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13 Oct 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Use YouTube Videos for Training Data and Inference Testing

SUMMARY Roboflow now accepts YouTube video URLs directly as an upload source, letting you sample frames from any of YouTube's 800+ million videos to build or expand a computer vision training dataset without downloading files manually. The same feature works in reverse: you can paste a YouTube URL

1 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow Changelog: September 2022

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

28 Sep 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling

SUMMARY Roboflow Annotate's Smart Polygon tool uses a machine learning model behind the scenes to generate a polygon label with a single click on an object, reducing what previously required many manual point placements to a near-instant operation. Precise polygon annotations are required for training instance segmentation

28 Sep 2022 • 6 min read

Object Detection vs. Image Classification vs. Keypoint Detection

Learn what object detection, classification, and keypoint detection are, and when tech technique is useful.

28 Sep 2022 • 9 min read

Supervised Learning vs. Unsupervised Learning: Explained

Learn what supervised and unsupervised learning are and how they compare.

21 Sep 2022 • 12 min read

How to Measure Distance in Photos and Videos Using Computer Vision

Learn how to measure distance in photos and videos using computer vision.

21 Sep 2022 • 10 min read

How to Train YOLOv5 Instance Segmentation on a Custom Dataset

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

20 Sep 2022 • 2 min read

Launch: Test Computer Vision Models Locally

SUMMARY Roboflow Inference can now run locally on a development machine via a single npx command, with no CUDA installation or Docker setup required. Any 64-bit Intel, AMD, or Arm CPU (including M1 Macs and Raspberry Pi 4) can host the inference server on port 9001, and any pre-

14 Sep 2022 • 9 min read

Using Computer Vision with Drones for Georeferencing

SUMMARY A computer vision model can detect objects in drone footage but only tells you where something appears in a frame, not where it is on Earth. This tutorial shows how to combine detection output with the flight log from a DJI Mavic Air 2, converting pixel coordinates to latitude

9 Sep 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow Changelog: July & August 2022

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

7 Sep 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow now available in the AWS Marketplace

SUMMARY Roboflow is now available through the AWS Marketplace, letting AWS customers purchase the platform under consolidated billing and apply spend toward AWS Enterprise Development Program commitments. Available tiers include Roboflow Growth (25k source images, 100k generated images, 1,000 monthly API calls) and custom enterprise orders with added usage

7 Sep 2022 • 7 min read

How I use Computer Vision and Twilio to Guarantee Availability at Busy Public Tennis Courts

SUMMARY A non-ML practitioner built a working computer vision application that monitors a local tennis court via webcam, detects whether players are on the court using a model trained in Roboflow, and sends an SMS notification through Twilio when a court opens up. The post covers the full pipeline:

5 Sep 2022 • 5 min read

Train Activity Recognition Models Using Spectrograms and Computer Vision

As Ph.D. students in the Active Robotics Sensing Lab (ARoS) at NC State under the supervision of Dr. Edgar Lobaton, we developed in conjunction with The Engineering Place at NC State a set of activities to walk high school students through the entire computer vision pipeline.

30 Aug 2022 • 7 min read

WTF COCO - The Weird Images that Underpin Modern Computer Vision Models

COCO is an industry standard dataset for benchmarking the performance of object detection models. The dataset was created by "gathering images of complex everyday scenes containing common objects in their natural context" and contains image annotations in 91 categories, with over 1.5 million object instances. People have

19 Aug 2022 • 8 min read

How to Train YOLOv5-Classification on a Custom Dataset

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

18 Aug 2022 • 6 min read

How to Use S3 in Your Computer Vision Pipeline

Learn how to use AWS S3 with Roboflow to store and process image data for use in training computer vision models.

17 Aug 2022 • 6 min read

Launch: Dataset Search

Learn how to search image datasets using Roboflow.

16 Aug 2022 • 6 min read

Building Custom Computer Vision Models with NVIDIA TAO Toolkit and Roboflow

NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit provides a framework for fine-tuning popular computer vision models using your own data. In this tutorial, we'll be demonstrating how to use Roboflow to curate a high-quality computer vision dataset to use with NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit.

8 Aug 2022 • 4 min read

How to Use Object Detection to Trigger Automated Email Alerts

Learn how to trigger automated email alerts when an object detection model identifies the location of an object.

3 Aug 2022 • 8 min read

Develop like a Pro with NVIDIA + Docker + VS Code + PyTorch

SUMMARY Managing NVIDIA drivers and CUDA versions directly on a host machine leads to brittle environments that break when dependencies drift. This guide walks through installing NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 20.04, setting up Docker and nvidia-docker for GPU-accelerated containers, pulling an official PyTorch image from NVIDIA NGC,

3 Aug 2022 • 4 min read

Use Raspberry Pi and Luxonis OAK to Deploy Vision Models in Robotics

Learn how to use the Raspberry Pi and Luxonis OAK to run computer vision models for robotics projects.

1 Aug 2022 • 4 min read

How to Deploy YOLOv7 to a Jetson Nano

We'll be creating a dataset, training a YOLOv7 computer vision model, and deploying it to a Jetson Nano to perform real-time object detection.

27 Jul 2022 • 2 min read

Open Source at Roboflow

At Roboflow, we are on a mission to improve every industry by democratizing computer vision. Open source plays a big role in that by making the tooling accessible and reaching a wide audience. On Roboflow Universe, a community of people are already sharing over 90,000 datasets and 7000 pre-

22 Jul 2022 • 9 min read

How To Train SegFormer on a Custom Dataset

In this post, we will walk through how to train SegFormer on a custom dataset using Pytorch Lightning to classify every pixel in an image.