Kitware’s Brad Davis is awarded the Marr Prize

The Marr prize is one of the highest recognitions in the field of image analysis/computer vision. The Marr Prize is awarded to the best paper at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). The award winning paper at the 2007 ICCV conference was authored by Kitware’s Brad Davis:

• Bradley Davis, P. Thomas Fletcher, Elizabeth Bullitt, Sarang Joshi: Population Shape Regression From Random Design Data

Co-authors were Tom Fletcher and Saranh Joshi of The University of Utah and Elizabeth Bullitt of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The underlying research was part of Brad’s work as a Ph.D. student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About Kitware:

Kitware, Inc. is a leading software development company providing products and services in the areas of medical image analysis, visualization and 3D graphics, supercomputing, computer vision, open publication, and software quality process. Kitware is known for its advanced open source software tools such as the widely used Visualization Toolkit (VTK), Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), and the CMake build management software.

Established in 1998, Kitware is rapidly growing to support top research and development clients around the world; including such prestigious customers as the US National Labs (Sandia, Los Alamos, Livermore, and Argonne), the National Institutes of Health, the Army and Air Force Research labs, and a variety of academic, commercial and governmental research labs. Our commercial customers range from Fortune 500 oil and gas companies to small medical imaging start ups.