Product Updates

14 Oct 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Cloning Images from Open Source Datasets

Since its launch in August 2021, Roboflow Universe has become the largest collection of open source datasets and pre-trained computer vision models [https://blog.roboflow.com/computer-vision-datasets-and-apis/]. Our goal is to democratize access to computer vision and when it comes to building vision applications, gathering data for training vision models

13 Oct 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Use YouTube Videos for Training Data and Inference Testing

When building a computer vision application from scratch, two of the most time consuming parts of the process are finding data to train the model and quickly testing the performance of the model. As of today, Roboflow is making that easier for all users by supporting YouTube video links for

1 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow Changelog: September 2022

Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. In this post, we detail Roboflow's updates from September 2022.

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.

20 Sep 2022 • 2 min read

Launch: Test Computer Vision Models Locally

Roboflow has extensive deployment options [https://roboflow.com/deploy] for getting your model into production. But, sometimes, you just want to get something simple running on your development machine. If  you don't want to futz with installing CUDA [https://blog.roboflow.com/what-is-cuda/] and Docker, we've

9 Sep 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow Changelog: July & August 2022

Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. In this post, we detail Roboflow's updates from July and August 2022.

17 Aug 2022 • 6 min read

Launch: Dataset Search

Learn how to search image datasets using Roboflow.

19 Jul 2022 • 4 min read

Deploy a Computer Vision Model: A How-To Guide

Answering the question "how do I deploy a computer vision model?" can be difficult. There are so many options. Which one should you choose? How do you deploy to the option that is right for your use case? With the launch of the Roboflow Deploy feature, deploying computer

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.

11 Jul 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Search Datasets and Assign Jobs

Roboflow Annotate [https://docs.roboflow.com/annotate] has been used to label over 66 million images and as teams collaborate to manage large datasets [https://blog.roboflow.com/annotation-workflow/], it’s important to find the right data for labeling and improving your model. Teams using active learning [https://blog.roboflow.

6 Jul 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: May & June 2022

Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates. Here's what's new for May and June in 2022!

30 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Roboflow Native iOS SDK

Constrained bandwith? Left without the option to extend production data beyond your local network or corporate firewall? In need of real-time inference speeds on the edge? The Roboflow Mobile iOS SDK is a great option if you are developing an iOS application.

28 Jun 2022 • 4 min read

Open source datasets and pre-trained models for computer vision

90,000 Datasets and 7,000 Pre-trained Models Available Roboflow Universe [https://universe.roboflow.com/] launched in August 2021 with 50 open source datasets and opened our computer vision infrastructure products for free with a Public plan [https://roboflow.com/pricing]. Universe now has 90,000+ datasets with 66+ million

22 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Label Only Role-based Access Control

Roboflow Annotate [https://roboflow.com/annotate] has been used to label over 66 million images and teams have been able to label more images with our recent release of collaborative workflows [https://blog.roboflow.com/annotation-workflow/] for managing labeling in real-time across distributed teams. Market researchers believe that by 2028,

8 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Roboflow Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide can now gain access to Roboflow to take advantage of the end-to-end computer vision platform to give their software the sense of sight. We’re pleased to share that Roboflow [https://roboflow.com/] is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace [https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/

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.

11 May 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow’s Python Pip Package For Computer Vision

Regardless of whether your project is a new product line, a new industrial production system, a research project, or a personal one to help you learn what computer vision is all about, you'll want to add "pip install roboflow" to your code - and here's why.

6 May 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: April 2022

April showers brings May flowers, and here's a bouquet of flower datasets from Roboflow Universe you can use today!

4 Apr 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: March 2022

Spring is finally here and there is computer vision in the air. Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates; if you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it here. Roboflow Organize and Annotate * Launched Polygonal Annotation tool * Launched Multi-label

3 Apr 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: End to End Multi-Label Classification

Roboflow has supported the entire process of creating object detection and single-label classification computer vision projects, from collecting and annotating images to training and deploying a model since our launch of end to end classification support [https://blog.roboflow.com/classification-end-to-end/] last summer. Now, we're adding support for

9 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

Introducing New and Improved Roboflow Train

Over the last year, thousands of custom computer vision models have been trained with Roboflow Train [https://docs.roboflow.com/train] and millions of inferences have been made via Roboflow Deploy [https://roboflow.com/deploy]. Recently, we took a big step back to incorporate advancements in computer vision research and

8 Mar 2022 • 3 min read

What to Think About When Choosing Model Sizes

When training any machine learning model, you must trade off inference speed for accuracy. Larger models with more parameters are uniformly more accurate, and smaller models with fewer parameters are uniformly faster to infer.

7 Mar 2022 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: February 2022

Even though it's the shortest month of the year, we accomplished a lot! Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates; if you missed last month's edition of the Roboflow Changelog, you can find it here. Roboflow Organize * Polished and improved the new