Week 10 Report

This week, Dr. Stonedahl and I focused on labeling the chicks and storing their movement coordinates. We labeled each chick with a unique string of numbers and letters, and a color. Each time the chicks merge together, the string will change to a new one and store that information. Finally, we draw a graph to visualize the chain of movement of the chicks over time.

The graph below illustrates the movements of the chicks throughout the whole video. We can see that the chicks pretty much move all over the places, with the concentration of the lower left and lower right corners.
Full-length Movement Graph


The graph below illustrates the movements of the 3 initial chicks (from frame 4100 to frame 20000). In this graph, the 3 chicks often gather around in the middle and the upper right corner of the box.

3-chicks Movement Graph

The graph below illustrates the movements of the 6 chicks at the end of the video (from frame 39400 to the end frame 48958). Unlike the case of 3 chicks, this time the 6 chicks move primarily towards the lower left corner and the lower right corner. They hardly ever move to the middle or upper right corner.
6-chicks Movement Graph

We hope that we can gather more information based these videos and try to predict a trending movement of the chicks when being alone, being with a small group and being in a big group.


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