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 inference library (opens in a new tab), a Python webcam inference demo, and example code snippets in 8 programming languages (opens in a new tab).

Roboflow Organize

• Updated onboarding flow to customize user experience based on user persona.
• Improved chat-bot triggers to be less intrusive.
• Added ability to revoke API Keys.
• HEVC/H.265 video detection (opens in a new tab) & alert.
• Detect image upload issues (eg firewall block) and surfaced helpful message.
• Added Upload API examples (opens in a new tab) in 8 programming languages.

Roboflow Train

• Updated our GPU infrastructure and achieved 3.4x faster training times.
• Backend work to support upcoming deployment targets.
• Improved early stopping heuristics.

Roboflow Infer

• Launched support for deploying models to NVIDIA Jetson.
• Decreased size of on-prem inference-server (opens in a new tab) Docker by 40%.
• Added video inference (opens in a new tab).
• Released webcam inference example (opens in a new tab).
• Refactored to support an arbitrarily large number of models with no performance penalty.
• Improved cold start times for model inference.
• Better error handling.

Roboflow Annotate

• Added new public model to Label Assist.
• Improved default zoom value.
• Enabled "Show Source" to see transformed images' original source.
• Fixed 9 bugs.

Other

• Welcomed Thomas to the team as our new Full Stack Developer (he has already become our most-prolific developer as measured by number of commits)!
• Joint webinar with Paperspace (opens in a new tab).
• Added utilities and telecommunications industry pages.
• 22 bug fixes.
• 14 blog posts.
• 8 YouTube videos (opens in a new tab).
• Featured on/at: ODSC (opens in a new tab), General Assemb.ly (opens in a new tab), The Darius Gant Show (opens in a new tab), 1 Million Cups (opens in a new tab), The Current State (opens in a new tab), General Assembly, and FIRST Robotics.
• Fun user projects: recycling sorter (opens in a new tab), autopilot tester (opens in a new tab), Raspberry Pi cyclist monitor, smart hospital supply closet (opens in a new tab), Bangalore pothole reporter (opens in a new tab), PPE detector.