Model Training

31 Jan 2021 • 3 min read

Using Computer Vision to Win at Duck Hunt

Can we use object detection to automate identifying moving objects on a screen? Abhinav Mandava leverages Roboflow to create an aimbot (which automates aiming and firing for the player) for Duck Hunt.

13 Jan 2021 • 4 min read

A Primer on Transfer Learning

Transfer learning [https://blog.roboflow.com/what-is-transfer-learning/] is a machine learning (ML) technique where knowledge gained during training a set of problems can be used to solve other related problems. It’s very similar to the concept of reusing code in computer programming, except instead of sharing code between different

8 Jan 2021 • 5 min read

How to Try CLIP: OpenAI's Zero-Shot Image Classifier

Earlier this week, OpenAI dropped a bomb on the computer vision world.

28 Dec 2020 • 5 min read

Football, Kaggle, Roboflow: Using Computer Vision to Tackle Helmet Safety

If you're searching for a dataset to use or are looking to improve your data science modeling skills, Kaggle [https://www.kaggle.com/] is a great resource for free data and for competitions. For example, there's currently an open Kaggle competition detecting American football helmet impacts

15 Dec 2020 • 5 min read

How to Train Scaled-YOLOv4 to Detect Custom Objects

Object detection technology advances with the release of Scaled-YOLOv4. This blog is written to help you apply Scaled-YOLOv4 to your custom object detection task, to detect any object in the world, given the right training data.

15 Dec 2020 • 4 min read

Apple's M1 is up to 3.6x as fast at training machine learning models

We compared the Apple M1 chip to the Intel Core i5 chip on an object detection task using Create ML.

3 Dec 2020 • 8 min read

Scaled-YOLOv4 is Now the Best Model for Object Detection

(based on Microsoft COCO benchmarks) The object detection space remains white hot with the recent publication of Scaled-YOLOv4 [https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08036], establishing a new state of the art in object detection [https://blog.roboflow.com/object-detection/]. Looking to train a Scaled-YOLOv4 model? Skip this post and jump

16 Nov 2020 • 6 min read

Google Researchers Say Underspecification is Ruining Your Model Performance. Here's Five Ways to Fix That.

We read that Google underspecification paper so you don't have to.

13 Nov 2020 • 5 min read

YOLOv4 - Ten Tactics to Build a Better Model

The YOLO v4 repository is currently one of the best places to train a custom object detector, and the capabilities of the Darknet repository are vast. In this post, we discuss and implement ten advanced tactics in YOLO v4 so you can build the best object detection model from your custom dataset.

28 Oct 2020 • 2 min read

Train Test Split Guide and Overview

In order to ensure our models are generalizing well (rather than memorizing training data), it is best practice to create a train, test split. That is, absent rigor, our models can easily overfit to a small subset of examples we've collected. Look no further than Tesla using computer

25 Oct 2020 • 5 min read

How to Save and Load Model Weights in Google Colab

Google Colab is Google's hosted Jupyter Notebook product that provides a free compute environment, including GPU and TPU. Colab comes "batteries included" with many popular Python packages installed, making it a choice tool for easy model experimentation. For this reason, the Roboflow Model Library includes many

22 Aug 2020 • 8 min read

How to Train a Custom Mobile Object Detection Model (with YOLOv4 Tiny and TensorFlow Lite)

Learn how to train a custom mobile object detection model with YOLOv4 tiny and TensorFlow Lite.

17 Aug 2020 • 5 min read

How to Train a Custom TensorFlow Lite Object Detection Model

Learn how to train a custom TensorFlow Lite object detection model with a custom dataset.

24 Jun 2020 • 9 min read

How to Train Detectron2 on Custom Object Detection Data

Learn how to train a Detectron2 model on a custom object detection dataset.

10 Jun 2020 • 10 min read

How to Train a YOLOv5 Model On a Custom Dataset

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

21 May 2020 • 9 min read

How to Train YOLOv4 on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv4 model on a custom dataset.

13 May 2020 • 7 min read

Data Augmentation in YOLOv4

Learn how data augmentation is used in training YOLOv4 computer vision models.

15 Apr 2020 • 12 min read

How to Create a Synthetic Dataset for Computer Vision

The appeals of synthetic data are alluring: you can rapidly generate a vast amount of diverse, perfectly labeled images for very little cost and without ever leaving the comfort of your office. The good news is: it's easy to try! And we're about to show you how.

6 Apr 2020 • 6 min read

How to Create to a TFRecord File for Computer Vision and Object Detection

TensorFlow expedites the machine learning process markedly. From abstracting complex linear algebra to including pre-trained models and weights, getting the most out of TensorFlow is a full-time job. However, when it comes to loading data in ways that TensorFlow expects in order to perform as efficiently as it does, every

11 Mar 2020 • 9 min read

Training a TensorFlow Faster R-CNN Object Detection Model on a Custom Dataset

Following this tutorial, you only need to change a couple lines of code to train an object detection model to your own dataset. Computer vision is revolutionizing medical imaging. Algorithms are helping doctors identify 1 in ten cancer patients they may have missed. There are even early indications that radiological