High-performance drosophila movement tracking

Machine vision systems have been designed for automated monitoring and analysis of social behavior in Drosophila by Herko Dankert. The Ctrax (The Caltech Multiple Fly Tracker) is implemented for tracking the Drosophila's movement. But the machine vision method is so sophisticated that it is hard to use by a researcher who is lack of computer technology knowledge. Likewise, most of the machine vision solutions are poor performance for the real time environment. Our work focuses on developing a high-performance application to track moving Drosophila and generate reliable tracks from the video. A light solution to automatically tracking the Drosophila in video is implemented, based on object motion in different parts of the scene. The results of effect tests show that our solution tackles the questions of performance, usability and accuracy in machine vision for bioresearch. © 2011 IEEE.