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May 2014
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VeloView 2.0 Release
VeloView 2.0 Release
Interactive Visualization of Google Project Tango Data with ParaView
Interactive Visualization of Google Project Tango Data with ParaView
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KiwiViewer Highlights
ClimatePipes: Workflows, Analysis and Visualization for Climate and Geo datasets
ClimatePipes: Workflows, Analysis and Visualization for Climate and Geo datasets
Barcelona Supercomputing Center: HPC Services in Industry
Barcelona Supercomputing Center: HPC Services in Industry

This month, we have been busy with presentations and new releases. We not only created a tutorial that details how ParaView can be used to visualize Google Project Tango data, but we also announced the release of VeloView 2.0. In addition, we hosted students from RPI, gave a presentation on our new computer vision technology at the GEOINT Symposium, and had members of our team receive Opensource.com 2014 Community Awards.  

 

We have another busy month ahead with events including the Workshop on Open Source Visualization, International SuperComputing Conference, and Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS)

 

We are also hosting three training courses in June: "Scalable Visualization using VTK, ParaView, & Python" (June 3), "Project Lifecycle Management with the CMake Family of Tools" (June 4), and "Introduction to Python for Computer Vision" (June 5). All three of the courses will be taught in Boston, MA. To learn more about the training courses and to register, visit our website

 

-The Kitware Communications Team

Video Offers Interactive Visualization of Google Project Tango Data with ParaView

Kitware is pleased to announce the release of a  tutorial that describes how to use ParaView to extract, process, and visualize data from Google Project Tango development kits. The purpose of the tutorial is to accelerate the development of the open Project Tango platform.

 

Using the plugin and visualization capabilities of ParaView, users can interact with their Project Tango data without having to write a single line of code. In addition, for those who do not have Project Tango Development kits, the tutorial provides links to download sample data.

 

Kitware will continue exploring the use of the Project Tango devices for engineering, simulation, measurements, and, in particular, medical applications.

New Features Enhance Ability to Visualize and Analyze Positioning Information  

 

Kitware and Velodyne are pleased to announce the release of VeloView 2.0. The release occurred at the SPAR International 3D Measurement & Imaging Conference, which was held from April 14 to April 17, 2014, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.   

 

VeloView is a free open-source application built on ParaView technology. It is designed for the visualization and analysis of point cloud data generated by the Velodyne HDL-64E and HDL-32E LiDAR sensors. In addition to performing real-time and 3D visualizations of data captured live, VeloView can play back pre-recorded data.   

 

New in version 2.0 is the ability to record and display position packets. This capability is useful when a high accuracy GPS/IMU device is connected to the LiDAR sensor for geo-referencing. To indicate the path traveled, a "map" feature plots GPS waypoints on screen. Additional features in version 2.0 include a ruler for distance measurements in 2D, a plane fit tool, a laser selection tool, and the ability to show sequential data in one display.

 

To learn more about VeloView's new features, watch our "VeloView 2.0 Release"  video. 

storyC3New Technology Presented at GEOINT
New Computer Vision Technology Utilizes Automated Video Query and Retrieval

 

At the 10th annual Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Symposium, Matt Turek, Kitware's Assistant Director of Computer Vision, presented new technology that is being developed at Kitware to address the challenges of analyzing crowdsourced multimedia.  

 

Matt's lightning talk, "Large-Scale Understanding of Crowdsourced Multimedia Relationships," detailed two approaches that would enable analysts to more efficiently evaluate large-scale multimedia collections, such as YouTube videos, for salient information. These approaches center on automatic video grouping based on semantic concepts and interactive multimedia organization. The abstract and presentation slides for Matt's talk can be accessed on Kitware's website.

 

The technology detailed in the talk, which is also discussed on the Kitware blog, represents some of our Computer Vision team's cutting-edge research. In addition to providing solutions to the GEOINT community, Kitware has developed and deployed operational solutions to support other intelligence communities, including a WAMI tracker successfully transitioned to theatre and a ship normalcy modeling and anomaly detection component for the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). 
storyC Kitwareans Receive Opensource.com Awards 

Awards Granted For Excellence in Writing and Sharing Stories About Open Source 

 

Luis Ib��ez and Marcus D. Hanwell, two Technical Leaders at Kitware, received Opensource.com 2014 Community Awards in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the Opensource.com community. 

 

Luis won a Reader's Choice Award for his article "University course trades textbook for Raspberry Pi." The award is granted to an article written in 2013 that is determined by vote to be an Opensource.com community "favorite." The article describes how the use of Raspberry Pi has taken the place of textbooks in the course "Information in the 21st Century" at the State University of New York at Albany. Luis also received a Social Sharer Award for his excellence in sharing Opensource.com articles online.

 

In addition, Marcus won a Conversation Starter Award for his achievement in beginning conversations on Opensource.com posts. Marcus became an Opensource.com Community Moderator earlier this year. As a member of the Opensource.com community, Marcus writes about a diversity of topics including open-source tools, events, and publications.

storyE5 RPI Earth Science Students Visit Kitware
Students Learned About Kitware's Work Involving Geospatial Visualizations

A class of Earth Science students from RPI visited Kitware with their instructor Steve Signell to learn about some of Kitware's open-source visualization tools and capabilities.

The students were given presentations by Aashish Chaudhary, Jonathan Beezley, Bob O'Bara, and Roni Choudhury. Aashish talked to the students about ongoing climate and geospatial projects and showed them visualizations created with Kitware's open-source geo-visualization library, GeoJS.

Jonathan presented on how open-source software can be used by health professionals to find patterns in incidences, such as diseases in pigs. Next, Bob discussed the Computational Model Builder (CMB) Suite of easily customizable simulation tools, which were used to create the model of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays depicted in this video. Finally, Roni spoke about ongoing work on Lyra, the visualization design environment from Washington developed as part of the XDATA effort.