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18 Nov 2022 • 4 min read

How to Use RPA to Supercharge Computer Vision Applications

SUMMARY Robotic Process Automation tools like Microsoft Power Automate let you chain downstream actions onto computer vision inference results without writing a full backend. The post demonstrates the pattern by running inference on an image through a Roboflow model, sending the prediction data to a Power Automate webhook, and having

18 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Using Computer Vision to Save Sea Lions

SUMMARY Steller sea lion numbers in Alaska's western Aleutian Islands have dropped 94% over 30 years, and NOAA researchers studying the cause generate thousands of remote camera images that must be reviewed manually. A computer vision tool called Steller Sight automates the triage step, classifying each image as

17 Nov 2022 • 4 min read

Use Docker to Deploy Computer Vision Models

SUMMARY Deploying a computer vision model involves far more than training it: managing Python packages, CUDA versions, system-level dependencies, and hardware differences all create friction before a single inference runs in production. Docker addresses this by packaging an application and all its dependencies into a portable container image, which

16 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Launch: Roboflow Command-line Interface

SUMMARY The Roboflow CLI, installed via npm, lets you manage workspaces and projects, upload images and annotations, import datasets in common formats (COCO, Pascal VOC, and others), and run inference on object detection, classification, instance segmentation, or semantic segmentation models, all without opening a browser. Authentication stores API keys locally

15 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Top 6 Gaming Datasets for Computer Vision Projects

SUMMARY Six gaming-oriented datasets from Roboflow Universe cover a range of real-world and digital game scenarios: a 350-image domino pip dataset for score tracking, a 6.3K-image Counter-Strike player dataset with CT and T team labels, draughts and chess piece detection sets, a billiards ball

8 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Top 7 Sports Datasets for Computer Vision Projects

SUMMARY Seven sports datasets on Roboflow Universe span classification and object detection across multiple disciplines: cricket, football, and baseball image classification; a 5K-image football helmet detection set for impact tracking; shuttlecock and golf ball detection for racket and club sports; a boxing punch detector; a cyclist database; and a

4 Nov 2022 • 8 min read

Identifying Objects in Multimedia Databases with Computer Vision

In this post, we discuss research from Prof. Luigi Laura and Mirko Cangiano showing how to identify objects in multimedia databases.

4 Nov 2022 • 11 min read

Synthetic Data Generation with Stable Diffusion: A Guide

In this tutorial, we walk through how to generate images with Stable Diffusion for use in a computer vision model.

3 Nov 2022 • 7 min read

Detecting and Reading QR Codes Using Computer Vision

In this article, we're going to walk through how to detect and read QR codes using Roboflow and Python.

1 Nov 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow Changelog: October 2022

Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. In this post, we detail Roboflow's updates from October 2022.

31 Oct 2022 • 7 min read

Overfitting in Machine Learning and Computer Vision

SUMMARY Overfitting happens when a model memorizes training data instead of learning general patterns, a problem visible when training accuracy is high but test accuracy drops sharply. Detecting it requires monitoring the gap between training and validation performance across epochs, and preventing it draws on techniques including data augmentation, regularization,

28 Oct 2022 • 5 min read

Top 6 Agriculture Datasets for Computer Vision

Explore six agriculture datasets you can use in computer vision projects.

28 Oct 2022 • 3 min read

Using AI to Count Calories from Photos with SnapCalorie

SUMMARY SnapCalorie built a mobile app that photographs a meal and returns estimated calories, fat, carbs, and protein, a task that demands fast iteration on computer vision models as the food dataset grows. By adopting Roboflow Annotate for dataset management, labeling, annotation review, and model-assisted labeling, the team increased

27 Oct 2022 • 7 min read

School Bus Detection Using YOLOv5 (Tutorial – Part 2)

Learn how to detect school buses using YOLOv5.

27 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Blurring Faces to Preserve Privacy with Computer Vision

SUMMARY Automatically blurring faces and license plates before data enters a storage pipeline is a practical way to handle personally identifiable information in computer vision deployments, following the same approach used by Google Maps Street View. This tutorial covers collecting face and license plate datasets from Roboflow Universe, training a

26 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Semantic Segmentation for Labeling, Training, Deployment

SUMMARY Semantic segmentation assigns a class label to every pixel in an image, making it useful for tasks where per-pixel precision matters: road and sidewalk mapping from aerial imagery, crack detection in infrastructure, defect identification in manufacturing, and medical image analysis. Roboflow now supports semantic segmentation end-to-end,

21 Oct 2022 • 8 min read

What is an Autoencoder?

SUMMARY An autoencoder is a neural network that compresses an input into a compact latent vector and then reconstructs it, with the latent representation, not the output, being the useful artifact. Six main variants exist for computer vision: undercomplete, denoising, sparse, contrastive, Variational (VAE), and Vector Quantised-Variational (VQ-VAE)

21 Oct 2022 • 6 min read

What is Object Tracking in Computer Vision?

Learn about object tracking and how it is used in computer vision.

20 Oct 2022 • 5 min read

Top 6 Manufacturing Datasets for Computer Vision

Explore six manufacturing datasets you can use for computer vision projects.

20 Oct 2022 • 7 min read

Accelerate PyTorch Models via OpenVINO™ Integration with Torch-ORT

SUMMARY OpenVINO integration with Torch-ORT lets PyTorch developers run accelerated inference on Intel CPUs, integrated GPUs, and VPUs without changing their existing code structure, requiring only two additional lines of Python. This post benchmarks a custom-trained YOLOv7 model on a dataset from Roboflow Universe and shows roughly a

18 Oct 2022 • 8 min read

How to Use Computer Vision to Control OBS Studio

Learn how to use computer vision to control OBS Studio.

14 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Cloning Images from Open Source Datasets

SUMMARY Roboflow Universe now lets you clone any of its 100+ million open source images directly into your own Roboflow project, with or without their existing annotations. This removes one of the biggest time sinks in computer vision development: sourcing labeled training data from scratch. You can filter by object

14 Oct 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Joins AWS Global Startup Program and Becomes AWS ISV Accelerate Partner

SUMMARY Roboflow has joined the AWS Global Startup Program and become an AWS ISV Accelerate Partner, deepening its integration with the cloud infrastructure that already powers Roboflow's model pipeline. The ISV Accelerate designation puts Roboflow alongside companies like Databricks and Auth0 in a co-sell program for enterprise

13 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Sharing Your Computer Vision Project on Roboflow Universe

In this guide, learn how to launch your computer vision project on Roboflow Universe.