Multimodal

30 Sep 2025 • 9 min read

How to Detect, Track, and Identify Basketball Players with Computer Vision

Build a computer vision pipeline that detects, tracks, and identifies NBA players during a game. Using models like RF-DETR, SAM2, SigLIP, SmolVLM2, and ResNet, the system handles motion blur, occlusion, and uniform similarity to reliably map jersey numbers to player identities.

26 Aug 2025 • 9 min read

How to Fine-Tune Qwen2.5-VL with a Custom Dataset

Learn how to fine-tune Qwen2.5-VL for document processing using a custom dataset.

7 Aug 2025 • 4 min read

GPT-5 for Vision: Results from 80+ Real-World Tests

On August 7th, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5, the newest model in their GPT series. GPT-5 has advanced reasoning capabilities and, like many recent models by OpenAI, multimodal support. This means that you can both prompt GPT-5 with one or more images and ask for an answer, but also prompt the

18 Jul 2025 • 5 min read

Use Qwen2.5-VL for Zero-Shot Object Detection

Qwen2.5-VL is the latest addition to the Qwen vision-language model series, offering cutting-edge capabilities for image, text, and document understanding. Available in three model sizes—3B, 7B, and 72B—it excels at tasks such as object detection, OCR for multi-language and rotated text, and structured data extraction from complex

23 Jun 2025 • 7 min read

How to Fine-Tune a SmolVLM2 Model on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to fine-tune SmolVLM2 for visual question answering using a custom dataset.

11 Jun 2025 • 4 min read

OpenAI o3-pro: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Explore how OpenAI o3-pro does on a range of use cases, from defect detection to object counting to VQA.

17 Apr 2025 • 6 min read

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Read our analysis of how OpenAI's O3 and O4-Mini models perform on a range of vision tasks.

15 Apr 2025 • 5 min read

OpenAI GPT-4.1: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Read our analysis of OpenAI's GPT-4.1 model on multimodal tasks like VQA, object detection, and more.

13 Mar 2025 • 5 min read

Gemma 3: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Read our analysis of Google's Gemma-3 model and how it performs on a variety of common multimodal vision AI tasks.

13 Mar 2025 • 1 min read

Foundational Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge [CVPR 2025]

Roboflow & Carnegie Mellon University are releasing the second iteration of the Foundational Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge at CVPR 2025.

11 Mar 2025 • 5 min read

SmolVLM2: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Read our analysis of how SmolVLM2 performs on a range of multimodal vision tasks.

11 Mar 2025 • 6 min read

Moondream 2: Multimodal and Vision Analysis

Read our analysis of how the multimodal Moondream 2 model performs on a range of vision tasks.

13 Feb 2025 • 7 min read

OpenAI o3-mini: Vision and Multimodal Features

Read our analysis of how OpenAI's O3 Mini model performs on various computer vision tasks.

2 Jan 2025 • 8 min read

What is Few-Shot Learning?

In this blog post, we discuss what few-shot learning is, architectural approaches for implementing few-shot learning, and specific implementations of few-shot learning techniques.

10 Dec 2024 • 13 min read

How to Fine-tune PaliGemma 2

Learn how to fine-tune PaliGemma 2 to extract data from an image in JSON format.

16 Oct 2024 • 6 min read

Launch: Use Florence-2 in Roboflow Workflows

Learn how to use Florence-2 in Roboflow Workflows for zero-shot object detection, OCR, and more.

3 Sep 2024 • 7 min read

Table and Figure Understanding with Computer Vision

Learn how to use Roboflow Workflows and multimodal models to derive information about the contents of tables and figures.

1 Sep 2024 • 15 min read

What is CLIP? Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training Explained.

CLIP is an open source, multimodal computer vision model developed by OpenAI. Learn what CLIP is in this guide.

22 Jul 2024 • 7 min read

How to OCR Hand-Written Notes with GPT-4

Learn how to OCR hand-written notes with GPT-4.

12 Jul 2024 • 3 min read

Document Understanding with Multimodal Models

Learn how to use the PaliGemma multimodal model to ask questions about the contents of a document.

12 Jul 2024 • 3 min read

Visual Question Answering with Multimodal Models

Learn how to use the PaliGemma multimodal model to ask questions about images.

12 Jul 2024 • 4 min read

Understand Website Screenshots with a Multimodal Vision Model

Learn how to use the Florence-2 multimodal model to generate rich descriptions of website screenshots.

12 Jul 2024 • 4 min read

How to Caption Images with a Multimodal Vision Model

Learn how to caption images using a multimodal vision model.

10 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use Florence-2 for Optical Character Recognition

Learn how to use the Florence-2 model for Optical Character Recognition tasks.