title: Tracking zebrafish larvae in group--status and perspectives.
abstract: Video processing is increasingly becoming a standard procedure in zebrafish behavior investigations as it enables higher research throughput and new or better measures. This trend, fostered by the ever increasing performance-to-price ratio of the required recording and processing equipment, should be expected to continue in the foreseeable future, with video-processing based methods permeating more and more experiments and, as a result, expanding the very role of behavioral studies in zebrafish research. To assess whether the routine video tracking of zebrafish larvae directly in the Petri dish is a capability that can be expected in the near future, the key processing concepts are discussed and illustrated on published zebrafish studies when available or other animals when not.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Sleep Sciences, Beckman Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA. pierre@martineau.com
authors.forename: Pierre R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Martineau
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mourrain
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007814:Larva / Q000502:physiology*; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio; D059008:Time-Lapse Imaging; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Articulated and skeleton models; Frame-to-frame association; Motion; Processing; Representations; Sampling; Tracking; Zebrafish