A new GUI based toolbox to compare particle tracking approaches

![CDATA[A plethora of powerful particle tracking algorithms is available to the quantitative biologist to follow targets such as vesicles, single proteins, or cells. The question of which technique to use for particular applications has become an important topic in the discipline. We have developed a friendly graphical user interface, which generates synthetic data sets corresponding to fields of moving point-like targets. Thus, the ground truth is available and algorithms may be compared on relevant dynamics. We present this framework by applying it to four different particle tracking software and use Icy to compare the ground truth with the results produced by these algorithms. Our tool will be useful to those researchers interested to evaluate the performance of tracking algorithms in circumstances that are more general than random motion, or more general than mere translational motion perturbed by noise.]]