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28 Jul 2020 • 14 min read

Benchmarking the Major Cloud Vision AutoML Tools

Until now, there has been little independent research published on the performance of AutoML tools - (both relative to each other and against state of the art open source models)

27 Jul 2020 • 6 min read

VoTT for Image Annotation and Labeling

A guide on using VoTT to label your own computer vision dataset.

23 Jul 2020 • 1 min read

Roboflow can now ingest video!

One of the most common questions we get is "How can I use computer vision object detection models with video?" The answer is simple: you treat each frame as an image. But, in practice, that has been quite cumbersome. It's meant fumbling around with command line

21 Jul 2020 • 6 min read

Improving Infrastructure Asset Management with Computer Vision

The below post is a lightly edited guest post from Result! Data, a Netherlands-based consultancy providing leading digital services. The Roboflow team thanks Gerard Mol (Managing Partner) and Brand Hop (Chief Data Science) for their contributions. View their original post on detecting road signs with computer vision. Introduction Result! Data

18 Jul 2020 • 9 min read

Retail Store Item Detection using YOLOv5

Guest post by Roboflow user, Shayan Ali Bhatti, who used Roboflow to train an object detection model to identify items in grocery stores. Reposted with permission. Original content here. In this article, I present an application of the latest version of popular deep learning algorithm YOLO i.e. YOLOv5, to

16 Jul 2020 • 8 min read

How to Train a TensorFlow 2 Object Detection Model

Learn how to train a TensorFlow 2 object detection model on a custom dataset.

14 Jul 2020 • 3 min read

The TensorFlow 2 Object Detection Library is Here

The TensorFlow Object Detection API [https://roboflow.com/formats/tensorflow-object-detection-csv] has been upgraded to TensorFlow 2.0. We discuss here what the new library means for computer vision developers [https://roboflow.com] and why we are so excited about the new TensorFlow 2.0 Object Detection library! TensorFlow2 meets the

13 Jul 2020 • 3 min read

What are Anchor Boxes in Object Detection?

Learn what anchor boxes are and why they are used in object detection.

10 Jul 2020 • 5 min read

Convert Supervisely Annotations in Two Minutes

In this post, we walk through how to download data from Supervise.ly and convert Supervise.ly annotations to YOLO Darknet format specifically, and more generally convert Supervisely JSON to any other object detection annotation format for use in any of your custom computer vision models. This guide is imperative

7 Jul 2020 • 3 min read

Introducing Class Label Remapping and Omission

With Roboflow Pro, you can now remap and omit class labels within Roboflow as a preprocessing step for your dataset version. Class management is a powerful tool to get the most out of your training data and your hard earned class label annotations.

5 Jul 2020 • 1 min read

Roboflow vs Scale

A question we often get is "How is Roboflow different from Scale?" The truth is, Roboflow works great in conjunction with outsourced labeling services like Scale [https://scale.ai], LabelBox [https://labelbox.com], SuperAnnotate [https://roboflow.com/formats/superannotate-json], Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth [https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/

1 Jul 2020 • 3 min read

How AI Acts as a Human Rights Watchdog for the Maasai People

The Maasai are an indigenous ethnic group in modern Kenya and northern Tanzania, tracing routes to the Great Rift Valley in East Africa as early as the 15th century. Roughly two million Maasai people retain rich cultural traditions, including leading a semi-nomadic life and subsisting predominantly on their cattle, which

1 Jul 2020 • 6 min read

Train a YOLOv4-tiny Model on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv4-tiny model on a custom dataset.

29 Jun 2020 • 15 min read

What is YOLOv5? A Guide for Beginners.

In this article, we discuss what is new in YOLOv5, how the model compares to YOLO v4, and the architecture of the new v5 model.

28 Jun 2020 • 6 min read

Improving Uno with Computer Vision (Plus the Dataset so You Can Too)

Uno card identification and scoring in real-time. (Credit: Adam Crawshaw)You've likely been playing Uno wrong all of your life. It's a simple game, right? Rid your hand of all your cards first, and you're the victor. In fact, Uno is a multi-stage game

25 Jun 2020 • 6 min read

Creating BoardBoss: A Mobile Application that Improves Boggle

How Making an iOS Application Inspired Roboflow Before the Roboflow team was making tools for improving how developers apply computer vision to their problems, we were making our own computer vision applications. One of those applications, Magic Sudoku, even won Product Hunt's Augmented Reality App of the Year.

24 Jun 2020 • 9 min read

Why and How to Implement Random Rotate Data Augmentation

Learn how to apply a random rotate data augmentation to images for use in training computer vision models.

24 Jun 2020 • 9 min read

How to Train Detectron2 on Custom Object Detection Data

Learn how to train a Detectron2 model on a custom object detection dataset.

19 Jun 2020 • 5 min read

How to Convert Annotations from PASCAL VOC to YOLO Darknet

A bedrock of computer vision is having labeled data. In object detection [https://blog.roboflow.com/object-detection/] problems, those labels define bounding box positions in a given image. As computer vision rapidly evolves, so, too, do the various file formats available to describe the location of bounding boxes: PASCAL VOC

18 Jun 2020 • 4 min read

How to Build a Custom Open Images Dataset for Object Detection

We are excited to announce integration with the Open Images Dataset and the release of two new public datasets encapsulating subdomains of the Open Images Dataset: Vehicles Object Detection [https://public.roboflow.ai/object-detection/vehicles-openimages] and Shellfish Object Detection [https://public.roboflow.ai/object-detection/shellfish-openimages]. In this post, we will

12 Jun 2020 • 16 min read

Responding to the Controversy about YOLOv5

We appreciate the machine learning community's feedback, and we're publishing additional details on our methodology. (Note: On June 14, we've incorporated updates from YOLOv4 author Alexey Bochkovskiy, YOLOv5 author Glenn Jocher, and others in the community.) Don't care about the controversy? Skip

10 Jun 2020 • 4 min read

YOLOv5 is Here: State-of-the-Art Object Detection at 140 FPS

Less than 50 days after the release YOLOv4, YOLOv5 improves accessibility for realtime object detection. June 29, YOLOv5 has released the first official version of the repository. We wrote a new deep dive on YOLOv5. June 12, 8:08 AM CDT Update: In response to to community feedback, we have

10 Jun 2020 • 10 min read

How to Train a YOLOv5 Model On a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv5 model on a custom dataset.

3 Jun 2020 • 3 min read

Teaching a Drone to Fly on Auto Pilot with Roboflow

Drones are enabling better disaster response, greener agriculture, safer construction, and so much more. Increasingly, drones are even achieving the ability to perform these tasks completely or semi-autonomously – enabling greater precision and efficiency. Thus, when Victor Antony, a data scientist from the University of Rochester, was confronted with creating the