SwisTrack/Components

The following table lists all components integrated into SwisTrack, along with their properties. Click on a component name to obtain the detailed component documentation. The channel columns indicate whether the component reads (R), writes (W) or modifies (E) a channel.

Trigger

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Timer Trigger	T
Trigger Counter	T

Input

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
USB Camera		W
GigE Camera	T	W
Proselica GigE Camera		W
1394 Camera (FireWire)		W
Input from AVI File		W
Input Static Image from a File		W

Input Conversion

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Conversion to Grayscale		R		W
Conversion to Color (BGR)		R	W
Conversion from Bayer pattern to BGR			W	R

Preprocessing (color)

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Channel Arithmetic			R	W
Background Subtraction (color)			E
Background Subtraction in the Hue Band (color)			R	W
Adaptive Background Subtraction (color)			E
Adaptive Background Subtraction (color, median)			E
Adaptive Background Subtraction Based on Cheung and Kamath (2005)			E
Specific Color Subtraction			E
Mask (color)			E
Blur			E
Color Swapper			E

Preprocessing (grayscale)

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Background Subtraction (grayscale)				E
Adaptive Background Subtraction (grayscale)				E
Mask (grayscale)				E

Thresholding (color)

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Threshold (color)			R		W
Threshold with Independent Threshold Values (color)			R		W
Double Threshold (color)			R		W
Adaptive Threshold			R		W

Thresholding (gray)

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Threshold (grayscale)				R	W

Preprocessing (binary)

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Image Dilation					E
Image Erosion					E
Mask (binary)					E
Blob Selection					E
Move Binary to Color		W			R

Particle Detection

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Blob detection					R	W
ID Reader (Ring)				R		E
Two-Colored Marker Detection		W				W
Red-Green Marker Detection		W				W
Particle Simulation		W				W
Motion Template Particle Detector			R		R	W
Filter Particles						E

Calibration

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Calibration with a linear model						E
Calibration with TSAI						E
Calibration with TSAI (file)						E

Tracking

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Nearest neighbor tracking (SwisTrack 3)						R	W
Nearest neighbor tracking						E	W
Dynamic Nearest Neighbor Tracking						E	W
Cam Shift Tracking			R			W	W
Track Smoothing							E
Kalman Filter							E

Output

Component name	Trigger?	Processing channels (data structures)
		Input	Color image	Grayscale image	Binary image	Particles	Tracks
Output Particles to a Text File							R
Output to AVI File			R	R	R
Output to Image Sequence			R	R	R
Output Image Statistics (binary)					R
Output Image Statistics (color)			R
Output Image Statistics (grayscale)				R
Manually Mark Frames
Output Particles		R				R
Output Particles to an SQLite database						R	R

Remark

Note that this table can be automatically created by SwisTrack. If you find errors please contact the SwisTrack maintainers.