Ctrax: The Caltech Multiple Fly Tracker

(c) 2007-2012 The Caltech Ethomics Project
http://ctrax.sourceforge.net
bransonk@janelia.hhmi.org

Ctrax is an open-source, freely available, machine vision program for
estimating the positions and orientations of many walking flies,
maintaining their individual identities over long periods of time. It
was designed to allow high-throughput, quantitative analysis of
behavior in freely moving flies. Our primary goal in this project is
to provide quantitative behavior analysis tools to the neuroethology
community, thus we've endeavored to make the system adaptable to other
labs' setups. We have assessed the quality of the tracking results for
our setup, and found that it can maintain fly identities indefinitely
with minimal supervision, and on average for 1.5 fly-hours
automatically.

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Documentation and up-to-date versions of the software are available on
our project homepage:

                    http://ctrax.sourceforge.net

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Ctrax is a joint effort of the Dickinson and Perona labs at the
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, funded by the
U.S. NIH under grant R01 DA022777-01 from the National Institute on
Drug Abuse.

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