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Application Of Auto-Tracking To The Study Of Insect Body Kinematics In Maneuver Flight, Shreyas Vathul Subramanian
Application Of Auto-Tracking To The Study Of Insect Body Kinematics In Maneuver Flight, Shreyas Vathul Subramanian
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There is a need to explain the complex phenomena that underlies the seemingly effortless flight modes of the dragonfly (Infra -order Anisoptera). However, measuring the body kinematics during flight is labor intensive. Thus a robust system was developed that automatically tracks and quantifies the body kinematics of a dragonfly during voluntary and escape take-offs, as well as maneuvers. Ultimately, the tool, which was developed using a custom code in C++ using the open source library OpenCV (Open Computer Vision), would be used to analyze bulk samples of high speed videos providing raw images at the rate of approximately 1000 frames …