Deep learning tools for the measurement of animal behavior in neuroscience

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Recent advances in computer vision have made accurate, fast and robust measurement of animal behavior a reality.

• In the past years powerful tools specifically designed to aid the measurement of behavior have come to fruition.
• Here we discuss how capturing the postures of animals - pose estimation - has been rapidly advancing with new deep learning methods.
• While challenges still remain, we envision that the fast-paced development of new deep learning tools will rapidly change the landscape of realizable real-world neuroscience.