Table 1

Motmot components

High-level GUI Application

motmot.fview

Application with plugin architecture to enable writing new realtime analyses by creating one's own process_frame() function.

Core camera infrastructure

libcamiface

Camera interface C API

motmot.cam_iface

Python wrapper of libcamiface

CamTrig

Firmware for the a USB device for precise temporal synchronization and analog input

Core display infrastructure

motmot.wxglvideo

wxPython OpenGL interface for video

pygarrayimage

Transfer Python objects supporting the array interface to OpenGL textures

motmot.wxvideo

wxPython interface for video

motmot.imops

Python extension module to manipulate image codings

Analysis infrastructure

motmot.FastImage

Pyrex based wrapper of Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) or AMD Framewave Library

motmot.FlyMovieFormat

Code for manipulating .fmf movies. Includes Python (read/write) and MATLAB^® (read-only) bindings.

motmot.realtime_image_analysis

Implements background subtraction and 2D feature extraction using FastImage

FView plugins

motmot.fview_ext_trig

software for the CamTrig USB Device

motmot.flytrax

FView plugin for tracking 2D points in realtime and saving data and small images. (Used in [6-8].)

motmot.fview_PLUGIN_TEMPLATE

blank fview plugin to use as template for new plugins

motmot.fview_c_callback

example fview plugin that calls pure C code

motmot.fview_live_histogram

example fview plugin that calls pure Python code

motmot.trackem

multiple point realtime tracker (used in [12])

Motmot consists of several modular components. Brief descriptions are given here, and the relationships between the components are shown in Figure 1.

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