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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!
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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
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What is PaddlePaddle?
"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning
questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2]
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What is PaddlePaddle (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
You likely ended up on this
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What is PyTorch?
"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning
questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2]
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What is PyTorch (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
PyTorch is Facebook's open
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How I Used Computer Vision to Make Sense of My Fridge
As part of a groupwork for a postgraduate applied AI at Erasmus Brussels we made an object detection model to identify ingredients in a fridge.
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We Raised a $20M Series A to Continue Democratizing Computer Vision
Today, Roboflow is excited to announce our $20 million Series A led by Craft Ventures to expand on our mission to give software the sense of sight. Lachy Groom, who co-led the seed with Craft, also participated in the round. Additionally, we welcomed new investment from leaders like Jack Altman,
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Introducing the Roboflow pip package
We're ecstatic to announce the launch of our newest pip package, a way for you
to natively interface with your Roboflow workspace through your Python scripts
and Jupyter notebooks! Read the full package documentation here
[https://docs.roboflow.com/python].
Your API Key
If you've ever
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What is TensorRT?
"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning
questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2]
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What is TensorRT (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
TensorRT [https://developer.nvidia.com/tensorrt]
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How to Implement Object Tracking for Computer Vision
This post is a comprehensive guide on how to implement object tracking with your object detection model to track your custom objects
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Our New REST API
Today we're excited to announce the launch of our new REST API, a way for your
code to interface with the information stored in your Roboflow workspace. Read
the full API documentation here [https://docs.roboflow.com/rest-api].
We're launching with five read-only API routes (to
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Roboflow Changelog: September 2021
Welcome to another installment of the Roboflow Changelog where we summarize the improvements to Roboflow's product suite over the preceding month. You can find the last changelog (for August 2021) here.
The biggest highlights from last month were celebrating the release of Roboflow Universe, our community space for
• 1 min read
What is Amazon Rekognition?
"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us.
What is Amazon Rekognition (in 60 Seconds or Fewer)?
Amazon's Rekognition is Amazon's off-the-shelf computer vision API for understanding the contents of images.
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Live Coding: Blackjack Basic Strategy
Follow along as I use a playing cards object detection model from Roboflow Universe to build a computer-vision powered Blackjack basic strategy web-app. In just two hours, we go from the boilerplate sample code to a working app you can try on your phone or computer's webcam.
If
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What is Zero Shot Object Tracking?
We are exciting to announce that you can now track objects frame over frame in video and camera stream using the Roboflow Inference API and the open source zero shot object tracking repository, without having to train a separate classifier for your object track features.
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ImageNet contains naturally occurring NeuralHash collisions
NeuralHash is the perceptual hashing model that back's Apple's new CSAM (child sexual abuse material) reporting mechanism. It's an algorithm that takes an image as input and returns a 96-bit unique identifier (a hash) that should match for two images that are "the
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Mitigating the Collision of Apple's CSAM NeuralHash
This morning, Hacker News was ablaze with several stories about vulnerabilities in Apple's CSAM NeuralHash algorithm. Researchers had found a way to convert the NeuralHash model to ONNX format and reverse engineer a hash collision (in other words: they created an artificial image with the same hash as
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What is CoreML?
"ML in a Minute" is our conversational series on answering machine learning
questions. Have questions you want answered? Tweet at us
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZX0rcJl8o8&list=PLZCA39VpuaZZrOVZEu0x8EQqfQdUDzjM2&index=2]
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Be sure to subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/rf-yt-subWhat is CoreML (in
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Roboflow Universe: the Computer Vision Community
We’re excited to introduce Roboflow Universe, the new hub for computer vision datasets and pre-trained models.
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Roboflow Changelog: August 2021
Each month we share a recap of our monthly updates and releases in the Roboflow Changelog. The previous Changelog is available here.
In July, the product team's major emphasis was on a new product we'll be releasing at our Launch Party on Wednesday, August 11 -
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Using Computer Vision to Accelerate Microbiology Research and Combat Antibiotic Resistance
Michael Shamash is a Master’s student in the Maurice Lab at Canada's McGill University. Michael used Roboflow to streamline the production of a model and iOS app for use in microbiology.
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Transformers Take Over Object Detection
It seemed just like a matter of time... and now the Transformers neural networks have landed - Microsoft's DyHead achieves state of the art object detection using a Transformer backbone.
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How to Train YOLOX On a Custom Dataset
The YOLO family continues to grow with the next model: YOLOX. In this post, we will walk through how you can train YOLOX to recognize object detection data for your custom use case.
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What is ONNX?
Learn what ONNX is and when it i sused in computer vision.
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Roboflow for Students and Universities
We've seen tremendous interest in Roboflow from the research community. Faculty and students from institutions ranging from California to Malta to Taiwan have been using Roboflow to accelerate their computer vision work.
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