Roboflow Blog

16 Mar 2022 • 1 min read

Convert Annotation Formats EASY (26 available Formats 😱)

Computer vision datasets come in a wide variety of formats, and sometimes they’re less than ideal. Roboflow solves this problem by offering 26 annotations formats for dataset uploading and downloading. [https://roboflow.com/formats] In two steps you can: 1) upload your dataset to Roboflow and then, 2) download

9 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

Introducing New and Improved Roboflow Train

Over the last year, thousands of custom computer vision models have been trained with Roboflow Train [https://docs.roboflow.com/train] and millions of inferences have been made via Roboflow Deploy [https://roboflow.com/deploy]. Recently, we took a big step back to incorporate advancements in computer vision research and

8 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

What to Think About When Choosing Model Sizes

When training any machine learning model, you must trade off inference speed for accuracy. Larger models with more parameters are uniformly more accurate, and smaller models with fewer parameters are uniformly faster to infer.

8 Mar 2022 • 5 min read

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

The newest project featured on Roboflow Universe is a U.S. License Plate dataset and model with images collected from Google images and around Central Florida parks. This dataset and model can be used for cases like: 1. Police work 2. Toll roads 3. Bank drive-throughs 4. Fast food drive

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 • 5 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 • 1 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

There are two different ways to think about algorithmic bias, and they are complementary to one another. The first being the social and ethical side, and second being the more technical side, how we detect it, and mitigate it. Today we’re going to dive into the technical side of

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

Aerial imagery are images taken from aircrafts like drones, planes, and helicopters. With these images we can train a model to detect objects like fires, buildings, solar panels, rooftops, maritime search and rescue, and more. A good use case example is when maritime search and rescue (SAR) teams search for

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 • 3 min read

Launch: Collaborative Annotations

Roboflow Annotate [https://roboflow.com/annotate] has become an essential tool used by tens of thousands of developers to label images of everything from planes [https://universe.roboflow.com/skybot-cam/overhead-plane-detector] to petri dishes [https://universe.roboflow.com/michael-shamash-f942a/onepetri]. Since its launch just over a year ago [https://blog.

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.

6 Jan 2022 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: December 2021

Even though the year was coming to a close and holidays gave us the chance to spend time with family and friends, we kept our focus right up to the end in order to make Roboflow even better. Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates to

27 Dec 2021 • 5 min read

SageMaker Studio Lab vs Google Colab

Recently, AWS released SageMaker Studio Lab, its competitor service to Google Colab. I dove into comparing Google Colab to Studio Lab and here is what I found.

22 Dec 2021 • 1 min read

Introducing the Roboflow Inference Widget

Now, you can easily test any model that has been trained with Roboflow Train by dragging an image file onto your dataset version page.

9 Dec 2021 • 5 min read

Florence: A New Foundation for Computer Vision

Microsoft Research recently released the foundational Florence model, setting the state of the art across a wide array of computer vision tasks.

7 Dec 2021 • 7 min read

Remote, Not Distant

As Roboflow has grown, we have put a great deal of effort into creating an unparalleled remote-first workplace. To achieve our goal of empowering every developer to use computer vision, we need to assemble a world class team and put them in an environment where they can thrive. We'

7 Dec 2021 • 7 min read

Who cares about Nemo, let's find some Sexy Shrimp!

Creating a computer vision model with Roboflow to detect sexy shrimp.

3 Dec 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Play Dreidel

As a brand new employee at Roboflow, I was asked to do a computer vision project. So I thought, why not combine a holiday I love so much, Chanukah, with something brand new in my life, Roboflow.

1 Dec 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: November 2021

It's been a whirlwind of a month at Roboflow with lots of changes, updates, and expansion going on behind the scenes. 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

28 Oct 2021 • 4 min read

ReefOS: Supercharging Coral Reef Restoration with AI

Corals lay the foundation for reefs that are home to nearly 25% of all marine life, but today they are vanishing at an alarming speed. Reefs around the world are degrading and without a concerted intervention, the Earth’s coral reefs as we know them could disappear before the next

28 Oct 2021 • 4 min read

What is YOLOS? What's New in the Model?

YOLOS - You Only Look At One Sequence is the newest, and potentially most impactful, iteration on the YOLO family of object detection models.

24 Oct 2021 • 4 min read

AI Football Play Generator

Scott Bronkema is a former college football player turned software developer. As Scott started tinkering with computer vision, he discovered he can build every football coach's dream application: the automated playbook. Bronkema's product automatically identifies offensive and defensive player positions and formations and then tracks players&