RRID Initiative
The RRID Initiative by OpenBehavior and SciCrunch The OpenBehavior project received support from the National Science Foundation in January 2021. There are three main goals for the initial funding period: (1) create a database of open-source tools...
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Real-Time Closed-Loop Feedback in Behavioral Time Scales Using DeepLabCut
Computer vision and deep-learning approaches have provided quantitative measurements of animal pose estimation and behavior tracking. Specifically, DeepLabCut and other deep-neural networks have introduced marker-less approaches for offline pose...
read moreCommunity Conversations on Video Analysis
Following several conversations on Twitter about methods for video analysis, in May 2021 the OpenBehavior team reached out to prominent research groups working on methods for video analysis and groups who contributed videos to our behavioral...
read moreOpen Source Technologies: From the virtual classroom
Students in the Computational Methods course in the Neuroscience major at American University learn about core methods for open source science each fall. In past years, we have focused on learning Python for data analysis, methods for 3D...
read moreAdd machine vision to Arduino with OpenMV!
We have covered developments with the OpenMV project before on OpenBehavior, and they’ve just added a new feature that will be of interest to many behavioral neuroscientists. The OpenMV camera is a machine-vision camera that is programmed in...
read moreWelcome to the New OpenBehavior!
In case you hadn't noticed, OpenBehavior got a makeover! The goal with this website is to improve the way we have projects categorized and tagged so you can find what you're looking for, and if you're just looking for inspiration for your next...
read moreOpenBehavior goes international! New members of the team and new content is on the way
Exciting news in an otherwise troubled time. This month, the team behind OpenBehavior is expanding and going international. We would like to welcome Jibran Khokhar and Jude Frie to the team. They are based at the University of Guelph and...
read moreVideo Repository Initiative on OpenBehavior
Last fall when teaching an undergraduate course on computational methods in neuroscience at American University, we wanted to bring in some of the tools for video analysis that have been promoted on OpenBehavior. The idea was to introduce these...
read moreFED Development Interview
One of the co-founders of OpenBehavior, Lex Kravitz recently participated in an interview about the development of the Feeding Experiment Device, lovingly known as FED! Read more to learn about how the project started, how the device has improved...
read moreOpen Source Science: Learn to Fly
Yesterday, Lex and I participated in a “hack chat” over on hackaday.io. The log of the chat is now posted on the hackaday.io site. A few topics came up that we felt deserved more attention, especially the non-research uses of open source hardware...
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