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Kitware is pleased to be hosting a 3D Slicer Hackathon! Join us virtually to get hands-on experience contributing to Slicer, receive guidance, and improve your development skills. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow Slicer developers, discuss ideas, and gain insights from experienced contributors.

Since ParaView 5.13 is out (release notes here), Kitware is proud to announce the Long-Term Support (LTS) of the previous versions of ParaView: 5.10.2-LTS, 5.11.2-LTS and 5.12.1-LTS. ParaView for Production Environments ParaView is widely used in research and industry. Using it in a production environment comes with several challenges. There could be long deployment cycles […]

Highlight features in this release include: several new GraphQL fields to the API, a UI overhaul for the project sites page, improved browser caching and page load performance, performance improvements in the build removal process, and a refreshed maintenance page. This release also contains numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, dependency updates, and maintenance changes. Starting […]

Following the introduction of X-ray Genius, our Synthetic X-ray Image Generation Tool, in our original announcement, we’re excited to invite users to create free accounts and try them on our hosted system. With your free account, you can explore the tool’s capabilities and experiment using a sample CT dataset provided within the application.

The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. The ITK Maintenance Hackathon aims to bring together ITK developers and new users to learn how to use ITK tools for scientific image processing. Our goal is to make comprehensive improvements across the entire ITK ecosystem. Why Attend? […]

Introduction In the rapidly evolving fields of robotics and autonomous systems, object detection is crucial for enabling machines to understand and interact with their environments. This understanding is essential for tasks like collision avoidance, path planning, and interaction with dynamic environments. Unlike traditional cameras that capture 2D images, LiDAR generates point cloud data with detailed […]

Kitware proudly announces the promotion of 24 team members whose exceptional work continues to drive innovation and impact across a variety of fields. These advancements highlight Kitware's commitment to fostering talent and expertise across its teams.

Kitware is a leader in medical imaging solutions. We provide state-of-the-art technology for a diverse range of needs in healthcare. Whether you are an engineer, a product manager, or a marketing strategist at a major medical device company—or even a budding startup—Kitware’s expertise and tools will accelerate your product development and deliver superior outcomes. Transformative […]

We are excited to announce the 4.3 VolView release, which brings new annotation, segmentation, and VolView customization features. Try the completely client-side live deployment now! VolView is an open source permissively licensed radiological viewer developed for clinical professionals and researchers. With VolView, you can have a deeper visual understanding of your data through interactive, cinematic […]

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many fields, but its application in media manipulation poses significant threats to public discourse and democracy. As AI-generated content becomes increasingly sophisticated and challenging to detect, the potential for disinformation and misinformation grows significantly. The impact of these deceptive tactics can be damaging, undermining trust in journalism and swaying public opinion about critical issues.

At Kitware, we are dedicated to empowering organizations with open source tools and advanced expertise to tackle their most complex visualization challenges. We are committed to supporting you as you integrate our tools, such as ParaView, into your workflow. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our professional ParaView solutions, designed to support organizations through flexible installation, training, maintenance, and support services around ParaView.

The world of C++ development is no stranger to challenges, particularly when it comes to managing build systems. As highlighted in the 2023 C++ Developer Survey, key concerns for developers revolve around managing dependencies, setting up CI/CD pipelines, configuring toolchains and IDEs, and improving build times. In his presentation at the 2024 C++Now conference, Bill Hoffman, a co-founder of Kitware, delved into how a...

Kitware, a leader in developing software for ethical and explainable AI, has been awarded a $3.9M million contract to develop benchmarks to objectively and quantitatively measure how well the behavior of autonomous systems aligns with U.S. military operational values incorporating military ethics, the laws of war, and the commander’s intent. The benchmark will also quantify the ethical challenges of future autonomous use cases and...

This is the first in a two-part series of posts describing recent improvements to the CAVEInteraction plugin.  As it’s the first, some introduction and background about the plugin is warranted. CAVEInteraction Plugin The CAVEInteraction plugin has been included with ParaView for many years, although prior to ParaView 5.11.0 it was named VRPlugin.  The name was […]

Kitware, a leader in leveraging AI for environmental science, has been awarded a $1.1 million, two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The “Bat Detection and Species Determination Around Wind Turbines using AI” project aims to address the environmental impacts of wind energy development on bat populations.

Ten years ago, I wrote this series of blogs introducing a (then) new way of interfacing VTK and NumPy. In the first blog, I had a teaser that I then expanded on: Over the last year, we have introduced a simpler and more pythonic interface. As of VTK 9.4, the code above can be expressed […]

This is a guest blog post from Jonathan Windgassen and Jens Henrik Göbbert, both developing the software stack at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. They have agreed to share with us the integration of trame, jupyter lab and ParaView to ease the life of their scientists. As a bonus they include the code to […]

As 2024 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on a year marked by remarkable achievements and technological strides at Kitware. From transforming environmental monitoring to advancing medical research and training, Kitware’s collaborative efforts have resulted in innovative solutions that positively impact our partners and community. This article highlights some of our most impactful projects and open source tools...

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) release planning team is happy to announce that v9.4.0 is now available.  For source, data, documentation, and Python wheel packages, please visit the VTK download page. Detailed release notes are published at https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/blob/v9.4.0/Documentation/release/9.4.md Although this is a minor release, many enhancements have been made since v9.3.1. Some of the changes are […]

We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.31.1 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ See also the release notes and release milestone Thanks for your support! Changes made since CMake 3.31.0: Brad King (10): Help: Add missing one-line summary to policy CMP0132 FindBoost: Add support for […]

As the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, they present both exciting opportunities and significant challenges in the realm of cybersecurity. Kitware is working to shed light on this duality through Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Semantic Forensics (SemaFor), a program aimed at creating comprehensive forensic technologies to help mitigate online threats perpetuated via synthetic and manipulated media.

In the world of computational simulations, efficiency and flexibility are crucial. Kitware's open source platform, Computation Model Builder (CMB), is designed to streamline every step of the simulation process, from setting up models to analyzing results. As an example, while OpenFOAM remains a powerful tool for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), integrating it with CMB elevates productivity by providing an intuitive, flexible workflow. With CMB,...

As technology advances, it is essential to stay current with industry-standard tools and methodologies. Kitware’s training courses provide developers, researchers, and engineers with hands-on, expert-led instruction in our popular open source platforms. Whether you’re looking to grow your skillset or efficiently leverage new tools, Kitware’s winter courses offer valuable insights and practical experience. And by signing up early, you can save more than $200...

This security release addresses a vulnerability discovered in Laravel. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

This security release addresses a vulnerability discovered in Laravel. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Following a recent CC-FR webinar High fidelity simulations with OpenRadioss™ & ParaView by Altair and Kitware, this blog post describes an example of workflow to post-process OpenRadioss results with ParaView. OpenRadioss is a free, publicly available FEA software for simulation of impact, shock and highly dynamic events, actively developed by Altair.  The example data is […]

This release contains fixes for issues discovered after the release of CDash 3.6.0. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

The Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) helps to accelerate the adoption of data, analytics, and AI across the Department of Defense (DoD), enabling decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. One of CDAO’s first outputs was a Data, Analytics, and AI Adoption Strategy, which helped set a vision for the responsible use of AI across the DoD, in accordance with the DoD’s...

Kitware, a leader in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision, is proud to announce the award of a $2.2 million contract for Phase II of the Chief Digital and AI Office’s (CDAO) Joint AI Test Infrastructure Capability (JATIC) program. The new contract extends Kitware's work on developing and enhancing tools that support responsible AI adoption across the Department of Defense (DoD).

We have recently published our SlicerSALT 5.0 release. One of the main updates to SlicerSALT is the addition of tools and functionalities for the visualization and analysis of 4D shapes that are composed of sequences of 3D geometries. As part of this release, we have created a new module named Hierarchical Geodesic Modeling that is […]

Simulation workflows are inherently complex, often involving a variety of computational tools that each play a crucial role in modeling, analyzing, and interpreting physical systems. From geometric kernel operations to mesh generation, numerical solvers, and post-processing analysis tools, these workflows require a high level of coordination and integration. Unfortunately, most simulation environments fall short of providing all the necessary tools in one cohesive package,...

GeoWATCH is a powerful tool designed to train, predict, and evaluate AI models on complex heterogeneous sequences of imagery. While initial development focused on geospatial satellite imagery, it is designed for any sequence of rasters. Unlike traditional tools, it’s built to handle diverse sensor data, accommodating variations in band type, resolution, and revisit rates. This flexibility empowers GeoWATCH to provide valuable insights across domains,...

LidarView: One software to read and process them all!  We’ve added to LidarView several new LiDARs from different manufacturers. They can be used in the same way, regardless of the model, to visualize live streams, replay .pcap records and running algorithms. You can even open two different LiDARs at the same time! Here is a […]

High-performance computing (HPC) is the perfect platform for AI and machine learning (AI/ML) research. This is because modern leadership class supercomputers rely on the massive parallelism of GPUs to perform scientific computation at exascale. Those same GPUs are the bedrock that the proliferation of AI/ML technologies are built upon. Therefore, these machines make it possible to combine traditional simulation workflows with AI/ML techniques and...

As the demand for analyzing vast amounts of geospatial data continues to grow, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a critical role in accelerating this process. Developing AI capabilities requires tools to visualize and validate results, as well as to create annotations that further improve AI models. RDWATCH is one of the latest technological developments in this area—an advanced cloud-ready system designed to streamline machine learning...

In a previous blog post, we introduced VESPA, a VTK module and ParaView plugin designed for advanced meshing capabilities. Today, we are happy to announce that you can now use VESPA by simply by downloading the binary version of the plugin for Linux! To do this, go to the release page of VESPA: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/meshing/vespa/-/releases and […]

This release adds FreeIPA LDAP integration, many new GraphQL fields, a variety of performance enhancements, and a handful of usability improvements. This release also contains many bug fixes and internal refactoring changes. 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 v3.6.0-rc1. For more information on the full contents of this release, see the release notes.

Open source software has become a vital part of technological innovation across industries, from scientific research to commercial applications. However, maintaining these projects long-term can be challenging, especially as they grow in complexity and scope. To address this, Kitware co-founders Bill Hoffman and Will Schroeder recently presented the Kitware Software Sustainability Matrix (SSM), a strategic framework designed to evaluate and improve the sustainability of...

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is a widely used open-source solution for desktop post-processing analysis. Even though the library is written in C++, its sophisticated wrapping infrastructure allows developers to build entire visualization applications in Python and Java. Until recently, the python wrapper naively exposed the C++ functions to Python. For example, a C++ member function […]