september
Kitware is proud to be involved in the 2nd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences. On Tuesday, September 22, from
Kitware is proud to be involved in the 2nd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.
On Tuesday, September 22, from noon to 2 PM ET, Matthew Dawkins, Anthony Hoogs, and Aashish Chaudhary will present a tutorial on the Video and Image Analytics for Marine Environments (VIAME) toolkit, a do-it-yourself AI platform that enables marine scientists to leverage deep learning for image/video analysis without any knowledge of AI, deep learning or programming.
According to NOAA, the goal of the workshop is to help gather scientists, program managers, and leaders from the public, academic, and private sectors and enable them to meet and exchange experiences related to the development and adaptation of AI tools and applications. This year’s workshop will be hosted virtually and span over several months.
Full details about Kitware’s involvement in the workshop can be found in this blog post.
(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
october
Though MICCAI 2020 is now a fully virtual conference, Kitware is looking forward to participating in this year's activities. Kitware is co-author of multiple papers at
The goal of this workshop is to present the leading methods and applications for advanced shape analysis and geometric learning in medical imaging. It will provide a venue for researchers working in shape/geometric modeling, learning, analysis, statistics, classification and applications to share novel ideas, to present recent research results, and to interact with each other.
The topics that will be discussed at the Shape in Medical Imaging Workshop include:
This workshop is co-organized by Dr. Beatriz Paniagua, assistant director of medical computing at Kitware.
october 4 (Sunday) - 8 (Thursday)
Virtual
Kitware is pleased to share Matthew Dawkins has been invited to present a plenary talk at the MASTS Annual Science Meeting 2020. Matthew's presentation takes place Tuesday,
Kitware is pleased to share Matthew Dawkins has been invited to present a plenary talk at the MASTS Annual Science Meeting 2020.
Matthew’s presentation takes place Tuesday, October 6 from 12-12:30 PM ET. He will give an overview of the Video and Image Analytics for Marine Environments (VIAME), an open source do-it-yourself AI platform that enables marine scientists to leverage deep learning for image and video analysis without any knowledge of AI, deep learning, or programming.
The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS) is a consortium of organizations engaged in Marine Science. The MASTS Annual Science Meeting is the UK’s largest marine science conference. This year, the conference will take place virtually, giving everyone around the world access from their home.
Attendees of the conference will have a chance to look back at the significant progress made by MASTS partners and collaborators, and look forward to 2021, which sees the start of the decade of ocean science for sustainable development. The conference will examine the modern challenges that face our marine waters, and identify ways and means to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
For more details and to register, visit the conference registration page.
(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Kitware is proud to continue its support of the IEEE Vis community as a sponsor of the VIS 2020 conference. The event is known as the premier forum for advances in
Kitware is proud to continue its support of the IEEE Vis community as a sponsor of the VIS 2020 conference.
The event is known as the premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. It brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
The conference, which takes place October 25-30, will be fully virtual this year due to COVID-19.
october 25 (Sunday) - 30 (Friday)
november
Kitware has been a long-standing participant in the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. As Supercomputing goes virtual this year, we remain committed to this
Kitware has been a long-standing participant in the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. As Supercomputing goes virtual this year, we remain committed to this community and plan to stay connected “everywhere you are.” Check back soon for more details surrounding our involvement in SC20.
november 16 (Monday) - 20 (Friday)
Virtual
august
Kitware is proud to be involved in the 2nd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences. On Thursday, August 27,
Kitware is proud to be involved in the 2nd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.
On Thursday, August 27, at 1 PM ET, Matthew Dawkins from our Computer Vision Team will provide a 20-minute overview of the Video and Image Analytics for Marine Environments (VIAME) toolkit, a do-it-yourself AI platform that enables marine scientists to leverage deep learning for image/video analysis without any knowledge of AI, deep learning or programming.
According to NOAA, the goal of the workshop is to help gather scientists, program managers, and leaders from the public, academic, and private sectors and enable them to meet and exchange experiences related to the development and adaptation of AI tools and applications. This year’s workshop will be hosted virtually and span over several months.
As part of this same workshop, Kitware will also conduct a two-hour tutorial on VIAME, scheduled for September 22.
Full details can be found in this blog post.
(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
july
Kitware is proud to have the following paper accepted at the 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) held in conjunction with
Kitware is proud to have the following paper accepted at the 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) held in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society:
“Parameterization of Respiratory Physiology and Pathophysiology for Real-Time Simulation”
Authors: Jeffrey Webb, Aaron Bray, Rachel Clipp
This paper outlines the recent enhancements to Kitware’s Pulse Physiology Engine respiratory software that has resulted in improved simulation functionality and results. Some of these improvements include:
The paper presentation is scheduled for Monday, July 20 from 13:30-17:30 EDT. Sessions will be available to conference attendees on-demand through August 24. For more information and to watch the session, please visit the EMBC website.
(Monday) 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
Virtual
06julAll Day09MIDL 2020: Medical Imaging with Deep Learning
MIDL 2020 is now a virtual conference and registration is free. Kitware's Dr. Stephen Aylward, senior director of strategic initiatives, will be meeting with collaborators on
july 6 (Monday) - 9 (Thursday)
Virtual
june
Kitware is pleased to have our training session proposal accepted for GEOINT 2020! Though GEOINT was canceled due to COVID-19, the USGIF extended us an invitation
Kitware is pleased to have our training session proposal accepted for GEOINT 2020! Though GEOINT was canceled due to COVID-19, the USGIF extended us an invitation to conduct our training virtually as part of the GEOConnect Series Training.
Titled, “3D Reconstruction from Overhead Imagery using Open Source Software,” this training session is for anyone with an interest in learning more about how 3D models are built from aerial imagery and video. Some of the topics covered include:
(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Virtual
14junAll Day19CVPR: The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Virtual Conference
CVPR is the premier annual computer vision conference in the world and it’s where you will find the largest gathering of computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
CVPR is the premier annual computer vision conference in the world and it’s where you will find the largest gathering of computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence professionals. Kitware’s computer vision team has had a long-term commitment to CVPR and although this year’s event will be a virtual conference due to COVID-19, we look forward to staying engaged and interacting with this community.
Kitware is actively participating in CVPR 2020 and is proud to have a paper accepted at this highly selective conference. In addition, we are helping to organize the full day workshop on media forensics and are sponsoring the EarthVision workshop. Finally, our senior director of computer vision served as an area chair to assist with the main conference paper selection. The event details are listed below. For more information regarding our involvement at CVPR 2020 and our deep-rooted connection to this community, visit our blog.
Manipulated images are being used for nefarious purposes to hide content or to duplicate certain objects through copy-move operations. Well-crafted forgery in images can be very challenging for both a human or a machine to discover (e.g. When an image patch with a uniform background is copied to hide an object). In this paper, we propose a Generative Adversarial Network with a dual-order attention model to detect and localize copy-move forgery. You can read the full paper here.
Paper Presentation with Live Q&A: Tuesday, June 16, 2020, from 4-6 PM and Wednesday, June 17, 2020 4-6 AM PT
Authors: Ashraful Islam, Chengjiang Long, Arslan Basharat, and Anthony Hoogs
Computer vision, machine learning, and signal/image processing are all critical components to Earth observation and remote sensing. Together, they provide large-scale, homogeneous information about processes occurring at the surface of the Earth that can have a big impact on human society, economy, industry, and the planet. This workshop aims to raise awareness of this highly challenging and quickly evolving field of research and to foster collaboration between the computer vision and Earth observation communities. Click for more information about the workshop.
Date: Sunday, June 14, 2020 (full day)
Media forensics has recently become a topic of interest within the computer vision community as a result of the increasing prevalence of fabricated media spreading misinformation. And now, with the emergence of more sophisticated ML and CV techniques, media forensics has become a broad and prominent area of research. That’s why it is critical to keep advancing on all fronts of media forensics, from the detection of manipulations to biometric implications, misrepresentation/spoofing, and more. Click for more information about the workshop.
Date: Monday, June 15, 2020 (full day)
Kitware Co-organizers: Arslan Basharat, assistant director of computer vision; Scott McCloskey, assistant director of computer vision
To learn more about Kitware’s computer vision work, please reach out to computervision@kitware.com. We look forward to engaging with this community and sharing information about Kitware’s ongoing research and capability development in computer vision and deep learning, as well as our cutting-edge open source software.
june 14 (Sunday) - 19 (Friday)
may
No Events
april
No Events
march
24marAll Day26Free Biomedical Image Analysis and Visualization Course
Update: Due to concerns surrounding the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we have made the decision to postpone indefinitely our Biomedical Course Week scheduled for March 24-26.
Update: Due to concerns surrounding the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we have made the decision to postpone indefinitely our Biomedical Course Week scheduled for March 24-26.
While we are disappointed that we are not able to offer these courses at this time, we are committed to following the guidance of health officials and preserving the wellbeing of our valued employees, communities, customers, and collaborators.
We will keep you informed of new opportunities to learn about Kitware’s software platforms, including future courses.
We appreciate your support and understanding and look forward to another opportunity to engage with you in the future.
march 24 (Tuesday) - 26 (Thursday)
Kitware Carrboro Office
101 East Weaver Street, Suite G4
The International Association for Dental Research (IADR), celebrating its centennial this year, will host its 98th General Session and Exhibit March 18-21 in Washington, D.C. This event is
The International Association for Dental Research (IADR), celebrating its centennial this year, will host its 98th General Session and Exhibit March 18-21 in Washington, D.C. This event is the leading scientific meeting for dental, oral, and craniofacial research.
Kitware is pleased to have Technical Leader Beatriz Paniagua host a workshop during the conference. The workshop focuses on SlicerSALT, a free, open source software platform that allows biomedical scientists to precisely locate shape changes in their imaging studies. During the workshop, attendees will learn how to use SlicerSALT for dental research.
Below is more detailed information about the workshop:
Shape Analysis in Dental Imaging Research Using SlicerSALT
Presented by: Kitware Technical Leader Beatriz Paniagua
Presentation Date: Friday, March 20
Session Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
To learn more about Kitware’s medical computing work, please reach out to kitware@kitware.com.
The SlicerSALT developers gratefully acknowledge funding for this project provided by NIH NIBIB R01EB021391 (Shape Analysis Toolbox for Medical Image Computing Projects), as well as the Slicer community.
(Friday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET
02marAll Day05WACV 2020The Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
Kitware is proud to sponsor the 2020 Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision in Aspen, CO, March 2-5, 2020. Join us as we meet to support the community, recruit computer
Kitware is proud to sponsor the 2020 Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision in Aspen, CO, March 2-5, 2020. Join us as we meet to support the community, recruit computer vision professionals, and continue collaboration and engagement.
Details:
Kitware is a Gold Sponsor of WACV’20.
Dr. Anthony Hoogs, senior director of computer vision, will present one of the six workshops hosted at WACV on Thursday, March 5: Human Activity Detection in Multi-Camera, Continuous, Long-Duration Video.
On Wednesday, March 4, Senior R&D Engineer Dr. Chengjiang Long and R&D Engineer Bhavan Vasu will present a paper: Iterative and Adaptive Sampling with Spatial Attention for Black-Box Model Explanations.
Please visit our computer vision webpage for more information about our key focus areas and experience.
Contact:
Please reach out to computervision@kitware.com to schedule meetings throughout this event.
About WACV:
WACV is known as the IEEE’s and the PAMI-TC’s premier meeting on applications of computer vision. Taking place at The Westin Snowmass Resort in Snowmass Village, the conference will include workshops, tutorials and main sessions. Each year, WACV continues to grow with active participation by academia, industry, and government representatives. The event provides in-depth information on cutting edge research advances in applications of computer vision technology. Topics such as biometrics, deep learning, action recognition, surveillance, 3D reconstruction, tracking, detection, and vision and learning will be discussed in various formats such as presentations, poster sessions, and forums. This venue promotes collaboration, research and development, and insight into computer vision applications and technology.
march 2 (Monday) - 5 (Thursday) MT
Westin Snowmass Resort
100 Elbert Lane
february
20febAll DayOcean Sciences Meeting
The Ocean and Sciences Meeting in San Diego is the premier research conference for the ocean sciences and ocean-connected community. The conference brings together scientists
The Ocean and Sciences Meeting in San Diego is the premier research conference for the ocean sciences and ocean-connected community. The conference brings together scientists from around the world to discuss all aspects of oceanography, providing a valuable opportunity for the community to exchange ideas, information, and new research affecting the field.
Kitware is proud to have two papers included in the conference. Each paper centers around Video and Imagery Analysis for the Marine Environment (VIAME), an open source software toolkit Kitware developed in partnership with the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service through its Automated Imagery Analysis Strategic Initiative. VIAME uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enable fisheries biologists and other marine scientists at NOAA and laboratories around the world to automatically analyze large volumes of imagery and video for scientific studies, such as estimating the population of fish species in a fishery.
The requirements, capabilities, and development of VIAME were funded and overseen by the AIASI Steering Committee, which included members from each of the six NMFS Science Centers as well as Dr. Anthony Hoogs from Kitware.
VIAME has gained notable recognition, including a Gold Medal Award for Scientific or Technical Achievement from the Department of Commerce. This is the most prestigious honor given by the Department of Commerce each year.
Below is more detailed information about each paper presentation:
An Open-Source System for Do-It-Yourself AI in the Marine Environment
Presented by: Kitware’s Senior Director of Computer Vision, Dr. Anthony Hoogs
Date and Time: Thursday, February 20 at 4 p.m. PT
Authors: Anthony Hoogs, Matthew Dawkins, Benjamin Richards (NOAA), George Cutter (NOAA), Deborah Hart (NOAA), M. Elizabeth Clarke (NOAA), William Michaels (NOAA), Jon Crall, Linus Sherrill, Neil Siekierski, Matthew Woehlke, Kyle Edwards
Presented by: Abigail Powell of NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Date and Time: Thursday, February 20 at 9:30 a.m. PT
Authors: Abigail Powell (NOAA), M. Elizabeth Clarke (NOAA), Matthew Dawkins, Benjamin Richards (NOAA), Anthony Hoogs
To learn more about Kitware’s computer vision work, or to schedule meetings with Anthony Hoogs and Matt Dawkins at the event, please reach out to computervision@kitware.com. We look forward to engaging with this community and sharing information about Kitware’s ongoing research and capability development in computer vision and deep learning, as well as our cutting-edge open source software.
All Day (Thursday) PT
San Diego Convention Center
111 W Harbor Dr
This year, Kitware is excited to be included in the main program of the Thirty-Fourth Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on
This year, Kitware is excited to be included in the main program of the Thirty-Fourth Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) taking place February 17-21, 2020 in New York. This prestigious, highly selective conference has been growing more than 25% per year due to its focus on fostering scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers in artificial intelligence (AI) and its affiliated disciplines. As the premier international conference in general AI, AAAI has a very low acceptance rate of 20%, with a rigorous review and selection process that ensures all selected papers meet the highest academic research standards. Kitware will present at the conference on February 9, and will also be at the AAAI job fair on February 11 between 12:30 and 3 PM ET to discuss opportunities to join Kitware’s Computer Vision Team.
Kitware’s Senior R&D Engineer, Chengjiang Long, Ph.D., will present a paper: RIS-GAN: Explore Residual and Illumination with Generative Adversarial Networks for Shadow Removal. The paper was authored by Ling Zhang, Ph.D., Chengjiang Long, Ph.D., Xiaolong Zhang, Ph.D., and Chunxia Xiao, Ph.D. to explore cutting edge techniques that address the challenging problems with removing shadows in complex scenes. These shadows negatively impact the accuracy and effectiveness of many computer vision tasks and the need for more effective techniques to remove them or mitigate their impact has been increasing exponentially. Chengjiang will provide a detailed look at the research and extensive experiments, with results, that strongly confirm the advantages of incorporating residual and illumination foreshadow removal.
Details About the Presentation:
Sunday, February 9
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
Spotlight Session #151 (Vision Synthesis and Generation)
Paper ID 4545
Chengjiang will also participate in the evening poster session on February 9 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. ET for more in-depth, face-to-face discussions related to this work.
Kitware’s Computer Vision Team is dedicated to pushing research and technology development to better understand and utilize artificial intelligence (AI). We have a long-standing history in computer vision and deep learning. An early convert to deep learning, we have been developing expertise and tools to support deep learning technologies and techniques for years. Please visit our computer vision webpage for more information about our key focus areas and experience.
About AAAI:
AAAI’s annual conference attracts over 3,000 AI researchers and practitioners, representing government, university, and corporate research facilities from throughout the world. The conference features a diverse technical track, student abstracts, poster sessions, invited speakers, tutorials, workshops, and exhibit and competition programs, all selected according to the highest reviewing standards. In 2020, AAAI will highlight research with a special track on artificial intelligence for social impact.
february 7 (Friday) - 12 (Wednesday) ET
Hilton New York Midtown
1335 6th Ave
january
18janAll Day22International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2020
Are you attending the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare? Join us January 18-22, 2020 at Kitware booth #912 and speak with Dr. Rachel Clipp, Aaron Bray,
Are you attending the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare? Join us January 18-22, 2020 at Kitware booth #912 and speak with Dr. Rachel Clipp, Aaron Bray, and Sreekanth Arikatla from our Medical Computing team.
Learn about our leading medical research and development software platforms, including Pulse, iMSTK and 3D Slicer. We’ll have interactive VR demos and videos to demonstrate the value these software tools create for medical training.
And don’t miss our presentation and Pulse demo during the SimVentors Showcase at 6 p.m. on Sunday, January 19!
january 18 (Saturday) - 22 (Wednesday)
San Diego Convention Center
111 W Harbor Dr
Society for Simulation in Healthcare
december
No Events
november
Visit Kitware at SC19 Booth #2019 Join the Kitware team at SC19 booth 2019 Monday, November 18, to Thursday, November 21. Expert ParaView, VTK and CMake developers will be opening up
Join the Kitware team at SC19 booth 2019 Monday, November 18, to Thursday, November 21. Expert ParaView, VTK and CMake developers will be opening up the floor for questions and discussion. And don’t miss an opportunity to grab giveaways and hear about our latest projects during our booth talks and demos!
Monday, November 18
What’s New at Kitware?
7 p.m. • Dave DeMarle
Tuesday, November 19
From ParaView to Your Browser to Your VR Headset
11:15 a.m. • Sébastien Jourdain
Catalyst for Analysis and Visualization in Extreme Scale Computing
11:45 a.m. • Patrick O’Leary
Introduction to ParaView
1:15 p.m. • Cory Quammen
Ray Tracing Update
1:45 p.m. • Dave DeMarle
What’s New in CMake?
2:15 p.m. • Rob Maynard
HPC Cloud Services to Enable a Cloud/Web-Based Simulation Environment
2:45 p.m. • Patrick O’Leary
Visualization and Data Processing on the Web
3:15 p.m. • Sébastien Jourdain
CMB/SMTK
3:45 p.m. • David Thompson
Wednesday, November 20
CMB/SMTK
11:15 a.m. • David Thompson
Catalyst for Analysis and Visualization in Extreme-Scale Computing
11:45 a.m. • Patrick O’Leary
Introduction to ParaView
1:15 p.m. • Cory Quammen
Supercomputing with ParaView – featuring CRAY
1:45 p.m. • Chuck Atkins
What’s New in CMake?
2:15 p.m. • Rob Maynard
From ParaView to Your Browser to Your VR Headset
2:45 p.m. • Sébastien Jourdain
Visualization and Data Processing on the Web
3:15 p.m. • Sébastien Jourdain
If you are interested in working on VTK and/or ParaView as a member of our team, please let us know when you stop by our booth or see us at one of the activities in which we are involved. For more information on our jobs or work environment, please visit https://jobs.kitware.com.
Sunday, November 17
Catch Robert Robert Maynard and Dave DeMarle at Intel’s HPC Developer Conference:
Tuesday, November 19
Join us at our booth for a ParaView Power Hour taking place at 1 p.m. A rare opportunity to ask your questions about ParaView face to face with our experts!
Visit the NVIDIA Booth (#901) to hear Rob Maynard and NIVIDIA’s Peter Messmer present RTX and Omniverse from 4:30-4:55 p.m
Wednesday, November 20
Join us for a CMake Power Hour taking place at 2 p.m. at our booth. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet our experts face to face and ask your questions about CMake!
november 17 (Sunday) - 21 (Thursday) MT
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th St, Denver, CO 80202
13nov4:00 pm5:00 pmSIAM Student Chapter Industry Series: Dr. Rachel Clipp and Dr. Matt Brown
Drs. Rachel Clipp and Matt Brown will give a seminar on medical computing and computer vision at Kitware. --------------------------------------------- Abstract: Kitware researchers Dr. Rachel Clipp and Dr. Matt Brown
(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET
Riddick 339
North Carolina State University
07novAll Day09WE19The World's Largest Conference for Women Engineers
Join Kitware CEO Lisa Avila, and other members of the Kitware team, November 7-9 at the world's largest conference for women engineers - WE19! Stop by the Kitware booth
Join Kitware CEO Lisa Avila, and other members of the Kitware team, November 7-9 at the world’s largest conference for women engineers – WE19!
Stop by the Kitware booth (#214) to meet our team and find out what life at Kitware is all about.
Plus, you won’t want to miss Lisa’s presentation, “The Open Business Model: Running an IP-Free Business,” happening Saturday, November 9 at 10:40 a.m. Here are some additional details:
You’ve founded a company based on your passion for innovation and your desire to make an impact. It is great fun developing the new technology, but then you have to file patents, protect your IP, worry about competitors, focus on marketing, and drive sales. Instead, you can choose to run an IP-free organization by being in the business of innovating new technology instead of selling your existing technology. While this may not lead to a lucrative IPO or a sweet acquisition deal, it does help with recruiting and employee engagement, it reduces your need for a sales force and it generally results in a more personally rewarding experience. With an IP-free business, you are free to collaborate with anyone and publish your work, which significantly increases your impact and ultimately helps your bottom line.
Attendees at the show:
Lisa Avila, CEO
Rachel Clipp, technical leader
Bea Paniagua, technical leader
Heather James, manager, innovative applications
John Westbrook, human resources generalist
We hope to see you in Anaheim!
november 7 (Thursday) - 9 (Saturday) PT
Anaheim Convention Center
800 West Katella Avenue
06nov9:00 am4:00 pmVTK Hackathon
Dave DeMarle will lead a VTK hackathon focusing on packaging. Join us as we work to make sure the VTK library is easier for end-users to get and to
Dave DeMarle will lead a VTK hackathon focusing on packaging. Join us as we work to make sure the VTK library is easier for end-users to get and to start using.
The hackathon will take place November 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. Join in person at our HQ in Clifton Park, NY or via Google Hangout.
Follow updates and join the conversation beforehand on our discourse thread.
(Wednesday) 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ET
Kitware
1712 Route 9, Suite 300
27octAll Day02novInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019
Join Kitware’s Computer Vision Team at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision 2019, taking place October 27-November
Join Kitware’s Computer Vision Team at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision 2019, taking place October 27-November 2 in Seoul, Korea!
Details:
On Monday, October 28, Kitware’s Assistant Director of Computer Vision, Dr. Arslan Basharat, will speak at the Moving Camera’s 2019 Workshop: From Body Cameras to Drones. Dr. Basharat will give an invited talk titled “The View from Above: Challenges and Capabilities in Overhead Video Understanding.” He has performed research in various areas of computer vision, including object detection and tracking, anomaly detection, activity recognition, dynamical systems in videos, imagery forensics, and imagery retrieval. He will discuss Kitware’s extensive expertise and knowledge of the challenges that overhead video brings and what capabilities and methods to better understand that video can be derived. According to the event organizers, the goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from the area of intelligent video analytics from moving cameras (body cams, dash cams, drones and other UAVs), in order to discuss emerging technology at the intersection of these areas, as well as their societal implications. Dr. Basharat is one of four invited speakers in the workshop, which takes place in conjunction with the ICCV Conference.
Also on Monday, October 28, Dr. Basharat will also be participating in the Workshop on Video Retrieval Methods and Their Limits, where he has been invited to participate in the panel discussion on “What’s Next for Video Retrieval: Directions and Future Challenges.” On the same day, Dr. Basharat will also be attending the Deep Fake Detection Challenge Luncheon organized by Facebook AI. This event will provide a forum to solicit feedback from the research community on the forthcoming Deep Fake Detection Challenge, one of the largest known public challenges on the detection of deep fakes, manipulated media, and visual misinformation.
Kitware will also have a presence during the main conference. On Friday, November 1 at 3:30 p.m. (15:30), Senior R&D Engineer Dr. Chengjiang Long will present the poster “ARGAN: Attentive Recurrent Generative Adversarial Network for Shadow Detection and Removal.” The purpose is to propose an attentive recurrent generative adversarial network (ARGAN) to detect and remove shadows in an image. The generator consists of multiple progressive steps, which Dr. Long will detail. ARGAN is suitable to be trained with a semi-supervised strategy to make full use of sufficient unsupervised data, which can be very challenging. Come learn more about this robust model and where this work will extend to for future development and implementation addressing shadow detection and removal.
Contact:
Please reach out to computervision@kitware.com to schedule meetings throughout this event. Find out about Kitware’s computer vision research and capability development supporting academia, defense, environmental monitoring, and commercial domains.
About the event:
ICCV is the premier international computer vision event combining high quality tutorials, workshops, and the main exhibition in order to fuel collaboration amongst students, academics, and industry researchers worldwide. The value in attending is exponential as it provides international perspectives on vision techniques, research & development, open-source software, and their current and potential contributions to various domains.
October 27 (Sunday) - November 2 (Saturday) GMT+9 (Korean Standard Time)
COEX Convention Center
513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu Seoul 06164 Republic of Korea
october
27octAll Day02novInternational Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019
Join Kitware’s Computer Vision Team at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision 2019, taking place October 27-November
Join Kitware’s Computer Vision Team at this year’s International Conference on Computer Vision 2019, taking place October 27-November 2 in Seoul, Korea!
Details:
On Monday, October 28, Kitware’s Assistant Director of Computer Vision, Dr. Arslan Basharat, will speak at the Moving Camera’s 2019 Workshop: From Body Cameras to Drones. Dr. Basharat will give an invited talk titled “The View from Above: Challenges and Capabilities in Overhead Video Understanding.” He has performed research in various areas of computer vision, including object detection and tracking, anomaly detection, activity recognition, dynamical systems in videos, imagery forensics, and imagery retrieval. He will discuss Kitware’s extensive expertise and knowledge of the challenges that overhead video brings and what capabilities and methods to better understand that video can be derived. According to the event organizers, the goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from the area of intelligent video analytics from moving cameras (body cams, dash cams, drones and other UAVs), in order to discuss emerging technology at the intersection of these areas, as well as their societal implications. Dr. Basharat is one of four invited speakers in the workshop, which takes place in conjunction with the ICCV Conference.
Also on Monday, October 28, Dr. Basharat will also be participating in the Workshop on Video Retrieval Methods and Their Limits, where he has been invited to participate in the panel discussion on “What’s Next for Video Retrieval: Directions and Future Challenges.” On the same day, Dr. Basharat will also be attending the Deep Fake Detection Challenge Luncheon organized by Facebook AI. This event will provide a forum to solicit feedback from the research community on the forthcoming Deep Fake Detection Challenge, one of the largest known public challenges on the detection of deep fakes, manipulated media, and visual misinformation.
Kitware will also have a presence during the main conference. On Friday, November 1 at 3:30 p.m. (15:30), Senior R&D Engineer Dr. Chengjiang Long will present the poster “ARGAN: Attentive Recurrent Generative Adversarial Network for Shadow Detection and Removal.” The purpose is to propose an attentive recurrent generative adversarial network (ARGAN) to detect and remove shadows in an image. The generator consists of multiple progressive steps, which Dr. Long will detail. ARGAN is suitable to be trained with a semi-supervised strategy to make full use of sufficient unsupervised data, which can be very challenging. Come learn more about this robust model and where this work will extend to for future development and implementation addressing shadow detection and removal.
Contact:
Please reach out to computervision@kitware.com to schedule meetings throughout this event. Find out about Kitware’s computer vision research and capability development supporting academia, defense, environmental monitoring, and commercial domains.
About the event:
ICCV is the premier international computer vision event combining high quality tutorials, workshops, and the main exhibition in order to fuel collaboration amongst students, academics, and industry researchers worldwide. The value in attending is exponential as it provides international perspectives on vision techniques, research & development, open-source software, and their current and potential contributions to various domains.
October 27 (Sunday) - November 2 (Saturday) GMT+9 (Korean Standard Time)
COEX Convention Center
513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu Seoul 06164 Republic of Korea
21octAll Day242019 Military Sensing Symposia (MSS)
Kitware will be presenting at this year’s Military Sensing Symposia (MSS) Joint Conference in San Diego, CA, October21-24. We have actively participated in
Kitware will be presenting at this year’s Military Sensing Symposia (MSS) Joint Conference in San Diego, CA, October21-24. We have actively participated in this conference each year as it is dedicated to military sensing technologies. Kitware’s Computer Vision Team is a leader in creating cutting edge capabilities supporting this community focused on military sensing. We create unique and robust solutions to address challenging image and video analysis problems in multiple domains: air, sea, ground, and space.
Event Details:
Join Dr. Matt Leotta and Dr. Chris Funk from Kitware’s Computer Vision Team as they present the following at this year’s MSS Conference:
Danesfield: Integrating Deep Learning and Classical Methods for Multiview Semantic 3D Modeling (Presentation): Dr. Matt Leotta will discuss the importance of up-to-date 3D models of urban environments, as they are very important in providing global situational awareness with uses in military, intelligence, and humanitarian planning. Kitware has worked with the IARPA CORE3D program and developed and open source toolkit, known as Danesfield, to address this need for 3D models, pushing it beyond just point clouds by semantically segmenting building and bridges from the terrain and fitting simplified surface models to each object. They also explore material segmentation providing more robust situational awareness and knowledge of scene. Come check out Dr. Leotta’s discussion to learn more or visit our Github to check it out.
Explainability for Content-Based Image Retrieval (Poster): Make sure to also check out Dr. Leotta’s poster in the poster sessions and hear him discuss Kitware’s methods for content-based image retrieval and where our expertise and past projects have contributed to robust and explainable solutions supporting the military sensing community.
WEFT Feature Detection and Mensuration for Airplane Classification in Satellite Imagery (Presentation): Dr. Chris Funk, a member of the computer vision team, will discuss our work building upon state-of-the-art techniques object classification, which overcomes hurdles particular to airplane classification. It consists of classifying by first detecting intermediate WEFT features and measuring and fusing those features together. This allows for detection of airplanes in satellite imagery, not in the training data, and avoids class imbalance. Kitware’s efforts have been supported by multiple, ongoing efforts funded by the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC).
Training Deep Networks for Patch-Based Search in Satellite Imagery (Poster): Dr. Funk will also be presenting Kitware’s extensive research in the area of content-based image retrieval. He will discuss specific challenges of retrieving relevant results from large, high-resolution imagery based on arbitrary queries at a range of scales. It presents significant complications beyond common image retrieval tasks and this discussion will offer a working end-to-end description of a system for this kind of extensive patch-based search on real-world satellite imagery.
Contact:
Please reach out to computervision@kitware.com to schedule meetings throughout this event. Matt Leotta and Chris Funk will be on-hand for in depth conversations. We are looking forward to engaging with this community and sharing information on Kitware’s ongoing research and capability development in computer vision and deep learning as well as our cutting-edge open source vision software, KWIVER.
About the event:
The Military Sensing Symposia is a set of conferences dedicated to military sensing technologies and serving the community of people working in those fields.
october 21 (Monday) - 24 (Thursday) PST
San Diego
VIS 2019 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and
VIS 2019 will be the year’s premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The conference will convene an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
october 20 (Sunday) - 25 (Friday)
Vancouver Convention Centre East Building
1055 Canada Pl, Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3, Canada
Kitware's Director of Medical Computing Andinet Enquobahrie and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives Stephen Aylward will present at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer
Kitware’s Director of Medical Computing Andinet Enquobahrie and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives Stephen Aylward will present at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
To be presented at a joint workshop MIAR, AE-CAI and CARE
The 7th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality (MIAR)
The 13th Augmented Reality, Augmented Environments for Computer Assisted Interventions (AE-CAI),
and 6th Computer Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy (CARE)
https://workshops.ap-lab.ca/aecai-care-miar-2019/
Abstract: The overall prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the general population is approximately 14 percent with more than 661,000 Americans having a kidney failure. Ultrasound-guided renal biopsy is a critically important tool in the evaluation and management of renal pathologies and it requires competent biopsy technique and skill to consistently obtain high yield biopsy samples. This paper presents KBVTrainer, a virtual simulator that we developed to train clinicians to improve procedural skill competence in ultrasound-guided renal biopsy. The simulator was built using low-cost hardware components and open source software libraries. We conducted a face validation study with five experts who were either adult/pediatric nephrologists or interventional/diagnostic radiologists. All the experts had considerable experience performing US guided needle biopsies within their specialty with experience ranging from 3-23 years. The trainer was rated very highly (>4.4) for the usefulness of the real US images (highest at 4.8), potential usefulness of the trainer in training for needle visualization, tracking, steadiness and hand-eye coordination, and overall promise of the trainer to be useful for training US guided needle biopsies. The lowest score of 2.4 was received for the look and feel of the US probe and needle compared to clinical practice. The force feedback received a moderate score of 3.0. The clinical experts provided abundant verbal and written subjective feedback and were highly enthusiastic about using the trainer as a valuable tool for future trainees. As part of the future work, we will improve the technology based on clinical and user feedback, develop automated skill assessment and tracking modules deployable in a web-based application, and conduct a clinical validation study.
To be presented at Medical Image Learning with Less Labels and Imperfect Data
https://www.hvnguyen.com/lesslabelsimperfectdataml
Abstract: Image segmentation is an essential step in biomedical image analysis. In recent years, deep learning models have achieved significant success in segmentation. However, deep learning requires the availability of large annotated data to train these models, which can be challenging in biomedical imaging domain. In this paper, we aim to accomplish biomedical image segmentation with limited labeled data using active learning. We present a deep active learning framework that selects additional data points to be annotated by combining U-Net with an efficient and effective query strategy to capture the most uncertain and representative points. This algorithm decouples the representative part by first finding the core points in the unlabeled pool and then selecting the most uncertain points from the reduced pool, which are different from the labeled pool. In our experiment, only 13% of the dataset was required with active learning to outperform the model trained on the entire 2018 MICCAI Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) dataset. Thus, active learning reduced the amount of labeled data required for image segmentation without a significant loss in the accuracy.
To be presented at Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer (DART) workshop
https://sites.google.com/view/dart2019/
Abstract. Advances in deep learning techniques have led to compelling achievements in medical image analysis. However, performance of neural network models degrades drastically if the test data is from a domain different from training data. In this paper, we present and evaluate a novel unsupervised domain adaptation(DA) framework for semantic segmentation which uses self ensembling and adversarial training methods to effectively tackle domain shift between MR images. We evaluate our method on two publicly available MRI dataset to address two different types of domain shifts: On the BraTS dataset to mitigate domain shift between high grade and low grade gliomas and on the SCGM dataset[13] to tackle cross institutional domain shift. Through extensive evaluation, we show that our method achieved favorable results on both datasets.
Presented by Kitware’s Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives Stephen Aylward on October 13th
Abstract: The TOPGRAD tutorial provides advice on publishing, grant writing and career trajectories in the MICCAI field. The tutorial will consist of a number of talks and discussion on the review process, publishing strategies (including open access) and grant writing requirements. Moreover, we hold an extensive Q&A session between early career researchers and experts in the relevant fields.
october 13 (Sunday) - 17 (Thursday) CEST
InterContinental Shenzhen
Overseas Chinese City, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China
09oct3:00 pm4:00 pmDefense TechConnect (DTC) Summit
Join Dr. Rachel Clipp, Technical Leader, and Aaron Bray, Staff R&D Engineer, from Kitware's Medical Computing Team on October 9 at the Defense TechConnect Summit. Poster Session Wednesday,
Join Dr. Rachel Clipp, Technical Leader, and Aaron Bray, Staff R&D Engineer, from Kitware’s Medical Computing Team on October 9 at the Defense TechConnect Summit.
Poster Session
Wednesday, October 9, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET
Overview of the Pulse Physiology Engine and its use in Medical Training and Simulation
(Wednesday) 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET
Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center
201 Waterfront Street National Harbor, MD 20745
07oct11:00 am11:30 amFree Webinar: An Overview of VTK
In this free webinar, Dave DeMarle will provide an overview of Kitware’s Visualization Toolkit. Learn about the origin of VTK, its diverse developer pool and understand its core capability - analyzing
In this free webinar, Dave DeMarle will provide an overview of Kitware’s Visualization Toolkit. Learn about the origin of VTK, its diverse developer pool and understand its core capability – analyzing 3-dimensional scientific data sets. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about this state-of-the-art open source software toolkit and ask Dave, one of our Kitware experts, your questions about VTK. Please register here.
Date: October 7, 2019
Time: 11:00 a.m. EDT
Length: 20 mins
(Monday) 11:00 am - 11:30 am
september
18sep2:00 pm3:30 pmNC State University Libraries: Dr. Ken Martin and R&D Staff Engineer Cory Quammen
Dr. Ken Martin and Cory Quammen will speak about ParaView, Kitware's open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application that runs on everything from laptops to supercomputers.
Dr. Ken Martin and Cory Quammen will speak about ParaView, Kitware’s open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application that runs on everything from laptops to supercomputers.
(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
NC State University
Multimedia Seminar Center D.H. Hill, Jr. Library Second Floor, East Wing Room 2131
NC State University