Roboflow Blog

24 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

How to Create a TFRecord File for Computer Vision and Object Detection

How to create a TFRecord file for object detection: what it is, when you need it, and how to export one from a labeled dataset in Roboflow.

23 Mar 2026 • 5 min read

Revolutionizing Conidia Counting with Roboflow

Learn how to build an automated microscopy pipeline using Roboflow and Lovable to digitize quality control and scale lab throughput.

20 Mar 2026 • 16 min read

DeepSeek Vision Models

Learn about DeepSeek’s vision-capable models, and how to use DeepSeek-VL2 with Roboflow Supervision to build advanced vision-language applications.

20 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

How Flip Augmentation Improves Model Performance

How flip augmentation improves model performance, when horizontal or vertical flips help, when to avoid them, and how to apply flips in Roboflow.

19 Mar 2026 • 14 min read

How to Deploy Computer Vision

In this definitive guide, we break down the decisions required to build a production-grade vision system.

19 Mar 2026 • 6 min read

Automate Camera Quality Monitoring

Learn how to use Roboflow’s new Camera Focus block and Deployment Manager to detect blurry feeds and automate maintenance alerts in real-time.

19 Mar 2026 • 7 min read

Turning Any Screen Into a Touchless Display with Egocentric Hand Keypoint Detection

In this guide, we’re moving beyond the glass to build a first-person interaction system. Using Roboflow Inference 1.0, RF-DETR Nano, and MediaPipe, you’ll learn how to anchor a gesture space to a physical screen and translate hand landmarks into OS-level commands like zooming and scrolling.

18 Mar 2026 • 6 min read

How to Improve First Pass Yield

Learn how to improve First Pass Yield. Build a visual intelligence pipeline to automate defect detection using Roboflow.

17 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

Detect Solar Panel Failure with SAM 3

Learn how to use Roboflow Workflows and SAM 3 to segment snow-covered solar panels and automate maintenance alerts in real-time.

16 Mar 2026 • 25 min read

Gemini 3 Guide: Master Google’s Deep Think Model in Roboflow

Explore Gemini 3’s native multimodality and Deep Think reasoning. Learn how to deploy Gemini 3.1 Pro for object detection, OCR, and VQA using Roboflow Workflows and Playground.

16 Mar 2026 • 5 min read

Which is the Best Coding Agent for Vision tasks?

SUMMARY This benchmark pits four coding agents (Claude Code with Opus 4.6, Cursor with Composer 2, Gemini CLI with Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Codex with GPT 5.4) against five computer vision tasks including bird counting with SAM 3, car counting in video and RTSP streams, avocado detection,

16 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

LabelImg for Labeling Object Detection Data

How to use LabelImg to label object detection data, labeling best practices, and a faster path to a trained model with Roboflow.

13 Mar 2026 • 6 min read

Extracting Structured Markdown from Legacy Documentation with Gemini 3 Pro

Learn how to convert legacy PDF documentation to structured markdown using Gemini 3 Pro and Roboflow Workflows.

12 Mar 2026 • 19 min read

Visual Anomaly Detection

Learn what anomaly detection is, the main methods used in visual anomaly detection, and how to build supervised, and unsupervised anomaly pipelines in Roboflow Workflows for real-time deployment on the edge.

12 Mar 2026 • 14 min read

Zero-Shot Auto Labeling with VLMs using Roboflow

Learn how to use Vision-Language Models like Florence-2 in Roboflow to auto-label datasets faster for production-ready models.

12 Mar 2026 • 7 min read

Automated Visual Inspection in Pharmaceuticals with Roboflow

See how Roboflow's two-stage workflow detects pills, classifies defects, and delivers pass/fail inspection results automatically.

12 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

Inference 1.0: Foundational Infrastructure for Visual Understanding

SUMMARY Roboflow Inference 1.0 is a modular, multi-backend execution engine built to run vision models at enterprise scale across cloud and edge hardware. The 1.0 release adds automatic backend selection across ONNX, PyTorch, and TensorRT, so the server picks the best runtime for the underlying hardware without

11 Mar 2026 • 6 min read

Understanding Discrete vs. Process Manufacturing

What's the difference between discrete and process manufacturing? How each works, why the distinction matters, and where computer vision fits in both.

11 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

The Importance of Blur as an Image Augmentation Technique

Learn about the efficacy of blur as an image augmentation step in computer vision model training.

10 Mar 2026 • 9 min read

Why AGPL-3.0 Is a Risk for Computer Vision Teams

AGPL-3.0's network clause and copyleft can force you to open-source your vision pipeline. Here is the risk and how to avoid it.

10 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

Roboflow's RF-DETR Is Free to Use Commercially

RF-DETR is Apache 2.0: free for commercial use, deployable in closed-source products, no copyleft.

10 Mar 2026 • 8 min read

Takt Time vs. Cycle Time? A Master Guide to Synchronizing Production with AI

Discover the critical difference between Takt Time and Cycle Time. Learn how to calculate both, and how to use computer vision to eliminate manufacturing bottlenecks.

9 Mar 2026 • 13 min read

Deep Learning vs. Traditional Computer Vision

This blog compares traditional computer vision and deep learning, with practical examples using Roboflow Workflows.

9 Mar 2026 • 5 min read

Why to Add Noise to Images for Machine Learning

Learn why adding noise can be effective as an image augmentation in computer vision modeling.