Human

Recognizing human action is essential to human behavior analysis. Using careful human behavior observation one can derive significant information on the interaction between environment and behavior or genetics and behavior. To enable observations and recordings of human activity, video streams can be utilized to record and analyze observations of human activity in a wide array of applications and environment settings. The use of video recordings to record, score and analyse human behaviour has proven valuable to research areas such as social interaction and individual behavioral and cognitive assessment.

Automating the tracking of the human body, and using this information to score or classify actions, remains a complex problem due to a variety of factors which include self-occlusion and presence of clothing. However, human activity can be manually classified by direct observation of both implicit and explicit behaviors of people in video recordings. In general, the human observer carefully reviews frames in a video to detect/ score events of interest.

ActualScore™ is an easy-to-use, affordable web-based tool for researchers to manually score and code any user defined behavior from video. The user simply defines a behavior in any environment setting and using simple key presses, the behavior occurrence is recorded. ActualScore™ event log feature enables replay and review of observational data to ensure accurate classification and scoring of behavior. ActualScore™ allows you to generate high quality behavior data from video quickly and easily with detailed results which can be imported in to most statistical analysis packages for further investigation and graphical representation.

What you need to score Human behaviour using ActualScore™ :

- Digital Camera: from standard digital video camera to professional digital High Definition cameras, ActualScore™ can work with almost any common video format. See our recommended camera list for the most appropriate camera for your set-up.

- ActualCapture Software (optional) - enables easy direct recording of your experiment to a digital video file. This is recommended when you do not already have a camera and recording software. If you would like us to arrange and supply recording set-up, please contact us.

- Lighting: diffuse lighting from directly above, or infrared (IR) lighting for recording during the dark.

- Human(s) in a test observation environment

- A computer with a web browser and web access (see requirements for details).

- ActualScore™ Software

Our scoring and video capture software can be easily optimised to a broad range of hardware and experimental set-ups to ensure the best possible conditions for your video analysis. If required, please contact us for recommendations and a list of preferred suppliers of hardware.

For more information, see the product information, or get in touch to find out more about how ActualScore™ could help you achieve the results you need.