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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.
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How to Deliver Better Consumer Experiences with Vision AI
Vision AI is transforming how drivers interact with their vehicles, turning static owner’s manuals into dynamic, camera-powered experiences. Learn how Ogily built the Audi Reader.
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How to Build Factory Robots with Vision AI
Learn how to build adaptive factory robots with Vision AI. See how Almond trained robots that identify, sort, and automate complex tasks.
• 6 min read
Scientific Research AI: Unlocking Visual Data
AI is transforming scientific research by automating the slowest parts of discovery: collecting, labeling, and analyzing data. At the Field Museum, researchers used vision AI to digitize 13,500 insect specimens in weeks, showing that with the right tools, decades of work can happen in days.
• 5 min read
Searching for Jetskis, Finding Roboflow
My story of building a vision model to detect jetskis and, in the process, finding Roboflow.
• 9 min read
How Computer Vision Is Reshaping The Restaurant Industry
Learn how computer vision can be used to improve efficiency in the restaurant industry.
• 9 min read
Using Computer Vision to Develop a Robotic Arm Poker Dealer
Learn how the vision system of an acting poker dealer arm was built by the University of Manchester Robotics Society.
• 6 min read
How to Monitor Red Zones with Computer Vision
Learn how to monitor red zones for safety compliance using computer vision.
• 4 min read
Vision AI in Manufacturing: 3 Proven Strategies to Adopt in 2025
Explore how you can use AI in manufacturing to avoid jams and pileups, identify product defects, and more.
• 7 min read
Deploying Machine Learning Models with PyTorch, gRPC, and asyncio
SUMMARY
Serving a machine learning model with gRPC and asyncio gives you a faster, more scalable alternative to HTTP/1 REST endpoints: messages are binary Protobuf rather than JSON, type-safe client and server stubs are generated from a .proto file, and multiple images can be batched into a single
• 6 min read
Rock, Paper, Scissors with AI: How to Make Multiplayer Games
SUMMARY
HandLand is an open-source template for building two-player, gesture-controlled games in the browser using computer vision models from Roboflow Universe. The repo ships three complete games, including Rock Paper Scissors and a standoff game called 007, using WebRTC for peer video and native WebSockets for real-
• 12 min read
Using Computer Vision to Assess Bouldering Performance
Learn how I built a system to assess my bouldering skills using computer vision.
• 9 min read
How to Create a Retail Planogram using Computer Vision
Learn how to create a retail planogram from a photo using computer vision.
• 5 min read
Automatic Stop Sign Violation Detection
SUMMARY
This community-contributed project determines whether a vehicle correctly stops at a stop sign by chaining RF-DETR vehicle detection, a fine-tuned front-wheel detection model, and Roboflow PolygonZone geometry checks across a stop zone and an out zone. Vehicles that fail to stop before the white line
• 8 min read
Camera Calibration in Sports with Keypoints
SUMMARY
Accurate player tracking in sports footage requires mapping pixel coordinates from a moving camera to real-world field positions, and this tutorial covers how to do that by training a YOLOv8 keypoint detection model to recognize characteristic landmarks on a soccer pitch, then using those detections to compute a
• 8 min read
How to Extract Text From Images
SUMMARY
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts static image content in JPG, PNG, or PDF formats into machine-readable text, enabling automation of data entry, accessibility improvements, translation workflows, and document analysis. Roboflow's OCR API is one practical tool for this, offering a programmatic way to extract text at
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Ball Tracking in Sports with Computer Vision
Ball tracking is crucial for AI systems to analyze sports effectively, but it's challenging due to factors like the ball's small size, high velocity, complex backgrounds, similar-looking objects, and varying lighting. This tutorial will teach you how to overcome these challenges.
• 3 min read
How to Import Hugging Face Datasets to Roboflow
Learn how to import a Hugging Face dataset into Roboflow for labeling, training, and deployment.
• 5 min read
Inspecting Solar Panels with Thermal Drones
Learn how to use computer vision to identify hot spots on solar panels.
• 10 min read
Automating Water Meter Reading using Computer Vision
Learn how to read the digits on a water meter using computer vision.
• 7 min read
How to OCR Hand-Written Notes with GPT-4
Learn how to OCR hand-written notes with GPT-4.
• 5 min read
Evaluating 2024 Euro Cup and COPA America Cup Jersey Color Accessibility
Read how we built a system to evaluate the color contrast of football jerseys used in the 2024 Euro Cup.
• 11 min read
Automated Book Inventory using Computer Vision
Learn how to build a book inventory system with computer vision.
• 6 min read
Building a Vehicle Analytics Application with PaliGemma
Read how Nick created a vehicle analytics application using the PaliGemma multimodal model.
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