DLC Resources

GUI Alternatives

Possible improvement on the DLC GUI
Workflow combining ImageJ and DeepLabCut

Key Papers

PDF available in our Zotero Group Library

Nath, T., Mathis, A., Chen, A. C., Patel, A., Bethge, M., & Mathis, M. W. (2019). Using DeepLabCut for 3D markerless pose estimation across species and behaviors. Nature Protocols, 14(7), 2152–2176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-019-0176-0

Provides a detailed description of the workflow we will be following. See p. 3 of the article for a flowchart. This is the paper referenced in the instructions on DLC's GitHub. https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut

Mathis, A., Mamidanna, P., Cury, K. M., Abe, T., Murthy, V. N., Mathis, M. W., & Bethge, M. (2018). DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning. Nature Neuroscience, 21(9), 1281–1289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0209-y

This is a technical report on DLC. See particularly p. 7 (1287) figure 7 for markerless tracking of digit, relevant to our tracking of infants' hands.