Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 01, 2022 - June 04, 2022
Research using animals plays an important role in basic research as well as in applied research such as the development of new drugs. In particular, the mouse is one of the most important experimental animals for medical research because of its small size and ease of breeding. However, they are often observed and evaluated by human eyes. This has some problems such as the subjective evaluation of the observer and human error. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to have an objective and automatic analysis system. In recent years, several analysis systems have been developed. However, there are some problems in these systems, such as they can only classify behaviors roughly, and they require markers to be attached to mice. In this study, we developed a system that can perform detailed behavioral analysis of mice without adding markers using six RGB-D cameras.
