Object Detection

28 Jul 2023 • 10 min read

How to Use Computer Vision for Environment Monitoring

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. Measuring changes to our environment is an important part of understanding progress made toward a more sustainable world. Historically, measuring the world around us required time-intensive human monitoring and measurement by a small number of expert scientists. Thanks to

24 Jul 2023 • 6 min read

Build a Chess Game Recorder with Computer Vision

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by the team at A1H1. Introduction The project of making an automated chess game recorder started after finding out that a chess set with sensors costs ~$500 USD! This price tag is not very accessible for everyday chess players or local chess

19 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

Improve Accuracy: Polygon Annotations for Object Detection

In this blog post, we will explore how you can improve your object detection model performance by converting your bounding box annotations to polygon annotations. We will also discuss the use of augmentations with polygon annotations and using pretrained weights to further boost performance. By the end of this post,

19 Jul 2023 • 9 min read

Pose Estimation Algorithms: History and Evolution

This article was contributed to the Roboflow blog by Abirami Vina. What is Pose Estimation? Pose estimation, also called keypoint detection, is a computer vision technique that pinpoints the key body joints of a human in images and videos to understand their pose. While pose estimation can also be applied

6 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

How to Use Generative AI to Augment Computer Vision Data

Dive deep into Kopikat.co, a tool for generative data augmentation created by OpenCV.ai to improve the quality of datasets.

5 Jul 2023 • 4 min read

Detecting Objects with DETIC vs Custom Training

Learn how to evaluate large foundation models and how custom model training can improve performance.

19 Jun 2023 • 3 min read

How to Train DETR on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a DETR model on a custom dataset.

30 May 2023 • 5 min read

How to Deploy Ultralytics YOLOv8 Using Intel's OpenVINO and Amazon SageMaker

Learn how to deploy an Ultralytics yOLOv8 model using OpenVINO and AWS SageMaker.

30 May 2023 • 6 min read

How to Train an Ultralytics YOLOv8 Classification Model

In this guide, we walk through how to train a classification model using YOLOv8 and a dataset hosted on Roboflow.

18 May 2023 • 8 min read

Automated Computer Vision Inspection of Physical Pipelines

In this guide, we show how to identify various types of pipeline defects using computer vision.

16 May 2023 • 7 min read

How to Train YOLO-NAS on a Custom Dataset

YOLO-NAS is the latest state-of-the-art real-time object detection model. Learn how to train YOLO-NAS on your custom data.

21 Apr 2023 • 5 min read

Zero-Shot Image Annotation with Grounding DINO and SAM - A Notebook Tutorial

In this comprehensive tutorial, discover how to speed up your image annotation process using Grounding DINO and Segment Anything Model. Learn how to convert object detection datasets into instance segmentation datasets, and use these models to automatically annotate your images.

31 Mar 2023 • 4 min read

Synthetic Data Generation with NVIDIA and Roboflow

Learn how to build computer vision models that leverage synthetic data using NVIDIA Omniverse and Roboflow.

30 Mar 2023 • 6 min read

Grounding DINO : SOTA Zero-Shot Object Detection

Most object detection models are trained to identify a narrow predetermined collection of classes. Zero-shot detectors like Grounding DINO want to break this status quo by making it possible to detect new objects without re-training a model.

8 Mar 2023 • 4 min read

How to Code Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) in Plain NumPy

Double Detection in Computer Vision If you’ve been working with object detection long enough, you’ve undoubtedly encountered the problem of double detection. For some reason, the model detects the same object multiple times on the same image. This is particularly inconvenient if you want to build more advanced

24 Feb 2023 • 4 min read

Building a Computer Vision Assisted Pill Inspection System

This project creates a system to automatically detect damaged pills, foreign matter, and incorrect pills during a manufacturing process. Wrong or damaged pills making their way to consumers can lead to health hazards, recalls, loss of sales, and reputation damage. For this tutorial, we will focus on the final examination

1 Feb 2023 • 4 min read

Track and Count Objects Using YOLOv8

Counting moving objects is one of the most popular use cases in computer vision. It is used, among other things, in traffic analysis and as part of the automation of manufacturing processes. That is why understanding how to do it well is crucial for any CV engineer.

10 Jan 2023 • 9 min read

How to Train YOLOv8 Object Detection on a Custom Dataset

In this article, we walk through how to train a YOLOv8 object detection model using a custom dataset.

15 Dec 2022 • 7 min read

Computer Vision Assisted Structural Damage Inspection Using Drones

In this post, Timothy Malche walks through how to inspect structural damage with computer vision and drones.

12 Dec 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Roboflow Integration with Ultralytics HUB

Ultralytics, the creators of YOLOv5, and Roboflow now support an integration making it easier to import YOLOv5 models from HUB to Roboflow, export datasets to Ultralytics HUB from Roboflow, and use custom trained model weights for model-assisted data labeling in Roboflow. This integration builds on the established relationship of Roboflow

9 Dec 2022 • 4 min read

Track Football Players with Computer Vision

In this post, we use a YOLOv5 detection model and state-of-the-art tracker ByteTRACK to track football players.

28 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

📸 Roboflow 100: A Multi-Domain Object Detection Benchmark

Roboflow 100 (RF100) is a crowdsourced object detection benchmark. The dataset consists of 100 datasets, 7 imagery domains, 224,714 images, and 829 class labels with over 11,170 labeling hours.

18 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Using Computer Vision to Save Sea Lions

What is causing the sea lion population to decrease? Is it illegal hunting? Is it shark and killer whale predation? Or maybe it’s overfishing, causing the sea lions to starve? Researchers want to determine the root cause. This article describes the use of computer vision to help the conservation

15 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Top 6 Gaming Datasets for Computer Vision Projects

Today's article will show you the top 6 gaming datasets from Roboflow Universe [https://universe.roboflow.com/browse/gaming] to help provide inspiration for using video games or real world games with computer vision applications. Using computer vision with gaming can lead to entirely new experiences: * Gaming automation: