loopbioLoopy is used through your web browser - there is no software to install. New features are constantly added to Loopy and are immediately available to all customers (no yearly upgrades required). Cloud and On-site versions are available.
Loopy is suited for many types of video analysis tasks including: single or multiple tracking of animal positions in videos, behavioral coding and annotation, 3D reconstruction and calibration, and much more.
Loopy includes a number of state-of-the art techniques such as deep-learning based animal and pose detection in natural environments, tracking with identity, 3D tracking, and many more peer-reviewed and published algorithms.
Loopy includes a complete set of image processing, tracking and behavioral analysis tools in a single piece of software. Where others may charge you for multiple products and updates, with Loopy everything is in one place.
Please watch the video or read the description below where the major Loopy features are described. For examples of how to use Loopy's capabilities in youre research click on the 'See More Examples' in the respective sections below.
Loopy includes a number of general purpose algorithms for tracking the position of subjects in videos, including common laboratory model species, such as zebrafish, larvae, mice, and many more. Loopy includes barcode tracking functionality, and an easy to use tracking wizard, which helps to determine an optimal set of tracking parameters for your experiment.
For even more challenging tracking problems, Loopy is the only all-in-one software which lets you train and then immediately use, your own custom deep learning based tracking solution.
Conventional image processing requires tedious hand tuning of parameters and strong visual differences between the animal and the background, usually resulting in poor solutions.
Deep learning based models learn how to locate the animals when provided with a small fraction of the videos annotated, even working in data collected in the field. Loopy lets you train your own deep learning tracking solution for single and multiple animal and animal-pose tracking.
The real world is not two dimensional, and neither should your science be. Loopy includes tools for tracking and reconstructing the position of single or multiple animals or subject body parts - including using deep learning to detect and track previously manually impossible to track attributes.
Loopy includes a powerful and efficient interface for coding focal or non-focal subject behavior from videos. One can code the occurrence and duration of events for multiple individuals. The tool also includes support for coding social paradigms where the directed interaction between individuals can be recorded. Loopy also includes plotting and analysis tools for understanding coded behavior.
Loopy includes a web-based tool for annotating objects in videos. Collected annotation information, which can be bounding-box (rectangle) or object coordinates, can be used for training your own custom deep learning models, 3D tracking, or the raw data can downloaded for use in your own analyses.
Loopy comes with a number of general purpose image processing algorithms including slow-motion and timelapse, video generation, audio waveform and spectrogram visualisation, OCR, color and white-balance correction and much more. These operations can be used to pre-process videos before tracking, or as stand-alone tools.
Managing large sets of videos can be a challenging task. Videos can come from a variety of sources and it can be easy to mislabel or confuse similar data. Loopy includes powerful features for attaching structured metadata to videos and then using this metadata for organization and navigation throughout the site.
For example, you can define a project which requires entering the genotype, treatment, age, or any other label or tag you define, to all uploaded videos.
When uploading a video you can choose to associate it with a project. In this case, Loopy ensures that you have filled out all the required metadata before making the video available for analysis.
Compulsory metadata enforcement can help with license, regulatory, or experimental protocol compliance by ensuring all necessary information is collected. If you have a large number of users or an on-site instance then it can be used to ensure all members of your research group adhere to the same naming, reporting and data management standards.
Loopy is available in a number of different packages and is payable either monthly or annually with credit card. If you would prefer to pay via bank transfer or other means, please contact us. Loopy is updated automatically every 30 days. New features are available to all subscribers at no additional cost.
The dedicated package includes a private cloud instance of Loopy and associated storage for your exclusive use. There is no artificial user-limit on dedicated instances.
Annual or multi-month subscriptions can be 'paused' and your data will not be deleted. If you are not using Loopy then you do not have to pay for it.
1 Gb Storage
1 Concurrent Processing Job(s)
| Video Upload and Management | |
| Basic Video Editing | |
| Behavioral Coding | |
| Annotation Tool | |
| Analysis and Plotting | |
| Image Processing | |
| 2D & 3D Tracking | |
| Deep Learning | |
| Pose Estimation |
5 Gb Storage
2 Concurrent Processing Job(s)
| Video Upload and Management | |
| Basic Video Editing | |
| Behavioral Coding | |
| Annotation Tool | |
| Analysis and Plotting | |
| Image Processing | |
| 2D & 3D Tracking | |
| Deep Learning | |
| Pose Estimation |
10 Gb Storage
3 Concurrent Processing Job(s)
| Video Upload and Management | |
| Basic Video Editing | |
| Behavioral Coding | |
| Annotation Tool | |
| Analysis and Plotting | |
| Image Processing | |
| 2D & 3D Tracking | |
| Deep Learning | |
| Pose Estimation |
If you have special data protection requirements, very large volumes of data, or your own lab/group storage infrastructure for video data, you might be also interested in our on-site version.