ACTOGRAPHIC DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON INFRARED AND COMPUTER VISION TECHNOLOGIES TO MEASURE THE BEHAVIOUR OF SPECIES |
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| David Sarrià, Joaquín Del Río, Antoni Mànuel, Jacopo Aguzzi, José Antonio García, Francesc Sardà |
- Abstract:
- An automated acquisition system has been developed to measure the behavioral activity rhythms of marine species. The system has been developed using infrared and computer vision technologies by a distributed topology, different experimentations can be done at the same time if the units are repeated and connected to the main computer. The developed system consists primarily in custom low cost acquisition and illumination units with USB interface that allows the acquisition from different photodiodes sensors and to illuminate with a programmable photoperiod. The main computer controls all the connected units and processes the incoming information of behaviour from the sensors to show the activity rhythm of the species under study in association with artificially generated light cycles. The system is complemented with low cost cameras, with different vision algorithms the behaviour of the animals can be extracted.
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-2008-004.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC4
- Event name:
- Exploring New Frontiers of Instrumentation and Methods for Electrical and Electronic Measurements
- Title:
- XVIth IMEKO TC4 International Symposium on Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation (together with 13th IMEKO TC4 Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing)
- Place:
- Florence, ITALY
- Time:
- 22 September 2008 - 24 September 2008