EthoLoop Behaviour Conditioning 

The close-up images are labeled on-the-fly using a customly programmed real-time version of DeepLabCut software. Once the body parts were labeled in an image, the frame number, the coordinates of the body parts and their likelihood were transmitted over the network to the host machine. The spatial relationship of individual real-time labeled body parts were used to define a given posture. Once the posture matches the target model, the EthoLoop system activates the RECO-Box. It is recommended to have DeepLabCut software running on a separate machine.

In the setup section we provide required steps using DeepLabCut software, however, you can use any other methods to detect body parts, as long as they are transmitted to the Host machine.