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Release Notes

2026

  1. v2026.03.05
    1. [Feature Enhancement] Made it possible to add multiple model template files when running assign model from the load data dialog and command line
    2. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug causing Sift to crash due to an unused check box within the export dialog when loading saved settings
    3. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug within the update CMZ dialog making it impossible to switch back to “Only exclude individual traces” when adding exclude events after switching to any other option.
    4. [Bug Fix] Added missing text export types to signal time plots (JSON, XML)
  2. v2026.03.05
    1. [New Feature] Added the ability to undo the last exclusion or re-inclusion by pressing Ctrl+Z
    2. [Enhancement] Modified text exports
    3. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug within the update CMZ dialog making it impossible to switch back to “Only exclude individual traces” when adding exclude events after switching to any other option.
  3. v2026.02.13
    1. [Enhancement] Released the new Load Data feature which is available on the Load Page and through the console application. Load Data brings together the legacy Load C3D features' Build CMZ, Theia3D Builder, and Fujitsu Builder tabs and extends users’ ability to add metadata to their motion capture files and automate file tagging.
    2. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where calculating all queries through the Query Builder Dialog and then asking to remove all uncomputed queries could cause Sift to crash.
  4. v2026.01.26
    1. [New Feature] It is now possible to export the Explore Page plots to PDF from the context menu.
    2. [New Feature] Added a processing log to the help menu that will aid in debugging.
    3. [Enhancement] Set the animation window's floor to ignore changes to the lab coordinate system, allowing users to correct any misaligned models to match the animation widget.
    4. [Enhancement] Set changes to the Lab Coordinate System within the animation settings dialog to persist between instances of the application

2025

  1. v2025.12.17
    1. [New Feature] Added an error messaging and logging for circumstances where Sift crashes, enabling more targeted troubleshooting.
    2. [Enhancement] Added the ability to delete previously created SPMs and GLMs.
    3. [Enhancement] Added the ability to switch between created SPMs and GLMs.
    4. [Enhancement] Increased the precision of alpha values that users can specify for SPM tests to accomodate corrections like the Bonferroni correction.
  2. v2025.12.10
    1. [Enhancement] Added the JSON and XML export formats to the console application's “export to text” family of commands.
    2. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where the expiration date of some Evaluation licenses was evaluated incorrectly, leading to shortened evaluation periods.
    3. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where a trace's details would remain visible on the Explore page under certain conditions when unselected.
  3. v2025.12.02
    1. [New Feature] Added the option to export plotted data to text via an Explore page plot’s context menu.
    2. [Enhancement] Modified the Y-axis range for the GLM Residuals Plot to ensure that values are centered even when all traces are at zero.
    3. [Enhancement] A warning is now displayed when an SPM is calculated and no results are produced.
    4. [Enhancement] Users can now double click the “Load Library” button to automatically load the previously loaded library.
    5. [Enhancement] Added the option to set the location of Visual3D’s executable so the open file function on plotted data no longer depends on the default install location.
    6. [Enhancement] Added the option to export data to JSON and XML formats when exporting to text.
    7. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where ROTATION signals could not be visualized when the corresponding query definition was read in from a .q3d file.
    8. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where, for the one-sample, two-sample, and paired t-tests, the conclusion “reject the null hypothesis” would be drawn incorrectly given the p-value calculated, the degrees of freedom for the test, and the significance level chosen
    9. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug causing Sift to crash when a paired SPM test was run on a GLM with no variance.
  4. v2025.11.12
    1. [New Feature] Added the ability to call Theia3D from the command line and pass a settings file, allowing for automated batch processing
    2. [Enhancement] Added the option to export to CSV in the export dialog
    3. [Enhancement] Redesigned the export dialog, settings file will always be displayed, and previews will be shown in a separate window
    4. [Enhancement] Added normal database to the Sift command line
    5. [Enhancement] Added gait analysis tools (LGGA, GPS, and GDI) to the command line
    6. [Enhancement] Added the option to compare traces to whole dataset with Dynamic Time Warping on the command line
    7. [Enhancement] Added summary statistics to the command line
    8. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug causing Sift to crash when loading in a second project
    9. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug causing Sift to crash when saving after re-calculating queries in a loaded project with registered curves
    10. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug causing summary metrics to produce incorrect results when selecting value at event for anything other than the first event within a sequence.
  5. v2025.09.23
    1. [Enhancement] The Summary Metrics feature is now available through the console application.
    2. [Enhancement] Improved formatting for console application’s help commands.
    3. [Bug Fix] In some cases auto-populating queries while grouping left and right signals would cause Sift to crash.
    4. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where processing scripts could not be added when building CMZ files from Fujitsu .bvh files.
  6. v2025.09.03
    1. [Bug Fix] Fixed bug with plot updates when displaying non-normalized waveforms.
  7. v2025.08.28
    1. [Enhancement] Statistical test results can now be exported to text file and saved to the I3D project file.
    2. [Enhancement] Improved reporting when queries do not match any data in the loaded library.
    3. [Enhancement] UI updates to clarify that workspace and group means cannot be calculated for non-normalized waveforms.
    4. [Enhancement] Sift now creates its own Plug-ins folder for the Visual3D Engine during installation if Visual3D is not already installed on a computer.
    5. [Bug Fix] Console application did not display numerical parameters properly; missing parameters are now reported as [NO VALUE] rather than NULL.
  8. v2025.07.23
    1. [New Feature] Added drag-and-drop functionality to import queried data directly from Sift into Jiku’s Power1D software. This same feature allows drag-and-drop into any application that accepts CSV files in this manner.
    2. [New Feature] Added Summary Statistics feature, allowing users to compute One-Sample, Two-Sample, and Paired T-Tests for queried metric groups.
    3. [Enhancement] The QA Using PCA dialogs now reflect the active PCA results being examined.
    4. [Enhancement] The Animation and Video dialogs now both allow excluded traces to be selected and animated. Excluded traces are clearly indicated in the drop down menus.
  9. v2025.06.26
    1. [Enhancement] Users can now be notified via a system tray icon when a Directory Watcher is triggered.
    2. [Enhancement] Directory Watchers now save a log of processing results whenever a Visual3D pipeline script is run.
    3. [Enhancement] Users can now choose whether or not Directory Watchers will be triggered on the removal of a file from a watched directory.
    4. [Enhancement] UI updates to the Load Page to display the loaded library path, the total number of CMZs loaded, and the total number of C3Ds files loaded.
    5. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug that caused Sift to crash when loading some legacy workspaces via the command line.
  10. v2025.06.03
    1. [Enhancement] Added a Ctrl-X shortcut for Explore page plots to exclude highlighted traces.
    2. [Enhancement] Users are now asked if they want to save their project file on application close if any queries have been computed.
    3. [Bug Fix] Normalization information of queries now properly saved in .q3d files.
    4. [Bug Fix] Refactored interactions with Explore page plots to improve performance and reliability. Users can now:
      1. Right-Click for the Context menu
      2. Single Left Click to select data using a “rubber band” box
      3. Shift + Left Click: Add traces to the current selection
      4. Ctrl + Left Click: Multi-select plots
      5. Alt + Left Click: Highlight all traces
      6. Double Left Click: Scale graph to data
      7. Mouse Scroll Wheel: Zoom In/Out.
    5. [Bug Fix] Resolved bug where queries could not be created when legacy .cmo files were loaded in the library.
    6. [Bug Fix] Fixed formatting error in the Command Line interface's output for directory watcher lists.
    7. [Bug Fix] Resolved bug where the command line would miss erroneous parameters if they were passed as default parameters.
  11. v2025.04.22
    1. [Enhancement] Users can now run Visual3D pipeline scripts through the engine without having a loaded library.
    2. [Enhancement] Sift's command line interface now allows exporting figures throughout the application with the addition of the ExportPlotSignalTime, ExportPlotMetric, ExportPlotPairSignal, ExportPlotPairMetric, ExportPlotVarianceExplained, ExportPlotWorkspaceScores, ExportPlotGroupScores, ExportPlotReconstruction, ExportPlotExtreme, ExportPlotSPM, ExportPlotResiduals, and ExportPlotB commands.
    3. [Enhancement] Improved reporting during license activation.
  12. v2025.03.12
    1. [Enhancement] Overhauled Sift's command line interface to improve reporting and readability.
    2. [Enhancement] Normal database files now save to a .sift extension to improve usability within the application.
  13. v2025.02.13
    1. [New Feature] Added the ability to re-order queries on the explore page and within the query builder.
    2. [Enhancement] Improved compatibility, allowing Sift to be run on Apple Parallels.
    3. [Enhancement] Improved logging of V3D pipelines ran from the Sift Command Line.
    4. [Bug fix] Fixed a bug causing V3D Default folders to be inaccessible from the V3D engine when run from Sift.
  14. v2025.02.04
    1. [New Feature] Individual Visual3D pipeline commands can now be passed directly to Sift via the command line interface.
    2. [Enhancement] Sift's console application and command line interface now accept forward slashes as delimiters, in addition to dashes.
    3. [Enhancement] Metric plots now show information for selected traces on the top layer and above the selected bar, increasing readability.
    4. [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where commands passed on launch that contained a string parameter starting with a dash to fail.
    5. [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where Mahalanobis Distance exports failed from the command line interface.
    6. [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where Sift's RunV3D command would fail from the command line interface.
    7. [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where selecting the “Yes to All” option for recalculating queries did not behave as intended.
    8. [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where traces negated by a query were returned incorrectly.
  15. v2025.01.08
    1. [New Feature] Users can now compute summary metrics of loaded groups and save them to the respective workspace. Summary metrics are automatically queried and saved as a group in Sift.
    2. [Enhancement] Statistical parametric mapping now allows users to perform one-sample and paired t-tests, and ANOVA tests. One vs. two-tailed statistical inferencing is also now available.
    3. [Enhancement] The console application’s interface has been refined.
    4. [Enhancement] The animation widget now displays model segments in line with Visual3D's animation feature.
    5. [Enhancement] A UI hint for resize mechanism is now provided to the user when hovering over the widget resizing handle.
    6. [Bug fix] Fixed an error where workspace means would not properly calculate for the specific case where a single C3D file contained both included and excluded traces.
    7. [Bug fix] Fixed a bug where Directory Watchers could be deleted without being disabled.
    8. [Bug fix] Several minor fixes to ensure that plotting styles are consistently and correctly applied across all plot types in the Explore Page.
    9. [Bug fix] Ensured that regular CMZ libraries cannot be loaded as a Normal Database file, which would result in a crash.

2024

  1. v2024.11.07
    1. [New Feature] Allow users to set one or more directories to be “watched” when a file is added or removed from a watched directory a list of v3s pipelines and or bat scripts will be executed
    2. [New Feature] Gait Deviation Index (GDI) added to Gait Score suite.
    3. [Enhancement] Added improvements in GPS usability.
    4. [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where running the V3D Engine with a normal database loaded caused loaded files to be corrupted.
  2. v2024.10.11
    1. [New Feature] Users can automatically generate .cmz workspaces for .bvh files output by Fujitsu's Human Motion Analytics technology through the CMZ builder.
    2. [Enhancement] Sift's command line console application can now be used as a drop-in replacement for Auto3D.
    3. [Enhancement] Sift's command line console application now allows aliasing as a command.
    4. [Enhancement] Improved GPS dialog and Normal Database connection.
    5. [Bug Fix] Plot highlighting bug fixes throughout application.
    6. [Bug Fix] Duplicating queries no longer adds extra conditions.
  3. v2024.09.26
    1. [Enhancement] Users can now leverage the Sift Normal database feature to generate a reference dataset for Gait Profile Score (GPS)
    2. [Enhancement] Application wide changes to speed up analysis 50% decrease in response time across multiple pages.
    3. [Enhancement] Queries with different data rates can be matched with each other if they represent the same event sequence.
    4. [Enhancement] Updated Active Plots to ensure they are more distinguishable from other plots
    5. [Bug Fix] Fixed bug preventing group data styles from being saved with project
    6. [Bug Fix] Fixed bug where plot axes could not be edited.
    7. [Bug Fix] Fixed bug where SPM module crashed if loaded with data that all included unknown data.
    8. [Bug Fix] Fixed bug causing plot bounds to be slightly too small.
  4. v2024.08.21
    1. [Enhancement] Allow Sift to be run on command line.
    2. [Enhancement] Introduced Normal Database file, allowing for quick summaries and comparisons from large conrol groups.
    3. [Bug Fix] Fixed bug where events captured at different rates was not recognized as the same event.
  5. v2024.07.15
    1. [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue with licensing where a failure to activate on the first attempt would prevent subsequent activation attempts.
    2. [Bug Fix] Resolved a couple of issues related to the OpenGL animation features: first, loaded project files are now animated properly; and second, object files have been more robustly linked.
  6. v2024.06.12
    1. [Enhancement] Implemented Squared Prediciton Error (SPE) to run in conjunction with Mahalanobis Distance Test for PCA outlier detection.
    2. [Enhancement] Added ability to export to text for all PCA outlier detection/QA tests (K-means, LOF, Mahalanobis Distance, and SPE).
    3. [Enhancement] Updated the Show Animation and Show Video dialogs to auto-populate with the Explore page's selected trace(s) when possible.
    4. [Enhancement] Added ability to exports results from the active PCA calculation or from all PCA calculations when exporting to text.
    5. [Enhancement] Significant computational speed-up for calculating PCA using individual traces (instead of workspace means).
    6. [Bug Fix] Fixed case where changing group selections in the PC Reconstruction plot could cause the application to crash.
    7. [Bug Fix] Fixed case where missing LOF density scores could cause a crash when displaying the Workspace Scores plot.
    8. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue preventing Metric-Metric plot jitter values from being cleared when reset graph was selected from the context menu.
    9. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue causing labels to be displayed incorrectly or not at all on Metric, Metric-Metric, and Signal-Signal plots.
    10. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue preventing sub-groups from being displayed throughout the application.
    11. [Bug Fix] Ensured library size has no impact on load times for saved query definitions.
    12. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue causing application to freeze while updating CMZs.
  7. v2024.05.16
    1. [Enhancement] Improved interface and visualization for the Mahalanobis Distance Test.
    2. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue causing PCA K-means results to be saved incorrectly.
    3. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue causing cluster styles to be applied incorrectly.
    4. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue preventing Signal-Signal and Metric-Metric pairs being deleted.
    5. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue causing conditions to be rendered twice for each group in the Groups widget.
    6. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue causing workspace styles to be applied incorrectly.
  8. v2024.05.06
    1. [Enhancement] Improved interface and visualizations for K-means clustering algorithm.
    2. [Bug Fix] Resolved issues related to plot styles for the Explore page.
    3. [Bug Fix] Allowed a workspace to be selected on the Workspace Scores plot while LOF densities are displayed.
  9. v2024.04.22
    1. [Enhancement] Improved interface and visualizations for Local Outlier Factor.
    2. [Bug Fix] Resolved issue where project files containing the results of PCA for raw traces would not load correctly.
  10. v2024.03.25
    1. Initial Release of Sift
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