Automated Tracking of Insect Flight

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Problem Statement

This project involves continuing the work on a tracking algorithm developed by Dr. Ebraheem Fontaine by which the posture of a flying insect is estimated from multiple calibrated cameras. The algorithm uses unit quaternions to design an accurate geometric fly model thereby allowing capturing complex body and wing rotations, which are automatically fit to the images in each time frame.

FlyTracker: a visual tracking algorithm for extracting wing and body kinematics of flying insects.

Publications

• Wing and body motion during flight initiation in Drosophila revealed by automated visual tracking [link]

E. I. Fontaine, F. Zabala, M. H. Dickinson, and J. W. Burdick (2009)
Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, 1307-1323, 2009.

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