How to detect a moving animal and record its features?

HI all readers ill start by: im a BIOLOGIST working with matlab for the past year or so. i got a top-down video of a cuttlefish swimming in a tank over a checkerboard substrate. now i would like to track its movement and sample the color of the animal (10X10 pixles in the center of the animal) each frame. since this animals swim over a patterned bottom + the water surface is not completly calm, some of the file-exchange codes i tried didnt provide. what would you recommand?

ps i am using a matlab 2012b software

thank you all in advance

Noam

Answer 1

[Andreas Goser]

From the tool perspective this sounds like a typical application for Simulink with the Computer Vision System Toolbox.

To my best knowledge, the universities in Israel are well equipped with toolboxes.

[Noam Josef]

Hello andreas and thank for your answer yes, i am equipped with this toolbox. but i need a code for following the object and extract information on its movement and color (speed, trajectory, distance from a selected point in the scene etc.). what in this toolbox might assist?

cheers

Noam

[Image Analyst]

That toolbox has demos/examples for tracking cars and pedestrians. Are you saying that you've taken those and tried to adapt them to cuttlefish and were unable to adapt them?

[Andreas Goser]

I would also say the demos are an excellent starting point.