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Webinar details redesigned rendering backend of open-source toolkit. To accompany the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) 7.0 release that occurred at the end of January, Kitware made a recording of its release webinar available to members of the visualization community. Kitware hosted the webinar live on February 3, 2016, to offer exclusive insights into the latest VTK […]

ITK employs extreme programming methodologies in latest development cycle. On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) community, Kitware announced the release of ITK 4.9.0. ITK is an open-source software library for processing medical images. The 4.9 release revealed new features, capabilities, and performance enhancements that provide innovations as well as core functionality […]

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) development team is happy to announce the seventh major release of VTK. For the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages, please visit VTK’s website. To learn about the VTK 7.0 Release Webinar, which includes a Q&A session and is scheduled for February 3rd at 2 pm EST, read our blog entry. […]

Some people have been experiencing some problems with the Python interpreter in VTK and ParaView, when initializing their own Python interpreter and using ParaView Python capability as well. A new CMake variable has been added to ParaView, VTK_PYTHON_FULL_THREADSAFE, which will turn on the GIL Ensure/Release on all VTK and ParaView Python calls. If you are […]

Earlier this month, we attended the 3D Slicer 2016 Winter Project Week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, MA. The project week is a semi-annual event where 3D Slicer users and developers gather to discuss and work collaboratively on open-science solutions for problems that occur […]

Projects will make image analysis solution more accessible to Python community. Kitware recently kicked off two National Library of Medicine (NLM) projects to increase synergy between Python and SimpleITK. The efforts will add support for Python in SimpleITK to improve performance and make the open-source, cross-platform system for image analysis easier to build, package, distribute, […]

ITK 4.9 Released The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) 4.9 release adds new remote modules, such as Cuberille for smooth generation of meshes from binary segmentation images. ITK 4.9 also enhances the edge-preserving smoothing abilities of the AnisotropicDiffusionLBR module. In addition, itk::Image::GetPixel performs better, as do operations on the itk::VariableLengthVector class. Plus, Python wrapping builds faster with a […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 1.4.0 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 […]

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 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 […]