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DeepLabCut: early experiments

A practical first look at DeepLabCut: the interface, pose tracking and the original demonstration resources.

ArchiveOriginally published: Not establishedEditorial review: 20 Sep 2026Maintainer: RehabTools · Ross Allan Clark & collaborators

Editorial review covers presentation and historical context, not full scientific validation or current hardware compatibility.

Deeplabcut is one heck of a program. The GUI is pretty easy to use once you have the hang of it, and it seems very powerful. The how-to guides aren't great unfortunately, but the introductory video on using the GUI is a good step by step intro. 

For me I download and install it all, then open Anaconda 3 CMD with admin rights and type:

activate DLC-GPU
python -m deeplabcut

Then it's the GUI. Some things they don't mention which are important are:
1. If it looks like nothing is happening after you click a button sometimes you have to go back to the terminal window and press the "Enter" key.
2. It's best to change the directory to C:\Deeplabcut or something like that in the CMD window and run everything there. Otherwise it can get a bit confusing where things are. 
3. Make sure to install the correct (i.e. old) version of wxpython

pip install -U wxPython==4.0.7.post2

Absolutely brilliant work though otherwise. 



Deeplabcut - Very interesting — original illustration

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