The BioVision project is an open-source, cross-platform desktop application written in C++. The fundamental purpose of this project is to quantify the extent of variation within and among critical features of dynamic external representations. BioVision uses OpenFrameworks and Open Computer Vision (OpenCV) to facilitate the detection and tracking of discrete objects across frames in the input materials. The purpose of such tracking is to harvest data features over the temporal changes in presented objects. These data features currently include relative size, position, and color of the objects. Experimentally, computer vision can also be used to detect object boundaries automatically, so that the user needs only to provide minimal corrective input. In this poster, we will present the initial development of the BioVision project and the potential utility of this application for the coding of dynamic external representations.

BioVision: Object tracking in dynamic external representations

255th National Meeting (2018)

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