Roboflow Blog

20 Dec 2023 • 3 min read

How to Deploy CogVLM on AWS

Guide on deploying a CogVLM Inference Server with 4-bit quantization on Amazon Web Services, covering setup of EC2 instances, configuring hardware and software requirements, and starting the inference server with Docker.

20 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

CogVLM Use Cases in Industry

Learn how you can use CogVLM, a multimodal language model with vision capabilities, for industrial use cases.

19 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

Detecting Complex and Amorphous Features of Marine Sponges

In this post, Andy Portalatin describes work done for his master's thesis toward detecting complex and amorphous features of marine sponges.

19 Dec 2023 • 9 min read

How to Detect Brand Logos in Videos

Learn how to detect brand logos in Roboflow with a custom-trained object detection model that you can run on videos.

19 Dec 2023 • 7 min read

Using Computer Vision to Understand Food and Cuisines

Learn how to use computer vision to identify the cuisine associated with different foods.

14 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

How to Deploy CogVLM

In this guide, learn how to deploy the CogVLM multimodal model on your own infrastructure with Roboflow Inference.

13 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

First Impressions with Google’s Gemini

In this guide, we evaluate Google's Gemini LMM against several computer vision tasks, from OCR to VQA to zero-shot object detection.

13 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

How to Use Grounded EdgeSAM

Learn how to use Grounded EdgeSAM to auto-label data for use in training an image segmentation model.

12 Dec 2023 • 8 min read

Monitoring Plant Growth using Computer Vision

In this blog post we will show how computer vision can be used to monitor plant growth. We will focus on the height measurement technique.

11 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

Launch: Advanced Class Management with Roboflow

Learn how to use Roboflow's advanced ontology management features to manage classes in your project.

7 Dec 2023 • 11 min read

Google's Gemini Multimodal Model: What We Know

In this guide, we are going to discuss what Gemini is, for whom it is available, and what Gemini can do (according to the information available from Google). We will also look ahead to potential applications for Gemini in computer vision tasks.

6 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

Comparing Custom Models to Google Cloud Vision API

In this guide, we go over how to evaluate object detection models on Roboflow Universe versus Google Cloud Vision.

6 Dec 2023 • 7 min read

How to Detect Objects with YOLOv8

Learn how to detect objects with YOLOv8 using pre-trained and custom-trained object detection models.

4 Dec 2023 • 4 min read

Use Cases for Computer Vision in Analytics

Learn how to use computer vision in your data analytics pipelines.

1 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

How to Moderate Video Content

Learn how to use the Roboflow Video Inference API to moderate video content.

1 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

How to Deploy Computer Vision Models Offline

In this guide, we walk through how to deploy computer vision models (i.e. YOLOv8) offline using Roboflow Inference.

1 Dec 2023 • 4 min read

How to Blur People in Images and Videos with an API

In this guide, we show how to use the Roboflow Video Inference API and supervision to blur people in images and videos.

1 Dec 2023 • 7 min read

Automatically Label Product SKUs with Autodistill

In this guide, we show how to automatically label product SKUs (with a manual review stage) using Autodistill.

29 Nov 2023 • 3 min read

Multimodal Maestro: Advanced LMM Prompting

Learn how to expand the range of LMMs' capabilities using Multimodal Maestro

29 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

Computer Vision in Manufacturing: Three Applications From Field Experience

In this article, we explore three applications of computer vision in the manufacturing industry, written by an expert with field experience.

28 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

How to Load Image Embeddings into Pinecone

In this guide, learn how to calculate CLIP embeddings with Roboflow Inference and save the results in a Pinecone vector database.

28 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

Launch: Synthetic Image Generation with DALL-E and GPT-4 Vision

In this guide, learn how to use Roboflow to generate synthetic data with DALL-E and GPT-4 Vision for use in training vision models.

27 Nov 2023 • 3 min read

Roboflow Video Inference with Custom Annotators

Performing real-time video inference is crucial for many applications like autonomous vehicles, security systems, logistics, and more. However, setting up a robust video inference pipeline can be time consuming. You need a trained computer vision model, inference code, and visualization tools to annotate each frame. This is a lot of

27 Nov 2023 • 5 min read

How to Load CLIP Image Embeddings into LanceDB

Learn how to calculate CLIP embeddings using Roboflow Inference and save them into LanceDB.