DANNCE

DANNCE is a direct method for 3D markerless pose estimation and tracking developed by Timothy Dunn, Jesse Marshall, and colleagues in Bence Ölveczky’s lab. It works on recorded video data from multiple cameras. The key innovation in this method is to use geometrical methods to create 3D feature spaces in which shared features across cameras are used to track animals and infer pose information. This is done by extending 2D confidence maps to three dimensions through the use of volumetric convolutions. Images from each camera are projected onto a common volume space. A 3D convolutional neural network is then used to provide a single confidence map for the pose data over the 3D space. The method was demonstrated to work for data from individual or groups of behaving rodents, non-human primates, and birds

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