Model Deployment

12 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

How to Deploy Hugging Face Models with Roboflow

SUMMARY Computer vision model weights hosted on Hugging Face, including YOLOv8 variants for detection, segmentation, classification, and keypoint tasks, can be downloaded with Git-LFS and uploaded directly to Roboflow for edge or private-cloud deployment via Roboflow Inference. This guide walks through each step, from cloning model weights to

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

7 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

How to Extract Text From Images

SUMMARY Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts static image content in JPG, PNG, or PDF formats into machine-readable text, enabling automation of data entry, accessibility improvements, translation workflows, and document analysis. Roboflow's OCR API is one practical tool for this, offering a programmatic way to extract text at

1 Aug 2024 • 7 min read

How to Use SAM 2 for Video Segmentation

SUMMARY Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) is a unified image and video segmentation model from Meta that achieves 3 times fewer required interactions than prior approaches and runs 6 times faster than the original SAM. This walkthrough covers how to load and configure SAM 2 (available in four sizes

30 Jul 2024 • 8 min read

What is Segment Anything 2 (SAM 2)?

Learn about Meta AI's new Segment Anything 2 model and how you can use it for image and grounded image segmentation.

19 Jul 2024 • 8 min read

People Counting Using Computer Vision

SUMMARY Computer vision-based people counting tracks entry and exit flows in real time, giving organizations accurate occupancy data that manual headcounts cannot match at scale. This tutorial uses a people detection model from Roboflow to build a working counter that draws bounding boxes, overlays a running tally on each

5 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use GPT-4 To Extract Handwritten Text from Images

SUMMARY This tutorial builds a pipeline that combines a custom object detection model trained in Roboflow with GPT-4 Vision inside a Roboflow Workflow to extract and structure handwritten information from homework booklets. The object detection model localizes handwritten marks, and GPT-4 Vision reads time and name fields, with

14 Jun 2024 • 5 min read

Launch: Deploy YOLOv10 Models with Roboflow

Learn how to deploy a YOLOv10 model on Roboflow.

8 May 2024 • 9 min read

What is OpenVINO? A Guide for Beginners.

Learn what OpenVINO is and how you can use it to run inference on a computer vision model in Python.

3 Apr 2024 • 7 min read

Deploy and Monitor Computer Vision Models in Any Cloud with Roboflow and SkyPilot

Learn how to deploy computer vision models in any cloud using Roboflow and SkyPilot.

1 Apr 2024 • 3 min read

How to Use OCR on Videos

In this guide, we cover the process of how to use OCR on videos together with computer vision to solve real-world problems.

26 Mar 2024 • 9 min read

Ultimate Guide to Using CLIP with Intel Gaudi2

Learn how to use CLIP on the Intel Gaudi2 chip. This guide discusses training and deploying a custom CLIP model on Gaudi2.

26 Mar 2024 • 5 min read

What is YOLOv3? An Introductory Guide.

Learn what YOLOv3 is and the notable architectural eatures of this model.

26 Mar 2024 • 9 min read

Build a Gesture-Based Light Controller with Computer Vision

Learn how to build a gesture-based light controler using computer vision

5 Mar 2024 • 7 min read

First Impressions with the Claude 3 Opus Vision API

The Roboflow team ran several computer vision tests using the Claude 3 Opus Vision API. Read our results.

4 Mar 2024 • 3 min read

How to Use ResNet-50

Learn how to use a ResNet-50 checkpoint to classify images.

3 Mar 2024 • 7 min read

Multimodal Video Analysis with CLIP using Intel Gaudi2 HPUs

Learn how to use CLIP and the Intel Gaudi2 chip to run multimodal analyses and classification on videos.

28 Feb 2024 • 9 min read

Build an Image Search Engine with CLIP using Intel Gaudi2 HPUs

Learn how to use the Intel Gaudi2 chip to build an image search engine with CLIP embeddings.

27 Feb 2024 • 6 min read

What is a Computer Vision Engineer?

Learn what a computer vision engineer is, the responsibilities computer vision engineers have, the skills you need to become a vision engineer, and.more.

23 Feb 2024 • 7 min read

Security Camera Monitoring: CCTV Computer Vision

SUMMARY Secure Desk is a real-time CCTV computer vision application built by a Roboflow new hire that locks a physical desk behind a vision-powered passcode system: if a person is detected and no hand-digit passcode is entered within 30 seconds, the app sends a push notification alert.

20 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Broadcast Computer Vision Predictions with Apache Kafka

Learn how to broadcast predictions from a computer vision model to an Apache Kafka receiver.

19 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

How to Broadcast Computer Vision Predictions Over MQTT

Learn how to broadcast computer vision predictions over the MQTT protocol.

15 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Run Computer Vision Models on a RTSP Stream on a NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano

SUMMARY Running inference on RTSP streams at the edge requires hardware-aware tuning to avoid latency bottlenecks. This tutorial walks through flashing an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano with JetPack 5.1.1, configuring the correct ONNX Runtime GPU libraries, and deploying a computer vision model via Roboflow Inference Pipeline, which

6 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

Use an Image Classification API to Classify Images

Learn how to use the CLIP-powered Roboflow image classification API to assign labels to images.