Plugin Tutorials

Worked examples for each of MindSight's four plugin types. Each tutorial walks through a real or realistic plugin implementation, explaining design decisions and best practices.

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By Plugin Type

• Phenomena Plugin: Novel Salience

  Build a custom gaze-phenomena tracker. Walks through the real NovelSalience saccade detector that ships with MindSight.

• Gaze Plugin: Building a Backend

  Build a custom gaze estimation backend. Walks through the real Gazelle (DINOv2 scene-level) plugin.

• Object Detection Plugin: Post-Processing

  Build a detection post-processor that augments or filters YOLO detections.

• Data Collection Plugin: Custom Output

  Build a custom data output plugin for per-frame collection and post-run reporting.

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Before You Start

1. Read the Plugin System page to understand discovery, registration, and base classes.
2. Read Writing a Plugin for the step-by-step template walkthrough covering all four plugin types.
3. Choose the tutorial that matches your use case above.