Monthly Archives: May 2018

Indiana University researchers used OpenPTrack’s new object tracking and pose recognition this past spring to help first and second graders learn about the complex system of honeybee foraging. Dr. Joshua Danish from the Learning Sciences program led the research team, as part of the NSF-funded Promoting Learning through Annotation of Embodiment (PLAE) project, which engages students in embodied sociodramatic play. […]

As part of the V2 Gnocchi update, OpenPTrack now uses the open source software YOLO V2 for object tracking alongside person tracking and its new pose recognition capabilities. YOLO can track many everyday objects off-the-shelf, and can also be trained to track newly introduced objects. It is already being used by UCLA and Indiana University STEP research teams, who […]