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KITTI

KITTI is a benchmark suite of real-world driving data for computer vision and autonomous driving research, released in 2012 from recordings made around Karlsruhe, Germany.

KITTI Odometry benchmark

The KITTI Odometry benchmark is the visual odometry and SLAM evaluation of the KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite, ranking vehicle ego-motion estimation methods from recordings made around Karlsruhe, Germany.

KITTI-360

KITTI-360 is a large-scale autonomous driving dataset, successor to KITTI, recorded in the suburbs of Karlsruhe, Germany, with camera, laser scanner, and GPS/IMU data and dense semantic annotations.

Kitting (manufacturing)

Kitting in manufacturing is a parts-feeding policy in which all components for one unit of a product are grouped into kit containers and delivered together to the assembly line.

Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier

The Kitty Hawk class was a class of four large, oil-fired aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy in the 1960s: Kitty Hawk, Constellation, America, and John F. Kennedy.

Kiwibot (company)

Kiwibot, legally Kiwi Campus, Inc., is a delivery robotics company founded in 2017 in Berkeley that operates semi-autonomous sidewalk robots for food delivery on US college campuses.

Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺)

Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺), also known as Kiyomizu Temple, is a Buddhist temple on Mt. Otowa in Kyoto, Japan, founded in 778 and famous for its nail-free wooden stage.

Kiyzassky Coal Mine

Kiyzassky Coal Mine (Кийзасский разрез) is a large surface coal mine near Chuvashka in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, shipping coal since 2014 and reaching 70 million tonnes by 2024.

Kizildere Geothermal Power Plant

The Kizildere Geothermal Power Plant is a group of three geothermal power stations in western Turkey with about 260 MW of capacity, including Turkey's first geothermal plant from 1984.

Kizuna Bridge

The Kizuna Bridge is a 1.36-kilometer road bridge across the Mekong River at Kampong Cham, Cambodia, the first bridge in the country to cross the Mekong, opening in 2001.

Kırıkkale Refinery

Kırıkkale Refinery (Kırıkkale Rafinerisi) is a Tüpraş-owned oil refinery in Kırıkkale Province, central Turkey, commissioned in 1986 to supply products to Ankara and surrounding regions.

KL regularization in RLHF

KL regularization in RLHF is a penalty term that keeps a fine-tuned language model close to a frozen reference policy during reinforcement learning from human feedback.

KL3M

KL3M is a copyright-clean training corpus of US, UK, and EU legal and government texts, launched by 273 Ventures in March 2024 and now maintained by the ALEA Institute.

Klabin

Klabin is a Brazilian pulp, paper, and packaging company founded in 1899, the country's largest producer and exporter of packaging paper and sustainable paper packaging.

Klaipėda LNG terminal

The Klaipėda LNG terminal is Lithuania's liquefied natural gas import facility in the port of Klaipėda, built around the floating FSRU Independence and operating since December 2014 to end dependence on Russian gas.

Klamath Project

The Klamath Project is a Bureau of Reclamation irrigation project serving about 240,000 acres of cropland in southern Oregon and northern California, marked by endangered-species water conflicts since 2001.

Klas Tybrandt

Klas Tybrandt is a Swedish professor of materials science who heads the Soft Electronics group at Linköping University, known for ionic circuits and stretchable gold-nanowire electrodes for neural interfaces.

Klaus D. Timmerhaus

Klaus D. Timmerhaus (1924–2011) was an American chemical engineer and cryogenics researcher who spent 42 years on the University of Colorado Boulder faculty and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

Klaus G. Hoehn

Klaus G. Hoehn is a German agricultural engineer and pioneer of digital agriculture who rose to Vice President of Advanced Technology and Engineering at Deere & Company.

Klaus Oswatitsch

Klaus Oswatitsch (1910–1993) was an Austrian fluid dynamicist and gas dynamicist who held the fluid mechanics chair at the Vienna University of Technology from 1960 to 1980.

Klaus Schönert

Klaus Schönert (1927–2011) was a German comminution scientist and professor of mineral processing at the Technical University of Clausthal whose research led to the high-pressure grinding roll.

Klavesin

Klavesin (Russian: Клавесин, "Harpsichord") is a family of Russian heavy autonomous underwater vehicles. Klavesin-1R, built by IMTP FEB RAS, entered Navy service; the larger Klavesin-2R-PM, by Rubin, is submarine-launched.

Klaviyo

Klaviyo is a Boston-based software company that automates marketing across email, SMS, and other channels for consumer brands. Founded in 2012, it went public in 2023.

Klavs Jensen

Klavs Jensen, born in 1952, is a chemical engineer at MIT known for developing micro and mini flow reactors for pharmaceutical manufacturing and portable energy.

Klaxon

Klaxon is a trademarked brand of loud electromechanical horn or alerting device, patented by Miller Reese Hutchison in 1906, used mainly on cars and ships.

Kleenex

Kleenex is a brand of facial tissue made by Kimberly-Clark, launched in the United States in 1924 and a standard example of a genericized trademark.

Kleinlokomotive

Kleinlokomotive, or Kleinlok, is a German classification for small, low-power shunting locomotives created by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft in 1931; the best known is the Köf II.

KLIA Transit

KLIA Transit, or Laluan KLIA Transit, is a stopping airport rail service in Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur Sentral to KLIA, running alongside the non-stop KLIA Ekspres since 2002.

Kliment Voroshilov tank

The Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tank was a series of Soviet heavy tanks used by the Red Army in World War II, named after Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov.

Klimov (engine manufacturer)

Klimov, officially JSC UEC Klimov, is a Russian aircraft-engine manufacturer in Saint Petersburg, known for the M-105, the VK-1 turbojet of the MiG-15, and the TV3-117 helicopter engine.