Speaker: Carmine Sansone (PRIP)
The goal of my master’s thesis project is to develop a method for the tracking and the extraction of spatio-temporal data of marine worms to quantify gender-specific behaviors. One of the main issues is the complex interaction between the worms leading to collisions, occlusions, and interruptions of their continuous trajectories. To maintain the individual identities under these challenging interactions a combined tracking and re-identification approach is proposed. The re-identification is based on a set of features, which take into account position, shape and appearance of the worms. These features include the normalized shape of a worm, which is computed using a novel approach based on its distance transform and skeleton.