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Getting Started with Roboflow
Roboflow eliminates boilerplate code when building object detection models.
Get started with an example.
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AI for Live Video: Introducing the Serverless Streaming API
Today we are announcing the Serverless Video Streaming API, the simplest way to run AI on live video streams.
Previously, using AI to understand live video streams meant managing complex cloud infrastructure or configuring local hardware. The Serverless Video Streaming API removes those barriers, allowing you to run powerful vision
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What Is Object Detection? How It Works and Why It Matters
In this guide, we discuss what object detection is, how it works, how to label and augment data for object detection models, and more.
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How I Taught My Dad Computer Vision with Roboflow in Under 30 Minutes!
Discover how I helped my dad build a custom computer vision model in under 30 minutes using Roboflow’s no-code AI tools.
• 8 min read
What is Computer Vision? Comprehensive Guide [2026]
Learn about computer vision and how you can use it to solve problems.
• 9 min read
What is OpenPose? A Guide for Beginners.
In this guide, we discuss what OpenPose is, what you can do with the model, and how you can use OpenPose.
• 8 min read
What is OpenCV? A Guide for Beginners.
Learn what OpenCV is, what you can do with OpenCV, how OpenCV performs on various tasks when run on CPU vs. GPU, and more.
• 5 min read
How to Use LabelMe: A Complete Guide
In this guide, we discuss the features in LabelMe, how to install LabelMe, and how to start annotating images in the tool.
• 4 min read
Resources to Build Computer Vision Applications Faster
Learn how Roboflow Utilities, Templates, Research, and Showcase can help you build computer vision applications faster.
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Recap: Roboflow's 12 Days of #Shipmas
Team Roboflow decided to end 2022 strong and kick off 2023 with a bang by shipping 12 new features in 12 days. Updates were made to model-assisted labeling, model training, annotation tools, the REST API, Python SDK, and more.
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Launch: Roboflow Command-line Interface
The Roboflow CLI will improve workflows and the ability to use Roboflow when building computer vision applications.
You can use the new Roboflow CLI to access information about your workspaces and projects, upload images and annotations, and perform inference directly from your command line.
Install the Roboflow CLI
To get
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Sharing Your Computer Vision Project on Roboflow Universe
In this guide, learn how to launch your computer vision project on Roboflow Universe.
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Launch: Smart Polygon Labeling
Roboflow Annotate now offers automated polygon labeling for all users. With as few as one click, you can apply a polygon annotation to objects in your datasets.
Polygon annotations are critical to prepare datasets for training instance segmentation or semantic segmentation models and can often improve model accuracy when used
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Train Activity Recognition Models Using Spectrograms and Computer Vision
As Ph.D. students in the Active Robotics Sensing Lab (ARoS) at NC State under the supervision of Dr. Edgar Lobaton, we developed in conjunction with The Engineering Place at NC State a set of activities to walk high school students through the entire computer vision pipeline.
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How to Train YOLOv5-Classification on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv5 classification model on a custom dataset.
• 6 min read
Building Custom Computer Vision Models with NVIDIA TAO Toolkit and Roboflow
NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit provides a framework for fine-tuning popular computer vision models using your own data. In this tutorial, we'll be demonstrating how to use Roboflow to curate a high-quality computer vision dataset to use with NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit.
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Roboflow’s Python Pip Package For Computer Vision
Regardless of whether your project is a new product line, a new industrial production system, a research project, or a personal one to help you learn what computer vision is all about, you'll want to add "pip install roboflow" to your code - and here's why.
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Improving Computer Vision Datasets and Models
Common tips and tricks to improve your computer or machine vision dataset, including using Roboflow Train and the Dataset Health Check tools.
• 7 min read
What is CVAT (Computer Vision Annotation Tool)?
Learn how to annotate images in CVAT, an open-source, web-based tool for labeling data for object detection, segmentation, classification, and other tasks.
• 6 min read
Identifying Chocolates With Computer Vision
Learn how to identify chocoaltes using computer vision technology.
• 7 min read
Who cares about Nemo, let's find some Sexy Shrimp!
Creating a computer vision model with Roboflow to detect sexy shrimp.
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Live Coding: Blackjack Basic Strategy
Follow along as I use a playing cards object detection model from Roboflow Universe to build a computer-vision powered Blackjack basic strategy web-app. In just two hours, we go from the boilerplate sample code to a working app you can try on your phone or computer's webcam.
If
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Choosing the Right Problem Statement
Creating a computer vision model, at the outset, seems like a pretty involved task. Even if you’re using an end-to-end solution like Roboflow, the process will always require you to source and aggregate starting data (images), generate versions of each dataset, train different variations of your model and then
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Building vs. Buying a Computer Vision Platform
“You could do what Roboflow does yourself but…why would you?”
-Jack Clark, Co-Founder of Anthropic, former Policy Directory at OpenAI,
It’s no secret that building a computer vision model on your own is hard work. It requires wrangling together different platforms, open-source tools, and developer notebooks to create
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