<div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>It is our pleasure to announce our next Heidelberg Open Lab workshop - Animal tracking in Deeplabcut!</div><div><br></div><div>This practical workshop will guide you step by step through the process of pose estimation with <strong>DeepLabCut </strong>and an introduction to its output data structure and analysis of kinematics. Many researchers use pose estimation tools but struggle to get consistent, high-quality results or move beyond tracking into real behavioural insights. This workshop is designed to close that gap.</div><div>
<p>The workshop is intended for young researchers, including Master’s and PhD students, as well as postdocs and established scientists who want to sharpen their practical understanding of state-of-the-art behavioral analysis tools.</p>
<p>Prior experience with experimental data and a basic understanding of Python are required to benefit from the workshop, especially the data analysis part of it.</p>
<p><strong>What will you learn?</strong></p>
<p>By the end of this course, you will be able to:</p>
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<li>Confidently navigate the <strong>DeepLabCut </strong>workflow (via GUI and code)</li>
<li>Annotate data properly, select the right model backbone, train your model, and evaluate its performance</li>
<li>Analyze your videos and tune tracking in multi-animal projects</li>
<li>Preprocess and structure your data for advanced behavioral analysis</li>
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<p>We encourage participants to bring video recordings from their own experiments—these can be used during practical sessions to kickstart your own analysis projects.</p>
<p><strong>Requirements: </strong>Basic Python knowledge, laptop.</p>
<p><strong>Instructors:</strong></p>
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<li>Konrad Danelewski, Nencki Institute</li>
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<p>The workshop will take place on Nov 20-21st, 9:45 AM -5 PM at COS, Heidelberg. Institute. Please find the application form here - <strong> </strong><a href="https://openlabhd.org/2025/10/21/animal-tracking-in-deeplabcut-nov-20-21th/">https://openlabhd.org/2025/10/21/animal-tracking-in-deeplabcut-nov-20-21th/</a><strong>.</strong> The workshop is free of charge and is <strong>held in a stationary form only</strong>!</p></div><div><br>With best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Mateusz Kostecki</div></div>