Discover leading visual inspection systems including Roboflow, Zebra, Cognex, Keyence, Basler, and Rockwell, and their key features.| Roboflow Blog
Timing and photography are the heartbeat of marathon events, but manually spotting bib numbers across hours of video is slow, error-prone, and costly. Learn how to automate bib recognition, accurately recording finish-line times and capturing the exact moment each runner crosses.| Roboflow Blog
Building a custom object detection pipeline lets you move beyond generic models and tailor vision AI to your specific needs. In this guide, we show how to create a complete pipeline with Roboflow, covering dataset creation, training, evaluation, and deployment.| Roboflow Blog
Discover how to combine Flutter’s elegant cross-platform UI framework with Roboflow’s powerful computer vision platform to build AI-driven applications. Learn how to create a Flutter app that detects and counts Canadian coins.| Roboflow Blog
Large language models and Roboflow make it possible to build computer vision apps in hours. This guide shows how to use LLM coding assistants with Roboflow’s API and Universe models to create and deploy vision AI apps.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to fine-tune Qwen2.5-VL for document processing using a custom dataset.| Roboflow Blog
AI is key for growth, but the path to success isn’t always obvious. Use our framework to identify strategic vision AI opportunities, design impactful solutions, and successfully deliver a return on investment.| Roboflow Blog
Understand what are pre-trained models, explore top pre-trained models, and learn how to easily use pre-trained models in Roboflow Workflows.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to use CoreML models trained on Roboflow to control hardware devices with an ESP32 device.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to train a YOLO11 instance segmentation model with Roboflow.| Roboflow Blog
You don’t need expensive new cameras to start using AI. With Roboflow, you can connect existing IP, CCTV, or even smartphone cameras to powerful computer vision workflows - saving costs, simplifying integration, and unlocking real-time insights.| Roboflow Blog
Manual shelf audits are slow, error-prone, and expensive. Learn how to automatically detect shelf labels, verify prices against POS systems, and catch costly discrepancies in real time.| Roboflow Blog
Roboflow has been accepted into Microsoft's Pegasus Program.| Roboflow Blog
This blog covers top 10 multimodal dataset and where to find multimodal dataset. You will also learn about importance of multimodal dataset in computer vision and tips for using the dataset.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to take a dataset from Voxel51 into Roboflow, train an RF-DETR model, and deploy it to the cloud, private servers, or edge devices. This step-by-step guide walks you through dataset conversion, model training, workflow testing, and real-world integration.| Roboflow Blog
Explore six tips on how to effectively use YOLO-World to identify objects in images.| Roboflow Blog
YOLO-NAS is the latest state-of-the-art real-time object detection model. Learn how to train YOLO-NAS on your custom data.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what zero-shot object detection is, applications for zero-shot object detection, and how to get started with Grounding DINO, a zero-shot model.| Roboflow Blog
In this comprehensive tutorial, discover how to speed up your image annotation process using Grounding DINO and Segment Anything Model. Learn how to convert object detection datasets into instance segmentation datasets, and use these models to automatically annotate your images.| Roboflow Blog
Autodistill is a new ecosystem of packages that enable you to distill knowledge from large vision models into smaller, edge-ready models.| Roboflow Blog
With this project, we integrate real-time feedback and computer vision to develop a hand-washing steps-tracking system using a Python application and a Roboflow-trained model.| Roboflow Blog
Roboflow eliminates boilerplate code when building object detection models. Get started with an example.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to use Roboflow Workflows to collect and preprocess image training data for use in building a vision model.| Roboflow Blog
Baidu publishes PP-YOLO and pushes the state of the art in object detection research by building on top of YOLOv3, the PaddlePaddle deep learning framework, and cutting edge computer vision research.| Roboflow Blog
YOLOv3 [https://models.roboflow.ai/object-detection/yolo-v3-pytorch] is known to be an incredibly performant, state-of-the-art model architecture: fast, accurate, and reliable. So how does the "new kid on the block," EfficientDet [https://blog.roboflow.com/breaking-down-efficientdet/], compare? Without spoilers, we were surprised by these results. NOTE: YOLO v5 [https://models.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what precision and recall are and why they are important in computer vision.| Roboflow Blog
Computer Vision (and Machine Learning in general) is one of those fields that can seem hard to approach because there are so many industry-specific words (or common words used in novel ways) that it can feel a bit like you're trying to learn a new language when you're trying to get started.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what F1 score is, for what it is used, and how to calculate F1 score.| Roboflow Blog
Data augmentation in computer vision is not new, but recently data augmentation has emerged on the forefront of state of the art modeling. YOLOv4, a new state of the art image detection model, uses a variety of data augmentation techniques to boost the models performance on COCO, a popular image| Roboflow Blog
Roboflow Instant is a free, quick-to-train, few-shot model that requires as few as a half-dozen labelled images to produce an accurate object detection model.| Roboflow Blog
Explore the top five artificial intelligence courses Roboflow recommends that will equip you with practical knowledge.| Roboflow Blog
Understanding image preprocessing and augmentation options is essential to making the most of your training data.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to build an appearance inspection system in a manufacturing facility with computer vision.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what Optical Character Recognition is, what problems can be solved with OCR, and explore the approaches used by OCR algorithms to identify characters.| Roboflow Blog
Google Bard Accepts Images in Prompts Google’s large language model (LLM) chatbot Bard recently unveiled a feature to accept image prompts, making it multimodal. It strikes comparisons with a similar feature recently released from Microsoft’s Bing chat, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. In our review of Bing’s| Roboflow Blog
Learn how Supervision, a new Python package with utilities for building computer vision apps, can help you work through your computer vision projects faster than ever.| Roboflow Blog
In this article, we walk through how to train a YOLOv8 object detection model using a custom dataset.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what transfer learning is and how it is used in computer vision.| Roboflow Blog
Use Roboflow Auto Label to automatically label images for use in training fine-tuned models.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we discuss how OCR is used in manufacturing and how you can apply OCR in a manufacturing facility.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to build a manual assembly quality assurance system to ensure products are properly assembled.| Roboflow Blog
At Roboflow, we often get asked, what is the train, validation, test split and why do I need it? The motivation is quite simple: you should separate you data into train, validation, and test splits to prevent your model from overfitting and to accurately evaluate your model.| Roboflow Blog
What is mean average precision? How do we calculate mAP?| Roboflow Blog
Today we are releasing RF-DETR, a state-of-the-art real-time object detection model. Learn more about how RF-DETR works and how to use the model.| Roboflow Blog
Explore alternatives to GPT-4 Vision with Large Multimodal Models such as Qwen-VL and CogVLM, and fine-tuned detection models.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we share our first impressions testing LLaVA-1.5.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we talk about what image classification is and what problems you can solve with image classification.| Roboflow Blog
Roboflow Workflows lets you build computer vision applications in a web editor and deploy them on your own hardware.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to train a ResNet-50 model for image classification.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what OCR data extraction is and what models you can use to programmatically read the contents of images.| Roboflow Blog
Learn about computer vision and how you can use it to solve problems.| Roboflow Blog
Learn about the latest advancements in AI helping automotive manufacturers modernize their factories and improve productivity.| Roboflow Blog
In this article, we discuss what a neural network is and walk through the most common network architectures.| Roboflow Blog
When you deploy a computer vision model, you may want to have a dedicated server, or several servers, to which you can route requests to your vision model. This is ideal for workflows where you are processing images from a client (i.e. a web application), recorded videos, and more.| Roboflow Blog
End-to-end tutorial for detecting and counting objects on a conveyor belt using computer vision.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we discuss what a confusion matrix is and how to use them to evaluate the performance of a computer vision model.| Roboflow Blog
Learn about the history of the YOLO family of objec tdetection models, extensively used across a wide range of object detection tasks.| Roboflow Blog
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.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we discuss what object detection is, how it works, how to label and augment data for object detection models, and more.| Roboflow Blog
Florence-2 is a lightweight vision-language model open-sourced by Microsoft under the MIT license.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to use Roboflow's Model Monitoring solutions to monitor production vision model deployments at scale.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to deploy YOLOv9 models in the cloud and on your own hardware with Roboflow.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to deploy computer vision models on multiple streams concurrently with Roboflow Inference.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what GPT-4o is, how it differs from previous models, evaluate its performance, and use cases for GPT-4o.| Roboflow Blog
Learn what OpenCV is, what you can do with OpenCV, how OpenCV performs on various tasks when run on CPU vs. GPU, and more.| Roboflow Blog
There are several quality checks that need to be run on coffee beans before they are packaged and ready for delivery. A professional taster will “cup” coffee to ensure it meets a given taste profile. The color of the coffee beans may be checked using a photometer to ensure the| Roboflow Blog
See how nine different OCR models compare for scene text recognition across industrial domains.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to monitor retail queues to identify when customers have been waiting for too long.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to train a YOLOv9 model on a custom dataset.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we evaluate Google's Gemini LMM against several computer vision tasks, from OCR to VQA to zero-shot object detection.| Roboflow Blog
Learn how to use computer vision in your data analytics pipelines.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we walk through how to deploy computer vision models (i.e. YOLOv8) offline using Roboflow Inference.| Roboflow Blog
In this guide, we share findings experimenting with GPT-4 with Vision, released by OpenAI in September 2023.| Roboflow Blog