Image Analysis Toolbox: Ever wonder how an animal sees? How are the images we see around us in eyeα ενός ζώου; Σε περίπτωση, που σας απασχολεί μπορείτε να το ανακαλύψετε χρησιμοποιώντας τη φωτογραφική σας machine and your computer.
Scientists from University of Exeter developed a Multispectral Image Calibration and Analysis Toolbox application, which will allow you to see the colors that animals see in your photos. 
The program is distributed free of charge by the university and so if you are interested you can download it.
To use it, you should select the animal from a long list. Based on this option, the software will give you tips on how to set up your camera.
Once you have the photos you can upload them to your computer and the program will run it automatic calibration, which separates colors into different layers.
Eventually it will give you a picture of the colors that the animal you have chosen.
This means that if you choose a non-primate mammal, for example, the red spectrum will be absent - humans and Old World monkeys are the only mammals that can see blue, yellow and red, that is, the basic colors.
If the animal you chose was a bird, reptile, amphibian or insect, however, the colors may be based on a combination of four or more basic colors. 
They may also include colors from the ultraviolet spectrum, which we can not see without dedicated full-spectrum cameras.
If all this seems very complex to you, for researchers it is simple, because they have already used the application in very innovative ideas. Software for example has already been used to track its color person of the female during the ovulation cycle (revealing colors the human eye cannot see, to study color change in crabs, and to understand how birds use camouflage to protect their eggs.
Multispectral Image Calibration and Analysis Toolbox or Image Analysis Toolbox was developed by the team of Dr. Jolyon Troscianko. Is available for download, from the links below
Download the Multispectral Image Calibration and Analysis Toolbox
- micaToolbox version 1.1 Windows
- micaToolbox version 1.1 Linux
- micaToolbox version 1.1 Mac (note that you might need to recompile DCRAW for macs, see the user guide).
- 1.0 User Guide
- Paper (pre-proof)
