Generating unique stimulus videos for pigeons.
You can use either the pygeon.py file from the terminal or the jupyter notebook. I would recommend using the notebook for editing parameters and such, but if satisfied with existing parameters or expanding features, you might want to use the og-python file.
The program outputs 3 videos: 1 video will function as the fixation point screen (camera 3) and the other 2 will randomly switch between displaying a randomly selected shape. This code relies heavily on the skimage library for the generation and implementation.
time key: a video key is generated for each set of videos (contains shape, screen, & time info). See output/18-03-2021_time_key.csv for example.
stimulus_generator.ipynb: create videos with visual stimuli. Duration of time shown differs between fixation and stimuli.
simple_stim_gen.ipynb: creates stimuli and fixation points with the same durations;
- 10 second for all shapes displayed followed by 5 seconds for stimuli and 15 sec. for fixation pt.
Currently, the project has only been implemented with macOS.
- Install Anaconda
- Clone pygeon repo
- From Anaconda Navigator select import
- All required packages will be installed.
- This may take a while, since this environment is set up to run other CV software.
conda env create -f environment.yml