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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 […]

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s GEOINT Symposium is the largest gathering of geospatial intelligence professionals in the U.S, spanning across government, industry, and academia. With more than two centuries of combined experience across Kitware in computer vision R&D for federal agencies, our highly experienced and credentialed experts can help you solve the most challenging AI and computer vision problems in the GEOINT domain....

Kitware note: This is a guest blog from Antonio Baiano Svizzero from Undabit Acoustic Simulations. Computational Acoustics, particularly when applied using the Finite Element Method (FEM), is a critical tool in various industries such as automotive, aeronautical, building sectors etc. It enables the simulation of sound fields in complex environments, which is essential for optimizing […]

Catalyst 2.0.0 has been released! This is the first release of the Catalyst API as a standalone project. Catalyst is an API developed for simulations to communicate in situ with analysis and visualization tools. Release Features New Conduit Version Update to conduit 0.8.7 internally. This brings in a few more APIs: conduit_datatype_sizeof_index_t conduit_node_move conduit_node_reset conduit_node_swap […]

Building simulation workflows can be complicated. Trying to find and connect different tools to get the results you’re looking for can be inefficient, error-prone and take up valuable resources, including time and money. To make matters worse, sharing and deploying these workflows to fellow engineers, researchers, and academics tend to involve relying on hand written notes and scripts that can be difficult to follow...

In the recently concluded 40th Slicer Project Week, which took place from January 29th to February 2nd in Las Palmas, Spain, Kitware and our collaborators made significant contributions to improve the way medical professionals use 3D Slicer for visualization, simulation, and analysis.

The ParaView development team is happy to announce the release of ParaView 5.12.0, the latest version of the industry leading open source scientific visualization and analysis software.

Major changes made since ParaView 5.11.2 are listed in this document. The full list of issues addressed by this release is available here. New features Save/Load Data Locally/Remotely ParaView can now save files to and load files from either the client file system or the server file system. The following operations support this capability: Translations […]

This release contains numerous usability improvements, including performance enhancements, small UI changes, and changes to the routing structure. OAuth support has also been overhauled. CDash administration has been simplified, with changes which attempt to minimize the amount of manual database maintenance required, as well as improvements to our Docker deployment workflow. As of this release, […]

A Volview based application to load and visualize DICOM files for dental implant planification within the browser without server side processing nor rendering

Testing Drake Since 2014 Kitware has been working since 2014 to develop and maintain a cloud-based continuous integration (CI) system for Drake, an open-source robotics toolbox started by the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT CSAIL with core development now led by  Toyota Research Institute. Modern software development involves teams of developers working together on large […]

This is a guest blog from James Kress & Thomas Theussl, visualization scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. Context Cyclone Chapala formed over the Arabian Sea in 2015 and it was one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record in the Arabian Sea, with sustained wind speed estimated to […]

New U.S. Government safety institute brings together a select group of industry leaders dedicated to advancing the development and deployment of safe, trustworthy AI Clifton Park, N.Y. (February 8, 2024) – Kitware, a leader in ethical and explainable artificial intelligence (AI), is proud to announce that it joined a Department of Commerce initiative to support […]

ParaView provides many different types of rendering based on rasterization techniques like Gouraud or Physically Based Rendering (PBR) and also with ray tracing for photorealistic rendering. For this last one, there are several backends such as Optix or the Nvidia index. In this blog we will focus on OSPRay, the open source ray tracing engine […]

Kitware is participating in the DARPA Triage Challenge to help medical providers identify patients needing life-saving intervention during mass casualty events. Clifton Park, N.Y. (February 7, 2024) – Kitware, a leader in developing innovative medical software, has been selected to participate in the DARPA Triage Challenge (DTC) to develop algorithms that can predict the need […]

The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is the world's leading ocean science conference. The event provides a forum for the ocean science community to share their research and collaborate on important initiatives. This year, OSM will focus on the importance of working together to build a sustainable future for our oceans.

It’s been quite a while since the last release of SMTK and we wanted to start off 2024 with a feature packed release which includes the following improvements: Important SMTK Core Changes The changes in this section have a widespread impact on SMTK. Type Hierarchy Reflection SMTK has long provided introspection functionality for classes such […]

Kitware is pleased to announce the new release of the VTKUnity-ActiViz plugin, enhancing the integration of VTK in Unity. This new version benefits from all the latest features of ActiViz 9.3 and focuses on facilitating the developers’ life by fully embedding VTK in the Unity Editor. Development cycles are reduced thanks to the real time […]

We are happy to announce that the zSpace device support is available in VTK 9.3.0 and in the ParaView 5.12.0 binary release on Windows. Context A zSpace device is composed of a stereo display, a stylus and tracking system. All zSpace devices come along with glasses to perform head tracking, except on the latest model […]

Overview Data scientists frequently deal with extensive data structures that span multiple dimensions. These structures, termed n-dimensional (N-D) arrays, emerge from sophisticated, domain-specific algorithms. Kitware is working on a new framework, Pan3D, that leverages open source tools Trame and PyVista, aimed at simplifying a data scientist’s workflow when analyzing such data. This article delves into […]

We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.4 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. Highlights ITK 5.4 marks a significant feature update aimed at bolstering the project’s long-term sustainability. Specifically, this release harnesses the power of Web3 technology […]

ParaView is a powerful tool for scientific data analysis and visualization. As a generic software, it can be used in a lot of different domains, such as Computational Fluid Dynamic, weather research , or acoustic.  To be performant it also provides a variety of advanced tools including topology analysis or even meshing. Those tools and […]

We have developed a proof of concept for accelerated scientific workflows with ParaView-Catalyst2 such that the mesh data never leaves the GPU!  Accelerated algorithms, ray tracing and AI models  are gaining immense popularity. This surge necessitates focusing more on maximizing data residency in order to  reduce data movement especially in the realm of High Performance […]

According to git history, January marks the 30th anniversary of the first commit into the VTK’s source code repository. For those of us who have been involved from the early days this is truly mind boggling. We often thought that VTK might last a few years; and in our wildest dreams, maybe ten years. But […]

Kitware, a leader in developing custom software solutions using open source technology and advanced AI, is pleased to announce the appointment of a new independent member to its board of directors. Kitware has appointed Rich Mahoney, Ph.D. for a three year term to replace outgoing member Jennifer Ricklin, Ph.D. Rich currently serves as Vice President of Research at Intuitive. The board also renewed terms...