walkway 0.0.4

Motion detector for a narrow runway

Walkway - motion detector

Capture high-framerate videos of a custom-made, CatWalk-like setup for mice using FLIR's BlackFly cameras. A video is saved to disk every time motion is detected.

Installation

• Install SpinView (Latest Spinnaker Web Installer)
• Install Python version 3.8
• Open cmd
• Run pip install walkway or python -m pip install walkway.

Usage overview

• Power on IR ligth source.
• Plug in camera to computer.
• Setup camera using SpinView, if necessary:
  • Start acquisition.
  • Adjust camera aperture and focus to view region of interest under the light conditions expected during the experiment.
  • Adjust image format to limit the view to the apparatus' walkway.
  • Stop acquisition.
• Open cmd
• Run python -m walkway
• Press q on the GUI or ctrl+c on the command window when done.
• Video files are saved to the working directory of cmd (defaults to C:/Users/<your username> in Windows).

Version History

• 0.0.1: Initial release. Scripts are multi-threaded so as to not lag during writing operations to disk.

License

© 2021 Leonardo Molina

This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 License.