Product Updates

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

4 Feb 2022 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: January 2022

It might be cold outside, but Roboflow is bringing the heat to kick off 2022! 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 * Major update to the Annotations

2 Feb 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Collaborative Annotations

Roboflow Annotate [https://roboflow.com/annotate] has become an essential tool used by tens of thousands of developers to label images of everything from planes [https://universe.roboflow.com/skybot-cam/overhead-plane-detector] to petri dishes [https://universe.roboflow.com/michael-shamash-f942a/onepetri]. Since its launch just over a year ago [https://blog.

6 Jan 2022 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: December 2021

Even though the year was coming to a close and holidays gave us the chance to spend time with family and friends, we kept our focus right up to the end in order to make Roboflow even better. Each month, we share a recap of product and company updates to

22 Dec 2021 • 1 min read

Introducing the Roboflow Inference Widget

Now, you can easily test any model that has been trained with Roboflow Train by dragging an image file onto your dataset version page.

1 Dec 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: November 2021

It's been a whirlwind of a month at Roboflow with lots of changes, updates, and expansion going on behind the scenes. 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

8 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

New Feature: Isolate Objects

You can now export the bounding boxes from your object detection dataset as cropped images usable with classification models. This update will enable easily prototyping two-pass models for use-cases like OCR and object tracking [https://blog.roboflow.com/zero-shot-object-tracking/]. Isolate Objects is now available as a preprocessing step.To try

3 Oct 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: October 2021

Our emphasis this month was on "code tentacles," or improving the ways that Roboflow integrates with your codebase. Below is a recap of what we launched and improved. Rewind to last month's (September 2021) changelog for a recap of earlier releases. Roboflow Organize * Released our REST

30 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

Roboflow and Ultralytics Partner to Streamline YOLOv5 MLOps

We're proud to share that Roboflow has entered into a partnership agreement with Ultralytics, the creators of YOLOv5, and that Roboflow is now the official dataset management and annotation tool for YOLOv5 with a focus on enabling active learning. Over the past year, YOLOv5 has gained broad adoption

15 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

Introducing the Roboflow pip package

We're ecstatic to announce the launch of our newest pip package, a way for you to natively interface with your Roboflow workspace through your Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks! Read the full package documentation here [https://docs.roboflow.com/python]. Your API Key If you've ever

2 Sep 2021 • 2 min read

Our New REST API

Today we're excited to announce the launch of our new REST API, a way for your code to interface with the information stored in your Roboflow workspace. Read the full API documentation here [https://docs.roboflow.com/rest-api]. We're launching with five read-only API routes (to

2 Sep 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: September 2021

Welcome to another installment of the Roboflow Changelog where we summarize the improvements to Roboflow's product suite over the preceding month. You can find the last changelog (for August 2021) here. The biggest highlights from last month were celebrating the release of Roboflow Universe, our community space for

23 Aug 2021 • 3 min read

What is Zero Shot Object Tracking?

We are exciting to announce that you can now track objects frame over frame in video and camera stream using the Roboflow Inference API and the open source zero shot object tracking repository, without having to train a separate classifier for your object track features.

11 Aug 2021 • 3 min read

Roboflow Universe: the Computer Vision Community

We’re excited to introduce Roboflow Universe, the new hub for computer vision datasets and pre-trained models.

7 Aug 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: August 2021

Each month we share a recap of our monthly updates and releases in the Roboflow Changelog. The previous Changelog is available here. In July, the product team's major emphasis was on a new product we'll be releasing at our Launch Party on Wednesday, August 11 -

30 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Roboflow for Students and Universities

We've seen tremendous interest in Roboflow from the research community. Faculty and students from institutions ranging from California to Malta to Taiwan have been using Roboflow to accelerate their computer vision work.

21 Jul 2021 • 2 min read

Announcing On-Prem and Offline Mode for Roboflow Deploy

With Roboflow, you can train a custom computer vision model in one click [https://docs.roboflow.com/train] and get an infinitely scalable API to receive predictions [https://docs.roboflow.com/inference/hosted-api] and you can also deploy [https://roboflow.com/deploy] directly to devices like the NVIDIA Jetson [https:

8 Jul 2021 • 3 min read

Announcing Image Classification Support, End to End

We are excited to announce full support for image classification in Roboflow, from image collection and organization, to annotation, to custom training, and deployment.

4 Jul 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: July 2021

Welcome to this month's installment of the Roboflow Changelog highlighting all the updates we've pushed in the past month. The update for last month can be found here. In June we pushed our major revamp of the backend that supports collaboration between team members ("Workspaces&

27 Jun 2021 • 1 min read

Announcing Classification Support for Roboflow Annotate

When it launched in early 2020, Roboflow was primarily a tool for converting object detection datasets. As the months have gone on we have expanded its capabilities to include collaboration [https://blog.roboflow.com/teams-for-all/], training [https://docs.roboflow.com/train], deployment [https://roboflow.com/deploy], and annotation [https://roboflow.

13 Jun 2021 • 4 min read

How to Train with Microsoft Azure Custom Vision and Roboflow

Roboflow is a tool for building robust machine learning operations pipelines for computer vision: from collecting and organizing images, annotating, training, deploying, and creating active learning [https://blog.roboflow.com/what-is-active-learning/] pipelines to rapidly create improved model performance. When it comes to the training step, developers should optimize for ease.

2 Jun 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: June 2021

Each month, we publish a list of recent features and additions to the Roboflow suite of products. The previous month's update is here. In May there has been a bevy of backend changes to support a huge user-facing release coming next month. The most noticeable updates this month