Changelog#

5.1.3#

  • Fix final compression bug on Windows.

  • Fix idtrackerai_video incompatibility when tracking without identities.

  • Fix GUI theme change malfunctioning.

5.1.2#

  • Disables the first two changes of changelog 5.1.1 (the identification images construction method and the blob’s contour approximation). These will be restored after some more testing.

5.1.1#

  • Maximize the number of relevant pixels inside identification images (faster identification).

  • Approximate blobs’ contours using less points (lighter blobs objects in RAM and disk)

  • Allow a variable number of animals (by setting n_animals=0) when tracking without identities.

  • Removed anti-flickering filter. It improves intensity threshold’s sensitivity and segmentation speed.

  • Using gzip compression on identification images files when finishing a successful session. Optimizing loading times.

  • Added playback speed in a action in the video player menu.

  • Python’s datetime usage in Video timers

  • Free Enter/Return keys from GUI shortcuts.

  • Fix log file issue when more than one session is running.

  • Optimize rescaling when resolution reduction and adapt ROI to scale.

  • Fix bug when validating single animal trackings.

  • Fix “change font size” bug in GUIs.

  • Ctrl+L to toggle playback framerate limitation (GUI).

  • Fix cv2 BRG/RGB color confusion.

  • Fix cv2 error in segmentation app when removing ROI while using background subtraction.

Author: Jordi Torrents

5.1.0#

  • Implement idmatcher.ai

  • ROIs can be reordered in segmentation app by drag and drop

  • ROIs in segmentation app are ordered from bottom to top

  • Select ROI by clicking inside the polygon in the video player (segmentation app)

  • Fix typos

  • Simplify idtrackerai/network file structure and imports

  • Improve v4 compatibility reading video.json/npy

  • Merged crossings/identification NetworkParams as a single dataclass

  • Simplified GetPredictionIdentification converting it into a function

  • Fix gray individual video generation

Author: Jordi Torrents

5.0.0#

  • Full code revision promoting Python built-in libraries, argument type hints and multiples optimizations in terms of code simplicity and structure, RAM usage, lighter output generated data and faster execution.

  • Unify all tools related to idtracker.ai in the same repository/package

  • Works with Python 3.10

  • New graphical apps buildings directly with PyQt6

  • Remove dependency with

    • Pyforms

    • Python-video-annotator

    • Matplotlib

    • Joblib

    • Natsort

    • Tqdm

    • Pandas

    • Gdown

  • Using the last versions of every remaining used dependency

  • Completely new segmentation app, fully responsive, intuitive and faster

  • Completely new validation app to view the session results, navigate through the possible tracking errors, fix them and manipulate the session using other extra tools.

  • idtrackerai_csv tool to convert trajectories after the tracking process finished.

  • Removed local_settings input method.

  • New input methods (more direct and simple) (--load, --settings and terminal declarations).

  • The tool “setup points” moved to the validator.

  • No NUMBER_OF_JOBS_FOR_BACKGROUND_SUBTRACTION, background is computed sequentially.

  • Merged NUMBER_OF_JOBS_FOR_SEGMENTATION and NUMBER_OF_JOBS_FOR_SETTING_ID_IMAGES in the same parameter NUMBER_OF_PARALLEL_WORKERS.

  • Easier background subtraction implementation, with “median” option. It is more robust against difficult tracking intervals/episodes/number of frames.

  • Better and easier parallel episode definitions with optimized parallel distribution (specially with multiple files).

  • Simplified attributes in all idtracker.ai objects.

  • ListOfBlobs reconnects in almost no time after loading from saved .pickle file.

  • Flexibility selecting the number of videos to track.

  • Remove Blob.pixels attribute. Much faster and lighter blob manipulations.

  • Stretch Blob.bounding_box. Much lighter segmentation images.

  • Optimized 80% of the computational time of _process_frame() by properly removing the function binary_fill_holes().

  • Logs more readable, with more useful information and progress bars (using Rich).

  • Faster h5py writing/reading implementation (by not opening and closing the h5py file for every single image, we keep them opened).

  • Python objects are saved as pickle objects and json files when possible (lighter and more standard than .npy files).

  • Removed option save_areas. Now, the statistics of the areas are always printed in the trajectory files.

  • Parallel processing using built-in Multiprocessing, not Joblib.

  • Reorganize internal modules promoting decoupling (fragmentation, tracking and postprocessing modules).

  • Easy video generation with idtrackerai_video.

  • Package is defined using a pyproject.toml file.

  • No git sub-modules used.

  • Faster blob overlapping method (convexHull and point inside contour methods).

Author: Jordi Torrents

4.0.0#

  • Works with Python 3.7.

  • Remove Kivy submodules and stop support for old Kivy GUI.

  • Neural network training is done with Pytorch 1.10.0.

  • Identification images are saved as uint 8.

  • Crossing detector images are the same as the identification images. This saves computing time and makes the process of generating the images faster.

  • Improve data pipeline for the crossing detector.

  • Parallel saving and loading of identification images (only for Linux)

  • Simplify code for connecting blobs from frame to frame.

  • Remove unnecessary execution of the blobs connection algorithm.

  • Background subtraction considers the ROI

  • Allows to save trajectories as csv with the advanced parameter CONVERT_TRAJECTORIES_DICT_TO_CSV_AND_JSON (using the local_settings.py file).

  • Allows to change the output width (and height) of the individual-centered videos with the advanced parameter INDIVIDUAL_VIDEO_WIDTH_HEIGHT (using the local_settings.py file).

  • Horizontal layout for graphical user interface (GUI). This layout can be deactivated using the local_settings.py setting NEW_GUI_LAYOUT=False.

  • Width and height of GUI can be changed using the local_settings.py using the GUI_MINIMUM_HEIGHT and GUI_MINIMUM_WIDTH variables.

  • Add ground truth button to validation GUI.

  • Added “Add setup points” featrue to store landmark points in the video frame that will be stored in the trajectories.npy and trajectories_wo_gaps.npy in the key setup_poitns. Users can use this points to perform behavioural analysis that requires landmarks of the experimental setup.

  • Improved code formatting using the black formatter.

  • Better factorization of the TrackerApi.

  • Some bugs fixed.

  • Better documentation of main idtracker.ai objects (video, blob, list_of_blobs, fragment, list_of_fragments, global_fragment and list_of_global_fragments).

  • Dropped support for MacOS