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Redactor Release v6.0
Sighthound announces the release of Redactor V6, featuring next-gen AI redaction, head detection, audio-only redaction, new automation capabilities, and performance upgrades. This latest version enhances privacy compliance, streamlines workflows, and delivers faster, more accurate redactions for law enforcement, enterprises, and legal professionals.

Sighthound Inc. Appoints Roger Dunnavan as Chief Revenue Officer to Lead Strategic Revenue Initiatives
Sighthound is pleased to welcome Roger Dunnavan as Chief Revenue Officer. Read about Roger’s role in leading Sighthound’s growth and innovation.

Redactor Release v5.0
Discover the power of Redactor v5 – the ultimate solution for video analysis and privacy protection. Explore innovative features like audio transcription, enhanced AI accuracy, multi-language support and much more. Enhance your workflows with Redactor v5.

Redactor Release v4.5
Sighthound Redactor major release 4.5 will be sure to excite current customers with new functionality like image redaction, image export from video files, and more personalization options for Redactor API users. Read about all the new enhancements on Redactor.com.

Sighthound’s CEO and President named 2023 Game Changers
Sighthound’s CEO and President were recently named 2023 Game Changers in the Orlando Business Journal! Congrats to Ryan Campbell, President, and Jonathan Taylor, CEO and Co-founder, on this exciting recognition. Sighthound sees big opportunities in 2023, and we’re thrilled to have Ryan and Jonathan leading the way.

Sighthound Launches New Cloud Based Redaction Solution
Sighthound has announced the launch of its new cloud-based version of Redactor, the fastest, most accurate, intuitive and easy video redaction application available today.

Sighthound Welcomes New President and CEO
Sighthound is pleased to announce that Ryan Campbell has joined the company as President; and Jonathan Taylor, Sighthound’s Chairman and Co-Founder, has returned in the role of CEO.


Redactor v4 Beta Release
We are excited to announce that our Redactor v4 beta release is now available for download! Since we want to get as many hands on this as possible, our beta release is free and available for download here. This release includes significant performance, accuracy and speed improvements as well as our brand new Redaction API.

Announcing Sighthound Video 7.0 BETA
Experience the future of intelligent video surveillance with Sighthound Video 7 beta. Join our beta testing program for exclusive insights.

Sighthound Launches Automatic License Plate Recognition Products
Today Sighthound, Inc. launched a new suite of Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) software, services, and solutions built on its 10-year heritage of innovative computer vision products…

Sighthound Video 6.0 Released
Today we’re releasing Sighthound Video 6.0 for general availability. True to our commitment in April, Sighthound Video 6 is free for all users who purchased Sighthound Video after January 1st…

Sighthound Video 6 - Release Candidate 1
Today we release the first Release Candidate version for Sighthound Video. It improves upon the previous Beta 3 release, and introduces the following changes: Updating our support integration in…

Sighthound Video 6 Beta 2
Today we are excited to release Sighthound Video 6.0 Beta 2. Before I go into the list of changes, I would like to thank each and every one of our users who tried Beta 1, and especially those of…

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...

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…

Redactor 3.0: Automatic Video Redaction Of Faces, License Plates & More.
One of the things that Sighthound has historically done well is finding faces. So many customer use cases require us to find human faces that we’ve put a lot of research hours into it.
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.
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.
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.