Sift refers to the straining action of a sifter or sieve.

Sift or SIFT may also refer to:

  • Scale-invariant feature transform, an algorithm in computer vision to detect and describe local features in images
  • Selected-ion flow tube, a technique used for mass spectrometry
  • Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, a public university in Shanghai, China
  • Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace (SIFT), a heuristic for verifying the accuracy of media claims
  • Summary of Information on Film and Television, a database of the British Film Institute National Library
  • Summer Institute for Future Teachers, a residential summer program at Eastern Connecticut State University

See also

  • Sieve (disambiguation), for the word "sift"
  • Sifted (formerly VeriShip), an American logistics company