Object Detection

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:

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.