Adaptive tracking

Thanks to it's unique adaptive tracking technology, ANY-maze doesn't need to learn how to track animals in your apparatus, nor does it require any special values to be set - you just put the animals in the apparatus and it tracks!
 
 

Reliable tracking

• Adapts to lighting changes during a test.
• Unaffected by modest changes in the appearance of the apparatus during a test - for example, holes dug by the animal.
• Tolerant of all but the most severe reflections.
• Tracks in low contrast conditions - even if light levels are uneven through the apparatus.
• Tracks through dives in the water-maze.

In this water-maze experiment ANY-maze continues to track the animal while it dives, despite the fact that it now appears to be an entirely different colour and is almost indistinguishable from the background.
 

The low contrast between mouse and the saw-dust in this Y-maze doesn't pose a problem to ANY-maze which reliably tracks the entire area of the animal.
 
 

Precise detection of zone entries

ANY-maze tracks not just the animal's centre point but the entire area of the animal. This means it can be intelligent about detecting zone entries. For example, in a plus maze it can use a rule such as "An arm entry occurs when 85% of the animal is in the arm" - which equate nicely to the traditional "4-paws in the arm" rule.

Furthermore, by tracking the entire animal ANY-maze eliminates the problem of spurious entries which can occur when an animal straddles a zone boundary.

In the first image the centre of the animal, indicated by the orange dot, has entered the open arm but ANY-maze doesn't count this as an entry because less than the required amount of the animal, 85% in this case, is in the zone - the blue shading indicates the area that the system considers to be the animal. In the second image ANY-maze does consider the animal to be in the zone which it indicates by shading the zone in green.
 

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