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The DANNCE of the rats: a new toolkit for 3D tracking of animal behavior

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A new approach tracks animal movements in 3D from multiple camera views using volumetric triangulation, reconciling occlusions and ambiguities present in any one camera view.

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Fig. 1: DANNCE estimates animal poses in 3D using all available camera views with volumetric triangulation.

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  1. Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Pierre Karashchuk

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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  3. Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Karashchuk, P., Tuthill, J.C. & Brunton, B.W. The DANNCE of the rats: a new toolkit for 3D tracking of animal behavior. Nat Methods 18, 460–462 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01110-w

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