SnakeStrike

SnakeStrike enables high-speed three-dimensional motion capture using low-cost multi-camera systems for quantitative analysis of rapid animal behaviors.

Key Features:

• Synchronized multi-camera recording: Manages synchronized high-speed video recording from multiple cameras.
• Offline 3D reconstruction: Performs offline 3D reconstruction of multi-view video to recover spatial trajectories.
• Triangulation: Computes triangulated 3D positions from corresponding points across camera views.
• Low-cost high-speed camera support: Supports acquisition with low-cost high-speed cameras to capture rapid motions.
• Performance-optimized processing: Implements performance-optimized functions for data collection and processing to enable high temporal resolution tracking.
• Rapid-motion capture: Designed to track rapid movements such as snake strikes occurring on the order of ~50 milliseconds.

Scientific Applications:

• Snake strike kinematics: Quantification of snake strike speed and kinematic profiles, including events as short as ~50 ms.
• Neuroethology: Precise three-dimensional behavioral quantification for neuroethological studies.
• High-speed motion tracking: High-temporal-resolution 3D position tracking for animal species exhibiting rapid movements.

Methodology:

Synchronized multi-camera video recording, offline 3D reconstruction, and triangulation of corresponding points to produce 3D trajectories.