Classroom pose estimation#
Tools ▸ Pose tracking (from scratch)… (or Label keypoints… in the Pose sidebar) opens a dialog where you label a few frames by clicking the video and let a point tracker fill in the rest. No training, no annotated dataset and no GPU: it runs on the laptops students already have. Film a short clip of an animal on your phone, drop it into Ethograph, and you get from a handful of clicks to a pose trace within an hour.
Once the frames are filled, load the result into the GUI and velocity, speed and acceleration sit on the same time axis as the video and the sound, so you can check the trace against what the animal actually did. Sound production in philodoptera does exactly this with cricket leg kinematics and the chirp they produce.