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When to Use Contrast as a Preprocessing Step
See how contrast preprocessing improves edge detection and boosts model accuracy.
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How to Train a YOLO26 Object Detection Model with Custom Data
In this tutorial, we walkthrough how to train YOLO26 for object detection on a custom dataset.
We recommend working through this blog post side-by-side with the YOLO26 Object Detection Colab notebook. You'll learn how to train a custom model to detect NBA players, referees, and basketballs.
Set up
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What is YOLO26? An Introduction
YOLO26 brings faster CPU inference, small-object accuracy, and edge optimization to the YOLO family. See how it stacks up against today’s leading computer vision models.
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How to Automate on Shelf Availability with Vision AI
In this tutorial, you’ll build a complete system that detects empty shelf facings, deploys a model in Roboflow, and turns every detection into an actionable Slack alert with shelf context and visual proof.
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What to Include in a Computer Vision System RFP
This guide provides a helpful framework to select the best computer vision solution.
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Getting Started with Roboflow
Roboflow eliminates boilerplate code when building object detection models.
Get started with an example.
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Small Defect Detection with Computer Vision
Detecting small, subtle defects is one of the hardest problems in computer vision, and one of the most common in the real world. Learn how to spot cracks, scratches, and surface damage using smart data collection, fast annotation with SAM3, and sliced inference with SAHI.
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How to Grow Small Vision Datasets with SAM 3 and Synthetic Augmentation
Traditional image augmentation can make datasets bigger without making models better. In this tutorial, we show how to use SAM 3 to generate clean instance segmentation masks, apply segmentation-aware augmentation in Roboflow, and measure whether those changes actually improve model performance.
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Vision Agents
This hands-on guide shows how to use Gemini 3 Pro and Roboflow Workflows to build Vision AI Agents.
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Spatial Intelligence
As AI systems move beyond screens and into the physical world, understanding three-dimensional space becomes essential. This article explains spatial intelligence: how AI builds world models, reasons about depth and motion, and moves from recognizing images to acting reliably in real environments.
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AI for Live Video: Introducing the Serverless Streaming API
Today we are announcing the Serverless Video Streaming API, the simplest way to run AI on live video streams.
Previously, using AI to understand live video streams meant managing complex cloud infrastructure or configuring local hardware. The Serverless Video Streaming API removes those barriers, allowing you to run powerful vision
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How to Monitor and Improve AI Models in Production
Learn how to monitor a model in production, and improve its performance.
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Dock Door Utilization Tracking with Vision AI
Learn how to detect occupied vs. empty docks, read door numbers with OCR, and export clean JSON and CSV for real-world time and usage studies.
• 14 min read
AI for Aerial Imagery: RF-DETR Delivers Best-in-Class Speed and Accuracy
Learn how models like RF-DETR deliver better accuracy when analyzing aerial imagery, and find out how computer vision is transforming operations across various sectors, including energy, industrial infrastructure, and defense.
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How to Build a Vision App with Claude and Roboflow
Turn simple detections into intelligent, automated systems. Learn how to build a real-world vision workflow using Roboflow and Claude 4.5 Sonnet to track objects on a conveyor belt and store results in a live database.
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Introducing Roboflow Rapid: Text prompt to vision model in minutes
For most of computer vision's history, training has been extremely challenging. Going from an idea to a deployed application meant spending weeks labeling hundreds or thousands of images by hand just to see if a concept would work.
Now the era of manual labeling is ending.
Today, we
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Vision AI Camera Calibration Guide
Learn what camera calibration is, and see how to calibrate a camera step by step with Roboflow.
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Vision Transformer vs. CNN for Object Detection
This guide explains how CNNs and ViTs differ, when to use each, and how to train and compare them directly inside Roboflow so you can choose the best architecture for your detection task.
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No-Code Computer Vision Tools & Platforms: Beginner's Guide
Anyone can now build production-ready vision systems without writing a line of code. This guide breaks down the top no-code and low-code platforms, their strengths and tradeoffs, and how to choose the right one for your workflow.
• 15 min read
Meta SAM 3D: Introduction
Understand what is SAM 3d and learn how to use SAM 3D + Roboflow to generate synthetic data and train a computer vision model.
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What Is Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS)?
Discover the concept of Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS), how is it compares with other segmentation tasks such as semantic, instance, and panoptic, and the SAM 3 architecture, data and training infrastructure that makes PCS possible.
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How to Fine-Tune Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to fine-tune SAM-3 for image segmentation with a custom dataset.
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Launch: Use Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) with Roboflow
Today, we are introducing new tools powered by Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) that significantly change how people build computer vision applications.
SAM 3 is a powerful vision foundation model that detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on prompts. See our detailed SAM 3 model overview
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SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
Learn what SAM 3 is, what you can do with the model, see examples of SAM 3 in use, and learn how you can use the model.
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