Biography | Publications

Dr. Martin is currently Chairman and CFO of Kitware, Inc., a research and development company based in the US. He co-founded Kitware in 1998 and since then has helped grow the company to its current position as a leading R&D provider with clients across many government and commercial sectors. As CFO, he is responsible for the overall financial management of the company, its financial reporting and transparency, and for multiple corporate functions including Contracting, Controller, Compliance, AP/AR, Payroll, External Audit, Legal, and long-range planning.

Dr. Martin has made contributions to the fields of visualization and software architecture including a number of peer reviewed papers and patents. He is co-author of The Visualization Toolkit: An Object Oriented Approach to Computer Graphics textbook which is used for teaching visualization at many universities. Dr. Martin was co-developer and lead architect for the Visualization Toolkit software (www.vtk.org) which is considered to be one of the most comprehensive and praised visualization packages available. He is also coauthor and developer for CMake (www.cmake.org) a very popular build system tool that is seeing explosive growth.

Dr. Martin received bachelor degrees in Physics and Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990. He then joined General Electric Corporate Research and Development as a member of the Software Technology Program. During this program Dr. Martin completed his master’s degree in Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering at Rensselaer with a thesis on abnormality detection for cutting tool fault prediction. In 1998 Dr. Martin completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rensselaer with his thesis titled “Image Guided Borescope Tip Pose Determination”. This thesis combines the fields of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision to address model-based pose estimation.

Publications

John Biddiscombe, Berk Geveci, Ken Martin A Pipeline Architecture for Parallel Processing of Time-Dependent Data within a VTK Framework. In Short Paper - EGPGV, May 2007.

Ken Martin, Bill Hoffman An Open Source Approach to Developing Software in a Small Organization. In IEEE Software, Vol. 24 Number 1 IEEE, January 2007.

James P. Ahrens, Nehal Desai, Patrick S. McCormick, Ken Martin, Jonathan Woodring A modular extensible visualization system architecture for culled prioritized data streaming. In Proceesings of SPIE, Vol. 6495 Visualization and Data Analysis 2007, January 2007.

Ken Martin, Luis Ibáñez, Lisa Avila, Sébastien Barré and Jon H. Kaspersen Integrating segmentation methods from the Insight Toolkit into a visualization application . In Medical Image Analysis, Vol. 9 Issue 6. Elsevier, October 2005.

Will Schroeder and Ken Martin. Overview of Visualization. . In The Visualization Handbook, C. D. Hansen and C. R. Johnson, editors. Elsevier, 2004.

Will Schroeder and Ken Martin. The Visualization Toolkit. . In The Visualization Handbook, C. D. Hansen and C. R. Johnson, editors. Elsevier, 2004.

K. Martin and B. Hoffman, Mastering CMake: A Cross-Platform Build System, second edition , ISBN 1-930934-11-4, Kitware Inc., 2004

W. Hoffman and K. Martin, The CMake Build Manager , Dr. Dobb's Journal, (January 2003).

K. Martin, B. Geveci and W. Hoffman , Creating Libraries for Multiple Programming Languages, Dr. Dobb's Journal, (February 2002).

Will Schroeder, Luis Ibanez, Ken Martin. Software Process: The Key to Developing Robust, Reusable and Maintainable Open-Source Software.. In Proc. of ISBI Nano To Macro 2004 Conference, April 2004.

W. J. Schroeder, L. S. Avila, K. M. Martin, W. Hoffman, C. Charles Law, The Visualization Toolkit User's Guide, ISBN 1-930934-05-X, Kitware, Inc. 2001.

H. Pfister, W.E. Lorensen, C. Bajaj, Kindlmann, W.J. Schroeder, L.S. Avila, K.M. Martin, Transfer Function Bake-Off, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 21(3), (May/June 2001).

K.M. Martin, B. Geveci, J. Ahrens, C. Law, Large Scale Data Visualization Using Parallel Data Streaming, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, (July 2001).

K. Martin and C.V. Stewart, Real time tracking of borescope tip pose, Image and Vision Computing, 18 (10), Elsevier Science, pp. 795-804, (2000).

C. Charles Law, K. M. Martin, W. J. Schroeder, J. E. Temkin, A Multi-Threaded Streaming Pipeline Architecure for Large Structured Data Sets, Proc. of IEEE Visualization ‘99, (October 1999).

Hardy CJ, Darrow RD, Pauly JM, Kerr AB, Dumoulin CL, Hu BS, Martin KM, Interactive coronary MRI, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 40:105–111, (1998).

Louis Hobel, William Lorensen, Ken Martin, Integrating Graphics and Abstract Data to Visualize Temporal Constraints, ACM SIGART, Association of Computing Machinery, Vol. 9 no. 3 & 4, (1998).

W. J. Schroeder, Ken Martin, and Bill Lorensen, The Visualization Toolkit: An Object Orient Approach to Computer Graphics, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, (1997).

K.M. Martin, S. Erne, C. Law, S. Conforto, J. Mallick, and R. Tatar, Multiple Modality Biomagnetic Analysis System, Biomag `96 Conference Proceedings, (March 1996).

K.M. Martin, R. Hammond, and C. Stewart, Real Time Tracking of Borescope Tip Pose, Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, (December 1996).

K.M. Martin, An Approach to the Automated Wrapping of a C++ Class Library Into Tcl, Proceedings of the USENIX Tcl/Tk `96 Workshop, (July 1996).

Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, and Bill Lorensen, The Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics and Visualization, Proc. IEEE Visualization ‘96, (November 1996).

Boris Yamrom, and Ken Martin, Vector Field Animation with Texture Maps, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, (March 1995).