Need to track forelimbs and hindlimbs of a rat for my application

I am working on Parkison's disease in rat models. In this application, I needed to know the coordinates of the rat limbs when it moves in real time. A camera will record the movements from the bottom side of the rat platform (glass platform).

Can someone suggest me how to go about it or get a reference material from?

Answer 1

[Dinesh]

Hi Sreenivas!

Assuming you have ground truth data to train the model, you can treat this task as object detection, where forelimbs and hindlimbs are objects. So, this becomes an object recognition task. Refer to the following MATLAB documentation for information on how to get started with object detection, using YOLO algorithm to do multi-object detection, and making Bounding Boxes for the detections.

1. Getting Started with Object detection using Deep Learning
2. Object detection
3. Multiple Object tracking
4. Object detection using YOLO v4
5. Augmenting Bounding Boxes for object recognition

If you have enough data but no ground truth labels then use [HV1] Image labeller or Video Labeller. These will help you to add labels to specific positions on the image/video (ex: labelling forelimb in the picture). Then you can train your model with this data.

Hope this helps,

Thank you!!