Creating Automated Interactive Video Playback for Studies of Animal Communications
Video playback is a technique used to study the visual communication and behaviors of animals. While video playback is a useful tool, most experiments lack the ability for the visual stimulus to interact with the live animal. The limited number of experiments involving interactive video playback can...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-652 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-652 |
| Summary: | Video playback is a technique used to study the visual communication and
behaviors of animals. While video playback is a useful tool, most experiments lack the
ability for the visual stimulus to interact with the live animal. The limited number of
experiments involving interactive video playback can be attributed partially to the lack
of software available to conduct instructive interactive video playback experiments. To
facilitate such interactive experiments, I have created a method that combines real-time
animations with video tracking software. This method may be used to conduct
interactive playback experiments. To demonstrate this method, a prototype was created
and used to conduct automated mating choice trials on female swordtail fish. The results
of the mating choice trials show that this prototype is able to create effectively
interactive visual stimulus automatically. In addition, the results show that the interactive
video playback has a measurable effect on the female swordtail fish, Xiphophorus
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