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How to Train a YOLOv11 Object Detection Model on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv11 object detection model with a custom dataset.
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Who Runs a Vision AI Program: The Builder, Scaler, Operator Model
A vision AI team needs three roles: Builder, Scaler, and Operator. Here is what each one owns and how to staff them as your program scales.
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Why Top-Down Vision AI Rollouts Fail: The Push Trap vs. the Pull Model
Top-down vision AI rollouts stall because plants reject what they didn't specify. Here's why the Push Trap fails and how the Pull Model scales.
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Building a Real-Time Snack Detection Web App
Learn how to build a real-time computer vision web app. Combine Roboflow object detection, MediaPipe, and Flask to build a custom snack-tracking app.
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The Computer Vision Manufacturing Integration Stack
Connect computer vision to your manufacturing stack: edge inference plus PLC, SCADA, MES, and ERP integration over EtherNet/IP, MQTT, and OPC UA.
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Cosmos 3: Evaluation for Vision Use Cases
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 offers zero-shot performance on fixed-camera footage across airports, warehouses, and production lines.
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Improving Cancer Research with Computer Vision
Researcher Mateo Sokac trained an object detection model in Roboflow to count neutrophils in dry microscopy, hitting 0.70 mAP with image tiling and augmentation.
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What Is OPC UA? How Factories Connect Vision AI to PLCs
OPC UA (IEC 62541) explained: what it is, how it compares to MQTT and Modbus, and how it connects Vision AI inspection results to PLCs and MES.
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Is Your Vision AI Program in Pilot Purgatory? A 10-Question Diagnostic
Stuck running vision AI pilots that never scale? Answer these 10 yes/no questions to score whether your program is in pilot purgatory or on the curve.
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Renting vs. Owning Vision AI: How to Pick a Vendor
The right vision AI vendor makes you need them less over time. Here's how to tell renting from owning, and the questions to ask before you sign.
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AI Cameras vs. IP Cameras: What's the Difference?
A practical guide to understanding how AI cameras and IP cameras differ, and when each makes sense for your operation.
• 9 min read
Sports Analytics AI with Roboflow
Learn how to build a sports analytics AI pipeline. Use RF-DETR and Gemini to automate sports formation analysis and player tracking.
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RF-DETR: A SOTA Real-Time Object Detection Model By Roboflow
We have released RF-DETR, a state-of-the-art real-time object detection model. Learn more about how RF-DETR works and how to use the model.
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YOLO for Anomaly Detection
Learn how to build a YOLO based supervised anomaly detection system with Roboflow. This tutorial shows how to collect normal and defective alloy wheel images, label defects with bounding boxes, train a YOLO11 model, and deploy it to detect scratches, and paint damage.
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Roboflow Advances Defect Detection Pipeline for Manufacturers with Synthetic Data Powered by NVIDIA Physical AI
SUMMARY
Roboflow and NVIDIA have integrated synthetic data generation into the Roboflow platform for manufacturing defect detection, combining the NVIDIA Defect Image Generation skill, the Cosmos world foundation model, and NVIDIA Isaac Sim to generate photorealistic, physics-consistent defect images from a small set of real examples. In a benchmark
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What Is YOLO-StereoDepth?
YOLO-StereoDepth brings stereo depth for robotics to the YOLO family in September 2026. See what we know and how to read metric depth today.
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What Is YOLO26-Depth? Monocular Depth Estimation
YOLO26 Depth brings metric monocular depth estimation to YOLO.
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Process RTSP Streams for Real-Time Video Analytics
Ingest RTSP streams, handle frame buffering, and run wildfire smoke detection on the Roboflow Inference Docker container.
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Chaining Models: Combining Detection, OCR, and an LLM in a Single Workflow
Learn how to build a multi-stage computer vision pipeline. Chain RF-DETR object detection, OpenAI OCR and LLMs in Roboflow to process documents.
• 14 min read
YOLO Distillation
Learn how to use large VLMs or foundation models to label images, review annotations in Roboflow, and train a smaller YOLO model. This tutorial covers YOLO distillation with Autodistill and Roboflow Workflows.
• 4 min read
What Is YOLO-Anomaly?
YOLO-Anomaly brings purpose-built anomaly detection for manufacturing QA. See what to expect.
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The Best Free Computer Vision Models
The best free computer vision models, compared by task, speed, and license.
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YOLO Re-ID
Object detection with YOLO can find objects in each video frame quickly. But detection alone does not remember anything. Re-ID and object tracking solve this. Learn how they work and how to build a tracking pipeline in Roboflow Workflows without writing custom code.
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How to Transition from Ultralytics HUB to Ultralytics Platform: Ultralytics Dataset Export
Ultralytics HUB is shutting down, and this guide shows how to migrate datasets and trained YOLO models to Roboflow or Ultralytics Platform. Learn how to export HUB assets, convert datasets, upload annotations and weights, retrain models, build Workflows, and deploy to edge or offline environments.
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