A behavior-based evaluation of product quality

In the pharmaceutical industry, quality is often measured by the impact of a product on a population. Knowledge about the behaviour of mosquitos responding to a repellent is a case in point in helping to improve the effect of insect repellent. It is ideally carried out using 3D videos which require a stereoscopic apparatus. To do so using 2D video and effectively evaluate the repellent is an difficult problem as is known in the biotechnology research field. In this paper, we propose a general framework for the swarm motion analysis of multiple mosquitos based on 2D videos. The effectiveness and robustness of our algorithm are verified by multiple 2D videos capturing mosquitos behavior in different experimental conditions.

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