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We describe a video data-acquisition system called Budapest Video and its software component IMAGOES, designed to collect two-dimensional landmark and outline data. Various calibration tests on linear scales and biological specimens show that the accuracy of the system may exceed the resolution of landmarks on biological specimens. The software was designed to help the user collect landmark data by developing training sets of landmarks. The results of fitting elliptical Fourier analysis to outlines may be visually inspected by plotting the captured and reconstructed outlines simultaneously.
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Demeter, A., Vámosi, J., Peregovits, L., Topál, G. (1996). An Image-Capture and Data-Collection System for Morphometric Analysis. In: Marcus, L.F., Corti, M., Loy, A., Naylor, G.J.P., Slice, D.E. (eds) Advances in Morphometrics. NATO ASI Series, vol 284. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9083-2_8
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