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Justas Birgiolas

SwarmVision is a free, open-source video motion analysis software tool to assess frame-by-frame aggregate movement or activity levels of groups or swarms of animals. It can be used to quantify the behavior of humans, birds, insects, fish, and other animals. Code can be found on github here.

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Matlab source code and example parameters for generating the stability boundaries described in  Pai &  Patton (1997) J. Biomech, 30(4): 347-354;

archive Source code and example parameters (26 KB)

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The C3D file format provides a common method of storing 3D and analog information in a file and is supported by many popular motion capture systems. The C3Dserver is a fully functional and free evaluation version of the Software Development Kit including complete VB and C++ source code examples for creating, reading and writing C3D files. More info at www.c3d.org.

archive Sample Gait Data (515 KB)

pdf File Format Manual (1.57 MB)

pdf C3D Server SDK (4.05 MB)

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The software presented is an illustration of the methods presented in the paper (Hof, A.L., 2004) or in the abstratct (Hof and Otten, 2004). The example data are from a 22 year old healthy male subject walking at 1.25 m/s.

pdf Hof.zip (451 KB)