SIMPLE COMMAND-LINE OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE TO ANALYSE BEHAVIOURAL OBSERVATION VIDEO RECORDINGS

  • Miklós Bán Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology and MTA-DE “Lendület” Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Debrecen H-4020 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1
  • Mihály Földvári Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology and MTA-DE “Lendület” Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Debrecen H-4020 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1
  • Melinda Babits Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology and MTA-DE “Lendület” Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Debrecen H-4020 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1
  • Zoltán Barta Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology and MTA-DE “Lendület” Behavioural Ecology Research Group, University of Debrecen H-4020 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.63.1.137.2017
Keywords: video event recording, behaviour, experiment, data analysis

Abstract

Video techniques are broadly used in the field of behaviour sciences, thus there is an in-creasing interest in softwares that simplify the processing of recordings. One of the dif-ficulties is that observed objects can exhibit a wide variety of behaviours that cannot usu-ally be recognized and recorded automatically, therefore the video has to be watched and analysed manually by humans.

We have developed a simple, open-source and free command-line video analysis software, that helps the processing of observation sessions from recordings and helps to verify the processed events.

Published
2018-12-13
How to Cite
BánM., FöldváriM., BabitsM., & BartaZ. (2018). SIMPLE COMMAND-LINE OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE TO ANALYSE BEHAVIOURAL OBSERVATION VIDEO RECORDINGS. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 63(1), 137–142. https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.63.1.137.2017
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Vol. 63 No. 1 (2017): Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
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