Mr. Pushkar Paranjpe

Mr. Pushkar Paranjpe
Post Doctoral Fellow
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Tracking the locomotion of a fruit fly
200 Frames/s video acquired using an AVT Pike camera. Uniformly white background illumination is achieved
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Locomotion of freely walking Drosophila adults is captured with a 200 frames/s camera. A technique is being developed that allows computer-assisted, rapid tracking of the walking fly and auto-identify its legs. Spatial and temporal parameters of leg placement and coordination can be measured easily with our ability to auto-annotate swing/stance events for each leg. No a priori labelling of legs is necessary in this technique.