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Advances in Morphometrics pp 91–101Cite as

An Image-Capture and Data-Collection System for Morphometric Analysis

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We describe a video data-acquisition system called Budapest Video and its software component IMAGOES, designed to collect two-dimensional landmark and outline data. Various calibration tests on linear scales and biological specimens show that the accuracy of the system may exceed the resolution of landmarks on biological specimens. The software was designed to help the user collect landmark data by developing training sets of landmarks. The results of fitting elliptical Fourier analysis to outlines may be visually inspected by plotting the captured and reconstructed outlines simultaneously.

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  1. Secretariat of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Nador u. 7, Budapest, H-1051, Hungary

    András Demeter

  2. Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Pf. 51, H-4001, Hungary

    András Demeter, Laszló Peregovits & György Topál

  3. Zoological Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13, Budapest, H-1088, Hungary

    János Vámosi

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  1. Department of Biology, Mail: Dept. Invertebrates, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York, USA

    Leslie F. Marcus

  2. American Museum of Natural History, CPW at 79th Street, 10024, New York, New York, USA

    Leslie F. Marcus

  3. Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, via Borelli 50, 00161, Rome, Italy

    Marco Corti

  4. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Anna Loy

  5. Department of Biology, Osborn Memorial Laboratory, Yale University, P.O. Box 208104, 06520-8104, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Gavin J. P. Naylor

  6. Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, 11794, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    Dennis E. Slice

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Demeter, A., Vámosi, J., Peregovits, L., Topál, G. (1996). An Image-Capture and Data-Collection System for Morphometric Analysis. In: Marcus, L.F., Corti, M., Loy, A., Naylor, G.J.P., Slice, D.E. (eds) Advances in Morphometrics. NATO ASI Series, vol 284. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9083-2_8

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