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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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People Counting Using Computer Vision
Introduction
Counting and keeping track of a large number of people entering and exiting an event can be challenging, especially when security is a priority. Traditional methods of monitoring people make it difficult for security officials to keep track of everyone in real-time. However, advancements in AI technologies like computer
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What is the Open Images Dataset? A Deep Dive.
The Open Images Dataset was released by Google in 2016, and it is one of the largest and most diverse collections of labeled images. Since then, Google has regularly updated and improved it. The latest version of the dataset, Open Images V7, was introduced in 2022.
Globally, researchers and developers
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How to Train RT-DETR on a Custom Dataset with Transformers
💡Looking for RF-DETR, the state-of-the-art real-time object detection model developed by Roboflow ? Check out the RF-DETR training guide. RF-DETR runs in real time, is the first model to achieve 60+ on COCO, and is state-of-the-art on the RF100-VL benchmark.
RT-DETR, short for "Real-Time DEtection TRansformer", is a computer
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How to Fine-tune Florence-2 for Object Detection Tasks
This tutorial will show you how to fine-tune Florence-2 on object detection datasets to improve model performance for your specific use case.
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Florence-2: Vision-language Model
Florence-2 is a lightweight vision-language model open-sourced by Microsoft under the MIT license.
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How to Detect Small Objects: A Guide
Learn how to detect small objects using SAHI with the Inference Slicer Python method, and using various pre-processing steps.
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Realtime Video Stream Analysis with Computer Vision
In this guide, we use computer vision to process multiple live video streams to perform analysis and gain insights.
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What is Handwriting Recognition?
In this guide, we go over an overview of handwriting recognition, including the use cases, challenges, and ways of using of handwriting recognition, as well as a tutorial.
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What is OpenPose? A Guide for Beginners.
In this guide, we discuss what OpenPose is, what you can do with the model, and how you can use OpenPose.
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Counting Rebar with Computer Vision
Learn how to build an application that counts rebar using computer vision.
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How to Detect Objects with YOLOv5
YOLOv5, released on June 25th, 2020, is a computer vision model that supports object detection. For example, you can train an object detection model to detect the location of wooden pallets in a manufacturing facility.
YOLOv5 has since been largely replaced with YOLOv8. With that said, YOLOv5 continues to have
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What is YOLOv3? An Introductory Guide.
Learn what YOLOv3 is and the notable architectural eatures of this model.
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Build a Gesture-Based Light Controller with Computer Vision
Learn how to build a gesture-based light controler using computer vision
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What is OpenCV? A Guide for Beginners.
Learn what OpenCV is, what you can do with OpenCV, how OpenCV performs on various tasks when run on CPU vs. GPU, and more.
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Coffee Bean Inspection with Computer Vision
There are several quality checks that need to be run on coffee beans before they are packaged and ready for delivery.
A professional taster will “cup” coffee to ensure it meets a given taste profile. The color of the coffee beans may be checked using a photometer to ensure the
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Assess Car Damage with Computer Vision
Learn how to assess visual car damage using computer vision.
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How to Use YOLO-World With Active Learning to Train a Custom Model
In this guide, we demonstrate an approach where we can start using the benefits of YOLO-World now, while simultaneously collecting data to train a faster custom model later.
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Security Camera Monitoring: CCTV Computer Vision
Every new hire at Roboflow creates a visionary project in their first two weeks. The visionary project is an opportunity to build what "scratches your itch" with computer vision and Roboflow tooling. There have been some pretty incredible projects in the past, including a vacuum tracking system and
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How to Train YOLOv9 on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv9 model on a custom dataset.
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How to Use Multiple Models to Label Datasets with Autodistill
In this guide, we cover the benefits of and how to combine multiple models in order to automatically label a dataset of images.
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How to Detect Objects with YOLO-World
Learn how to detect objects with YOLO-World, a zero-shot, open-vocabulary object detection model.
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