Connectionists: Animal tracking in Deeplabcut Workshop, Heidelberg, November 20-21st

[Mateusz Kostecki]

Hello!

It is our pleasure to announce our next Heidelberg Open Lab workshop
- Animal tracking in Deeplabcut!

This practical workshop will guide you step by step through the process of
pose estimation with *DeepLabCut *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.

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.

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.

*What will you learn?*

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

   - Confidently navigate the *DeepLabCut *workflow (via GUI and code)
   - Annotate data properly, select the right model backbone, train your
   model, and evaluate its performance
   - Analyze your videos and tune tracking in multi-animal projects
   - Preprocess and structure your data for advanced behavioral analysis

We encourage participants to bring video recordings from their own
experiments—these can be used during practical sessions to kickstart your
own analysis projects.

*Requirements: *Basic Python knowledge, laptop.

*Instructors:*

   - Konrad Danelewski, Nencki Institute

The workshop will take place on Nov 20-21st, 9:45 AM -5 PM at COS,
Heidelberg. Institute. Please find the application form here -
https://openlabhd.org/2025/10/21/animal-tracking-in-deeplabcut-nov-20-21th/
*.* The workshop is free of charge and is *held in a stationary form only*!

With best wishes,

Mateusz Kostecki
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