Dataset Management

31 Dec 2025 • 10 min read

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.

13 Nov 2025 • 9 min read

How to Convert Annotations from PASCAL VOC XML to COCO JSON

Convert from VOC XML to COCO JSON (or any format) in four clicks.

13 Nov 2025 • 5 min read

You Might Be Resizing Your Images Incorrectly

Resizing images incorrectly can distort objects and degrade model performance. Learn how to resize images without distortion: aspect ratios, padding strategies, and practical tips to ensure your models learn from clean, consistent visuals.

12 Nov 2025 • 3 min read

When to Use Grayscale as a Preprocessing Step

Grayscale allows our models to be more computationally efficient. So when **shouldn't** we grayscale our images?

12 Nov 2025 • 9 min read

What Is Image Preprocessing and Augmentation?

Understanding image preprocessing and augmentation options is essential to making the most of your training data.

22 May 2025 • 11 min read

Data Annotation for High-Performing Computer Vision Models

Learn all about data annotation, from what it is and how it works, to common challenges, best practices, and the tools that can streamline the process.

9 Jan 2025 • 6 min read

5 Best Image Annotation Tools in 2025

Explore the top five image annotation tools you can use to label data for your next computer vision project.

3 Jan 2025 • 7 min read

5 Strategies for Handling Unbalanced Classes in Machine Learning

Dealing with unbalance classes is a common challenge that can significantly impact the performance of your models. When one class dominates the dataset algorithms become biased, leading to inaccurate predictions. Suppose you're trying to teach an alien – like one of the crew mates from the wildly popular game

2 Jan 2025 • 6 min read

Rock, Paper, Scissors with AI: How to Make Multiplayer Games

This is a template for making multiplayer games - such as rock paper scissors- that involve your hands and body using AI or computer vision. You can even submit new games to the repo and I will host them at https://handland.lol Included Multiplayer Games: The repo currently comes

16 Dec 2024 • 3 min read

Launch: Find Similar Images to Expand Vision Datasets

Learn how to find similar images to use in your new computer vision datasets.

12 Dec 2024 • 4 min read

Count Objects on a Conveyor Belt Using Computer Vision

In many manufacturing environments, conveyor belts are used for transporting objects, especially small components such as bolts, nuts, or other fasteners through various stages of production. Being able to reliably count these objects in real-time improves inventory management, quality assurance, and overall efficiency. Introduction In this guide, we’ll walk

10 Dec 2024 • 13 min read

How to Fine-tune PaliGemma 2

Learn how to fine-tune PaliGemma 2 to extract data from an image in JSON format.

1 Sep 2024 • 11 min read

What is Active Learning? The Ultimate Guide.

In this guide, we discuss what active learning is, types of active learning, and walk through an example of active learning in practice.

14 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

How to Create a Workout Pose Correction Tool

0:00 /0:21 1× Introduction Computer vision is a useful tool when it comes to understanding and quantifying real-world activity happening in real-time. Tracking human movements with pose estimation is a common way to evaluate athletics or general body movement to help gain insight into proper form and technique.

2 Aug 2024 • 2 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.

16 Jul 2024 • 8 min read

What is the Open Images Dataset? A Deep Dive.

The Open Images Dataset was released by Google in 2016, and it is one of the largest and most diverse collections of labeled images. Since then, Google has regularly updated and improved it. The latest version of the dataset, Open Images V7, was introduced in 2022.  Globally, researchers and developers

11 Jul 2024 • 11 min read

How to Train RT-DETR on a Custom Dataset with Transformers

💡Looking for RF-DETR, the state-of-the-art real-time object detection model developed by Roboflow ? Check out the RF-DETR training guide. RF-DETR runs in real time, is the first model to achieve 60+ on COCO, and is state-of-the-art on the RF100-VL benchmark. RT-DETR, short for "Real-Time DEtection TRansformer", is a computer

2 Apr 2024 • 4 min read

Import Images from Databricks to Roboflow

Upload image data from Databricks SQL warehouse into Roboflow for training custom computer vision models.

29 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use YOLO-World With Active Learning to Train a Custom Model

In this guide, we demonstrate an approach where we can start using the benefits of YOLO-World now, while simultaneously collecting data to train a faster custom model later.

20 Feb 2024 • 8 min read

Build Enterprise Datasets with CLIP for Multimodal Model Training Using Intel Gaudi2 HPUs

In this guide, learn how to use CLIP on Intel Gaudi2 HPUs to deduplicate datasets before training large multimodal vision models.

16 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use Multiple Models to Label Datasets with Autodistill

In this guide, we cover the benefits of and how to combine multiple models in order to automatically label a dataset of images.

6 Feb 2024 • 6 min read

Label Verification AI: How to Verify Label Placement on Packages

Learn how to build a system to verify label placement on packages using computer vision.

26 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

How to Analyze a Folder of Videos from Google Cloud Platform

In this guide, we walk through how to analyze videos stored in Google Cloud Storage with computer vision models.

22 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

How to Use the Segment Anything Model (SAM)

Segment Anything (SAM) is a computer vision model developed by Meta AI. In this guide, you will learn how to use SAM on your own data.