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aharmer / pathtrackr

An R package for video tracking and analysing animal movement
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Manually entering missing data points in path.list #18

Open dhanyabharath98 opened 5 years ago

dhanyabharath98 commented 5 years ago

Hi,

So my video needs to be recorded under constrained light conditions, where the only source of light is a monitor screen. The software is unable to track the animal when it moves to the darker areas. Would it be possible for me to enter the missing values manually in the list?

Thanks, Dhanya

aharmer commented 5 years ago

You could use the manual tracking function to record the position in those frames and manually insert them into the auto tracked object. But there is no way to do this automatically at the moment. I will look into this for a future update, where any skipped frames can be displayed at the end of auto tracking and the position of the animal manually clicked and automatically inserted in to the original tracking object.

strasbm3 commented 4 years ago

Have any updates been made on this? I attempting to track tadpole behavior and occasionally the tadpole gets lost. I also can't get the manualPath function to work. I get this error:

Error in as.double(y) : cannot coerce type 'S4' to vector of type 'double'

I was also getting this error originally with the trackPath function but I reinstall the package from h-a-graham and the error was fixed.

devtools::install_github("h-a-graham/pathtrackr", build_vignettes = TRUE, force=TRUE)

LynnaKiere commented 4 years ago

You could use the manual tracking function to record the position in those frames and manually insert them into the auto tracked object. But there is no way to do this automatically at the moment. I will look into this for a future update, where any skipped frames can be displayed at the end of auto tracking and the position of the animal manually clicked and automatically inserted in to the original tracking object.

I am also VERY interested in a feature that would allow a combination of manual and automated tracking for assigning locations to skipped frames- hopefully something like this could be added soon!