Motion detector for a narrow runway
Project description
Walkway - motion detector
Capture high-framerate videos of a custom-made, CatWalk-like setup for mice using FLIR's BlackFly cameras. A video is saved to disk every time motion is detected.
Installation
- Install SpinView (Latest Spinnaker Web Installer)
- Install Python version 3.8
- Open
cmd
- Run
pip install walkway
orpython -m pip install walkway
.
Usage overview
- Power on IR ligth source.
- Plug in camera to computer.
- Setup camera using SpinView, if necessary:
- Start acquisition.
- Adjust camera aperture and focus to view region of interest under the light conditions expected during the experiment.
- Adjust image format to limit the view to the apparatus' walkway.
- Stop acquisition.
- Open
cmd
- Run
python -m walkway.capture
- Press
q
on the GUI orctrl+c
on the command window when done. - Video files are saved to cmd's working directory (defaults to
C:/Users/<your username>
in Windows). You maycd
to a different directory prior to start capturing to save videos elsewhere.
Version History
- 0.0.4: Add argument parser and configuration file.
- 0.0.1: Initial release. Scripts are multi-threaded so as to not lag during writing operations to disk.
License
© 2021 Leonardo Molina
This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 License.
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