Look back on the OTB Users Days 2024

Posted on by Julien Osman

The OTB Users Days 2024 were held on November 21th and 22th at Artilect Fablab in Toulouse. Thanks to everyone who attended the event!

Plenary Talks

On Thursday several talks were given on various subjects:

  • OTB Users days 2024 Introduction – Yannick Tanguy (slides | video)
  • Evolutions between OTB 8 and 9 – Thibaut Romain (slides | video)
  • Road-map OTB 10 with ITK5 – Thibaut Romain (slides | video)
  • OTB Modularization – Tristan Laurent (slides | video)
  • Pip install orfeotoolbox – Tristan Laurent (slides | video)
  • S1tiling Sentinel1 pre-processing – Thierry Koleck (slides | video)
  • A dive into the heart of S1Tiling – Luc Hermitte (slides | video)
  • Classification automatique des terrains à partir d’images polarimétriques radar Sentinel-1 – Ahmed Oussama Tiri (slides | video)
  • Cloud-free Sentinel-2 mosaic generation over Norway: utilizing MAJA and WASP – Torgeir Ferdinand Klingenberg (slides | video)
  • A small handful of OTB remote modules for deep learning – Rémi Cresson (slides | video)

On Friday morning, we had a presentation of the PLUTO portal (video)

Brainstorming session

On Thursday and Friday afternoons, we had a brainstorming session about the Pains and Gains of OTB. We also talked about your usages of the ToolBox. The main conclusions are:

  • The recent improvements in the installation are exciting.
  • The integration of OTB in Python is eagerly awaited, with an interface similar to PyOTB and an easy installation though “pip install”.
  • Improve the python API: the possibility to use xarray in addition numpy, call OTB filters in addition to OTB applications.
  • The documentation is great, but would benefit from some clarification (better indexation, promote the tutorials).
  • Have OTB Users Days more often!

Roadmap for the incoming OTB versions

The core OTB developers gathered to discuss the road-map for the incoming OTB versions. The road-map for version 10 is available on Gitlab. In includes:

  • Migration to ITK 5
  • The reintroduction of DiapOTB in the official remote modules
  • Support for NISAR sensor
  • The distribution of the modules in multiple repository
  • Updates in the cookbook and a migration guide for the remote modules
  • A first experimentation for the “pip install otb”

Stay tuned !