KWIVER: An open source cross-platform video exploitation framework

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.