Roboflow Blog

13 Oct 2025 • 14 min read

The Best Code Editors for Computer Vision

This blog explores the top code editors for developing, testing, and deploying Vision AI projects. It covers Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Colab, Jupyter, and PyCharm, explaining their key features, pros, and cons.

10 Oct 2025 • 7 min read

Best Local Vision-Language Models

Vision-Language Models are getting smaller, faster, and smarter - no cloud required. In this guide, we explore the best local VLMs you can run on your own hardware, from Llama 3.2 Vision to SmolVLM2, and show how to deploy them efficiently with Roboflow Inference.

6 Oct 2025 • 10 min read

Video Object Detection

Learn how to use RF-DETR, Roboflow’s state-of-the-art real-time object detection model, to build a workflow that identifies, tracks, and labels objects across video frames with high accuracy and efficiency.

6 Oct 2025 • 17 min read

Computer Vision Projects

Explore practical computer vision projects that you can try, complete with ready-to-use Roboflow templates and workflows. Detect defects, measure dimensions, and automate visual tasks across industries.

6 Oct 2025 • 5 min read

Introduction to Deep Learning

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that uses neural networks to learn from data and power modern AI. In this guide, learn what deep learning is, how it differs from traditional machine learning, its key model types, and how to start building your own with Roboflow.

3 Oct 2025 • 15 min read

How to Use Streamlit for Computer Vision with Roboflow

This guide walks through creating a computer vision app powered by Roboflow Workflows and Streamlit. Learn how to configure detection parameters with sliders and dropdowns, visualize bounding boxes and labels, and deploy the app.

3 Oct 2025 • 6 min read

What Is Inference In Computer Vision?

Learn what inference means in computer vision, how it powers real-time and batch applications, and why inference servers like Roboflow Inference make it easy to deploy models at scale.

2 Oct 2025 • 8 min read

SOTA Instance Segmentation with RF-DETR

Today, we are excited to announce that we are expanding RF-DETR to support instance segmentation with the launch of RF-DETR Seg (Preview).

2 Oct 2025 • 6 min read

Cursor Object Detection: Building Vision Apps with Roboflow

Learn how to build and deploy a custom object counting app in hours using Cursor and Roboflow, combining pre-trained models, simple prompts, and instant hosting to create production-ready vision AI.

30 Sep 2025 • 9 min read

How to Detect, Track, and Identify Basketball Players with Computer Vision

Build a computer vision pipeline that detects, tracks, and identifies NBA players during a game. Using models like RF-DETR, SAM2, SigLIP, SmolVLM2, and ResNet, the system handles motion blur, occlusion, and uniform similarity to reliably map jersey numbers to player identities.

30 Sep 2025 • 3 min read

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30+ Computer Vision Models

We are excited to announce a tool to help you try, compare, and evaluate over 30 popular zero-shot vision models: Roboflow Playground.

30 Sep 2025 • 15 min read

Multimodal Annotation Tools

This blog explores how multimodal annotation enables AI systems to understand and connect images, text, audio, and video. It reviews tools like Roboflow, Labelbox, and SuperAnnotate highlighting their features and includes a practical example of multimodal annotation using Roboflow.

30 Sep 2025 • 10 min read

How to Use GitHub Copilot to Build Vision Apps

Building computer vision apps doesn’t have to mean wrestling with boilerplate code and complex integrations. Learn how GitHub Copilot and Roboflow work together to speed up development - helping you prototype, integrate APIs, and deploy vision apps quickly.

25 Sep 2025 • 17 min read

What Are Vision Inspection Systems?

Understand what is vision inspection system (VIS), its types and applications. Learn how to build PCB defect inspection system using Roboflow.

22 Sep 2025 • 10 min read

Key Computer Vision Tasks

Computer vision tasks such as object detection, image classification, and segmentation are the building blocks of modern AI applications. Learn how to perform them in minutes with Roboflow Workflows.

22 Sep 2025 • 7 min read

Lovable Object Detection: Building Vision Apps with Roboflow

Learn how to how to pair Roboflow with Lovable to create a working object detection app in hours.

22 Sep 2025 • 9 min read

What Is Vertex AI?

Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s unified platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog, we explore how it simplifies computer vision workflows and how to use Roboflow with Vertex AI for dataset preparation, annotation, and model deployment.

19 Sep 2025 • 4 min read

Searching for Jetskis, Finding Roboflow

My story of building a vision model to detect jetskis and, in the process, finding Roboflow.

17 Sep 2025 • 3 min read

Roboflow Templates: 100+ Computer Vision Starter Apps

Today we are announcing a new tool to build the foundation of computer vision applications faster than ever: Roboflow Templates.

16 Sep 2025 • 14 min read

How to Build a Vision-Language Model Application with Next.js

Vision-Language Models unlock powerful new ways to understand and process images alongside text. In this tutorial, we show how to combine Roboflow Workflows with Next.js to build a production-ready vision app.

16 Sep 2025 • 7 min read

Replit Object Detection: Create Vision Apps with Roboflow

Learn how to build vision apps in hours with Replit and Roboflow - train models, deploy instantly, and count objects.

16 Sep 2025 • 20 min read

Crack Detection with Computer Vision

Learn computer vision techniques for crack detection and use cases. We will walk through creating a real-time crack detection application and measurement of crack size (length and width).

16 Sep 2025 • 11 min read

Spotlight on Upcoming AI & Computer Vision Events and Conferences in 2026

2026 will be a landmark year for AI and computer vision. This guide highlights the top conferences - from NeurIPS to CVPR - where you can discover breakthroughs, connect with industry leaders, and shape the future of AI.

16 Sep 2025 • 6 min read

Real-Time Drinking Detection: Building Hydrovisor

Learn how to use Roboflow Inference.js and MediaPipe to build Hydrovisor - a real-time web app that detects drinking behavior through your webcam and reminds you to stay hydrated. A practical guide to computer vision in action.