--- deeplabcut: last_content_updated: '2025-02-28' last_metadata_updated: '2026-03-06' ignore: false --- (dev-roadmap)= ## A development roadmap for DeepLabCut 📢 ⏳ 🚧 **General Enhancements:** - [ ] DeepLabCut PyTorch & Model Zoo --> DLC 3.0 🔥 - [X] DLC-CookBook v0.1 - [X] DLC BLog for releases and user-highlights - [X] New Docker containers into main repo / linked to Docker hub and repo(s) - [ ] 3D >2 camera support --> better 3D in PyTorch version 🔥 **General NN Improvements:** - [X] EfficientNet backbones added (currently SOTA on ImageNet). https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2021/html/Mathis_Pretraining_Boosts_Out-of-Domain_Robustness_for_Pose_Estimation_WACV_2021_paper.html https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut/commit/96da2cacf837a9b84ecdeafb50dfb4a93b402f33 - [X] New multi-fusion multi-scale networks; DLCRNet_ms5 - [ ] BUCTD Integration, see ICCV 2023 paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07879 **deeplabcut 2.2: multi-animal pose estimation and tracking with DeepLabCut** - [X] alpha testing complete (early May 2020) - [X] beta release: 2.2.b5 on 5 / 22 / 20 :smile: - [X] beta release: 2.2b8 released 9/2020 :smile: - [X] beta release 2.2b9 (rolled into 2.1.9 --> candidate release, slotted for Oct 2020) - [X] 2.2rc1 - [X] 2.2rc2 - [X] 2.2rc3 - [X] Manuscript Lauer et al 2021 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.30.442096v1 - [X] full 2.2 stable release **real-time module with DEMO for how to set up on your camera system, integration with our [Camera Control Software]**(https://github.com/AdaptiveMotorControlLab/Camera_Control) - [X] Integration with Bonsai completed! See: https://github.com/bonsai-rx/deeplabcut - [X] Integration with Auto-pi-lot. See: https://auto-pi-lot.com/ - [X] DeepLabCut-live! released Aug 5th, 2020: preprint & code: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.04.236422v1 - [X] DeepLabCut-live! published in eLife **DeepLabCut Model Zoo: a collection of pretrained models for plug-in-play DLC and community crowd-sourcing.** - [X] BETA release with 2.1.8b0: https://www.mackenziemathislab.org/deeplabcut - [X] full release with 2.1.8.1 https://www.mackenziemathislab.org/deeplabcut - [X] Manuscript forthcoming! --> see arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07436 - [X] new models added; horse, cheetah - [X] TopView_Mouse model - [X] Quadruped model - [ ] contribution module - [ ] PyTorch Model zoo code **DeepLabCut GUI and DeepLabCut-core:** - [X] to make DLC more modular, we will move core functions to https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut-core - [X] DLC-core depreciated, and core is now simply `pip install deeplabcut` GUI is with `pip install deeplabcut[gui]` - [X] new GUI for DeepLabCut; due to extended issues with wxPython, we will be moving to release a napari plugin https://github.com/napari/napari - [X] New project management GUI - [X] tensorflow 2.2 support in DeepLabCut-core: https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut/issues/601 - [X] DeepLabCut-Core to be depreciated; TF2 will go into main repo. - [X] TF2 support while also maintaining TF1 support until 2022. - [ ] Web-based GUI for labeling --> Colab training pipeline for users (full no-install DLC)