Video-based tracking and incremental learning applied to rodent behavioral activity under near-infrared illumination

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2804-2813

  Zurn, Jane Brooks ^a,b   Jiang, Xianhua ^a,c   Motai, Yuichi ^a  

^a University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^b MED Associates Inc   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral science; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical image processing; Decision trees; Image classification; Infrared tracking

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

BEHAVIORAL ACTIVITY; INDUCTIVE ALGORITHM; NEAR-INFRARED ILLUMINATION;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 37249083052     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.908277     Document Type: Article

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