Kitware at CVPR 2015
June 18, 2015
Kitware folks had an exciting time at the premier computer vision conference CVPR 2015 in Boston, MA from June 7-12. The attendees from Kitware included Anthony Hoogs, Matt Turek, Matt Leotta, Harry Sun, Matt Dawkins and Arslan Basharat. They were involved in following events:
- On June 7th, Matt Leotta organized a tutorial on open source structure-from-motion (SfM) software. Details are available in this related blog post.
- From Jun 8-10, Kitware hosted an exhibition booth where we demonstrated live various computer vision capabilties including:
- Open source Social Multimedia Query Toolkit (SMQTK)
- Open source Kitware Image and Video Exploitation and Retrieval (KWIVER) toolkit
- Measure It app demo on a Project Tango tablet
- 3D reconstruction and super resolution on the overhead Skybox video
- Complex activity recognition
- Content based video retrieval in surveillance
- Object tracking and event detection in Wide Area Motion Imagery
We are actively hiring for engineer and researcher positions in the computer vision group. More information and application is available here.
- On June 11th, Matt Turek presented a poster titled "Collaborative Computer Vision R&D" at the Fourth Annual Vision Industry and Entrepreneur Workshop (VIEW) Workshop.
- On June 11th, Arslan Basharat gave an invited talk titled "Visual Profiling: Social Multimedia and Surveillance for Commercial Intelligence" at the Second IEEE Workshop on Large Scale Visual Commerce (LSVisCom) Workshop. The slides from the talk are available here.
