Model Deployment

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.

6 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

​​How to Use a Product Recognition API

Learn how to use the Roboflow product recognition API to identify the presence or absence of products on a retail shelf.

6 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Identify Solar Panels in Aerial Imagery with Computer Vision

Learn how to identify solar panels in aerial imagery with computer vision.

6 Feb 2024 • 6 min read

Vision Tools: Using Computer and Machine Vision

Learn how to use computer and machine vision to improve efficiency on your manufacturing line.

2 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

How to Use an Image Captioning API

In this guide, learn how to set up and use an image captioning API that you can use to programmatically generate image captions.

29 Jan 2024 • 9 min read

Blue Eco Line Reduces River Pollution with Roboflow and Intel Sapphire Rapids

SUMMARY Blue Eco Line deploys cameras on bridges to measure plastic waste entering and leaving cities, then uses an autonomous conveyor belt guided by computer vision to physically remove pollution from rivers. The pipeline uses Roboflow to collect, upload, and label plastic waste images, then trains a YOLOv8 model on

26 Jan 2024 • 7 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.

26 Jan 2024 • 10 min read

How to Build a Container Yard Management System with Computer Vision

This guide walks through how to build a yard management system using computer vision technology.

26 Jan 2024 • 4 min read

What is FFmpeg? A Guide for Computer Vision Tasks.

In this guide, we show how to install FFmpeg and use FFmpeg to convert videos between formats and split a video into frames for use in training a vision model.

19 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

How to Estimate Speed with Computer Vision

In this blog post, we delve into the process of estimating vehicle speed using computer vision, covering the steps from object detection to tracking and addressing challenges like perspective distortion with OpenCV.

12 Jan 2024 • 5 min read

Comparing Specialized Models to AWS Rekognition Test

In this guide, we cover how to compare Amazon Rekognition, a suite of computer vision APIs, against each other.

12 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

How to Analyze a Folder of Videos from AWS S3

In this guide, learn how to analyze a folder of images with machine learning models using data stored in an AWS S3 bucket.

10 Jan 2024 • 5 min read

What is Machine Vision?

In this guide, we discuss what machine vision is and how you can use machine vision for defect detection and product quality assurance.

28 Dec 2023 • 7 min read

Building an IoT-Powered Exercise Tracker with Computer Vision

In this article, Timothy Malche shows how he built a push up counting system with computer vision.

20 Dec 2023 • 4 min read

How to Deploy CogVLM on AWS

Guide on deploying a CogVLM Inference Server with 4-bit quantization on Amazon Web Services, covering setup of EC2 instances, configuring hardware and software requirements, and starting the inference server with Docker.

14 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

How to Deploy CogVLM

In this guide, learn how to deploy the CogVLM multimodal model on your own infrastructure with Roboflow Inference.

13 Dec 2023 • 7 min read

How to Use Grounded EdgeSAM

Learn how to use Grounded EdgeSAM to auto-label data for use in training an image segmentation model.

6 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

Comparing Custom Models to Google Cloud Vision API

In this guide, we go over how to evaluate object detection models on Roboflow Universe versus Google Cloud Vision.

6 Dec 2023 • 8 min read

How to Detect Objects with YOLOv8

Learn how to detect objects with YOLOv8 using pre-trained and custom-trained object detection models.

1 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

How to Moderate Video Content

Learn how to use the Roboflow Video Inference API to moderate video content.