KWIVER: An End-to-End Video Analytics Toolkit
January 20, 2016
A little over a year ago at Kitware, we released the Kitware Interactive Video Exploitation and Retrieval (KWIVER) toolkit [1]. The goal of our Computer Vision team in developing KWIVER is to create a complete end-to-end video exploitation toolkit. When fully realized, KWIVER will provide tools to ingest video, stabilize it, detect movers in it, […]

Introducing NIRFAST-Slicer 1.0
January 18, 2016
We are proud to unveil version 1.0 of the NIRFAST-Slicer application for optical imaging research. NIRFAST-Slicer brings together two powerful open-source toolkits used in the imaging research community: NIRFAST and 3D Slicer. NIRFAST is an interactive open-source software application package that is widely used in the near-infrared imaging research community. It provides functionalities for modeling and reconstructing near-infrared light transport in tissue including standard […]

VTK 7.0.0 release candidate 2
January 14, 2016
Release candidate 2 is ready to try. Compared to rc1, this release candidate contains a handful of new deprecations, updates to some of VTK's third party libraries and miscellaneous improvements. You can find the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages here: http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#releasecandidate Please try this version of VTK, and report any issues to the mailing lists so that […]

Messing with Mesa for ParaView 5.0/VTK 7.0
January 12, 2016
ParaView 5.0 / VTK 7.0 changes the default rendering engine that is a totally new, rewritten implementation that uses newer OpenGL features for improved rendering performance on modern devices. That does mean, however, that older OpenGL implementations including old graphics cards/drivers builds will no longer work. On several Linux systems, including major super-computers, Mesa3D has been the […]

ParaView 5.0.0 available for download
January 12, 2016
ParaView 5.0.0 is now available for download. This marks the beginning of the ParaView 5.0 series—a long way from the first release, 0.2.0, tagged in Dec 2001! Here are some of the major highlights. New Rendering Engine This release introduces a brand-new rendering backend that the team has been putting together for the past several […]

MAP-Tk 0.7.0 and 0.7.1 Releases
December 23, 2015
Motion-imagery Aerial Photogrammetry Toolkit (MAP-Tk) 0.7.0 provides both new functionality and improvements to the open-source software solution. The highlights of the release are a new Ceres Solver plugin, support for lens distortion modeling, match matrix computation and visualization, and a prototype for a new graphical visualization application. Version 0.7.1 extends 0.7.0 by adding support for […]

VTK 7.0.0 Enters Release Candidate Stage
December 17, 2015
The VTK development team is happy to announce that VTK 7.0 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages here: http://www.vtk.org/download/#candidate Please try this version of VTK and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker so that we can try to address them before VTK 7.0.0 final. The official release notes will be available when final is out in the next few weeks. In […]

ITK 4.9 Release Candidate 1 is ready for testing!
November 25, 2015
On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.9 release candidate 1 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please take this opportunity to test the new features in the release candidate. A few selected highlights for this release are as follows: New Remote modules: the Cuberille module […]

Girder 1.4 Improves Installations of Third-Party Plugins
November 19, 2015
Girder 1.4.0 is now available! The release improves install utilities to make it much easier to install third-party plugins into Girder. For example, with an updated girder-install command and general packaging infrastructure, it is simpler to bundle and install third-party plugins that contain web client code. Also simplified is the grunt build process, thanks to […]

Announcing ITK 4.8.2!
November 17, 2015
On behalf of the Insight Toolkit Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.8.2! Download it Now! This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and compiler support. For compiler support, this release adds support for Visual Studio 2015 and addresses CMake configuration on some newer Linux distributions with […]

ParaView 5.0.0-RC1 available for download
November 12, 2015
ParaView 5.0.0-RC1 is now available for download. This marks the beginning of the ParaView 5.0 series, a long away from the first release v0.2.0 tagged in Dec 2001! Here are some of the major highlights. New Rendering Engine This release introduces a brand new rendering backend that the team has been putting together for the […]

CMake 3.4.0 Released!
November 12, 2015
I am proud to announce that CMake 3.4.0 is now available for download at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/release/3.4.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.4 are: * The "if()" command learned a new "TEST" operator that evaluates to true if […]

Build ITK Modules Outside the Main Repository
November 11, 2015
ITK’s architectural modularization, which occurred in version 4.0, allowed the toolkit to scale in content while remaining organized. In particular, we introduced remote modules that allowed methods to be redistributed for optional inclusion when ITK is built. Additionally, we made it easy for researchers to extend existing ITK methods and develop entirely new ITK methods […]

CMake 3.4.0-rc3 is now ready!
November 3, 2015
I am proud to announce the third CMake 3.4 release candidate. Sources and binaries are available at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/release/3.4.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.4 are: * The “if()” command learned a new “TEST” operator […]

Girder Improves Capabilities with 1.3.3 Release
November 3, 2015
Girder 1.3.3 has been released! The release updates the PyMongo dependency to the latest major version. It also allows OAuth users to convert into password-login users and exposes system log files via the Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) for system administrators. Girder 1.3.3 changes the policy of creating default folders underneath a […]

Faster continuous integration turnaround times
November 2, 2015
Since we’ve migrated to our GitLab instance for our main projects, our buildbot instance has been in charge of testing. This has largely replaced our continuous dashboards for testing. It has also largely replaced our nightly dashboards since it also runs over master branch updates. At first, we had some simple test scheduling using an […]

One question about ParaView that comes up from time to time is how to define time-varying data sources with the Programmable Source. I’ll show the basics of doing this here. Let’s start by looking at a simple example that produces a single static sphere. First, fire up ParaView and create a Programmable Source. The Script property for the Programmable Source […]

How to build distributable C++ executables for Linux with Docker
October 27, 2015
To create easily distributable C++ executables for Linux, the binaries’ dependencies should be minimized. In order to reduce an executable’s dependencies, a binary can be created by linking static libraries. Static linking can be used with most libraries, including the C++ standard library, but it is not preferred with the standard system C library, glibc. […]
