Development of a Multi-Target Tracking System for Paramecia
This investigation develops a multi-target tracking system for the motile protozoa, paramecium. The system can recognize, track and record the orbit of swimming paramecia within a 4 mm diameter of a circular experimental pool. The proposed system is implemented using an optical microscope, a CCD camera and a software tool, Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench (Lab VIEW). An algorithm for processing the images and analyzing the traces of the paramecia is developed in Lab VIEW. It focuses on extracting meaningful data in an experiment and recording them to elucidate the behavior of paramecia. The algorithm can also continue to track paramecia even if they are transposed or collide with each other. The experiment demonstrates that this multi-target tracking design can really track more than five paramecia and simultaneously yield meaningful data from the moving paramecia at a maximum speed of 1.7 mm/s.
multi-target tracking paramecia transpose collide
Ke-Nung Huang Hung-Hsuan Chen Yu-Sing Yeh
Department of Electronic Engineering I-Shou University Kaohsiung, Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan
国际会议
上海
英文
260-263
2011-10-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）