KWIVER: An open source cross-platform video exploitation framework

Keith Fieldhouse, Matthew J. Leotta, Arslan Basharat, Russell Blue, David Stoup, Charles Atkins, Linus Sherrill, Benjamin Boeckel, Paul Tunison, Jacob Becker, Matthew Dawkins, Matthew Woehlke, Roderic Collins, Matt Turek, Anthony Hoogs

Abstract: We introduce KWIVER, a cross-platform video exploitation framework that Kitware has begun releasing as open source. Kitware is utilizing a multi-tiered open-source approach to reach as wide an audience as possible. Kitware's government-funded efforts to develop critical defense technology will be released back to the defense community via Forge.mil, a government open source repository. Infrastructure, algorithms, and systems without release restrictions will be provided to the larger video analytics community via kwiver.org and GitHub. Our goal is to provide a video analytics technology baseline for repeatable and reproducible experiments and to serve as a framework for the development of computer vision and machine learning systems. We hope that KWIVER will provide a focal point for collaboration and contributions from groups across the community.