Object Detection

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:

27 Oct 2022 • 7 min read

School Bus Detection Using YOLOv5 (Tutorial – Part 2)

Learn how to detect school buses using YOLOv5.

21 Oct 2022 • 5 min read

What is Object Tracking in Computer Vision?

Learn about object tracking and how it is used in computer vision.

20 Oct 2022 • 5 min read

Top 6 Manufacturing Datasets for Computer Vision

Explore six manufacturing datasets you can use for computer vision projects.

28 Sep 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling

Roboflow Annotate [https://roboflow.com/annotate] now offers automated polygon labeling for all users. With as few as one click, you can apply a polygon annotation to objects in your datasets. Polygon annotations [https://blog.roboflow.com/polygon-annotation-labeling/] are critical to prepare datasets for training instance segmentation [https://blog.roboflow.

16 Aug 2022 • 6 min read

Building Custom Computer Vision Models with NVIDIA TAO Toolkit and Roboflow

NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit provides a framework for fine-tuning popular computer vision models using your own data. In this tutorial, we'll be demonstrating how to use Roboflow to curate a high-quality computer vision dataset to use with NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit.

8 Aug 2022 • 4 min read

How to Use Object Detection to Trigger Automated Email Alerts

Learn how to trigger automated email alerts when an object detection model identifies the location of an object.

3 Aug 2022 • 4 min read

Use Raspberry Pi and Luxonis OAK to Deploy Vision Models in Robotics

Learn how to use the Raspberry Pi and Luxonis OAK to run computer vision models for robotics projects.

1 Aug 2022 • 3 min read

How to Deploy YOLOv7 to a Jetson Nano

We'll be creating a dataset, training a YOLOv7 computer vision model, and deploying it to a Jetson Nano to perform real-time object detection.

19 Jul 2022 • 2 min read

How to Use Tiling During Inference

Tiling is especially helpful and can improve accuracy for aerial images and small object detection. Like the human eye, computer vision models can have a difficult time detecting small objects from far away because it gives us less visual data to do accurate inference on. The solution is to zoom

14 Jul 2022 • 4 min read

Using Polygon Annotations for Object Detection in Computer Vision

Benefits to Existing Models Polygons have traditionally been used for training image segmentation models [https://blog.roboflow.com/instance-segmentation-training-roboflow/], but polygons can also improve the training of object detection models [https://blog.roboflow.com/object-detection/] (which predict bounding boxes). Object detection models are typically much faster and more widely supported,

13 Jul 2022 • 2 min read

How to Use Polygon Annotation and Labeling with Roboflow

Polygons have traditionally been used for training image segmentation models, but they can also improve the training of object detection models. Object detection models are typically much faster and more widely supported, so they're still the best choice for solving many problems.

13 Jul 2022 • 5 min read

How to Train a YOLOv7 Model on a Custom Dataset

Hot on the heels of MT-YOLOv6, a new YOLO dropped this week (and this one is a doozy). YOLOv7 was created by WongKinYiu and AlexeyAB, the creators of YOLOv4 Darknet (and the official canonical maintainers of the YOLO lineage according to pjreddie, the original inventor and maintainer of the YOLO

1 Jul 2022 • 16 min read

How to Train a YOLOv6 Model on a Custom Dataset

Learn how to train a YOLOv6 object detection model on a custom dataset.

29 Jun 2022 • 5 min read

Using Gaming Datasets for Game Automation with Computer Vision

As a child, I grew up playing Minecraft [https://www.minecraft.net/en-us], a 3D block game where the only limit is your creativity. Players navigate their 3D block world, collect resources, 'craft' tools and resources, and build to their heart's content. Computer vision transcends industries,

15 Jun 2022 • 9 min read

Train and Deploy YOLOS Transformer On a Custom Dataset

In this post, we showcase training and deploying YOLOS end to end, from labeling your data, to training your model, to deploying your model on AWS for inference.

6 Jun 2022 • 7 min read

Detecting Lucky Charm Marshmallows Using Computer Vision - They're Mathematically Delicious

The marshmallows found in a box of Lucky Charms cereal, marbits as they were originally named by their creators Edward S. Olney and Howard S. Thurmon, are undoubtedly the best part of the classic breakfast cereal. In August of 2020, General Mills began selling pouches of "Just Magical Marshmallows&

6 Jun 2022 • 6 min read

Building an Autonomous Vehicle with Object Detection

Ampera Racing [http://www.amperaracing.com/] is a team formed by students from UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina [https://en.ufsc.br/]) with the objective of developing an electric vehicle every year and promoting the mobility of the future. In 2021 we realized that we could reach a new

19 May 2022 • 1 min read

Launch: Instance Segmentation Project Training and Inference

What Is Instance Segmentation? Instance segmentation [https://blog.roboflow.com/instance-segmentation-roboflow/], also known as image segmentation, is the computer vision task of recognizing objects in images along with their associated shape. In other words, it is the outline of a given object. It also includes a bounding box surrounding the

19 May 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Roboflow OAK pip package

roboflowoak pip package lets you natively interface with your Roboflow workspace through Python scripts and deploy to an OAK device.

17 May 2022 • 4 min read

Boxing Punch Detection Using Computer Vision

One of the best parts about joining Roboflow [https://roboflow.com/careers] is doing a computer vision project in your first 2 weeks. As someone who loves to workout, I wanted to focus my project on a fitness related use case. I often mix boxing workouts into my routine, and

11 May 2022 • 3 min read

How to Train a YOLOv5 Oriented Bounding Box Model

Learn how to train a YOLOv5 Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) object detection model.