I am conducting behavioral trials with tadpoles and I need to track till 16 individuals inside the arena. Basically, I need to estimate the time each tadpole spent active. I would welcome any suggestions.
Hi Andrea, if you have a way of marking each individual tadpole (for example by putting a small coloured marker on them) then I believe DeepLabCut would easily track the individuals. The output is a CSV file with the position of the marker within the frame which you could use to calculate time active.
Good Luck, Carrie
Hi Carrie, thank you! I don't know actually if I can mark tadpoles. Does DeepLabCut allow to track multiple animals in other ways?
I believe there's a new version coming out designed to cope with different individuals at the same time and it might be able to do that without my suggestion of marking them (this was a work around to your problem). The team are really helpful and engaged so it's worth speaking directly to them and asking.
I am going to follow your suggestion and contact them, I thank you once again
i recently coded some tracking software for multiple individuals (i.e. zebrafish / termite video) if you provide me a test video, i would give it a try. please contact me: ab[]edutoolbox.de
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