High-Speed Video Recordings of Housefly Turning Maneuvers

Figshare hosts a dataset of high-speed, multi-camera recordings capturing Musca domestica (housefly) performing left-turn maneuvers in free flight. Recordings were acquired at 4000 frames per second to resolve wing kinematics across multiple wingbeat cycles. The dataset was created by Abin Ghosh and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct 3D wing kinematics from synchronized multi-camera video views to analyze pleural wing process function.
• Use provided MATLAB and Python scripts to extract wingbeat amplitude and other kinematic features from the high-frame-rate video.
• Train machine learning models for wing pose estimation using the 4000 fps video frames as labeled temporal sequences.
• Validate computational fluid dynamics or flight control models against empirical wing movement data from turning maneuvers.

Strengths

• High temporal resolution of 4000 frames per second enables detailed kinematic analysis.
• Includes synchronized multi-camera views, allowing for accurate 3D reconstruction.
• Dataset size of 195.8 MB indicates substantial video content for analysis.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a single maneuver type (left-turn) for one insect species (Musca domestica).
• Unknown sample size (number of recorded flight sequences or individual flies) limits assessment of statistical power.
• Raw data is provided in a processed MP4 format; original uncompressed video files are not included.

Provenance

Source

Figshare, authored by Abin Ghosh.

Collection Method

High-speed, multi-camera recordings of insects in free flight.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

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