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ArticleJournal of insect science (Online)2021

Three-Dimensional Tracking of Multiple Small Insects by a Single Camera.

Ching-Hsin Chen, Ann-Shyn Chiang, Hung-Yin Tsai

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Article in Journal of insect science (Online), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ching-Hsin ChenDepartment of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-9874-9102
Ann-Shyn ChiangBrain Research Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-9668-7115
Hung-Yin TsaiDepartment of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0940-7531

Funding

Brain Research CenterMinistry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology in TaiwanMinistry of Science and Technology 105-2628-E-007-002-MY3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many systems to monitor insect behavior have been developed recently. Yet most of these can only detect two-dimensional behavior for convenient analysis and exclude other activities, such as jumping or flying. Therefore, the development of a three-dimensional (3D) monitoring system is necessary to investigate the 3D behavior of insects. In such a system, multiple-camera setups are often used to accomplish this purpose. Here, a system with a single camera for tracking small insects in a 3D space is proposed, eliminating the synchronization problems that typically occur when multiple cameras are instead used. With this setup, two other images are obtained via mirrors fixed at other viewing angles. Using the proposed algorithms, the tracking accuracy of five individual drain flies, Clogmia albipunctata (Williston) (Diptera: Psychodidae), flitting about in a spherical arena (78 mm in diameter) is as high as 98.7%, whereas the accuracy of 10 individuals is 96.3%. With this proposed method, the 3D trajectory monitoring experiments of insects can be performed more efficiently.

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DipteraMovementVideo RecordingAlgorithmsAnimalsbehavior monitoringimage processingmultiple insects trackingsingle camerathree-dimensional analysis/tracking

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PMID34850033
PMCPMC8633622

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