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11 May 2022 • 5 min read

Roboflow’s Python Pip Package For Computer Vision

Regardless of whether your project is a new product line, a new industrial production system, a research project, or a personal one to help you learn what computer vision is all about, you'll want to add "pip install roboflow" to your code - and here's why.

6 May 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: April 2022

April showers brings May flowers, and here's a bouquet of flower datasets from Roboflow Universe you can use today!

5 May 2022 • 3 min read

Cinco de Mayo, Beer and Taco Dataset with Multi-Label Classification

SUMMARY Multi-label classification lets a single model predict multiple classes per image simultaneously, making it a natural fit for scenes where counting or locating objects precisely is less important than knowing what is present. This post builds a taco and beer classifier by merging several Roboflow Universe datasets (including

3 May 2022 • 3 min read

Machine vision applications with wearable devices

SUMMARY XR Tech, a UK industrial extended reality provider, built a wearable camera safety system by training computer vision models on Roboflow to detect PPE compliance and physical hazards such as loose rubble and heat exhausts on live body-cam streams. The team followed a structured data hygiene process: starting

20 Apr 2022 • 1 min read

Art Recognition with a Computer Vision Model

Learn how to use computer vision to classify art styles.

13 Apr 2022 • 6 min read

How to Train Detectron2 for Custom Instance Segmentation

A walk through on how to train Detectron2 to segment your custom objects from any image by providing our model with example training data.

4 Apr 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: March 2022

Spring is finally here and there is computer vision in the air. Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates; if you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it here. Roboflow Organize and Annotate * Launched Polygonal Annotation tool * Launched Multi-

3 Apr 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: End to End Multi-Label Classification

SUMMARY Multi-label classification lets a model predict several independent attributes for a single image simultaneously, which is fundamentally different from single-label classification and requires far less training data than concatenating class combinations into discrete buckets. Roboflow now supports end-to-end multi-label classification projects, including dataset creation,

2 Apr 2022 • 10 min read

How to Deploy Computer Vision Models: Best Practices

In this guide, we walk through the fundamentals of deploying vision models and the questions you should evaluate when deciding how to deploy a model.

1 Apr 2022 • 2 min read

Computer Vision Saves 4.95 Billion Internet Users from Rickrolling

Roboflow releases new RICK model to end Rickrolling Newton-le-Willows, United Kingdom, 4/1/2022: — Roboflow, a software business that builds tools for developers to use computer vision, is releasing Real-time Intrusion Checker Kernel (RICK). The model is a breakthrough in machine learning model architecture with its first

24 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

How many images do you need to train a model?

SUMMARY There is no fixed minimum number of images required to train a computer vision model: 100 images can work for a focused, well-defined task, while a complex or high-accuracy use case may need thousands. The more useful framing is to build an MLOps pipeline from the start,

24 Mar 2022 • 5 min read

Improving Computer Vision Datasets and Models

Common tips and tricks to improve your computer or machine vision dataset, including using Roboflow Train and the Dataset Health Check tools.

16 Mar 2022 • 1 min read

Convert Annotation Formats EASY (26 available Formats 😱)

SUMMARY Computer vision datasets come in dozens of annotation formats, and switching between them manually is tedious. Roboflow handles this in two steps: upload your dataset in whatever format you have, and export it in any of 26 supported formats. The platform auto-detects the incoming format, so no manual

9 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

Introducing New and Improved Roboflow Train

SUMMARY Roboflow Train now lets users choose between Fast and Accurate model types, giving engineers direct control over the speed-versus-accuracy tradeoff at training time. New users receive three Fast training credits to test the managed training and deployment pipeline at no cost. Most custom tasks see improved accuracy

8 Mar 2022 • 5 min read

Building a U.S. License Plate Detection Model And Sharing It On Roboflow Universe

SUMMARY This post walks through building a U.S. license plate detection model trained with Roboflow, achieving 94.9% mAP, 95.7% precision, and 90.4% recall on images collected from Google and Central Florida locations. The workflow covers annotation, preprocessing with auto-orient and resize, augmentations tuned for occlusion

7 Mar 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: February 2022

Even though it's the shortest month of the year, we accomplished a lot! Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates; if you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it here. Roboflow Organize * Polished and improved the new

3 Mar 2022 • 6 min read

Precision and Recall in Machine Learning

Learn what precision and recall are and why they are important in computer vision.

23 Feb 2022 • 2 min read

Testing A Computer Vision Model In 10 Seconds Or Less

Learn how to test your computer vision model with Roboflow.

14 Feb 2022 • 5 min read

How To Avoid Bias In Computer Vision Models

SUMMARY Bias in a computer vision model is the average error that persists after training, and it almost always traces back to data quality rather than model architecture. The practical mitigation steps covered here include collecting large and representative datasets, using active learning to surface gaps, running model error analysis,

9 Feb 2022 • 6 min read

Identifying Chocolates With Computer Vision

Learn how to identify chocoaltes using computer vision technology.

7 Feb 2022 • 7 min read

How to Train Computer Vision Models on Aerial Imagery

SUMMARY Aerial imagery from drones and planes presents distinct challenges for computer vision: small objects have few pixels to form features from, large image sizes slow training and inference, and orientation bias can mislead models. This post walks through the full pipeline for building a custom model on aerial data

4 Feb 2022 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: January 2022

It might be cold outside, but Roboflow is bringing the heat to kick off 2022! Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. If you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it here. Roboflow Organize * Major update to the Annotations

2 Feb 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Collaborative Annotations

SUMMARY Roboflow Annotate now supports team-scale annotation workflows with a board view that shows image status at a glance, job assignment to divide work across team members, reviewer notifications, annotator instructions, and a review mode where a second person can approve or reject labeled images before they enter the

18 Jan 2022 • 2 min read

Introducing the Roboflow Universe Dataset Research Internship

We are seeking an intern who would be interested in first-authoring the paper that introduces the Roboflow Universe Datasets.