is the open-source quantitative analysis toolkit for animal experiments. It provides the easy video preprocessing by the visual programming and estimates positions and/or orientations of each animals. In addition, it can also analyze the output-data; the distance from the designated position, the region-of-interests and the interactions between each animal.

Important Notice

• The new version was released. And, finally, the paper is out now!.

  O. Yamanaka, R. Takeuchi, UMATracker: an intuitive image-based tracking platform, Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018.

• We don't like e-mail, so please join our Slack if you want some good supports.

• We don't know whether UMATracker is actually used for scientific reasoning, and this prevents us from aggressive developing and supporting.
  Please send your use-case to us from this form (The requests is also okay).

• We have not much time to promote UMATracker, so please share your use-cases or lecture notes online. It is also good way that you simply send them to us and we will publish on our web-site.

• UMATracker is "UMATracker", not "UMA Tracker" or "UmaTracker".
  NO space, "UMA" and "T" is upper case. ;-)

What's New

• Started Slack as the UMATracker forum.

• Created the English manual.

Tutorial Videos

Videos

Presentations

Publications

UMATracker has been used in, or cited by following publications:

• N. Mizumoto, G. H. Gile, S. C. Pratt, Behavioral Rules for Soil Excavation by Colony Founders and Workers in Termites, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2020.

• N. Kanazawa, M. Goto, Y. Harada, C. Takimoto, Y. Sasaki, T. Uchikawa, Y. Kamei, M. Matsuo, S. Fukamachi, Changes in a Cone Opsin Repertoire Affect Color-Dependent Social Behavior in Medaka but Not Behavioral Photosensitivity, Frontiers in Genetics, 2020.

• N. Mizumoto, A. Rizo, S.C. Pratt, T. Chouvenc, Termite males enhance mating encounters by changing speed according to density, Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020.

• G. Valentini, N. Mizumoto, S. C. Pratt, T. P. Pavlic, S. I. Walker, Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviors, eLife, 2020.

• C. K. Go, M. Ringhofer, B. Lao, T. Kubo, S. Yamamoto, K. Ikeda, A mathematical model of herding in horse-harem group, Journal of Ethology, 2020.

• T. Shinohara, Y. Takami, Functional diversity and trade‐offs in divergent antipredator morphologies in herbivorous insects, Ecology and Evolution, 2020.

• Y. Sugimoto, S. Sugiyama, K. Naniwa, K. Osuka, Analysis of the unique gait mechanism of locusts focusing on the difference in leg length, Advanced Robotics, 2020.

• S. Yokoi, K. Naruse, Y. Kamei, S. Ansai, M. Kinoshita, M. Mito, S. Iwasaki, S. Inoue, T. Okuyama, S. Nakagawa, L. J. Young, H. Takeuchi, Sexually dimorphic role of oxytocin in medaka mate choice, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020.

• N. Mizumoto, P. M. Bardunias, S. C. Pratt, Parameter tuning facilitates the evolution of diverse tunneling patterns in termites, BioRxiv (Preprint), 2019.

• I. Hikosaka, I. Aihara, Y. Eisaki, T. Kawabe, Proposal of Speed Control Method for Automobile Based on Video Analysis of Landing Motion of Seagulls, Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 2019.

• M. F. López-Gutiérrez, J. J. Ortíz, F. J. Camacho, L. J. Young, S. Alcauter, Social bonding induces changes in brain functional connectivity in male and female monogamous voles: a longitudinal fMRI study, BioRxiv (Preprint), 2019.

• A. Ramos, D. Gonçalves, Artificial selection for male winners in the Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens correlates with high female aggression, Frontiers in Zoology, 2019.

• K. Hase, N. Kutsukake, Developmental effects on social preferences in frog tadpoles, Rana ornativentris, Animal Behaviour, 2019.

• N. Mizumoto, S. Dobata, Adaptive switch to sexually dimorphic movements by partner-seeking termites, Science advances, 2019.

• T. Nakayama, T. Shimmura, A. Shinomiya, K. Okimura, Y. Takehana, Y. Furukawa, Takayuki Shimo, Takumi Senga, M. Nakatsukasa, T. Nishimura, M. Tanaka, K. Okubo, Y. Kamei, K. Naruse, M. Tanaka, Seasonal regulation of the lncRNA LDAIR modulates self-protective behaviours during the breeding season, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019.

• S. Kasugai, H. Shibata, K. Mizuno, T. Nakashima, T. Shizu, M. Abe, T. Saga, How does the cockroach which escaped from an enemy behave?, 66th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ66), 2019.

• Y. Eisaki, I. Aihara, I. Hikosaka, T. Kawabe, Landing Dynamics of a Seagull Examined by Field Observation and Mathematical Modeling, arXiv preprint, 2019.

• Y. Harada, M. Matsuo, Y. Kamei, M. Goto, S. Fukamachi, Evolutionary history of the medaka long-wavelength sensitive genes and effects of artificial regression by gene loss on behavioural photosensitivity, Scientific reports, 2019.

• V. H. Sridhar, D. G. Roche, S. Gingins, Tracktor: image‐based automated tracking of animal movement and behaviour, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2019.

• L. Ivorra, P. G. Cardoso, S. K. Chan, K. Tagulao, C. Cruzeiro, Environmental characterization of 4, 4′-dichlorobenzophenone in surface waters from Macao and Hong Kong coastal areas (Pearl River Delta) and its toxicity on two biological models: Artemia salina and Daphnia magna, Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 2019.

• S. Sugiyama, Y. Sugimoto, K. Osuka, Gait analysis and simulation of the locusts focusing on difference in leg length, The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec), 2018.

• M. Matsuo, Y. Ando, Y. Kamei, S. Fukamachi, A semi-automatic and quantitative method to evaluate behavioral photosensitivity in animals based on the optomotor response (OMR), Biology Open, 2018.

• H. Shimoji, N. Mizumoto, K. Oguchi, S. Dobata, Caste-biased movements by termites in isolation, BioRxiv (Preprint), 2017.

• M. S. Abe, H. Fujioka, Quantification and Analysis on Animal Social Behavior, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (Vol. 35 Issue 6 Pages 455-458), 2017.

• Y. Shirai, S. Mizutani, Y. Kishino, M. Matsuoka, T. Kitagawa, F. Naya, RACRA: Rapid Video Annotation Tool for Fixed-Point Camera Images, Proc. of IPSJ Interaction 2017, 2017.

• M. G. N. Crozara, Um sistema de código aberto para registro e análise de dados comportamentais categóricos, morfológicos e cinemáticos em animais de laboratório, Master thesis (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), 2017.

• T. Fukunaga, Bioinformatics for Understanding Animal Behavior, Doctoral thesis (The University of Tokyo), 2016.

• S. Yokoi, S. Ansai, M. Kinoshita, K. Naruse, Y. Kamei, L. J. Young, T. Okuyama and H. Takeuchi, Mate-guarding behavior enhances male reproductive success via familiarization with mating partners in medaka fish, Frontiers in Zoology, 2016.

• M. Ohkita, Y. Takahashi and K. Sawa, Do conformity in rock-paper-scissors reduce interpersonal space?, Special Interest Group on Communication Enhancement (HI-SIGCE), 2016.

• Y. Takahashi, M. Ohkita, K. Sawa, Conformity in rock-paper-scissors tends to reduce interpersonal space, The 31st International Congress of Psychology, 2016.

Lectures/Workshops/Courses

UMATracker has been used in the following lectures/workshops/courses:

• Genetics and Imaging of Medaka and Zebrafish, The 9th NIBB International Practical Course and The 4th NIBB-TLL Joint International Practical Course, 2016.

  Instructor: Dr. Saori YOKOI

• Laboratory Course B, Department of Biology, Okayama University, 2016.

  Instructor: Prof. Hideaki TAKEUCHI

Awards

• Open Science Award by DBCLS , nominated.

Terms of Use

• The non-profit research or educational use

You can use UMATracker freely. If you publish the paper which made use of UMATracker, please refer "UMATracker" in your paper and tell us. If you use UMATracker in your lecture, please let us know.

• The use in a commercial enterprise

Please contact us. We will provide the additional information about the commercial license and support.

Acknowledgement

This project has been supported by The Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (The MITOH Program), IPA ( The project summary in Japanese ).

Contact Info.

Please attach the sample video when you request some support.

• Rito Takeuchi

• Osamu Yamanaka

Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences , Hiroshima University

• E-mail: zz.to13+UMA _at_ gmail.com