Sentient Vision Systems is an Australian company headquartered in Port Melbourne, that produces automated object detection services for video from aircraft and surface sensors used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), search and rescue, and law enforcement .
Sentient's products use computer vision software to detect and track objects of interest, both electro-optic (EO) and infrared (IR) for land and maritime environments.
[9] Sentient's most recent product, ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging)[buzzword], was launched in 2015.
[11][12] In 2016, Australia's Defence Minister, Christopher Pyne MP, congratulated Sentient for deployment of over 1,000 Kestrel systems worldwide.
[13] Sentient was also referenced in the Australian Governments 2016 Defence Industry Policy Statement[14] In June 2017, The Australian government announced a $100m contract to supply the Army with Wasp AE small UAV's including Sentient's Kestrel.