Roboflow Deploy

14 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

How to Build a Reading Assistant with AI

SUMMARY This tutorial builds an interactive reading assistant that detects a finger pointing at a word on a page using an object detection model, reads the word using OCR, and then calls GPT-4 to pronounce it aloud, all wired together inside a Roboflow Workflow and run as a live

12 Aug 2024 • 6 min read

How to Deploy Hugging Face Models with Roboflow

SUMMARY Computer vision model weights hosted on Hugging Face, including YOLOv8 variants for detection, segmentation, classification, and keypoint tasks, can be downloaded with Git-LFS and uploaded directly to Roboflow for edge or private-cloud deployment via Roboflow Inference. This guide walks through each step, from cloning model weights to

6 Aug 2024 • 7 min read

Ball Tracking in Sports with Computer Vision

Ball tracking is crucial for AI systems to analyze sports effectively, but it's challenging due to factors like the ball's small size, high velocity, complex backgrounds, similar-looking objects, and varying lighting. This tutorial will teach you how to overcome these challenges.

5 Jul 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use GPT-4 To Extract Handwritten Text from Images

SUMMARY This tutorial builds a pipeline that combines a custom object detection model trained in Roboflow with GPT-4 Vision inside a Roboflow Workflow to extract and structure handwritten information from homework booklets. The object detection model localizes handwritten marks, and GPT-4 Vision reads time and name fields, with

28 Jun 2024 • 19 min read

How to Monitor Productivity with Eye Tracking

SUMMARY This tutorial builds a real-time productivity tracker that uses a custom object detection model to monitor eye position, pupil movement, face presence, and phone usage via webcam, then logs distraction events over time. The model is trained in Roboflow on roughly 125 labeled images and deployed locally, where

8 May 2024 • 15 min read

Predicting the Optimal Connect 4 Move with Computer Vision

SUMMARY This tutorial builds a computer vision application that reads a physical Connect 4 board and recommends the optimal next move using the minimax algorithm. An object detection model is trained on an annotated Connect 4 dataset from Roboflow Universe, deployed via Roboflow, and used to parse the board state

3 Apr 2024 • 7 min read

Deploy and Monitor Computer Vision Models in Any Cloud with Roboflow and SkyPilot

Learn how to deploy computer vision models in any cloud using Roboflow and SkyPilot.

1 Apr 2024 • 3 min read

How to Use OCR on Videos

In this guide, we cover the process of how to use OCR on videos together with computer vision to solve real-world problems.

26 Mar 2024 • 9 min read

Build a Gesture-Based Light Controller with Computer Vision

Learn how to build a gesture-based light controler using computer vision

5 Mar 2024 • 7 min read

First Impressions with the Claude 3 Opus Vision API

The Roboflow team ran several computer vision tests using the Claude 3 Opus Vision API. Read our results.

28 Feb 2024 • 9 min read

Build an Image Search Engine with CLIP using Intel Gaudi2 HPUs

Learn how to use the Intel Gaudi2 chip to build an image search engine with CLIP embeddings.

22 Feb 2024 • 6 min read

Launch: Train and Deploy YOLO-NAS Models on Roboflow

Learn how to train a YOLO-NAS model on Roboflow and host the model on your own hardware.

20 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Broadcast Computer Vision Predictions with Apache Kafka

Learn how to broadcast predictions from a computer vision model to an Apache Kafka receiver.

19 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

How to Broadcast Computer Vision Predictions Over MQTT

Learn how to broadcast computer vision predictions over the MQTT protocol.

15 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Run Computer Vision Models on a RTSP Stream on a NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano

SUMMARY Running inference on RTSP streams at the edge requires hardware-aware tuning to avoid latency bottlenecks. This tutorial walks through flashing an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano with JetPack 5.1.1, configuring the correct ONNX Runtime GPU libraries, and deploying a computer vision model via Roboflow Inference Pipeline, which

6 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

Use an Image Classification API to Classify Images

Learn how to use the CLIP-powered Roboflow image classification API to assign labels to images.

6 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

​​How to Use a Product Recognition API

Learn how to use the Roboflow product recognition API to identify the presence or absence of products on a retail shelf.

2 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

How to Use an Image Captioning API

In this guide, learn how to set up and use an image captioning API that you can use to programmatically generate image captions.

2 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Deploy a Wood Surface Inspection System

In this guide, learn how to use a wood surface inspection system to identify defects on wood.

12 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

How to Analyze a Folder of Videos from AWS S3

In this guide, learn how to analyze a folder of images with machine learning models using data stored in an AWS S3 bucket.

5 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

Launch: Label, Train, Deploy Support for Keypoint Detection Models in Roboflow

Learn how to label data for and train keypoint detection models using Roboflow.

28 Dec 2023 • 7 min read

Building an IoT-Powered Exercise Tracker with Computer Vision

In this article, Timothy Malche shows how he built a push up counting system with computer vision.

20 Dec 2023 • 4 min read

How to Deploy CogVLM on AWS

Guide on deploying a CogVLM Inference Server with 4-bit quantization on Amazon Web Services, covering setup of EC2 instances, configuring hardware and software requirements, and starting the inference server with Docker.

14 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

How to Deploy CogVLM

In this guide, learn how to deploy the CogVLM multimodal model on your own infrastructure with Roboflow Inference.