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 were the launch of our OpenCV AI Kit integration (opens in a new tab) and the addition of Classification dataset (opens in a new tab) support in Roboflow Annotate.

Roboflow Organize

• Backend refactor to support upcoming changes to team sharing
• Preparation for a major user-facing release scheduled for next month 🤐
• User testing and iterating on the new UI we launched last month
• Updated dependency versions to pull in upstream bug fixes

Roboflow Train

• Improved autoscaling and concurrency for higher model training throughput
• Added additional memory to support larger datasets
• Added support for training classification models (currently in pre-release with enterprise customers; contact sales if you want access to the beta)

Roboflow Infer

• Added Luxonis OpenCV AI Kit devices (opens in a new tab) as a deployment target
• Released new inference server Docker (opens in a new tab) with support for more parameters from the remote inference API (opens in a new tab)
• Unified class colors between annotation tool and prediction visualizations
• Updated to return predictions in order of confidence
• Refactored inference code to be shared across different model types

Roboflow Annotate

• Added support for editing classification labels

Other

• Added 2 new team members, Robert and Mohamed.
• Opened job listings for a Head of Marketing (opens in a new tab), a UX Designer (opens in a new tab), and a Business Development Representative (opens in a new tab).
• Added a Search feature to the blog.
• Added a page detailing Roboflow Deploy.
• 17 bug fixes.
• 1 new public dataset (Drone Gesture Control dataset (opens in a new tab)).
• 13 blog posts.
• 14 YouTube videos (opens in a new tab).
• 3 Roboflow live demo webinars (opens in a new tab).
• Hosted a panel discussion for the incoming S21 Y Combinator batch.
• Fun: had a team onsite in Des Moines.
• Featured in/at: Rackspace SOLVE (opens in a new tab), Yahoo! Finance (opens in a new tab), InnovationIOWA (opens in a new tab), 1 Million Cups Iowa City (opens in a new tab), a Taiwanese computer science curriculum (opens in a new tab).
• User projects: gesture-controlled drone (opens in a new tab), finding plastic in the ocean (opens in a new tab), synthetic data for package detection (opens in a new tab), detecting Leukemia in blood cells (opens in a new tab), recognizing defects in 3d printed parts (opens in a new tab), oil and gas risk avoidance.