DNAT improvements bringing better face rotation tolerance, face naturalness, and higher processing speed.
Improvement
Security updates
Fixes to known vulnerabilities.
Feature
Extract service retired
Extract service retired due to availability of redaction areas as replacement.
v5.15.1 (24.01.2024)
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Improvement
Security updates
Fixes to known vulnerabilities, security improvements, and dependency version updates.
v5.15.0 (30.11.2023)
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Bug Fix
Bug related to video splitting
Users will experience improved video splitting without disruptions, ensuring that the output videos maintain the same frame rate as the source material.
v5.14.0 (30.10.2023)
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Bug Fix
Addressed a critical issue related to the INSUFFICIENT STORAGE error unit
Users will now experience more user-friendly error messages, allowing for quicker identification and resolution of storage-related issues.
Improvement
Face detection model update
Face detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-infer 2.7.0.Improved security: aligning with best practices and upgrading the security satus.
v5.13.0 (19.09.2023)
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Bug Fix
Bug related to the post-processing of detector when using multiple GPUs
the redact-infer container now operates seamlessly within a multiple GPU environment. This means that user can fully leverage the power of multiple GPUs without encountering the previous error , ensuring a smoother and more efficient workflow.
Improvement
Face detection model update
Face detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-infer 2.6.1.This update is designed to enhance detection performance in data domains characterised by low light conditions and the conversion from RAW data format. Please be aware that as a result of these improvements, there may be slight adjustments to the optimal threshold values for non-standard domains.
v5.12.0 (20.07.2023)
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Improvement
Significant enhancement to the aggregator service
improve the performance and responsiveness of the aggregator service but also enhance the overall user experience. These enhancements will further streamline your video processing workflows and reduce any delays in frame aggregation specifically for larger videos.
Bug
Fix
Redact Start Time Correction
This correction ensures that speed benchmark results are more accurate and reliable, allowing you to have a better understanding of system performance.
Bug
Fix
The proper generation of AVI. files when processing videos with audio streams
AVI videos with audio streams will now be processed and returned in their correct AVI format. This fix enhances the overall usability of our product and ensures that video processing remains reliable and consistent.
v5.11.2 (14.06.2023)
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New feature
Added support for Korean License plates replacements
Deep Natural Anonymisation (DNAT) service now supports replacements for Korean license plates. This feature is only available in API version 4.
Improvement
Face detection model update
Face detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 2.5.0. This update will help to reduce the False positive rate for specific data sets containing blurry regions. The optimal threshold values for non-standard domains may be slightly altered.
v5.10.0 (04.05.2023)
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New feature
Added support for opus audio codec
Audio from videos encoded with the Opus audio codec will be processed unaltered.
New feature
Added filename to the status endpoint
The status endpoint will contain the name of the input file. This feature is only available in API version 4.
New feature
Added Japanese license plates replacement
Deep Natural Anonymization (DNAT) service now supports replacements for Japanese license plates. This feature is only available in API version 4.
Improvement
License plate detection model update
License plate detection models have been updated with release of new gpu container redact-gpu 2.4.0. The optimal threshold values for non-standard domains may be slightly altered.
v5.9.0 (30.03.2023)
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Bug Fix
Fixed colors changing after redaction.
Redacted images showed different colors than the source image.
Bug Fix
Aspect ratio of videos taken from phones are changed.
When posting a video from an Iphone the aspect ratio changed.
v5.8.0 (07.03.2023)
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Improvement
Improved handling of larger files.
Memory handling in case of large file has been improved to use less memory.
Bug Fix
Fixed a bug where larger files could cause errors.
Uploading large files could cause memory usage increase to the limit and eventually cause an error.
v5.7.0 (09.02.2023)
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Bug Fix
Fixed bug where metadata information was lost during processing.
When anonymizing avi files, the metadata would not visible on Windows and the anonymized video could not be played with Windows Media Player. This is now fixed.
v5.6.0 (04.01.2023)
Improved large file support
Improved overall stability
v5.5.0 (06.12.2022)
Added possibility to report consumption through Reverse proxy
Fixed bug with OpenCV that would cause some data to fail
v5.4.1 (16.11.2022)
Correction for archives output to always return frames in RGB colorspace
Improved stability for longer videos
Fixed bug that would cause aspect ratio to change in specific cases
v5.4.0 (31.10.2022)
Resolve the issue of missing last frames when processed as archive for large files
Added filename to the On-Prem UI
v5.3.0 (05.10.2022)
Improve error messaging for redact "heath" endpoint
Faster processing by improved startup time for services
Improved status service with a health REST endpoint
Improved status service to receive new job information
Improved performance for face detector
v5.2.1 (08.09.2022)
Service to export log by customer
Fixed bug to resolve pipeline failure due too many file open
v5.2.0 (31.08.2022)
Added LP confidence final score in the label output
Improved LP detector
v5.1.0 (30.06.2022)
Improve efficiency of tracking service
All occurrences of the env vars are removed
v5.0.0 (18.05.2022)
Removed configurable concurrency
Improve blurring function speed
Service refactoring and consolidation
Deprecate error endpoint
Fixing multiple bugs including issues related to extremely large and small files
v4.4.1-253 (17.02.2022)
Fix deletion of artifacts to avoid disk space issues which cause large files to be stuck
Increase service start time to avoid Kafka re-balancing during start up
Improved LP detector
New micro-service messaging format
v4.2.0-244 (18.10.2021)
Fixed issues with messaging timeouts
Removed race condition in video aggregation
Fixed bounding box errors
Refactored consumption reporting
v4.1.0-243 (20.09.2021)
New retries and timeouts for GRPC clients
Increased processing speed
Better error handling for the death of redact-gpu container
v4.0.0-242 (20.08.2021)
Improved stability
v3.3.1-237 (03.06.2021)
Improved stability
v3.3.1-233 (01.04.2021)
Improved stability
v3.3.0-212 (10.03.2021)
Added support for parallel upload of large files
Improved product usability by removing legacy options person, analytics, block_portraits flag
Renamed IPS_DL_NUM_PROCS to GPU_CONCURRENCY
Renamed IPS_NUM_PROCS to CPU_CONCURRENCY
Fixed race condition in video encoding
v3.2.1-211 (23.02.2021)
Improved stability
v3.2.1-210 (13.02.2021)
Improved UI persistence
Improved input/output consistency of custom labels
Fixed speed issue with custom labels
Fixed handling of spaces in video names
v3.2.0-209 (25.01.2021)
Added support for reprocessing using custom labels
Added persistence to UI
Improved stability
v3.1.1-208 (07.12.2020)
Added experimental support for custom face_determination_threshold
Added quicktime support for HEVC encoded videos
Improved disk usage during processing
Improved scalability of handling incoming http requests
Improved stability
v3.0.0-190 (11.11.2020)
Improved stability
Improved color consistency for synthetic license plate replacements (DNAT)
Added experimental support for custom lp_determination_threshold
v3.0.0-188 (30.10.2020)
Improved bounding box format for metadata endpoint (direct JSON response)
Misc fixes and improvements
v3.0.0-187 (20.10.2020)
Added API endpoint for downloading metadata
Added “Constant Rate Factor” (CRF) parameter for video encoding
Improved focus/usability of API endpoints (removed endpoints for stream outputs and meta data embedding)