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This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash v3.5.0-rc1. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Using delayed load plugins Loading a ParaView plugin can take some time, up to a few seconds for the biggest of plugins. If you use autoload for many of your plugins, especially big ones, you pay the loading time everytime you open ParaView, delaying the opening of ParaView by crucial seconds. What if there was […]

Kitware is thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2024 Open Door Scholarship. This year’s award goes to Nosazeme Omorogbe, a senior at Colonie Central High School in Albany, New York. Nosazeme has shown exceptional promise in computer science, consistently earning top grades and becoming a leader and role model on the varsity women’s soccer […]

Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) is the premier microscopy education and networking event that brings together researchers, academics, and engineers. Kitware is looking forward to participating in the event this year with two presentations and a poster session. There we will be showcasing the capabilities of three of Kitware’s applications – Tomviz, trame, and MultivariateView. Kitware offers professional support for collaborative R&D using these applications,...

This release contains several new features including LDAP-based project access control, additional GraphQL fields, XML schema specification files, and support for arm64 architectures. This release also contains numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and internal maintenance changes. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Over the past 25 years, Kitware has continued to develop software processes and tools that automate them. This post is the first post in a series meant to explain ghostflow. ghostflow is a “robot” that automates tedious git related tasks such as running checks on topic branches, merging topic branches, synchronizing mirrors of repositories, and […]

Introducing NimbusImage, a platform to empower scientists to analyze their image data and spend their time making discoveries rather than struggling to process their datasets.

Generative AI is quickly growing in popularity. Large language models (LLMs), a form of generative AI, are being used in many applications–from improved search engines to coding assistants–and are publicly accessible through products like OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

At Kitware, our expertise goes far beyond software customization. We have a strong track record of successfully helping numerous medical device companies and commercial clients transform their ideas into market-ready products using open-source software platforms such as 3D Slicer, Insight Toolkit (ITK), Visualization Toolkit (VTK), Pulse Physiology Engine and MONAI. But, our value goes beyond […]

Overview Trame is a relatively new Kitware platform that enables scientists and engineers to develop interactive feature rich web applications in Python without needing a deep knowledge of frontend/backend web development. To enhance Trame’s capabilities further, Kitware and 3rd party developers have been actively working to develop new plugins, offering new features and integration with […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2024 brings together researchers and engineers around an exciting field combining optics, imaging, sensors, signal processing, computer vision, and computer graphics. It aims to create new ways to take and process photos, offering experiences that traditional cameras and image processing cannot achieve on their own.

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash 3.4.2. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Kitware, a leader in developing custom software solutions using open source technology and advanced AI, is pleased to announce the appointment of Heather James to its board of directors. Heather is an assistant director of business development at Kitware. She replaces Zach Mullen, whose board term has ended. The board also renewed terms for two existing members.

At Kitware, we build software libraries, tools, and platforms that accelerate research and product development. To support our customers’ evolving needs, we are excited to introduce X-ray Genius, a new tool for enhanced synthetic X-ray generation. This integrated cloud-based web application uses input Computed Tomography (CT) images to create synthetic X-ray images known as Digitally […]

Kitware did not have to look far to find its 2023 Open Door Scholarship Recipient. Just over nine miles from Kitware’s Clifton Park, NY headquarters sits Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, the alma mater of our 2023 recipient of our Open Door Scholarship: Gabrielle Duplan.

The 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) is one of the premier conferences for natural language processing research.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) brings together over 2,500 scientists and professionals from the Remote Sensing field worldwide. The symposium covers a wide range of geoscience and remote sensing topics from AI and Big Data, SAR Imaging and Processing, Data Analysis, Cryosphere/Land/Atmospheres/Oceans Applications, Sensors, Mission, Instruments, and Calibration. This year’s theme is “Acting for...

Kitware has been recognized by Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine as one of the Best Workplaces in New York™ in 2024. This is Kitware’s third time being named to this prestigious list, coming in at 13th place. An impressive 97% of Kitware employees said it is a great place to work compared to 57% at a typical U.S.-based company.

Spack in action on Windows In this article Spack on Windows: A New Era in Cross-Platform Dependency Management, we introduced Spack on Windows. In this article we will expand on that and build VTK and one of its examples on Windows using Spack. Installing Spack Installing Spack is as simple as a git clone: And […]

A recent study came out from Harvard Business School that valued open source software at $9 trillion! They reached this amount by assuming that each company would have to recreate its own version of the open source software. One could argue that if this were the case, there would likely be companies selling licensed versions […]

Kitware, a leader in developing custom software using open source technology and advanced AI, is pleased to announce that it has been Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the fourth year in a row. The company is proud to have cultivated a reputation for putting people first. Kitware works tirelessly to not only understand and prioritize the needs of its customers, but those...

Bug fixes made since ParaView 5.12.0 are listed in this document. The full list of issues addressed by this release is available here. Rendering Filters Readers Writers General Catalyst Build

Ask any room full of C++ developers to identify the most aggravating aspect of their development work and you will hear an endless refrain of “dependency management”. A 2023 ISO C++ developer survey, asking about developer’s primary frustrations with the language, found that over 80% of respondents (the most of any group) identified dependency management […]

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash 3.4.1. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual conference in the field of computer vision. Every year it brings together researchers and engineers to share the latest advancements in object recognition, image segmentation, motion estimation, 3D reconstruction, and deep learning. This year, both our Computer Vision and Medical Computing Teams will be in attendance. As long-standing supporters...

Diffusion MRI is a remarkable neuroimaging modality, simultaneously capturing brain structure at large scales and small. By sensitizing MRI to the diffusion of water molecules, brain tissue structures can be characterized in a directionally-dependent manner at sub-voxel scales. With microstructure models, diffusion MRI allows us to describe the distribution of neuron arrangements within the imaging voxels. […]

We are pleased to announce the v30 release of VTK.js! VTK.js provides interactive visualizations running in your web browser for 2D, 3D, and higher-dimensional scientific data, including point clouds acquired as LiDAR data, surface models that represent molecular structures, and AR/VR environments that incorporate volume renderings of medical images.  It is freely available as open-source […]

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 […]