19 Dec 2023 • 5 min read Detecting Complex and Amorphous Features of Marine Sponges In this post, Andy Portalatin describes work done for his master's thesis toward detecting complex and amorphous features of marine sponges.
19 Dec 2023 • 9 min read How to Detect Brand Logos in Videos Learn how to detect brand logos in Roboflow with a custom-trained object detection model that you can run on videos.
6 Dec 2023 • 6 min read Comparing Custom Models to Google Cloud Vision API In this guide, we go over how to evaluate object detection models on Roboflow Universe versus Google Cloud Vision.
6 Dec 2023 • 7 min read How to Detect Objects with YOLOv8 Learn how to detect objects with YOLOv8 using pre-trained and custom-trained object detection models.
1 Dec 2023 • 7 min read Automatically Label Product SKUs with Autodistill In this guide, we show how to automatically label product SKUs (with a manual review stage) using Autodistill.
27 Nov 2023 • 3 min read Roboflow Video Inference with Custom Annotators Performing real-time video inference is crucial for many applications like autonomous vehicles, security systems, logistics, and more. However, setting up a robust video inference pipeline can be time consuming. You need a trained computer vision model, inference code, and visualization tools to annotate each frame. This is a lot of
16 Nov 2023 • 5 min read What is Object Recognition? In this guide, we discuss what object recognition is, how it works, and how to start using object recognition to solve problems.
16 Nov 2023 • 4 min read What is Zero-Shot Object Detection? Learn what zero-shot object detection is, applications for zero-shot object detection, and how to get started with Grounding DINO, a zero-shot model.
7 Nov 2023 • 4 min read DINO-GPT4-V: Use GPT-4V in a Two-Stage Detection Model In this guide, we introduce DINO-GPT4V, a model that uses Grounding DINO to detect general objects and GPT-4V to refine labels.
7 Nov 2023 • 5 min read Experiments with GPT-4V for Object Detection See our experiments that explore GPT-4V's object detection capabilities.
24 Oct 2023 • 6 min read Launch: Roboflow Logistics Pre-trained Object Detection Model The Roboflow Logistics Model, trained on 99,238 images across 20 classes, offers a domain-specific advantage for logistics vision use cases.
20 Sep 2023 • 9 min read Enhancing Child Safety with Computer Vision This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. Introduction Child safety is a priority for parents and caregivers, an issue society takes seriously. While traditional safety measures are indispensable, technology is opening up new avenues for enhancing our ability to ensure child safety in various environments, especially
19 Sep 2023 • 10 min read Aerial Fire Detection with Drone Imagery and Computer Vision In this article, Timothy Malche shows the steps he followed to build an aerial fire detection system with drone imagery and computer vision.
19 Sep 2023 • 6 min read Using Computer Vision to Improve Railway Safety In this guide, we show how to use computer vision to identify hazardous situations on railways for use in building safety systems.
15 Sep 2023 • 11 min read Improving Vision Model Performance Using Roboflow & Tenyks This is a guest post with Jose Gabriel Islas Montero (ML Engineer and Evangelist at Tenyks), and Dmitry Kazhdan (CTO & Co-Founder at Tenyks) Introduction When improving an object detection model, many engineers focus solely on tweaking the model architecture and hyperparameters. However, the root cause of mediocre performance often
31 Aug 2023 • 4 min read How to Use SAHI to Detect Small Objects In this guide, we show how to use the SAHI implementation in the supervision Python package to detect small objects in images.
23 Aug 2023 • 7 min read Using Computer Vision for Online Exam Proctoring This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. Introduction Digital transformation is a common practice in various fields, including education. There has been a significant shift towards online learning and tests, offering advantages like increased access and flexibility for learners worldwide. However, this shift has also raised
22 Aug 2023 • 6 min read How to Use Computer Vision to Monitor Inventory Real-time insights extracted from video streams can drastically improve efficiency for how industries operate. One high-impact application of this is in inventory management. Whether you’re a factory manager looking to improve inventory management or a store owner striving to prevent stockouts, real-time data can be a game-changer. This tutorial
22 Aug 2023 • 7 min read What is Object Detection? The Ultimate Guide. In this guide, we discuss what object detection is, how it works, how to label and augment data for object detection models, and more.
9 Aug 2023 • 8 min read How to Reduce Dataset Size Without Losing Accuracy Learn how to reduce the size of your computer vision dataset without losing accuracy.
9 Aug 2023 • 7 min read What is Mask R-CNN? The Ultimate Guide. In this guide, we discuss what Mask R-CNN is, how it works, where the model performs well, and what limitations exist with the model.
9 Aug 2023 • 8 min read How to Train RTMDet on a Custom Dataset Learn how to train a RTMDet computer vision model on a custom dataset.
1 Aug 2023 • 4 min read Using Stable Diffusion and SAM to Modify Image Contents Zero Shot Introduction Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) and foundation computer vision models have unlocked new interfaces and methods for editing images or videos. You may have heard of inpainting, outpainting, generative fill, and text to image; this post will show you how to execute those new generative AI functions
31 Jul 2023 • 6 min read A LLaMa 2, Midjourney & Autodistill Computer Vision Pipeline Combine the use of Midjourney, Autodistill, LLaMa 2 and Roboflow to create a object detection model without data collection or labeling.