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KWCoco is Kitware’s COCO format and Python module that builds on the popular MS-COCO format introduced in the 2014 paper Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context and is supported by the pycocotools Python module. The MS-COCO format was designed to manage the large-scale (>200K) single-image MS-COCO dataset with bounding box, polygon, pixel-mask, and keypoint annotations […]

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash 3.4.0. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Deepfakes and disinformation have the ability to move financial markets, influence public opinion, and scam businesses and individuals out of millions of dollars. The Semantic Forensics program (SemaFor) is a DARPA-funded initiative to create comprehensive forensic technologies to help mitigate online threats perpetuated via synthetic and manipulated media. Over the last eight years, Kitware has helped DARPA create a powerful set of tools to...

Notable new features in this release include a new GraphQL API, a RHEL-based Docker image, and a Ping Identity OAuth provider. This release also includes numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and internal refactoring. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash v3.4.0-rc3. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

May 7-8, 2024 at the San Diego Marriott in La Jolla, California The Digital Pathology & AI Congress brings together researchers and engineers to delve into the cutting-edge advancements and real-world applications of digital pathology. Kitware will be there to share with our colleagues how artificial intelligence and machine learning are revolutionizing clinical research, while […]

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash v3.4.0-rc2. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

This is a guest blog from Eloïse Billa, Jacques-Bernard Lekien, Guillaume Peillex and Maxime Stauffert from CEA, DAM, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. In this blog post, the authors describe the advantages of being based on the ParaView framework for their domain specific application. Openness, collaboration and flexibility, in addition with a […]

This release contains fixes for issues discovered while testing CDash v3.4.0-rc1. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Learn how to leverage the power of GPUs with NVIDIA IndeX for interactive visualization of large-scale data sets in ParaView.

Kitware will refine GeoWATCH, its open source software toolkit for analyzing satellite imagery, to be used in operations by government and commercial organizations

In satellite imagery, like life, hindsight is 20/20. By looking back at the same spot on earth, you’d be able to easily track the progress of buildings, roads, and construction projects. But what if you wanted to know if a skyscraper or housing development was going up, right now, anywhere in the world? That’s where Kitware’s IARPA SMART Team comes in. Since 2020, they’ve...

NVIDIA’s Holoscan SDK is a powerful toolkit for developing high performance Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications that require scalable and real-time processing of streaming data. These applications span a diverse array of fields, including industrial manufacturing, robotic surgery, and autonomous vehicles. NVIDIA’s HoloHub serves as a central repository where the Holoscan developer […]

The highlight of this feature is the introduction of a new GraphQL API. Users can now use the GraphQL API to make their own custom queries. The API currently exposes basic project, build, site, and user information, and will be expanded in future releases. Other notable features in this release include a new RHEL-based Docker […]

We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.4 Release Candidate 4 is available for testing! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. 🔦 Highlights The Insight Toolkit (ITK) has further enhanced its DICOM capabilities in the latest release, building on over 25 years of extensive clinical […]

C++Now is a gathering of C++ experts and enthusiasts from around the world looking to push C++ to its limits. The conference explores what C++ will look like in the future and how it can be used today.

Since C++ named modules left the experimental state in CMake (see import CMake; the Experiment is Over!), CMake development has continued to add more support for modules. The most recent development is the experimental support of import std;. C++23 introduced support for APIs to be available via the named module std. This means that import […]

The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Defense + Commercial Sensing 2024 Conference brings together researchers and engineers to share the latest advancements in sensors, infrared, laser systems, spectral imaging, radar, lidar, autonomous systems, and other findings with the sensing community oriented on defense.

Kitware Europe has been hard at work creating great webinars this year! Here is a list of our few last webinars so they are easier to find. For the complete list, please visit https://www.paraview.org/tutorials/. Advanced rendering of scientific data using ray-tracing in ParaView Presented on: February 29, 2024Instructors: Thomas Galland & Lucas Givord This webinar […]

My entire career has involved open source software. In the early 90s, while I was working in a computer vision group at GE research my masters thesis was an open source framework for computer vision research called TargetJr. After a decade at GE, I left as one of the five founders of Kitware, an entire […]