The day I stopped wasting hours on manual data entry for my models

I remember back in 2018, I used to spend every Sunday night manually labeling training data for my little image recognition side project. It would take me like 4 to 5 hours just going through photos of plants from my local nursery in Austin. Then a buddy at a meetup showed me an automated labeling tool that cut that down to 30 minutes flat. I was skeptical at first, but after one try I never went back to doing it by hand. Now I just upload my raw images and the AI sorts them out with bounding boxes in minutes. It freed up so much time for actual tweaking of my model's layers. Has anyone else found a specific tool that totally changed your workflow like that?

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olivia_allen27d ago

Started playing around with Roboflow after hearing about it at a conference and it did the same thing for my plant classification project. Labeling 2000 images by hand took me forever and now I just dump them in and let it handle the boxes. Wish I'd known about it years ago.