Roboflow Blog

21 Mar 2021 • 3 min read

Danger Monitoring for Cyclists using Raspberry Pi and Object Detection

This is a guest post authored by Herberto Warner and lightly edited by the Roboflow team. Herberto's Github hosts all of the images used in his project. Increasing numbers of dangers and accidents for cyclists Cyclists face dangers like cars on the street, other cyclists, and poorly developed

20 Mar 2021 • 4 min read

What Is Embedded Machine Learning?

Machine learning – the software discipline of mapping inputs to outputs without explicitly programmed relationships – requires substantial computational resources. Traditionally, this limits where machine learning models can run to very powerful supercomputers. But this is changing. Computation is required at two core moments in the machine learning development lifecycle: model training

15 Mar 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Detect Personal Protective Equipment

This is a guest post by data scientist Jaco Lau; this has been lightly edited by the Roboflow team. Having worked in construction, I constantly found myself reminding subcontractors to wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Wearing the proper PPE can save lives; from 2018 to 2019, construction injuries

14 Mar 2021 • 8 min read

How We Built Paint.wtf, an AI Game with 150,000+ Submissions that Judges Your Art

Paint.wtf is an online game that uses AI to score user-submitted digital drawings to zany prompts like, "Draw a giraffe in the arctic" or "Draw a bumblebee loves capitalism." It's Cards Against Humanity meets Microsoft Paint. Paint.wtf became an internet sensation. In

11 Mar 2021 • 2 min read

Introducing Roboflow Support for NVIDIA Jetson

💡Roboflow Inference, which you can use to deploy computer vision models to a Jetson (among many other devices), is now available as an open source project. See the Quickstart to get started. Deploy Models to NVIDIA Embedded Devices Deploying models to the edge offers unique benefits: inference speeds can be

8 Mar 2021 • 3 min read

3 Things You Should Know From This Year's 2021 Startup Summit

Last week, I attended the 2021 Startup Summit from my home office in Des Moines, Iowa. Perhaps one of the few good things to come out of this pandemic are virtual conferences, which have significantly increased the accessibility of thought leadership in our respective industries. Read about some of the

5 Mar 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: March 2021

The monthly changelog showcases improvements in Roboflow over the past month. You can find the previous changelog here. In February, we had a major focus on reinforcing our foundation; after several months of rapid feature expansion we spent a considerable amount of time fixing bugs, improving infrastructure, and preparing for

1 Mar 2021 • 3 min read

5 Emerging Trends in Computer Vision Applications from OpenCV's AI Competition

As part of Roboflow's new partnership with OpenCV, I had the opportunity to be involved with the first round of the 2021 OpenCV AI Competition. If you haven't heard of the competition, it's the world's biggest spatial AI competition, in which over

1 Mar 2021 • 8 min read

Running Tensorflow JS on a NVIDIA Jetson

The NVIDIA Jetson line is a series of AI-capable low-power computers. They range from the $59 Jetson Nano (2GB) to the $899 Jetson AGX Xavier and are a popular choice for powering machine learning projects on the edge. Tensorflow.js is a library for deploying machine learning in JavaScript; it

23 Feb 2021 • 9 min read

How to Use Roboflow and Streamlit to Visualize Object Detection Output

Building an app for blood cell count detection. The app in action.Most technology is designed to make your life, or your work, easier. If your work involves building computer vision into your applications, using the Roboflow [https://roboflow.com/] platform gives you everything you need. Streamlit [https://www.streamlit.

22 Feb 2021 • 4 min read

How to Use Google Earth Engine and Python API to Export Images to Roboflow

This is a guest post written by Ethan Arsht and Raluca Cîrju. Google Earth Engine is a powerful tool for analyzing and acquiring geographic data. Machine learning experts use Google Earth Engine to identify physical attributes and analyze patterns, in areas including forestry, farmland, ice coverage, and weather. Unfortunately, documentation

20 Feb 2021 • 3 min read

Introducing Upload Batches, the Unannotated Queue, and Mark as Null

This week we updated the workflow for uploading and annotating images to streamline the process, help you keep track of your progress, and make it easier to divide work amongst your team. If you've worked on an ongoing computer vision project with iterative improvement via active learning [https:

15 Feb 2021 • 3 min read

Using Computer Vision to Improve Disability Access in Music Education

This is a guest post by Mehek Gosalia, a high school student from Sammamish, Washington. She plans to study computer science. Over the past 4 years, I've worked to develop a disability-accessible rhythm education tool called the Mehek Box. It started as a physical tool, a box representing

12 Feb 2021 • 4 min read

Liquid Neural Networks in Computer Vision

Excitement is building in the artificial intelligence community around MIT's recent release of liquid neural networks. The breakthroughs that Hasani and team have made are incredible. In this post, we will discuss the new liquid neural networks and what they might mean for the vision field.

8 Feb 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Help Win $1 Million in Mountain Dew's Big Game Contest

Last night during Super Bowl LV, Mountain Dew ran an ad featuring John Cena riding through a Mountain Dew-themed amusement park. Bottles are scattered all over the scene: neon signs on buildings, in fun house mirrors, and flying out of the car trunk. At the end of the ad, John

8 Feb 2021 • 7 min read

How to Train and Deploy a License Plate Detector to the Luxonis OAK

In this post, we will leverage Roboflow and the Luxonis OAK to train and deploy a custom license plate model to your OAK device.

8 Feb 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Make Card Grading Faster and Cheaper

This blog post is a guest post by James Nitsch, a mobile developer (Android) with WillowTree Apps living in Charlottesville, VA. He's passionate about do-it-yourself hardware projects, 3D printing, and machine learning & computer vision. He's happily employed but always loves collaborating and tackling innovative or

3 Feb 2021 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: February 2021

Welcome to our monthly roundup post of new features and enhancements. You can find the previous changelog here. The biggest new features released this month were transfer learning and Label Assist. Roboflow Organize * Announced teams for all (now teams of up to 3 people can collaborate on the Starter Plan

31 Jan 2021 • 3 min read

Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt

Can we use object detection to automate identifying moving objects on a screen? Abhinav Mandava leverages Roboflow to create an aimbot (which automates aiming and firing for the player) for Duck Hunt.

26 Jan 2021 • 10 min read

Using Unity Perception to train an object detection model with synthetically generated images

Collecting images and annotating them with high-quality labels can be an expensive and time-consuming process. The promise of generating synthetic data to reduce the burden is alluring. In the past we have covered techniques such as augmentation [https://docs.roboflow.com/image-transformations/image-augmentation], context synthesis [https://blog.roboflow.com/how-to-create-a-synthetic-dataset-for-computer-vision/

25 Jan 2021 • 3 min read

Computer Vision Use Cases in Healthcare and Medicine

Computer vision technology continues to expand its use cases in healthcare and medicine. In this post, we will touch on some exciting example use cases for vision in healthcare and medicine and provide some resources on getting started applying vision to these problems.

25 Jan 2021 • 1 min read

Launch: Model Assisted Labeling

Use Roboflow Trained Models to Annotate Data One of the most time-consuming parts of the computer vision workflow is curating a high-quality dataset. When we launched Roboflow Annotate last month we aimed to streamline this process by launching an easy to use image annotation tool built right into your computer

19 Jan 2021 • 4 min read

Using Computer Vision to Detect Package Deliveries

This post is a guest post written by Brian Egge. Brian works in finance, though this is a personal project. Many households are getting more packages delivered than ever before. In my neighborhood the delivery drivers don’t ring the doorbell or announce they’ve dropped a package off. Many

17 Jan 2021 • 2 min read

Teams for All: Create Free Teams on Roboflow

Machine learning is a team sport, and getting a computer vision model to production is no exception. All parts of the process are improved with a team: collecting data from multiple sources; annotating data with colleagues; sharing versioned datasets; and using deployed models. We're pleased to introduce free