vial_detector is a Python package for particle tracking in 2D image stack and videos, over noisy background. It is initially designed to detect and track Drosophila (fruit fly) motion in glass/clear plastic vials, from video taken with raspberry pi, DSLR, EVF cameras as well as machine vision cameras.
Read the minimal example for a simple workflow in IPython Notebook or try the wxpython based GUI
To install, run pip install git+https://github.com/ctzhu/vial_detector
Read the documentation for instructions.
If you use vial_detector for published research, please contact me as vial_detector has not yet been published.