Piotr Skalski
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Piotr Skalski
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Open-source Lead @roboflow. VLMs. GPU poor. Dog person. Coffee addict. Dyslexic. | GH: https://github.com/SkalskiP | HF: https://huggingface.co/SkalskiP
trackers v2.0.0 is out

combo object detectors from top model libraries with multi-object tracker of your choice

for now we support SORT and DeepSORT; more trackers coming soon

link: github.com/roboflow/tra...
April 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
new blog post is out: how to fine-tune PaliGemma 2

all I learned in a single blog

- PaliGemma 2 architecture
- dataset annotation and structure
- picking the right checkpoint
- memory optimization
- hyperparameters tuning

link: blog.roboflow.com/fine-tune-pa...
December 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM
PaliGemma2 for object detection on custom dataset

- used google/paligemma2-3b-pt-448 checkpoint
- trained on A100 with 40GB VRAM
- 1h of training
- 0.62 mAP on the validation set

colab with complete fine-tuning code: colab.research.google.com/github/robof...
December 8, 2024 at 4:26 PM
PaliGemma2 for image to JSON data extraction

- used google/paligemma2-3b-pt-336 checkpoint; I tried to make it happen with 224, but 336 performed a lot better
- trained on A100 with 40GB VRAM
- trained with LoRA

colab with complete fine-tuning code: colab.research.google.com/github/robof...
December 6, 2024 at 4:18 PM
popular computer vision package ultralytics (home of yolov8 and yolo11) was compromised.

a crypto miner was injected into versions 8.3.41 and 8.3.42.

link: github.com/ultralytics/...
December 5, 2024 at 9:21 PM
built a smart parking system with roboflow workflows.

- license plate detection and ocr
- object tracking with bytetrack.
- counting cars entering and leaving the lot.
- real-time alerts via telegram.
November 27, 2024 at 5:43 PM