Motion-guided sparse correction enables expert-quality point tracking across diverse microscopy regimes
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| author | Zimianitis, Leonidas Thenahandi, Pasindu Buckhalter, Kai Jayakody, Dineth Kimura, Julian O. Liang, Xinyue Cunningham, Karen Ahmad, Azeem Ahluwalia, Balpreet S. Jayarathna, Sampath Chrisochoides, Nikos Weissbourd, Brandon Wadduwage, Dushan N. |
| author_facet | Zimianitis, Leonidas Thenahandi, Pasindu Buckhalter, Kai Jayakody, Dineth Kimura, Julian O. Liang, Xinyue Cunningham, Karen Ahmad, Azeem Ahluwalia, Balpreet S. Jayarathna, Sampath Chrisochoides, Nikos Weissbourd, Brandon Wadduwage, Dushan N. |
| contents | Tracking the dynamics of non-canonical biological systems in microscopy videos remains a persistent challenge. Both classical and learning-based trackers depend on expert-reviewed data to be evaluated and adapted, yet exhaustive manual annotation rarely scales to the videos where these tools are needed most. We developed RIPPLE (Refinement Interpolation Platform for Point Location Estimation), which recasts annotation as sparse correction: a user clicks a starting point, RIPPLE proposes a full trajectory, and the user intervenes only where the trajectory drifts. We tested RIPPLE on five challenging microscopy datasets from our laboratories, four from the transparent jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica and one tracking landmarks on rapidly moving sperm. Across these, RIPPLE matched the quality of exhaustive manual annotation while reducing manual clicks by 3 to 25 times across datasets. RIPPLE thereby fills a missing layer between manual annotation and fully automated tracking, enabling immediate quantification of biological dynamics, method benchmarking, and the production of the gold-standard data needed to adapt future automated microscopy trackers. |
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| spellingShingle | Motion-guided sparse correction enables expert-quality point tracking across diverse microscopy regimes Zimianitis, Leonidas Thenahandi, Pasindu Buckhalter, Kai Jayakody, Dineth Kimura, Julian O. Liang, Xinyue Cunningham, Karen Ahmad, Azeem Ahluwalia, Balpreet S. Jayarathna, Sampath Chrisochoides, Nikos Weissbourd, Brandon Wadduwage, Dushan N. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Tracking the dynamics of non-canonical biological systems in microscopy videos remains a persistent challenge. Both classical and learning-based trackers depend on expert-reviewed data to be evaluated and adapted, yet exhaustive manual annotation rarely scales to the videos where these tools are needed most. We developed RIPPLE (Refinement Interpolation Platform for Point Location Estimation), which recasts annotation as sparse correction: a user clicks a starting point, RIPPLE proposes a full trajectory, and the user intervenes only where the trajectory drifts. We tested RIPPLE on five challenging microscopy datasets from our laboratories, four from the transparent jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica and one tracking landmarks on rapidly moving sperm. Across these, RIPPLE matched the quality of exhaustive manual annotation while reducing manual clicks by 3 to 25 times across datasets. RIPPLE thereby fills a missing layer between manual annotation and fully automated tracking, enabling immediate quantification of biological dynamics, method benchmarking, and the production of the gold-standard data needed to adapt future automated microscopy trackers. |
| title | Motion-guided sparse correction enables expert-quality point tracking across diverse microscopy regimes |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29220 |