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How to Fine-Tune RF-DETR Keypoints on Custom Data

26 Jun 2026 • 9 min read

How to Fine-Tune RF-DETR Keypoints on Custom Data

A step-by-step guide to fine-tuning RF-DETR Keypoint on a custom basketball court dataset, from COCO pretrained inference to training, evaluation, and broadcast-video inference.

Best Pose Estimation Models

6 Nov 2025 • 14 min read

Best Pose Estimation Models

Pose estimation is transforming how we understand human movement, powering everything from fitness tracking and sports analytics to healthcare rehabilitation. This guide explores the best pose estimation models, and shows how to deploy them efficiently across mobile, edge, and cloud environments.

Detect NBA 3 Second Violations with AI

22 Jul 2025 • 8 min read

Detect NBA 3 Second Violations with AI

SUMMARY Automatically detecting NBA 3-second paint violations requires solving several distinct sub-problems at once: tracking each player across frames, identifying the painted zone, and counting how long each player stays inside it. This tutorial builds that system by combining player tracking with Meta's SAM2, court keypoint

How to Display Keypoint Detections with Python

3 Sep 2024 • 3 min read

How to Display Keypoint Detections with Python

Learn how to plot detections from popular keypoint detection models (i.e. MediaPipe) in Python.

How to Create a Workout Pose Correction Tool

14 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

How to Create a Workout Pose Correction Tool

SUMMARY This tutorial builds a real-time workout form checker using a custom Roboflow keypoint detection model trained to locate the left and right sides of a weight, combined with MediaPipe body tracking and deployed through Roboflow Workflows. The pipeline processes each video frame, extracts keypoints from both sources, and

Camera Calibration in Sports with Keypoints

8 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

Camera Calibration in Sports with Keypoints

SUMMARY Accurate player tracking in sports footage requires mapping pixel coordinates from a moving camera to real-world field positions, and this tutorial covers how to do that by training a YOLOv8 keypoint detection model to recognize characteristic landmarks on a soccer pitch, then using those detections to compute a

automatic bottle orienter

10 Apr 2024 • 10 min read

Automatic Bottle Orienter with Computer Vision

Learn how to estimate the orientation of a water bottle using computer vision.

What is MediaPipe? A Guide for Beginners

10 Apr 2024 • 7 min read

What is MediaPipe? A Guide for Beginners

In this article, we discuss what MediaPipe is, what you can do with MediaPipe, and how to use MediaPipe in Python.

What is OpenPose? A Guide for Beginners.

3 Apr 2024 • 10 min read

What is OpenPose? A Guide for Beginners.

In this guide, we discuss what OpenPose is, what you can do with the model, and how you can use OpenPose.

How to Train a Custom YOLOv8 Pose Estimation Model

10 Jan 2024 • 8 min read

How to Train a Custom YOLOv8 Pose Estimation Model

In this guide, we walk through how to train a custom YOLOv8 pose estimation model with your own dataset.

Launch: Label, Train, Deploy Support for Keypoint Detection Models in Roboflow

5 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

Launch: Label, Train, Deploy Support for Keypoint Detection Models in Roboflow

Learn how to label data for and train keypoint detection models using Roboflow.

What is Keypoint Detection?

31 Oct 2023 • 7 min read

What is Keypoint Detection?

In this guide, we discuss what keypoint detection is, common architectures used for keypoint detection, and the high-level steps to build a keypoint detection model.

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

19 Jul 2023 • 9 min read

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

SUMMARY Pose estimation, the computer vision task of detecting key body joints in images and video, has progressed from hand-crafted geometric methods in the 1990s through graphical models in the 2000s to convolutional neural network approaches that now dominate the field. This overview traces that arc, covering traditional methods,

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