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21 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

Prompting Google Bard with Images & How it Compares to Bing

SUMMARY Google Bard's image input capabilities, tested against counting, object detection, and classification tasks using datasets from Roboflow Universe, fall short of Bing/GPT-4 for structured computer vision work. Bard refuses images containing human faces entirely rather than blurring them, and it undercounts objects even in straightforward

20 Jul 2023 • 6 min read

How to Build a Photo Memories App with CLIP

In this guide, we show how to create a photo memories application using CLIP.

20 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Analyze and Classify Video with CLIP

In this guide, we show how to analyze and classify scenes in videos using CLIP.

20 Jul 2023 • 4 min read

Helping the Spot Robot See with Instance Segmentation

In this article, Peter Mitrano describes how he used instance segmentation as the foundation of robotics project using the Spot robot.

20 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Use LabelMe: A Complete Guide

In this guide, we discuss the features in LabelMe, how to install LabelMe, and how to start annotating images in the tool.

19 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

Improve Accuracy: Polygon Annotations for Object Detection

SUMMARY Polygon annotations consistently outperform bounding boxes for object detection when objects have irregular shapes, because polygons eliminate background noise that bounding boxes include. An experiment comparing both annotation types, combined with augmentations (rotation, saturation, cutout, bounding box shear) and pretrained weight initialization, showed meaningful mAP gains at each step.

19 Jul 2023 • 9 min read

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

SUMMARY Pose estimation, the computer vision task of detecting key body joints in images and video, has progressed from hand-crafted geometric methods in the 1990s through graphical models in the 2000s to convolutional neural network approaches that now dominate the field. This overview traces that arc, covering traditional methods,

18 Jul 2023 • 9 min read

How to Build an AI Defect Detection System

In this guide, we show how to build a defect detection and visual inspection system with computer vision using Roboflow.

17 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Build a Semantic Image Search Engine with Supabase and OpenAI CLIP

SUMMARY OpenAI's CLIP model encodes both images and text into a shared embedding space, making it possible to search an image library with a plain text query and get back visually and semantically relevant results. This tutorial builds that system by calling the CLIP model through Roboflow'

12 Jul 2023 • 7 min read

ChatGPT Code Interpreter for Computer Vision

In this article, we share the results of our experimentation with ChatGPT's code interpreter feature on various computer vision tasks.

7 Jul 2023 • 7 min read

How Good Is Bing (GPT-4) Multimodality?

In this blog post, we qualitatively analyze how well Bing’s combination of text and image input ability performs at object detection tasks.

6 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Use Generative AI to Augment Computer Vision Data

Dive deep into Kopikat.co, a tool for generative data augmentation created by OpenCV.ai to improve the quality of datasets.

5 Jul 2023 • 4 min read

Detecting Objects with DETIC vs Custom Training

Learn how to evaluate large foundation models and how custom model training can improve performance.

5 Jul 2023 • 6 min read

What is OneFormer? A Deep Dive.

In this guide, we discuss what OneFormer is, how it works, and the performance of OneFormer benchmarked against three datasets.

3 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Use FastSAM

In this guide, we show how to install and use FastSAM, and demonstrate how to visually compare SAM to FastSAM on your own data.

3 Jul 2023 • 7 min read

Train a Segmentation Model with No Labeling

In this guide, learn how to train an image segmentation model without any labeling.

30 Jun 2023 • 7 min read

Recognizing Math Equations with Computer Vision

In this article, we show a process for recognizing math equations using computer vision.

30 Jun 2023 • 6 min read

Train an Image Classification Model with No Labeling

In this guide, we show how to train an image classification model to identify damage on street signs without any labeling.

30 Jun 2023 • 4 min read

What is Fast Segment Anything (FastSAM)? The Ultimate Guide.

In this guide, we discuss what FastSAM is, how it works, and use cases for the model.

28 Jun 2023 • 8 min read

Comparing AI-Labeled Data to Human-Labeled Data

In this guide, we compare AI-labeled to human-labeled data and assess the strengths and limitations of a popular foundation vision model for automated labeling.

27 Jun 2023 • 7 min read

What is StyleGAN-T? A Deep Dive

In this article, we discuss what StyleGAN-T is, how it works, how the StyleGAN series has evolved over the years, and more.

23 Jun 2023 • 3 min read

CVPR 2023 Highlights

Three members of the Roboflow team attended CVPR this year. Read our highlights from the conference and what trends we noticed.

22 Jun 2023 • 2 min read

How to Convert DAV Footage to mp4 Video

Learn how to convert DAV footage to an mp4 video using ffmpeg and Python.

22 Jun 2023 • 9 min read

How to Deploy a Roboflow Model to Lens Studio

This guide demonstrates how to build a computer vision model in Roboflow and deploy the model to Lens Studio.