Object Detection

16 Apr 2026 • 4 min read

Serverless GPU Inference Cost Comparison: Roboflow, GCP, AWS, Azure

In this blog post, we will explore how different cloud providers compare in running custom vision model inference. Custom RF-DETR Model If you need OCR, face detection/comparison, or general-purpose COCO-20 classification and detection, the major clouds already offer plenty of managed options, such as AWS Rekognition, GCP Vision, and

14 Jan 2026 • 9 min read

What is YOLO? The Ultimate Guide [2026]

Learn about the history of the YOLO family of objec tdetection models, extensively used across a wide range of object detection tasks.

13 Jan 2026 • 12 min read

Object Detection vs Vision-Language Models: When Should You Use Each?

Object detection and vision-language models solve different problems. This guide explains when to use each. And how speed, cost, and reliability differ.

16 Dec 2025 • 5 min read

How to Build and Run an Aimbot

Learn how to build and run an aimbot using computer vision.

1 Dec 2025 • 12 min read

Vision Transformer vs. CNN for Object Detection

This guide explains how CNNs and ViTs differ, when to use each, and how to train and compare them directly inside Roboflow so you can choose the best architecture for your detection task.

19 Nov 2025 • 5 min read

Launch: Use Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) with Roboflow

Today, we are introducing new tools powered by Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) that significantly change how people build computer vision applications. SAM 3 is a powerful vision foundation model that detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on prompts. See our detailed SAM 3 model overview

13 Oct 2025 • 11 min read

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.

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.

28 Aug 2025 • 7 min read

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.

8 Aug 2025 • 15 min read

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.

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

4 Aug 2025 • 8 min read

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

25 Jul 2025 • 9 min read

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. 0:00 /0:13 1× Millions of people rely on

22 Jul 2025 • 7 min read

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

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

19 Jun 2025 • 19 min read

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.

30 May 2025 • 8 min read

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.

27 May 2025 • 10 min read

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.

16 May 2025 • 19 min read

Object Detection Metrics

Understand what key object detection metrics are. Learn why they're used and how to use them.

9 May 2025 • 9 min read

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.

19 Feb 2025 • 5 min read

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.

12 Dec 2024 • 4 min read

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

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.

14 Oct 2024 • 3 min read

How to Remove Background of an Image with Computer Vision

Learn how to build your own background removal application using computer vision.