Roboflow Blog

8 Oct 2021 • 2 min read

New Feature: Isolate Objects

SUMMARY Roboflow's Isolate Objects preprocessing step lets you export an object detection dataset as a set of cropped bounding-box images, one per annotation, organized by class and ready for use as a classification dataset. Enabling the step at version-generation time makes it practical to prototype two-

7 Oct 2021 • 7 min read

Engineer's Guide to Figma

Your designer sent over a url that begins with figma.com and asks you to take a look at their latest work. What is Figma, you wonder as you click through a series of screens, and how can I learn more about it? Wonder no more — you’ve come to

5 Oct 2021 • 3 min read

How to Safely Install OpenCV on the Mac M1

Installing OpenCV on the M1 safely is difficult because the M1 operates on an arm64 architecture and most of your python libraries are compiled for amd64. Open this guide to avoid your otherwise inevitable demise.

3 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: October 2021

Our emphasis this month was on "code tentacles," or improving the ways that Roboflow integrates with your codebase. Below is a recap of what we launched and improved. Rewind to last month's (September 2021) changelog for a recap of earlier releases. Roboflow Organize * Released our REST

30 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Roboflow and Ultralytics Partner to Grow Computer Vision Community

SUMMARY Roboflow has become the official dataset management and annotation tool for Ultralytics, with a formal licensing agreement that lets Roboflow users train, deploy, and commercialize YOLO models (including YOLOv8 and YOLO11) through the Roboflow platform without running into AGPL-3.0 licensing conflicts. The partnership also deepens the integration

30 Sep 2021 • 4 min read

Making a Handheld Card Counter on the OAK-D-Lite

The portability of the OAK-D-Lite gives us the power to bring computer vision powered solutions anywhere on earth - including your local casino!

27 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Deploying Computer Vision Models as Mircroservices

SUMMARY Deploying a computer vision model as a microservice keeps vision logic isolated from application code, which matters because models often require specific versions of Python, CUDA, or specialized hardware that you do not want to force on the rest of your stack. The microservice pattern also handles bursty workloads

22 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

What is PaddlePaddle?

SUMMARY PaddlePaddle (PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning) is Baidu's open-source deep learning framework, comparable in scope to PyTorch and TensorFlow, providing the core primitives needed to build and train deep learning models. It gained attention in computer vision through PP-YOLO, a model in the YOLO family that

20 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

What is PyTorch?

SUMMARY PyTorch is Facebook's open-source machine learning framework, originally popularized in academic research and now widely used in production systems. It provides the foundational building blocks for deep learning across computer vision, natural language processing, and audio, and serves as the base for higher-level frameworks like

20 Sep 2021 • 4 min read

How I Used Computer Vision to Make Sense of My Fridge

As part of a groupwork for a postgraduate applied AI at Erasmus Brussels we made an object detection model to identify ingredients in a fridge.

16 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

We Raised a $20M Series A to Continue Democratizing Computer Vision

Today, Roboflow is excited to announce our $20 million Series A led by Craft Ventures to expand on our mission to give software the sense of sight. Lachy Groom, who co-led the seed with Craft, also participated in the round. Additionally, we welcomed new investment from leaders like Jack

15 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Introducing the Roboflow pip package

SUMMARY The Roboflow Python pip package gives developers a native way to interact with their Roboflow workspace directly from Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks. With it, you can access workspace and project metadata, upload images, run inference on trained models, and visualize or save predictions programmatically. Authentication uses your existing

9 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

What is TensorRT?

SUMMARY TensorRT is NVIDIA's inference optimization framework, built to run machine learning models as fast as possible on NVIDIA GPU hardware via CUDA cores. To use it, you typically train in PyTorch or TensorFlow and then convert your model to TensorRT format. This post covers the CUDA vs

6 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

How to Implement Object Tracking for Computer Vision

This post is a comprehensive guide on how to implement object tracking with your object detection model to track your custom objects

2 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Our New REST API

SUMMARY Roboflow's REST API gives developers programmatic read access to workspace data without leaving their code environment. The initial launch covers five routes: API key validation, workspace info, project details, version metadata, and export download links. Combined with the Upload, Annotate, and Inference APIs, these endpoints enable integrations

2 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: September 2021

Welcome to another installment of the Roboflow Changelog where we summarize the improvements to Roboflow's product suite over the preceding month. You can find the last changelog (for August 2021) here. The biggest highlights from last month were celebrating the release of Roboflow Universe, our community space for

30 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

What is Amazon Rekognition?

SUMMARY Amazon Rekognition is an off-the-shelf computer vision API that detects and classifies a fixed set of common objects (furniture, plants, and similar generic categories) from images sent via HTTP. It works well for those predefined categories, but if your application needs to detect domain-specific objects not

29 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

Live Coding: Blackjack Basic Strategy

SUMMARY This live coding session builds a computer vision web app that reads playing cards from a webcam and displays real-time blackjack basic strategy recommendations. Starting from boilerplate sample code, the session uses a playing cards object detection model from Roboflow Universe and produces a working app in about

23 Aug 2021 • 3 min read

What is Zero Shot Object Tracking?

We are exciting to announce that you can now track objects frame over frame in video and camera stream using the Roboflow Inference API and the open source zero shot object tracking repository, without having to train a separate classifier for your object track features.

19 Aug 2021 • 6 min read

ImageNet contains naturally occurring NeuralHash collisions

SUMMARY NeuralHash, the perceptual hashing model behind Apple's client-side CSAM detection system, is designed so that two distinct images should never share the same 96-bit hash. A search through ImageNet uncovered two naturally occurring image pairs with identical NeuralHashes, independent of the adversarially crafted collisions researchers

18 Aug 2021 • 3 min read

Mitigating the Collision of Apple's CSAM NeuralHash

SUMMARY Researchers reverse-engineered Apple's NeuralHash model and demonstrated that adversarially crafted images could be made to share a hash with an unrelated target image, potentially flooding Apple's human review queue with false positives. Running the colliding image pairs through OpenAI's CLIP shows that

16 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

What is CoreML?

SUMMARY CoreML is Apple's on-device machine learning inference framework, designed to run models efficiently on iPhones and other Apple hardware by routing computation through Apple's Neural Engine for lower latency and reduced power draw. Models are stored as .mlmodel files and can be created with

11 Aug 2021 • 4 min read

Roboflow Universe: the Computer Vision Community

We’re excited to introduce Roboflow Universe, the new hub for computer vision datasets and pre-trained models.

7 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: August 2021

Each month we share a recap of our monthly updates and releases in the Roboflow Changelog. The previous Changelog is available here. In July, the product team's major emphasis was on a new product we'll be releasing at our Launch Party on Wednesday, August 11 - hope