Editing Imaging Barn

== Introduction == 

====What is the Imaging Barn?====

The Imaging Barn is a collaborative project between the Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior near Radolfzell. Housed within a traditional 18th-century barn at the MPI AB campus, it is a core facility for studying the dynamics of highly naturalistic interactions, such as when animals or people meet, eat, or make decisions together.

====What are the facilities?====

The Imaging Barn is a 15 m x 7 m x 6 m free-flight aviary equipped with state-of-the-art tracking and projection technology, including:

* 30 infrared motion-capture cameras from VICON (used in film and game productions)
* RGB cameras to develop computer vision
* active and passive acoustic position tracking
* a potential platform for Virtual Reality

====What research does it support?====

The Imaging Barn allows for highly controlled experiments on a diverse range of species, from insects, bats, bird flocks, and human groups. Due to its large volume, it supports research into the collective behaviour of freely moving groups of individuals and accurate tracking and body posture reconstruction. The Imaging Barn is currently instrumented for real-time 3D sound localization.

== Contacts ==

==== Organizational and technical Manager ====
* [[Mathias Günther]]

==== Data Analysis ====
* [[Hemal Naik]]

==== Authorities ====
* [[MPI AB]]
* [[Animal welfare]]
* [[MPI IT Support]]

== Projects ==
* [[Imaging Barn Projects]]
* [[Scheduled Projects]]
* [[Available Bsc./ Msc./ HiWi Projects]]
* [[Project Ideas]]

== Knowledge Base ==
* [[Vicon MoCap]]
* [[Acoustic Tracking]]
* [[Software Framework]]
* [[Projects:Software framework for multi-sensory environments|Data Processing Framework]]

== FAQ ==