DeepLabCut / DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut-live-GUI
Recording and trigger mode improvements
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camera
config
enhancement
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- Python
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Description
Context
Several improvements could still be made to the GUI, notably regarding performance and task distribution.
Recent changes (e.g. #82) significantly improved recording performance for monochrome Basler cameras by avoiding unnecessary Mono8 → BGR8 casting. However, for high-throughput multi-camera setups recording can still lose frames, especially with multiple cameras at high FPS/resolution.
- Making the current data processing pipeline less sequential
Currently it consists of:
camera backend read
→ SingleCameraWorker signal
→ MultiCameraController full-rate slot
→ MultiFrameData construction
→ GUI full-rate frame handler
→ RecordingManager
→ VideoRecorder queue
→ writer thread / WriteGear
The main goals there would be to have:
- Separate acquisition from downstream processing as much as possible
- Ensure recording, display, and DLC have independent queue& drop behavior
- Ensure the camera grabbing path does minimal work, e.g.:
- Retrieve frame
- Timestamp
- Minimal metadata
- Enqueue/dispatch quickly
- Ensuring triggered cams are started/stopped properly in regards to recording
- Start: all followers → master → recording
- Stop: master → followers stop → finish queues → stop recording
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