk through a few tips and best practices showing how to provide detailed, useful labeling instructions to outsourced labelers.

1 Nov 2023 • 8 min read

How to Detect Text in Images with OCR

This guide shows how to use the Roboflow OCR API as part of a two-stage detection system that identifies regions of interest and reads text in them.

1 Nov 2023 • 7 min read

How to Detect Segments in Videos with Computer Vision

Learn how to detect segments in videos using and an interactive web tool powered by the cLIP computer vision model.

31 Oct 2023 • 7 min read

What is Keypoint Detection?

In this guide, we discuss what keypoint detection is, common architectures used for keypoint detection, and the high-level steps to build a keypoint detection model.

25 Oct 2023 • 5 min read

Launch: Advanced Dataset Search Filters, Operators, and Logic

Learn how to use the new advanced dataset search filters, operators, and logic available in the Roboflow dataset management tool.

24 Oct 2023 • 7 min read

Launch: Roboflow Logistics Pre-trained Object Detection Model

The Roboflow Logistics Model, trained on 99,238 images across 20 classes, offers a domain-specific advantage for logistics vision use cases.