Xcitex Professional Development Training Courses
ProAnalyst® Fundamental Skills
ProAnalyst Fundamental skills is a two-day course that provides comprehensive
training to the beginning or occasional user, guided by Xcitex's own
motion analysis experts. Live demonstrations and hands-on exercises will
expose students to realistic problem-solving techniques from a cross-section
of application areas.
The course material focuses on the fundamental features of ProAnalyst
and techniques for automatically tracking movement. Prior working knowledge
of ProAnalyst is beneficial, but not required.
Topics include:
- The fundamental steps of motion analysis
- The ProAnalyst interface and working environment
- Auto-tracking and picking the best template
- Graphing results and filtering graphical data
- The various types of motion analysis and feature tracking available
in ProAnalyst
Course participants will be awarded a certificate of completion and
be provided with classroom notes. Attendees should try to bring their
own laptop computers and example files. Xcitex engineers will be on-hand
throughout the course to discuss specific applications and requests from
participants.
Some time has been set aside at the end of each day to discuss applications.
Syllabus (PDF
version)
| The Fundamental
Steps of Motion Analysis |
Most analysis of movement requires
simple steps from the operator: scene calibration, image processing
and filtering, object tracking and data reduction. The participants
will be walked through a variety of motion analysis examples and
taught how to effectively implement each of the four steps for
the associated environment.
Topics include:
- Simple scalar calibration
- Applying image processing and filtering
- Determining which tracking tools are best
- Creating illustrative graphs within ProAnalyst
- Exporting data to other graphing programs
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| Introduction to the ProAnalyst Working
Environment |
The participants will be given an overview
of ProAnalyst’s
basic user interactivity paradigm, including navigation of the ProAnalyst
workspace, creating projects, timelines, workspace view, measurement
window,
and file
management. |
| Introduction to Image Processing
and Filtering |
In this section, participants will be
introduced, with very little mathematics, to the numerous image
processing filters and features available within ProAnalyst for
image manipulation, sharpening and color management. The instructors
will provide tips and insight into proper filter selection for
edge sharpening and background removal, for example, and how to
combine numerous filters to highlight features for better tracking.
Participants
will be taught how to compensate for lens distortion and how to
create time-lapse strobe effect images.
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| Scene Calibration
Techniques |
This section explains the powerful image calibration techniques
contained within ProAnalyst, including multi-plane calibration, perspective
(4-point) calibration and planar calibration. Also covered will be
an explanation of coordinate system management and removing camera
tilt. |
| Auto-Tracking of Objects using the 2-D Tools |
ProAnalyst's centerpiece functionality is automatic feature tracking.
Participants will learn how the essential steps to tracking multiple
features within a single video.
Topics include:
- Joining tracked features with lines to create stick-figures
- Adding distances and angles to the tracked
- Correcting spurious data points
- Tracking through an obscuration
- Tracking rotating objects
The various settings of the ProAnalyst 2D feature tracking
toolkit will
be demonstrated
with
real-world
examples. |
| Tracking Edges
Using the Line Tracking Toolkit |
This section will explore the nuances of
ProAnalyst's industry-unique 1-dimensional Line Tracking toolkit.
The 1-D Line Tracking is ideal
for extracting and analyzing the motion of objects without well-defined
features, such as a balloon or vibration dampers or some ballistics
and gels. Participants will learn to track using the derivative and
intensity values, compute circle fits, and use the 1D tracking alongside
the 2D feature tracking in the same video. |
| Data Reduction and Data Analysis |
This section provides a general overview
of the various methods employed by ProAnalyst to reduce motion
to
quantified graphs and
data. The goal of this section is to educate the user as to the
power of ProAnalyst for generating quick, comprehensive data.
Topics include:
- On-screen ProAnalyst graphing capabilities
- X-Y-Z tri-axial graphing to correlate complex motions from
different views
- Data filtering and post processing
- Exporting data to other mathematical programs such as MATLAB
for further analysis
- Exporting data to custom Excel templates.
- Creating Powerpoint presentations
- Creating web pages directly from ProAnalyst
- Collaborating with others.
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| The ProAnalyst Optional
Toolkits |
The participants will learn how to implement
the optional toolkits in ProAnalyst for tracing and quantifying contours
of blob objects, for counting and sorting particles and other objects
within a video and for stabilizing videos to remove unwanted motion
from hand jitter or vibration. Students will also be given a working
demonstration of ProAnalyst 3-D Professional Edition to understand
how to use the 3-D manager for bringing together images from two
video cameras. |
| Synchronizing video with external data |
In this section, participants will be instructed how to synchronize
video motion with data acquired from external sensors and DAQ devices.
ProAnalyst allows users to import data from most major data suppliers
and to align that data with videos for a unique fusion of data. Using
this feature, participants will learn how to superimpose movement
analysis with sensor data.
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Course Length: 2 days
Dates: June 21-22, 2010
Location: Cambridge, MA
Cost: $1500 per participant
Class Size: limited to 20 (first to register)
Please e-mail info@xcitex.com or
call 617-225-0080 to register for this course. Registration deadline
is June 1, 2010. Deadline for discount hotel reservations is May 15,
2010.
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