Sample Application:
Ants in the Lab Environment
Tracking of Ants in the Lab Arena
Applying AnTracks in the lab environment:
About 30 ants are individually tracked in a high-density environment, and in the presence of brood items and frequent social interactions. These data are part of a project with Dr. Ana Sendova-Franks (UWE, Bristol, UK), Prof. Kim Christensen (Imperial College, UK) and Prof. Nigel Franks (University of Bristol, UK). Data used with friendly permission.
The ants in the lab arena are easily visible, but the brood items (green) and frequent social interactions (red) render unambiguous tracking a challenge.
The trajectories of all ants after automated processing of a short video fragment. The color encodes start the trajectory time, from green (start) to red (end).
