Product Updates

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 pipelines to rapidly create improved model performance. When it comes to the training step, developers should optimize for ease. Roboflow Train enables teams to

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

5 May 2021 • 8 min read

How to Train and Deploy Custom Models to Your OAK

In this blog, we'll walk through the Roboflow custom model deployment process to the OAK and show just how seamless it can be.

5 May 2021 • 3 min read

Partnering with Luxonis and OpenCV for Seamless Deployment to OpenCV AI Kit

Deploying computer vision models to the edge is critical to unlocking new use cases like in places with limited internet connectivity or where minimal latency is essential. That might be deploying to a rural field in agriculture or computer vision in high throughput manufacturing [https://blog.roboflow.com/computer-vision-use-cases-for-manufacturing/]. As

4 May 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: May 2021

The changelog is our compendium of monthly updates. If you want to take a walk down memory lane, you can being your trip back in time with last month's edition. In April, our major product efforts centered around launching our brand new user interface. This redesign of our

18 Apr 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow's new User Interface

When you log into your Roboflow account you'll notice a fresh look, but the features you know and love are all still just a click away. We've reorganized the app to make things easier to find, simpler to navigate, and primed for future enhancement. Video overview

4 Apr 2021 • 6 min read

How to Use Roboflow with IBM Visual Recognition (IBM Watson vs Roboflow)

IBM recently announced they are shutting down IBM Visual Inspection, their product for creating custom computer vision models for classification and object detection. No new instances can be created and all current instances will be fully shutdown in December 2021. This has left many looking for IBM Visual Inspection alternatives.

1 Apr 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: April 2021

Each month we bring you the high level bullet-points of improvements and additions to Roboflow. If you missed it, last month's changelog is here. In March we were focused on expanding Roboflow's inference capabilities with the release of on-device NVIDIA Jetson support, our open source video

22 Mar 2021 • 2 min read

Video Inference with Roboflow

One common question we get is "Can I use my Roboflow model on a video?" The answer is yes! Videos are really just a sequence of images, so your model can give predictions just like it does on images. The process is simple: 1) split your video into

11 Mar 2021 • 2 min read

Introducing Roboflow Support for NVIDIA Jetson

💡Roboflow Inference, which you can use to deploy computer vision models to a Jetson (among many other devices), is now available as an open source project. See the Quickstart to get started. Deploy Models to NVIDIA Embedded Devices Deploying models to the edge offers unique benefits: inference speeds can be

5 Mar 2021 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: March 2021

The monthly changelog showcases improvements in Roboflow over the past month. You can find the previous changelog here. In February, we had a major focus on reinforcing our foundation; after several months of rapid feature expansion we spent a considerable amount of time fixing bugs, improving infrastructure, and preparing for

20 Feb 2021 • 3 min read

Introducing Upload Batches, the Unannotated Queue, and Mark as Null

This week we updated the workflow for uploading and annotating images to streamline the process, help you keep track of your progress, and make it easier to divide work amongst your team. If you've worked on an ongoing computer vision project with iterative improvement via active learning [https:

3 Feb 2021 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: February 2021

Welcome to our monthly roundup post of new features and enhancements. You can find the previous changelog here. The biggest new features released this month were transfer learning and Label Assist. Roboflow Organize * Announced teams for all (now teams of up to 3 people can collaborate on the Starter Plan

25 Jan 2021 • 1 min read

Launch: Model Assisted Labeling

Use Roboflow Trained Models to Annotate Data One of the most time-consuming parts of the computer vision workflow is curating a high-quality dataset. When we launched Roboflow Annotate last month we aimed to streamline this process by launching an easy to use image annotation tool built right into your computer

17 Jan 2021 • 2 min read

Teams for All: Create Free Teams on Roboflow

Machine learning is a team sport, and getting a computer vision model to production is no exception. All parts of the process are improved with a team: collecting data from multiple sources; annotating data with colleagues; sharing versioned datasets; and using deployed models. We're pleased to introduce free

6 Jan 2021 • 3 min read

Using the Upload API to Collect Images from the Wild

The key to production quality machine learning models is continuous iteration and improvement. The first step is getting a model that is "good enough" for your first version. But once you deploy to the real world you'll invariably find edge cases that confuse your model. Collecting

4 Jan 2021 • 2 min read

Introducing the Object Count Histogram

We are excited to announce the introduction of object count histograms, now available in the Roboflow dataset health check.

3 Jan 2021 • 2 min read

Roboflow Changelog: January 2021

Welcome to our monthly changelog where we catalog our recent feature additions and improvements. If you missed it, you can find last month's changelog here. This month we launched Roboflow Annotate, an integrated image annotation tool included in all Roboflow plans. In the first few weeks, over 1500

28 Dec 2020 • 2 min read

Get a Hosted API for your Object Detection Model

Roboflow provides tools for labeling [https://roboflow.com/annotate], organizing [https://docs.roboflow.com/], and training [https://docs.roboflow.com/train] a computer vision model [https://models.roboflow.com]. Once you finish running one of the Jupyter notebooks from our Computer Vision tutorials [https://blog.roboflow.com/tag/tutorials/] you

8 Dec 2020 • 2 min read

Introducing Roboflow Annotate

Since we launched Roboflow [https://roboflow.com] in early 2020, our vision has always been to improve and streamline the workflow of computer vision projects so that developers can focus on the parts of their project that are unique, not on reinventing the wheel. But there's been one

6 Dec 2020 • 1 min read

Share Your Datasets with the Computer Vision Community

Computer vision problems start with finding high quality image datasets. Fortunately, access to common image data is increasingly easier. Datasets like Microsoft's COCO dataset [https://blog.roboflow.com/coco-dataset/] and the Pascal VOC dataset [https://public.roboflow.com/object-detection/pascal-voc-2012] provide a standard for common objects and measuring

4 Dec 2020 • 1 min read

Roboflow Changelog: December 2020

Welcome to the first of our monthly changelogs, where we will be cataloging our recent feature additions and improvements. Roboflow Organize * Added ability to rebalance train/test split * Clarified pro plan features in-app * Sped up thumbnail generation * Added image upload by URL to the upload API * Paginated the image listing

20 Nov 2020 • 2 min read

Revamping Train, Validation, Test, Split Management

Splitting data into train, validation, and test splits is essential to building good computer vision models. Today, we are announcing in-app changes to Roboflow that make it even easier to manage your train test splits as you are working through the computer vision workflow.