Research & Literature¶

Citing DVR-Scan¶

If you use DVR-Scan in your research, please cite it. A CITATION.cff file is included in the repository, and GitHub's "Cite this repository" button will generate APA or BibTeX for you. Until the software paper is published, the following BibTeX can be used:

@software{dvrscan,
  author = {Castellano, Brandon},
  title  = {{DVR-Scan}: Video Motion Event Detection and Extraction Tool},
  url    = {https://www.dvr-scan.com},
  year   = {2016}
}

Please cite the tool in your bibliography rather than only in a footnote URL, so that citation indexes such as Google Scholar can attribute it. Including the version number you used (dvr-scan --version) and the detection parameters in your methods section also helps others reproduce your analysis.

DVR-Scan in Literature¶

DVR-Scan is used as a pre-processing step in research where long, mostly static recordings must be reduced to the segments that contain activity. Below are publications which have used DVR-Scan as part of their analysis, grouped by area.

Behavioural Ecology and Camera Traps¶

• PICT: A low-cost, modular, open-source camera trap system to study plant-insect interactions by Vincent Droissart, Laura Azandi, Eric Rostand Onguene, Marie Savignac, Thomas B. Smith, Vincent Deblauwe (Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2021)
• Noise pollution and artificial light at night alter selection pressures on sexual signals in an urban adapter by Andrew D. Cronin, Rotem Zilber, Paul Jerem, Wouter Halfwerk (Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2025)
• Dinner Date: Opposite-Sex Pairs of Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) Forage More than Same-Sex Pairs by Alexander Pergams, Mara Haus, Cristina Estrada, Joel Brown, Angeles Salles (Biology 2025)
• Orchard Management Influences Predation of Halyomorpha halys Eggs by Peter N. Karssemeijer, Daan Heinen, Nina Joosten, Karin Winkler, Herman Helsen (Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 2026)
• Against the odds: Nesting specialization and foraging ecology provide insights into climate change responses in a mountain bee by Joshua M. Coates, Noel Takeshima, Francisco Encinas-Viso, Saul A. Cunningham (Insect Conservation and Diversity 2026)

Chronobiology and Locomotor Activity¶

• Spatial distribution and circadian locomotor activity of invasive armored catfish (Loricariidae) in the freshwater and brackish water by Efim D. Pavlov, Tran Duc Dien, Ekaterina V. Ganzha (PLOS ONE 2023)
• The effect of brackish water on the movement patterns of non-native armoured catfish (Loricariidae) by Efim D. Pavlov, Tran Duc Dien, Ekaterina V. Ganzha (Aquatic Invasions 2025)
• Diel pattern of locomotor activity of the climbing perch Anabas testudineus: baseline characterisation and alteration under artificial light by Efim Pavlov, Dmitry Zworykin, Ekaterina Ganzha, Tran Duc Dien (Environmental Biology of Fishes 2025)
• Continuous video-based observation of locomotor activity in wild-caught river lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis by Efim Pavlov, Mikhail Ruchiev, Ekaterina Ganzha (Biological Rhythm Research 2026). The companion dataset on Zenodo includes the raw DVR-Scan output.

Neuroscience and Sleep¶

• Synaptome maps change with circadian rhythms, the sleep-wake cycle and sleep deprivation by Dimitra Koukaroudi (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2021)
• The effect of sleep deprivation on learning and behavior in songbirds by Alexandra Dwulit (MSc research project, Utrecht University, 2018)

Cell Biology and Microscopy¶

• LEAFY demonstrates functions in reproductive development of the gametophyte but not the sporophyte of the fern Ceratopteris richardii by Hannah McConnell, Jancee R. Lanclos, Katelynn Willis, Nicholas Gjording, Genevieve Stockmann, Catalina Lind, Julin N. Maloof, Andrew R. G. Plackett, Veronica S. Di Stilio (Development 2026)

Computer Vision and Datasets¶

• Public Dataset of Parking Lot Videos for Computational Vision Applied to Surveillance by Ingrid Nascimento, Pedro Castro, Sofia Klautau, Luan Goncalves, Carnot Filho, Flavio Brito, Aldebaro Klautau, Silvia Lins (IEEE ICMLA 2020)
• AniVid: A Novel Anime Video Dataset with Applications in Animation by Kai Gangi (AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding Workshop, ICCV 2021)

Theses¶

• Australian Mountain Pollinators in a Changing World by Joshua Michael Coates (PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2025)

This list is provided for academic and research purposes and is not exhaustive. If you have used DVR-Scan in published work and would like it listed here, please open an issue with a link. Publicly available material is preferred, although not a requirement.