A human-computer collaborative workflow for the acquisition and analysis of terrestrial insect movement in behavioral field studies

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing

Table 1 OpenCV functions used in the image processing pipeline

Pipeline stage	Function name
Background elimination	cvCreateGaussianBGModel
Background elimination	Parameters: win_size = 40; n_gauss = 5; bg_threshold = 0.1; std_threshold = 3.5; minArea = 15; weight_init = 0.05; variance_init = 10
Noise filtering	cvSmooth and blurGaussian
Binary thresholding	cvThreshold
Shadow elimination (erosion and dilation)	cvErode and cvDilate
Blob detection	findContours