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Measurement of fish locomotion is an essential issue not only for biological studies but also valuable for robotics researchers. In this study, an automatic marker less method was proposed for recording fish locomotion by using digital camera. A fish observation system was presented to capture fish motion from top view. And the active shape model was utilized to construct the deformable fish model for tracking fish locomotion and acquiring the precise fish posture. Subsequently, the fish model was applied to tracking the movement of a single fish. The skeleton of fish body was further calculated from the deformable fish model. The two-dimensional posture of fish body was described by the 20 points on the skeleton. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed locomotion tracking method was efficient to measure the shape variation of the fish body.
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Xia, C., Li, Y., Lee, JM. (2014). A Visual Measurement of Fish Locomotion Based on Deformable Models. In: Zhang, X., Liu, H., Chen, Z., Wang, N. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8917. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13966-1_11
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