13.7.1. Creating a project

From the Roboflow workspace, New Project opens the create page. A project bundles a dataset, the models trained on it, and their deployment targets.

The create-project page, with Object Detection chosen as the project type.

Two choices matter here:

• Project Name. Use anything memorable – this example uses Finding raccoons. The name becomes part of the model’s identifier, which you download at the deploy step.

• Project Type. This sets what the model predicts, so match it to what you want the camera to do. Object Detection – finding objects and their positions with bounding boxes – is the one for locating things in the frame, and it is what the camera’s YOLO post-processors decode. The other types – classification, instance segmentation, keypoint detection – train different model heads; this example uses object detection.

The visibility and license options affect only whether the dataset is shared publicly on Roboflow Universe – they have no bearing on the model that ends up on the camera. Set them as you like, then Create Project.