Product Updates

16 Dec 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Collaborative Annotation Updates

SUMMARY Roboflow's Collaborative Annotation platform has reached over 100,000 users and 100 million annotated images, and this launch adds several features that reduce manual overhead for large teams. New capabilities include API endpoints for uploading batches and assigning annotation jobs programmatically, aggregate batch metrics in the Board

15 Dec 2022 • 2 min read

Launch: Roboflow Notebooks Repo Integration with SageMaker Studio Labs

Learn how to use notebooks in the Roboflow Notebooks repository with AWS SageMaker Studio Lab.

12 Dec 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Roboflow Integration with Ultralytics HUB

SUMMARY Roboflow and Ultralytics HUB now support a direct integration that connects dataset management with model training and model-assisted labeling. Users can export any Roboflow dataset to Ultralytics HUB for custom YOLOv5 training, then bring the trained model weights back into Roboflow to power Label Assist for annotating under-

1 Dec 2022 • 3 min read

Roboflow Changelog: November 2022

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

16 Nov 2022 • 5 min read

Launch: Roboflow Command-line Interface

SUMMARY The Roboflow CLI, installed via npm, lets you manage workspaces and projects, upload images and annotations, import datasets in common formats (COCO, Pascal VOC, and others), and run inference on object detection, classification, instance segmentation, or semantic segmentation models, all without opening a browser. Authentication stores API keys locally

1 Nov 2022 • 4 min read

Roboflow Changelog: October 2022

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

26 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Semantic Segmentation for Labeling, Training, Deployment

SUMMARY Semantic segmentation assigns a class label to every pixel in an image, making it useful for tasks where per-pixel precision matters: road and sidewalk mapping from aerial imagery, crack detection in infrastructure, defect identification in manufacturing, and medical image analysis. Roboflow now supports semantic segmentation end-to-end,

14 Oct 2022 • 4 min read

Launch: Cloning Images from Open Source Datasets

SUMMARY Roboflow Universe now lets you clone any of its 100+ million open source images directly into your own Roboflow project, with or without their existing annotations. This removes one of the biggest time sinks in computer vision development: sourcing labeled training data from scratch. You can filter by object

13 Oct 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Use YouTube Videos for Training Data and Inference Testing

SUMMARY Roboflow now accepts YouTube video URLs directly as an upload source, letting you sample frames from any of YouTube's 800+ million videos to build or expand a computer vision training dataset without downloading files manually. The same feature works in reverse: you can paste a YouTube URL

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 • 4 min read

Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling

SUMMARY Roboflow Annotate's Smart Polygon tool uses a machine learning model behind the scenes to generate a polygon label with a single click on an object, reducing what previously required many manual point placements to a near-instant operation. Precise polygon annotations are required for training instance segmentation

20 Sep 2022 • 2 min read

Launch: Test Computer Vision Models Locally

SUMMARY Roboflow Inference can now run locally on a development machine via a single npx command, with no CUDA installation or Docker setup required. Any 64-bit Intel, AMD, or Arm CPU (including M1 Macs and Raspberry Pi 4) can host the inference server on port 9001, and any pre-

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

SUMMARY The Roboflow Deploy tab centralizes the options for getting a trained computer vision model into use without writing boilerplate for each target: it supports drag-and-drop inference on images and video files, live webcam inference in the browser, URL-based inference, and copy-paste code snippets for the

13 Jul 2022 • 3 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

SUMMARY Roboflow Annotate now includes a semantic image search that lets teams find unlabeled images by describing their contents in plain text, without any prior labeling or categorization of those images. The search uses natural language processing and computer vision models to index image contents from pixel data, so queries

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

SUMMARY Roboflow Universe grew from 50 open-source datasets at launch in August 2021 to over 90,000 datasets with 66 million labeled images and more than 7,000 pre-trained models available via API, covering object detection, segmentation, and image recognition across industries. Pre-trained models on Universe can

22 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Launch: Label Only Role-based Access Control

SUMMARY Roboflow Annotate now supports role-based access control with a dedicated Labeler role, letting teams scale annotation work outside their organization without exposing project data. Labelers see only the images assigned to them in a Job, while Reviewers approve or reject submitted annotations and return failed batches for edits.

8 Jun 2022 • 3 min read

Roboflow Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

SUMMARY Roboflow is now listed in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, giving Azure customers a direct path to purchase and integrate Roboflow's computer vision platform alongside their existing cloud infrastructure. Teams already storing images and video in Azure Blob Storage can connect that data to Roboflow's annotation,

19 May 2022 • 2 min read

Launch: Instance Segmentation Project Training and Inference

SUMMARY Roboflow now supports instance segmentation project training and inference natively on the platform, letting teams train directly from a pre-trained COCO checkpoint without writing training code. Instance segmentation produces per-object outlines rather than just bounding boxes, making it the right choice when downstream tasks require measuring object

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.