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Python Object Detection
Learn Python object detection step-by-step using Roboflow Inference. Run RF-DETR and fine-tuned models from Roboflow Universe on images and videos with ease.
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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.
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How to Build a Custom Object Detection Pipeline
Building a custom object detection pipeline lets you move beyond generic models and tailor vision AI to your specific needs. In this guide, we show how to create a complete pipeline with Roboflow, covering dataset creation, training, evaluation, and deployment.
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Object Counting with Computer Vision
Understand what is object counting in computer vision, challenges in object counting, real-world use-cases of object counting and learn how to perform object counting in image and video.
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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
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How to Create a YOLOv11 Android App
Adding vision AI capabilities to your Android app is possible by deploying a custom YOLOv11 model on your device. Object detection models allow you to create lots of useful features like counting, measurement, reading text, and classification.
In this guide, you'll learn how to create a custom YOLOv11
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How to Build an iOS App with Visual AI Capabilities
In this guide, we’ll walk through using a custom object detection model tailored to identify glasses and show you how to seamlessly integrate it into an iOS app for instant live detection — all with minimal latency and maximum convenience.
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Detect NBA 3 Second Violations with AI
Introduction
Ever shouted at the screen that a player was camping in the paint? You're not alone. Basketball is a fast paced and dynamic sport, with many rules that apply per player making it difficult for a referee to monitor everything. The 3-second rule in basketball, which prevents
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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
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YOLO Object Detection: An Introduction
Understand what is YOLO for object detection, how it works, what are different YOLO models and learn how to use YOLO with Roboflow.
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What Is Object Detection? How It Works and Why It Matters
In this guide, we discuss what object detection is, how it works, how to label and augment data for object detection models, and more.
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SORT Explained: Real-Time Object Tracking in Python
blog post explains how to use the SORT object tracking algorithm for real-time tracking in computer vision projects, highlighting its lightweight, efficient design and easy implementation with the Trackers library in Python.
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Object Detection Metrics
Understand what key object detection metrics are. Learn why they're used and how to use them.
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Using Computer Vision to Develop a Robotic Arm Poker Dealer
Learn how the vision system of an acting poker dealer arm was built by the University of Manchester Robotics Society.
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How to Train a YOLOv12 Object Detection Model on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv12 object detection model on a custom dataset.
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What is YOLO? The Ultimate Guide [2025]
Learn about the history of the YOLO family of objec tdetection models, extensively used across a wide range of object detection tasks.
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Count Objects on a Conveyor Belt Using Computer Vision
In many manufacturing environments, conveyor belts are used for transporting objects, especially small components such as bolts, nuts, or other fasteners through various stages of production. Being able to reliably count these objects in real-time improves inventory management, quality assurance, and overall efficiency.
Introduction
In this guide, we’ll walk
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How to Fine-tune PaliGemma 2
Learn how to fine-tune PaliGemma 2 to extract data from an image in JSON format.
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How to Remove Background of an Image with Computer Vision
Learn how to build your own background removal application using computer vision.
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How to Train a YOLOv11 Object Detection Model on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv11 object detection model with a custom dataset.
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Motion Detection with Computer Vision
With this guide, you'll learn how to use computer vision to only identify moving objects in a video. Here is a hosted demo to try out.
Object detection models can be used on a live video feed, pre-recorded video, youtube video, webcam, etc. Lets say you do not
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How to Draw a Bounding Box with Python
In this post, we discuss how to use the Roboflow supervision library to draw and fill a bounding box in Python.
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Ball Tracking in Sports with Computer Vision
Ball tracking is crucial for AI systems to analyze sports effectively, but it's challenging due to factors like the ball's small size, high velocity, complex backgrounds, similar-looking objects, and varying lighting. This tutorial will teach you how to overcome these challenges.
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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.
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