This repository contains Python scripts for finding the orientation of an elongated object in an image. The author uses it for tracking nanowires in videomicroscopy data.

The package includes:

• generic image preparation tools shared by multiple tracking methods
• several different methods for tracking wire orientation which can be called using a uniform interface, making it easy to switch between methods
  • finding the principal ("inertial") axes
  • fitting an elispse to the wire's shadow
  • finding the wire's Gaussian center at each row of pixels and fitting those centers to a line
• animated annotated plots, rendered in IPython notebooks as HTML5 videos, for directly viewing results
• a simple test suite to ensure code stability and correctness