Getting Started

1 Jun 2026 • 4 min read

How To Annotate Images with Your Team Using Roboflow

Annotate datasets faster with your team. Invite labelers, assign jobs, speed up labeling with AI tools like SAM 3, and review every image before it enters your dataset.

25 May 2026 • 7 min read

What Is A Label Map?

In this post, we will demystify the label map by discussing the role that it plays in the computer vision annotation process. Then we will get hands on with some real life examples using a label map.

12 May 2026 • 5 min read

Getting Started with VGG Image Annotator for Object Detection Tutorial

Learn how to label images in VGG Image Annotator (VIA): draw boxes and polygons in your browser, export, and convert to 30+ formats free.

1 May 2026 • 20 min read

Glossary of Common Computer Vision Terms

Computer vision (and machine learning in general) is one of those fields that can seem hard to approach because there are so many industry-specific words (or common words used in novel ways) that it can feel a bit like you're trying to learn a new language when you're trying to get started.

31 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

How to Run Jupyter Notebooks on an Apple M1 Mac

Learn how to run Jupyter Notebooks on Apple M1 Macbooks.

9 Mar 2026 • 7 min read

VoTT for Image Annotation and Labeling

A guide on using VoTT to label your own computer vision dataset.

1 Jan 2026 • 18 min read

Getting Started with Roboflow

Roboflow eliminates boilerplate code when building object detection models. Get started with an example.

22 Dec 2025 • 4 min read

AI for Live Video: Introducing the Serverless Streaming API

SUMMARY The Roboflow Serverless Video Streaming API lets you run computer vision workflows on live video from webcams, RTSP feeds, or video files by streaming directly to the cloud over WebRTC, with no inference environment to configure or manage. Compute instances are ephemeral and scale automatically, so you pay only

30 May 2025 • 8 min read

What Is Object Detection? How It Works and Why It Matters

In this guide, we discuss what object detection is, how it works, how to label and augment data for object detection models, and more.

14 Mar 2025 • 4 min read

How I Taught My Dad Computer Vision with Roboflow in Under 30 Minutes!

Discover how I helped my dad build a custom computer vision model in under 30 minutes using Roboflow’s no-code AI tools.

29 Jan 2025 • 8 min read

What is Computer Vision? Comprehensive Guide [2026]

Learn about computer vision and how you can use it to solve problems.

21 Mar 2024 • 8 min read

What is OpenCV? A Guide for Beginners.

Learn what OpenCV is, what you can do with OpenCV, how OpenCV performs on various tasks when run on CPU vs. GPU, and more.

20 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Use LabelMe: A Complete Guide

In this guide, we discuss the features in LabelMe, how to install LabelMe, and how to start annotating images in the tool.

27 Mar 2023 • 4 min read

Resources to Build Computer Vision Applications Faster

Learn how Roboflow Utilities, Templates, Research, and Showcase can help you build computer vision applications faster.

18 Jan 2023 • 4 min read

Recap: Roboflow's 12 Days of #Shipmas

Team Roboflow decided to end 2022 strong and kick off 2023 with a bang by shipping 12 new features in 12 days. Updates were made to model-assisted labeling, model training, annotation tools, the REST API, Python SDK, and more.

16 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Launch: Roboflow Command-line Interface

SUMMARY The Roboflow CLI, installed via npm, lets you manage workspaces and projects, upload images and annotations, import datasets in common formats (COCO, Pascal VOC, and others), and run inference on object detection, classification, instance segmentation, or semantic segmentation models, all without opening a browser. Authentication stores API keys locally

13 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Sharing Your Computer Vision Project on Roboflow Universe

In this guide, learn how to launch your computer vision project on Roboflow Universe.

28 Sep 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling

SUMMARY Roboflow Annotate's Smart Polygon tool uses a machine learning model behind the scenes to generate a polygon label with a single click on an object, reducing what previously required many manual point placements to a near-instant operation. Precise polygon annotations are required for training instance segmentation

5 Sep 2022 • 5 min read

Train Activity Recognition Models Using Spectrograms and Computer Vision

As Ph.D. students in the Active Robotics Sensing Lab (ARoS) at NC State under the supervision of Dr. Edgar Lobaton, we developed in conjunction with The Engineering Place at NC State a set of activities to walk high school students through the entire computer vision pipeline.

19 Aug 2022 • 8 min read

How to Train YOLOv5-Classification on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv5 classification model on a custom dataset.

16 Aug 2022 • 6 min read

Building Custom Computer Vision Models with NVIDIA TAO Toolkit and Roboflow

NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit provides a framework for fine-tuning popular computer vision models using your own data. In this tutorial, we'll be demonstrating how to use Roboflow to curate a high-quality computer vision dataset to use with NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit.

11 May 2022 • 5 min read

Roboflow’s Python Pip Package For Computer Vision

Regardless of whether your project is a new product line, a new industrial production system, a research project, or a personal one to help you learn what computer vision is all about, you'll want to add "pip install roboflow" to your code - and here's why.

24 Mar 2022 • 5 min read

Improving Computer Vision Datasets and Models

Common tips and tricks to improve your computer or machine vision dataset, including using Roboflow Train and the Dataset Health Check tools.

9 Feb 2022 • 6 min read

Identifying Chocolates With Computer Vision

Learn how to identify chocoaltes using computer vision technology.