Fwd: Question about VARS Annotation Interface

[Nancy Jacobsen Stout]

For Brian…

Nancy Jacobsen Stout
Video Laboratory Manager
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, Ca 95039
831-775-1718 ~ ja...@mbari.org ~ www.mbari.org

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From: Helka Folch <hfo...@gmail.com>

Subject: Question about VARS Annotation Interface

Date: September 18, 2017 at 8:36:55 AM PDT

To: videol...@mbari.org

Hello,

I have a question about the VARS annotation interface: is it possible to synchronize and display positionning data with the video. I mean, for instance, import a text file containing timecoded lat/long and depth data to be able to know the exact position at each moment of the video.

Many thanks.
Best wishes,

Helka

[Brian Schlining]

Hi Helka,

I have a question about the VARS annotation interface: is it possible to synchronize and display positionning data with the video. I mean, for instance, import a text file containing timecoded lat/long and depth data to be able to know the exact position at each moment of the video. 

Yes. What you should do is first, annotate the video. Then there’s a script included in VARS called `merge_csv`. It accepts a CSV file with a header row that defines a few columns: salinity, temperature, pressure, latitude, longitude, oxygen. Extra columns are OK, they will be ignored. Missing columns are OK too. The column order is not important either. If you just run `merge_csv` without arguments it will print out some helpful documentation. Note that it’s a bash script (i.e. runs on Linux and Mac). If you need a version to run on Windows, let me know and I’ll write one up for you.

Cheers

-- B
Brian Schlining