Rodent Face Finder (RFF)

Rodent Face Finder (RFF) Software

This software attempts to automatically extract video frames that are suitable for scoring using the Mouse Grimace Scale (MGS) and the Rat Grimace Scale (RGS).
RFF is provided free for academic research, and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY --- see the license for details.

If you use RFF in your research, please cite the following article:

Sotocinal SG, Sorge RE, Zaloum A, Tuttle AH, Martin LJ, Wieskopf JS, Mapplebeck JC, Wei P, Zhan S, Zhang S, McDougall JJ, King OD, Mogil JS.
The Rat Grimace Scale: A partially automated method for quantifying pain in the laboratory rat via facial expressions.
Molecular Pain 7:55 (2011).

Information:

Downloads:

Binaries for Macintosh OS X (10.6-10.8, 32-bit) (zip file, includes source code)
Binaries for Windows 7 (zip file, includes source code)
Source Code (zip file with C++ code, can be compiled for OS X, Windows, and Unix)
Sample Video (15 seconds, 200MB, raw format useful for diagnosing problems with codecs; right-click to download)

Notes:

Original release was on July 7, 2011
The GUI was updated slightly on May 13, 2013 to allow selection of video files with additional extensions, although whether these videos will play depends on what codecs are installed (see Installation and Usage notes).
The precompiled binaries for Macs and Windows PCs may not work on newer versions of their operating systems. It may however be possible to recompile the source code for newer versions, e.g. it compiled successfully for Windows 10 in 2019.

Contact Oliver King (oliver.king@umassmed.edu) with questions.