################# Contact Detection ################# Contact detection can be done either before or after whisker tracking has been completed, as they are saved in different locations ********* Overview ********* #. Open Whisker Tracking GUI #. Click on "File"->"Load Video" and navigate to your mp4 file #. Click on "Contact Detection"->"Classifier for Prediction". A window will pop open that will allow you to see the amount of frames you have trained as you identify contact throughout the video #. In the Whisker Tracking GUI, go through the video and "mark contact" or "mark no contact" depending on if the pole touches the whisker or not #. Watch the classifier and try to label ~1000 or more frames #. When completed, click on "Contact Detection" at the top of the GUI, go to "Training Labels" and then click on "Save contact labels" #. The file will save as a .mat file