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What is YOLOS? What's New in the Model?
YOLOS - You Only Look At One Sequence is the newest, and potentially most impactful, iteration on the YOLO family of object detection models.
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AI Football Play Generator
Scott Bronkema is a former college football player turned software developer. As Scott started tinkering with computer vision, he discovered he can build every football coach's dream application: the automated playbook.
Bronkema's product automatically identifies offensive and defensive player positions and formations and then tracks players&
• 6 min read
Let's Talk About Company Culture
Company culture is a feeling in the air, the social norms of a group, the
manifestation of collective goals and beliefs, and the one intangible thing that
can make or break a growth stage company. For some, culture becomes a priority
too late in the business. It starts to become
• 3 min read
YOLOv5 v6.0 is here - new Nano model at 1666 FPS
With the v6.0 release, YOLOv5 further solidifies its position as the leading object detection model and repository.
• 1 min read
New Feature: Isolate Objects
You can now export the bounding boxes from your object detection dataset as
cropped images usable with classification models. This update will enable easily
prototyping two-pass models for use-cases like OCR and object tracking
[https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-object-tracking/].
Isolate Objects is now available as a preprocessing step.To try
• 7 min read
Engineer's Guide to Figma
Your designer sent over a url that begins with figma.com and asks you to take a look at their latest work. What is Figma, you wonder as you click through a series of screens, and how can I learn more about it? Wonder no more — you’ve come to
• 2 min read
How to Safely Install OpenCV on the Mac M1
Installing OpenCV on the M1 safely is difficult because the M1 operates on an arm64 architecture and most of your python libraries are compiled for amd64. Open this guide to avoid your otherwise inevitable demise.
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Roboflow Changelog: October 2021
Our emphasis this month was on "code tentacles," or improving the ways that Roboflow integrates with your codebase. Below is a recap of what we launched and improved. Rewind to last month's (September 2021) changelog for a recap of earlier releases.
Roboflow Organize
* Released our REST
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Roboflow and Ultralytics Partner to Grow Computer Vision Community
We're proud to share that Roboflow has entered into a partnership agreement with Ultralytics allowing Roboflow to license Ultralytics models and become the official dataset management and annotation tool for Ultralytics.
This means Roboflow is an authorized licensor of Ultralytics YOLO models and is permitted by Ultralytics to
• 4 min read
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!
• 2 min read
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
• 1 min read
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
• 1 min read
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.
• 3 min read
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,
• 1 min read
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
• 3 min read
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
• 2 min read
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
• 1 min read
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.
• 1 min read
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
• 3 min read
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.
• 5 min read
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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