Roboflow Presents at Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) East 2020
Blog post from Roboflow
The Open Data Science Conference (East) transitioned from its usual in-person gathering in Boston to an online format in 2020, attracting over 3,000 virtual attendees via a shared Slack workspace and livestreams. Joseph Nelson delivered a three-hour tutorial on building a custom object detection model from scratch, covering aspects such as problem identification, image collection, labeling best practices, preprocessing tips, image augmentation, model training, and inference usage. The online format facilitated live interaction and discussion among participants, who could follow along and engage with the content in real-time. Nelson, cofounder and CEO of Roboflow, emphasized the benefits of this format, and provided supplementary resources such as slides, a Colab notebook, and a related blog post on training YOLOv3 with a custom dataset.