The official release of OmniTrax with its corresponding JOSS paper
Deep learning-based multi animal tracking and pose estimation Blender Add-on.
Updates:
- additional sample export functionality
- added Blender usability tips
- new post processing options in example scripts
- updated test runners and requirements for dev work
- major code-base restructuring
- improved exception handling and prompting so things don't crash while leaving you in the dark why
- documentation and installation updates
Notes on CPU-only version
OmniTrax CPU runs on both Windows 10 / 11 as well as Ubuntu systems
If you wish to run inference on CPU-only systems, you must use Blender version 2.92 to match dependencies!
GPU inference compatibility with the latest release of Blender LTS 3.3!
OmniTrax GPU is built for Windows 10 / 11.
Simply install the omni_trax.zip file from within Blender in the Addon tab, as described in the README. No need to unpack the file, but make sure to run Blender in Administrator mode for the installation of this addon as additional python packages will be installed automatically.
Notes on GPU version [recommended]
Install the correct CUDA & cudNN versions (11.2 and 8.1 respectively) mentioned in the readme for GPU support. The DLLs have been built specifically to run on machines with dedicated NVIDIA GPUs with compute capability of 6.1 or higher.