biotracking/biotrack

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Update wiki/tutorial for most recent UI changes to ManyTrack

The wiki at wiki.bio-tracking.org is out of date, and the UI changes make the old tutorial misleading (specifically, selecting a folder of model PNG files instead of a single file).

It may be useful at this point to move the wiki over here to github, and not have to worry about administration for the separate wiki.

Planned Mac OS X binary roll-back and obsolescence

There appears to be a deep bug in the latest Mac build of ManyTrack that might have something to do with the library mac versions or their interactions. I'm planning on dropping the supported mac release back to the previous binary.

At this point, trying to maintain the two builds is preventing progress on the stable codebase, so unless someone wants to adopt responsibility for ensuring the Mac version remains in sync with the main release, it's going to remain experimental and unsupported.

I think moving forward the best way to support Mac users is to build up our documentation and testing around virtualization options. I've been testing on VirtualBox, and with the right settings the performance hit, while not negligible, isn't so bad that it's a non-starter.

If anybody does want to take over maintenance of the Mac binary, here's basically what it would entail:

• Keeping version parity with the required libraries used in the linux release
• Building the software with redistributable libraries
• Testing that the binary works on multiple recent versions of OS X
• Testing that each of the tools works on a known good video

I'm leaving this issue up, marked as #wontfix, as a kind of notice to any active users/developers interested in our Mac release. Please chime in if you're interested, or with suggestions if you're a Mac user.

Running binaries in newer versions of Ubuntu

I know that this project hasn't been actively maintained in a while, but it looks like it is doing exactly what I need. However, when I download the binaries in Ubuntu 16.04 (and 14.04), and try to run the binaries, I get the following error:

Illegal instruction (core dumped)

I also tried the 32 bit versions, just to see, and I get a similar error:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I also tried to install from source, so I have installed all of the listed dependencies. However, I am not seeing any make file with the code, so I am not sure what (if any) details I need for compiling. I am running it in VirtualBox right now (using the image you provide), but that is painfully slow.

So, I guess the question is: any way of getting this to run natively in 16.04? If not, have you released a different system that does this that I am just not finding?

Thanks

Model image not loading

Hey, I have installed the latest official release for a mac and am working through the tutorial youtube videos. Everything seems to be working, only when I got to Manytrack, when I try and upload the model image it won't let me upload any png or other image file. It will only let me choose the folder containing the file, but then when I try and track, nothing happens. I am guessing that it's not uploaded the model properly rather than it's not tracking properly... Any help really gratefully received, this program is exactly what I need for my data analysis...
Screenshot of greyed-out png attached.
thank you!

OpenCV error during tracking

I've recently received following error during ManyTrack tracking:

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::: time parallel remove 0.00151422
::: time parallel remove 0.000756198
::: time parallel remove 0.000886443
::: time parallel remove 0.00119901
::: ICPTracker processFrame() 1.81022
::: updateVideoImage() 0.00351012
::: updateVisualization () 0.0062632
::: Get updateFrame() 1.20783
OpenCV Error: Sizes of input arguments do not match (The operation is neither 'array > op array' (where arrays have the same size and the same number of channels), nor 'array op scalar', nor 'scalar op array') in arithm_op, file /home/biotracking/Downloads/OpenCV-2.4.3/modules/core/src/arithm.cpp, line 1273
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cv::Exception'
what(): /home/biotracking/Downloads/OpenCV-2.4.3/modules/core/src/arithm.cpp:1273: error: (-209) The operation is neither 'array op > array' (where arrays have the same size and the same number of channels), nor 'array > op scalar', nor 'scalar op array' in function arithm_op

Aborted

Error is repeatable and independent from used parameters (at least for a few checked sets).

Is there an image with the latest version available?

I have been poking around the software for a few weeks but it seems that some major improvements have been made since the pre-installed version 1.1 image. I've been trying to install the latest version for two days now, but I don't seem to be able to make any sense of how it's done since I have literally no experience with Ubuntu. I was wondering if a an image with the latest version pre-installed is lying around somewhere and I'm missing it?