Cite PeTrack

Please cite the corresponding software version and the general paper in your publication if PeTrack helps your research.

Software (version) citation:
For the software citation, you can go to https://helmholtz.software/software/petrack and select the version you used. Then you can either use the DOI of the software version or directly generate the BibTeX entry for the used software version on the website. Below you can find the citation information of the latest PeTrack version (1.2.0):

Latest software

@software{boltes_2025_17076320,
  author       = {Boltes, Maik and
                  Kilic, Deniz and
                  Schrödter, Tobias and
                  Arens, Tobias and
                  Dreßen, Luke and
                  Hermanns, Simon and
                  Adrian, Juliane and
                  Boomers, Ann Katrin and
                  Kandler, Alica and
                  Küpper, Mira and
                  Graf, Arne and
                  Salden, Daniel and
                  Brualla, Ricardo Martin and
                  Häger, Paul and
                  Hillebrand, Daniel and
                  Lieberenz, Paul and
                  Klein, Janine},
  title        = {PeTrack},
  month        = sep,
  year         = 2025,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.1},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17076320},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17076320},
  swhid        = {swh:1:dir:40cce340995d27346022cdf25c94dcdedf49dca0
                   ;origin=https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5078176;vis
                   it=swh:1:snp:a74a17cfa550ec69b4c8631e17afa4184e3b2
                   752;anchor=swh:1:rel:68519568320eeabf678dd9358feac
                   6c48b7b755c;path=ped-dyn-emp-PeTrack-ad9c1ab
                  },
}

General Paper:
Boltes, M. and Seyfried, A.: Collecting Pedestrian Trajectories; In: Neurocomputing, Special Issue on Behaviours in Video, vol. 100, pp. 127-133 (2013):

BibTeX General Paper

@article{BOLTES2013127,
    title = {Collecting pedestrian trajectories},
    journal = {Neurocomputing},
    volume = {100},
    pages = {127-133},
    year = {2013},
    note = {Special issue: Behaviours in video},
    issn = {0925-2312},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2012.01.036},
    author = {Maik Boltes and Armin Seyfried},
    keywords = {Pedestrian detection, Laboratory experiment},
}