Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm.
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SUBMITTER: Madan CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4038320 | biostudies-literature | 2014
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Visualizing and quantifying movement from pre-recorded videos: The spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm.
Madan Christopher R CR Spetch Marcia L ML
F1000Research 20140121
When studying animal behaviour within an open environment, movement-related data are often important for behavioural analyses. Therefore, simple and efficient techniques are needed to present and analyze the data of such movements. However, it is challenging to present both spatial and temporal information of movements within a two-dimensional image representation. To address this challenge, we developed the spectral time-lapse (STL) algorithm that re-codes an animal's position at every time poi ...[more]
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