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Video analysis

How can you analyse human motion using just regular video cameras? In this video, Alexander Refsum Jensenius explains research techniques.

It is possible to do quite advanced video analysis using just regular web cameras.

The tools you see in this video are generated using the Musical Gestures Toolbox. This toolbox is available for the programming environments Max, Matlab and Jupyter.

If you just want a very simple application to do the same, try out VideoAnalysis. In this application you can import av video file, press a button, and you get motion images, motiongrams, and more.

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