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Sighthound Video 6 - Open Beta

Hello Sighthound Video Users -

Sighthound Video 6 (SV6) is now available as an open BETA! You can download it from the Sighthound account...

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Where is Sighthound Video 6?

First, some history about me and Sighthound Video.

I've been a user of Vitamin-D (The original name of Sighthound Video) since 2010. Actually, I just found the first forum post I made…

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Recognition of European Vehicles

Every year in the UK hundreds gather for the Festival of the Unexceptional. In usually damp surroundings the most unglamorous vehicles of a little-gilded age joust for the prize of most mediocre…

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Sighthound Launches Academic Program For Students

Sighthound makes available industry-leading computer vision software, tuning tools and pre-extracted features to students for free and announces cash prizes for the best research papers.

Honolulu, Hawaii – July 22, 2017 – Today at the CVPR 2017 computer vision event in Honolulu, HI Sighthound, Inc. announced the Sighthound Academic Program, a means by which students at universities and academic research institutions can use Sighthound’s industry-leading computer vision software for free.

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Sighthound Video 5.0 Now Available

Best-selling surveillance software for the home now has faster iOS, Android and web browser remote access, has a new Grid View for monitoring cameras in the desktop application, and is 64 bit.

Palo Alto, California - July 6, 2017 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of Sighthound Video 5.0, the latest version of its state-of-the-art security software for homes and businesses.

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Sighthound’s AI Software Now Reads License Plates

License plate detection and recognition now available on Sighthound Cloud and for edge deployments with Sighthound Sentry

Palo Alto, California - March 23, 2017 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of a deeply learned license plate detection and recognition API in its Cloud service and as part of its Sighthound Sentry software. The software scans images or videos and uses Sighthound’s proprietary deep computer vision algorithms to detect and read license plates as well as recognize the country/state of origin. In addition, it also provides confidence scores for each of the above to help with custom development.

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Sighthound launches AI Surveillance Appliance

Plug and play small form factor PC with Sighthound Video artificial intelligence surveillance software pre-installed

Palo Alto, California - March 15, 2017 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced that its state-of-the-art surveillance software for homes and businesses is now available as part of a plug and play appliance. Sighthound has partnered with Intel® to create a unique offering that ships Sighthound’s advanced computer vision artificial intelligence software on the Intel® NUC.

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Emotion Recognizer now live on Sighthound Cloud

Demographics suite now capable of detecting emotion, age and gender.

Palo Alto, California - March 2, 2017 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of a deeply learned emotion recognizer on its Sighthound Cloud API service. The emotion recognizer analyzes an image or video stream to find all faces and determine, for each face, the emotion along with an associated confidence level. Sighthound’s emotion recognizer has been trained to recognize seven different types of emotions.

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Intel Launches Intel® NUC Smart Digital Security & Surveillance Solution using Sighthound’s AI Software

Intel DSS solution based on Intel® NUC and Sighthound Video software also available as a pre-configured bundle with Vivotek fixed dome network cameras and Vivotek switch.

Palo Alto, California - February 14, 2017 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced that Sighthound Video, its state-of-the-art AI surveillance software for homes and businesses, is now available as part of the Intel DSS solution through Intel® Technology Providers worldwide.

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Sighthound Unveils Sighthound Video 4.0

Artificial intelligence surveillance software for the home now with audio, better human detection and higher quality video

Palo Alto, California - December 23, 2016 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of Sighthound Video 4.0, the latest version of its state-of-the-art security software for homes and businesses.

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Sighthound Launches Vehicle Recognition in the Cloud

Sighthound Cloud now able to identify make, model and color of vehicles

Palo Alto, California - December 12, 2016 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of a new vehicle detection and recognition engine for its Sighthound Cloud API service.

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Sighthound Launches Face Recognition Software for iOS

Industry-Leading Computer Vision Software Now Runs on iPhone and iPad With No Cloud Access Required

Palo Alto, California - June 27, 2016 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced that it has ported its advanced facial recognition software to mobile handheld platforms.

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Sighthound to bring advanced computer vision to the Intel® NUC

Intel® NUC Mini PC unleashes full power of Sighthound’s intelligent computer vision software for home and business security

Palo Alto, California - June 9, 2016 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced that it will bring Sighthound Video to the Intel® NUC line of personal computers.

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Sighthound joins the Embedded Vision Alliance – shows its world-leading facial recognition software at the Embedded Vision Summit May 2-4, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA

Palo Alto, California - April 29, 2016 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced that it has joined the Embedded Vision Alliance and will be demonstrating its latest facial recognition software at the Embedded Vision Summit 2016, to be held on May 2-4 in Santa Clara, CA. Sighthound will be exhibiting at Stand T6.

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Drones That See - Sighthound releases Sentry D Computer Vision Engine for Drones

Computer vision specialist creates a vision guidance system for Ambarella-based drones that can detect and track humans and objects, and control drone flight systems.

Palo Alto, California – January 05, 2016 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of Sighthound Sentry D, a version of its Sentry computer vision engine specifically designed for flying cameras. The system allows a drone to follow people or objects autonomously based on what it sees.

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Sighthound releases Sighthound Video 3.0

The easiest way to add state-of-the-art computer vision to your home or business security system.

Palo Alto, California - December 16, 2015 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of Sighthound Video 3.0, the latest version of its popular home and business security software.

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Sighthound announces industry-leading facial recognition software

Sighthound achieves 99.79% accuracy against LFW benchmark, beating Google, Baidu and Facebook, makes system available for free to developers on the Sighthound Cloud service.

Palo Alto, California - December 16, 2015 - Sighthound, Inc. today announced that Sighthound’s new facial recognition system ranks first against the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) benchmark database hosted by the University of Massachusetts, with an accuracy of 99.79%

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