VIFECO: An Open-Source Software for Counting Features on a Video

Philippe Apparicio; David Maignan; Jérémy Gelb

doi:10.5334/jors.300

VIFECO: An Open-Source Software for Counting Features on a Video

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 9 (2021): Issue 1

By: Philippe Apparicio , David Maignan and Jérémy Gelb

Open Access

|May 2021

Abstract

The aim of this article is to describe an open-source application (Vifeco) that makes it possible to manually identify features on a video. Vifeco also allows to: manage the number of users, create a category (feature) and a collection of categories, read video and identify the features on it, and analyze the counting concordance between two users. Written in Java 11 with the JavaFX UI toolkit, Vifeco is a stand-alone, multiplatform (Windows, Mac and Linux) and multi-language (3 languages supported) application. The software is available under Apache Licence on GitHub (https://github.com/LAEQ/vifeco).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.300 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647

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Language: English

Submitted on: Sep 20, 2019

Accepted on: Apr 29, 2021

Published on: May 7, 2021

Published by: Ubiquity Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Video,

Digital Action Camera,

Mobile Methods,

Visual Anthropology,

JavaFX

© 2021 Philippe Apparicio, David Maignan, Jérémy Gelb, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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