Getting Started with Roboflow

Roboflow is a comprehensive platform designed for building, training, and deploying computer vision models, offering tools for annotating images, managing datasets, and training models efficiently. Users can start by creating a free account and selecting a plan, then invite collaborators to help annotate images for projects. The guide exemplifies training a model to identify screws for quality assurance, utilizing a dataset structured in the COCO JSON format. Roboflow supports various preprocessing and augmentation techniques to optimize datasets, and provides options for model training, including using pre-trained models as checkpoints. The platform enables model deployment through different methods, including cloud-based and on-device inference, making use of Roboflow's Hosted API and Inference tools. Users can build custom workflows to execute model inferences and handle tasks like result visualization and decision-making based on model outputs.