discussion / Software Development  / 10 December 2024

Firetail 13 - now available

Thanks to our wonderful user community and a lot of feedback, shared sample data and fruitful discussions I am glad to announce that Firetail 13 is now available, featuring a range of improvements and new features to smoothly integrate your project data!

  • import and overlay video/media data
  • synchronize resources with acceleration and sensor data
  • validate model-based annotations
  • compare annotation sources, compute overlaps and more
  • new, streamlined workflows

Try it here https://www.firetail.de and stay tuned for upcoming video tutorials (make sure to subscribe & notify on yt) and for those that prefer reading content (like me), learn more from our manual pages.

Firetail is developed thanks to your feedback-- yes, indeed, yours! 

Therefore, if you have questions, ideas or miss a feature... let me know! Have fun experimenting.

Tobias

 




Tobias Petri
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Schäuffelhut Berger GmbH
data science & algorithmic developmentfor movement ecology
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To give you an idea of how the new video overlay works in practice, here's a preview to the upcoming https://www.e-obs.de newsletter, where we joint forces with OSA/Tropical Movement Lab to deepen our understanding of how to evaluate predictions of behavior for King Vultures. I'll keep you updated on this amazing project! More details on this cooperation can be found in last year's article.

Below, you see the new video sync module (lower half) with sample footage from a very cool on-animal drop-off camera system. You can see predicted behavior from acceleration sensors (FireSOM module) along with the video sequences for validation.

Firetail VideoSync module

 

Lars Holst Hansen
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Aarhus University
Biologist and Research Technician working with ecosystem monitoring and research at Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland
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Wow this is amazing! The video feature could also be extremely valuable for ground truthing if acc data using non-animal-borne video.

@tobiaspetri Thanks for sharing. I had couple of really difficult technical problems in downloading Firetail website taking a really long time to load (3+ mins for homepage load and 34.3MB download taking 46mins). I could provide you some network debug logs. This makes it difficult to access the website from global south.