Sep 2, 2021 | In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Teaching, Video Analysis
Earlier this year, the OpenBehavior project initiated a repository of raw videos from typical behavioral neuroscience experiments. A total of 14 video collections were contributed to the repository, and several more will be added this fall. The videos will be useful...
Aug 5, 2021 | In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Uncategorized
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 used in behavioral...
Jul 14, 2021 | Open Source Resource, Uncategorized
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 estimation and...
Jun 17, 2021 | Community Call to Action, In the Community, OpenBehavior Team Update
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 neuroscience video...
Dec 10, 2020 | In the Community, OpenBehavior Team Update
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 printing, and using Arduino to...
Oct 1, 2020 | Open Source Resource
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 Python. The developers...
Sep 24, 2020 | OpenBehavior Team Update
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...
Jul 2, 2020 | OpenBehavior Team Update
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 their lab has shared several...
Jun 11, 2020 | Community Call to Action
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 tools at the end of the...
Mar 5, 2020 | Project 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 and what’s next for...
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