dilawar / object_tracking

Object Tracking

This is an experimental project designed to track a moving animal in an arena. This may not work out of the box in your case but I'd be happy to help.

Demo

See a demo here This demo was created with version v0.0.3 of this script.

Dependencies

• python-opencv
• python-numpy
• gnuplot

How to use

When you run the command python track.py -f /path/to/recorded_video, you will be presented the first frame to locate the animal. You can drop as many frame as you like by pressing n. Once you see the animal in frame, use the mouse to draw a rectangle around the animal: press left mouse button and drag it to another corner then release the button. Press q to start tracking.

During tracking, you can click on the animal to fix the location. A white cirlce represents the approximate location of animal (see the demo).

When all frames are done, check the directory of video file, there must be a data file in csv format. First column represent the time, second the column index and third the row index of the animal.

Help

Drop and email to [email protected] . Though you should raise an issue on this repo. Make sure you attack a fragment of video for me to test.