Roboflow Blog

25 Jul 2025 • 9 min read

How to Build an iOS App with Visual AI Capabilities

SUMMARY This tutorial walks through building an iOS app that detects glasses in real time using a custom RF-DETR Nano model trained in Roboflow and deployed via the roboflow-swift SDK. RF-DETR Nano is chosen specifically for its low latency on live camera streams, making it well suited

24 Jul 2025 • 19 min read

What Is Depth Anything V2: Depth Estimation

Understand what depth estimation is. Learn how Depth Anything V2 works and how to use it in Roboflow Workflows.

24 Jul 2025 • 6 min read

Advancing State of the Art Object Detection (Again) with RF-DETR

Learn how to use and train the three new state-of-the-art RF-DETR object detection model sizes.

22 Jul 2025 • 8 min read

Detect NBA 3 Second Violations with AI

SUMMARY Automatically detecting NBA 3-second paint violations requires solving several distinct sub-problems at once: tracking each player across frames, identifying the painted zone, and counting how long each player stays inside it. This tutorial builds that system by combining player tracking with Meta's SAM2, court keypoint

18 Jul 2025 • 5 min read

Use Qwen2.5-VL for Zero-Shot Object Detection

SUMMARY Qwen2.5-VL is an open source vision-language model available in 3B, 7B, and 72B sizes that can locate and label objects in an image from a plain-text prompt, with no labeled training data or fine-tuning required. This tutorial runs the 7B variant on a T4

18 Jul 2025 • 9 min read

How Computer Vision Is Reshaping The Restaurant Industry

Learn how computer vision can be used to improve efficiency in the restaurant industry.

18 Jul 2025 • 7 min read

Use Gemini 2.5 for Zero-Shot Object Detection & Segmentation

Learn how to use Gemini 2.5 for zero-shot object detection and segmentation.

17 Jul 2025 • 6 min read

How to Make a Heatmap with Computer Vision

This guide walks you through building a computer vision-powered heatmap using Roboflow. We'll use the example of mapping my dog’s movement in my apartment - from collecting video data to generating the heatmap by sending data from the workflows directly into a custom Python script.

17 Jul 2025 • 31 min read

AI in Robotics

This blog explores how AI powers modern robotics, from core technologies like computer vision,NLP and ML to real-world robots, models, and projects, revealing how intelligent machines are transforming industry and society.

16 Jul 2025 • 19 min read

Comprehensive Guide to Multiple Object Tracking

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) represents one of the most challenging and practically significant problems in computer vision.

14 Jul 2025 • 9 min read

Comparing Base and Fine-Tuned SmolVLM2 for OCR

In this guide, we will walk through how to fine-tune SmolVLM2 for OCR.

14 Jul 2025 • 15 min read

OCR Use Cases: Practical Workflows & Implementation Tips

Explore three high-ROI OCR use cases: Document Automation, ID Verification, and Logistics backed by live pipelines and metrics.

11 Jul 2025 • 4 min read

Use Roboflow Workflows to Collect and Preprocess Image Training Data

Learn how to use Roboflow Workflows to collect and preprocess image training data for use in building a vision model.

9 Jul 2025 • 28 min read

Best Computer Vision Companies

Learn about different computer vision companies and the services they are offering. Learn how to quickly get started with Roboflow, Google Vision AI, Amazon Sagemaker and Microsoft Azure AI.

7 Jul 2025 • 26 min read

Best Data Annotation Platforms

Learn about different data annotation platforms such as Roboflow, Autodistill, CVAT, LabelMe, VGG, RectLabel, HumanSignal (Label Studio) and how to annotate data using them.

4 Jul 2025 • 8 min read

Creating a Cutting Safety Tool with Keypoint Detection

Learn how to create a tool that monitors for potentially hazardous posture when cutting food in the kitchen.

4 Jul 2025 • 6 min read

How to Train a ResNet-34 Model on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a ResNet-34 model for image classification using a custom dataset.

3 Jul 2025 • 21 min read

How to Control a PTZ Camera with Computer Vision and Roboflow Workflows

Learn how to control a PTZ camera in a computer vision application.

1 Jul 2025 • 36 min read

Ultimate Guide to Albumentations

Understand what is Albumentations library and learn how to use it for image augmentation with code examples.

26 Jun 2025 • 5 min read

How to Choose An Image Labeling Partner

Good data quality makes or breaks a vision model. Learn how to find a trusted data labeling partner who can help you label images accurately.

26 Jun 2025 • 5 min read

How to Use Perception Encoder

Learn how to use and deploy Meta AI's Perception Encoder model with Roboflow Inference.

26 Jun 2025 • 6 min read

How to Deploy RF-DETR to an NVIDIA Jetson

Learn how to deploy RF-DETR to a Roboflow Jetson.

25 Jun 2025 • 5 min read

How to Train a ResNet-18 Model with a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a ResNet-18 classification model with a custom dataset.

24 Jun 2025 • 9 min read

Launch: Roboflow Instant Models

Roboflow Instant is a free, quick-to-train, few-shot model that requires as few as a half-dozen labelled images to produce an accurate object detection model.