Editing Projects:Improve starling tracking data (section)

== Overview == 

This problem comes about due to the starling data set. In this experiment we have between 10 and 20 starlings ranging freely in the tracking space with very small tracking backpacks on each with their own ID. While the VICON tracking system is excellent, working with wild animals always brings about new problems. Ours stem from a combination of the tag size limitations (we are pushing the minimum tag size with these birds) and the behaivour of the birds themselves (preening and other behaivours can temporarily cover parts of the tag obscuring its ID from the cameras and causing the tracking to fail until the entire tag is visible again). We already have more than 24 hours of tracking data (6DOF pose of 3D objects) from the VICON system and need a way to process the data in order to remove incorrect data and fill in missing data.

Remark: this can probably be viewed as a special instance of the project [[Projects:Improve_tracking_of_individual_markers_and_marker_patterns|to improve tracking of individual markers and marker patterns]].