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How to Use Computer Vision to Keep Stock of Inventory
Learn how to use computer vision to track inventory in logistics facilities.
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Using Computer Vision to Extract Document Structure
This is a guest post written by Frederik Brammer, a student in Germany.
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Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, working from home has become more important
than ever. Because of homeschooling, school servers have crashed due to the
enormous amount of traffic – in some cases, multiple days go by without
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Danger Monitoring for Cyclists using Raspberry Pi and Object Detection
This is a guest post authored by Herberto Warner
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/h-werner-252876209/] and lightly edited by the
Roboflow team. Herberto's Github
[https://github.com/Hberto/dangerMonitoringAIObjectDetect] hosts all of the
images used in his project.
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Increasing numbers of dangers and accidents for cyclists
Cyclists
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Using Computer Vision to Detect Personal Protective Equipment
This is a guest post by data scientist Jaco Lau
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaco-lau-499ab767/]; this has been lightly edited
by the Roboflow team.
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Having worked in construction, I constantly found myself reminding
subcontractors to wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Wearing
the proper PPE can save
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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
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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.
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Google Earth Engine [https://earthengine.google.com/] 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
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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
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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
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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 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.
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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
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Using Computer Vision to Boost Cities' Efficiency by Reallocating Police Resources
The below post is a guest post written by data scientist Joseph Rosenblum. He is using computer vision to make cities more efficient and decrease the bias in traffic-related policing. (He is open to new opportunities!)
Municipalities today are cash-strapped, with $360 billion in losses expected between 2020 and 2022
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Football, Kaggle, Roboflow: Using Computer Vision to Tackle Helmet Safety
If you're searching for a dataset to use or are looking to improve your data
science modeling skills, Kaggle [https://www.kaggle.com/] is a great resource
for free data and for competitions. For example, there's currently an open
Kaggle competition detecting American football helmet impacts
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Tackling the Internet of Things with Roboflow: Object Detection Apps on Android
Joo chan Kim, PhD student, is developing an object detection application for Android devices that can identify specific IoT sensors by using a custom detection model.
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Generating Renaissance Art with Computer Vision
The below post is a guest post written by Samay Lakhani and Sujay Sundar, two budding data scientists. Samay currently interns with a Silicon Valley tech company; Sujay currently does research under the mentorship of a CUNY Staten Island neuroscience professor. Both are sophomores at Jericho High School, showing that
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Bringing Street Murals to Life with Computer Vision
In Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (BedStuy), Yuri Fukuda regularly walks by a mural that showcases prominent female leaders. Since October 2005, a stunning 3,300 square foot mural, When Women Pursue Justice by ArtMakers-NYC, has had a central place in the BedStuy art scene. The mural celebrates 90 women who have
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How This Fulbright Scholar is Using Computer Vision to Protect Endangered Species
The below post is by Kasim Rafiq [https://twitter.com/Kasim21], a
conservationist, Fulbright Scholar, and National Geographic Explorer studying at
UC Santa Cruz. Kasim holds a PhD in Wildlife Ecology from Liverpool John Moores
University.
A leopard in the Okavango Delta
. Credit: Kasim RafiqIntroduction
Nature underpins everything. From our
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Behind the Design of an Augmented Reality Board Game App
During the summer of 2019, I received a Facebook message from Roboflow
co-founder Brad Dwyer [https://twitter.com/braddwyer] asking me if I wanted to
design a new mobile app he was working on. His previous app, Magic Sudoku
[https://magicsudoku.com/], had recently generated some buzz online and even
• 9 min read
Using Computer Vision to Help Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities
The below post is a lightly edited guest post by David Lee, a data scientist
using computer vision to boost tech accessibility for communities that need it.
David has open sourced all materials related to this project on his GitHub
[https://github.com/insigh1/GA_Data_Science_Capstone]. The post
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Fighting Wildfires with Computer Vision
Abhishek Ghosh is training a computer vision model to detect the first signs of smoke from a forest fire with the ultimate hope of dispatching a drone to douse it with water before it gets out of control.
It's all part of a project he's working
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Improving Cancer Research with Computer Vision
Computer vision is improving life sciences. From the early identification of
cancer
[https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/01/google-healths-ai-identifies-breast-cancer-in-mammogram-imagery-with-fewer-false-positives/]
to improving plant health
[https://public.roboflow.com/object-detection/plantdoc], machine vision is
enabling us to create more accurate diagnoses, cures, and research methods.
Mateo Sokac is advancing progress in cancer
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Training Robots to Identify Other Robots
Amitabha Banerjee [https://twitter.com/hiamitabha] used YOLOv5
[https://models.roboflow.com/object-detection/yolov5] and Roboflow to teach his
Anki Vector robot to detect other robots. This is not only a fun project to
teach machine learning but it could have real world implications as well. In the
future, we&
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How Cocoparks Accelerated Their Development with Roboflow
Cocoparks, a Paris based startup working on improving traffic flows across French cities, launched their service months faster with Roboflow.
"Before Google Maps, you could find routes to your destination using a map. There are many routes to try. But with Google Maps, it becomes seamless. This is what
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Using Computer Vision to Count Fish Populations (and Monitor Environmental Health)
The below is a guest post from Jamie Shaffer, a data scientist based in Washington state. She is open to new opportunities, particularly leveraging deep learning to environmental issues.
Living in the Pacific Northwest, the intertwined issues of salmon survival and river flow are frequently in the news, and the
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