It may make sense to smooth the velocity in time, because it's currently almost all discrete (e.g. 0, 1, -1 pixels/frame). What smoothing makes sense will depend on the dataset, but something like average velocity over a 0.5 second smoothing window may be good for the birds. What do you think?
Originally posted by @emackev in https://github.com/BasisResearch/collab-creatures/issues/72#issuecomment-2144087233