4 Jan 2024 • 11 min read What is YOLOv4? A Detailed Breakdown In this guide, we discuss what YOLOv4 is, the architecture of YOLOv4, and how the model performs.
4 Jan 2024 • 8 min read What is YOLOv7? A Complete Guide. In this guide, we discuss what YOLOv7 is, how the model works, and the novel model architecture changes in YOLOv7.
19 Dec 2023 • 6 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 • 8 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 SUMMARY This tutorial builds a video inference pipeline for logistics monitoring by loading a pre-trained object detection model from Roboflow Universe and running it frame-by-frame on a warehouse video. Custom visual overlays including bounding boxes, class labels, and object tracking are applied to each frame using the
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 • 7 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 SUMMARY Object detection can add a real-time monitoring layer to child safety by alerting caregivers when a child enters a defined hazard zone, such as the area around a swimming pool. This tutorial walks through setting up Roboflow Inference to run a trained detection model, defining polygon boundaries around
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 SUMMARY A collaboration between Roboflow and Tenyks showing that model performance gains often come from fixing data, not tuning architecture. Using a traffic sign detection model as the test scenario, the workflow covers training a baseline, auditing the Roboflow dataset with Tenyks to surface label errors and class imbalances, correcting
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 SUMMARY This tutorial builds an online exam proctoring system that uses a webcam and Roboflow Inference to detect when a student picks up a phone during a remote assessment. A pre-trained phone detection model from Roboflow Universe is deployed via the Inference API, and the live webcam feed is
22 Aug 2023 • 6 min read How to Use Computer Vision to Monitor Inventory: Inventory Management AI SUMMARY This tutorial builds an inventory monitoring pipeline that extracts video frames at defined time intervals, runs each frame through Roboflow Inference Server against a model trained on packaged shelf items, and outputs structured CSV files (per-object detections, counts per interval, counts by class) along with bar charts showing
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 • 5 min read Using Stable Diffusion and SAM to Modify Image Contents Zero Shot SUMMARY Combining Grounding DINO for zero-shot object detection, SAM for pixel-precise segmentation, and Stable Diffusion for inpainting produces a fully text-driven image editor that requires no manual masking or selection tools. The pipeline takes a text description of the object to modify, uses Grounding DINO to locate