MonkeyTrail: A scalable video-based method for tracking macaque movement trajectory in daily living cages.

ABSTRACT: Behavioral analysis of macaques provides important experimental evidence in the field of neuroscience. In recent years, video-based automatic animal behavior analysis has received widespread attention. However, methods capable of extracting and analyzing daily movement trajectories of macaques in their daily living cages remain underdeveloped, with previous approaches usually requiring specific environments to reduce interference from occlusion or environmental change. Here, we introduce a novel method, called MonkeyTrail, which satisfies the above requirements by frequently generating virtual empty backgrounds and using background subtraction to accurately obtain the foreground of moving animals. The empty background is generated by combining the frame difference method (FDM) and deep lea

SUBMITTER: Liu MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature