{"id":116912,"date":"2020-12-10T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/deeplabcut-live-real-time-marker-less-motion-capture-for-animals"},"modified":"2020-12-10T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T09:22:18","slug":"deeplabcut-live-real-time-marker-less-motion-capture-for-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/deeplabcut-live-real-time-marker-less-motion-capture-for-animals","title":{"rendered":"DeepLabCut-Live! Real-time marker-less motion capture for animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deeplabcut-live-real-time-marker-less-motion-capture-for-animals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gollum in \u201cThe Lord of the Rings,\u201d Thanos in the \u201cAvengers,\u201d Snoke in \u201cStar Wars,\u201d the Na\u2019vi in \u201cAvatar\u201d\u2014we have all experienced the wonders of motion-capture, a cinema technique that tracks an actor\u2019s movements and translates them into computer animation to create a moving, emoting\u2014and maybe one day Oscar-winning\u2014digital character.<\/p>\n<p>But what many might not realize is that motion capture isn\u2019t limited to the big screen, but extends into science. Behavioral scientists have been developing and using similar tools to study and analyze the posture and movement of animals under a variety of conditions. But motion-capture approaches also require that the subject wears a complex suit with markers that let the computer \u201cknow\u201d where each part of the body is in three-dimensional space. That might be okay for a professional actor, but animals tend to resist dressing up.<\/p>\n<p>To solve the problem, scientists have begun combining motion-capture with deep learning, a method that lets a computer essentially teach itself how to optimize performing a task, e.g., recognizing a specific \u201ckey-point\u201d in videos. The idea is to teach the computer to track and even predict the movements or posture of an animal without the need for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/motion+capture\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">motion capture<\/a> markers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gollum in \u201cThe Lord of the Rings,\u201d Thanos in the \u201cAvengers,\u201d Snoke in \u201cStar Wars,\u201d the Na\u2019vi in \u201cAvatar\u201d\u2014we have all experienced the wonders of motion-capture, a cinema technique that tracks an actor\u2019s movements and translates them into computer animation to create a moving, emoting\u2014and maybe one day Oscar-winning\u2014digital character. But what many might not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}